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Mutilated Afghan girl arrives in USA for surgery Bibi Aisha had her nose and ears cut off by the Taliban. The disfigured Afghan teenager whose nose and ears were sliced off by the Taliban after she ran away from her abusive in-laws has arrived in California where reconstructive surgery will be performed. The Grossman Burn Foundation in Los Angeles said Friday that 18-year-old Bibi Aisha, who was featured on a controversial Time magazine cover, arrived Thursday and is staying with a host family. Aisha says her nose was cut off as punishment for running away from her violent husband, AP reported. Dr Peter Grossman, a plastic surgeon and co-director of the Grossman Burn Centers, says he will meet with Aisha to discuss her treatment, likely a prosthetic nose or a reconstruction of her nose with tissue from the rest of her body. Activists and human rights workers say they are glad that Aisha is getting treatment but thousands of other women are victims of domestic violence in Afghanistan. Agencies reported that the Afghan teenager has become the topic of a debate over the aim of the US mission in Afghanistan. Time magazine said Aisha's injury showed that the Taliban should never be allowed to return to power. "Aisha posed for the picture and says she wants the world to see the effect a Taliban resurgence would have on the women of Afghanistan, many of whom have flourished in the past few years," Time's Managing Editor Richard Stengel wrote in an editorial accompanying the Aug 9 edition of the magazine. Aisha, who was mutilated in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan last year, was left for dead and was later helped by the American Provincial Reconstruction Team for Uruzgan and the Women for Afghan Women (WAW) non-governmental organisation. The California-based Grossman Burn Foundation is a non-profit humanitarian hospital which operates on victims of serious injuries from all over the world. "Bibi Aisha is only one example of thousands of girls and women in Afghanistan and throughout the world who are treated this way," the foundation said. Source: AP and Agencies Published Aug 7 2010 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
