“I saw with my own eyes young children flying from the windows of the 
apartments on top of the shops when the explosion arrived,” said Haydar Abdul 
Jabbar, 28, a car mechanic who was standing near a barber shop when the bomb 
exploded. “One woman threw herself out of the window when the fire came close 
to her.” 
  Mr. Abdul Jabbar said he rushed to collapsed buildings trying to help the 
wounded but finding mainly hands, skulls and other body parts. At one point, he 
discovered the remains of a close friend, who was engaged to be married. 
  “How would you feel if you were in this position?” he said Sunday. “The 
government is supposed to protect us, but they are not doing their job. I watch 
the TV and see the announcements on the imminent implementation of the security 
plan. Where is it for God’s sake?”
  “I wish they would attack us with a nuclear bomb and kill us all,” he added, 
“so we will rest and anybody who wants the oil — which is the core of the 
problem — can come and get it. We can not live this way anymore; we are dying 
slowly every day.”
  By DAMIEN CAVE and RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
  Published: February 4, 2007
   

 
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