Chapter 27
0600, 7 November 2004
Al Hareery School
Fallujah, Iraq
The sun glared inside the school when Haitham Rasheed opened his eyes. Abdul, Saif, and Ahmed still slept. The second floor of the Al Hareery School existed as a partial floor, and Haitham picked up an empty Abraaj water bottle and walked out the door leading onto the roof. Haitham ambled to the southeast corner, unscrewed the lid, pulled down his pants, and carefully urinated in the bottle. It seemed very efficient. You drank the water, and then you filled the bottle with urine.
As Haitham started to return to the room, he noticed that paper leaflets covered the roof. Recently, it seemed, the Americans dropped leaflets every other night. Haitham bent over and picked up one to read. It started by saying that the Prime M
