Scenes From An Iraki Childhood January 28th 2008
Rajaa Ali and her daughters Ghaziya, centre, and Hawra, right attend to Rajaa’s baby in their one room new home in Abu D’Sheer, Baghdad, Irak, , Jan. 28, 2008.
The family fled to Abu D’sheer from Abu Ghraib forced out by repeated threats and sectarian violence.
Abu Ghraib has been the subject of much “Awakening Council” activity, or — “Concerned Local Citizens” as the American invaders who pay bribe them not to kill American invader troops, and supply them with weapons them like to call them.
Rajaa and her family are of the Shia branch of Islam. Note the picture of Imam Ali on the wall behind her.
At present according to our sources in the area , “Awakening” fighters are pursuing with renewed vigour the same sectarian agenda in Abu Ghraib that they pursued before the Americans started paying bribing them to stop killing American invader troops.
Today the Americans announced that they planned on inducting 9,000 “Awakening” fighters into the green zone government police. All that that will mean for families like Rajaa’s is that the people terrorising them will be wearing uniforms supplied by the American invaders — who remain intent on dividing Irak and looting what little remains of Rajaa’s family’s future.
Omar Khdhayyir
Indexed under: Awakening Councils, Baghdad, Child Poverty, Death Squads, Militias, Poverty, Scenes From An Iraki Childhood, Women and Children