{"id":1983,"date":"2004-05-21T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-21T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2004-05-21T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-21T19:29:00","slug":"mazel-tov-from-your-pentagon-wellwishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/05\/21\/15\/29\/mazel-tov-from-your-pentagon-wellwishers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mazel Tov From Your Pentagon Wellwishers"},"content":{"rendered":"

“We were in Mukaradeeb. At 3am they rained the air with bombs … One after another the bombs were falling. Three houses with the guests inside were hit. They fired as if there were an armoured brigade inside, not a wedding party” … Wedding guests had been firing in the air. American troops had come to investigate and then left<\/b>. At about 3 am, they returned in helicopters and destroyed two houses.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“We went out of the house and the American soldiers started to shoot us. They were shooting low on the ground and targeting us one by one,” she said. She ran with her youngest child in her arms and her two young boys, Ali and Hamza, close behind. As she crossed the fields a shell exploded close to her, fracturing her legs and knocking her to the ground. She lay there and a second round hit her on the right arm. By then her two boys lay dead. “I left them because they were dead,” she said. One, she saw, had been decapitated by a shell. “I fell into the mud and an American soldier came and kicked me. I pretended to be dead so he wouldn’t kill me. My youngest child was alive next to me.” … Among the dead were 27 members of the extended Rakat family, their wedding guests and even the band of musicians hired to play<\/b> at the ceremony … 11 of the dead were women and 14 were children.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“We were in Mukaradeeb. At 3am they rained the air with bombs … One after another the bombs were falling. Three houses with the guests inside were hit. They fired as if there were...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t