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RogerRabbit
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 Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:34 pm Post subject: Belgian Doctors Bill U.S. for Treating Iraqi Girl |
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&ncid=564&e=12&u=/nm/20050428/ts_nm/iraq_belgium_dc
Typical slimebag european trick
| Quote: | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian doctors sent an Iraqi girl home on Thursday after treating her for leg wounds caused by a bomb during the U.S. invasion -- and sent the 51,570 euro ($66,650) bill to the U.S. embassy.
"We haven't heard from them yet," said Bert De Belder, coordinator of the humanitarian agency Medical Aid for Third World which brought the girl to Belgium.
"I'm curious to know their reaction," he told Reuters. "We're giving them 10 days to respond ... I don't think they will pay it."
The girl, 15-year-old Hiba Kassim, smiled to reporters as she waited for her flight to Jordan to meet her father.
"Thank you, Belgium," she said.
Doctors brought Kassim to Belgium last year to try to save her left ankle, seriously injured 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.
De Belder said he sent the bill to the U.S. embassy because international law dictated that an occupying force was responsible for the well-being of the country's people. U.S. embassy officials were not immediately available for comment. ($1=.7737 Euro) |
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I'd tell the good Belgian physicians to deduct it from our bill...
| Quote: | American WWII Military Cemeteries & Memorials in Belgium
There are 2 major American Cemeteries in Belgium, where American WWII military personnel are now resting in eternal peace...
The HENRI-CHAPELLE AMERICAN CEMETERY
....established by the American Battle Monuments Commission was dedicated on July 09, 1960 . Here are interred 7,989 American military dead, among which 94 headstones of “unknown” soldiers, whose identity is known but to God . The names and particulars of “missing” personnel of which there are 450 are engraved on the 48 faces of the columns around the memorial .
The ARDENNES AMERICAN CEMETERY
....established by the American Battle Monuments Commission was dedicated on July 11, 1960 in presence of H.R.H. Prince Albert of Belgium . Here are buried 5,328 American military dead, among which 792 headstones of “unknown” soldiers . the “missing” of which there are 462 have their names and full particulars engraved in 12 large gray granite slabs located east and west of the memorial.
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