"What happened to your country? He was just 15, what did they think he could do, just 15! How can you lift the gun and point at a child," said Mehmet Bey, the owner of Kardesler market at the corner of my street on the eastern part of Istanbul, as he was giving me the rest of a 50 lira note. "They are the same here. They shoot children too," he said. "But you do not complain," I said. "Yes, you are right. But even if we do, you see yourself, nothing changes."
BABYLON - The United States, which turned Babylon into a military base, says the looting would have been worse but for the troops' presence. The US also says it will help rehabilitate Babylon, funding an effort by the World Monuments Fund and Iraq's State Board of Antiquities and Heritage