(Iraqi) Family reeling from matriarch's brutal slaying

[Barrett808]

Family reeling from matriarch's brutal slaying
By Arwa Damon
CNN

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- "They killed my mother! God help me, they killed my mother!" Osama Rumani sobbed into his cell phone before handing it to his brother Ali, who was crying even harder.

At the other end of the line were relatives in Canada. As Ali spoke to them, Osama cursed the unknown killers through his tears: "May God orphan you. May you lose your mother and go through this pain. Shoot her once, shoot her twice, break her leg, her arms, but why this?"

Osama covered his face as he cried. His mother, Umm Luma, was an ordinary citizen, well-loved in the neighborhood where she was gunned down in front of her home.

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"I saw my mother on the street. I picked up her brains with my own hands and wrapped it," Osama said, repeating the words, "picked up her brains."

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/28/iraq.victims/index.html

[rodeodance]

1. this story should be read aloud at a WH briefing

[xchrom]

2. what is bush's arrogance and lack of feeling in the face

the citizenry's apathy?

[bhikkhu]

3. It is el diablo's lack of empathy

the classic symptom of the sociopath