New site to me, so I’m just passing it on:

I was at work yesterday when my mother called to see if everything was fine and if I am going to come back home early or not. While we were chatting, she told me something that made me freeze on the chair I was sitting on.

As she was at the school where she teaches, one of her colleagues was sobbing in the teacher’s room surrounded by other teachers who most of them were crying. “I said to myself, it seems someone has died,” she said within herself. As she peered closely, she discovered that the teacher’s 6 month-old- infant was killed!

Few days ago, a group carrying identifications from the health ministry knocked at the door of the teacher’s daughter’s house. “Do you have children?”, the men asked the daughter. “Yes, one,” she replied. Then the men asked her to bring him to be vaccinated against polio. The infant was “vaccinated” but two hours later, he died.

The victim’s sobbing grandmother narrated how her daughter lost conscious when she discovered that her son was not vaccinated and was poisoned instead. At the same time nearly, two more infants in their early months were also poisoned the same way the first infant was killed with.

The teacher’s daughter was like all Iraqis who trusted the health centers teams who come each season to vaccinate infants against polio. This time, no one expected that the new target is going to be infants.

Oh yeah- there’s sports news too.

The western restive part of Iraq continues to be out of control. 15 Iraqi young athletes were kidnapped while driving to neighboring Jordan, police and Olympic Committee officials said. The 15 taekwondo athletes, hopeful to join the Olympics game one day, were heading to Jordan after a long month of training in Baghdad for a previous championship. Dressed in Training shoes and Tracksuits, the athletes went in two groups joyfully.