Nice to be able to show a photograph of smiling Iraki children for a change. The photograph was taken today in Sadr City. You can see the full size version of it here. I think it is fair to say that they do not look unhappy. Wouldn't you? What they are standing in ...
In "What will we talk about today you and I?" my colleague Mohammed Ibn Laith described the aftermath of the February bombing of Al Sadriya market from the standpoint of one of the rescuers. On April 19, 2007 Um Thalit highlighted a report of American soldiers opening fire yet again on ...
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BAGHDAD, 18 April 2007 (IRIN) - When 53-year-old Tina Abdallah celebrated the fall of deceased former President Saddam Hussein in March 2003, she had no idea that her suffering had just begun. Four years on, the mother of two is desperate for news about her sons who have disappeared in ...
BAGHDAD, 22 April 2007 (IRIN) - Last Wednesday’s four attacks in Baghdad, in which more than 200 people died, have highlighted how overstretched the country’s emergency services are during major attacks, said doctors and emergency services workers. “We were really desperate during the serious attacks on Wednesday [18 April] ...
Dario, Uffe og nybagte mor her :-)
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An Iraqi doctor who made international headlines after stating that civilian deaths in the Iraq war far exceeded officially reported numbers is not being allowed to travel to North America to meet other academics. Riyadh Lafta and his colleagues have been trying for months to get a U.S. travel visa ...
AMMAN, 20 April 2007 – In one of the biggest humanitarian operations in Iraq in the last two years, a wave of 8,000 vaccinators will set out across the country starting this Sunday to prevent a possible outbreak of measles amongst Iraq’s children – many of whom have not received ...
"They prevented us from helping the injured and moving the bodies of the dead. They opened fire on us as if we were their enemies. They killed my friend Mansour who was taking an injured person on his bike to the hospital,"
I read in Aswat Al Iraq today that ...
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The puppet government that came to power on the back of an American tank today praised their give away of Irak's oil today to American oil companies. The "law" they wrote doing this consists of 43 articles and four clauses. Licenses for drilling will be granted for four years where oil ...
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Spot the misssing detail:
Yes this is a schoolyard. It is in al-Bakr neighbourhood in central Ramadi. Yes those are schoolchildren. Yes that is a dead body in their schoolyard.
It is one of seventeen dead bodies found in their schoolyard to be precise.
Yes they look very disgusted. So would you be. You ...
