True Martyrs
The NY Times
has an article today on Iraq's true martyrs -- those 50 people who were killed by terrorists while voting.
bq. Salim Yacoubi bent over to kiss the purple ink stain on his twin brother's right index finger, gone cold with death.
bq. "You can see the finger with which he voted," Shukur Jasim, a friend of the dead man, said as he cast a tearful gaze on the body, sprawled across a washer's concrete slab. "He's a martyr now."
bq. The stain marked the hard-won right to vote that Naim Rahim Yacoubi exercised Sunday, and the price he paid for that privilege.
bq. Mr. Yacoubi, 37, was one of at least 50 Iraqis who died in bomb and mortar attacks as millions of people marched to polling centers in the first free elections in decades. At least nine suicide bombs exploded in Baghdad alone. In one of those, the bomber detonated his device outside Kurdis Primary School near the airport, sending dozens of shards of shrapnel into Mr. Yacoubi.
Posted by DaveH at February 2, 2005 2:21 PM