Gorilla’s Guides

 1 October 2007 – United Nations agencies are helping over 20,000 Iraqi mobile polio vaccinators in “a titanic effort” to reach as many as 5 million children under the age of five despite the violence raging in the strife-torn country and the added difficulty of the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people.
“Delivering polio […]

Posted on October 1st, 2007 under Children, Health, Iraq, Women and Children. Tags: Children, Women and Children. Comments: None

BAGHDAD, Oct 1 (Reuters) - More than 500 new cases of cholera have been confirmed since Thursday in Iraq’s northern province of Kirkuk, bringing the total number across the country to more than 3,000, the health ministry said on Monday.
Fifteen people have died from the disease, but the relatively low death toll indicated the […]

Posted on October 1st, 2007 under Cholera, Iraq. Tags: الكوليرا. Comments: 1

Wasit health authorities have announced the detection of two further cases of cholera a 5 year old child and a young woman from al-Sawirah in the north of the governorate..

قال سكرتير غرفة عمليات مراقبة مرض الكوليرا في محافظة واسط إن الأجهزة الصحية بالمحافظة سجلت، الاثنين، ظهور حالتي إصابة بالكوليرا شمالي قضاء الصويرة بواسط. وأوضح علي […]

Posted on October 1st, 2007 under Cholera, Iraq. Tags: Wasit, Water Borne Disease, الكوليرا. Comments: None

Commentary: So much for all that lying crap about how “we can’t pull out or things will get infinitely worse.
Erdla.

BASRA, Iraq, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Residents of Iraq’s southern city of Basra have begun strolling riverfront streets again after four years of fear, their city much quieter since British troops withdrew from the grand Saddam […]

Posted on October 1st, 2007 under Features, Iraq. Tags: Basrah. Comments: 1

AMMAN, 1 October 2007 (IRIN) - Ali Abdul Rahman, a 12-year-old Iraqi immigrant, joins an army of Jordanian beggars as they throng the vibrant streets of Amman in their tattered clothes, seeking a handout during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Photo: An elderly Iraqi refugee sleeps rough on the streets of Amman, Jordan

Photo […]

Posted on October 1st, 2007 under Children, Iraq, Middle East, Politics and Security, Society And Economy, Women and Children. Tags: Child Poverty, Children, IRIN, Jordan, Poverty, Refugees, Women and Children. Comments: None

” ان كل من  يروم بالتطوع لهذه الدولة الكافرة والانخراط في صفوف الجيش والشرطة فانه سيقتل ويذبح وقد اعذر من انذر ” ,بهذه العبارات الوقحة فضلا عن قيامهم بتفجير مدرستين في القرية ,  رد مسلحون متمردون في قريتي الكبة والمخيسة التابعة لبلدة  العبارة في   مدينة بعقوبة  على زيارةوفد ضم  محافظ ديالى رعد رشيد الملا جواد […]

Posted on October 1st, 2007 under Iraq. Tags: Baqubah, Diyala. Comments: None