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Iraq-Jordan
The story behind the "little girl" photo
2005-05-05

This photo was posted at LGF yesterday. Today, in his blog, photographer Michael Yon tells the story . . .

Major Mark Bieger found this little girl after the car bomb that attacked our guys while kids were crowding around. The soldiers here have been angry and sad for two days. They are angry because the terrorists could just as easily have waited a block or two and attacked the patrol away from the kids. Instead, the suicide bomber drove his car and hit the Stryker when about twenty children were jumping up and down and waving at the soldiers. Major Bieger, I had seen him help rescue some of our guys a week earlier during another big attack, took some of our soldiers and rushed this little girl to our hospital. He wanted her to have American surgeons and not to go to the Iraqi hospital. She didn't make it. . . .

Go read it all.
Posted by:Mike

#8  Soldiers are in a unique position when they grieve, for unlike the ordinary person, they can act with burning ferocity, great sympathy and compassion, and intensity to prevent such things in the future. This gives them a depth of feeling that civilians rarely experience.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2005-05-05 21:22  

#7  Opps -- that was 8:45 CST --
Posted by: Sherry   2005-05-05 15:24  

#6  Missed that, Sherry. Thanks.
Posted by: Matt   2005-05-05 14:59  

#5  Fox did have Michael Yon live this morning about 8:45 EST talking about this. He talked of the sadness and anger of the soldiers at the attach involving kids.
Posted by: Sherry   2005-05-05 14:36  

#4  There couldn't be any less press coverage on this if it had happened on the far side of the moon. No blogs, I never see this photo.
Posted by: Matt   2005-05-05 13:45  

#3  I was almost in tears in seeing the story and the pics.
Posted by: cough**badanov**cough   2005-05-05 13:18  

#2  I'm sure the Beeb and Al-G will cover this....

except they'll blame us
Posted by: Frank G   2005-05-05 13:16  

#1  Via Blackfive yesterday -- Michael Yon completed SF training at 19 years of age! Read him if you haven't been doing so -- great insight. He's been traveling Iraq
Posted by: Sherry   2005-05-05 12:52  

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