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Youâve broken your word, says Baghdad boy who lost his arms
Ali Ismail Abbas, the 12-year-old Baghdad boy who lost his arms in a US air strike, yesterday accused the media of letting him down. He does not want sympathy. Speaking with fluent indignation, in his grimy ward in Chewader hospital, he demanded to know why numerous promises that he would be treated in the West had not been kept. "The journalists always promise to evacuate me - why don't they do it now?" he asked, his brow furrowed with pain and glistening with sweat. "Please take me out of Iraq to be safe and cured."Poor kid, he's learning the hard way that a journalist's job is to chatter and posture, and NOTHING ELSE. If anyone comes through for him, and I hope they will, it'll be the U.S. military docs. Posted by: Bent Pyramid 2003-04-15 |
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