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Politics : The Liberation of Iraq -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tech Master who wrote (820)	4/11/2003 9:40:21 AM
From: H-Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 908

No, I just had been wondering about Azad and his family all this time. Azad was outspoken in the Pittsburgh area during the Gulf war. However, he did not at anytime publicly reveal his name, for fear of reprisals against his family. As such I was always afraid to even mention him, since my location is well known. I do not know the current location of his mother and sister, last known to be in Ireland. He was unable to gain entry to the US for them. Now that he is a US Citizen, I assume he is able to do so. Unless his brother escaped or retired, he was certainly in harms way. My wife (who was his supervisor) pointed out his family is well educated and that he has other brothers and sisters who are doctors in Baghdad and in the Kurdish areas. I have also worked with another Iraqi ex-patriot, whose family was forced out of Iraq, since they refused to join the Baath party. I cannot say that either of these individuals were my friends, but I did know them and the kind of trauma that they and their families went through. So when I see people who protest this war on the basis of caring for the Iraqi people, I know they are full of Chit and they make me sick.