Poynter's St. Petersburg Times
Abu Seif Restaurant for Food Delicious, located on a highway to Baghdad, used to be packed with journalists. The owner took the money he made feeding the media in the early days of the war and opened a larger place. "For a while, business did okay," writes
Susan Taylor Martin. "But by April 2004 the insurgency was so strong and the road so dangerous that most journalists and contractors started flying to Baghdad. Now, three years later, we were the only ones eating Abu Seif's food delicious." ||
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