Monthly Archives: August 2003

Festival of the moon

I was awak­ened at about 4am by the sound of an explo­sion on the TV which I had left on when I fell asleep. It was a repeat news­cast of the bomb­ing of the UN head­quar­ters in Bagh­dad. I was a lit­tle dis­turbed by the story of how the UN spe­cial envoy had died a