In overseas. Americans are being evacuated in iraq as militants linked to al qaeda storm toward the capitol of bagdad. After nine years of war would u. S. Forces go back in . Abcs Foreign Correspondent terry moran leads us off with the developments right now. Reporter ferocious fighting in northern iraq. Soldier trying to hold off the ji ha disastdists. These scenes showing thousands of iraqi soldiers and now prisoners. They have wracked up victory after victory. Major cities falling under their black flag and these fighters threaten bagdad 11 years after u. S. Troops toppled saddam hussein. All that is now crumbling. A track record of brutally. Executions, massby headings and over al qaeda has disavowed them. A new nation straddling two countries in pure islam as they define it. Strict intoleration. You can sense the fear past this long line of cars less than an hour away the city under control of militants. People fleeing for their lives and every car sisterearched for weapons. A wou
“Hello, Papi, I am in Brazil.”
A text message I received sitting in my home office after nearly a month of silence signified Victor Arellano’s nine-month battle had just been won. Arellano escaped Venezuela with a bullet in his spine, fleeing across violent and treacherous terrains, to have a chance of survival in a place providing no guarantees of a better life.
Early last year, when the pandemic first began its lethal assault upon the world, Arellano, a 30-year-old gay man, was walking home from a friend’s at dusk. He was shot point-blank in the face and was left with a bullet lodged between the joints of his cervical spine that missed his spinal cord by only millimeters.