Baby survives Baghdad bombing in slain mother's lap

sabra

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Tue Apr-07-09 10:20 AM
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Baby survives Baghdad bombing in slain mother's lap

Source: AFP

A baby miraculously survived a Baghdad car bombing cradled in his mother's lap as she was burned alive in a blast that claimed the lives of eight people on Tuesday, witnesses said.

The baby boy's father was also seriously wounded in the attack not far from a holy Shiite shrine in the Kadhimiyah neighbourhood of northern Baghdad, police and witnesses said.

The bombing came on the heels of six car bomb blasts that killed 34 people in mainly Shiite areas of Baghdad on Monday, rocking the capital's fragile peace in what the US military said appeared to be coordinated Al-Qaeda attacks.

Eight people were killed and another 20 were wounded in Tuesday's blast.

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Barack_America

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Tue Apr-07-09 10:22 AM
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1. Ugh. Such unspeakable horror.

How can people do these things to other people?

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democrank

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Tue Apr-07-09 10:38 AM
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2. Bless you, little baby.

~PEACE~

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tomm2thumbs

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Tue Apr-07-09 10:43 AM
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3. horrific story - so sad the violence in our world - useless and pointless deaths

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jwirr

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Tue Apr-07-09 10:51 AM
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4. So what becomes of this little orphan in Iraq? What are the customs? nt

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REACTIVATED IN CT

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Tue Apr-07-09 11:06 AM
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6. Good question - but this one is not an orphan yet according to

the story.

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hedgehog

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Tue Apr-07-09 11:55 AM
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8. Amazingly, the police handed him to a byustander who took him home

to take care of him until relatives are found.

What a barbaric culture!

:sarcasm:

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jwirr

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Tue Apr-07-09 12:06 PM
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9. Actually I understand that. They have a less complicated society

and do not use a bureaucracy to determine every step of their lives. If there are relatives the little guy should be okay.

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hedgehog

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Tue Apr-07-09 12:27 PM
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10. Even after a terrorist bombing killed his mother, the default assumption

was that a total stranger would protect the child and return him to his family!

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The Stranger

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Tue Apr-07-09 10:58 AM
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5. Chalk up another one for the Neoconservative Criminal Cabal, whose wars . . .

. . . continue murdering children even after they have left office.

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Tue Apr-07-09 11:30 AM
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7. mission accomplished...let freedom ring!

:sarcasm:

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