‘The Day I Was Shot’
A BBC reporter recounts his harrowing tale of being shot by suspected Al Qaeda members in Iraq.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.
?I?ll 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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