BAGHDAD: “If you know what’s good for you, get out within the next 24 hours. This is no joke,” a Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) volunteer told me a day after I had arrived here from Amman on April 3.
The warning made me uneasy. Being new to Baghdad, I was not able to assess the situation on the ground at all. It did not help either when I saw many journalists packing up and getting out.
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