Topic: Scary Stuff
I have heard that people found bullets buried into the ground of our compound. There is a chance some of them came from Haifa Street, which is just a little north of where I live. Even though AK-47s only have an effective range of 400 meters, bullets can travel for a long time before they finally hit something and come to a stop.

The daily security reports mention Haifa Street almost every single day. I can also hear occasional gunfire from that direction. To give you a sense of what that place is like, it is commonly referred to as "Death Street" because it is so dangerous. It is so bad that when the US military decided to set up a small outpost on one end of the street, it had to conduct a nighttime operation, which was interrupted by a short gunfight. If the US and the local government cannot get control of this Sunni neighborhood right in the middle of the capital, how can it get control of the cities out to the west?