Saturday, January 21, 2006
Four of their kids were killed by US forces -- what the military calls "part of the tragedy of war." Now they have a new son and intend to live out their lives in America.
Somehow this country -- what some characterize as a fountainhead of terror and oppression -- keeps drawing people to it.
CNN: Parents of 4 kids killed in Iraq find hope
ST. LOUIS, Missouri (CNN) -- Daham Kassim's broad smile told the whole story. "Welcome," he bellowed from the porch of his St. Louis apartment.
This was not the same man of a year ago.
We'd arrived to do our final interview with Daham and his wife Gufran, an Iraqi couple whose lives were forever changed during the first days of the Iraq war when their four children were killed.
We were there on this early January afternoon to capture the next stage of their lives. Their sad, stricken faces had softened and hope had returned. They'd had a son...
