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Wounded
26-29 March 2003

A wounded Iraqi girl is treated by U.S. marines in central Iraq March 29, 2003. Confused front line crossfire ripped apart an Iraqi family on Saturday after local soldiers appeared to force civilians towards U.S. marines positions. The four-year old girl, blood streaming from an eye wound, was screaming for her dead mother, while her father, shot in a leg, begged to be freed from the plastic wrist cuffs slapped on him by U.S. marines, so he could hug his other terrified daughter. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

No man is an island entire of itself ... any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. - John Donne

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Iraqis carry the body of a man who Iraqi authorities say was killed in recent air strikes in Baghdad March 26, 2003. At least 15 burnt corpses lay in a popular residential area of Baghdad, apparently killed in a U.S.-led bombing or missile raid on the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, Reuters Television correspondents said. An Iraqi Information Ministry official said a strike on a busy market area had caused 'many, many casualties'. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

These photos are of Iraqi women and children that have been injured during the invasion on Iraq. They are in the Al Kindi hopsital in Baghdad, and were visited on 24 March 2003 by members of the Iraq Peace Team:

http://iraqpeaceteam.org./pages/al_kindi_hospital.html

Teenager taken to surgery. Received shrapnel wounds to his head, arms and legs.

Man soon to be married. His bride is still missing at bomb site.

Rafah Widad Muhammed, age 25,was injured by cruise missile inside her home.

Nada Adnan, 13 years old and a student at high school for girls, states "I wish that God would take Bush. Why did he do this to us? to me?". She has an open gash on her right cranium with underlying fracture and a large, deep shrapnel gauged cut into her upper left thigh. She has no narcotic relief and cries out as aides press guaze into her leg wound.

This six year old girl has a spinal cord injury from an explosion by a cruise missile.

24 March 2003: (1) and (2) Iraqi girl and boy in Al-Numan hospital after being seriously wounded by US missile in a residential neighborhood of Baghdad; (3) two Iraqis hug in death south of the city of Najaf in central Iraq.

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