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Saturday March 29, 2003 23:06
by Damir Sagolj
A wounded Iraqi girl, March 29, 2003. Front line crossfire ripped apart an Iraqi family on Saturday. The four-year old girl, blood streaming from an eye wound, was screaming for her dead mother, while her father, shot in a leg, begged to be freed from the plastic wrist cuffs slapped on him by U.S. marines, so he could hug his other terrified daughter.
A wounded Iraqi girl, March 29, 2003. Front line crossfire ripped apart an Iraqi family on Saturday. The four-year old girl, blood streaming from an eye wound, was screaming for her dead mother, while her father, shot in a leg, begged to be freed from the plastic wrist cuffs slapped on him by U.S. marines, so he could hug his other terrified daughter.
Comments (3 of 3)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3Well, it strange how one can carry images with one for the rest of one's life.
This, and Robert Fisk's reports:
"a partially decapitated body of a little girl, her red scarf still wound around her neck".
Support for the war has jumped in the US since the invasion began.
So how long will the people here tolerate the destruction of these individuals in the name of the madness of a glassy eyed red-neck?.
Your opposition in Ireland is vitally important.
I walk the streets of this country and I feel an unease in the air. At some level, they know it is wrong.
"If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see farther into the future."
February 1998, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, defending the use of cruise missiles against Iraq.
What does Avi think of this?
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