12 Year Old Armless Boy Arrives in Kuwait
Bump and Update:
Ali is doing well after his first surgery.
Ali has arrived in Kuwait City, transported by the U.S. Military (MSNBC tv). Here's an update on his medical condition.
Plans are being made to fly twelve-year old Ali Ismaeel Abbas, who lost both arms and his family when his house in Iraq was bombed, to a Kuwait hospital for treatment. Doctors say that if he doesn't receive imminent treatment, he will die within the next few days.
There's only one problem: U.S. authorities in Kuwait say they don't know about the plans.A spokesman for Ibn Sina hospital in Kuwait said U.S. forces were expected to fly Ali from Baghdad to an airfield in Kuwait, where an ambulance would be waiting for him. "It is already arranged and our people are waiting," hospital director Abudullatif al-Sahli told Reuters. However, a spokeswoman for U.S military forces in Kuwait said they did not know of any such operation.Someone, help this boy, please. If the U.S. didn't know about the plans at the time of being interviewed for this article, it knows now. There is absolutely no excuse for the U.S. leaving this boy to die. Millions of people around the world have reacted with horror and sympathy to this boy's plight. Rumsfeld and Bush will have a black mark forever if they don't intervene in time.
Update: Yesterday the child accused the media of breaking its promise to him to get him help.
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