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'Living
on memories of my family' BBC
news online I
will never forget my family for a second. We were all living here in my
house and now I am left by myself. Alone.
They
are of my blood. My wife, my daughter, who was a doctor, my son, a
computer engineer and my grandchildren. They have all gone. I
am now living on my memories. But I will never forget them. How could I do
that? There
is sadness and sorrow throughout our days and nights, for something which
shouldn't have happened. This
was a big mistake committed by the British here in This
was stupidity. The
occupying forces have done very well to remove Saddam from power.
Otherwise, no Iraqi would have been able to do anything to get rid of that
bastard. Killing
and kidnapping The
situation under Saddam was very bad indeed. We were hoping and expecting
things to improve after the occupation by the coalition troops, but what
happened then was totally different. There's
no security in The
head of the hospital in
We
were expecting the coalition troops to liberate the country and to take
full control of the situation and they're not doing this at all. The
situation in What
was the purpose of the invasion of the country. Was it to liberate I
have reported the attack on my house to Mr Bush and Mr Blair, both of whom
declared on several occasions that people living at home, staying away
from military bases, will be quite safe. Throughout
the days of war in On
that day, I managed to save three of my family. I tried to resuscitate
some of my family members, but it was no good. I didn't save any of them. We
are Shia and we had to bury them temporarily in because
we couldn't get to Najaf at the time. Last month we finally took them to
Najaf. And we are still receiving mourners almost every day.
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