Yanked from sleep by machine gun fire
The explosion of gunshots shook my bedroom window, yanking me out of sleep in an instant on my third night back in Baghdad.
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raqi police had come under fire from a building near my hotel and were responding. An army unit also stepped in, adding extra rounds of heavy machine gun fire.
After three weeks out of the country, the gunfight in the early hours of Tuesday morning was a harsh reminder that although violence in Iraq on the whole is down there are still plenty of dangers.
Sitting up in bed trying to work out what was happening, I sent a text message to a fellow journalist friend who was sleeping a few floors below me in the same hotel.
“What the f*** is going on outside?†I asked.
She replied: “No clue. Just keep away from the windows.†Followed by: “Don’t they know there are people trying to sleep around here!?â€
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