Today, as we were passing through one part of Baghdad, on the far west of the city, namely Amiriya, we ran into a bullet riddled white Brazilian VW Passat car.
The site was a scene for an explosive device blast a couple of hours earlier, which i heard its news on Radio BBC Arabic. The radio said that 2 people -according to the military-, a father and son were killed in the blast, supposedly aimed to hit an army convoy; but the radio quoted shopkeepers and by-standers that more people were killed. By seeing the place and the two bullet riddled cars i thought that the by-standers had the more accurate story. Later in the day, the number of casualties was announced as 10.
The place hit is a vital interchange and a common place for daily workers waiting their daily deals which would bring bread home to their children. There was a big pool of water, caused -as i think- by a fire engine that might have come to wash away the blood and reopen the road. But the badly riddled white car, stood on the left hand side of the road, while another less riddled indigo car stood on the right side. Apparently, and by the scale of bullet hits, both of the drivers were killed. That's what the American army, Iraqi army, and police do whenever they are hit; they just shoot at random.
