Iraqi Widow Saves Her Home, but Victory Is Brief (all that remained was a pool of blood)

[RedEarth]

BAGHDAD, March 29 — The two men showed up on Tuesday afternoon to evict Suaada Saadoun’s family. One was carrying a shiny black pistol.

Ms. Saadoun was a Sunni Arab living in a Shiite enclave of western Baghdad. A widowed mother of seven, she and her family had been chased out once before. This time, she called American and Kurdish soldiers at a base less than a mile to the east. The men tried to drive away, but the soldiers had blocked the street. They pulled the men out of the car.

“If anything happens to us, they’re the ones responsible,” said Ms. Saadoun, 49, a burly, boisterous woman in a black robe and lavender-blue head scarf. The Americans shoved the men into a Humvee. Neighbors clapped and cheered as if their soccer team had just won a title.

The next morning, Ms. Saadoun was shot dead while walking by a bakery in the local market.

After the police took the body away, all that remained in the alleyway was a pool of blood, a bullet casing and the upper half of Ms. Saadoun’s set of false teeth.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/world/middleeast/30sectarian.html?ei=5089&en=b21ee3c7a59b7c9b&ex=1332907200&partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

[AndyA]

1. My God.

Bless her heart. She knew what fate had in store for her.

And McCain expects us to believe that things are safe enough to take a walk over there?

The surge is working?

If this is improvement, what we have is truly worse than miserable failure.

[MasonJar]

2. If things are going so well, I think that McCain, Leiberman and Bush/Cheney

should walk the walk with the Iraqi citizens that they have thrust into this precarious situation. 49 years old! She should have outlived Cheney, Bush, McCain and Leiberman by multiple decades. She died because of Bush/Cheney et al.