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> >[img:http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/6630/tattooiraqfy3.jpg] > >[i:Ali Abbas decided that his upper right thigh was the best place for a tattoo because >no one gets tortured there. > >He’d seen hundred of bodies in the city morgue and dozens of hospitals during his >18-day search for his missing uncle. He’d seen drill marks in swollen, often >unrecognizable heads, slash marks across necks, bullet holes in backs, abdomens and >swollen hands. He’d seen bodies that had been thrown into the river, so swollen they’d >barely looked human. But by and large, the thighs had been intact. > >So that’s where he decided to have his name, address and phone number tattooed, in case >the day comes when someone is searching for his body. > >Tattoos are considered a sin in Islam, which holds that believers shouldn’t deface their >bodies. And tattoo shops are difficult to find in Baghdad. They’re often in the basements >of more reputable shops. > >But at least some tattoo shops are seeing more and more Iraqis who, like Abbas, are >willing to risk offending Islam to ease their families’ grief in the event of their deaths. >The owner of one tattoo shop in central Baghdad admitted that he’d done such tattoos, >but said he didn’t want to talk about it for fear that he’d be killed.]
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