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September / October 2003
Kate Gessert Eat the State! 
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April 5: Abid Hamoodi invited his three grown children and their families to stay with him in his strong concrete house in Basra. Anglo-American forces bombed and the wall collapsed, killing Abid's wife and nine other family members. He saved a daughter and two of her children.

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April 6: Nadia Khalaf, 33, had just finished her psychology Ph.D. She and her sister were at home in Baghdad, talking and laughing, when a missile came through their window and drove Nadia's heart out through her chest.

April 8: In Baladiyat, Baghdad's eastern edge, a U.S. plane fired at the home of Wael Sabah, her 12-year-old daughter Noor, and her 4-year-old son Abdel. They died in Kindi hospital while another son, stunned, sat on the floor beside his mother in a puddle of her blood. Nearby, in the hospital, 2-year-old Ali Najour lay soaked in blood with a tube in his nose. Both her parents had been killed. And 11-year-old Safa Karim died slowly, bleeding internally from a bomb fragment in her stomach and writhing in pain.

April 9: Children were playing in an olive tree grove near the remote northern village of Fathlia. When bombs fell, 6-year-old Hansa Omar was decapitated, her sister Jasim also died, and their friend, 10-year-old Ali Ramzi, was crushed against a tree. Abu Salam Gafur, a 16-year-old shepherd, was killed with his sheep.

Reprinted from Eat the State! (April 23, 2003). Distributed free biweekly in western Washington, Eat the State! is a forum for 'anti-authoritarian political opinion, research, and humor.' The seven-year-old tabloid consistently crackles with energy, passion, and contention. Subscriptions: $24/yr. (25 issues) from Box 85541, Seattle, WA 98145; eatthestate.org

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