Invisible Nation by Quil Lawrence

Author:Quil Lawrence
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2009-06-16T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Deeds to the

Promised Land

INSIDE THE CITY OF KIRKUK, U.S. MISSILES had been taking out specific targets for several days during the last week of March 2003, and rumors filtered out to the north that Saddam's fearsome Republican Guard there had rounded up a group of young men for execution. The Ba'ath Party headquarters in the center of the city looked as likely a target as any, but in his house just a few blocks away, Ramadan Rashid, a slight, gray-haired goldsmith, didn't fret about the bombs. Rashid was born in Kirkuk in 1953. He had left the city and lived in Erbil for some years, but moved back and opened up his gold shop again in 1996. As neighbors, the Ba'athists knew Rashid and had even tried to recruit him as a spy on his regular business trips to Erbil. He had begged off, claiming that he had too many responsibilities, supporting his family and his brother's on the shop's meager income. In fact, Rashid had even more responsibilities than he let on. He was calling in the air strikes.1

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