Land owners in the destroyed Yezidi village of Kalabadri watch over their sheep Tuesday April 20, 2004 where their homes were until 1987 when Saddam gave them seven days to move into a collective area with six other villages that are in the valley below Karajal mountain. "We are cursed twice by Saddam,'' says Murad Ali Hamed Al Basi who is at back right, "once because we are Yezidi and once because we are Kurdish''. They remain in the collective but return to their village grounds to graze their livestock and because there are holy shrines--like the samll one at back left-- on the land as well.

[Times photo: Jamie Francis]