Raafat al-Ghosain

Thanks again to Robert Fisk of The Independent newspaper for reminding us of the following.  I paraphrase slightly.  'Just after 2am on 15 April 1986 the Americans killed a young woman, Raafat al-Ghosain.  Three bombs dropped from an F-111 aircraft  "impacted in the vicinity of the French embassy" and caused – to use the usual callous euphemism – "collateral damage".  Her father described the scene. "She was lying on her back with the head turned on the right cheek, she was intact, her hair undisturbed, and a small streak of blood coming from the top side of her head, flowing down her left cheek." Ms Ghosain was aged 18, a graduate from an English school on holiday from London, a promising and beautiful artist whose individual death went unrecorded in the country that killed her a quarter of a century ago. Her mother was Lebanese and her father Palestinian, working for a Libyan oil company. She is forgotten today.'