Tue 11/14/2006 where ever you go you see corpse

Yes, the emails have been slow these days. It is getting harder and harder to get through. It is easy to see why...

Dear Bruce,

you are starving for my words and I am starving for a moment of peace.

Dear ones...you can not imagine what kind of life here in Iraq! the situation is getting harder each day.

my neighborhood had been under attack since our last phone call with Bruce.Dead bodies of civilian people are accumulated and scattered every where...where ever you go you see corpse.

My mistress got her brother in law killed, a teacher in my school lost her brother in the latest explosion, another teacher lost his wife in the day of Saddam 's verdict because of the random shooting while the other one lost his relatives who were kidnapped in the funeral ceremony with the dead body!

My nieghborhood on the other hand still witnesses  serious combats because of their existance in the neighborhood,yesrerday 2 lands made were exploded in front of our house and they (USA troops) forced us to stay at our houses for about 6 hours.late at night they broke into houses and arrested many young men ...above all let me tell you this ...we haven't had electricity, no water, no phone service for about 6 days....can you imagine your life with out these 3 important things?

Now let me describe what happened to me this morning, a man I see every day standing next to me waiting for the bus going to his work...was shot dead by a sniper  ,I stood their watching him die with no idea what to do or where to go...I couldn't even shout for help...everybody arround me disappeared. I went back home totally broken down...wondering am I a live !!?

I sent this message from net cafe out of my nieghborhood.

Nesreen