"As more and more Iraqis are disappearing, their desperate relatives are not merely hanging up signs on walls but are turning to the internet. Iraqi Rabita is a Sunni pro-Baathist Sunni website. On its home page it often posts photos of missing people with the request "please help us find these people - lost." At first only Sunnis were posting on this site, hoping to locate family members kidnapped by Shia Militias. The site succeeded in finding some of the missing people but it did not explain how it did so. Now Christians and Shias whose sons were kidnapped by Sunni militias have begun posting photos of their relatives on the site, calling for help in locating them. Today the home page of the Rabita had 19 photos of missing people. Four were Christians, five were Sunnis and ten were Shias. Today the website also quoted Saddam's defiant line before he was hung. "Is this manhood (bravery)?" he asked the Shias who were hanging him."
IraqiSlogger
Leave it to the internet to humanize the missing people in their captors minds.
2 Comments:
"Leave it to the internet to humanize the missing people in their captors minds."
well said!
devildog6771
Hello Iraq
Wow, did I say that.
I had to look to make sure.
Who would have guessed, most likely just buzz words stung together!
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