IRAQ: A Story IPS Never Wanted to Tell UMA ESTÓRIA QUE O IPS NUNCA QUIS CONTAR
Aaron Glantz
LOS ANGELES - IPS contributor Alaa Hassan was killed on his way to work last
Wednesday. He was 35 years old. He is survived by his mother, four brothers,
five sisters and his new wife who is pregnant with their first child.
Alaa was not killed for being a reporter. Indeed, he had only just begun helping
IPS gather news. When fighters ambushed him and machine-gunned his car, it was
simply because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time -- one of so many
people killed seemingly for no reason in Iraq each day.
Most of the people killed Jun. 28 will remain only numbers. Because we knew Alaa
so well, we can tell his story.
