Bombings and Fear Take Toll on Baghdad Doctor

[Judi Lynn]

Bombings and fear take toll on Baghdad doctor
By Michael Georgy

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Treating the bloodied victims of Baghdad's latest bombing on Wednesday, Doctor Mohammed Majeed experienced the very personal agony of postwar Iraq.

"Today I saw a 14-year-old girl die as her brain tissue spilled out. I give up. I want to leave Iraq," he said as mothers prayed over their sons in a grimy hospital ward.

Shortly after dawn, a bomb set off by a fuel truck bomb in the Bayya'a district of Baghdad killed at least 17 people, while around 16 others were badly burnt in a huge fireball that engulfed a minibus and several cars packed with commuters.

Some of the victims lay on bloody sheets at dimly lit Yarmuk hospital, reminding Majeed of his painful dilemma. "I am torn. I want to leave Iraq for the sake of my children but I also want to help Iraqis. But I feel so sad. I give up." (snip/...)

http://www.reuters.com/locales/newsArticle.jsp?type=worldNews&locale=en_IN&storyID=4006763

[demnan]

1. Yeah, mission accomplished.

:cry:

[pippin]

2. dupe

Story already posted earlier.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=928582