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| Iraq |
| Ali’s story |
| 2003-08-01 |
| Way too long to reproduce here, so check the story about the boy turned into a sensation. Among the heroes: Iraqi doctors, an American infantry troop and an Aussie reporter. On Sunday, April 6, at the Al Kindi hospital in downton Baghdad, Samia Nakhoul stumbled across the most horrific thing she had ever seen. In the last, chaotic days of Saddam Hussein’s regime, Nakhoul, the Gulf bureau chief of Reuters, had taken to touring the hospitals daily to monitor the casualties from the blitzkrieg of American bombing that was battering the Iraqi capital. "The hospital was in a really terrible situation," she says. "There were scores of casualties arriving, some said up to 100 in an hour. The nurses and doctors hadn’t been home for weeks - they were all sleeping at the hospital. I asked one of the nurses, ’What is the worst case you have received?’ She told me, ’Well, there’s this boy, he’s been burned.’ So I asked if I could see him. I wanted to know what ’the worst case’ meant." [ more at the link ] |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #4 --split between Unicef, the British Red Cross and Save the Children (none of it has been spent directly on Ali - the papers did not claim that it would be, though it was all earmarked for use in Iraq).-- Why am I NOT surprised???! |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-8-1 12:49:37 PM |
| #3 Guardian is a communist publication and any news that can be twisted to put our efforts at national defense in a bad light, the Guardian will damn sure publish it, making facts up if they have to. |
| Posted by: badanov 2003-8-1 7:12:41 AM |
| #2 Because they have to stick to reporting the obvious: in wars people usually get hurt, sometimes very badly. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2003-8-1 1:57:40 AM |
| #1 Typical Guardian story... every missle that lands in Bagdad and every casualty is caused by "American Missles". What? Did they analyze the debris in every instance? Maybe it was an errant Iraqi anti-aircraft missle or anti-aircraft shell that injured this kid. Not that I'm not sympathetic to the kids plight, but let's put it in perspective: How many Iraqi kids are being dug out of mass graves in Iraq today? How many don't have to kneel with their moms in front of mass graves and stare at the bodies already there before they too get shot in the head? Why doesn't the Guardian tell those stories? |
| Posted by: Leigh 2003-8-1 1:39:10 AM |