Majestic - I truly hope you won’t mind my imposition in posting up some pictures in your thread without asking for permission first; you can always ask the Moderator/s to remove them if it’s a problem.
Your pictures referred to the ongoing bombing of Iraq; the following refer to just another crime against Iraq: some of the consequences of the sanctions system.
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Doctors and nurses at a hospital in Basra, Iraq slap the feet of a seriously ill Hassan, 6 months old, trying to find a vein for an injection they know cannot save the pale, feverish boy. Photo by Rick Wood, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, http://www.jsonline.com/news/insideiraq/aug00/death06080400.asp
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**With her 6-month-old son Hassan’s life ebbing away, Dalal Jabbar grieves as the medical staff disconnects his air tube from an empty canister of industrial grade oxygen. ** Photo: Rick Wood [all images from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
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UN statistics report that the infant mortality rate in central and southern Iraq has doubled since the Gulf War and at least 300,000 children have died from diseases related to malnutrition
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With deep dark eyes looking at an American stranger, a young girl suffering from leukemia tries to keep up her spirits in the cancer ward.
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A premature baby boy, born at 7 months and shortly after died of “shortness of breath,” is ceremoniously washed with water 7 times as his body is prepared for burial.
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**As a small boy is wrapped in a bundle in white cloth, Milwaukee area physician Waleed Najeeb, steps in to recite prayers from the Muslim holy book. **