By Tom Aspell, NBC News Correspondent
Amman, Jordan — Rita Aziz, a 24-year-old Christian Iraqi woman, fled her country for Amman a few months ago after her two brothers were kidnapped on a highway leading north from Baghdad.
Shortly afterwards, she received a telephone call from neighbors in Baghdad telling her that two bodies had been found [...]
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10 May, 2009
Civilians caught in the crossfire in Pakistan
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By NBC News’ Mushtaq Yusufzai
MARDAN, Pakistan – Shaista, a terrified 11-year-old girl from the Swat Valley, was lying in a hospital bed in Mardan’s ill-equipped health center on Friday.
She suffered severe injuries to her legs when an artillery shell, reportedly fired by Pakistani troops, hit her family’s small house Thursday night in Mingora.
The [...]
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