Kadhim Desmal Majid Al-Qananani person
also: Kadem, Kadim
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“had already played out in real time. And ironically, later that spring, Kadim, the special forces guy that was shot in the foot, would be attending classes at Fort Leavenworth as part of his study in the Army Civilian University, hoping to …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 6 @ 18:29
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Kadhim Desmal Majid Al-Qananani. And the book starts out when he was 14 years old and talks about the turmoil that was going on in Iraq under Saddam Hussein and that his father had been kidnapped and tortured unmercifully.…
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Saddam Hussein. And when he is returned to the family, he is a skeleton of his former self. So they scrape up enough money, him and some family members, to leave Iraq and go to Kuwait. Obviously, they had no idea that Saddam Hussein was goi…
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So his mom ends up dying from tuberculosis. And his father insists that Kadim go to America because he believed that education was the only way out of the situation that Kadim found himself in.…
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So in the interim, they leave Kuwait and they go to Saudi Arabia again in a refugee camp. His father gets diagnosed with cancer. So he knows any minute he's going to be left on his own. So his his father and he eventually dies. Kadem had ne…
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America Seek an Asylum. And he moved into a suburb of D.C. in Virginia in 1995. He worked as a carpenter and several other things. And he was in, he was watching the U.S. Marines topple the statue of Saddam Hussein in Central…
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Baghdad. And of course, he was thrilled. He had not seen his brother. He didn't know whether he was dead or alive. And he decided at that minute that he was going to join the U.S. Army. Now, again, he's an Arabic speaker, so high prize comm…
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So he decides that he wants to be one of the special forces interpreters. He ends up at Fort Bragg in special forces training. And he was fluent in Farsi, Arabic and English at this point. So he does really well in the training. And his fir…
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received several military awards, and everybody has nothing but good things to say about him. And it goes on to talk about on another deployment in 2005, he was coming back from returning to the Baghdad airport, which is where a big camp wa…
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where he was doing interpretation for prisoners that were held by the joint coalition. They go through a checkpoint and they all show their IDs and everything. The car ahead of them was at the checkpoint when they were there. So they were r…
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And they I mean, obviously, the driver in that car could see in his rearview mirror that they had stopped and been cleared and waved in to the green zone, the quote unquote safe zone. And they're just a little bit past the checkpoint when s…
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army vehicle that had just cleared. They were in a civilian sedan. But it was clear that they had been cleared into the green zone. So the car ahead of them opens the back door of like a van type vehicle and starts shooting at American sold…
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He got hit in his foot. They can't stop the bleeding. And they find out that the car ahead of them is civilian contractors, not U.S. military. Civilian contractors paid by you and I to be over there that are shooting our military members.…
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And so they eventually can't, there's medics in the vehicle with them and because he was with a SOF team and they always have a medic and they can't get the bleeding to stop. So they end up turning around, leaving the green zone and going t…
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He was eventually transferred to another hospital, ran by U.S. military, but they can't help him. He gets Aravac to Landstuhl in Germany and then eventually back to Walter Reed. Now, they were able to get part of the bullet out, but part of…
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So he eventually gets medically discharged. So they totally destroyed his career. And he goes on to talk about how he was very familiar with Blackwater and DynCorp as part of these contractors that had been in Baghdad. And he makes it.…
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a quest to find out who exactly shot him. The book goes on to say that these civilian contractors would become indispensable to the Department of Defense, as well as the State Department, USAID, and the CIA. One of the Army generals said in…
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It was clear that no one really wanted to stop of this at all. Okay. Chapter 10 goes back and talks about the guy that we started out with, former Iraqi citizen that moved to the U.S., was an American, joined the army, special forces, and w…
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had already played out in real time. And ironically, later that spring, Kadim, the special forces guy that was shot in the foot, would be attending classes at Fort Leavenworth as part of his study in the Army Civilian University, hoping to …