.....Libya disabled children school hit in NATO strike
By Lin Noueihed | Reuters – Sat, 30 Apr, 2011 4:10 PM EDT
......TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Shattered glass litters the carpet at the Libyan Down's Syndrome Society, and dust covers pictures of grinning children that adorn the hallway, thrown into darkness by a NATO strike early on Saturday.
It was unclear what the target of the strike was, though Libyan officials said it was Muammar Gaddafi himself, who was giving a live television address at the time.
"They maybe wanted to hit the television. This is a non-military, non-governmental building," said Mohammed al-Mehdi, head of the civil societies council, which licenses and oversees civil groups in Libya.
The missile completely destroyed an adjoining office in the compound that houses the government's commission for children.
The force of the blast blew in windows and doors in the parent-funded school for children with Down's Syndrome and officials said it damaged an orphanage on the floor above.
"I felt sad really. I kept thinking, what are we going to do with these children?" said Ismail Seddigh, who set up the school 17 years ago after his own daughter was born with Down's.
"This is not the place we left on Thursday afternoon."
There were no children at the school when the missiles hit early on Saturday morning, since Friday begins the weekend in Libya. Children had been due to come in on Saturday morning.
A mound of rubble was all that remained of one wing of the main building that adjoined the school, though an antenna of some kind protruded from the ruins.
Both Mehdi and Seddigh said they had assumed that the antenna on the building was there to strengthen mobile phone signals and were not aware of any other use.
In the rubble of the main building, a shredding machine packed with sliced up documents lay on its side. A fax and phone were nearby and shelves of files could be seen.
The Libyan government has repeatedly said that NATO airstrikes have hurt and killed civilians but has not responded to requests by journalists to visit the hospitals, making it tough to verify casualty figures.
NATO has hit inside or near Gaddafi's compound before, or struck military or logistical sites. Saturday's government-organized visit was the first to bring journalists -- whom government minders watch closely -- to a civilian site.
Inside the school, the power had been knocked out by the strikes, the floor was wet because of a leaking pipe and desks were covered in glass and debris.
Seddigh's school prepared children with Down's Syndrome up to the age of 6 to go to normal schools, giving them speech therapy, handicrafts and sports sessions and teaching them to read and write. It handles 50 to 60 children a day.
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 3 users disliked this commentTimbo Slice 18 hours ago Report Abuse and the left turns their head in the other direction again.
This is an obvious war we should not be a part of but since their Savior in Chief supports it the leftists follow like the mindless drones they are.Replies (5) .77 users liked this comment
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 2 users disliked this commentRickDC 18 hours ago Report Abuse This is a lose lose situation for the west.Reply.48 users liked this comment
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 1 users disliked this commentValathar 16 hours ago Report Abuse Looks like he's bringing Hopey Change to their country too. Here he just makes gas prices, food prices, energy prices, cost of government, govt intrusion, and regulation explode.Replies (3) .32 users liked this comment
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 0 users disliked this commentGardentoolnumber5 16 hours ago Report Abuse "Justice is as strictly due between neighbour nations as between neighbour citizens. A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang." Benjamin Franklin
NATO is nothing more than a great gang making unjust wars. They have ignaored their mandate of defending those nations, who have paid dearly for defense, that they no longer receive because of aggression on NATO's part. They have made the West more vulnerable.Replies (1) .52 users liked this comment
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 2 users disliked this commentGino Smith 16 hours ago Report Abuse i am so ashamed of all of those people who were anti-war and joined me along with thousands to protest wars BUT NOW that Obama is PRESIDENT....NOT ONE WORD. THIS SHOWS ME THEY WERE HYPOCRITES AND I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR OBAMA AGAIN..HE IS A WAR MONGER AND KILLERReplies (4) .30 users liked this comment
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 0 users disliked this commentKramer 15 hours ago Report Abuse Do any of you seriously believe that the people whose children attend this school will forgive Americans? Everything we do ends up leading to blowback, and no matter how sincere our intentions, we end up making things worse. There's only one candidate in either party who will actually end the wars and bring the troops home. Interestingly enough, he's the same candidate that the mainstream media, owned by the very corporations that benefit from the military-industrial complex (such as General Electric owning MSNBC), continues to call "crazy" and "unelectable".
