Family's tragedy tells of Iraq's divide

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Posted on Fri, Mar. 02, 2007
BRIAN MURPHY
Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An envelope holding a single bullet was waiting on their doorstep ...

They sped away from home with whatever they could cram in a three-vehicle convoy. The first car was filled with all five al-Sihaili brothers. Behind them: two minibuses with their wives and 13 children ...

a roadside bomb blew the brothers' Toyota into three smoking pieces. They were all dead, said Maamoun Ajil al-Robaiei, a director at the morgue in nearby Kut.

A hail of metal shrapnel peppered the trailing minibuses, wounding most of the wives and children, said officials at Suwayrah's hospital ...

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