neurotic Iraqi wife
May 18, 2006
Pawns in a Chess Game...
Last night was pretty heavy...Heard about 6 or 7 explosions outside the GZ...They were quite loud ones...As I was reading emails and surfing the net, I heard a weird noise, like some kind of metal landed on the floor behind my room in the vacuum....Then the security told us we are under lockdown because of some small arms fire...It hit me...It was a stray bullet...Wow...I wasnt really shaken but all I can say this isnt the first time the GZ is targeted nor is it the first time a stray bullet or a rocket lands within the area...
A colleague of mine, came to work today looking really distressed...We asked her what was the matter, she said, my cousin...my cousin got killed last night...He was shot...I didnt know what to say except, how???where??? She said in the Shaab area...He works with some Japanese company there..A group of armed men hurled in and shot everyone...Just like that...Then someone who knows my cousin went and called my uncle...who rushed to the scene to make sure it is my cousin and if it is to take his body...As my uncle tried to carry my cousin...A car exploded and now my uncle's leg has to get amputated....HUBBY and I just sat silent..All I was able to come out with was Wow...Felt really stupid...but what can you say in such a situation...."Im sorry to hear that"??? Well hell yeah I am sorry but what will that do...It was actually strange for her to come into work since in our culture when there is death in the family, there is a period of mourning...I guess she just wanted to get out of that atmosphere...atmosphere of death...
A few hours later...Another colleague of mine received a phonecall from her daughter who lives in Amriyah...Telling her that there are now groups of militias who would stop any woman in the street not wearing a scarf over her head and would shave her hair off...My colleagues sister was one of the victims....Fatwas have also been issued...No men are allowed to wear jeans..No men are allowed to have a goatie...No Women are allowed to wear trousers....Can you believe this SHIT??? And where is the darn government???The government is deciding who takes the Defense ministry and who takes the Interior one....Wowwww!!!! People are getting killed left center and right all under the eyes of the government!!!
Iraq is now being ruled by militias..Badr militia...Mahdi militia...Zarqawi's criminals...Bin Laden's merceneries...Saddam Loyalists....I have to raise my hat for the amazing job that the government who were elected last december are doing...Yup...A really good job men!!!Keep it up...Keep it up and let the Innocent people get killed...Keep it up and let your nation die slowly....Isnt that what everyone wants???
Kidnappings...deaths on a daily basis..daily...close your eyes for a few minutes and imagine yourself in a lawless society...No law governs...Streets are filled with sewage and garbage...Air is filled with the smell of death...You have a child...your only child...He asks you please mom, I wanna go and play football with my friends...Please mom, I have finished my homework and I wanna play...Reluctantly you say yes....He is only gonna be next to the house....You let him go...he desreves to have fun...you peek from the window...smiling to yourself...Realising how much he has grown...then...A car...a black car screeches...for no reason men pull the windows down and start shooting haphazardly....You see the children fall to the ground one by one....just like that...right infront of your own eyes....the car continues to the next set of victims...Youve lost your child....your only child....
Close your eyes for a few minutes and imagine yourself in a lawless society...No law governs...You have just been married....Waiting anxiously for your husband to come home...He is working long hours to be able to provide for you and for his own direct family...He is working so hard to save some money...So that maybe just maybe an opportunity arises for travel and another new bright future somewhere far far away...He is late...You start to worry...You call his mobile phone...You get the "either switched off or outside the coverage area" You dial again and again and again but to no avail....The dinner on the table becomes cold...you call your family...they tell you its ok....maybe he had to go somewhere....you know something doesnt feel right....you start to have images in your head...You dont know what to do...You start shaking...crying...then night over comes and you get a phonecall...Your husband was next to a car when it exploded ...He is Gone...His body is charred...Youve lost your mate..your soul mate....
Close your eyes for a few minutes and imagine yourself in a lawless society...No Law governs...Your wife and daughter had to go to the local store to get some fruits....As they cross the road a group of men stop the car....pull your wife and daughter in...and take them to an unknown destination...Then you get a phonecall...Your daughter and wife's bodies will be on your doorstep tomorrow...They hang up...They play with your mind....They scare you...They know you will become desperate...No phonecalls for the next few days...You havent slept in a long long time...then you get that phonecall again...asking for money...Money you cannot afford...Money you must get to have your family back...You call your relatives...you call your friends...you collect the money...You try to negotiate as much as you can...I do not have that much...I cannot afford this...They are callous...they are criminals....They do not care...They might bargain...they might not...its you and your luck on who the kidnappers are....You get the money...you give it to them...and then you wait...a day...2 days...3....a week....2 bodies are found shot in the head in the garbage...Its your lovely wife and beautiful daughter.....Youve lost your family....Youve lost your hope.....
More and more stories like this happen everyday....More and more killings...More and more kidnappings...This is the plight of the Iraqis...But no one hears them...No one hears the sound of their suffering...No one....There is nothing you and me can do...
