Most restaurants would be happy to have police officers as regular customers, grateful not only for the business but also for the presence of law and order.
Not in Baghdad. Not when Iraqi security forces are the target of insurgents' bombs. In many restaurants, Baghdad's finest are politely, albeit reluctantly, requested to walk out the door the minute they walk in.
"We ask the police not to come," said Yasser Emad, 39, the manager of his family's popular restaurant in the capital's middle-class Karrada district. "We hate to do this, but we want peace for the public and the restaurant."
I have to say that I am impressed that anybody wants to be a cop in Baghdad. I cannot blame the restaraunts for trying to protect their clientele but this really sucks!
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