The capture of Saddam Hussein was only for a few Iraqis reason to celebrate. Although most people were happy that the tyrant was caught, the uncertain future of their country was more on their minds. The slow pace of the rebuilding efforts, the long wait at the gas stations and because of the inability of the Bush administration to curb the violence, many Iraqis did express their wish for the American troops to leave. Some even longed for the old days when Saddam was in power. In the south and the north part of the country the situation is almost normal, but in the middle, the so-called 'Sunni Triangle', the war still goes on. The resistance is fierce and the US military is trying to get control by every means possible. Sometimes punishing an entire community like Abu Hishma, a village 70 miles north of Baghdad. Making the whole village prison by encircling it with barbed wire and forgetting in the process that they came to liberate the people.

see Abu Hishma