Grieving Iraq family sees no end to “rivers of blood”

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2005/October/focusoniraq_October145.xml§ion=focusoniraq

BAGHDAD - Adel Abed Hammed was a skinny 31-year-old so withdrawn he sometimes went days without talking to anybody and would let only his mother touch him.


Mentally ill since childhood, he used to wander the streets of Baghdad alone. One day he chanced on some American soldiers who shot him dead after he took fright at a bullet fired over his head.

“I wouldn’t feel such misery if he wasn’t so sick but that makes it double for me,” said his mother. “He was like a child.”

The 62-year-old Baghdad housewife is one of many thousands of Iraqis who are mourning sons and daughters killed in a conflict that has also claimed the lives of nearly 2,000 US troops. Many Iraqis, like Adel, have been killed by American soldiers.

:cry:

start running if someone fired a bullet over my head no matter where I was. This is all too sad and unnecessary. When will it stop mr. bush.

It makes me want to vomit. I have a mentally disabled child, and it sickens me how he could later be misunderstood and mistreated. This war is so immoral, with so many innocent people paying the price for Bush/Cheney folly.

They shot him not because he was threatening them, but because he was afraid and trying to get away from them. What murderous bastards. They shot him in the back, as if for sport. :grr: