Lewis Alsamari , at the age of seventeen, was taken in by Saddam Hussein’s army. The training was hard, and discipline by regular beatings was a part of a daily event. Lewis was one of the lucky ones, he made it through and, because of his fluent English, he was offered a post in Iraqi military intelligence. The job was going to make him powerful, and wealthy. But Lewis could not except, for he wanted no part of Saddam’s group and he knew what would happen if he turned this down. So his plane was to flee Iraq. His journey was defiantly not a walk in the park, the finally he made it to England, where he was granted political asylum. Once there he began building a life for himself. He even fell in love and got married. You would think at this point he was in the clear, but he was still haunted by thoughts of the loved ones he left behind in Iraq, he would hear his uncle’s words echoing in his ears, “we are sending you to freedom so that one day you may rescue us from this place.”
Then one day he finds his family paid a price for his escape. This mother and sister were interrogated, beaten, and thrown into prison. Soon after hearing this Lewis steals the thousands of dollars, to buy the release of his family, and the smuggles them out of Iraq, while his wife fallows him on his this journey.
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