‘The Day I Was Shot’

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‘The Day I Was Shot’

Posted on May 1, 2006

A BBC reporter recounts his harrowing tale of being shot by suspected Al Qaeda members in Iraq.

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Do you have time for some supper? called Amanda from the kitchen. I looked at my watch. It was Tuesday June 1 2004 and the car taking me to Heathrow airport would be here in 20 minutes, but I was packed and ready to go.

Ill be right down, I replied, and walked out of our top-floor bedroom, unaware that that was the last time I would ever see it.

Three days earlier there had been a bloodthirsty raid by Al-Qaeda fanatics in the eastern Saudi town of Al-Khobar. The terrorists had found a prominent British expatriate, Michael Hamilton, shot him dead, tied his body to their car bumper and dragged it around town in some kind of grisly parade of their power.

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