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Classes starting soon! EUGENE: 9am–4pm Fred Meyer 3333 W. 11th Ave. (near the Garden Center) Call us at 1-800-KAP-TEST or visit us online at kaptest.com today to enroll! 10 APRIL 24, 2003 *LSAT is the registered trademark of the Law School Admissions Council. LSAT class starts Sunday, April 27 Eugene Kaplan Center 720 E 13th Ave., #204 Over 2 million now in use Big enough for a family of five Easy harvesting through sliding door Conveniently transported in any car K-Mart 846 Goodpasture Island Rd. (east parking lot) COTTAGE GROVE: 10am–2pm Wal-Mart 901 Row River Rd. For more information call BRING at 746-3023 BY KATE ROGERS GESSERT In Memoriam Undercovered #32: The civilian casualties of war. B April 1: Razek al-Khataj was driving efore we get swept away by north with 15 members of his family to escape Bush/Rumsfeld’s next military ad- fierce fighting in Nasiyirah. A rocket venture and our own need from an Apache helicopter blew to figure out what to do, let us their truck apart. Razek lost mourn Iraqi civilian casual- his wife, six children, his ties of the war, estimated father and mother, his so far from 1,252 to three brothers, and their 2,325 dead and 5,100 wives. wounded. Here are a April 2: Eight-year- few of the people: old Aisha Ahmed was March 24: Nada playing in the garden Abdallah was 16 and when a missile struck her newly married. She and family’s farm in Radwaniyeh, her husband were spending near Bagdad airport. Her 4-year- their honeymoon at a friend’s old brother died. Her mother, fa- farmhouse near Diyala Bridge, ther, older brother and sisters away from Baghdad and the were critically injured. Aisha bombs. After prayers on March lost an eye; her face and body 24, everyone was drinking tea were peppered with shrapnel. in the living room when a bomb She kept asking, “Mommy! landed, killing Nada, another Where is my mommy?” young woman, and 8-year-old April 5: Abid Hamoodi in- Fateha. Eight others were in- vited his three grown children jured by shrapnel, glass and fly- and their families to stay with ing debris. Nada’s husband him in his strong concrete house could not stop crying. PHOTO BY IRAQ PEACE TEAM in Basra. Anglo-American March 26: Faris El Baur forces bombed and the walls made cushions for car seats, collapsed, killing Abid’s wife and nine other working in his shop in Al Shaab market in family members. He saved a daughter and north Baghdad. Because schools were closed two of her children. for the war, his 11-year-old son Saif was help- April 6: Nadia Khalaf, 33, had just fin- ing him. When two rockets struck the market, ished her psychology Ph.D. She and her sister father and son were crushed and burned. were at home in Baghdad, talking and laugh- More than 20 other people died, including a ing, when a missile came through their win- mother and three small children, incinerated dow and drove Nadia’s heart out through her in their flipped-over car, and a young man chest. named Tajir, decapitated in a water-heater April 7: Sena Hassad, 36, and her daugh- shop. ters Rana, 10, and 7-year-old Maria, lived in March 28: Twelve-year-old Duha was Mansour neighborhood, Baghdad. Neighbors buying pencils in Baghdad’s Al Nasser mar- tried in vain to help Sena’s husband, Abdil, ket when a missile exploded, driving pieces of dig his family out of the rubble created by metal through crowds and house walls, ampu- four 2,000-pound precision-guided bombs. tating limbs and heads. Duha has a head in- April 8: In Baladiyat, Baghdad’s eastern jury and may lose his leg. Fifty-eight people edge, a U.S. plane fired at the home of Wael were killed and 47 wounded, including many Sabah, her 12-year-old daughter Noor, and children. her 4-year-old son Abdel. They died in Kindi March 29: Failing to realize that their vil- hospital while another son, stunned, sat on the lage was inside a “kill box,” a free-fire zone floor beside his mother in a puddle of her designated by U.S. military, cousins 12-year- blood. Nearby, 2-year-old Ali Najour lay old Ibrahim and 17-year-old Jala walked to soaked in blood with a tube in his nose. Both their neighbor’s house for lunch. A U.S. pilot his parents had been killed. Eleven-year-old bombed and killed them. Safa Karim died slowly, bleeding internally March 30: With two friends, 14-year-old from a bomb fragment in her stomach and Arkan Daif was digging a trench in front of writhing in pain. his Baghdad house to protect his family from April 9: Children were playing in an olive bombing. A bomb tore off the back of his tree grove near the remote northern village of head. He was a boy “like a flower,” his father Fathlia. When bombs fell, 6-year-old Hansa said. Omar was decapitated, her sister Jasim also March 31-April 1: Azor Waled, 20, sat in died, and their friend, 10-year-old Ali Ramzi, Babylon Hospital with a wounded leg, hold- was crushed against a tree. Abu Salam Gafur, ing her baby daughter, whose head was in- a 16-year-old shepherd, was killed with his jured. Her other two daughters were dead, sheep. bombed near Hillah. ew Five-year-old Nader stepped on a cluster SOURCES: Robert Fisk of the Independent, iraqbodycount.org, antiwar.com, ccmep.org, Iraq Peace bomblet that blew out his left eye. Showers of Team, Guardian, Washington Post, Sydney Morning Herald, cluster bombs killed 60 Hillah civilians and Counterpunch, Agence France Presse, Alternet, Asia Times, Reuters, Mirror, Associated Press, BBC. wounded 460. Muhammad Adman was wounded by shrapnel and hospitalized in Baghdad. let us mourn Iraqi civilian casualties of the war, estimated so far from 1,252 to 2,325 dead and 5,100 wounded.
