A Boston physician, Dr. Thomas Burke, is in Libya helping Libyan doctors get together an ER at the Benghazi Medical Center. He and a Libyan surgeon, Dr. Naseralla Elsaadi, were supposed to have been meeting with Ambassador Stevens yesterday morning. Instead, Dr. Burke reports:
Just a few minutes ago I sat with Dr. Naseralla Elsaadi, a gentle and endlessly patient 42-year old surgeon. Tears quietly ran down his cheeks. Ambassador Chris Stevens was supposed to have been sitting with us. Naseralla is chief of the patchwork ER and has been up all night caring for the sick and injured and has 25 patients to still round on. He said, “It is fine to write about me and use my name because I am from the most powerful tribe in Eastern Libya. They will protect me.” He handed me 4 pages stapled together, the first being the medical note on the attempt to save the Ambassador’s life, and the latter three sheets, copies of the ambassador’s flat line heart rhythm. I put my hand on Naseralla’s shoulder and he reached up, taking my hand in his. “This is terrible not just for the Americans and Libyans but for all humanity. My wife and children just called me crying. Everyone in the hospital and everyone in Benghazi are angry with those people (the radical extremists) and we weep. Islam is peaceful. It is our duty to care for our guests.” He looked down and his shoulders dropped with obvious despair. “We work so hard for peace.” I asked him to not give up. I told him that most Americans don’t know the true story of the Libyan people, but that he can count on Americans not giving up. While still holding my hand I locked onto his eyes, “if we work together on a unified commitment to peace, and together build bridges, a brighter future will emerge.”
So, it would seem the initial reports that Stevens dies of smoke inhalation are likely true.
“everyone in Benghazi are angry with those people”
Obviously not everyone.
I would tend to agree. My first thought was this guy stepped in to help with the body...its what you would do in a moment of....I got to do something...cell phone in mouth, help remove the body.
we cant begin to think in generalizations. Evil does not prevail....good will always win, unless good men choose to do evil.
I'd wait for the autopsy...if there's going to be one.
Where in the doctor's account of the attempt to save the ambassador's life is that discussed?
Yeah right...don’t you know that the Koran says it is a virtue to lie to infidels?
You expect truth from the mouth of a member of the “most
powerful tribe in Eastern Libya”?
How naive!
His sister, who is an MD here in Seattle, will no doubt determine what really happened and how he died. Not sure it will get to the news here, but it might.