Election Situation in Iraq “a mess”

Says UN Envoy. More people work at your nearest convenience store than the entire UN contingent working on Iraqi elections just weeks away. Meanwhile, in Fallujah:

But in a Baghdad school where Ibrahim and about 200 displaced Fallujans have been living since the latest fighting drove them out, the talk is of vendetta – not against the insurgents but against the Americans and the Iraqi government.

“I feel hatred. I hurt. This is my city and it has been destroyed,” Ibrahim said, sitting on a thin mattress on the floor of a room he shares with his wife, seven children and another family.

“The people of Fallujah are people of revenge. If they don’t get their revenge now, they will next year or even after 50 years. But they will get it.”