Project helps Iraqi children hurt by war all year round
Is there something about this time of year that makes stories featuring children more poignant? Or is it just that as we get closer to the holidays, we naturally hear more about the plight of children...
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Initiative Bringing Injured Iraqi Children, US Communities Together
AMMAN (Jordan Times) – Within the coming week, Mustafa Abed and Mustafa Ghazwan, two Iraqi children severely injured during separate incidents in the Iraq war, are scheduled cross the Atlantic to...
View ArticleA Great Cause
by KAB (Good Things NW) I never thought for a moment about driving my sick child to the clinic to get a shot. What could happen? But when Nidal Abed, whose family lives in Fallujah, Iraq, took her...
View ArticleIraqi child a Portland ‘ambassador of peace’
OregonianWell-wishers turn out Tuesday at Portland International Airport to welcome Mustafa Abed, 5, and his father, Ahmed Mohammed (in tan shirt). Mustafa was 2 when he lost his leg and suffered...
View ArticleMustafa Returns Home After Treatment in Portland
KBOO Evening News _594 Mustafa Abed, a boy from Fallujah, returned to Iraq today after a tearful goodbye at the Portland airport. Mustafa’s father, Ahmed, expressed his gratitude to the group No More...
View ArticleMustafa Abed Arrives in Portland for Emergency Medical Treatment
Mustafa Abed was grievously injured in an air strike on the Iraqi city of Fallujah. In this news report, he arrives in Portland for urgently needed medical treatment. After his first medical...
View ArticleIraqi Child a Portland ‘Ambassador of Peace’
When the air raid began, Nidhal Aswad gripped her child in her arms and ran, but she couldn’t escape the nightmare that her boy’s world would become. A U.S. missile struck a nearby building, knocking...
View ArticleMustafa’s Story: Part I
On November 3, 2004, Mustafa Ahmed Abed, a toddler still in diapers, was severely injured in a US missile strike on Fallujah. NMV brought him to Portland, Oregon for medical treatment in 2008. We just...
View ArticleMustafa Abed in PBS News Hour Report
PBS / News Hour reports that displaced residents of Fallujah are finding little to celebrate after Iraqi forces finally ousted Islamic State fighters this week. The city is empty — tens of thousands...
View ArticleMustafa flees Fallujah: PBS News Hour Report
PBS / News Hour reports that displaced residents of Fallujah are finding little to celebrate after Iraqi forces finally ousted Islamic State fighters this week. The city is empty — tens of thousands...
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