Death and destruction in Sadr City - too bad - so sad
Posted on 05/03/2008 9:15:34 PM PDT by ricks_place
On a bare patch of ground outside the entrance to Sadr general hospital, 15 women clad from head to foot in black squatted in a sandstorm, wailing and waiting for their dead.
Lightning flashed, thunder rolled and the women’s robes were spattered with mud falling from a sky filled with rain and sand, but they did not notice.
“Ya’mma, Ya’ba” (“Oh mother, oh father”), cried Amira Zaydan, a 45-year-old spinster, slapping her face and chest as she grieved for her parents Jaleel, 65, and Hanounah, 60, whose house had exploded after apparently being hit by an American rocket.
“Where are you, my brothers?” she sobbed, lamenting Samir, 32, and Amir, 29, who had also perished along with their wives, one of whom was nine months pregnant.
“What wrong have you done, my children?” she howled to the spirits of four nephews and nieces who completed a toll of 10 family members in the disaster that struck last Tuesday. “Mothers, children, babies; all obliterated for nothing.”
The keening of Zaydan and her distraught circle of friends was drowned out briefly by sirens shrieking as ambulances sped through the hospital gateway with the latest consignment of casualties from a brutal battle that has been raging for the past month in Sadr City, a slum of more than 2m souls on the eastern side of Baghdad.
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Bwahahaha... Well, Amir and Samir shouldn't have been shooting at our boys, for one... Sheesh, what a retrograde cesspool of pseudo-humans.
...the nearest house and a woman ushered me into her courtyard...mortar rounds crashed on to the road less than 100 yards away....a guest arrived, a cousin and Mahdi Army commander"
Yeah, calling the fighting in neighborhoods and a civilian support structure - INNOCENT?
Just knock it all down man.
Looks like a good place for an airbase and parking lot.
“Embedded with them for four days and three nights,”
Getting the message out for the enemy. Its called treason even in the UK. Tell me again why we allow the media free reign in the war zone? They are the eyes and ears of the enemy.
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