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...al-Saadi's were able to launch their legal action after being granted a medical visa to live in Australia. They moved to Brisbane, by coincidence the home town of many of the soldiers from the unit involved in the shooting...
...al-Saadi family allege they had been traveling in their vehicle in a street near the Australian embassy in Baghdad on the evening of February 26, 2005, when they were fired upon without warning. Nezar al-Saadi claims that when he stopped his car, an Australian soldier knelt down and fired four rounds into the passenger side of the vehicle, according to a statement filed in a Brisbane court last week...
...bullets hit his wife, Lamyaa al-Saadi, causing the loss of sight in her left eye, skull and jaw fractures, hearing loss and scarring to her face. Her son Ahmed, then 8, was blinded in the right eye from glass splinters from the windscreen; Mr. al-Saadi and other children suffered mental trauma. They also allege the Australian soldiers failed to give them medical assistance. They claim they were given no warning before the soldiers opened fire...
...asked that only his first name be used for security reasons, also disputed parts of the al-Saadi's account. He believes the Australian government handled the matter poorly at the time and failed to keep soldiers informed about the case and the al-Saadi family's move to Australia. "It was always my worst fear. I knew this thing was never going to go away," says the private, who, a month earlier, had been in a vehicle that was attacked by a suicide bomber in a car rigged with explosives...
...amid what the U.N. says has now overtaken Darfur as Africa's worst humanitarian disaster, with 1.8 million people in dire need of assistance. And if drought, starvation and disease weren't enough, they now find themselves on the latest battleground in a global war between the U.S. and al-Qaeda. The victims of Monday's missile strike, say the villagers of Doble, were not the militants they fear, but four of their own. On Tuesday, the BBC reported that hundreds of women and children marched through Doble, chanting anti-American slogans...