Over and Over and Over

It seems it won’t be over, will it? After all these screams and criticism against the trigger-happy mercenary contractors, after all the mayhem Iraqis are going through, and after all the failure the government proved, another attack against innocents takes place.

Baghdad… Downtown, hot, grim, scary, miserable, bloody… And yet a brave woman, a simple Iraqi defeated the daily fear and the terrorists’ threats against her gender. Marony Ohanis took to the streets, driving her car in the booby-trapped roads. She was the breadwinner. The only one for her family.

Three daughters, some of them teenaged, were left motherless when mercenaries opened fire on their mother’s car, ripping off her life in the middle of the day. Drilled with bullets, her head was scattered like pieces of shrapnel on the ground. She was gone for ever, like hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who lost their precious lives in the “new, free Eyrak.” Her daughters are left in a merciless life, in a place were terrorism against civilians hovered over every house.

The scene was more horrifying, more detailed by The Washington Post:

"Iraqi police and witnesses at the scene gave differing accounts. Some said the Oldsmobile kept driving toward the convoy while others said it had stopped a safe distance away. They agreed that the car posed no threat to the security guards.

The gunfire sparked chaos on the crowded street as pedestrians ran for cover. A horse pulling a cart, used for selling black-market cooking gas, galloped away without its owner. Traffic policemen believed insurgents were attacking.

"A vehicle got close to them, and they opened fire on it randomly as if they were in the middle of a confrontation," said Ahmed Kadhim Hussein, a policeman at the scene. "You won't find a head. The brain is scattered on the ground."

He added: "I am shaking as I am trying to describe to you what happened. We are not able to eat. These were innocent people. Is it so natural for them to shoot innocent people?"

The Oldsmobile was shot first in the radiator as it passed a plumbing supply shop, employees said. The shooting continued and the car came to rest about 50 yards away, next to a yellow and white median curb marked by broken glass and blood."

I thought we got used to such news, but no. Hell no! This cannot be got used to. This is life. Time flies by quickly. No return. When will time stops? I mean this time, the bloody time, the death-hungry time, the misery, the darkness? Isn’t it enough?

I always thought of these mercenaries as blood-thirsty. I hated them every time I saw them in the streets scaring people. They are no different than al-Qaeda and the militias. They all share a common motto: Kill the Innocent. Eventually, they will run away unexecuted. Their laws give them the right to rob the lives of people. But why? Why won’t they be subjected to death penalty? Haven’t they killed innocents? Why should they enjoy life while they rip off the others’? Is it fair?

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