Fighting in Iraq: home is a Baghdad bomb shelter

[JoFerret]

http://www.freep.com/news/nw/refuge15_20040415.htm

Does Bush know for certain whose side God is on??

<<BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Jamal Mahmood piled 11 relatives into his 1981 sedan -- four in the trunk -- and fled Fallujah this week.

Now his relatives live with several other families in a dilapidated bomb shelter in a Baghdad neighborhood, hoping the violence between U.S. forces and insurgents will subside so they can go home.

While many Iraqis were appalled by the mutilations of four U.S. contractors, they were upset by what happened next, when hundreds of Iraqis were killed in fighting that also claimed the lives of 27 U.S. Marines. As the body count rises, anger against the United States is growing among ordinary Iraqis, who increasingly say they believe the U.S. mission isn't one of security and democracy, but rather one of hostility.

The Baghdad neighborhood, where Mahmood and his relatives are living, is Sunni Muslim, as is Fallujah, and the walls along many streets are riddled with anti-American graffiti.

Mahmood called the recent downing of a U.S. helicopter one of the "miracles made by God." >>
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