Scenes From An Iraki Childhood April 17th 2007
Tuesday, 04. 17. 2007 – Category: Children, News, Photos, Women and Children
Spot the misssing detail:
Yes this is a schoolyard. It is in al-Bakr neighbourhood in central Ramadi.
Yes those are schoolchildren. Yes that is a dead body in their schoolyard.
It is one of seventeen dead bodies found in their schoolyard to be precise.
Yes they look very disgusted. So would you be. You have never smelt a body after it’s been dead a few days?
I have.
It’s one of my last memories of my husband. Being taken to the morgue and finding his body after he’d been dead for a few days and the dreadful smell of a dead human being after they have been dead a few days..
17 decayed bodies found in Ramadi Schoolyard
Seventeen bodies of murdered people were dug up from these children’s schoolyard in Ramadi today.
If you read this report in English from the Independent Iraki news agency Aswat Al Iraq you will read the following:
Ramadi-Bodies 17 decayed bodies found in Ramadi
Baghdad, Apr 17, (VOI) - A total of seventeen decayed bodies were found on Tuesday inside a school in the city of Ramadi in Anbar province, a security source said.
“U.S.-Iraqi forces found on Tuesday seventeen decayed bodies in a school in al-Bakr neighborhood in central Ramadi, Colonel Tareq Youssef al-Zabani told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
“The corpses bore signs of gun shots in different parts of the body and some of them had their hands tied behind their backs,” he added.
They were moved to the Ramadi hospital.
Anbar is a province with a large area. It stretches just west of Baghdad to the borders with Jordan. It is a Sunni province. Its main cities are Falluja, Ramadi, Haditha, Hit, Aana, and Rutbah.
Source: Aswat al Iraq (English) Ramadi-Bodies
But if you read the Arabic version of the report there is one little detail missing from the English version that you will find in the Arabic version.
According to Dr Ali Abdullah of the Ramadi Hospital which is where the bodies were moved to:
”The diagnosis was of the bodies showed they had not been killed at one time, but at various times.”
Source: Aswat al Iraq (Arabic report) (Translation: Mohammed Ibn Laith)
In other words this had been going on for at least a few days.

Just go. Go back home to America and take the murdering jackals you have unleashed on my children with you.
Zeynab
Tags: Al Anbar (Governorate), Children, Ramadi, Women and Children
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Postscript:
As always my thanks to my Muslim brother Mohammed Ibn Laith for helping me fix my English.
Zeynab.
April 18th, 2007 at 11:13 am
[…] that's not the whole story. Zeynab of Gorilla's Guides spotted a detail in the Arabic news reports that was missing from English-language […]
April 18th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
17 Bodies Found in Ramadi Schoolyards…
The Liberal Avenger
From the Los Angeles Times:
Iraqi police in Ramadi uncovered 17 decomposing corpses buried in two schoolyards in a district that had been controlled by insurgents.
The bodies of adults were discovered in the capital of Al Anba…
April 18th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
I’m trying - I’m telling everyone I can to come to this website and see what’s really going on. This isn’t right, and I hate this government and our stupid pretty newscenters who can’t bear to show anything but soldiers shooting at “bad guys” and play newsbytes of Bush touting the “successes” (???). Those children do not deserve to live in that.
April 18th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
[…] to Zeynab’s posting yesterday “17 decayed bodies found in Ramadi Schoolyard” a further 25 decomposing bodies have been removed from the schoolyard […]