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  • Iraqi Orphanage Nightmare

    06/26/2007 8:33:02 PM PDT · by oakcon · 5 replies · 586+ views
    CBS News ^ | June 26, 2007
    (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...
  • Hospital sold bodies of starved patients

    02/12/2005 4:40:25 PM PST · by MadIvan · 21 replies · 797+ views
    The Sunday Times ^ | February 13, 2005 | Mark Franchetti
    DURING 15 years of confinement in psychiatric institutions in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan, Dimitri Gerasimenko was starved and repeatedly beaten. The indignities did not end with his death five years ago at the age of 30.Staff at the ramshackle asylum 50 miles from Bishkek, the capital, have never told his mother Raisa, 65, how he died. All her attempts to retrieve his remains have been met with prevarication, compounding her grief. “First I was asked for money if I wanted the body back,” she said. “Then I was told Dimitri had been sent to a medical academy. When...
  • (Vanity) Political Limerick 09-15-2006

    09/15/2006 6:49:13 PM PDT · by grey_whiskers · 1 replies · 413+ views
    grey_whiskers ^ | 09-15-2006 | grey_whiskers
    See for example this thread first. So should we listen to the Franks? The Fwench, that is. Should we give thanks? They won't regulate Fashion models' weight But who cares? They're just overpaid skanks!