Who has been wounded?
Soldiers, civilians and others. . .
The Pentagon reports the current number of wounded as six to every one casualty (which at this time would be around 7,000). The current Pentagon report of wounded rests at 10,000, but "calling upon various resources, in and out of the military, American Free Press estimates that as many as 30,000 American servicemen have been sent home from Iraq and Afghanistan as a result of battle wounds, accidents and illnesses." (story)
Read "The Damage Done," a photo essay by Nina Berman in Mother Jones Magazine.
Read about Nina Berman's book, Purple Hearts, Back from Iraq.
Many of the wounded are not counted as wounded. The Pentagon does not count "non-hostile wounded," which as of Spring 2004, could have topped 22,000 (as told by Lt. Col. Scott D. Ross of the US Military’s Transportation Command). Those soldiers wounded for any reason, whether recorded or not, have become irreparably changed, physically and psychologically."Can you help me get my arms back? Do you think the doctors can get me another pair of hands? If I don't get a pair of hands I will commit suicide."
Ali Ismaeel Abbas, 12, Double Amputee and orphan since a missile fell on his house on April 8, 2003.
| Ali Ismaeel Abbas, 12 | Both lower arms amputated; severe burns covering his chest, abdomen, and groin | Was orphaned and received severe burns when a missile hit his home on April 8 and killed his pregnant mother, father, brother and 12 other relatives. |
| Ali Mustapha, 4 | blindness, deep skull wound | On Monday, April 14, Ali picked it up a small round object on his street and played with it. The object, a live explosive, blew up in his face. Unable to get proper treatment; hospital running on one generator; not enough to run CT scan to diagnose skull damage. |
| Rawa Sabri | one leg broken, the other badly gouged out by shrapnel | American air attack |
| Saadeq Jassan al Obeidi, 22 | leg amputated at the thigh | bomb landed near his home |
| Safah Ahmed, 12 | amputated leg | bomb landed near her home in Baghdad |
| Marawa Ahmed, 14 | wounded | in same bomb attack in Baghdad |
| Hanaan Morad, 17 | body covered with burns, face horribly damaged (close to the bone) | A blast wave from a nearby attack tipped over the stove the family were using to cook on. The stove exploded, and the burning propane enveloped Hanaan. |
| Ali Hamed, 10 | Shrapnel cut through his abdomen, slicing through his large and small bowel, which the surgeons had to cut out. | Injured while playing with unexploded ordnance in Baghdad. |
| Asil Yamin, 27 | back wounds | cluster bomb explosion in Hillah, April 1 |
| Zaman Abbais, 5 | leg wounds | cluster bomb explosion in Hillah, April 1 |
| Samira Abdul-Hamza, 48 | eye, chest and leg wounds | cluster bomb explosion in Hillah, April 1 |
| Maryam Nasr, 10 | eye wounds, wounds to the stomach and thighs | bomblet exploded near her home and embedded itself in her eye, Hillah, April 1 |
| Hoda Nasr, 5 | deep head puncture | injured with her sister, Hillah, April 1 |
| Saef Sulaiman, 17 | deep wound | Sulaiman's brother brough an explosive into their house on Friday, April 11. Saef was playing cards when it detonated, blasting shrapnel so deep into his buttocks that it hit bone. |
| Hassan Illihadi, 5 months; and thousands of other children |
diarrhea | Infectious diseases are being caused, especially in the capital Baghdad, by a vicious combination of water contamination, electricity blackouts which are rotting food, tons of garbage which have piled up in the streets and open sewage. |
| thousands of children | gastroenteritis | Another common infectious disease |
| 200 wounded | Bombing raid in Hillah, March 30-31. | |
| Amran Adnan, 19 | blinded: eyes shot out | shot through head while sitting on his front porch in Baghdad |
| Abdul Wali, 15 | intestines shredded | cluster bomb |
| 14 members of the Subhi family, devout Shiites | US Bombing raid in Nasiriya; March 23. story | |
| Bidour Subhi, 18; one of seven children of Ali Kadhim Subhi, who were all either killed or injured | badly burned; may have to have leg amputated | US Bombing raid in Nasiriya; March 23. story |
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