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Lebanese rescuer 'Green Helmet' injured
Associated Press ^ | 8/15/06 | KATHY GANNON

Posted on 08/15/2006 5:47:18 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia

Lebanese rescuer 'Green Helmet' injured

A civil defense worker who has drawn controversy for holding up the bodies of children killed in Lebanon said Tuesday he was lightly injured fighting a weekend fire sparked by an Israeli bomb.

Salam Daher, dubbed the Green Helmet for the color of his civil defense headgear, said he was hit by debris Sunday when a bomb or missile fell on a building while he was helping to battle a fire at a gas station in the port city of Tyre.

"I fell over when the bomb hit, and I got some scratches from debris that flew up on my face," he said.

The 20-year veteran civil defense worker said he shows dead children to photographers to make clear that Israeli airstrikes killed young Lebanese during the monthlong conflict. Some Internet bloggers have accused him of setting up photos and of treating the dead insensitively.

In one photograph, taken after an Israeli airstrike hit a building in the village of Qana, Daher held a dead infant over his head. The boy's blue pacifier was pinned to his nightshirt.

"I did hold the baby up, but I was saying 'look at who the Israelis are killing. They are children,'" Daher said. "These are not fighters. They have no guns. They are children, civilians they are killing.' "

He said he had no regrets and he made no apologies. "I wanted people to see who was dying. They said they were killing fighters. They killed children."

After the photograph taken at the July 30 Qana strike, which killed 29 people, Daher has found himself under attack, accused of being a propagandist for Hezbollah guerrillas.

One Web site posted video purporting to show Daher arranging to have the body of a child taken off an ambulance and displayed for photographers.

Daher has lived in Tyre since 1996, and was among rescue workers who helped the wounded and removed the dead after an Israeli missile slammed into a U.N. compound in 1996, killing 106 people. At that time, he was photographed holding a mutilated baby.

Daher, now 39, said he doesn't care what was said about him.

"I do my job, and I take many risks for my job, to help people. This is what I do," he said. "When I am rescuing people or taking dead bodies out I try not to think with my heart because then it is very hard for me. But sometimes it is too much, when I see many people or many children.

"I tell you there are many faces that will always be in my mind," Daher said.


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1 posted on 08/15/2006 5:47:29 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Lebanese rescuer 'Green Helmet' injured
Associated Press ^ | 8/15/06 | KATHY GANNON

If all goes as it should - it won't be long before another 'bits the dust'


2 posted on 08/15/2006 5:50:08 PM PDT by malia ("How do you get a ceasefire with terrorists"? John Bolton)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

A "work injury"?


3 posted on 08/15/2006 5:50:59 PM PDT by Redcloak (Speak softly and wear a loud shirt.)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

4 posted on 08/15/2006 5:51:10 PM PDT by South40 (Amnesty for ILLEGALS is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Of course this bastard is concerned about Israeli children too.....being the humanitarian that he is.


5 posted on 08/15/2006 5:52:38 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (New York Times? Get a rope!)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Here is some help in case you missed a few "Key Words."

http://thesaurus.com/


6 posted on 08/15/2006 5:53:02 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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To: Slings and Arrows

Green Helmet Guy ping!


7 posted on 08/15/2006 5:53:45 PM PDT by Huntress (Possession really is nine tenths of the law.)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Raised up from the dead, eh?


8 posted on 08/15/2006 5:53:45 PM PDT by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Tripped hurrying to the site so he could control the photographers.


9 posted on 08/15/2006 5:53:50 PM PDT by kingu (No, I don't use sarcasm tags - it confuses people.)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia
"...They said they were killing fighters. They killed children."

Gonna be captain obvious here, but when you fire at Israel from playgrounds and neighborhoods, innocents will be killed, ya goofball. Betcha had a green helmet on when you rode the short bus to school, too.

10 posted on 08/15/2006 5:56:25 PM PDT by Theresawithanh (Every time I hear the word "exercise", I wash my mouth out with chocolate.)
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11 posted on 08/15/2006 5:57:12 PM PDT by South40 (Amnesty for ILLEGALS is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

The missile had to fall on him four or five times before it looked just right.


12 posted on 08/15/2006 5:57:17 PM PDT by Buck W. (If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Too bad he was only "slightly" injured.


13 posted on 08/15/2006 5:58:31 PM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

"I fell over when the bomb hit, and I got some scratches"

He must have read Kerry's & Murtha's bios!


14 posted on 08/15/2006 5:58:43 PM PDT by TimesDomain (When a judge declares himself "MASTER", you become his "SLAVE")
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Better put some ice on that...


15 posted on 08/15/2006 6:00:42 PM PDT by arkady_renko
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Lebanese rescuer 'Green Helmet' injured

Ahhh, isn't that too bad?


16 posted on 08/15/2006 6:02:15 PM PDT by Jaguarbhzrd
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

A TV camera fell on him while he was staging an atrocity? ;)


17 posted on 08/15/2006 6:03:25 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: South40

pretty funny.


18 posted on 08/15/2006 6:04:07 PM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?")
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

What an arrogant blowhard. He wants to "help" people. Just how much "help" does a dead person need? I guess he's insuring each corpse gets its 15 minutes of TV fame.


19 posted on 08/15/2006 6:06:59 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Vote early and vote often.)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

How do you go from "scratches" to "injured fighting a fire"? Ah yes, the sKerry skool of Drama.


20 posted on 08/15/2006 6:29:15 PM PDT by visualops (artlife.us)
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