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Children in terror

STAR DESK
(Compiled from a pool of reports ) Horrific images of Iraqi civilians reportedly killed by the coalition bombing of Basra were being shown on the Arabic news station al-Jazeera yesterday. Several Arab media outlets described the civilian deaths there as a "massacre".
Al-Jazeera's footage included an Iraqi child with the back of its head apparently blown off and wounded people covered in blood being treated on the floor of a hospital.
It apologised for showing disturbing pictures but said: "The world should know the truth and what is going on."
The Iraqi information minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, said that 62 civilians had been killed and more than 400 wounded mainly by cluster bombs.
Al-Jazeera, an influential channel seen throughout the Arab world, put the number of civilian dead at 50.
The Lebanese newspaper as-Safir claimed that US missiles had been used to "assassinate the children of Basra". Other Lebanese papers made similar claims of casualties from bombing by F-16 fighter planes.
The Pentagon would not comment on the reports, says The Guardian. At a news conference in Kuwait, Major-General Daniel Leaf of the US Air Force said the coalition forces were doing all they could to avoid such deaths, but added that he could not confirm or deny the specific Iraqi claims.
The Guardian reported earlier that five-year-old Doha Suheil, drip feed attached to her nose, a deep frown over her small face, was seriously injured. The cruise missile that exploded close to her home in the Radwaniyeh suburb of Baghdad blasted shrapnel into her tiny legs -they were bound up with gauze and, far more seriously, into her spine. Now she has lost all movement in her left leg.
Doha was the first of 101 patients brought to the Al-Mustansaniya College Hospital after America's blitz on the city began on Friday night. Seven other members of her family were wounded in the same cruise missile bombardment; the youngest, a one-year-old baby, was being breastfed by her mother at the time.
ROGUE MISSILE
WRECKS HOMES
The yellow brick house that Fath Farat spent his entire life in seemed as substantial and safe as his neighbours' -- until, that is, a US missile landed on his doorstep and sheared it in half.
Farat stood at the lip of a crater five metres deep, gouged from the
earth by what America would describe as a precise targeting operation -- a laser-guided missile.
Until 7.30pm Saturday night, his home had stood there. Hours later, it was as if it had never existed, aside from bits of furniture and crockery studding the slopes ofthe crater.
Farat's home gaped open like a doll's house; the upper storey of another house appeared on the verge of collapse.
"Everything is gone: my furniture, my money, my food," he said, too tired to protest as scavengers worked their way through his home. "Those look like my wife's clothes," he said, as a bundle was carried off. "That red car belongs to my little girl."
On day four of America's war on Iraq, Farat can claim a dubious distinction. The missile which exploded on the middle class Qadissiya neighbourhood of Baghdad just before dinner time marks the first occasion America has missed its intended target.
Farat's home and the four others destroyed on Saturday night are in a residential neighbourhood far from Saddam Hussein's palaces or military installations.
"Smoke and rocks were flying everywhere, and the dust turned everything dark," said Ahmed Abdel Daem, whose home was also destroyed. "I couldn't see a thing. I shouted for my mother and my sister, and then I fainted."
Iraqi government and hospital officials say three people have been killed during the first three nights of the war. Farat and his family would have been among them had he not bundled his children into his car and sped off a few minutes before the attack.
Until the Qadissiya neighbourhood took a direct hit Saturday night, most of the wounded suffered relatively moderate injuries, from shrapnel and Iraqi anti-aircraft fire gone awry.
However, they included women and children, screaming with pain in the casualty wards of Yarmouk hospital as doctors extracted pieces of metal from their flesh.
Their only sin was to have stepped outside during the bombardments, or to sit beside a window.
Daem regained consciousness in hospital, with a bloodied and shattered right leg. But he counts his escape a miracle: had he not stepped out to his rabbit hutch, he would have been inside his house, and probably dead.
He had little patience yesterday for American claims that they were not fighting Iraqi civilians. "America is always doing something wrong, and then saying it's a mistake," Daem said. "But I think they just want to kill us, to kill everyone in Iraq."