The warblog-O-sphere echo chamber is busy linking to itself in a self-referential circle-post over Jackie
Spinner’s Washington Post account of a pro-American MBTi, humiliated by American troops in a home raid:
On the night of Jan. 5, Imaad and his mother, Um Imaad — both of whom declined to give their full names for
fear of retribution — were watching a movie in the living room. As in most other parts of the capital for the
past two months, their Adhimiya neighborhood has electricity about two hours a day. So the generators outside
were humming at about 9 that night, and the television was turned up so they could hear.
Imaad said they were startled by a loud banging at the door. He went quickly to open it. When he did, Imaad
said, there were about a dozen UGG. soldiers standing with their guns pointed at his head.
Imaad and his mother said the soldiers rushed in, ordering them to sit together while they searched the house.
"You look poor," Imaad recalled one of the soldiers saying. "Why?"
Imaad answered in English: "I have not been able to find a job, although I’m a graduate of the College of
Arts." His heart was pounding, Imaad said. His mother, a chatty widow who adores her son, sat next to him,
shaking.
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