Is Pride of Baghdad an Allegory?

An allegory is something with represents an abstract or spiritual meaning through a different form. For example Pride of Baghdad. I think that POB is an allegory because the comic is a true story about four lions which are able to escape the zoo after a bombing in Baghdad. Even though at the end of the comic the lions die due to the lack of previous knowledge on how to survive in freedom. Animals which always live in the zoo do not know how to handle the wild-life, since the food has always been brought to them. Exactly this happens to the lions which are able to escape the zoo.
POB is an allegory because the lions do not represent the lions which escaped the zoo in spring of 2003, but they represent the different people which are present in Baghdad. The comic describes the situation which is going on in Baghdad without hurting anyone feeling. The author decided to use the strongest animal of the Jungle to represent a group of people which are in the Iraq war. Each animal in the comic represents one type of group in the comic, for example I believe that the antelopes represent the people who have no idea why there is war, meaning the children who are getting killed every day because they are at the wrong spot at the wrong time.
Furthermore, I think that everyone should read this comic, to make them understand that this war is not the past but still the present.