One way to solve this is get rid of this government whose loyalty is not Iraq, but some other agenda...Get rid of the militia...Bring someone with an Iron fist...Yes someone who will kill and get rid of all the criminals...shoot them just like they do...get rid of them one by one...No law will take care of this..cuz this is a lawless society...Talk to them in their language...The only language they know...I am sorry to say this...Me the educated, me the open minded....I now came to realise that the only way to get rid of these roaches and barbarians is by the same acts they commit...
Either that or divide Iraq...South, center, north and let each one govern the way they want to....Which is something I doubt anyone wants....This current government is hopeless...As long as there are fanatic religeous people governing and having great popularity then forget it....As long as there are bin laden loyalists...Zarqawi criminals...Militias...so called mujahideen....There will no longer be Iraq....this place has literally become a hell hole....The victims are and will always be the Innocent Iraqis who just want to live...live not in fear...live not in the stench of death...but live normally...First it was Saddam and his clan...now its a mixture, a cocktail of criminals, mobs and gangs....The innocent Iraqis are nothing but Pawns, Pawns in a Chess Game...
A colleague of mine, came to work today looking really distressed...We asked her what was the matter, she said, my cousin...my cousin got killed last night...He was shot...I didnt know what to say except, how???where??? She said in the Shaab area...He works with some Japanese company there..A group of armed men hurled in and shot everyone...Just like that...Then someone who knows my cousin went and called my uncle...who rushed to the scene to make sure it is my cousin and if it is to take his body...As my uncle tried to carry my cousin...A car exploded and now my uncle's leg has to get amputated....HUBBY and I just sat silent..All I was able to come out with was Wow...Felt really stupid...but what can you say in such a situation...."Im sorry to hear that"??? Well hell yeah I am sorry but what will that do...It was actually strange for her to come into work since in our culture when there is death in the family, there is a period of mourning...I guess she just wanted to get out of that atmosphere...atmosphere of death...
A few hours later...Another colleague of mine received a phonecall from her daughter who lives in Amriyah...Telling her that there are now groups of militias who would stop any woman in the street not wearing a scarf over her head and would shave her hair off...My colleagues sister was one of the victims....Fatwas have also been issued...No men are allowed to wear jeans..No men are allowed to have a goatie...No Women are allowed to wear trousers....Can you believe this SHIT??? And where is the darn government???The government is deciding who takes the Defense ministry and who takes the Interior one....Wowwww!!!! People are getting killed left center and right all under the eyes of the government!!!
Iraq is now being ruled by militias..Badr militia...Mahdi militia...Zarqawi's criminals...Bin Laden's merceneries...Saddam Loyalists....I have to raise my hat for the amazing job that the government who were elected last december are doing...Yup...A really good job men!!!Keep it up...Keep it up and let the Innocent people get killed...Keep it up and let your nation die slowly....Isnt that what everyone wants???
Kidnappings...deaths on a daily basis..daily...close your eyes for a few minutes and imagine yourself in a lawless society...No law governs...Streets are filled with sewage and garbage...Air is filled with the smell of death...You have a child...your only child...He asks you please mom, I wanna go and play football with my friends...Please mom, I have finished my homework and I wanna play...Reluctantly you say yes....He is only gonna be next to the house....You let him go...he desreves to have fun...you peek from the window...smiling to yourself...Realising how much he has grown...then...A car...a black car screeches...for no reason men pull the windows down and start shooting haphazardly....You see the children fall to the ground one by one....just like that...right infront of your own eyes....the car continues to the next set of victims...Youve lost your child....your only child....
Close your eyes for a few minutes and imagine yourself in a lawless society...No law governs...You have just been married....Waiting anxiously for your husband to come home...He is working long hours to be able to provide for you and for his own direct family...He is working so hard to save some money...So that maybe just maybe an opportunity arises for travel and another new bright future somewhere far far away...He is late...You start to worry...You call his mobile phone...You get the "either switched off or outside the coverage area" You dial again and again and again but to no avail....The dinner on the table becomes cold...you call your family...they tell you its ok....maybe he had to go somewhere....you know something doesnt feel right....you start to have images in your head...You dont know what to do...You start shaking...crying...then night over comes and you get a phonecall...Your husband was next to a car when it exploded ...He is Gone...His body is charred...Youve lost your mate..your soul mate....
