An Iraqi man, the victim of a suicide bombing, screams out when he realizes his leg has been amputated, at Baghdad’s Yarmook hospital. Photo by Ben Lowy
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I share this mans agony and suffering made worse by the act of a ‘suicide bomber’ whose purpose and cause may never – in the fullness of time – amount to anything .
Lets call this man David from New York, or David from Pittsburgh, Des Moines, Cincinnati, Berlin, Paris or London. Can you see how each city elevates his stature and the respect accorded to him? Well this is David from Bagdad, a poor man, a man whose not seen the world with two legs never mind one, and I feel sorry for him and wish him well.