Hiya Jane!!!

Hope you got my last email to you…Peace…

Love you….

Peace, soon please.

siun:

…avec beaucoup de sympathie…

“It is better to light one small candle, than sit and curse the darkness…”

So, tonight, I light another candle.

RIP Ali.

That is the true prayeer of our times.

I only wish more of the ‘religious’ understood that.

‘Course if ‘hell’ comes avisitin’ here, they may get a clue …

…there are quite a few FDL refugees over at TRex’s shop…including punaise…who showed up there earlier today…

(back to lurking and loving Jane…)

I want ‘edit’.

PrayER!!

Dona nobis pacem, pacem –
Dona nobis pacem…

done.

RIP Ali…

Give Peace A Chance.

my sympathies to the GorillaGuides Family.
May there be peace in Ali’s name soon, please.

My sympathies, my prayers, and my tears for this child and his family and friends. There are no words for this terrible grief.

aimai

Jane,

This is sad, so sad, so unnecessary, so wasteful, so inhuman, so very American, I fear.

My heart dies a bit every day, the lad was only slightly older than my youngest.

Why don’t the people of the world choose ‘more and better’? Starting right here, the ‘homeland’ of deceit, antipathy and greed.?

Answered my own question.

Shame. It is ours.

No words. I’m so sorry.

Please limit comments on this thread to the topic at hand.

Jane … thank you for honoring Ali in this thoughtful way.

I know the Guides team will appreciate it a lot.

Did you want to cross-post this sad info over there?

Jane thanks - I know Mohammed will be comforted when I send him a PDF copy of this.

The report was a little confusing and I suspect that my Englsih was at fault when I mailed Siun I was very upset.

The shrapnel and burns that Ali died of today were the ones he got very early this morning in an airstrike on Sadr city.

He and Mohammed were staying with family friends so that Ali could visit his friends at the orphanage he stayed in when their parents were killed.

Du

I wish there was something to say.

Thanks, DU. I’ll correct.

RIP Ali.

Du, my Sprout is 9. I’m not sure how I would get through it if it were he. Namaste to you and Maryam and Mohammed. You will be in my prayers.

My heart is with the Gorilla Guides family, especially Mohammed and his sister. I am so sorry.

Will this be on the MSM news tonight? I will never forget the napalmed Vietnamese girl/child, running naked burned and scared. This is a repeat in history! The horror the horror the horror, for what? A fabrication, a lie, WMD, like the Tonkin Incident, a calculated fabrication by criminals

The shame is all ours. My condolences to all pained by this needless death in America’s name. This is wrong! This is wrong, This is wrong!

someone wrote to me today about how the Guernica expressed the horror the world felt at bombings of civilian neighborhoods … and now it is just routine

Rest in peace, Ali.

Dresden, Warsaw ghetto…….. this is over the top now! I’m fkn b/s and irate!!!!!

You read my mind. I was just looking for this

Guernica

Du, Mark from Ireland, Dr. Maryam, Mohammed and everyone at the Gorilla’s Guide, I’m so sorry that I haven’t done more to end this

What Brisingamen said (at 4).

for everyone who knew Ali, and for Ali most of all… i am so sorry.

I feel sadness and shame. My deepest sympathies to the Guides team and all of Iraq today and every day.

what es said.

yes, what ES said. blood on our hands.

And so observed.

When will we stop burying our children? When will we, as the leaders of our children, stop teaching them to hate and kill? When will we, as the leaders of our children, start teaching them peace and understanding? When will we begin to study war no more?

Why are all these children dead? Who benefits? cui bono? What good is there in dead children? None, I submit. No one benefits, no, not one. The death of our children is the death of us all.

Surely we do not wish to go forward into more years of death. Surely, none of us wish to bury our children.

Then let us take action to stop this. Let us act to stop the killing of our children.

Though I posted this over at Glenn’s place yesterday, it sure seems mighty appropriate here today:

A bomb never built a school.

A bomb never healed a wound.

A bomb never fed a child.

The state of mind of what we call “America” has been air-brushed, polished of any flaw, washed and waxed until it gleams.

And it bears no more resemblance to reality than what passes through George W. Bush’s addled mind.

No, a bomb never convinced the MSM to tell us the truth.

And we rats continue to push the button for another wee cube of sugar.

May Ali finally rest in peace, one he and his nation surely deserves.

Is it McBush/McCrazy/McChaney that get bonus points from Satan when a child or an innocent is slaughtered…

Jane you are right. There are no words to express such sorrow, no words to comfort.

What a hell this war has made of Iraq, what an inescapable hell for so many trying to live there.

My thoughts & prayers are with you- friends, family, mourners. Moment of silence…..observed.
Quiescat in Pace.

This is so, so sad. I am ashamed for what my nation has done over the past years. There are no words that can express the horror of what we have done. I am weeping.

My condolences to the Guides. May peace be with us one day.

I am sorry Du, Mark from Ireland, Dr. Maryam, Mohammed, Siun and everyone at the Gorilla’s Guide.

I am so sorry and sad to hear about yet another senseless death caused by my country in this senseless war.

We need to find a way to put the brutal effects of war into the face of the American public, every citizen. They need images, like the napalmed Vietnamese girl mentioned above, burned into their neurons.

