CPTnet
11 January 2006

IRAQ LETTER: "Do they pray to Satan?"

[CPTer Jan Benvie of Fife, Scotland recently received the following letter
from a close friend who married an Iraqi and lived most of her married life
in Iraq. It has been edited for length and clarity. People wishing to see
the original may send their request to kkcpt@earthlink.net. Do NOT hit
reply to this posting.]

We managed to speak to our niece last night. She just missed being killed by
two very near bombings. Saw many dead and horribly injured and people in
burning cars. No one could help because of the shootings, and the cries of
the injured were awful, and she is so upset by these horrors.

The Iraqi TV said nobody killed but she actually witnessed all this. The
house next door was just bombed by U.S. and it split a huge tree in half.
Her home ... she leaves it open; if you close it the windows get blown out,
so people have learned to leave doors and windows open. Her home has so
very many bullet holes everywhere.

"Many US tanks going around the streets and even in the lanes and they cause
terrible fear. There is no way now that people can have hot water, as the
gas and kerosene is so scarce. They have no way of washing clothes properly,
as often there is not enough water let alone hot water. The water is still
very poor and has to be stored.

They have to walk to the market and buy the kerosene there in plastic
bottles and she said it is rapidly becoming unavailable and people are so
worried. What can they do? They all have stocks of rice and beans etc.,
but if no kerosene is available how can they cook it?

>From 1am to 6am two nights before there was big bombing around the family
home where they all stay. She said it was very loud and near and they never
slept, of course and it is very cold without heating.

I just remembered my nephew's daughter who we met in Jordan. She said,
"Auntie if I now see dead people in the street it will not affect me at all
and I feel nothing inside about it." She said she has seen so much so much
so much that now that she wonders why she is not dead and why is she alive
at all? "Why me?" she said many times, her face white and strained.

Can you imagine the mental state of all Iraq's children, doctors, teachers,
parents just everyone. They have all had someone killed, blown up
etc.-collateral damage-remember? Those weasely shameful disgusting words of
cowards.... COLLATERAL DAMAGE! If your child was blown up by a U.S. bomb
would you call it collateral damage! Would you call the pilot a brave man?
He just presses a button from on high!

And B&B [Bush and Blair] goes to church and pray? Do they pray to Satan and
get their prayers answered?