April 29, 2005
US Billed for Iraqi Girls' Treatment
BELGIAN doctors sent an Iraqi girl home today after treating her for leg wounds caused by a bomb during the US invasion - and sent the 51,570 euro ($86,000) bill to the US embassy
Doctors brought (Hiba) Kassim to Belgium last year to try to save her left ankle, seriously damaged by a cluster bomb that also killed her brother in Baghdad in 2003.
After five operations and weeks of physiotherapy, Kassim is able to walk again, but with a slight limp.
Mr De Belder said he sent the bill to the US embassy because international law dictated that an occupying force was responsible for the well-being of the country's people.
~Yes! (Oh Munificient Freedom-Loving Liberators, put-up, fix-it-up, make-it-all-better or get-the-fuck-out.)
Hiba Kassim [image via google]