Chief of Baghdad Children's Hospital Killed

[Barrett808]

Source: VOI

Chief of Baghdad Children's Hospital Killed
Latest in Wave of Killing of Physicians; Most Iraqi Doctors Have Fled

Baghdad - Iraqi Police said that unknown gunmen killed the director of the Children's Hospital in the Mansour area of Baghdad today.

A police source told the Independent News (Voices of Iraq) that "assassins killed Dr Ahmad Shehab, director of the Central Children Hospital, in an armed attack in Al-Mansour" located west of the capital.

He pointed out that the armed men "fled to an unknown destination," saying that the security forces "opened an investigation into the incident to identify the perpetrators and the party that stands behind them."

The Iraqi Ministry of Health earlier spoke of a a sharp deterioration of the health situation due to a campaign of assassinations and death threats targeting Iraqi doctors, many of whom have fled abroad the ministry,

The ministry reports that of the 34,000 Iraqi doctors, more than half have fled the country or taken refuge in Kurdistan in northern Iraq.

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[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Apparently Lenin was wrong

First, you kill all the doctors.

Oh, that's right. Lenin was trying to establish a society, not induce social chaos.

[soothsayer]

2. They've targeted all kinds of professionals actually. Professors, everything.

Anyone with a profession is trying to flee, thus you get a brain drain in addition to the rest of the mess we've incited.

[Marrah_G]

3. Stupid ignorant brain-washed asses

SO when they "win" what will they have left when every person of intelligence is dead or in exile?

[Steerpike]

4. They don't want or need talented people.

All will be in the hands of God. Which is very frightening to intelligent, talented people.
Of course,not all religious people feel this way. Thank the lord most moslems and christians (etc) are kind and loving people. It is unfortunate only a few zealots are needed to ruin your day.

[Bonobo]

5. At least it's not the "Thief of Bagdhad"!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. this suits Bush/Cheney fine.

the greater the disorder, the greater the need for our troops, and ergo the greater the need for his war powers to continue. (and the greater the profits for the military-industrial complex)

[FloridaJudy]

7. It's another effin' Cambodia

They're killing or driving off all the professionals. It's going to take decades or centuries to claw their way back up out of the stone age. But the wing-nuts don't care.

That whirring noise is coming from Santayana's grave.

[alstephenson]

8. How sad. We've destroyed this country...

So much for winning over the hearts and minds....there won't be any left to win over.