From: Barry Stoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: WWIII update - the women who are bombed [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- AP. 15 October 2001. Afghanistan's Female Bombing Victims. JALALABAD -- The doctor knocked sharply on the locked door of the women's hospital ward. A nurse, her face hidden behind a pale blue veil, peeked out. Inside, on an ancient looking steel-framed bed, a young woman hugged her black and gold shawl and cried softly. She bit nervously on a corner of the tattered cloth, flinching when the doctor removed it from her head. Underneath, a bloodstained bandage covered a large swelling. Tur Bakai, 20, was among some two dozen people in Jalalabad Public Health Hospital with injuries that Taliban officials say were suffered Thursday when U.S. jets bombed the village of Karam, west of Jalalabad. "My children are dead," she said, her voice barely audible. "I was asleep. I heard the prayers and suddenly it started. I didn't know what it was. I was so scared." As her words tumbled out, Dr. Laik Obeidi translated. The Taliban soldiers who escorted journalists to the hospital were not present. They were not allowed into the women's ward. On the bed next to Bakai was Jan Waro. Barely 17 years old, Waro was married just two months ago. A deep blue chiffon scarf hid her head. Her hands were covered in the traditional red henna, the mark of a new bride. Waro had suffered burns over much of her back and arms. The nurse pulled back the bedcovers and raised her shirt slightly to reveal the bandages on her back. They were yellowish and smelled rancid. She didn't want to talk. She fiddled with the red and pink plastic bangles that covered her wrist. The doctor pressed. She remembered hearing the early morning prayers. "At that time the plane came. First my eyes saw the plane and then I heard the bombs. I ran away," she said. Waro's mother-in-law was killed as was her brother-in-law, his wife and children, all of whom shared her home. "I screamed. I ran away. I don't remember anything after that," she said as Obeidi interpreted. Asked about the campaign and bin Laden, both women said: "I don't know anything about politics. We don't know anything about that." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews with continuing coverage of WWIII _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
