--- In [email protected], Robert Gimbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "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 > Thanks for posting this, lest anyone think that war is noble or a justified means to an end.
