Obama disgusted by shooting of Malala

US President Barack Obama has termed shooting of Malala Yousafzai as tragic and barbaric. US President Barack Obama sees the shooting of a 14-year-old Pakistani girl who protested against the Taliban as tragic and barbaric and has offered air ambulance services, his spokesman said Wednesday. "I know that the president found the news reprehensible and disgusting and tragic," White House spokesman Jay Carney said, adding that US forces were ready to offer transport and treatment to Malala Yousafzai. "Directing violence at children is barbaric, it s cowardly and our hearts go out to her and the others who were wounded as well as their families." Pakistani doctors earlier removed a bullet from Malala, who was shot in the head by the Taliban on a school bus in a horrific attack, but she was still unconscious and too ill to travel. Carney said that the US military had already agreed to provide air ambulance services and medical treatment to Malala if it became necessary. There was shock and revulsion in Pakistan, where schoolchildren across the country on Wednesday offered prayers for the recovery of Malala, an outspoken child campaigner for the right to have an education.