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18 January 2006

"Everyone knew him as simply 'Alan', or "Elin" as it is pronounced in Iraqi Arabic. Prior to the war, he owned a music shop in the best area in Baghdad, A'arasat.[More:] He sold some Arabic music and instrumental music, but he had his regular customers - those westernized Iraqis who craved foreign music. For those of us who listened to rock, adult alternative, jazz, etc. he had very few rivals."

A sad, touching, awful essay/remembrance of the man described in most news accounts simply as Jill Carroll's "translator," who was shot and killed when she (a western journalist) was kidnapped on January 7th. It turns out he ran the best music store in Baghdad, and was a fan through and through. I think he definitely would have fit in here.
Damn. That hits home. We're all just people, folks! Let's drop this insane shit.
posted by jonmc 18 January | 22:11
Man. .
posted by orthogonality 18 January | 22:48
For me the most disturbing thing about stories like this one is that it reminds me that there are thousands of similar stories I have not heard and that fact is just heartbreaking.
posted by arse_hat 19 January | 01:17
Heartbreaking. I have often worried that journalists and US forces rely too heavily on Westernized and particularly Christian Iraqis, putting them at grave risk.
posted by stilicho 19 January | 13:50
darth vader vs the lost "smoke monster" || "Everyone knew him as simply '#metachat',

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