CNN CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin June 20, 2014 18:11:00
Agony began on july 23, 2007, when a bomb exploded a t the family's humble watermelon stall merely 50 meters from their home. son, ali, 19 years old and about to get married was killed instantly. i was a week away from ma rrying h him off. instead i buried him. life went on such as it was until july 20 last year. two other sons of abu ali, ala and abbas on duty at the watermelon stand when another bomb went off. ala 23 and by now a father of three, and brother abbas just 17, were killed in the hail of shrapnel. evidence of its power still etched in nearby walls today. the funeral turnout was h...