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The family of two-year-old conjoined twins have been celebrating a successful operation to separate them.
Surgeons worked for over 30 hours to divide the heads of Mohamed and Ahmed Ibrahim from Egypt, teasing apart a complex network of blood vessels.

"When somebody came up and said 'We have two boys', the father Ibrahim jumped to my neck and he hugged me and he fainted," said the twins' Egyptian doctor Nasser Abdelal.

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Can you spot what's missing?
 

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Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
 
...the rest of the article?
erm...well, the jumping to the neck part is phrased weirdly.
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Actually, the rest of the article is about the other separation, the one in Italy; and about twin separations in general.

Nowhere in the article does it mention WHERE this first separation occurred. Or the organizations that paid for it.
 

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Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
 
Strange. The article I read about it mentioned both those things.
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
An article not by the BBC, I assume?

Something more like this?

Can we say bias?
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Actually, it was performed in Texas, and paid for by an organization which gets most of its funds from donations from Americans.

[Edit: Well, FINE, delete your post and make me look like I'm talking to myself! ]

[ October 14, 2003, 02:58 AM: Message edited by: rivka ]
 

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Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
 
Sorry Rivka! I guessed Tel Aviv and looked stupid so I deleted. I throw myself on the mercy of the thread author.
 

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Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
 
Linked from the same page:
"...twins...are undergoing the risky separation procedure in the US"
"Children's Medical Center Conjoined Twins Separation"

[ October 14, 2003, 04:14 AM: Message edited by: aspectre ]
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Mormo, LOL. *extends scepter*

True enough, aspectre. But note that when it comes to the Italian separation, they put those details IN THE ACTUAL ARTICLE.

The BBC's coverage is often biased; but they are rarely this blatant.
 

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Posted by Tristan (Member # 1670) on :
 
Funny, someone on BBC must have noticed what was missing too. Because now they have almost the same article with the fact that the operation was performed by US surgeons prominently mentioned.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3188734.stm
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Thanks for the link, Tristan! I wonder how many emails they got about the earlier version.
 

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Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
 
Huh-- on CNN yesterday, they were reporting that the operation was being paid for by the Kuwaiti government.
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Well, the World Craniofacial Foundation paid to bring the twins to Dallas. And:

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Doctors and nurses contributed their time and local charities raised a 125,000 dollar payment to Children's Medical Center for use of its facilities.

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"The mother on the other hand was crying like everybody else. She was there thanking everybody around and thanking her faith that brought her to this great place — Dallas, Texas."

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