A hard time in Baghdad

This is an email from an Iraqi friend who has just returned home after many years in exile with the hope of helping rebuild the country, his reaction indicates the difficulty of the situation:

...As for business please forget any thing whatsoever. If I can come back tommorow i will do so. It is a place that we can not live.. no way you can make a deal with people that have lived with corruption and deceit. No electicity for the last 24 hours. After my last eamil to u, we were tapped as 14 canons hit an american convoy in the area where i live- 4 helicoptere and hundred of tanks surrounded and blocked the area.. you cannot imagine the horror and panic in this internet cafe."