Category Archives: Mustafa Abed

Mustafa flees Fallujah: PBS News Hour Report

Mustafa flees Fallujah: PBS News Hour Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3oL3WjLLA4 PBS / News Hour reports that displaced residents of Fallujah are finding little to celebrate after Iraqi forces finally ousted Islamic State fighters this week. The city is empty — tens of thousands who were held by ISIS as human shields fled to desolate camps — and there is no electricity or water. Refugee…
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Mustafa’s Story: Part I

Mustafa’s Story: Part I
On November 3, 2004, Mustafa Ahmed Abed, a toddler still in diapers, was severely injured in a US missile strike on Fallujah. NMV brought him to Portland, Oregon for medical treatment in 2008. We just learned that he and his family fled continuing warfare in Fallujah and are now in a refugee camp. Here is…
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Iraqi Child a Portland ‘Ambassador of Peace’

Iraqi Child a Portland ‘Ambassador of Peace’
When the air raid began, Nidhal Aswad gripped her child in her arms and ran, but she couldn't escape the nightmare that her boy's world would become. A U.S. missile struck a nearby building, knocking the two to the street in Fallujah, western Iraq. When Aswad regained consciousness, she heard her 2-year-old, Mustafa Ahmed Abed,…
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Mustafa Abed Arrives in Portland for Emergency Medical Treatment

Mustafa Abed Arrives in Portland for Emergency Medical Treatment
Mustafa Abed was grievously injured in an air strike on the Iraqi city of Fallujah. In this news report, he arrives in Portland for urgently needed medical treatment. After his first medical examination, we learned that the US missile strike that severed his leg and hip from his body had also caused massive internal injuries…
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Mustafa Returns Home After Treatment in Portland

Mustafa Returns Home After Treatment in Portland
KBOO Evening News _594 Mustafa Abed, a boy from Fallujah, returned to Iraq today after a tearful goodbye at the Portland airport. Mustafa's father, Ahmed, expressed his gratitude to the group No More Victims and the people of Portland for their help. Last month, Ahmed spoke at the Portland Winter Soldier event, along with local…
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Iraqi child a Portland ‘ambassador of peace’

Iraqi child a Portland ‘ambassador of peace’
OregonianWell-wishers turn out Tuesday at Portland International Airport to welcome Mustafa Abed, 5, and his father, Ahmed Mohammed (in tan shirt). Mustafa was 2 when he lost his leg and suffered severe internal injuries during a U.S. missile attack in Iraq. Portlanders raised money to bring the child to Oregon for the medical care and…
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A Great Cause

A Great Cause
by KAB (Good Things NW) I never thought for a moment about driving my sick child to the clinic to get a shot. What could happen? But when Nidal Abed, whose family lives in Fallujah, Iraq, took her one-year-old son to a clinic and was returning home, she found herself in the middle of an…
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Initiative Bringing Injured Iraqi Children, US Communities Together

Initiative Bringing Injured Iraqi Children, US Communities Together
AMMAN (Jordan Times) - Within the coming week, Mustafa Abed and Mustafa Ghazwan, two Iraqi children severely injured during separate incidents in the Iraq war, are scheduled cross the Atlantic to receive free medical treatment with the help of US-based human rights organisation No More Victims (NMV). Since 2004, the organisation has been working in…
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Project helps Iraqi children hurt by war all year round

Project helps Iraqi children hurt by war all year round
Is there something about this time of year that makes stories featuring children more poignant? Or is it just that as we get closer to the holidays, we naturally hear more about the plight of children who have to make do with less in a can't-get-enough world? I have to confess that this has been…
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