Word: badriah
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...Naturally, the explosions were the only topic of conversation that afternoon. Badriah Mohammed, 45, said most folks were relieved that the flying shrapnel hadn't hurt anybody. The only physical damage was to some windows. "But in our minds, we know it could have been worse," she said. "And we know it can easily happen again...
...Badriah, the explosions had been confirmation of her worst fears. At the start of the war, the schoolteacher had taken her family to their ancestral home in Diyala province, hoping to spare her aged mother the trauma of the bombing. When they returned, three days after the fall of Baghdad, she found the mounds of ordnance along the canal. Even closer to home, there were clusters of artillery shells on a patch of gravel at the back of her modest two-story brick and concrete home. "We thought the war was over and we would be safe," she said...
...many Baghdadis have Badriah's view: the retreating Iraqi Army and Republican Guards left arms caches in almost every district of the city. The American forces are trying to deal with the problem, destroying many caches in controlled explosions - massive blasts that can be heard across the city. But many of the caches are in residential neighborhoods and must be removed, very carefully, one shell at a time. The Americans don't have the manpower to do that...