Al Jazeera reports that order has returned to Baghdad:
After days of pillaging, lawlessness and anarchy a semblance of order appears to be returning to Iraq’s capital Baghdad.
Groups of concerned citizens and professional policemen combined with efforts by the US-led occupation forces have enabled near-normalcy in most parts of the capital. A night curfew on Baghdad imposed by the US-led forces helped stem the looting that has continued unhindered for four days since President Saddam Hussein’s military lost grip over the city.
and to Basra:
The chaotic, rampant looting that characterized the first few days of British control have largely subsided with the presence of armoured tanks and soldiers on city streets. At night, though, sporadic gunfire still ricochets through town.
Bad news all around for the scolds.
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