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Hundreds of Thousands of Iraqis Were Killed in the War. One Was My Brother.
Hundreds of Thousands of Iraqis Were Killed in the War. One Was My Brother.
U.S. troops in Baghdad. (Chris Hondros via Getty Images)
But I don’t share the conventional wisdom that the U.S. invasion, which began 20 years ago this week, was a colossal failure.
By Faisal Saeed Al Mutar
03.21.23
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Hundreds of Thousands of Iraqis Were Killed in the War. One Was My Brother.

My eldest brother, Samir al Mutar, was born in August 1980. He was a talented computer engineer who led a company that, to this day, installs and builds internet databases across Iraq. 

One day in November 2007, on his way to work with a couple of his friends, he was stopped at an al-Qaeda checkpoint. His friends fled. My brother was never seen again. 

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Faisal Saeed Al Mutar
Founder & President of Ideas Beyond Borders, a non-profit dedicated to empowering people in the Middle East with access to ideas about liberty and human rights. Follow him on Twitter @faisalalmutar or The International Correspondent on Substack.
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