McCain's Photo-Op Stroll: Safe in a Media-Friendly Way

by Jordan Yerman | April 3, 2007 at 11:23 am

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This is just silly. Your average Iraqi will not have a phanx of sharpshooters and bodyguards when she goes to the market.

A day after members of an American Congressional delegation led by Senator John McCain pointed to their brief visit to Baghdad’s central market as evidence that the new security plan for the city was working, the merchants there were incredulous about the Americans’ conclusions.

“What are they talking about?” Ali Jassim Faiyad, the owner of an electrical appliances shop in the market, said Monday. “The security procedures were abnormal!”