‘Mentally F’ed Up’ in Baghdad

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‘Mentally F’ed Up’ in Baghdad

In this episode of the outstanding Web documentary series “Hometown Baghdad,” Adel interviews his young brother and cousin, both of whom had just witnessed a gruesome killing. He is convinced the two young Iraqis already show signs of the psychological trauma that comes from growing up in a war zone.

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For more. visit Hometown Baghdad’s website.

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By Bukko in Australia, April 15, 2007 at 7:31 pm Link to this comment

These children, or a million others just like them, are the ones who will grow up willing to strap a bomb under their clothes just so they can take some of the hated Crusaders with them. A lifetime of mind-bending horror will do that to them. The U.S. is building a MOUNTAIN of bad karma with what it’s done. May God, or Allah, or just the universe, help America when the time of balancing the scales comes.

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By Douglas Chalmers, April 15, 2007 at 10:00 am Link to this comment

Also http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/ Baghdad Burning!... “I’ll meet you ‘round the bend my friend, where hearts can heal and souls can mend…”

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By Louise, April 15, 2007 at 7:04 am Link to this comment
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Matthew 17:6
But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Matthew 17:14
Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

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