Way too long to reproduce here, so check the story about the boy turned into a sensation. Among the heroes: Iraqi doctors, an American infantry troop and an Aussie reporter.
On Sunday, April 6, at the Al Kindi hospital in downton Baghdad, Samia Nakhoul stumbled across the most horrific thing she had ever seen. In the last, chaotic days of Saddam Hussein’s regime, Nakhoul, the Gulf bureau chief of Reuters, had taken to touring the hospitals daily to monitor the casualties from the blitzkrieg of American bombing that was battering the Iraqi capital. "The hospital was in a really terrible situation," she says. "There were scores of casualties arriving, some said up to 100 in an hour. The nurses and doctors hadn’t been home for weeks - they were all sleeping at the hospital. I asked one of the nurses, ’What is the worst case you have received?’ She told me, ’Well, there’s this boy, he’s been burned.’ So I asked if I could see him. I wanted to know what ’the worst case’ meant."
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