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Scenes From An Iraki Childhood - Special Bonus Edition

Sattar Jumma was twelve years old. He was one of the two civilians killed in the American Airstrike which also wounded six civilians.

Sattar died of his wounds on arrival at hospital.

The photo shows a paramedic closing the dead child’s eyes.

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Hussein Hussein was one of the six civilians wounded in the American airstrike that killed 12 year old Sattar Jumma.

The photo was taken after he and his father, Ali Hussein, shown holding his head in grief, returned from hospital.

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Special Bonus:  
This boy was injured during the American attack on Fidhailiya  May 8, 2008.

The attack started late Wednesday. Three civilians were killed and eight were wounded during the American attack.

With the complete disregard for human life, especially Iraki civilian life, that the Americans have always shown, they fired several missiles from an attack helicopter at homes in the densely populated area.

The photo shows the child crying outside what is left of his home.

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Scenes From An Iraki Childhood May 3rd 2008 - Running Away

Sadr City hospital compound May 3rd, 2008. Children running to escape from the hospital compound after hearing further explosions. The photo was taken by Kareem Raheem for Reuters:

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Scenes From An Iraki Childhood - April 13th 2008.

The bomb attack in Baqubah today killed one civilian and wounded another.

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نشاطات المدارس الابتدائية في قضاء طوزخورماتو

دعماً للحركة الرياضية ولتفعيل الناشئة في المرحلة الابتدائية وتحفيزهم نحو النشاطات اللاصفية اقامت ادارة مدرسة الانتصار للبنين مباراة بكرة القدم الخماسي بين تلاميذها ومباراة بالكرة الطائرة بين اعضاء الهيئة التعليمية على ساحتي المدرسة بحضور السادة المشرفين التربويين الرياضيين في قسم تربية طوزمحافظة صلاح الدين الذين ابدوا اعجابهم للمباراتين من ناحية التخطيط والتنفيذ والادارة وفي نهاية المباراتين تم تقديم كاس المباراة لكرة القدم الخماسي بين التلاميذ الى المجموعة (ب)الذي فاز لاعبوها (بهدف مقابل لاشئ )في الشوطين تخللتها المتعة والاثارة والشد من قبل التلاميذ المتفرجين كما وزعت للفائزين الميداليات تثمينا للجهود المبذولة من قبلهم ومن قبل معلمي الرياضة السيد اديب عسكر كاظم والسيد شهاب احمد صالح .. كما شكر المشرفون مدير المدرسة السيد احمد سليمان حسين الخطاط الذي كان له الدور الفعال مع معلمي الرياضة في المدرسة في انجاح هذه الفكرة متمنين لادارة المدرسة واعضائها التعليمية كل الموفقية والتقدم نحو الازدهار والتطور والتجديد.

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Exiled Iraqis too scared to return home despite propaganda push - Middle East, World - Independent.co.uk

The reasons people are not going back, despite new stringent visa regulations in Syria, are that they know Baghdad is very dangerous, the chances of making a living are small and there is a continuing lack of electricity and water.

“Exiled Iraqis too scared to return home despite propaganda push. ” By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad published:

Monday, 11 February 2008, UK Independent Newspaper.

As a propaganda exercise designed to show that the Iraqi government was restoring peace, it never quite worked. The majority of the returnees said they were returning to Baghdad, not because it was safer, but because they had run out of money in Syria or their visas had expired.

There has been no mass return of the two million Iraqis who fled to Syria and Jordan or a further 2.4 million refugees who left their homes within Iraq. The latest figures from the UN High Commission for Refugees show that, on the contrary, the number of people entering Syria from Iraq was 1,200 a day in late January “while an average of 700 are going back to Iraq from Syria”.

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Scenes From An Iraki Childhood February 07 2008 - The Red Dress

On February 7th the Americans launched yet another assault against Sadr City. They said they were targeting “criminal elements” by which they mean anyone who is opposed to their brutal invasion and brutal continued unlawful occupation of Irak. As usual they took no precautions whatsoever to ensure that civilians were not harmed, after all we Irakis are just sand niggers and the only thing we understand is force and it is their duty as Americans to introduce us to it until we accept our new, predominantly white, American, overlords. Dead women and children are just “collateral damage” they are nothing more than a cost of doing business and after all who bothers to do the counting?

We do.

We sand niggers who live here, we sand niggers whose children and mothers the Americans slaughter without a thought or a care in the world.

We do the counting.

The Americans killed three people including a woman and a child. None of them were armed. 16 were taken into unlawful detention by American soldiers American death squad members who happen to be wearing a uniform.

The photographs below show some of what the American death squad achieved. In the first panel a man holds up his mother’s blood soaked dress. In the second a small boy stands in front of the bullet riddled door to his home.

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Mohammed Ibn Laith.

Scenes From An Iraki Childhood January 28th 2008

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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

Scenes From An Iraki Childhood January 20 2008 - Abdullah Abdul Rahman Aged 7

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This child’s name is Abdullah Abdul Rahman. He is seven years old.

The photograph of Abdullah crying as a doctor bandages the stump where he once had a hand was taken by Adil al-Khazali in al-Kindi hospital today January 2oth 2008.

The caption supplied by AP with the photo says that Abdullah was one of the people wounded when a bomb hidden in a rubbish pile near a busy restaurant in Sadr city exploded yesterday evening. It explains that at least 2 were killed and 10 wounded.

Local radio reports say the bomb was targeting a police patrol and say that 3 people have now died as a result and that 11, among them Abdullah, were seriously wounded.

Khaled.

1429

We wish all our Muslim readers a holy, happy, and peaceful New Year, for our Iraki brothers and sisters we pray especially that God bring us freedom, peace, and fortitude, and that he drive the American barbarians from our sacred soil.

Ali, Ali Ibn Hussayn, Fatima Jameel, Haleema Al-Azzawi, Hussein Al-Bayati, Khaled Al Basrawi, Khalil Ibn Hussein, Maryam, Mohammed Al-Hamadani, Mohammed Hashi, Mohammed Ibn Laith, Nur Hussein Ghazali, Omar Khdhayyir, Ra’ed Al-Bayati, Saba Ali, Suheila Jamil, Um Thalit, Yusuf Al-Jezani.

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Irak.

Scenes From An Iraki Childhood December 23rd 2007

Eid in Mosul

العيد في الموصل

Eid in Mosul Sunday الاحد 23/12/2007