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Titolo: Abbiamo ammazzato tuo marito, e non facciamo entrare le vedove

http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/3751.html
US State Department Rejects Visa Applications of Iraqi Women Whose
Families Were Killed by US Troops
Women had planned to tell their stories to US policy makers and the
public as part of an International Women's Day peace campaign.
Washington, DC -- Two Iraqi women whose husbands and children were
killed by US troops during the Iraq war have been refused entry into
the United States for a speaking tour. The women were invited to the US
for peace events surrounding international women's by the human rights
group Global Exchange and the women's peace group CODEPINK.
In a piece of painful irony, the reason given for the rejection was
that the women don't have enough family in Iraq to prove that they'll
return to the country. "It's appalling that the US military killed
these women's families and then the US government rejects their visas
on the grounds that they have no family to return to in Iraq. These
women have no desire to stay in the United States. We had a very hard
time convincing them to come, but we told them how important it would
be for their stories to be heard by Americans," said Medea Benjamin, a
co-founder of both the groups that had invited the women to the US.
The women whose visa applications were rejected are Anwar Kadhim Jawad
and Vivian Salim Mati. They had to make a dangerous journey to Amman,
Jordan just to apply for the visas and were told on February 4th that
they'd been rejected. On February 14th, CODEPINK was informed by the US
State Department that the women "failed to overcome the presumption of
intending to emigrate." But the group suspects that other factors
influenced the State Department's decision. "I remember how we all
cried when we heard Anwar tell her story about losing her husband and
three of her children," said Jodie Evans of CODEPINK, who met with
Anwar in 2004 in Baghdad. "If the American people heard these stories,
their image of the Iraq war would be completely different. I suppose
that's why the state department does not want her to come here."
Anwar's husband and their four children were driving down the road from
their house in Baghdad one day when they were suddenly caught in a hail
of bullets from US soldiers. There was no checkpoint and no warning
before their car was attacked. Anwar's husband, son and two daughters
were shot dead. Only Anwar, who was pregnant at the time, and her
14-year-old daughter, survived. The US Army compensated her with
$11,000, but her loss is incalculable and her grief immeasurable.
As Anwar told Susan Galleymore, a US military mother who visited Iraq
in 2004, "In my family, like many Iraqi families, the husband takes
care of all the family business. My job is to care for the well being
of the family inside the house while my husband's job is to care for
every thing else. This is the way we do it in Iraq. Now, I have no
husband. I have no income. I have no house anymore. I live with my
parents and these two children. Everything else is gone. I will never
recover."
Vivian Salim Mati, the other woman whose visa was rejected, lost her
husband and children when they decided to flee their home when the US
military began bombing their neighborhood three days after they first
entered Baghdad. Vivian grabbed their children and jumped in the car.
Her husband was driving, and their three children were sitting in the
back. They were driving down a side street when they crossed paths with
a US tank. The US soldier atop the tank began shooting at them.
Vivian's husband and three children were killed right away. Vivian was
hurt but still alive. She got out of the car, screaming, 'Help! Help!',
but the soldiers just kept shooting. Miraculously, Vivian survived but
she carries her grief with her every day.
CODEPINK and Global Exchange had hoped to bring Anwar and Vivian to the
United States for women's peace events to take place in New York City
and Washington, DC around International Women's Day. The women would
have spoken at public events and met with policy makers and newspaper
editorial boards. In Washington, DC on March 8th, the Iraqi women would
have joined with US women who lost loves ones in the war, including
Cindy Sheehan, in a Women Say No to War march. At the end of the march,
the women would have delivered thousands of signatures to the White
House from women around the world who signed the Women Say No to War
urgent petition for peace, which calls for an end to the Iraq war and
all Iraqi civilians in 2006.

just kept shooting.
A chi? A cosa?  Magari non erano i soli presenti e il tank si e' solo
difeso con loro che sono finiti in mezzo?
-Stefano

 Il che non gli impedisce di risposarsi.
LOL !
fuori uno sotto un altro ?

 fuori uno sotto un altro ?
Se il suo problema e' che "non ha marito" per cui "non ha sostentamento
economico" mi pare l'unica soluzione.  O tu ne conosci altre?
L'altra sarebbe andare lei a lavorare, ma lei vuole fare le cose "come
si fanno in Iraq" quindi l'unica possibilita' e di trovare un altro
marito.   Dopotutto non credo che i mariti in Iraq vivano sempre piu'
delle loro mogli e quindi questo problema dovrebbe essere piu' o meno
comune a tutti.
-Stefano