Brien Turner reads The Baghdad Zoo "Is the world safer? No. It is not safer in Iraq." -Hans Blix An Iraqi northern brown bear mauled a man on a street corner, dragging him down an alley as shocked onlookers shouted and threw stones. Tanks rolled their heavy tracks past the museum and up to the Ministry of Oil A gunner watched a lion chase down a horse. Eaten down to their skeletons, the giraffes looked prehistoric, unreal, their necks too fragile, too graceful for the 21st Century. Dalmatian pelicans and marbled teals flew over, frightened by the rotorwash of Blackhawk helicopters touching down. One baboon escaped the city limits. It was found wandering in the desert, confused. By the wind, the blowing sands of the barchan dunes.