[Allegra]

Hm. Baghdad has become considerably calmer and more settled in the last month.

Not much in the way of car bombs and mortars and nasty firefights for the media to report.

So, they resort to stuff like this...

I wonder when these quotes were collected? I notice the article sort of omits that minor detail.

[tobyhill]

The one guy says his home is worth $118,000 US and he’s a Sunni that has to leave because of the violence but who did he sell it to? If the violence is so bad then a Shiite would have just taken it.
I was on Google Earth the other day looking at Baghdad from early ‘07 satellite photos and while I’m sure it didn’t represent exactly how it looks on the ground, it looks like everyday in a big city and the housing looks almost untouched with violence.