I’m very sorry about this.

No words can express my anger and frustration that we are a nation (not us as individuals)feel pretty comfortable with the fact that thousands and thousands of people - innocent men, women and children, have died because of our bumbleheaded thrashings. Whether it is in Afghanistan or Iraq or wherever - we sit here and say, “Wow, that is terrible - but what can we do?”
Whenever I get to this, I am reminded of Sean Connery as the policeman in “The Untouchables” - when he says to Kevin Costner as Elliot Ness, “What are you prepared to do?”
What are WE prepared to do to stop this? How do we stop this from continuing in our name? We allowed Bush and Cheney to come to power and bring with them people who have no hearts, no souls, no blood in their veins, who only know the almighty dollar and almighty petroleum and who could not care less about the results of their actions.
What are WE prepared to do to honor the sacrifice of the thousands of children like Ali, who will never grow up, never see the sun come up again, will never feel the rain on their faces, or their mothers’ and fathers’ kisses, who will never play. What are WE prepared to do?
And HOW will we make it happen?

I am so sorry to hear of your loss and even more sorry at our failure to stop those who caused his death. Peace be with you.

Most humble and sincere condolences and virtual hugs to all at Gorilla’s Guide.
;(

Seconded.

One death is too many. My thoughts and prayers go out to Siun, Dr. Maryam, and the rest of Gorilla’s Guides family. RIP Ali, you have finally found some.

(((silence)))

Darn it, I got distracted and left off Mohammed Ibn Laith in my condolences. I apologize.

I’ve known both Mohammed and Ali since they were born AC2 - they of all people would understand :-)

Du

Thank you all of you - Mohammed’s favourite proverb is

that if he’s not your brother in religion then he’s your brother in humanity.

Good to know there are others who agree with that.

Di

My prayers are for peace. My efforts are for leaders who will bring about peace in our time.
I’m so sorry for the death of this dear child.

“I only wish more of the ‘religious’ understood that.”

Most of them do. Don’t be deceived by the noisy minority who parade their piety in public. Jesus had a few words for those folk.

Bob in HI

my sympathies to the GorillaGuides Family.
May there be peace in Ali’s name soon, please.

Amen! I want the GorillaGuides family to know how important their witness is to me, how much I value their words, their honesty, and their understanding about the experiences their words are based on. We need their voices, and if the MSM had any smarts, they would pay attention.

Bob in HI

What Brisingamen said.
I am so sorry.

It’s always the innocents who suffer the most… and the children and the women who suffer so much.

Why are we so violent and destructive?

This sickens me and saddens me and I think about the senseless suffering each when I take my morning walk.

RIP young man, you deserved better.

impeach them now,i cant stand anymore death and destruction,dont wait another minute…now is the time

please accept my most grievous condolences ,i love children,this is unbearable

I don’t have the words to express the shame I feel for my country. Or to form an appropriate apology. So many of my fellow citizens are so completely ignorant and uncaring.

What will we talk about today you and I? I do not want to talk about last Saturday. Shall we talk about peace? I would like to talk about peace. I love the word. No, perhaps we are not ready to talk of peace yet you and I, we are not at peace, we are not even at truce.

The poetry of hope in a sea of death. How many other voices have we muted and gagged? Mr. Bush refuses to count them. Yes, we need McBush and four more years of this. By then, no one could claim to misperceive our violence as goodwill, our occupation as democracy.

Mr. Bush has given Iraq its own World War One, its own war of attrition, its own lost generation. He has also remade his country in his own image. We are all alcoholics now, drunk on power and dependent on delusion.

RIP Ali.

Nine years old. It’s just obscene. I’m so sorry for his family and there’s no way to deal with how unfair and awful it is.

Heartfelt condolences siun, GorillasGuides and most especially Ali’s cherished brother Mohammed Ibn Laith and aunt Dr. Maryam and family.

Peace to Ali and all who shared in his life.

Tears - anger - no words. Broken heart -

I’m so sorry. As I wrote to Dr. Maryam when she was here, there is no forgiveness, and we should not expect it.

Almighty God’s grace be upon you and yours, Mohammed Ibn Laith.

I am beyond words.

I am sorry.

ES said it well.

To Ali and his family; please accept my paltry and insignificant wishes for peace and consolation - may the horror stop.

Ma’al qideeseen areh ayuhal- Maseeh ul-Ilah, nafsa ‘abdeeka Ali, haythu la waja’on, wala hoznon, wa la tanahud, bal hayatun la tafna.
Leeyakon dhikruhu muabadan.
Amin.

O Christ God, with the saints grant rest to the soul of your servant Ali in a place where there is no pain, no grief, no sighing, but everlasting life.
May his memory be eternal.
Amen.

Emerging from my lurking, and a bit late to express my heartfelt condolences. I read Mohammeds words a year ago and cried, I’m crying now. Again, I am so sorry.

moment of silence.

head bowed, hands clasped. staring at my still alive hands.

no words. my mind is numb. staring at my still alive hands.

tears falling on my still alive hands.

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i will be making a donation in ali’s memory to red crescent when i get paid.

I have no words, just tears..Be at peace baby…