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TexasProgresive

(12,148 posts)
Fri Sep 19, 2014, 02:49 PM Sep 2014

"The situation in Mosul" dateline Thursday, June 26, 2014 -no follow up

Days of My Life

Talk about daily life of a teenage girl in Iraq, and days of suffering and success. My nick name will be Sunshine..


I used to follow Sunshine regularly but as things deteriorated in Iraq and she became more involved in her studies her posts became less and less frequent and I did not visit often. A few days ago I accidentally clicked on her site and saw this post from June. It is very sad. I know that people are of at least 2 minds on what to do or not do about the crisis in northern Iraq but everyone should read this window into the soul of an Iraqi young woman.

Thursday, June 26, 2014
The situation in Mosul.

I don't know what to say, my heart is full of sorrow and fear
The past 3 weeks were the hardest ever, 11 years of war , I've written about hard days in blog but they are nothing compared to what happened this time.

War between armed men and al Maliki's army

I arrived Baghdad on 29/5 , i came in a visit to my grandparents. On Friday morning 6/6 , my mom received an sms from dad, he said "a bloody battle in our neighborhood since 3 am "

The fight started at 3 am on Tuesday , no one knew what was going on , shelling, heavy shooting , and explosions , my dad and grandparents stayed in the corridor for 3 days.

I was catching my mobile phone looking for news all the time, the people in Mosul ( who had Internet connection) were writing about this huge battle in face book they even posted photos taken from their own houses, i called my dad several time to tell him whats happening outside , they were trapped with no TV nor Internet , the electricity was off , and they had no water as well.
http://livesstrong.blogspot.com/
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