b o b

an unusual and VERY disturbing story

it doesn't have a fairytale storybook ending. it's just sad and odd and most likely run of the mill for those in iraq.

A Grisly Problem, Grateful Iraqis and a Grim Outlook
Unit Planning Outpost Confronts an Obstacle Known as 'Bob'


By David Finkel Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, April 25, 2007; Page A01
BAGHDAD, April 24 -- The soldiers called him Bob, and for the past several weeks, until Tuesday morning, he was the biggest obstacle to the success of an important mission in a small but crucial corner of the Iraq war.
"We can't get anybody to get Bob out. No one wants to do it," Army Maj. Brent Cummings, executive officer of the 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, said with worry one recent morning as Bob's story began unfolding. Cummings was looking at an aerial photograph of an area in east Baghdad called Kamaliya, where there was an abandoned spaghetti factory with a hole in the courtyard, a hole in which some of his soldiers had discovered Bob...........