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What al-Qaida did to us
Tomorrow is the third anniversary of the epoch-shaping onslaught on New York and Washington but a string of other al-Qaida attacks since 1998 has left little mark on our consciousness. What has terrorism done to the lives of ordinary people from Casablanca to Karachi? Our team of reporters asked nine people living in the shadow of the bombers...The nine people are: George Mimba: IT manager at US embassy, Nairobi, and survivor of the August 7 1998 bombing there. Zainab Abbas: Mother of Hashim Abbas, hotel employee killed in a car bomb at the Sheraton in Karachi, Pakistan, May 8 2002. Rick King: Owner of a general store and assistant fire chief, Shanksville, Pennsylvania. I Gde Wiratha: Owner of Paddy's Bar in Kuta, Bali, whose nightclub strip was bombed October 12 2002. Jason Mosher: A petty officer third class on the USS Cole when the warship was hit by explosives hidden in a small white fishing boat driven into its hull during a fuelling stop at Aden. Canon Ian Sherwood: Chaplain to the British Consul General in Istanbul. Fernandez Marino: Specialist in orthopaedic surgery and traumatology, on duty in the accident and emergency ward of Madrid's Gregorio Marañon hospital on March 11 2004, when a dozen bombs exploded on commuter trains. Taoufiq Moussaif: Defence lawyer, acting for some of the hundreds of Moroccan men charged in a crackdown after five Casablanca targets were bombed, May 16 2003. Nitza Rubabshi: An nursery teacher, aged 38, Nitza and her family were among a group of Israeli tourists at the Paradise Hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, when it was bombed, November 28 2002. Posted by: TS(vice girl) 2004-09-10 |
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