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This child’s name is Abdullah Abdul Rahman. He is seven years old.

The photograph of Abdullah crying as a doctor bandages the stump where he once had a hand was taken by Adil al-Khazali in al-Kindi hospital today January 2oth 2008.

The caption supplied by AP with the photo says that Abdullah was one of the people wounded when a bomb hidden in a rubbish pile near a busy restaurant in Sadr city exploded yesterday evening. It explains that at least 2 were killed and 10 wounded.

Local radio reports say the bomb was targeting a police patrol and say that 3 people have now died as a result and that 11, among them Abdullah, were seriously wounded.

Khaled.

This is Aswat Al Iraq’s English language version of this report هيئة النزاهة تكشف عن وجود خمسة ملايين طفل عراقي يتي which I posted immediately below. That’s 5 million orphans created by the war America deliberately, cynically, and viciously, waged and continues to wage in Irak. That is 5 million children both of whose parents are dead. That is the figure the green zone government admits to, the real figure is a lot higher as many orphans are taken in by relatives and not registered, nor does the figure include the children with “only” one parent dead.

There will be no further postings tonight.

Khalil.

5 million Iraqi orphans, anti-corruption board reveals

Baghdad - Voices of Iraq

Saturday , 15 /12 /2007  Time 6:32:11

Baghdad, Dec 15, (VOI) – Iraq’s anti-corruption board revealed on Saturday that there were five million Iraqi orphans as reported by official government statistics, urging the government, parliament, and NGOs to be in constant contact with Iraq’s parentless children.

“The government should set up an institutional or legislative program to help the Iraqi orphans. Iraqi is an oil-rich country and it is not acceptable that its orphans remain groaning in this tragedy,” the anti-corruption board chief, Moussa Faraj, said during a conference in Baghdad dedicated to orphans in Iraq.

“The board on its own cannot meet the Iraqi orphans’ needs, but there should be an organization or even a ministry to provide care for orphans,” he said.

The Iraqi parliament’s women & family committee had proposed a draft law to set up a fund for the orphans.
During the conference, Wijdan Salem Mikhail, the Iraqi minister of human rights, said in a speech that the phenomenon “is one of the most passive things that grew immensely during the past few years due to destructive wars and unbridled violence in the country to unprecedented heights.”

“These factors have logically caused the number of widows and orphans to greatly increase,” she said.

Aswat Aliraq

O God! Pardon our living and our dead, the present and the absent, the young and the old, the males and the females.

Khalil

O God! Pardon our living and our dead, the present and the absent, the young and the old, the males and the females.

There will be no posting today — funerals

Khalil