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March 27, 2007
Let's pull out of Iraq!
Yes! Let's do it for the children...
Near the shops, a group of children — Sunni and Shia — were playing football on an empty site. As Selim, his wife and brother, walked past, two cars pulled up. Four or five men in tracksuits got out and opened their car boots. They pulled out belt-fed BKC machineguns, a weapon known in Iraq as “the harvester” for its ability to kill lots of people quickly.
“We heard the shooting of the machineguns. It was so loud and continuous we thought they were targeting us,” said the 28-year-old Shia, his eyes red and brimming with pain.
But they were not the targets.
“I started looking, and they are shooting the kids,” he said. “Eight of the kids already fell on the ground. The guys kept shooting, they just wanted to make sure everyone was dead.”
Yeah yeah, I know, those are just extremists and your average moslem wouldn't do such a thing...
As the killers drove away unharmed the local men rushed home to fetch their guns. Instead of trying to catch the gunmen or help their victims, Sunnis began shooting at Shia houses and Shias began firing on Sunnis.
“It was so horrible, you saw neighbours who’d been sitting outside together shooting at each other,” Selim said.
What, is this the moslem version of a block party with your neighbors? A friendly little shootout and kill-fest? Is this why they call it the Religion of Peace?
As the neighbours blasted away at each other no one dared to venture out to help the children bleeding on the makeshift pitch for two hours, until people started to run out of ammunition. It was only when the firing subsided that the nine small bodies were picked up and taken to the mortuary of Yarmouk hospital.
Yeah, its the Religion of Peace. Yeah. Sure.
Posted by LindaSoG at March 27, 2007 07:01 AM