Veterans Day

Iraqi Christians Wounded in al-Qaeda Church Massacre Evacuated

French Government Evacuates Iraqi Christians Wounded in al-Qaeda Church Massacre for Medical Treatment…

France deserves a lot of credit, they’re stepping up and helping Iraqi Christians under siege by Islamists while we do nothing for fear of upsetting Muslims…

(AFP)- Thirty-four Iraqi Christians and a Muslim guard wounded in a deadly Al-Qaeda attack on a Baghdad church just over a week ago flew into France late Monday for admission to hospitals for treatment.
Bearing bullet and grenade wounds from the October 31 attack, they arrived at Orly airport outside Paris on a plane dispatched to Iraq earlier Monday to collect them, an AFP reporter said.
The group, travelling with 19 companions, was welcomed at the airport by French Immigration Minister Eric Besson who said at the weekend it fitted France’s “tradition of asylum” to take them in.
They were immediately loaded into ambulances and sent to several hospitals around Paris.
They were wounded when Al-Qaeda gunmen stormed a Syriac Catholic cathedral during Sunday mass, prompting an assault by Iraqi and US security forces.
France plans a second evacuation flight in the coming weeks to bring out a further 93 Christians.