Close your eyes for a few minutes and imagine yourself in a lawless society...No Law governs...Your wife and daughter had to go to the local store to get some fruits....As they cross the road a group of men stop the car....pull your wife and daughter in...and take them to an unknown destination...Then you get a phonecall...Your daughter and wife's bodies will be on your doorstep tomorrow...They hang up...They play with your mind....They scare you...They know you will become desperate...No phonecalls for the next few days...You havent slept in a long long time...then you get that phonecall again...asking for money...Money you cannot afford...Money you must get to have your family back...You call your relatives...you call your friends...you collect the money...You try to negotiate as much as you can...I do not have that much...I cannot afford this...They are callous...they are criminals....They do not care...They might bargain...they might not...its you and your luck on who the kidnappers are....You get the money...you give it to them...and then you wait...a day...2 days...3....a week....2 bodies are found shot in the head in the garbage...Its your lovely wife and beautiful daughter.....Youve lost your family....Youve lost your hope.....
More and more stories like this happen everyday....More and more killings...More and more kidnappings...This is the plight of the Iraqis...But no one hears them...No one hears the sound of their suffering...No one....There is nothing you and me can do...
One way to solve this is get rid of this government whose loyalty is not Iraq, but some other agenda...Get rid of the militia...Bring someone with an Iron fist...Yes someone who will kill and get rid of all the criminals...shoot them just like they do...get rid of them one by one...No law will take care of this..cuz this is a lawless society...Talk to them in their language...The only language they know...I am sorry to say this...Me the educated, me the open minded....I now came to realise that the only way to get rid of these roaches and barbarians is by the same acts they commit...
Either that or divide Iraq...South, center, north and let each one govern the way they want to....Which is something I doubt anyone wants....This current government is hopeless...As long as there are fanatic religeous people governing and having great popularity then forget it....As long as there are bin laden loyalists...Zarqawi criminals...Militias...so called mujahideen....There will no longer be Iraq....this place has literally become a hell hole....The victims are and will always be the Innocent Iraqis who just want to live...live not in fear...live not in the stench of death...but live normally...First it was Saddam and his clan...now its a mixture, a cocktail of criminals, mobs and gangs....The innocent Iraqis are nothing but Pawns, Pawns in a Chess Game...
5 Comments:
Why mass-media is keep silent about it? Focusing mainly on terrorist attacks and forgetting stories of usual (average?) people of Iraq?
Extremely sad stories, Iraqi Wife.
What else do we all have? I will pray for you and your country. Pray is the only thing left. I pray that your government gets their act together.
Neurotic,
First of all, my prayers are with you and all your colleagues for the terrible situation.
I want to ask a question, but I don't want it to be taken as an accusation, nor do I want to seem naive enough to think it has a simple answer. The question is this:
Why do the Iraqi people not demand better from the government? I hear all of these same complaints from Iraqi bloggers about the inadequacy of the security and the constant bickering over cabinet seats, but surely somebody knows who these people are? Is the problem that the police are so infiltrated that they cannot arrest or kill the assailants? Or is the problem that the ministers in charge of the police and army do not want to anger the militias? Or is it that people are unwilling to tell anybody that the guys living next door are terrorists?
Again, I don't want to seem naive, because I know that the police are weak and the situation is chaotic to say the least. I am just genuinely curious where Iraqis put the blame for allowing the violence to escalate as it has. It is easy (and appropriate) to blame the politicians who sit around arguing over seats at the table, but the problem is much deeper than that, and I would like to hear your thoughts on its roots. It just seems that in many countries the people in such a chaotic situation would stand up and create their own security (as reports have said was done by tribal leaders in some of the other parts of Baghdad). Is the situation this bad in Baghdad because there is no central figure like a tribal leader who could organize such a response? Are people in some areas in Baghdad supportive of the situation as it is?
If you have the time and the inclination, I would appreciate any insight you could provide into the roots of the problem and how it might eventually be solved.
Anon, I stopped reading or watching news...I get my news first hand from the Iraqis with me...They are the voices of truth...
Anon..yes and there are more and more sad stories...
MM, thanx for your sentiments...I really appreciate it...We all are praying too for things to get better...
Bill...Its not as easy as u may think...There are people who stood up against the government, their fate??? getting murdered under anonymous circumstances...At first people to defend themsleves without even depending on any police...I have heard stories from colleagues that some police see the crime happening and are too frightened to do anything about it...This is the police force that is supposed to defend the people...I am not saying all them of them are bad, on the contrary there are some who are extremely genuine and do help out, but majority, their allegiance lay with the militias...
No one and I mean no one is happy with whats going on..people are tired, exhausted...they have given up hope...they make fun of the government, for the governemnt has lost its credibility long time ago...People wanna live, wanna be able to breathe...breathe without fear...but how can they when they know that any second, any minute they can end up shot dead??? It will take an extremely long long time to win back the people's confidence...Only way to do it is to get rid of this government and bring someone who doesnt support militias...Someone who will put his foot down and say NO to CRIMINALS, NO to INSURGENCY...NO to MILITIAS....Someone who doesnt fear Muqtada or Al Hakeem...Someone with an iron fist...Wishful thinking I know...but thats just my opinion...religeon should have never ever been part of this government's basis...
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