McClatchy: Smell of death permeates ruined Yazidis villages

Smell of death permeates ruined Yazidis villages
By Leila Fadel | McClatchy Newspapers


TAL AL AZIZZIYAH, Iraq — The pungent smell of the dead hangs low in this village, and not even the colorful headdresses the men have wrapped across their faces can keep it out.

“Come here,” a man shouts from atop a pile of rubble, summoning help from other men who are digging through the debris. His shovel has hit something. The digging quickens and dust fills the air. Then a lifeless arm appears, and soon the top half of a woman has been uncovered. The remains are placed in a pink floral comforter and carried off.

Nearly one week after four bombs blew apart this village and a neighboring one, Sheikh Khadar, the dead are still being recovered, adding to the toll that already had made last Tuesday’s bombings the deadliest terrorist attack since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.

At least 354 people are confirmed dead and 80 more are known to be missing. The toll of the wounded stands at 600. Half of those are in serious condition, and many aren't expected to survive. On Sunday, 10 more bodies were discovered in the rubble of what used to be Tal al Azizziyah’s core. A bulldozer beeped constantly as it pushed through the rubble. American Humvees, absent until last week’s explosions, rolled along the dirt roads.

For most of the survivors, there’s no doubt why their villages were targeted.

“The problem is we are Yazidis,” said one man as he stood among the remains of what had been at least 150 clay houses, now reduced to nothing more than broken shards. “We go to Mosul and Tal Afar, the Arabs and Turkmen try to kill us. …We didn’t stand against anyone. What is our fault?”

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They think they're Satan on Earth, and need to be eradicated.

This is the opening salvo of a Holy War, and it would have happened if there were no oil underfoot. Or if the UN were policing the joint instead of us.

The problem with those guys was, as far as their attackers were concerned, THEIR FAITH, and nothing else.

It won't take much to get rid of that bunch, that's the attitude--there's fewer than a million of them....

He enjoyed his role as Mister Pan-Arab, and Mister Tolerance, within the greater Arab world. We in the west don't appreciate this aspect of his regard for himself and the legacy he sought.

This attitude included tolerance for non-Arab minorities, which the Yazidis were. They're in fact, a sect within the Kurdish autonomous region, and so long as they didn't give him shit, he'd let them be, pretty much. Same deal with the rest of the Kurds, to whom he came to an accomodation after that nasty business during the Iran-Iraq War, and same deal with the Turkomens.

The ones he was busy putting the boot on were the Shi'ites, who were too cozy with Enemy Iran to suit him.

This isn't about the Americans, like it or not. They've nothing to do with this.

Fairly recently, a Yazidi girl ran off with a Muslim boy. They dragged her back and KILLED her. It's Hatfields and McCoys, on steroids.

who's irrational superstitions conflict with american irrational superstitions.

etc ad nauseum.

Their religion is complicated & they refuse to be assimilated. In fact, they stoned a girl to death for being friendly with an Islamic boy. This event may have touched off the bombing of their village. Obviously, Islamic Zealots hate these people & have no problem with killing them. Will this group survive in the "New Iraq"? I suspect that most of them will be killed or they will relocate. The Busholini Regime cannot or will not protect them.

there will be a kurdistan. bagdhad will be split in 2 & the sunnis & shiia will war until they are exhausted.

and any remaining jewish, christian, or yazidi communities must emigrate or be annihilated. if they still can.

clearly, all these minority communities should qualify for admittance to the greatest country on earth, just like the hmong.

too bad for those people...

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Clinton said new tactics have brought some success against insurgents, particularly in Iraq's Anbar province.

"It's working. We're just years too late in changing our tactics," she said. "We can't ever let that happen again. We can't be fighting the last war. We have to keep preparing to fight the new war."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070821/ap_on_el_pr/candidates_iraq_6

And On To The NEXT WAR!!!!!!

someone needs to make a photoshop of hillary in military garb like bush wears. Flight suit fitting time Hil?