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Iraq Diaries- from the Iraq Peace Team seee www.iraqpeaceteam.org or www.electroniciraq.net/news ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Amal, Dear Friend... Cathy Breen, Iraq Peace Team 27 March 2003 Amal, dear friend, I visited your once lovely home today. How heavy your heart is. I can sense your despair and deep sadness, and I am so helpless to console you. Glass is everywhere, shattered and strewn about, the windows and doors now gaping holes for the raging wind and sand to enter. Had it been by natural forces it would be easier to bear. But this destruction is cruel and senseless. Worse yet, it is premeditated and purposeful. It's name is war. How bitter for you, Amal, you who have given so much to so many. How harsh and cruel for you who cherish beauty and safeguard it for everyone to enjoy. As we walk together over shards of glass, everything looks dismal, covered in layers of sand. Curtains torn and rent and beloved belongings no longer where they should be. But then nothing is as it should be. As we make our way from room to room and through the garden area alongside the river, the jarring boom of bombs tell us that the destruction is not over. Oh Amal, you whose name means hope. I beg you not to give up, but to hold fast to hope. Page last updated: 27 March 2003, 18:53 CST sign the pledge of resistance to the "war on terrorism" www.j-n-v.org _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk