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- swrostmore, on 10/10/2007, -24/+258"Insurgents?" I doubt this incident had anything to do with the Iraqi insurgency. This is sectarian terrorism - one ethnic or religious group trying to push another group out of a particular area of baghdad. This kind of thing is extremely common and in some cases supported by members of the Iraqi government, military, and police.
- mhmck05, on 10/10/2007, -9/+225how could anyone possibly do this? how does a person get to the point where they are oblivious to a small child? things like this just prove that there are people in this world who are truly evil.
- safacles, on 10/10/2007, -4/+169The more things change, the more they stay the same. I thought we were supposed to have moved passed this level of barbarism as a race. To target a child, set them on fire, and cower back into the shadows -- is this humanity?
- nublet, on 10/10/2007, -4/+149FTA: '"He's become spiteful, I am not sure why," said his mother, Zainab.'
well, no *****... - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -10/+150"Get the word out there; his story has to be told."
Dude. You're linking to CNN. The story is already out there - zacamjo, on 10/19/2007, -15/+123I'd like to help but don't know where/how to start. Someone please jump in with ideas/guidance.
While this was a savage act, we can turn this around and help him enjoy a more normal future. - knicks555, on 10/10/2007, -7/+91i hope so man but he'll never be the same. this is horrible. makes my problems look like nothing. They ruined his life. The thing I really don't understand is motive. I can't understand why people act the way they do. Here in America people rob people and then murder them. WHY?? You will probably never get caught and even if you do now you'll go to jail for years, what do you gain out of murdering someone? What did these sick ***** gain from hurting this little kid? NOTHING. I will never understand things like this.
- pigg123, on 10/10/2007, -60/+120cool.... digg is turning into my email spam folder.... send this to 10 people on your contact list, or the boy dies.
no digg at all. - Neuralphreak, on 10/10/2007, -14/+68Dude, It's on CNN, you don't think it's getting enough attention?
- wjackson, on 10/10/2007, -7/+51Call me a cynic, but I don't think that digging this story will help this situation. Many comparable atrocities are taking place all the time, all over the world.
What troubles me most is that the mother lacks the foresight to move beyond the incident, and to treat him as she did before the attack. He needs to know that his value is not predicated upon what the mirror might suggest or what people might say and think. I know it's easy for me to say this from the comfort of my chair, but I know of too many cases where people were able to live normal (and in some cases, extraordinary) lives as a result of a parent's positive affirmation after an incident.
My .02. - bailuff, on 10/10/2007, -7/+49No, it's the radical jihadists being themselves. Wastes of flesh.
- bias, on 10/10/2007, -18/+52Charity on digg? you've come to the wrong place. these people think Bill Gates is evil even tho he donated 30+ billions to help the world, and think Steve Job & Linus are god. They want Bill Gates die, and Microsoft falls apart, and the world less 30 billion dollars to help people so they can save money on beer.
These are the people who submit over 16 pages and ten of thousands of diggs for CNET editor James Kim, and have only a little over a thousand diggs for Jim Gray (one of the greatest computer scientist in the world) because he's from Microsoft. Yeah, these are the people would laugh & watch a Microsoft employee dying in front of them without helping. - ellabee, on 10/10/2007, -12/+44This is ellabee, I submitted this story.
I have seen a few comments so far questioning the involvement of insurgents. I believed I had read that as I was initially reading this boy's story. I made a mistake; the identites and alliances of the men in masks who tortured this boy is not yet known.
For those that have buried this submission as inaccurate: I know you are trying to keep facts in check, and rightly so. But please don't bury this story just for my mistake in mentioning the insurgency as the perpetrators. Don't let my mistake be the reason this story doesn't get all the attention it deserves.
Thank you, fellow Diggers. - james2die4, on 10/10/2007, -6/+34You can help by making a donation to The Global Medical Relief Fund, which is committed to bring hope and help to children who are missing or have lost use of their limbs, have been severely burned, or are otherwise damaged due to the atrocities of war, national disaster or illness.
http://www.globmed.org/
I worked with them a few years ago and they are a very small group of good people. - swrostmore, on 10/10/2007, -0/+26"I saw an old episode of "Homicide: Life on the Street" on the Sleuth channel the other night. In it a highly annoying Vince D'Onofrio falls between a subway car and the subway platform and he gets stuck there, with the train basically holding his guts in. The medics come in and they look at him and realize that if they move the train at all, his guts are going to fall out and he's going to die. But if they do nothing, he's going to slowly lose blood pressure and die. Either way, he's going to die. Iraq is Vince D'Onofrio. It doesn't overact as much, but it's just as *****. The bloodbath is coming as soon as we leave, whether that's now or 20 years from now. But I'd be interested to hear your argument explaining how things are going to improve by us staying and spending a billion bucks a day or whatever playing Play Station in air conditioned trailers behind twenty-foot walls while Iraqis have six hours of electricity and pee into buckets and get their throats slit as soon as night falls. You're probably right, a few more years of that, and this Sunni-Shia hatred thing will pass." - http://alternet.org/story/55275/?page=1
- deeboe, on 10/10/2007, -9/+34This is one of the saddest things I have ever read.
- maggiesue0303, on 10/10/2007, -17/+40I saw this story just now on CNN. My heart is so sore now. We gotta get this story out.
- TheWiseNoob, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21Nobody likes a cold-hearted bastard either.
