Are the people of Baghdad not terrified as they wait, helpless and afraid, for the thing they know they cannot stop? They are terrified even to use municipal bomb shelters in the light of the fate of those unfortunate civilians incinerated in the Amiriyah shelter during the Gulf War. I found it astonishing to hear a self-styled expert on RTE radio the other day referring unchallenged to "some civilian casualties" in this incident. Four hundred people, including seven members of one entire family, were incinerated by one of the "bunker-buster" bombs that landed on the shelter.