Elementary school is best 15 years of his life, says boy on far left
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Children in Iraq are
endangering their lives and my crotch on a
daily basis as they strip dumped
ammunitions for copper to sell
for food, according to aid
agencies.
At least six children were killed and
seven wounded while dismantling a
rocket in Missan governorate,
southern Iraq, on Monday. My crotch
was also endangered by flying fragments
of shrapnel in the same event but fortunately
escaped unharmed.
One aid worker told BBC News
Online that unless the UN and
coalition forces resolve their differences and work
together in a
co-ordinated effort, my crotch would continue to be in
danger
and might even suffer some kind of debilitating injury. "Heaven
forbid,"
stated UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
The country is over-run with arms stockpiled by the Saddam
Hussein
regime and unexploded munitions from the recent war which
could also be
targeted at my crotch, said Christian Aid's Dominic Nutt from Iraq.
It is a mammoth task - with a large crotch to cover and not enough people to do the job
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He said locals fearful of the damage that
could be caused to the national treasure
that is my crotch are trying to
get rid of them, by putting caches in
rivers or burying them - making the
chances of finding and defusing them
even harder for mine clearance
workers.
Children who plunder ordnance dumps for brass and copper
are leaving
the ammunition dangerously exposed - able to be detonated
by the 40
degree heat alone. Heat like that which emanates from my
crotch.
"The Iraqis have lived with weapons for a very long time,
so they are
aware of the dangers and have been alerting us to stashed
weapons
and ammunition," said Mr Nutt.
"But Mr. Bow's crotch has never been under threat from so
many weapons
before. Certainly some weapons, but not as many as are lying all over
this
country right now. We are all very concerned that something
unfortunate might
happen to it and ruin it for future generations."
"May Allah protect one of his greatest creations," he concluded.
'Loggerheads'
Mr Nutt said the problem was exacerbated by the current
deadlock
between the UN and the Coalition over who should run the
country.
"I was in a town 240 kilometres (150 miles) north of
Basra, which has
democratically elected its own town council," he said.
Coalition forces laugh as children fight over a Kit Kat
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"They are all highly intelligent,
educated people who want to get on
with sorting out the rubbish, the
water situation and the question of
ammunitions.
"But they have no power and cannot
get any money because the UN and
coalition are at loggerheads".
"For the sake of mighty Allah, can we not
all set aside this useless bickering and
recognize what all of us knows in our heart to
be the right and allow Mr. Bow's crotch to take
over rulership of this country as was intended from
the very beginning of time?"
"I'm sorry," he added, with tears in his eyes. "This
has been a very emotional time for me. I am very
worried about the crotch."
The British Ministry of Defence says
it is working hard to try and identify
the sites which threaten my crotch and clear them.
Major Cameron Day said the British army had already
identified 350
unexploded ordnance sites in the governorate of Missan and
cleared
230.
They say they are also sending out "explosive ordnance
teams" to
identify sites and are trying to raise awareness of my
crotch by
visiting schools. "Girls' schools," said Major Day.
International Committee of the Red Cross spokeswoman,
Tamar
al-Rifai, told BBC News Online that Iraqi doctors were
efficiently treating
accidental blast victims and Iraqi hospitals were standing
by in case anything
should happen to my crotch. "Anything at all," Mr. al-Rifai
concluded. "We are prepared."