The Peace Poet killed in Iraq (soul, blood, elders, suicide)

[Mathematician]

BAGHDAD - The poet Rahim al-Maliki wrote about his dreams of Iraqi unity in a place where such appeals are drowned out by daily bombings. One of them took his life on Monday.

Al-Maliki — whose fame grew by hosting two shows on state-run television — was among 13 people killed in a suicide attack at a Baghdad hotel, where he was filming tribal leaders about their decision to join U.S.-led forces in the fight against factions linked to al-Qaida. Four of the tribal sheiks from the western Anbar province were among the victims.

In one of his shows, "The Guesthouses of our People," the 39-year-old al-Maliki visited Sunni and Shiite groups and used his poetry to open dialogue about ways to end Iraq's sectarian bloodshed. In Anbar, many tribal elders have agreed to help U.S.-Iraqi troops fight groups linked to al-Qaida in an alliance that the Pentagon considers an important blow to the insurgency.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070625/...aq_poet_killed

Give me peace so I won't cry anymore,
Peace so my soul can rest and have something left to fight for.

Give me peace so my heart can love,
Peace so I can can believe that there is good above.

Give me peace so I can rest tonight,
Peace so I can sleep, not searching for his image within the night.

Give me peace so I can go on,
Peace so I can be at peace within the dreams that I long.

Samantha Cooney



Rest in peace, brave soldier.

[Guitar's Cry]

Sad and symbolic.