Move met with indignation by many across country, where alcohol sales have boomed in recent years
Over the past two decades of problems in, where to find a drink has never been one of them. But one of the country’s most popular vices – alcohol – is again at the centre of a tussle between hardliners, who are demanding an import ban, and drinkers intent on defying them.
Enforcing such a ban seems a difficult step in a country where drinking has become an integral part of the lives of millions and a line between conservative traditions and more liberal pastimes seems greyer than at any point since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
In the Iraqi capital, many politicians and members of blocs opposed to the sale of alcohol are regular consumers. Many of the licensed liquor shops pay protection money to the same militia groups whose leaders now appear ready to close them down.
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