http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/10/06/MN310013.DTLFallujah, Iraq -- Five months after President Bush declared the end of "major combat" in Iraq, the war may indeed be over for most of the country.
But not for Sheikh Mishkhen al Jumaili. Last month, American troops killed nine of his relatives, including his son, in the span of just four days.
"They mean to kill as many Iraqis as possible," said al Jumaili, weeping silently as his younger relatives quietly lowered Beijiya's coffin into the parched yellow cemetery ground.
Bowing slightly over the red velvet cloth that draped the coffin of his cousin Beijiya, al Jumaili said a solemn prayer and wiped his eyes. Then he turned his back and stepped away, unable to watch yet another member of his extended family vanish under heavy chunks of dry clay.
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