Trapped In Their Homes, Families Fall Victim To Sickness and Hunger

[babylonsister]

Trapped In Their Homes, Families Fall Victim To Sickness and Hunger
by Afif Sarhan in Basra


It took eight years for Nur Muhammad, 35, finally to fall pregnant with the child she desperately wanted. Last week, Ali, her pride and joy, became the youngest victim of the upswing in violence.


The four-month-old baby boy fell ill last Monday with a fever, the day fighting broke out in Basra, the second-biggest oil city of Iraq. The street where the family lives became a battlefield, imprisoning them in their home, unable to get help.

‘The disease spread so fast. My husband tried to leave our home to look for help but he was shot in his leg in front of our house,’ Muhammad said. ‘My only child was seriously sick and I also had to look after my injured husband. I was forced to use a knife sterilised with a lighter to take the bullet from his leg.’

No one was able to reach the house with medicine or food until Friday afternoon. Ali had died in the morning. ‘It took me a few hours to realise my son had become an angel. He was shining and had a smile on his face,’ she said. ‘I waited all my life to have my baby and now a ridiculous political fight for supremacy took him away from me.’

Muhammad, tears streaming down her hollow cheeks, was in deep shock. ‘I don’t have a reason to live anymore. My husband threatened to divorce me if I didn’t give him a child and now I doubt he will stay married to me now that Ali has been taken.’

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/30/7982/

[thereismore]

1. There is a special HELL for the fucker Bush. nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. ...

:thumbsup:

[dysfunctional press]

12. unfortunately not, and he knows it.

death is the end of the story. heaven and hell are fairy tales used to keep the rabble in line.

[OwnedByFerrets]

13. Which is exactly why they must be

punished now and in this lifetime.

[acmavm]

2. Boy did we do these people a favor when we got rid of their

'evil dictator'!

the ultimate :sarcasm:

[SoCalDem]

3. It's too bad there is not a sanctuary somewhere

where all the women & children could go..and then arm all the stupid men and let them fight it out..
:grr:

[fed-up]

4. "a ridiculous political fight for supremacy took him away from me" :( nt

[AzDar]

6. I wonder....is THIS ' the gift of freedom' Hillary keeps insisting we gave them?

Everyone who supported this war needs to be punished in one way or another.:mad:

[leftchick]

8. please don't tell me she is still spewing that shit?

I have not listened to her for weeks now so i wouldn't know.

[AzDar]

9. She is. Within the past two weeks too, IIRC.

Utterly nauseating.

[Donnachaidh]

11. especialy the ones who FUNDED it --

It ain't just Hillary. Obama voted to FUND this mess. He's JUST as guilty.

[leftchick]

7. you know what sucks?

the majority of americans have no fucking clue how many millions of lives have been taken and destroyed because of this disaster. Stories like this never make it to their tvs.

:(

[Flying Dream Blues]

10. There are no words for the unimaginable hell that Iraq has become.

My heart aches for the people we have hurt and I'm sickened by what our nation has become.