5-year-old Libyan amputee arrives in the U.S. for treatment

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Source: CNN

New York (CNN) -- Five year-old Malaak Al-Shami arrived in the U.S. on Thursday evening to get fitted with a prosthetic leg after suffering injuries in Libya's raging civil war.

She landed at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport from Germany, the last part in a journey arranged by the Global Medical Relief Fund, a U.S. nonprofit.

The group aids children who have lost the use of, or are missing, limbs or eyes. It says it is funded almost exclusively by donations.

Malaak and her parents are being housed temporarily at The Ronald McDonald House of Long Island, which shelters families with sick children undergoing treatment at area hospitals.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/29/new.york.libyan.amputee/index.html

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1. No good deed goes unpunished...

I'm sorry to be so cynical, and my "good" self really wants to applaud the donations that make this possible. It just seems so sad to fix her up then send her back to the unrest fomented by this country's irrational responses to their political problems. What noble donators; what ignoble war-mongers.