May 3: A U.S. Army soldier comforts a fatally wounded child in Mosul.
Posted on 05/07/2005 2:02:31 PM PDT by nuconvert
Photographer Snaps Dramatic Iraq Photo
May 07, 2005
NEW YORK — A dying little Iraqi girl seen in a photo in the arms of a GI who was trying to rush her to safety could have been left out of the line of insurgent fire, Associated Press freelance photographer Michael Yon told FOX News.
Two Iraqi children were killed and 15 Iraqi citizens were injured Monday when terrorists chose to "plow through" a Mosul street — where about 20 children were playing — with a combined homicide car bomb and improvised explosive device attack, according to Yon, who took the emotional photograph of Maj. Mark Bieger cradling the girl in her final hours.
“The terrorists could have waited one or two blocks ... not hurt any of the children, simply hit us,” Yon told FOX News. “They chose to attack right there with a very large car bomb … with the children.”
Immediately after the attack, Bieger made the command decision to rush the fatally wounded child away from the scene in hopes of getting care from American surgeons. The girl didn’t make it. Bieger cuddled her in her last hours.
“He kept stopping to talk with her and hug her,” Yon, who is embedded with the Army's 1st Battalion 24th Regiment in Mosul, wrote on his Web site blog.
Bieger is the operations officer of an Army Stryker unit in Mosul, which conducts dangerous search and destroy missions in the boiling hotbed of insurgency. This mission hit the father of three and his fellow soldiers hard.
"These guys are in combat every day and we get hit a lot," Yon told the New York Post. "But nothing affected them like this attack."
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May 3: A U.S. Army soldier comforts a fatally wounded child in Mosul.
A Heartbreaker...
BASTARDS!
When are the people who say they are Moslems of peace going to rise up in numbers to great to count and eradicate those who would do this to children. Literally demonic in their nature.
Man oh man, I cannot see that picture without crying.
Major Mark Bieger found this little girl after the car bomb that attacked our guys while kids were crowding around. The soldiers here have been angry and sad for two days. They are angry because the terrorists could just as easily have waited a block or two and attacked the patrol away from the kids. Instead, the suicide bomber drove his car and hit the Stryker when about twenty children were jumping up and down and waving at the soldiers.
Major Bieger, I had seen him help rescue some of our guys a week earlier during another big attack, took some of our soldiers and rushed this little girl to our hospital. He wanted her to have American surgeons and not to go to the Iraqi hospital. She didn't make it. I snapped this picture when Major Bieger ran to take her away. He kept stopping to talk with her and hug her.
The soldiers went back to that neighborhood the next day to ask what they could do. The people were very warming and welcomed us into their homes, and many kids were actually running up to say hello and to ask soldiers to shake hands.
Eventually, some insurgents must have realized we were back and started shooting at us. The American soldiers and Iraqi police started engaging the enemy and there was a running gun battle. I saw at least one IP who was shot, but he looked okay and actually smiled at me despite the big bullet hole in his leg. I smiled back.
One thing seems certain; the people in that neighborhood share our feelings about the terrorists. We are going to go back there, and if any terrorists come out, the soldiers hope to find them. Everybody is still very angry that the insurgents attacked us when the kids were around. Their day will come....
Thank you for posting that
You are too kind.
See what you made me do?
Beautiful tribute---Thanks
That is to good and painless and end for them, although, that end is just the beginning of the pain for them.
Ya, send em to allah!
It is awful hard to think like a Christian when you see pictures like this and read articles like this.
It sounds like the photographer was shocked that the terrorists would actually do something like this. His eyes were opened to the brutality of these savages.
Graphic tribute by our own Lady Jag
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