Iraqi mother hides sons from Saddam for 23 years

Reuters -> MSNBC ^ | June 1, 2003 | Wafa Amr

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Iraqi mother hides sons from Saddam for 23 years

By Wafa Amr

BAGHDAD, June 1 — Two Iraqi brothers made their home a prison for 23 years to escape execution by Saddam Hussein's security forces, seeing daylight only after his fall.

 

She endured repeated interrogation and constant surveillance by security men looking for the two boys. Her husband, pregnant daughter and another son had already been executed as suspected members of the Shi'ite Muslim Daawa Party.
       ''For 23 years I lived in fear and anxiety. My tears never dried until Saddam was toppled,'' Zahra, 67, told Reuters at her humble home in a crowded quarter of Baghdad.
       Zahra hid her sons in a room inside the house, keeping the secret even from her closest relatives. She managed to convince the security forces they were in Iraqi jails.
       In 1989, a bureaucratic slip-up helped Zahra's cause: the security forces told her all her detained relatives, including Saad and Ibrahim, had been executed.

[lilylangtree]

God bless Zahra and her sons!

[fly_so_free]

"For 23 years I lived in fear and anxiety. My tears never dried until Saddam was toppled"

We don't care about Zahra and her sons. Where are the weapons of mass destruction? No blood for oil-The demacratic party

[HaveGunWillTravel]

Hitler didn't have any weapons of mass destruction either. He only had lots of weapons of a fair amount of destruction.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

We work to find the stories the press doesn't cover (THE FACTS) over at the war thread daily. No American should have to work to find the pro-American news.

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[fly_so_free]

"Hitler didn't have any weapons of mass destruction either. He only had lots of weapons of a fair amount of destruction "

Bump

[ChemistCat]

Arrgh! I thought my kids were in bed asleep, and my 5 year old just came out, and I had to explain to her that this was a FAKED picture, and not someone really being mean to a baby--pinning pins on it without clothes, putting it in bones. WHEW. Poor kid.

That's a great picture, if you're old enough to understand it!

[fly_so_free]

"No American should have to work to find pro American news"

Great point. How come we aren't seeing more of these stories? Even Fox is slow on this (they are obsessed with the Lacey Peterson murder case).

If you watch any of the other networks, you'd swear there isn't a single Iraqi person greatful to be free, in the whole entire country. That just can't be true. I will check in on the War thread. I'm going to e-mail Fox too. They have alot of reporters over there. Surely they can find some positive stories (although I have seen a couple, but they need more).

[Teetop]

Just remember the group, "Not In Our Name". So much for the liberals being "compassionate". They would rather stand by a socialist, then to stand by people being oppressed (and murdered).

[Brad’s Gramma]

Bookmarked.

This is more than my imagination can handle. As a mother, we KNOW we'd give our lives for our children. To have to HIDE them for 23 years, living in fear.....incredible.

WMD's, indeed.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I'm sorry, ChemistCat. Please extend my apologies to the wee one.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

It's heartbreaking, isn't it.

Christopher Hitchens is on w/ Joe Scarborough right now on MSNBC.

[Aquinasfan]

Can someone tell me why the trucks outfitted for creating chemical and/or biological weapons don't count? Sheesh. It's maddening.