Monday, June 18, 2007

Despair

Iraq, which once was one of the strongest countries in the region, became the world’s second most unstable country in the world. Alas! Is that what we have expected? Is that what the war brought?

With the sixty percent of Baghdad under the control of terrorists and militias, the people’s suffering became more severe. My parents are completely hopeless, my sister said she doesn’t know what’s her daughter’s future will be, and my brother-in-law doesn’t know whether he’ll come back home in one piece after going back from work. My only remaining friend there said his mother was caught in crossfire and was wounded in her leg, which left them with absolute despair of any ray of improvement in the near future.

Finally, a friend of mine sent me a group of pictures of al-Jami’a neighborhood where dead bodies and burned cars become the new decoration of the former cosmopolitan, fancy neighborhood.

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