Word: karbala
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...overwhelming victory that should embarrass other politicians who cavalierly throw around the word landslide, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein won a 99.96% approval rating from Iraqi voters and was sworn in for another seven-year term. Even in the once rebellious city of Karbala, not one of the 270,867 cast a vote against Saddam. Of course, there were no other candidates on the ballot, and soldiers were on hand to make sure voters did the right thing...
...operate even such basic equipment as incubators or refrigerators needed to store blood and medicine, much less the more sophisticated machinery of operating rooms and intensive-care units. In the northern city of Arbil, all premature infants are dying: there are no working incubators. In the southern city of Karbala, a hospital without refrigeration relies on a makeshift method to acquire blood for transfusions: the staff sends a young man running out of the hospital to fetch a person with the proper blood type, who will give blood as the operation progresses...
...southern cities, where fierce fighting erupted between Shi'ite rebels and the government, healthworkers were caught in the cross fire. Three floors of Karbala's Husaini hospital were destroyed, and blood and bullet holes are still visible on walls and doors. One doctor there tells of walking down a hallway where dead and wounded lined every inch of the floor and of being unable to tell which stray limb belonged to which body. For weeks, dogs feasted on decomposing remains in the courtyard between the wards...
Before and during the war, Bush constantly compared Saddam with Adolf Hitler. Now critics are asking why the Butcher of Baghdad -- and Karbala and Kirkuk -- is still President of Iraq. The answer is that since withdrawing from Kuwait, Saddam has been playing by accepted rules; his abominations are once again in the category of internal affairs. Which suggests a disturbing line of speculation about Hitler himself: What if the Fuhrer had resisted the temptations of conquest and been content with the real estate of the Weimar Republic to build the Third Reich, complete with gas chambers and ovens? Would...
...failed so miserably against the allied coalition. This time it was the Shi'ite rebels who were doomed to failure. They lacked a joint command-and-communications system and were dependent largely on weapons and ammunition abandoned by Iraqi soldiers as they fled the allies. The holy sites of Karbala and Najaf, so meticulously avoided by coalition bombing raids, were reportedly ravaged. In some cases targeted with napalm and phosphorus, thousands of civilians streamed toward the southern sector of the country occupied by U.S. troops. Ordered not to intervene, American soldiers could offer little more than food, water and medical...