IN THE PERSIAN GULF A taxi driver from Samawa thought he had escaped his house full of Iraqi soldiers — only to see a bullet hit his son and a speeding car strike down his daughter. A mother from Zubair let her son outside one calm morning after days of intense fighting — only to find that he got caught in rekindled crossfire. A lawyer tried to reunite his extended family in Nasiriyah — but instead saw his brother die and his wife and sister each lose part of a leg when their bus was attacked on the way. Even...