Word: qadissiya
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...went back to work in Baghdad, but all was not quiet there or in other cities. Those police officers were all products of the old regime, and many Iraqis were reluctant to accept them as arbiters of the new. In Kirkuk, says Ahmad Shakir, an Arab teacher from the Qadissiya district, Kurdish children with rocket-propelled grenades were going from house to house in his neighborhood, telling Arabs to move out in two days or die. "I went to the Americans to ask for help," he says. "They said it was not their responsibility; go to the civilian administration...
IRAQ "Let Clinton and his entourage drown in the scandal. And let us pursue the path of the great jihad for the complete lifting of the unjust sanctions." --Editorial, Al-Qadissiya...
...dingy pediatric ward at Baghdad's Qadissiya Hospital, Fadhia, 19, stands vigil over a crib where her five-month-old daughter lies dying of malnutrition. She has been here before: a month earlier she watched as her three-year-old son succumbed to starvation and diarrhea. Now she watches as her little daughter, her face all shriveled and her body bony, grows smaller every day. The hospital is crammed with such children. But it has no food to save them, and scant medicine...
...worth of formula for Fadhia's dying five-month-old daughter would cost more than her husband makes in a week. Qadissiya Hospital ran out two months ago, and the mothers are unable to breast-feed because they cannot find enough food for themselves. Fadhia and thousands of other indigents who live in the Baghdad slum known as Saddam City have taken to foraging alongside dogs and sheep, searching for food in the mounting piles of garbage that line every street. There has been no refuse pickup in the neighborhood in five months. Nor is there clean water. Sewage...
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