Monday 17 August 2009

Little Girl (Iraq 2005)

In May 2005, Michael Yon took a picture of U.S. Army Major Mark Bieger cradling an Iraqi girl, named Farah, wounded by shrapnel from a car bomb. Major Bieger tried to bring the girl to an American hospital to receive treatment, but she died on the helicopter ride. Yon wrote shortly after taking the picture that it "provoked a flood of messages and heartfelt responses from caring people around the world".

Michael Yon - Online Magazine
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From the fevered imagination of exilestreet at 00:01

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous30 August 2009 at 05:55

    Actually this was an Iraqi girl mortally injured by an IED in Mosul.

    The picture won Michael Yon a Pulitzer Prize I believe.

    RCL

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  2. exilestreet30 August 2009 at 07:28

    @Anon/
    You are right.
    Thank you for pointing that out to me.
    Regards/

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