I would cut Bush to pieces with my teeth
March 30 2003
The Sun-Herald
Rasoul Hammed Najeed stood outside his home sobbing uncontrollably for his
five-year-old son, who was killed while playing near a busy Baghdad
vegetable market when an air raid struck.
"After this crime, I wish I could see [US President George Bush] in order
to cut him to pieces with my teeth," he cried.
Another man, identified as Saad Abd Qasim, stood as if in a trance, unable
to speak.
Friends said his wife, his child and the wife of his son had been among the
50 to 60 people Iraqis say were killed in the raid.
"We heard a plane flying over us. We saw a rocket coming in our direction,
and then we heard the explosion. My shop was shaken but, thank God, I am
safe," Eyad Abadi, 30, said.
The raid took place in the run-down, working-class district of Shula in
north-west Baghdad, inhabited mostly by Shi'ite Muslims.
Most of the one-storey shops in the immediate area were demolished. The
ground was covered with blood and broken glass. Reporter Hassan Hafidh said
he saw 10 corpses.
Abu Dhabi television said US cruise missiles may have hit the market.
The US military blamed another, earlier explosion in a Baghdad residential
area last week on an errant Iraqi missile. It had no immediate comment on
Friday's hit on Shula.
There were scenes of panic and confusion at the nearby Al-Noor Hospital as
relatives tried to locate or comfort injured loved ones.
"Is this the humanity that Bush is talking about? He has no mercy at all.
May God make him fail," said Ali Kadhin, whose three-year-old son was badly
injured in the attack.
Dr Osama Sakhari said he had counted 55 people killed and more than 47
wounded in the raid. Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf
said at least 58 people had been killed.
Dr Sakhari said he had counted 15 children among the dead - one had died in
his arms.
"I ask Bush and Blair to imagine how they would feel if their child died in
their arms," he said.
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