image: Relatives of Jassim al-Issawi mourn his death at his family home in Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday June 22, 2005. Al-Issawi, 51, and his son were killed by unknown gunmen in Baghdad’s northwestern Shula neighborhood Wednesday. al-Issawi, whose name previously was on a list of Sunni Arabs joining a parliamentary committee drafting Iraq’s new constitution, was also a law professor at Baghdad University and the former editor-in-chief of Al-Siyadah newspaper. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
Cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, and European Tribune.
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from Out of the East
by James Fenton
Out of the South came Famine.
Out of the West came Strife.
Out of the North came a storm cone
And out of the East came a warrior wind
And it struck you like a knife.
Out of the East there shone a sun
As the blood rose on the day
And it shone on the work of the warrior wind
And it shone on the heart
And it shone on the soul
And they called the sun Dismay, my friend,
They called the sun – Dismay.
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Today’s selection is just a small excerpt from a very compelling piece. I urge you to read the entire work here
support the Iraqi people
support the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC)
support CARE
support the victims of torture
support the fallen
support the troops
support the troops and the Iraqi people
read `This is what John Kerry did today,’ the diary by lawnorder that prompted this series
read Riverbend’s blog – `Bagdhad Burning’
read Dahr Jamail’s Iraq Dispatches
read Today in Iraq
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