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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 06:11 AM
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Iraqi survivor relates ordeal of U.S. attack
http://www.suntimes.com/output/iraq/cst-nws-attack21.html

RAMADI, Iraq -- As survivors tell it, the wedding party was in full swing. The band was playing tribal music and the guests had just finished eating dinner when, about 9 p.m., they heard the roar of U.S. warplanes. Fearing trouble, the revelers ended the festivities and went to bed.

About six hours later, the first bomb struck the tent.

''Mothers died with their children in their arms,'' said Madhi Nawaf, who survived the attack Wednesday in Mogr el-Deeb, on the Syrian border. Up to 45 people died -- mostly women and children from the Bou Fahad tribe.

''One of them was my daughter,'' Nawaf said. ''I found her a few steps from the house, her 2-year-old son Raad in her arms. Her 1-year-old son Raed was lying nearby, missing his head.''

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othermeans Donating Member (858 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 06:48 AM
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1. Reading this reminds me of the history of the Indian Wars
Edited on Fri May-21-04 06:50 AM by othermeans
A largely nomadic group of people gather together for a peaceful celebration and are attacked by a technological superior force in which an attempt is made to wipe out everyone including women and children.

The only good Iraqi is a dead Iraqi. Paraphrase from General Sheridan
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