(excerpt from UK Reuters found at:
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=620098&src=rss/uk/worldNews§ion=news
HIT BY SHRAPNEL
U.S. commanders say civilian casualties have been low, but residents dispute
that, describing incidents in which non-combatants, including women and
children, have been killed by shrapnel or hit by bombs.
In one case earlier this week, a 9-year-old boy died after being hit in the
stomach by shrapnel. Unable to reach a hospital, he died hours later of blood
loss.
"Anyone who gets injured is likely to die because there's no medicine and they
can't get to doctors," said Abdul-Hameed Salim, a volunteer with the Iraqi Red
Crescent. "There are snipers everywhere. Go outside and you're going to get
shot."
Rasoul Ibrahim, a father of three, fled Falluja on Thursday morning and arrived
with his wife and children in Habbaniya, about 20 km (12 miles) to the west, on
Thursday night.
He said families left in the city were in desperate need.
"There's no water. People are drinking dirty water. Children are dying. People
are eating flour because there's no proper food," he told aid workers in
Habbaniya, which has become a refugee camp, with around 2,000 families
sheltering there.
Ubadi said many families taking refuge in Habbaniya and other villages nearby
were suffering from diarrhoea and malnutrition and needed medicine as well as
basic necessities such as lentils, sugar, bread, tea and candles.
An aid convoy reached Habbinya on Thursday to help hundreds of families living
in schools, shops and tents on the streets, but the biggest concern is now
Falluja, where the Red Crescent has identified at least 150 families in
desperate need.
She said a convoy of aid, including drinking water, food and medicine, was
ready to leave for Falluja from Amiriya, a town to the south, but needed
permission from U.S. forces.
YEE-HAW!!!! FOUR MORE YEARS!!!! This is gonna be better than Spike TV!
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The undeniable truth of politics is that people always
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Hussein in Iraq or George W. Bush in the United States.
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