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As Newsbusters documented, CBS ran more than one story on the U.S. soldiers’ heroism and compassion in their abused Iraqi orphans’ rescue. The June 26 edition of "The Early Show" ran another story on their heroism, this one focusing on an individual soldier and his wife. Lieutenant Jason Smith has a wife who teaches special education and a brother in law who is mentally disabled. Lt. Smith, as anchor Maggie Rodriguez put it, "was unknowingly training for his mission for years." The story then ran footage of Smith nurturing the recovering Iraqi children and his wife offering words of praise...

(CBS) It was a scene that shocked battle-hardened soldiers, captured in photographs obtained exclusively by CBS News. On a daytime patrol in central Baghdad just over than a week ago, a U.S. military advisory team and Iraqi soldiers happened to look over a wall and found something horrific. "They saw multiple bodies laying on the floor of the facility," Staff Sgt. Mitchell Gibson of the 82nd Airborne Division told CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan. "They thought they were all dead, so they threw a basketball (to) try and get some attention, and actually one of the kids lifted...

CAMP LEMONIER, Djibouti, March 21, 2007 ? Personnel from Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa?s Camp Lemonier visited a local baby orphanage, March 15 to assist the caregivers in feeding the 50 babies trusted to their care. "As soon as you see the babies, their faces light up and we smile right back and it?s like we?ve known each other since they we born. We may not have a family tie, but while we?re here they?ll be our family and we?ll shower them with love." Petty Officer 2nd Class Mary Jane Valdez Upon arrival, the CJTF-HOA personnel greeted the staff,...

Florida Guard Delivers Donations to Kabul OrphanageBy Tech. Sgt. Christopher DeWitt, USAFSpecial to American Forces Press Service KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 30, 2006 -- Blankets, school supplies and soccer balls made their way to hundreds of orphaned children here today thanks to a deployed Florida U.S. Army Guard unit and donations from Americans. Orphans at the Allahoddin orphanage in Kabul, Afghanistan, line up to receive soccer balls and blankets from Army Lt. Col. Abe Conn, liaison officer with the 930th Army Liaison Team, out of Homestead, Fla. The items were donated from around the United States. Photo by Tech. Sgt....

Soldiers from 3rd Platoon, C Company, 2nd battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team visited several Iraqi schools and an Iraqi orphanage on July 8. These Soldiers adopted one of the schools to help renovate and re-supply with educational goods. The Soldiers dropped off soccer balls and other goodies at the orphanage. Department of Defense photo by Spc. L.C. Campbell. Story by Spc. L.C. Campbell 138th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment MOSUL – Soldiers from 3rd Platoon, Company C, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team visited an orphanage in Mosul, Iraq July 10, bringing...

Michael Jackson visited an orphanage in Tokyo on Sunday in one of the pop star's first public appearances since his acquittal last June on child molestation charges in the United States. Pop star Michael Jackson visited a Tokyo children's home on Sunday and told a group of 140 excited children "I love you" in Japanese. The 47-year-old entertainer, who appeared in public on Saturday for the first time since his acquittal on sex-abuse charges last year to receive a music award, was greeted by about 100 fans as he arrived in a black van. Inside the Seibi Gakuen children's home,...

4/28/2006 - BELOVODSKY, Kyrgyzstan (AFPN) -- Children at an orphanage here have become accustomed to a weekly ritual. Teachers wake them from naps or gather them from activities into a common area, the door opens, and people with boxes, bags and armfuls of treats walk in. The kids run for hugs and in a moment they’re scattered like it’s Christmas morning -- toys in one hand and cookies in the other -- making up games, or playing quietly by themselves with new treasures. Senior Airman Trammel Johnson, who organizes trips to the orphanage, has a hard time letting a week...

LA CEIBA, Honduras (Army News Service, April 14, 2006) — Choking back tears, Ohio Army National Guardsman Sgt. Natasha Swarts cleared her throat, "So many bad things have happened to these kids in their lives. To be able to do just one thing that can help so many ... I’ve got goose bumps all over." Soldiers from the Ohio National Guard’s 186th Engineering Detachment are working to finish electrical wiring and fixtures at a school that will serve the 24 boys housed at the Niños de la Luz (Children of the Light) Orphanage in La Ceiba, Honduras. In addition to...

Orphanage director sold kids 25/02/2006 20:49  - (SA)    Beijing - A Chinese orphanage director and nine others have been found guilty of buying and selling scores of infants, later adopted by foreign parents. China's official Xinhua news agency said another 22 officials were fired in the trafficking case in the southern city of Hengyang, Hunan province. Chinese police say the traffickers bought children who had been abducted from their families and sold them to welfare homes in Hengyang for about 4 000 yuan (R3 800) each. The social welfare homes then had the infants adopted by foreigners who made "donations" for the adoptions....

