Sunday, March 18, 2007
Terror Closes in on 2 Iraq Booksellers - L.A. Times
... Like most Baghdad residents, Zeidan and Abbas are especially afraid of being kidnapped. So they close their store at 1:30 p.m. instead of 3 p.m. These days, the earlier you get home, the less likely you are to be a target.Abbas says only 15 to 20 of the 80 students registered in his English class attend lessons because they fear kidnapping or suicide bombings.For him and Zeidan, the book market bombing is the latest blow.Abbas said he lost a close friend killed in Fallujah in 2005. The following April the violence first touched Zeidan's life when Inad, his 53-year-old brother and father of 10, was killed by a bomb in the minibus he was riding in. Three months later a cousin was shot dead in a town northeast of Baghdad. ...
... Like most Baghdad residents, Zeidan and Abbas are especially afraid of being kidnapped. So they close their store at 1:30 p.m. instead of 3 p.m. These days, the earlier you get home, the less likely you are to be a target.Abbas says only 15 to 20 of the 80 students registered in his English class attend lessons because they fear kidnapping or suicide bombings.For him and Zeidan, the book market bombing is the latest blow.Abbas said he lost a close friend killed in Fallujah in 2005. The following April the violence first touched Zeidan's life when Inad, his 53-year-old brother and father of 10, was killed by a bomb in the minibus he was riding in. Three months later a cousin was shot dead in a town northeast of Baghdad. ...
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