Families like mine risked our lives for US troops abroad. Now America is abandoning us
Shahad Alibadi
Nov 12, 2020 4:00 AM EST
Editor's Note: This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
It began in 2013, with a bullet in an envelope and a scrawled threat: “Leave now.â€
My mother returned from the bazaar one day to find our home’s HVAC unit destroyed and the terrifying message left among the severed wiring. It was a stark reminder that anti-American insurgents now controlled our hometown of Babylon, about 60 miles south of Baghdad.
We knew why we were being threatened: after Iraq’s liberation ten years earlier, when I was just a child, my family had begun aiding the U.S. military.
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