BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraqi father seeks Blackwater apology
Mr Abdul-Razzaq had been driving home with his sister, her three children and Ali. He said that "everything was quiet, nothing was happening" when the security guards began to open fire on civilian vehicles, including his own.
"They just kept shooting, although no-one was moving, they were just combing the whole road, tat tat tat, like that, there was nothing in the road."
He said that he and his sister huddled together, each trying to protect the other, while the four children tried to find protection under cushions in the back of the car.
He said the shooting lasted "10, perhaps 15 minutes" and that when he climbed out of the bullet-ridden car, shaken but unharmed, one of his nephews called out to him from the back seat: "Uncle, Ali's dead."
Sobbing, he described opening the car door to a scene of horror. His son had been shot in the head. "I pushed him back inside and I began to shout down the road, 'They've killed my son, they've killed my son'."
This is horrible. Children are not terrorists. We need to end this war so they can go to school and play with their friends without the fear of being struck by the crossfire of
misguided war that has only served to increase hate and intolerance in the Middle East.
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