Duplicate post. Please lock. Sorry mods

[NNN0LHI]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040216/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_falling_bullets&cid=540&ncid=1473

SAMAWAH, Iraq - Eight-year-old Zehra Kadhum was outside near her family's garage playing, when she saw her parents kneel to pray. As she bent down to join them, she felt a sharp pain.



"I thought my sister had kicked me," she said from her hospital bed Sunday. "But I was bleeding and I heard my family shouting and my mother was crying."


Zehra had been hit in the back by a bullet dropping out of the sky.


Like many places throughout Iraq (news - web sites), there is a gun in virtually every household in this desert city, some 230 miles southeast of Baghdad. The sound of weapons — from AK-47 rifles to small-caliber pistols — is as much a part of the evening din as is the chanting of the daily prayers.

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[stopthegop]

1. I've always wondered how many people were injured this way

but we never hear about it...I have heard of an Egytian cutom of firing weapons at wedding..including one case of the bride and groom being killed...

[Tansy_Gold]

2. dupe, sorry

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=367335