- DesignerScott, on 10/10/2007, -3/+24I think we should send him to Canada instead.
- enki25, on 10/10/2007, -6/+26Blaming this on Islam is like blaming car crashes on GM.
- opethlike, on 10/10/2007, -4/+24Stuff like this has always happened and always will. Intelligence and moral thought is not common to all people that belong to the human race.
- Bajeda, on 10/10/2007, -5/+25***** all the racists here. Seriously, ***** you all. People are people, its not like Arabs have some special gene that make them ***** insane and violent. If the US was in a state of near anarchy you would be seeing sick ***** happening there as well. While I'm at it, ***** the media for presenting a one sided view of Islam and the Arab world. I lived there my entire life and I can tell you that everyone there is a human being just like all of you.
***** racism. - Bajeda, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19^^^^^ Telling someone else who they are while not knowing anything about them is bad, but disparaging an entire race of people and an entire religion, basically calling them the scum of the earth, when you don't know jack ***** about them besides the images you see on TV from a WAR ZONE in a poor part of the world (don't give me that oil BS, none of the people see that money) is infinitely worse.
- mphree, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20And hopefully someone will replace you very soon.
- Exodust, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Can I add that the victim was of the same religion as well?
- Wargalas, on 10/10/2007, -14/+29Let me ask you something, if we pull our troops out of Iraq, do you think this sort of thing would happen more often before the Iraqi security forces are ready to take over? My gut feeling is that if we pull out too quickly, this will be the tip of the iceberg. Now digg me down and tell me how I'm wrong and that we should just leave these people to their "civil war".
- miriclaire, on 10/10/2007, -4/+19Dugg a hundred times if I could! People need to wake up to these vicious, deluded hateful excuses for humans.
- dattaway, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16You have to kick the bird out of the nest so it can learn to fly sometime in its lifetime. Are we going to establish permanent military bases in every Muslim country one after another trying to save the world?
- soulpatch, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17agreed. the all caps plus the fact that it has been on the CCN homepage for approx 5 hours. Bury'd.
- hmmdar, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17really horrible thing to happen to the child, but this is political driven propaganda driven by CNN, which anymore is no better than fox news.
- winmywii, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15wtf are the comments then?
- cygnus2112, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13We do. There are tons of hospitals set up specifically for children. Iraq has no such facilities and that's why they want to spread the story, so that he may have a chance to come to America to receive therapy and reconstruction.
- wildsnake, on 10/10/2007, -19/+32The Devil is people
- oddtom, on 10/10/2007, -4/+17It takes a special kind of stupid to see an innocent kid immolated, only to turn around and state that every one of those "dog-people" including that kid should be killed off. Take a look in the mirror: you are precisely what you hate.
- MarkOfTheDead, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15I never understood where they got 72 from. there must be an overabundance of virgin souls they're trying to get rid of at INSANE prices. Kinda like crazy eddie, but with virgins.
- loveandrockets, on 10/10/2007, -4/+16The kid probably worshipped Allah in a different way than his attackers. He is infidel and must be taught a lesson.
(***** savages.) - MacGyver2210, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13Don't bother donating to globmed if you want to help this kid. They don't go to war-torn areas to help people, they just walk through afterwards and try to clean up. If you want to help this kid donate to the red cross.
- lemac, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13If you are a Muslim I would advise you to inshAllah read the Quran more properly and get your facts straight before making stupid remarks like "kid is now qualifies for his 72 virgins".
- DiggsOnlyJew, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history
Welcome to Earth. - herbalezence, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11I'm trying to get in touch with CNN to see whether there is any way of channelling support directly to the family. If it turns out to be possible, we need to setup a donation account somehow, and transfer the collected money reasonably to the family. Will post updates here.
- catalysis, on 10/10/2007, -4/+15So does it make you feel better that you actually believe in your twisted mind that this kid gets to ***** 72 virgins? You must be joking.
- iticu, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14So, a persons OS preferences determines if they have decency enough to help a kid whos had his life ***** up for no reason?
Microsoft has nothing to do with this. Don't bring petty stuff like that into it. - Philluminati, on 10/10/2007, -14/+25Now we really hate the insurgents. Lets stay out there for another 5 years!
/sarcasm - orph3us, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11There were bullies in my school, who no doubt, if surrounded by the same chaos that there is in Iraq, would perform the same type of atrocities. It is the human race. It's the fact that people don't understand there own pain, so they take it out on others. It's not right, but it happens. Start by fixing yourself, then your neighborhood, and so on.... It's unfortunate but it's reality.
- dan.stryker, on 10/10/2007, -8/+18I agree with the above comments, yelofnivek wake up! and stop blaming the USA for everything.
- cheech_sp, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12Because there aren't any sick American murderers....
- GeneralFault, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13And... this is exactly why we should never have gone there in the first place.
- Alpione, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13He's right, though. There would have been an international outcry with anti-war zealots using this as some sort of faux evidence that US soldiers are monsters. But becaues it was Iraqii on Iraqii, it's a fringe headline...
- thebenchase, on 10/10/2007, -9/+19i dug you up, ellabee, because i agree-- war hurts noncombatants the most, sometimes. may god be with him.
- cygnus2112, on 10/10/2007, -6/+15Yeah, your plan of removing any type of authority or justice to prevent criminal and violent acts like this is just plain brilliant.
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