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eleonora Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 08:50 AM
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A widow's story
Edited on Thu Aug-18-05 08:51 AM by eleonora
I found this photo journal on the BBC about Donna and Peter, a British couple affected by the war in Iraq...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/uk_a_widow0s_story/html/1.stm

I found this part particularly disturbing:

"Peter told Donna he had seen terrible things in Iraq - a girl hanged as a collaborator for taking a bar of chocolate from soldiers, a child smashing another in the face with a brick to take his food.

The soldiers were told to stop giving food to children because adults would take it from them, Peter said.

"Whether this is true or not, I don't know. But this is what he told me," Donna says."

How many more similar stories are we not told about the horrors happening there?
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