One thing that can be said about the Israelis....they're "equal opportunity" murderers! U.S. citizenship is no protection for anyone who stands in their way. I wonder if you'll hear Bush decry this murder as an "act of terrorism"?? Don't hold your breath.
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American Muslims for Global Peace and Justice
A GLOBAL PEACE EXCLUSIVE
Details Emerge About American Woman Shot Dead By Israeli Soldiers
It was reported widely on Friday, March 29 that the first victim of Israel’s latest siege on the West Bank city of Ramallah was a woman who was shot while driving her car. What most media outlets did not report, however, are the circumstances of the woman’s death, as well as her identity.
Suraida Saleh, the 21-year-old woman gunned down by Israeli soldiers, was an American, born in Washington, DC. The details of her death have emerged in an exclusive interview that Global Peace conducted over the telephone with Suraida’s brother and father. Both are locked inside their home in Ramallah, along with other members of their family, and have been unable for four days to retrieve Suraida’s body from the morgue to give her a proper burial.
An unknown wounded man came to Suraida’s home in Ramallah at about 3:30 a.m. Morad Abu Gharbiyeh, Suraida’s husband, a journalist with the Palestinian Broadcasting Company, assisted the man and called for an ambulance. Paramedics took the wounded man and left their house by 4 a.m. Morad and Suraida decided that it would be safer for them if they went to Suraida’s father’s house, not far up the street from where they lived.
Wounded, Morad took Muhsin out of the lifeless arms of Suraida and began walking towards the home of his in-laws, in the foggy darkness of that morning, but he collapsed, and both he and his son fell to the pavement.
Suraida’s father couldn’t hold back his anguish and heartache over the loss of his daughter, and the manner in which she was killed. “They killed her in cold blood—cold blood, and now my grandson will grow up not knowing the mother who gave birth to him. I called the American consulate so that they could help me get Suraida’s body, and they promised me on Saturday, and on Sunday, and today, and still nothing. I don’t think that they care about us because we are Arab-Americans. If we were American Jews they would put pressure on Israel. But for us, nothing.”
* Note to journalists-Global Peace can put members of the media in contact with Americans in Palestine, including the family of Suraida Saleh, as well as families here in the United States whose loved ones have been detained by Israeli soldiers.
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