Thursday, March 23, 2006

An Accident or Cold-Blooded Revenge?

"In every country, all children in their early years enjoy their childhood. Children in allover the world wake up early to go to school accompanied by their parents whom they bid a farewell with a smile on the faces. But for Eman, it is not the same. In one morning, she was left with no one of her family next to her but her eight years-old brother, Abdul Rahaman.

In Haditha, a restless town in western Iraq, Eman, 9, recalled how she and her brother became orphans. Talking to a reporter from Time Magazine, the parentless child remembered how she and her youngest brother became orphans. "We heard a big noise that woke us all up," she told the reporter. "Then we did what we always do when there's an explosion: my father goes into his room with the Koran and prays that the family will be spared any harm." Like everywhere in Iraq during the continuous hard times, the family gathers in one room. The rest of Eman’s family--her mother, grandfather, grandmother, two brothers, two aunts and two uncles--gathered in the living room, she said.

A group of trigger-happy U.S. Marines stormed the house. Eman says she "heard a lot of shooting, so none of us went outside. Besides, it was very early, and we were all wearing our nightclothes." When the Marines entered the house, they were shouting in English. "First, they went into my father's room, where he was reading the Koran," she claims, "and we heard shots." Then, the worst part happened: “I watched them shoot my grandfather, first in the chest and then in the head. Then they killed my granny.""
Treasure of baghdad
Well this is a least the forth version of this story which I have seen, at least this one contains a lot more detail.

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