recent events in iraq..

raed jarrar is a resident of baghdad.

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I called one of my friends at Najaf today, Dr. Haidar, and he was telling me how catastrophic the situation in the city is. He said that the number of CIVILIANS killed is 950, and another 1570 were injured which is more than 5 times the number of Iraqis killed and injured in Najaf during the 2003 war.

Haidar used to work in the main hospital in Najaf before the U.S Army closed it some months ago because they were attacked by Iraqi fighters from the hospital, and the hospital was never re-opened.

Najaf, as Haidar says, looks like a battle field. Most of the houses were affected in a way or another because of the street-fighting there. Two of his cousins were killed during the fights, one of them is a mother of two children, and the other the father of five. Both of them were at their homes.

Dr. Haider can be reached at his email haiderrabee@hotmail.com

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"but, but, ... it's all done for the sake of the FREEDOM and the LIBERTY of the "eye-raqi" people..."

yeah, right...