News of US atrocities leaks out

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washingtonpost.com

Casualties of an 'Undeclared War'
Civilians Killed and Injured as U.S. Airstrikes Escalate in Southern
Iraq

By Peter Baker
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, December 22, 2002; Page A01

BASRA, Iraq -- She flinches just a bit when the air raid siren comes on.
Not because it is unusual, but because it is not. And because it
reminds her of that day just a few weeks ago.

The sirens sound most every day, once, twice, sometimes more. They are
followed by the sound of jet planes soaring overhead. Then
the soft puffs of antiaircraft fire off in the distance.

What Nahla Mohammed remembers from that day, however, is not the sirens
or the jet planes, but running into her son on the street
just after she finished shopping for supper. He asked what she would
fix, she recalled. Meat, vegetables and soup, she answered. He
headed off, anticipating the family meal.

Ten minutes later, according to a cousin who was there, a powerful blast
slammed him to the ground as metal shards sliced through
his body.

Full:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A23834-2002Dec21?language=printer

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