Malaysian Blogger Relates Another Sad Tale from the Iraq War
The full story is reported by Jeff Ooi today (7 May 2003) on his weblog "Screen Shots".
It breaks your heart.
Click here to read the story of a 9 year old Iraqi girl and the Iraqi war.
War, no matter how justified or not, kills and maims... especially children.
This is a story about a 9 year old Iraqi girl,Yasmine Wa 'adi, who lost both her legs as a result of the US bombing of Baghdad on April 9. Her 26-year old brother sacrificed his life for her, and she had not been told about her brother, except that he had left Iraq.
Yasmine has arrived Malaysia from Baghdad, with the help of local charities. She came to the attention of journalists in Baghdad because she radiated her personality with "her twinkling eyes and her ability to smile despite her misfortune".
Malaysian weblogger, Jeff Ooi wrote. "US kills. Malaysia heals". Very apt.
OTHER NEWS ON THE POST-WAR IRAQ FRONT
Rescued prisoner of war Jessica Lynch is suffering from a form of memory loss that prevents her from recalling details from the time she was ambushed in Iraq to a point during her captivity there, authorities said Monday. (Note: This Weblog posted earlier the story by Mitch Potter on 06 May 2003, which indicated Private Lynch was well-looked after during her captivity in the Nasariyah Hospital. Now she could not recall. What a pity! )
BBC News uncovers evidence suggesting US soldiers even egged on some looters. Rasool Abdul-Husayn, an unemployed school teacher, says he saw one American signalling the crowd to move in, with a repeated wave of the arm. Another eyewitness, Kareem Khattar, who works in a bread shop across the road from the college, saw the same thing. "I saw with my own eyes the Americans signal the people to move in and the looters started clapping," says Mr Khattar. "The Americans waved bye-bye and the looters were clapping. They started looting quickly and when one man came out with an air conditioner an American said to him 'Good, very good'."
Organised crime gangs may have been involved in the looting of invaluable, ancient treasures from the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad last month, the US government admitted yesterday. General Tommy Franks, commander of US forces in Iraq, has insisted that there was no evidence of selective looting. But sources in the art world have said the artefacts from the Assyrian, Sumerian and Babylonian civilisations were almost certainly stolen to order.
An audiotape was handed to the SM Herald in Baghdad, with this tantalising claim: it is the voice of Saddam Hussein only two days ago.The Herald played the tape, allegedly recorded two days ago, to more than a dozen Iraqis from various walks of life, including a judge, a law professor and a former acquaintance of Saddam in exile. The overwhelming opinion was that the voice and rhetoric were very similar, or identical, to those of Saddam.
President Bush named retired diplomat L. Paul Bremer to be his top representative in Iraq. Bremer is a former ambassador and headed the State Department's counter-terrorism office. He will report to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. He will direct both retired Army Lt. Gen. Jay Garner, who is responsible for rebuilding Iraqi infrastructure, and Zalmay Khalilzad, the National Security Council official who's overseeing the effort to craft a new political system for Iraq.This ends the fighting in Washington between Pentagon and the State Department.
With the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, the flow of millions of dollars that the Iraqi leader sent to support the Palestinian intifada has abruptly ended.The man who used to distribute Saddam's money, Ibrahim Za'anin, lives in Beit Hanoun, in the Gaza Strip near the border with Israel.
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