The agent had persuaded Anna that she would fly to Dubai the next day. She was in her dreams assuming her future life. She was going as a cook in a restaurant. That night was washed away when the early rays of sun grew higher up in the horizon. The agent came to her house and gave her the flight tickets. In her happiness, she even forgot to see the destination prescribed on the ticket. She sat on the plane and her eyes were wide open when she saw the plane landing at the International airport based at Baghdad. This was Anna's first ever trip to the Middle East. The agent had deceived her. She got off the plane but didn’t know her destination. She stopped a taxi and drove out of the airport.
The first thing she saw was a suicide bombing leading thirteen children dead. She saw the blood- the thickness- the bones- the nails- the brain- the squeezed eyes- the scattered toes- the blood-drained mouth. She closed her eyes; dreamt Jesus and collected herself. She saw ruins everywhere. There were people but awaiting death. There were birds, all desiring death. There was greenery amidst ruins.
She went to a nearby hotel. She saw the former prez’s broken statue. There were foreign soldiers, all fixing their hawk eyes upon her body. One day, when she left the hotel for a dangerous drive of the city- few soldiers caught her and took her in their long jeep. They threw her on a roadside when she got unconscious after continuous cycles of evilness from the so-called protectors; so called mass-destruction weapon finders. She remained there as such for many days. And when her life was losing all hope, an Iraqi woman took her to her home. She fed her well. Anna gained consciousness but she wanted to spit; spit into the faces of the bloody damn soldiers. What a soldier is for! “ Soldiers are always such, wherever you go- they are bastards. A good soldier is a pearl within the sharp-edged oyster,” she thought.
After few days of struggle, Anna left this world. The evil within the uniform, the hollowness within the bullet had shown its true colour. Anna had gone to a much-civilized world where there is respect for gender. The Almighty made only two genders in this earth- the male and the female. They have their physical peculiarities but none should prevail dominancy on other. As for such, the perpetrators, invaders had outraged a civil war in Iraq. They were struggling for their own life. They have no future in Iraq. Middle east shouldn’t be the empire of Western influence.
Middle East, make your identity; exhibit the courage. Nourish a leader; don’t flourish dictators. Be courageous; don’t feed on the filth of the foreigners. Many Annas are seeking justice. Many secret courts will be flashed. And the world will know their actions from Congo to Guantanamo.