Children at the Hwasung Baby orphanage in Seoul may not have the best lives in the world. They don't have the comfort of a loving mother and father or the security of a parent to tuck them in every night, but one thing the children do have is visitors. Korean and ex-pat volunteers visit on Saturdays, Sundays and sometimes during the week. On a recent Saturday in the common room at the home, a group of around 20 children, who range in age from newborns to eight years old, sat with half as many volunteers watching television and slowly getting...

FOB WARRIOR, Iraq— Children at one Kirkuk orphanage now have a playground full of new equipment, thanks to the efforts of the headquarters company of the 116th Brigade Combat Team’s Task Force 2-116 Armor who installed a custom-built playground set August 19. While doing an assessment of a Kirkuk orphanage back in March, the unit noticed run-down playground equipment that was inadequate for the number of children. One metalworker in the group, Sgt. Fenton Doyle, decided to use his talent to build new equipment. “Sgt. Doyle spent his spare time gathering and welding scrap metal constructing several toys for the...

ITOMAN, OKINAWA, Japan (Aug. 15, 2005) -- Twenty-six students from 3rd Material Readiness Battalion, 3rd Force Service Support Group's corporals course volunteered their time to make some improvements at Tai Chu En orphanage Aug. 2. The Marines painted a mural of a landscape on a wall that is 6 feet tall and 35 feet long, cleared a 6 feet wide strip of sugar cane from the wall with gas-powered trimmer garden tools and played with the orphans. The orphanage has more than 100 residents and was established 23 years ago. It is named after a Buddhist monk who brought Buddhism...

It is a wasteland. Street after street razed in a scene that looks like a natural disaster. The hundreds of thousands who have been left homeless are calling it Zimbabwe's tsunami. But man, not nature, is to blame for the destruction enveloping this country.The full force of Robert Mugabe's state is destroying homes and lives in what it calls Operation Restore Order. But all that can be seen is chaos and trauma. There is no compassion, only carefully executed brutality. At Hatcliffe orphanage, run by Dominican sisters, the nuns, workers and 180 orphans were given a day to get out...

People from hardest-hit areas in ‘Black Sunday’ deplore attempts to snatch children left on their own.Nagapattinam (AsiaNews) – The situation of tsunami orphans is getting worse by the day because of the constant presence of not always disinterested outsiders. Eyewitnesses told AsiaNews stories about people approaching parents or the children themselves in refugee camps and villages in violation of Indian and international adoption laws. A resident of Nagapattinam, a village in Tamil Nadu, said: “Some people coming from Salem, from Coimbatore, have demanded to take away the children. We do not let them go”. Two tsunami survivors, Parmeshwaram and his...

Mary Jo Copeland uttered a Hail Mary on Wednesday after announcing a $5 million gift from the richest man in Minnesota for the orphanage she has been trying for years to build.

This article, from a UN information agency, reports on how the US declared a Saudi organization had terrorist links. This kept the organization from sponsoring an orphanage in Somalia. Now, about 3,000 orphans face homelessness on the streets of Mogadishu. Is this a case of children getting hurt when the US paints with too broad a brush stroke, OR, a case of an evil organization being kept from running a breeding ground for future anti-US terrorists? Your thoughts?

KABUL (CP) - More than a thousand children lined up at an orphanage in Kabul Thursday, waiting patiently before receiving gift boxes delivered to them by Canadian soldiers and aid workers. The delivery was in sharp contrast to one Wednesday when children and adults overwhelmed Canadian Forces at a refugee camp several kilometres away. Once the orphans were told they could open their boxes Thursday, the children, some as young as two years old, ripped into them, their eyes widening as they discovered stuffed toys, race cars, dolls, crayons and other treasures inside. "I am so happy. This is the...

When was the last time you reached out to someone less fortunate? Roger Dean Kiser, Sr. asks for nothing more than a little compassion, a little love, and a lifetime’s worth of hugs. Roger Dean Kiser, Sr. was raised by the Children’s Home Association, a Florida orphanage, and then was passed on to the Institute for Young Men, Florida. He and his fellow orphans stifled their tears and emotions to survive the abuse they suffered daily in these institutions. This dramatic true account of physical, mental, and sexual abuse inflicted by childcare professionals will forever change the way people view...

<p>In the light of the most recent disclosures concerning the state Division of Youth and Family Services, let me pose the following question. Which of the following is the nuttier idea?</p> <p>Leave children with parents or guardians who may have a tendency to abuse alcohol and/or drugs, or remove those children to places where they would be clothed, fed and educated?</p>

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 8/24/02 Kabul, gun shop, orphanage, Tarnac Bridge, Sabawaan English School, Terrorists' carpet, Kandahar, bakery for widows, Patriots in the Negev, Safed, "12 rival Palestinian political factions" ploy, Perps in Gaza, American Arab doctors in Ramallah, Siring Terrorists in Karachi ===================== Kabul =================== In Kabul, at the market gun shop. In Kabul, Afghan orphans receive new uniforms from RAWA, who have fought for Aghan women's freedom. In Kabul, at the river, Afghan women try to wash their clothes. There have been three years of drought. North of Kabul, the French watch a CH531...