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Monday, September 10, 2007
BAGHDAD: When the dust of a devastating blast that rocked an inner Baghdad suburb six weeks ago had settled, Um Wafa was a widow.
Her husband was one of dozens of people caught in the wrong place at the wrong time in Karrada neighbourhood on a Thursday afternoon in late July when it was crowded with shoppers ahead of the Muslim day of rest.
Um Wafa says while the world will next week mourn the loss of those killed in the September 11 attacks in the United States six years ago, they will hardly shed a tear for the car bomb dead of Baghdad.
In her eyes at least, the attack on the World Trade Centre and the bomb that killed her husband on July 26 are directly linked.
I believe our suffering began on September 11, 44-year-old Um Wafa told AFP. Now we are daily paying the price of the actions of the terrorists.
The official toll of the Karrada bombing was 25, but in the days that followed the names of 92 victims were listed on posters hastily stuck up on walls of the suburb.
The attack was just another in the litany of violence that has rocked Iraq since the United States declared its war on terror in the aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Centre and on the Pentagon.
Car bombs, suicide bombers, militia, death squads and snipers have killed tens of thousands of people across Iraq, but no one is keeping an accurate count of those killed.
The independent Internet site Iraq Body Count has come up with a figure of almost 80,000 dead, but says this is only an approximation based on media reports.
A statistical study by US researchers published in October last year sparked controversy when it estimated that some 655,000 Iraqi civilians had died from war-related causes since the start of the occupation. Whatever the true total, the figure continues to rise rapidly.
In one particularly deadly attack in northern Iraq in July, some 400 people died. The twin bombings against two religious minority villages were the deadliest in the world since September 11.
Every day is like Sept 11, Iraqis say
BAGHDAD: When the dust of a devastating blast that rocked an inner Baghdad suburb six weeks ago had settled, Um Wafa was a widow.
Her husband was one of dozens of people caught in the wrong place at the wrong time in Karrada neighbourhood on a Thursday afternoon in late July when it was crowded with shoppers ahead of the Muslim day of rest.
Um Wafa says while the world will next week mourn the loss of those killed in the September 11 attacks in the United States six years ago, they will hardly shed a tear for the car bomb dead of Baghdad.
In her eyes at least, the attack on the World Trade Centre and the bomb that killed her husband on July 26 are directly linked.
I believe our suffering began on September 11, 44-year-old Um Wafa told AFP. Now we are daily paying the price of the actions of the terrorists.
The official toll of the Karrada bombing was 25, but in the days that followed the names of 92 victims were listed on posters hastily stuck up on walls of the suburb.
The attack was just another in the litany of violence that has rocked Iraq since the United States declared its war on terror in the aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Centre and on the Pentagon.
Car bombs, suicide bombers, militia, death squads and snipers have killed tens of thousands of people across Iraq, but no one is keeping an accurate count of those killed.
The independent Internet site Iraq Body Count has come up with a figure of almost 80,000 dead, but says this is only an approximation based on media reports.
A statistical study by US researchers published in October last year sparked controversy when it estimated that some 655,000 Iraqi civilians had died from war-related causes since the start of the occupation. Whatever the true total, the figure continues to rise rapidly.
In one particularly deadly attack in northern Iraq in July, some 400 people died. The twin bombings against two religious minority villages were the deadliest in the world since September 11.
Every day is like Sept 11, Iraqis say
