Mario Vargas Llosa reports from Iraq

[pynchonoid]

Sounds a little like GR's Zone and its markets
carefully styled "black"...

'This is no good, sir!' 

There are no police stations or banks, the American
troops are scared and hated and anything that isn't
guarded is stolen or destroyed. Is there hope for the
people of Baghdad? The distinguished Peruvian novelist
Mario Vargas Llosa reports from Iraq 

Friday September 5, 2003
The Guardian 

Iraq is the country with the greatest freedom in the
world, but since freedom without law and order is
chaos, it is also the most dangerous. There are no
customs, nor customs officers, and the CPA (coalition
provisional authority) governed by Paul Bremer has
abolished all tariffs and duties on imports until
December 31. As a result, the Iraqi borders have
become strainers, through which all kinds of goods -
except weapons - are pouring in without difficulties
or costs. At the border with Jordan, the US watch
officer assured me that just this week an average of
3,000 vehicles a day had entered Iraq with all types
of merchandise. [...]

...continues:
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1035899,00.html>

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