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Iraqi mother hides sons from Saddam for 23 years
Reuters -> MSNBC ^
| June 1, 2003
| Wafa Amr
Posted on 06/02/2003 6:50:03 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
Iraqi mother hides sons from Saddam for 23 years |
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By Wafa Amr
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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.
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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.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; iraqicivilians; iraqifreedom
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
God bless Zahra and her sons!
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
"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
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posted on
06/02/2003 7:14:44 PM PDT
by
fly_so_free
(Never underestimate the treachery of the demacratic party. Save the USA-Vote a demacrat out of offic)
To: 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.
To: fly_so_free
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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posted on
06/02/2003 7:33:57 PM PDT
by
Ragtime Cowgirl
("Our men and women in uniform have won for us every hour that we live in freedom." - Pres. Bush)
To: HaveGunWillTravel
"Hitler didn't have any weapons of mass destruction either. He only had lots of weapons of a fair amount of destruction "
Bump
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posted on
06/02/2003 7:47:21 PM PDT
by
fly_so_free
(Never underestimate the treachery of the demacratic party. Save the USA-Vote a demacrat out of offic)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
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!
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posted on
06/02/2003 8:03:19 PM PDT
by
ChemistCat
(3 Nephi 17:7-8)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
"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).
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posted on
06/02/2003 8:06:46 PM PDT
by
fly_so_free
(Never underestimate the treachery of the demacratic party. Save the USA-Vote a demacrat out of offic)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
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).
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posted on
06/02/2003 8:31:45 PM PDT
by
Teetop
(Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
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.
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posted on
06/02/2003 9:27:04 PM PDT
by
Brad’s Gramma
(Pray for America and Israel)
To: ChemistCat
I'm sorry, ChemistCat. Please extend my apologies to the wee one.
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posted on
06/03/2003 7:13:10 PM PDT
by
Ragtime Cowgirl
("Our men and women in uniform have won for us every hour that we live in freedom." - Pres. Bush)
To: Brad's Gramma
It's heartbreaking, isn't it.
Christopher Hitchens is on w/ Joe Scarborough right now on MSNBC.
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posted on
06/03/2003 7:14:25 PM PDT
by
Ragtime Cowgirl
("Our men and women in uniform have won for us every hour that we live in freedom." - Pres. Bush)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Can someone tell me why the trucks outfitted for creating chemical and/or biological weapons don't count? Sheesh. It's maddening.
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