In Baghdad, even babies quickly learn to duck snipers

Mike Drummond and Hussein Khalifa | McClatchy Newspapers

last updated: July 12, 2007 05:10:50 PM

BAGHDAD — Nawal Na'eem Karim was surprised this week to hear her toddler tell her, "Talaq inana! Talaq inana!" — "Bullets here! Bullets here!"

He was warning her to step cautiously past the windows. Their house is in a kill zone. At 18 months, her baby already had learned counterinsurgency survival. He still wears a diaper.