Mortar wars terrorize weary Baghdad residents
Retired Iraqi army officer Abdul-Rahman al-Nuami, 60, can clearly remember the evening in mid-June when he first heard the dull boom of a mortar round slamming into his mainly Sunni district in western Baghdad. “I was shocked. I thought the U.S. army had fired it by mistake. But an Iraqi translator with a U.S. patrol told me it was fired by unknown gunmen,” he told Reuters. Full Story