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Friday, April 04, 2003The friend walked him to the ground-floor ward, taken over by the feared Saddam Fedayeen at the start of the war, and past a window where he saw Lynch, an Army private first class captured after her convoy became lost near Nasiriyah in the opening days of the war. Her head was bandaged, her right arm was in a sling over a white blanket and she had what Mohammed thought was a gunshot wound to a leg. But her real problem then was the black-uniformed Fedayeen commander who everyone addressed as "colonel." The man slapped her, Mohammed said. "One, two," he added, making single slapping and back slap motions with his right hand. She was very brave, he recalled. "My heart cut," Mohammed added, meaning stopped, putting his hand over his chest and grimacing. "There, I have decided to go to Americans to give them important information about the woman prisoner." He walked through a combat zone to find the marines, then walked back to the hospital to make detailed maps of the place for them. He put both himself and his family at great risk to do so. (His neighbor had been shot for waving at a US helicopter.) In the end, the Fedayeen raided his house and took everything he owned. Now he and his family are refugees, at least until the end of the war. See, lawyers are capable of acting out of something other than self-interest. And how. posted by Sydney on 4/04/2003 07:52:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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