European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday april 8 2007 stars and stripes Page 11 can Baghdad recover from wave of violence the associated press Baghdad in 2003 when Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq a woman named Hadiyah Aldu Laimi had three handsome sons they had grown into Good men with wives and families they were the shining accomplish ments of her life in Hindsight it was a much bet Ter life than she realized at the time most certainly better than it is now four years after the fall of Baghdad on april 9 2003 the people of the City cheered invading us sol Diers in the City Square leaders of the coalition troops promised Liberty Freedom and life without tyranny but Baghdad still has none of those things and Aldulaimii has no sons one Day last Spring a dozen men in Black uniforms knocked Down her door with machine guns they screamed filthy Sun Nis and they handcuffed her sons Haqiqi 39 Qais 37 31 Why what did my boys do the Mother cried she got no an Swers the dozen gunmen dragged their new prisoners across the floor pummelling Heads with their Rifle Butts Aldulaimii dropped to her Knees clinging to the Ankles of a kidnapper she begged kissing his shoes then she bargained at least leave me one take the other two leave me one wry Jorr Oor can to All people demand better living conditions from the government and improved civil services in new Baghdad on april 1 since the used invasion in 2003 the simple things that feed body and soul have disappeared in Baghdad drinkable water that flows from a tap electricity that stays on movie Heaters that open and Book Sellers with new books they beat her head with their gun stocks until she passed out then they took her sons the next Day their corpses were on the sidewalk Haq is body was headless the bodies of Qais and Ali had been mutilated some parts were missing like so Many others their grieving Mother fled to Syria in her Case she left behind deprivation and corruption mayhem and mad Ness a City that is Haemorrhaging Many of its Best and brightest while Many of those left behind Are brutalized and traumatized not withstanding sen John Mccain recent stroll through a City Market things Are bet Ter he wonder can a place where men blow themselves up in Street markets cars implode at traffic lights and kidnappings occur in Broad Day Light Ever recover there is a Way out say historians and sociologists South Africa went on after the horrors of apartheid in Large part because of reconciliation hearings headed by Nobel prize Winner archbishop Desmond Tutu who gathered victims and perpetrators in the 1990s and led them through extraordinary meet Ings of shared memories that led to forgiveness in the same Way Rwanda tried to reach beyond the machetes that hacked to death 800000 Tut Sis putting the huts who wielded them in the same room with their victims families such methods take years and nothing can be done until the fighting stops gone missing Are the simple things that feed body and soul drinkable water that flows from a tap electricity that stays on movie Heaters that open Book Sellers with new books also missing Are an overgrow ing number of doctors professors and teachers the brain of Baghdad As the iraqis say there is no official record of the number of professionals who have fled or hair Almalik a specialist in child psychology is a guarded but compassionate Man for him leaving Iraq is not an Honor Able option if i leave and All the other doctors leave All the Hospi tals would be closed he said we have to take care of our peo ple death can come in any coun try it has already come calling for Almalik but the visit was unsuccessful a 16yearold Fine look ing boy pulled out a pistol and opened fire the doctor Dove under his desk he was shot twice in the hand and shoulder he said the attack was part of an insurgent Campaign against doctors six others were attacked in the City and four died the doctor never returned to his 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