Hi to all my friends in iraq4you. i miss u all. i now in amman after 7days in syria. very happy and very amaze by how much new jordan is. malls are like usa and all the cars are new not like syria. i have work for 1 month so i am very happy. zimzim thank u for yor messsages.
To all my drinking buddies on this forum, an article about beer in Baghdad. Buying a pint isn't as easy as it used to be. Enjoy the article.
DRINKING BEER IN BAGHDAD For those who fancy a cold can of BEER in the middle of the heat of Baghdad, the following is a guide to where you can find BEER now in the free, democratic and liberated Baghdad.
For those who live in the northern part of the city, there is always the liquor stores compound which is right behind the concrete Blast Barriers around the Italian Embassy in Wazziryia. For the thirsty people of Central Baghdad you can either get it across the street from the Famous Baghdad Hotel. Right across the street from the other concrete Barriers protecting the residents of Baghdad hotel with its high guard towers that provides protection to those liquor stores ( later you will know from what). As for the poor people across the river in the side, which we Iraqis Call Kerkh, now dominated by the extremist Islamist, as far as I know you can only get liquor from the liquor stores at Karadat Maryam area, situated between the 2 check points guarding the entrances to the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad.
You may now wonder why all the above mentioned liquor stores are situated in areas close or inside heavily guarded and fortified places. Why you no longer could go and Buy them from the other liquor stores like the Honey Market, the liquor stores in Arrasat, Karada, Sadoun Street or from the Many liquor stores and whole sell merchants at street 52 in Al-Ellwyia? Well the answer is very simple, because they all closed their liquor businesses after receiving threats or actually attacked or had their shops blown up and burnt.
That is why you need protection and that is why you need guns and gunmen inside the shops to protect you. The only exception to this role is a shop in Karada (I will not say exactly where so that it remains open) where they have at least 3 – 4 guards with AK-47 machine guns and BKCs (a more powerful and bigger Machine Gun) on the roof of the store. No front windows for they were sealed off with a brick walls. No signs announcing the name of the store or promoting a brands of Beer or Johnny walker whiskey or the local Drink Arak ( kind like the Greek OUZO). Just a narrow front door which takes you inside that store.
The liquor store would wrap what you bought in a black plastic bag or a big Cartoon box so that you do not get in trouble while you carry what you just bought which either could get you killed or save your life. If some of the police members caught you with a can of beer or any kind of liquor they just might beat you like hell for that , even though it is legally Ok to have, move or consume liquor and there is no law against that, and the constitution which Many of those people voted yes to guarantee such right. Some Islamic fundamentalists, who are now separating the cucumber from Tomato at the Markets just because they have a twisted mind that looks at vegetables like human mating organs, might kill you for drinking liquor. It might also save your life for it proves that you have no religious or sectarian affiliation so none of the sects or religious extremists groups would target you and they do not look at you as a source of threat.
Since the real power in the streets of Baghdad is the Militias and the terrorists and not the government, they are the ones who set the rules. And they even have clever ways to get to their victims (unlike the Government). In Iraq, people who drink costumary eats Pacha ( boiled sheep head) a traditional Iraqi dish, because they think that the meat would absorb the alcohol that they just consumed. So Militia elements started to hang around the Pacha restaurants to catch those who were drinking. Some times those Militia elements come in the form of a police patrol car, for the police is already infiltrated by the Militias. Those are the Law enforcement elements but the question is that which law they enforce???!!.
During the past decades till the early years of the 90s, you would have been able to drink liqoure practically every where in Baghdad. There were bars, night clubs and at hotels. In addition to that there were many liquor stores every where. But on the Early 90s Saddam launched his religious Campaign to win the Back-warded Arab and Islamic world on his side in his stupid confrontation with the west, So he closed Bars, night clubs and banned drinking in 5-star Hotels, but not the liquor stores. The liquor stores remained open and no one messed with them. Even Saddam did not go that far.
Right after the war there was too much freedom that street vender's would have a scotch with rocks ready for you that you can pick it up while driving down the Aa'adhmyia Cornish. But now since there is a Government dominated by Islamists extremists ( Sonnies and Shia) and parliament which more dominated by Islamists groups ( also Sonnies and Shiat) we will never have a legislation nor an executive power which will guarantee the Iraqi thirsty man have a cold beer in a hot summer day without Having to build a concrete Blast Barrier around him.
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Pleasure Harry. These guides are important for us Kuffar boozers!
I think we should assign a weekend where us (Boozers)would drink so much that we will not have enough energy to get off the floor and post something for a few days. Who’s with me
Azi, great article. I sent it to some kuffar friends in Baghdad.
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Did it night before last. Still feeling the effects as I write this. Anyone have a sure fire hangover cure they'd like to share with us kuffar?
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Pleasure Harry. These guides are important for us Kuffar boozers!
I think we should assign a weekend where us (Boozers)would drink so much that we will not have enough energy to get off the floor and post something for a few days. Who’s with me
OOPS... I forgot, I do that every friday night, and today is friday
Yellow Azinorum, Yeppers Been in a desert of sorts myself...Oh well, back with Deeper insight! Life is indeed a journey, is it not?! Hope u and yours, my dear friend, r doing well! Perhaps one of these trips u take I can go with along with other friends on this site! We can ride my fav. horse breed, ARABIANS, in the desert! Sincere Hugs to U!!! me
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Hey YS. Long time no see. It was a great trip and achieved its purpose. My brother came from the UK and couldn't shake London tension and pollution in Amman so I decided to give him a different kind of holiday. We were taken to Wadi Rum by a very good Jordanian friend rather than going the tourist route. We spent our days trekking in the heat and our evenings dining with the Bedouins in their tents. A great experience and a good way to get back in touch with life's basics. If you ever come to Jordan you should try it. No horses though, only grumpy camels.
Last time I went to a bedounis tent (sorry salim hi) I ate chicken cooked in Goats Yorgurt which was hard like a rock. The yorgurt is socked in water then cooked it with the chicken.
That was the best chicken I ever tasted in the world. So when I come to Jordan next time Azi, you are taking me to those Bedounis, you buy the food, and the whisky is on me.
I have been Tea total for 5 weeks. I am on a strict diet. Damn I do miss my dram.
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I want some of this food as well. Also to be in a genuine Bedouin's tent with my arabian horses that are indeed LOVERS and awesome! Pioneer Encore and Pioneer Belle, Asil Fadhem (provided I could get him back from someone who has him), maybe even Destiny (another stallion/horse, I loved). Sigh. When I go to be with the Man Upstairs I have requested to work in the Arabian horse barn! me
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I have invited my pals here from this site to enjoy ourselves with my lovely mother, boy/Manfriend, etc., where we could do this very thing, but ONLY if someone assists with the cooking of some very good food!
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Still feeling the effects as I write this. 
I forgot, I do that every friday night
, and today is friday
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