Glasgow-Run Shelter Fights for Baghdad's Orphans Iraq: Project Iraq: Project the Murder of Teenage Resident Goes Unreported to Police in Climate of Fear
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WHEN the phone call came regarding the fate of Mohaned Ali Salah, a 15-year-old boy from one of the poorest areas of Baghdad, his guardian was given just 10 minutes to locate the body, with the caveat that the corpse might be booby-trapped with explosives. As it was, it was in a dump, where it had lain for three days; stray dogs had begun eating the remains. The teenager had been shot in the head.
His death would have gone unrecorded but for the fact he was one of 14 residents of the Baghdad Shelter, a Glasgow-run project in the Iraqi capital which provides refuge for orphaned children.See the full content of this document
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Glasgow-Run Shelter Fights for Baghdad's Orphans Iraq: Project Iraq: Project the Murder of Teenage Resident Goes Unreported to Police in Climate of Fear
The shelter was founded in 2005 by Glasgow engineer Ahmad Rustam on the site of his former family home in the Karch district of the city. Rustam, who fled Iraq in 1978, has returned to Baghdad seve...
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