Volunteers collect Baghdad's nameless dead

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Volunteers collect Baghdad's nameless dead
Submitted by davidswanson on Sat, 2007-09-15 02:16. Media

By CNN

Volunteers dig graves by hand, bury Baghdad's unclaimed dead in Najaf

Sheik: "I look to them as human beings, with it my duty to bury them"

There were as many as 2,000 bodies a month following 2006 attack on holy site

Sheik: Number of unclaimed dead has risen drastically since U.S.-led war began
Editor's note: This is part of a series of reports CNN.com is featuring from an Anderson Cooper special this week, "Live from Iraq," which airs at 10 p.m. ET.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Sheik Jamal al-Sudani leads a group of volunteers with one of the most solemn tasks in Iraq: Collecting and burying the hundreds of unclaimed dead every month and giving them a proper burial.

"I only think about one thing: That one day, I will face the same fate as these people have faced, and will there be someone to take care of me and bury me, too?" the sheik told CNN.

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1. k&r

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2. kick

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[babylonsister]

3. .

[leftchick]

4. but, but Saddam was a very bad man....

no where near as bad as bush it seems....

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Such grim volunteer work isn't entirely new to the region. Under former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, the sheik said, they often buried more than three dozen unidentified corpses a month.

After the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, that number rose to around 250 a month, he said. Following last year's Askariya bombing, the volunteers buried as many as 2,000 per month. The numbers now are back in the low hundreds, the sheik said.

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The sheik emphasized the gravity of today's horrors, compared with other eras. He and his volunteers don't need military or congressional reports to tell them of progress in Iraq -- for they bear witness.

"Now it's as if the streets are flowing with blood."


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5. Kick +Rec + Bong Hits 4 Jeeeeeeezus!

1. Feed the hungry
2. Clothe the naked
3. Visit the sick
4. Comfort the dying
5. Bury the dead.

That CHRIST fellow said that these are the works of love/charity. "If you don't listen to anything else I say, at least do these things."

You NEVER hear about these acts from ANY organized religion$ OR the KKKri$tian Right.