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How
can man kill innocent people so simply?
By Laith
10/12/07 "McClatchy"
-- 09/27/07 -- - On the way to the morgue to get some
details about the incident of Al Nosoor Square, We met a
security contractors’ convoy on the other side of the street. I
told my colleague, the driver “well brother, beware and don’t do
anything unexpected. Watch the guys carefully and watch the
Iraqi army check point. We might be shot simply brother and Im
sure you don’t want that. We want to cover the story about dead
people but we don’t want to experience death. Remember brother,
we have families and they are waiting for us. I never imaged
that the safety of others means our fears from being killed for
nothing. It’s a horrible feeling. It’s a nightmare that will
never end soon.
I don’t know how to express my feelings when Leila my boss and I
visited the man who lost his wife in the incident of Al Nosoor
Square 13 days ago. I saw him fighting his tears and he didn’t
allow them to run away from his eyes. I could feel the
difficulty he faced when he was talking. I could feel that he
wanted to choose the best words to show his love to the woman
who lived almost 40 years with him. When my boss asked him about
the love story that ended with their marriage, he was speechless
and he told her addressing us all“its like your love and your
love and your love”.
I wished I can do something for him but I couldn’t. He asked me
for one thing. He said “you can bring me a copy for the
newspaper that publishes my story, otherwise, I would feel that
you cheated me”. I apologized and said that I cant do that
because the agency I work for is in the USA but I promised him
to bring him a copy fro the story from the internet. The man
accepted both my apology and offer.
Yesterday, I got a copy from the net and I went to his house.
His son saw was out. I told him that I want to see his father. I
saw the man. He looked even weaker than three days ago. He lost
part of his life. The visit was very short. I said “well sir, I
just want to give you this and I gave him the copy of the story.
I saw sad smile on his face. A smile said “Thank you for
bringing the story of the death of my love.”
When I was coming to work yesterday and while I was near the
bridge that leads directly to one of the gate of the
International Zone, I saw a convoy of one of the security
contractors. I saw those men who hided their faces pointing
their machineguns towards everyone while driving their four
wheel vehicles are moving fast. I accelerated my steps towards a
close turn so if any shooting happen, I didn’t want to be in the
fight field.
An imaginary battle field was drawn quickly in my mind. A sad
vision was moving in my head. I saw my body bleeding. I saw my
family crying and my wife weeping. OMG. I can’t see my lovely
child again. Who would tell my family about my death? Ok. Back
to reality, I’m a live and the convoy with the hidden faces
guards had gone. Thanks Allah, nothing happened and I could see
my family again. Only one question stayed in my mind. How can
man kill innocent people so simply?
The “Inside Iraq” blog chronicles everyday life in Iraq
through the postings of the Iraqi staff members at McClatchy
Newspapers’ Baghdad bureau. The postings are unedited, firsthand
accounts of their experiences. Only partial names are used to
protect the bloggers’ security.
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