4.16.2005
UPDATE: Qudrat Has Gone To Heaven
...children are not questioned about their deeds because they did not reach that stage when they could make informed choices. It is an aspect of God's mercy that He admits them to heaven... The children plead for their parents, saying that they were deprived of the care and love of their parents early in life and they do not want to be deprived of that again. God, in His mercy, tells them to go to heaven with their parentsThe Indianopolis Star reports that little Qudrat Wardak, the little Afghan boy with the great big, but frail, heart, has passed awayAdil Salahi
Camp Phoenix staff learned of Qudrat's death shortly after 5:45 a.m. Friday, when Wardak's uncle, Muhammad Khan, and a neighbor appeared at the gate of Camp Phoenix, said Maj. Eric Bloom, public affairs officer.
Capt. Michael Roscoe, a physician's assistant from Pendleton, and Capt. Tim Landis, an optometrist, examined Qudrat at the refugee camp east of Camp Phoenix. Roscoe, who had been instrumental in diagnosing Qudrat last fall with a serious heart condition that couldn't be treated in Afghanistan, said there was no obvious explanation for the baby's death.
"Qudrat was a great ambassador for everything that's going on here, on the positive side,'' Roscoe said. "It's just devastating to every one of us. It really is like losing our own child.'
# posted by Frank_D @ 23:15 
