Behind the Lies

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Behind the Lies: A Truth About the World We Live In and the False Hope of World Peace

Interview w/ Nora Khairy

* “ Sometimes the American soldiers would come to the schools and bring us things like paper and pencils, but then the teachers would go and sell the supplies.”

* “ I could tell you so many stories of crazy and unbelievable things that I saw in the four years that I lived in Iraq.”

* “ In the same way that you slice vegetables and bread here, that is how they slice human beings.” – Nora’s mom

* “ The Muslims would place bombs under cars or trucks in front of a Church, and once the Christians came outside, they would detonate the bomb and kill them.”

* The biggest problem in Iraq now is the kidnapping, of young and old people, and the holding of those people as ransom from their families.”

* “ The amounts of money that the Muslims require is outrageous, and the family needs to sell at least their house and car to pay up.”

* “ If they can’t pay, then the terrorists will kill their kidnapped.”

* “ Almost all the time, they kidnap Christians.”

* “ The Christians in Iraq were very happy with the arrival of American troops because most Americans are Christian and we felt some protection, but the Muslims began to kill the soldiers in groups because of their religion.”

* “ They would also place explosives under American war vehicles such as tanks, and then blow them up killing many soldiers at a time.”

* “ The government, though aware of Saddam’s bad reputation, did not know about his underground activities such as kidnapping and homicide, until the American government exposed him. That’s why they executed him, but his legacy seems to have progressed now with the present warfare.”

* “All of our records are in Baghdad, which is completely out-of-the-question to visit, and so my mom could not reimburse her nursing degree in America and my brother and I have lost all of our school records because Baghdad is where...