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"We thought we would be safe there. There were no military positions, only shepherds and their flocks. Before the night prayer, a missile landed next to us; shortly afterwards another one fell right into the women's section.

"It was horrible. We could not make out whose limbs were scattered on the ground."

All his family members died except for him and his half-brother, as the two had stepped outside the tent to perform their ablutions before praying. He said 200 of their 700 sheep also died.

Kamal Taha Sydney Morning Herald June 16 2003

Iraqi shepherd seeks compensation for dead sheep

{headline in the New Zealand Herald 16.06.2003 over identical uncredited and severely cropped/altered-by-omissions story}