Are you a moral liberal or a political liberal? Moral liberals will admit that Candidate Obama and President Obama are two very different people and that there is very little difference between President Bush and President Obama when it comes to our foreign policies and the steady erosion of civil liberties. Political liberals will say "Afghanistan is the good war, and we need to be in Libya", even though they are the same people who said Bush was Hitler and were marching in the streets during the Iraq war.
Are you a moral conservative who truly believes in small government, or are you a political conservative, who believes we need to bomb and kill brown people over there so that they don't come over here and that they "hate us because we are free"?
Let's face it. We're both financially and morally bankrupt as a nation. Every major politician in both parties, including our President, are doing nothing more than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. It's time for us as a nation to wake up and give the keys to Ron Paul.
Ron Paul 2012: Restore AmericaReplies (4) .28 users liked this comment
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 0 users disliked this commentkevin67 14 hours ago Report Abuse It takes 91 years to be Beatified. It takes only 11 months to get a nobel peace prize.Replies (2) .46 users liked this comment
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 2 users disliked this commentMaoSayTongue 18 hours ago Report Abuse Obama will get his bloody Iron Cross for this!Replies (1) .35 users liked this comment
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 1 users disliked this commentK 15 hours ago Report Abuse Another completely unconstitutional warReplies (1) .35 users liked this comment
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 1 users disliked this commentcarter 16 hours ago Report Abuse Obama should thank Trump for knocking his illegal war out of the headlines.
Next up, his transcripts.
Anything to keep focus off dead civilians.Reply.52 users liked this comment
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 3 users disliked this commentRicePaddyRob 17 hours ago Report Abuse Iron Cross my ares - give him another well deserved Noble Peace Prize! Look how the whole world just love the USA, now that we have our 1st Black President. How is that hope and change work out for you all. One would think the Code Pink would be hitting the streets in force if this was Bush and the Drive By Media and the Progressive wing of the Democratic Party would be ripping the President a new rectal cavity, if the President was named Bush. Silence is deafening.Replies (4) .43 users liked this comment
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 2 users disliked this commentJustAGuy 17 hours ago Report Abuse ...and the mainstream media will predictably ignore Obama had anything to do with any of this, just like they are ignoring Obama has anything to do with the high gas prices.Replies (3) .43 users liked this comment
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 2 users disliked this commentB17Engr 18 hours ago Report Abuse It seems that NATO is run like a bunch of wild dogs. (not meant to insult the dogs)
NATO should keep out of any country that is having a civil war and goes for Obama too!
NATO and America will just kill more innocent civilians.Reply.51 users liked this comment
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 3 users disliked this commentMikey S 17 hours ago Report Abuse Where are all the anti-war protesters that were going after Bush? It almost looks like they weren't anti-war. They were just anti-Bush. The only principle that liberals are consistent on is hating Republicans.Replies (5) .39 users liked this comment
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 2 users disliked this commentRaffi 18 hours ago Report Abuse This is very sad. Thank God there were no children inside when it happened.Reply.20 users liked this comment
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 0 users disliked this commentJeff 12 hours ago Report Abuse So the same guy who angrily accused President Bush of air raiding villages and killing innocent civilians is now responsible for the same.
Pot, meet kettle.Reply.45 users liked this comment
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 3 users disliked this commentHurricanepaul 15 hours ago Report Abuse OMG...Obama's policies are killing disabled kids in Lybia while he gets ready for his Washington fundraising dinner?
Really?
WHERE are all of the WAR PROTESTERS like CINDY SHEEHAN who were on MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS & NBC BASHING THE PRESIDENT 24/7 when BUSH was president?
Gee...do you think they just MIGHT not have been "against" the WAR...but against President Bush?Replies (2) .66 users liked this comment
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 6 users disliked this commentJohn Hayes 19 hours ago Report Abuse when are the leaders of nato involved in this going to be arrested and prosicutedReplies (4) .28 users liked this comment
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 1 users disliked this commentEvin 16 hours ago Report Abuse Where are the cries from the Left about an "Illegal War"...they are so used to being hypocritical it's become normal...Replies (1) .16 users liked this comment
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 0 users disliked this commentOha Mess 13 hours ago Report Abuse Obama and Moochelle is partying right now with the press in Washington DC. Partying is very important to Obama, who cares if children are killed in Libya, who cares if there are Americans going to bed right now with an empty stomach.
Obama just don't give a @#$%! Plain and simple!Replies (1) ..
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