Shock and Aw Shucks

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Sun Mar 23 07:04:58 PST 2003


50 Dead in Basra

Saturday, March 22, 2003; 5:42 PM

KUWAIT (Reuters) - Al-Jazeera television, quoting Iraqi medics, said on Saturday that 50 people had been killed in U.S. bombing around the southern Iraqi city of Basra and it aired grisly footage of dead and wounded civilians.

Among the scenes, beamed across the Arab the world by the Qatar-based satellite channel, were a child with the back of its head blown off -- it was unclear if it was a boy or a girl -- and bloodied people being treated on the floor of a hospital.

"It's a huge mass of civilians," one angry woman told al-Jazeera, standing among the wounded. "It was a massacre." ...

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11200-2003Mar22.html>

Carl

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