The internet cafe is a quiet place. Soldiers are emailing or reading news ore researching, so you just hear typing and clicking. Some soldiers talk on the phones, but do it quietly. If they speak loudly, everyone hears them.
I was in the internet cafe the other evening, when BOOM!, and the building rattled. It became instantly noiseless. Heads popped up and soldiers looked around with their eyes bugged out. We waited for the alarm to go off, but it didn't, and no more explosions happened, so everyone went back to whatever they were doing. Later we learned that the ordance disposal guys had blown up some captured Iraqi ammunition. People are just kind of jumpy here.
Later we heard maching gun fire and saw tracer rounds climbing into the sky. I guess that was celebratory gunfire. A muslim holiday and celebration is happening, to mark the end of the Haj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina.
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