.” On Monday, Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez played clips from an interview with Ahlam Abdelhussain, whose husband, Saleh Mutashar, died trying to rescue one of the two Reuters newsman hit by the blasts while his two children were injured. “My husband did nothing wrong,” she says, now a widow.
“How do I feel? What can I say? Why was he shot with his children in the car? They did nothing wrong. He was helping a journalist. What was his crime? What was the crime of our children who are left with no father and no support.”Saleh’s nephew, Anwar, said:
He was carrying wounded people during the American attacks. He was trying to help. They believe that someone who was carrying a gun will take his children along with him? Unbelievable. What can we do? God take revenge from the Americans. They destroyed us and destroyed our nations. What is the future of those children? They are orphans...................................
Today, Robert Gates continued to defend the actions depicted in the WikiLeaks video, telling reporters on a military aircraft, “You’re looking at a situation through a soda straw and you have no context or perspective.”
Perspective? How’s this for “perspective”:“We used to live in a rented house,” says Ahlam Abdelhussain. Her husband “worked as a construction worker.”
We didn’t have any other income. After his death, I was left with nothing. My children were wounded. We were devastated. My father-in-law took us to live with him. Life became very difficult. My children are still suffering from their wounds. My daughter still suffers from pain in her head and her stomach. My son is still in pain after his surgery. We don’t have a pension or any other income to rely on, so my father-in-law took us to live with him.more:
http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/04/13/they-killed-the-wounded-and-drove-over-their-bodies-iraqis-speak-about-wikileaks-video-but-who-is-listening/http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/12/families_of_victims_of_2007_us
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