'Green Helmet' helps rescue the wounded

[PA Democrat]

TYRE, Lebanon - After hours of digging in the blistering heat, Salam Daher emerged from the wreckage with the body of a 9-month-old baby, a blue pacifier still pinned to its nightshirt.

He held the infant up and, click, an Associated Press photographer snapped another picture of Daher, in his trademark green helmet, displaying a civilian victim of Israeli bombs for the world to see.

Daher, a member of the civil defense for 20 years, has been photographed with bodies of the dead in two wars now — first in 1996 and most recently with the baby on July 30 __ both times after Israeli attacks in the village of Qana six miles southeast of the city.

For that reason, some Web sites have labeled him the "Green Helmet," and accused him of being a member of the Hezbollah guerrilla group, and of showing off bodies as propaganda.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060812/ap_on_re_mi_ea/mideast_fighting_green_helmet

[The Straight Story]

1. Is this him without the helmet?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1881239&mesg_id=1881239

[PA Democrat]

2. No

Try clicking on the link. There's a picture of this man there.

[The Straight Story]

3. I did

Was on work network at the time (vpn) and it was not showing up. Is now, and is not the same person. Thanks.

[azurnoir]

4. one site that calls him "Green Helmet" went

as far as to also accuse him and other of collecting children's bodies (who of course died only of natural causes) out of morgues all over Lebanon and putting dust on them to make it look like they'd died in a building collapse. The comments were chilling things like "I'm a dad myself and hate seeing dead kids but, they don't look like they've been dead long enough look real close you'll see" truly unbelievable.

[PA Democrat]

6. I don't know how you do a job like his

and keep your sanity. If I had to see those broken little bodies day after day, I would want the rest of the world to see as well.

[Mojorabbit]

5. Here is a link to his pic graphic photo warning

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.zaman.com/%3Fbl%3Daksiyon%26alt%3D%26trh%3D20060810%26hn%3D35504&h=180&w=225&sz=16&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=xajGbhLiyhHaJM:&tbnh=81&tbnw=102&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2B%2Bphotos%2Blebanon%2Bpacifier%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN