“‘Suicide bomber kills 3,’ the headline reports.

“It’s become an all-too-familiar story in urban settings in Israel, as terrorists wage a war of attrition against beleaguered civilians surrounded by a sea of hostility.

“But the rising death toll from such atrocities is only half the story, says a radiologist from Evanston Northwestern Healthcare in Illinois. The other, untold part is the horrors the survivors of such gruesome attacks must endure — sometimes for the rest of their lives.”

So begins this sobering story from WorldNetDaily, “Survivors face agony in suicide attacks.” Listen rarr;

X-rays taken from victims of suicide bombings reveal pieces of metallic fragments embedded in their skin, muscles, organs and bones, says Dr. Michael Messing, who visited the victims of suicide bombings while at the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. Suicide bombers pack their bombs with nails and other objects so even survivors of suicide bombings will suffer from the bomb’s effects.

‘They’re trying to maximize the number of people they kill and injure,’ said Messing of the terrorists.

These bombs, which Messing says are sometimes funded by Palestinian authorities including Yasser Arafat, are packed with spikes, nails, screws, nuts, bullets, mortar, ball bearings and even rat poison.

‘What were originally created for constructive purposes have been transformed by Arab terrorists into cruel, deadly, destructive projectiles,’ said Messing. ‘The nails fly like bullets, head first, penetrating skin, flesh and bone. The unprecedented wave of suicide bombings has presented a whole new set of medical challenges.’

[…] Reports of people being injured in suicide bombings are not rare. Since September 2000, 498 Israelis have been killed and 4,021 injured in acts of Palestinian violence. In suicide bombings alone, 208 Israelis have died. On Monday, there were several reports on the suicide bomber who killed an 18-month-old baby girl and her grandmother and left 27 people injured. The reports, however, rarely go into the medical details to explain just what is meant by ‘injured.’

[…] Messing said one of the victims he saw while in Jerusalem had around 300 individual metallic fragments within his body. The metal fragments, measuring from millimeters to centimeters, were imbedded in the young man literally from head to toe, he said.

‘Several of the fragments penetrated into his vital organs. He sustained a punctured colon, a collapsed lung, and a lacerated liver and kidney. I could actually feel the nails under his skin where they had burrowed and lodged,’ Messing recalls.

The victim underwent painstaking hours of exploration to try to remove the metal fragments that were accessible.

‘He suffered multiple organ injuries, but was saved with successful emergency room care and surgery,’ he said. ‘Other victims suffered amputated limbs, severe burns, fractures, lacerations, paralysis, deafness and blindness.’

Sometimes the fragments will cause more damage if they are taken out, Messing said, so some of the victims live the rest of their agonizing lives with shrapnel still inside of them.

‘It is common knowledge here that light injury can be losing a limb; medium is nearly dead or doubtful if he will live or radically altered functionality,’ Legomsky says. ‘Serious almost always means most of these victims wish they were dead physically.’

Perhaps the UN should put photos of the kind shown above into their fundraising literature. The caption could read, “Your Contributions At Work.” Of course, they’d probably only want to distribute those particular brochures in Islamist strongholds. And perhaps in France, Belgium, and Paterson, New Jersey…

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