Urban Unrest

16 December 2007 | World | Ernesto Aguilar

From the Alive in Baghdad podcast:

“Ali Shafeya Al-Moussawi was born in 1984 on December 16th, he was killed on December 14th, 2007… Ali lived in Habibya, it’s considered as a part of the Sadr city. On Friday the 14th at 11:30pm Baghdad time, Iraqi National Guard forces raided the street where Ali’s house is, one of the neighbors heard a gun firing after 15 minutes from the arrival of the Iraqi National Guard convoy to the street, the force left at 3:00am. His neighbors kept calling Ali’s phone and it was switched off all the time, so they called his cousin Amar because he lives one block away from where Ali lives… The morgue report says that Ali took 31 bullets between the chest and the head and died immediately.”

Alive in Baghdad is collecting donations for Ali’s funeral and his family. You can make a donation via Paypal to smallworldnews@gmail.com. Ali’s mother and sister are displaced Iraqis leaving in Syria without employment.

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