Editor’s Note: No, the Gothamist family doesn’t have any immediate plans to open a Baghdad bureau. But we thought that we’d take time out to see what may be going on in the world’s other high-profile heavily fortified capital: Baghdad.

Former Glover Park resident David Enders (a former colleague and childhood friend of this DCist) has been over in Baghdad for much of the past year and a half as a reporter. Baghdad is probably one of the least comfortable jobs for a journalist. And Enders went there willingly.

His forthcoming book, “Baghdad Bulletin” (University of Michigan Press), set for release this spring, will trace Enders’ experiences starting Baghdad’s first English language newspaper following the fall of the Iraqi capital. He’s currently freelancing (and blogging) and his honest accounts of what’s going on in Iraq always seems to make this DCist instantly depressed. But we do get a sobering laugh here and there.

Anyhow, Enders, whose bed was showered with broken glass when one those truck bombs exploded yesterday (fortunately, he wasn’t in his bed at the time, e-mailing us that he “misjudged how far away from the window” he should have been sleeping), sends our way his take on the security lockdown in Washington, D.C. … piggy-backing off of Steven Ginsberg’s article, “Traffic Planners Predict Dismal Commutes Ahead,” in the Post’s Tuesday edition.

Enders, (and for that matter, all the other D.C.-based journalists, government officials, aid workers, soldiers, etc. dispatched to Iraq) be well.