Mass Something

Crippled by cold, I had to leave my blizzard-struck bedroom and get back to the good ol' summer refuge 'the living room', where mum could have a closer look at how my "old-lady-cough" [as she describes it] is healing and how many sneezes per minute I could spout. Unfortunately for step-dad, he had to relinquish the remote control to the now disheveled Chikitita, not because he was fuming to get a glimpse of Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya, but he wouldn't touch that black thingie with all those germs I left.

Five minutes on step-dad's favourite channels could give anyone a heart attack and chronic depression, but I had to stop flicking when another episode of the mass kidnapping series grabbed my attention. Isn't there a Sherlock Holmes, who could solve these "mysterious" crimes that are obviously masterminded by a non-pro, who doesn't try to come up with another plot? Karrada is brimming with countless checkpoints, nonetheless, the security units operating there are always unaware of suspicious movement and the perpetrators are always hard to catch. I think they need to contact Spielberg for new ideas.

Another news item grabbed my attention; a mass grave dating back to Saddam reign was found in Karbala province. Am I the only one who believes that the post-invasion crimes committed by the government-backed militias have kind of desecrated the memory of the mass graves victims? Isn't it ironic that such an appalling crime makes Saddam look like an angel, compared to today's Satans, at least the bodies were buried when he was in power, he didn't give orders to dump them in piles of trash with the three bullets to the head trademark. On second thought, I think Iraqis should be thankful to the democratically elected government; but for them, we wouldn't have felt the sense of equality; when bakers and academies the rich and poor have all become victims of the militia-infiltrated security agencies as well as hard-line insurgents.





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