This child was one of two rushed into Yarmouk hospital in Baghdad by the policeman seen helping attend to him. The children were playing on the street when someone threw a grenade at a street cleaner. Street cleaners are often injured in Baghdad, their job is dangerous because bombers often hide their bombs in piles of rubbish. A lot of street cleaners have been killed that way. That wasn’t the case this time however, this time it was a drive by grenade attack.
Wasn’t it clever of the invading army not to bother guarding the armouries until after they’d been well and truly looted? Perhaps they were recovering from Mr. Tenet’s “slam dunk” and were waiting for the promised hordes of little fluffy bunnies to show up and shower them with rosewater and flowers.
I suppose this child was lucky in a way. Somebody was nearby who was able to rush him to a hospital, the hospital wasn’t so full of casualties that he was turned away. Of course like most urban hospitals in Iraq Yarmouk hospital isn’t exactly in the best of shape. Just another day in the overstretched hospital system brought to Iraqi children and street cleaners by the effects of the American led occupation of Iraq. Quite a quiet day really, quiet enough that this child was able to be treated. So he was a lucky child.
He was a hell of a lot luckier than his twelve year old friend who was killed in the same attack
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markfromireland
Notes: Code cleaned up and posted by me for markfromireland who is having problems with an unreliable connection
Erdla
Indexed under: Baghdad, Baghdad Hospitals, Bombings, Children, Women and Children, Yarmouk Hospital
it is always the children who suffer … from sanctions, from war, from the bombing of electric plants in gaza, from our insanity
thank you Erdla for helping to get Gor’s posts to us!
I won’t say I enjoy publishing for him - but I do quite enjoy imagining his language at the cause :-)
What’s being done in Gaza is beyond barbaric. Also very foolish they’ve been able to get away with behaving like the apartheid regime in South Africa for a long time. What they’re doing now, will be part of the growing disgust with the actions of a succession of hardline likudnik and likudinik offshoot governments. Sanctions that bite and bite hard in another year or two I think.
nodding … I was glad to see Gush Shalom out in the streets immediately at least - here there is barely a mention.
By the way, not sure if this has been mentioned before but a useful info source online is Mosaic TV - a daily half hour compilation of news broadcasts from the Middle East from LinkTV in Eng. translation - you can view online here in Quicktime or on Google Video -simply search for Mosaic to retrieve the days broadcast.
http://www.linktv.com/mosaic/streamsArchive/
(suspecting effin’ is only the start of the vocabulary … thanks again Erdla!)
Let’s hope so, Erdla. Beyond barbaric descibes it well.
Let’s just say Siun that when I need something blue all will I have to do is to ask for the recording ;-)
btselem.org the Israeli himan rights and and anti-torture group do excellent work. And Ghali Hassan did a very good article linking the two sets of torture practices in Iraq and as carried out and refined in Israel:
Torture: The Israeli Denial
important links - thank you! it is so hard to get any news here and what we do get is so slanted!
BBC World news has been covering the Gaza situation pretty effectively. However with the ongoing Iraq debacle the spotlight has been off Israel. I am not optimistic for rational individuals resolving this current crisis. I just don’t know what to say about the hardship and calamity we have imposed on Iraqi civilians. Thanks Erdla for making this all happen and the links! Take care all
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