In Baghdad, even babies quickly learn to duck snipers

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/iraq/story/17896.html


Nawal Na'eem Karim was surprised this week to hear her toddler tell her, "Talaq inana! Talaq inana!" — "Bullets here! Bullets here!"

He was warning her to step cautiously past the windows. Their house is in a kill zone. At 18 months, her baby already had learned counterinsurgency survival. He still wears a diaper.

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But Karim and her neighbors wish U.S. or Iraqi forces would concentrate on the local snipers. Because of that failing, from her perspective, the American troops can't leave soon enough. There's vigorous debate on this point, however, and some of her neighbors say U.S. troops are the only force that's still preserving order.

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Karim, 34, who wears her dark hair flowing down her back, sometimes pokes her head through doorways before scampering from room to room. She's afraid to wash dishes in the kitchen sink. She tells her children not to play in the backyard garden, not to play out front, not to play by the windows.

She's frustrated, and looks forward to the day that U.S. troops will leave Iraq. "It will be a happy day when it comes," she said.

"You invaded Iraq in 20 days but the Amil neighborhood is still suffering for more than two years," she added.

"Why couldn't they control a small area that a sniper has taken over, when they have all the technology to get rid of him within seconds?"
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if you read the whole article you will have to ignore the interesting choice of words (example: scamper) and neo con garble

mothering is a lot of fun in Iraq