| Friday, April 11, 2003 |
01:04 - Ghost Town
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/videoplayer/newVid/framesource2.html?clip=LiveWebCast
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I've been watching CBS' live webcam of this square-- the one with the big Saddam statue that the tank-extractor pulled down-- off and on for the past couple of weeks.
It's usually been deserted. Maybe a person or two walking around; a tank was parked in the foreground a couple of days ago. No cars were ever to be seen.
The square is totally packed with traffic now-- the curbs are lined with parked cars, and the street lanes are moving slowly but resolutely. People are walking up and down the sidewalks in long, unbroken lines. No running or shouting or looting in sight; some car horns can be heard, but only in a typical "big city" kind of way.
It looks for all the world like the surface streets near a stadium on game day, or the access road to a university. Busy, crowded, energetic, but in no way chaotic.
I don't know what "normal" looks like in this square, not having seen it before the war started. But if what I'm seeing here isn't what could be described as "normal", I'd be very surprised.
... Dan Rather's blurbs in the right-hand pane notwithstanding.
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