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Written by DeadGirl   
Tuesday, 28 September 2004
BAGHDAD - Ghoulish videos of bombings and beheadings are selling more quickly on the streets of Baghdad than bootleg pornography - and for as little as 30 cents a pop. On one recent day in an outdoor food market, a crowd of men and boys watched with morbid curiosity new footage of a truck bomber behind the steering wheel, smiling and murmuring his last words before crashing into U.S. military vehicles on an overpass.

Elsewhere, the TV set in a coffee shop was offering customers video of foreign hostages being beheaded.

The ferocity of the violence in the Iraqi capital is unprecedented - fierce gun battles, car bombings, brazen kidnappings and assassinations - and threatens to destroy what's left of people's hopes for their country.

And the horrifying videos on display, for 30 cents, only reinforce the growing hopelessness.

"Soon after the regime fell, porno disks were all the rage," said Attallah Zeidan, a co-owner of a secondhand bookshop in Baghdad's Old City. "Now it's beheadings."

Before the suicide mission footage, the crowd in the Bab al-Moazam market watched footage of half-buried human skeletons and a man using a stick the better to display the skulls.

The background music was a song praising insurgents fighting the Americans in Fallujah.

"We have seen everything. What else is there?" Imad Qassim Jaweed, 30, said despairingly as he stood in line outside a passport office, shielding his head from the sun with a sheaf of application papers.

But although the Iraqi snuff videos are all the rage, Iraqis also use videos and DVDs to take them away from the violence.

At Ismail Ibrahim's DVD rental store in Sadr City, a Shiite district that is home to 2 million people, his customers skip the video gore in favor of romantic Egyptian comedies and action movies from India and Hollywood.

"We are used to being blown up and killed," said Ibrahim, 30. "There is fighting almost every night here and people rent these movies to help take their minds off the misery around them."

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/236229p-202702c.html
 
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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

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From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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