Local Yezidis mourn loved ones killed in attacks

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By JoANNE YOUNG / Lincoln Journal Star
Friday, Aug 17, 2007 - 12:10:18 am CDT

http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2007/08/17/news/local/doc46c4fc93e0325694661814.txt

Laila Khoudeida spoke with her brother on Wednesday as he rooted through destroyed homes in his Kurdish village in Iraq, looking for survivors of Tuesday’s bombings.

Khoudeida, who lives in Lincoln with eight members of her Yezidi family, said her brother cried as he described the condition of the northern Iraq village of Tal Uzair, where her family once lived.

Her brother, 27, was searching the debris and finding bodies and parts of bodies in the collapsed homes, most of which were made of mud, clay and bricks.

“It’s the most tragic thing that’s ever happened,” Khoudeida said