Thursday, March 29, 2007
Iraq's agony: 'Don't go out, they'll kill you' - International Herald Tribune
The two men showed up in the afternoon to evict Suaada Saadoun's family. One was carrying a shiny black pistol.
Saadoun was a Sunni Arab living in a Shiite enclave of western Baghdad. A widowed mother of seven, she and her family had been chased out once before. This time, she called the American and Kurdish soldiers at a base less than a mile to the east.
The men tried driving away, but the soldiers had blocked the street. They handcuffed the men.
"If anything happens to us, they're the ones responsible," said Saadoun, 49, a burly, boisterous woman in a black robe and lavender-blue head scarf.
The Americans shoved the men into a Humvee. Neighbors clapped as if their home soccer team had just won a season title.
The next morning, on Wednesday, Saadoun was shot and killed while walking by a bakery in the local market.
After the police took the body away, all that remained was a pool of blood, a bullet casing and one-half of Saadoun's set of false teeth.
The final hours of Saadoun's life reveal the ferocity with which Shiite militiamen are driving Sunni Arabs from Baghdad house by house, block by block, in an effort to homogenize the capital. ...
The two men showed up in the afternoon to evict Suaada Saadoun's family. One was carrying a shiny black pistol.
Saadoun was a Sunni Arab living in a Shiite enclave of western Baghdad. A widowed mother of seven, she and her family had been chased out once before. This time, she called the American and Kurdish soldiers at a base less than a mile to the east.
The men tried driving away, but the soldiers had blocked the street. They handcuffed the men.
"If anything happens to us, they're the ones responsible," said Saadoun, 49, a burly, boisterous woman in a black robe and lavender-blue head scarf.
The Americans shoved the men into a Humvee. Neighbors clapped as if their home soccer team had just won a season title.
The next morning, on Wednesday, Saadoun was shot and killed while walking by a bakery in the local market.
After the police took the body away, all that remained was a pool of blood, a bullet casing and one-half of Saadoun's set of false teeth.
The final hours of Saadoun's life reveal the ferocity with which Shiite militiamen are driving Sunni Arabs from Baghdad house by house, block by block, in an effort to homogenize the capital. ...
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