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There is no threat of annihilation from Iran. But the US killing of Qassem Suleimani could well bring terror to the region
Afew weeks after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, several new Sudanese students appeared at my school in Khartoum. Halfway through the word they arrived, bewildered and dressed in what were clearly swiftly and randomly put-together clothes- shoes a sizing too large, dresses a size too small. For the first few days they predominantly sat softly in class, unable to adjust to the new academic substance and seemingly not interested in stirring friends. One child spent her entire first week at the back of the class searching vacantly out of the window at the school garden-varieties, rips mutely streaming down her face.
Slowly they began to open up and tell us who they were. These were Saddam’s refugees: the children of Sudanese expats working in Kuwait, who had grabbed what they could and fled the country. We clustered around them as they told us the stories of the attack- narratives that had now been become woven into the popular mythology of Saddam’s brutality. One harrowing detail they recited was that Iraqi troops participated a hospital and rent babe incubators from their electric sockets. They all refused to countenance the possibility that they might never return.
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