Victims of Terror

What the hell is going on here??? Why the phone is ringing and no one wants to answer… They don’t see how busy I was??? They Just think about themselves taking the nap and the hell with every thing else??

Oh man!! I missed the land-line call…rnrnrnrrn…here it is again!! Who is insisting calling us in that way???

Me: Hello, Hello… My Uncle’s wife (N): Help…Help!!!

Me: what is wrong aunty?? N: your other uncle’s house….ummm let me talk to your dad!!! Me: OK, hold on, Dad, dad hurry up!!! Aunty wants to talk to you!! Dad: Hello what is wrong? After N finished talking to dad; his face looked pale and yellow…My brother’s house had experienced a big explosion!! His wife and daughter are there!! We have to go and see what happened to them!

Me: Oh my!!! What an evening!! Dad, my sister and I got into the car like crazy people, and he was driving so fast. We arrived there but the US army and Iraqi police closed the road, because the firefighters were trying to extinguish the fire all over the place. We still don’t know the reason why that small street which is full of bunch of civilian houses was attacked??!!! Any way, we waited till all those forces left the place…

Couple of policemen stood in front of our car as we were entering the street, but my dad pointed to my Uncle’s house and after negotiating with them, we got to park our car far from the house and go there walking!!!

It was about 5:30 pm and as usual it was dark already, all wires and electricity cables melted because of the explosion… smoke, shrapnel and screams in every where, we got into the house finally.

I will never forget how my Uncles’ wife (S) and daughter (L) looked like at that moment, scared to death, quivering so bad, stammering and crying!!! Help, help…S called for us…look what happened to my house!

Look what happened to us, the door feel over L’s head, but thank God she wasn’t hurt… I walked into the house, and took a look inside in the kitchen; I found broken glasses, shrapnel, destroyed plants pots, broken dishes, and doors!!! It was so dark that we had to lit candles all over the place.

In TV room, the scene was bloodcurdling!! All curtains and glasses were mixed with each other the way we couldn’t move them, TV and satellite receiver were on the floor, not to mention whatsoever was in the credenza feel on the floor as well.

I wanted to go upstairs to check the other rooms, I couldn’t go up, because of the teeny-weeny broken glasses were on the steps and the banister… It was getting darker and colder, there was no one safe glass at home, the cold air started blowing inside the house, and my uncles was out all that time…

My dad kept waiting him at the out gate in order to tell him gently about what happened, we didn’t want him to come and figure out himself and get overtaken!!!! I took my sister aside and whisper in her ear “let’s start removing some of the glasses from the corridor, and garage!”

I took one of the squeegees and start sweeping the floor, by the time I reached the door handles, I stumbled with glasses and feel on my hand, Ouch!!! My fingers got injured!! But I kept cleaning…

I heard that my Uncle was beeping to park his car, and saw my sister and cousin cleaning the garage from glasses to make way to his car!!! My Uncle got out and he was totally overpowered of what he has just seen… I can tell that in spite of the darkness but I could see how his irises and eye pupils turned to red!! And as usual as any Iraqi hot tempered my uncle showered us with cusses and revilements…

“Oh wait!! Did I tell you the reason of the explosion” My uncle said with angry voice My neighbor is a cornel in the police plus, he is the chief of felonies investigation court. A suicide was driving his car so fast, and he invaded the police’s garage bombing himself and killing no one but him.

There is only one house which separates my uncle’s house from the police’s one! The damage was so horrendous; it affected other house from the back street also. The police cornel and his wife were injured and they were driven by an ambulance to the hospital along with the injured neighbors.

The next day all of us, my aunt and my other uncle’s wife went to clean and renovate, every one was responsible for a particular job, brushing, vacuum-

cleaning, washing, mopping, and sweeping.

The work started at 8:00 A.M and continued for consecutive 12 hours, that was only cleaning…not fixing. My step mom and aunt, cooked food in our house and brought there, as you know there was no time to cook!! My dad will bring the blacksmith and carpenters to the house on Saturday to fix the doors and windows…

What is their fault??? Sitting inside their houses and securing their lives??? Paying millions of dinnars for renovations only?? What did they do?? And you tell me be careful and stay home!! we are getting attacked In the mid of our safest places, our house!! What is the safest place that we need to go to so we can stay alive??? Is it the moon????

Any way, the pictures will explain more.