A grim little snapshot of Iraq

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From today's Observer.

Standing by the grave of his dead brother, Sheikh Abed Asalam Jamil says he is happy and calls for a jihad against the US Army.
'Everyone in Iraq is a mujahid,' says the imam, whose brother, Zamal Jamil al-Juleimi, was killed on Friday night as he returned from a doctor's appointment with his family. 'The people of this country will raise the flag of jihad.'

Zamal was shot dead, along with his wife and her mother, Beijah. Their son, Haider, who was sitting in the back of the pick-up, lies wounded in the hospital in Falujah, 30 miles west of Baghdad, in the heart of the Sunni triangle.

Falujah is not the kind of place where they understand the concept of friendly fire.