Iraqi Lawyer: "Every day I feel like I am waiting in a queue for death"

[leftchick]

I am heartbroken at what the US has done to this country and these people. bush is unbelievably worse than saddam ever hoped to be.

:cry:

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BAGHDAD, March 16 (Reuters) - Three years after U.S. forces invaded to overthrow Saddam Hussein, Iraqis have one preoccupation -- staying alive.

"Every day I feel like I am waiting in a queue for death," said one Baghdad lawyer, too frightened to be named in print.

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In the violent northern oil city of Kirkuk, labourer Ali Salman, said: "Before the war ... torture and killing took place in secret. Now it's all in public. The meaning of freedom is different: nowadays you're free to live, and free to kill."

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Most spoke of the violence that has killed tens of thousands and left few families untouched. Many were pessimistic, like the Baghdad lawyer, who spoke after gunmen killed a loved one in a sectarian attack after the Feb. 22 bombing of a Shi'ite shrine.

"Where is the new democracy? Why is this happening to us?" asked Hamad Farhan Abdulla, 57, a farmer from south of Baghdad who came to the city morgue looking for the body of his nephew, who he feared had fallen victim to death squad killers.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL460419.htm

[global1]

1. "The Queue of Death" - I Like It - Sounds Like A Good Book Title....nt