A follow-up to my Feb. 12 post. This is from Marc Santora’s latest NY Times roundup on the carnage in Iraq. I honestly thought I was having a bad day until I read it:
A family of 13 was killed on the road leading to Falluja, about 12 miles northwest of Baghdad, because its members were from a tribe known to oppose Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, witnesses said.
The family, including an elderly woman and two small boys, was dragged out of a minibus, lined up and shot. The bodies remained on the highway for hours because people were afraid they would be ambushed if they collected the dead, witnesses said.
Details like this always have to compete with “bigger” news stories, like the brazen Sunni assault on a U.S. combat outpost in Tarmiya. But there are thousands of others, along with these 13 family members, whose stories may never be fully told. The least I can do is post accounts of their horrifying deaths here.
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