Photographic evidence of our military cruelty against innocent Iraqis

April 4, 2003

[southernnorthcarolina]

030402-M-8664K-001 NASIRIYAH, Iraq (Apr. 2. 2003) -- Chief Hospital Corpsman David Jones of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) (15th MEU (SOC)) holds the two-hour- old newborn Rogenia Katham, daughter of Jamila Katham. The infant was born in the Battalion Landing Team 2/1's Battalion Aid Station after arriving at the 15th MEU's position. U.S. Marine Corps Photo by SSgt. Robert Knoll. (RELEASED)

[southernnorthcarolina]

I woudn't count on seeing this in the Washington Post.

[TADSLOS]

...or the LA Times.

[Calpernia]

The nerve of him! Offering the Iraqi combatant comfort! (/sarcasm)

[Logic n' Reason]

I recognize this trooper. He's a registered Republican from Al Gore's state.

Gotta be drivin' the old professor crazy!

[Paul Atreides]

Just wait, Peter Jennings will say that the baby was murdered later.

[Paradox]

This will inflame the Arab world, since they don't much care for African decended people... (yep, even Black Muslims are looked down upon by your average Arab.)

Ok, maybe I am generalizing, but a friend of mine with EXTENSIVE exposure to Arab culture has told me this before.

[Dog Gone]

Great picture.

[bmwcyle]

bttt

[Calpernia]

I heard this too.

[Dominic Harr]

Headline, Al-Jaz -- American Negro soldier steals baby from valiant Iraqi freedom fighters

[The_Victor]

They're babykillers I tell ya! </ sarcasm>

[xJones]

I read about this. The young mother had been in labor a long while and either she or her family approached an American ambulance for help. The team took care of things and Rogena is a healthy 6 pounder. Mother and infant were driven home afterwards with supplies.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Arabs don't care for anyone but Arabs.....Muslim or not.

[Mister Baredog]

ROTFLMAO!

[Righter-than-Rush]

TONIGHT AT 11:

American soldier (presumedly Islamic) robs cradle in demonstration of US cruelty to Iraqi civilians. Baby later (presumedly) dismembered in fireside sacrifice to Allah.

DON'T MISS IT!

[mabelkitty]

The cruelty of it all!!!

I'm going to show them!! I'm going to print this and send it to everyone I know.

[two23]

Caption:

Chief Hospital Corpsman David Jones, takes a moment to experience reverence for humanity and to share a calm and peaceful moment with innocence itself.

Real Men Love Babies!

Thanks for posting it, I saw it on FNC earlier and was not happy with the screen grab and all the FNC logo's all over it. I went to Yahoo photo's to find it and couldn't. A keeper!

[mabelkitty]

That makes no sense.

Why would so many black americans embrace a relgion that is aligned with a racist people?

[Bigg Red]

Great picture! Thanks. That baby is in good hands.

[mabelkitty]

I just got the irony of my response to a person named Paradox

LOL!

[Paradox]

Arabs don't care for anyone but Arabs.....Muslim or not.

Yep. But their disdain for blacks is especially harsh. They think "less" of them than Jews. They hate Jews more, but they thing of blacks as almost subhumans...

[Rummyfan]

Great picture! Bttt!

[Paradox]

I just got the irony of my response to a person named Paradox

LOL, ya think? :)

[mel]

That is good. lol

[aShepard]

"Headline, Al-Jaz -- American Negro soldier steals baby from valiant Iraqi freedom fighters"............

After slitting mothers throat with a 12 inch switchblade!

[aShepard]

"Headline, Al-Jaz -- American Negro soldier steals baby from valiant Iraqi freedom fighters"............

After slitting mothers throat with a 12 inch switchblade!

[Tennessee_Bob]

No safer baby in the world - surrounded by US Marines.

[Fzob]

This is true. Do a google search on Bath party ideology. A main tenet of it, is Arab nationalism and racial superiority.

Saddam is sort of a ugly mix of Stalin and Hitler.

[mel]

That is good. lol

[LiteKeeper]

bump

[geopyg]

A wonderful contrast from the mental image of the pregnent woman that was used during the latest checkpoint car bombing (she died).

[Sloth]

See? You can tell by the look in his eyes that he's about to snap her neck and harvest her organs to give them to the Jews.

[Fzob]

Oops

Bath = Baath

[FrdmLvr]

This will inflame the Arab world, since they don't much care for African decended people... (yep, even Black Muslims are looked down upon by your average Arab.)

They sure are looked down upon by the average Arab. That's what makes it so ironic, if black muslims only knew what Arab muslims really thought of them.

During the 70's, during the war in Lebanon, I lived in a house of Arab students at MSU. We had one black man who lived in our house, he was ROTC and a true gentleman. Whenever he walked into a room of Arabs they always started talking in arabic, calling him names, making jokes at his expence. They called him the "black cloud" in arabic. One of them told me what they were doing, as I don't speak arabic. I always hoped he never caught on. He was such a kind young man. I grew to despise those people.

[SLB]

Pulitzer Prize for photography? Looks like it to me.

[madison10]

That picture is sweet. Could you all stop the Arab nonsense for one second and just look at the picture? ;-)

[mc5cents]

Why would so many black americans embrace a relgion that is aligned with a racist people?

You mean like the democrat party? Good question.

[Snowy]

Why would so many black americans embrace a relgion that is aligned with a racist people?

Replace 'religion' with 'political party' are read it again.

[Snowy]

are=and

[VOA]

The team took care of things and Rogena is a healthy 6 pounder.

IIRC, the family wanted the baby to have an "American" name...I think
some of the relatives were even pushing for "Americana".
But Mom decided on Rogenia...thinking that sounded sufficiently "American".

[Dead Dog]

AlJeerz reports :American Cannible Prepares Veal for Passover Dinner.

[Dead Dog]

Cannible=Cannibal..with a nible.

[DeathfromBelow]

Some people claim the Black Man’s roots are in Islam and that being Muslim is as natural for him as breathing. They also say Christianity is the White man's religion, which took away the African's true Muslim identity through the forced imposition of the slave master's name and religion.

If Islam is the Black man’s true identity, why do African Americans who convert to Islam have to pray in Arabic to "Allah" (Arabic name for God), recite the Quran in Arabic and repeat many Arabic religious terms and phrases?

If they change their name, why is it always an Arabic name?" Why Arabic and not Swahili, Hausa, Sango, Zulu or any of the other ethnic African languages? African Americans who convert to Islam are encouraged to wear the long flowing Arabic style of dress natural to living in a desert climate rather than one of the African styles of dress developed for living in the tropics or the savanna. Many women are told they must wear the Arabic "hijab."

It seems that being a Muslim means being Arabic, not African! How can becoming an Arab be "as natural as breathing" for an African?

[Sloth]

Should draw a distinction between black Muslims -- i.e., followers of Islam who happen to be black -- versus the 'Nation of Islam' which is really wacky theologically, and is *hated* by real Muslims for stealing their name.

[FlatLandBeer]

Not to defend the COMPost but they did run a very simular photo on Sunday's front page of a Navy Doctor holding a orphaned girl in his arms.

[areafiftyone]

I can't look!! I can't look!! It's too horrible to look at!! AHHHHHHHHH! </sarcasm>

[aculeus]

I woudn't count on seeing this in the Washington Post.

WaPo editorials have been pro-war.

[goo goo g'joob]

poor thing, too bad we bombed all the baby milk factories...

[Hermann the Cherusker]

I guess this was taken a few hours before the newborn was dropped on the Baby Milk factory in the bombing raid?