] Shakir Hamid, paterfamilias to the Abu Dhabi television team
] in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, who has brought the war on Iraq
] into millions of viewers' living rooms, found that the war had
] hit closer to home than he could have ever imagined.
]
] The fierce, relentless bombing by U.S. forces of the
] southern city of Nassiriya on which he was reporting had
] claimed three precious victims - Shakir's older brother
] Jawad and two of his brother's children, Hamid, 13, and
] 12-year-old Khulood.
. . .
] Jawad and his family, part of a huge convoy of cars
] carrying other civilians from Nassiriya were mowed down
] by the U.S. soldiers as they approached Souk Al Shuyoukh.
]
] "My brother and my nephew and niece died on the spot,"
] said a tearful Imad, Shakir's younger brother and also a
] television journalist who arrived in Dubai from Baghdad a
] day before the war began.