01-02-2004, 11:32 AM
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This vexes me. I am terribly vexed.
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Originally posted by nirol
Comment 31 referred to the Arab sense of honor...Bull Sh#$ !!
Where is the honor in trhowing people off of buildings? Wrapping bomb vests on your children? Setting up childrens prisons? Honor killings of raped women, by their parents? Flying planes into buildings?
Honor should be conveyed to those who deserve it. I say be polite, see that they are well attended to, then Kill them!
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The Childrens prisons, were inaccurate reporting. They were just orphanages.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/we...3ccecb&ei=5070
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A 'Liberated' Orphanage Searches for Its Children
By TYLER HICKS
l Rahma, an orphanage in northern Baghdad, was run by the state under Saddam Hussein, but is now run by clerics from the Shiite Muslim town of Najaf. They took control of the institution four days after American forces liberated Baghdad in April.
The orphanage had been home to 107 girls and boys whose parents were killed or imprisoned, or were unable to care for them. As the Americans advanced on Baghdad, they mistook the orphanage for a jail or prison and released all the children who were there.
A few employees of Al Rahma have returned to work there and have searched the streets for the children who left, in efforts to bring them back. Today 23 boys and 11 girls live at the orphanage. But because conditions at Al Rahma were bad under Saddam Hussein's regime, according to employees, some children are reluctant to return, fearing that even under the new management they will be treated badly.
In addition, the war brought looters, who stole beds and other furniture from the institution's meager stocks. Today, rooms are nearly bare, with empty bed frames, crumbling walls and broken windows.
Many children who have not returned have resorted to life on the streets, begging for food or money, or perhaps turning to drugs or prostitution.
For those who remain, the orphanage is the only home they know.
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