Pearls of Iraq

As you can see there is has been a change with the blog. Pearls of Iraq blog will be down for a bit of time. I will be returning to Iraq and will be there, home, for hopefully 1-2 years or so. The situation is difficult, as everyone must imagine, so after with much thought, taking into many factors, for right now Pearls will be guarding her precious gems.

Saturday, January 07, 2006

Iraq Rebuilding II: Interview with Kurdish citizen about life in Sulaimaniya, Iraq Kurdistan, January 7, 2006

Please see my previous post about the “U.S. has end in sight on Iraq rebuilding” as this interview and the rebuilding issue has a direct relationship.

Interview with Iraqi Kurdish citizen:

Tell me about the power and situation right now in Sulaimaniya? There is just a few hours power in Sulaimaniya. 4 to 6 hours in total 24 hours and the bad situation of water. Sometimes we have not water for a week or couple of weeks. There is generator but there is no petrol (gas, benzene).

Do the restaurants have water? No the restaurants have not.

How do people survive? Sometime I will buy a petrol by high price but, its not sufficient you have to buying daily and there is problem coz there is no petrol in petrol situation all time. People between live and death. Live is very simple, a rich country have million of problems

Do the people have heat for homes? In winter? People have a little heater, because heaters will work by electric or petrol, and we have Power and electric problem. There are no Americans rebuilding, in water and power here.

What about food, is food getting to market? To the souk? There is no food problem, just there are poor people; they have not money to by sufficient food, there is little salary for people and the food very expensive according their salary.

http://pearlsofiraq.blogspot.com/2006/01/pearls-of-iraq-us-has-end-in-sight-on.html