Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 1:47 AM
This may be a familiar picture for you, but I just came back from a trip abroad, with limited access to the interweb. When I saw the picture on Jesus' General it made me kind of sad. The story behind the picture: An American foot patrol met with a car and decided it came too close.
The car continued coming. And then, perhaps less than a second later, a cacophony of fire, shots rattling off in a chaotic overlapping din. The car entered the intersection on its momentum and still shots were penetrating it and slicing it. Finally the shooting stopped, the car drifted listlessly, clearly no longer being steered, and came to a rest on a kerb. Soldiers began to approach it warily. The sound of children crying came from the car. I walked up to the car and a teenaged girl with her head covered emerged from the back, wailing and gesturing wildly. After her came a boy, tumbling on to the ground from the seat, already leaving a pool of blood.
Unfortunately there were only civilians in the car. A family of two parents, who were both shot dead, and their five children who miraculously remained almost totally unharmed. The military is investigating the incident.
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I really would have loved to post this 100-th entry on this blog on a happier note.