{"article":{"id":59652,"heading":"Blood of Innocents","author":"Matthew McAllester","created":"2003-05-24 23:38:50","modified":"2003-05-25 14:37:07","last_modified":"Sun, 25 May 2003 21:37:07","article":"

\"It is one of the results of the embargo,\" Dr. Ghassam Rashid Al-Baya told Newsday on May 9, 2001, at Baghdad's Ibn Al-Baladi hospital, just after a dehydrated baby named Ali Hussein died on his treatment table. \"This is a crime on Iraq.\"

It was a scene repeated in hundreds of newspaper articles by reporters required to be escorted by minders from Saddam Hussein's Ministry of Information.

Now free to speak, the doctors at two Baghdad hospitals, including Ibn Al-Baladi, tell a very different story. Along with parents of dead children, they said in interviews this week that Hussein turned the children's deaths into propaganda, notably by forcing hospitals to save babies' corpses to have them publicly paraded.

<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/ny-woiraq233297717may23,0,6683623.story?coll=ny%2Dworldnews%2Dheadlines","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Baghdad - Throughout the 13 years of UN sanctions on Iraq that were ended yesterday, Iraqi doctors told the world that the sanctions were the sole cause for the rocketing mortality rate among Iraqi children.","numcomment":4,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/05\/59652.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":59653,"heading":"That's exactly...","article":"...what I've been telling you.\r\n\r\nWill you believe the Iraqi doctors?\r\n\r\nI'm betting you won't.","author":"daveman","parent_id":59652,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-24 23:40:12","modified":"2003-05-24 23:40:12","fileurl":""},{"id":59720,"heading":"and now ....","article":"... for something completely different.\r\n************************************************\r\n"Iraqi doctors usually insist they\r\n can treat their own patients, and\r\n only ask for medication," Jang said.\r\n "We were going to give up and\r\n return, but soon heard that a\r\n surgery of a 27-year-old boy with a\r\n brain tumor was scheduled. I told them that I had done surgeries\r\n like that for the past 30 years and that I could help them. They\r\n took me to the operating table, only believing half of what I\r\n said." \r\n\r\n After the three-hour surgery ended successfully, the Iraqi doctors\r\n smiled and held his hand and accepted him as their "companion."\r\n It is uncommon for foreign doctors to participate in operations\r\n with the locals, Jang said. \r\n\r\n Some hospitals were quite short on supplies, Jang said, because\r\n many had been stolen. He said that the international society\r\n should provide medical support and participate in post-war\r\n reconstruction. \r\n\r\n "Not merely relief supplies, but support for post-war\r\n reconstruction is necessary," Jang said. "Considering the\r\n situation, I thought that it was right for us to send troops to Iraq."\r\n\r\n He commended the Iraqi doctors, saying that none left the\r\n hospitals, even during the war. "The whole social system was\r\n paralyzed, but I felt hope and thought that Iraq would soon\r\n recover when I saw the doctors who were quietly fulfilling their\r\n responsibilities."\r\nhttp:\/\/english.chosun.com\/w21data\/html\/news\/200305\/200305080028.html","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":59652,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-25 11:57:57","modified":"2003-05-25 11:57:57","fileurl":""},{"id":59724,"heading":"Since I have never...","article":"...argued anything other than the fact that Hussein was a despicable excuse for a human being I have no problem with acknowledging the likely truth contained in this article.\r\n\r\nThat Hussein was a despicable human being does not however justify the the Bush Junta's actions which is really what you are trying to do.","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":59652,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-25 12:15:33","modified":"2003-05-25 12:15:33","fileurl":""},{"id":59738,"heading":"great","article":"this is a good thing\r\n\r\nwhat we did was just\r\n\r\nand for all the right reasons","author":"z","parent_id":59652,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-25 14:37:07","modified":"2003-05-25 14:37:07","fileurl":""}]}