Word: saadi
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...dense and impoverished neighborhood, which houses an estimated 3 million people was easily Iraq's most devastated locale during the seven weeks of fighting that wracked the area as U.S.-backed government forces confronted the Mahdi Army militia of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. According to Nasser Hashem al-Saadi, a member of parliament aligned with al-Sadr, some 25,000 residents fled the area during that time...
...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...
...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...
...only 20 at the time, confirms he shot into the al-Saadi's vehicle, but denies it had come to a stop. "We saw this vehicle turn the corner with its lights on and it was traveling reasonably fast. We started holding up our hands making the Arabic signal for stop and calling out the word for stop," he says. "The vehicle came closer and closer until it was about 30m away, when one soldier fired two warning shots above the vehicle. Technically no warning shots should have been fired as we had been told don't fire warning shots...