Worldview

Doug Hostetter Photos from Iraq

Doug Hostetter is an adjunct lecturer at Northwestern University and Peace Pastor at Evanston Mennonite Church. In January 1992, he traveled to Iraq with the Fellowship of Reconciliation & Medicine for Peace. Below are some photographs from his trip. Doug discussed these photographs and the people he met on Worldview, February 27, 2003.
	The bombed and destroyed Amaria bomb shelter in Iraq
Saif Faddel Abbas, age 6 lived with his father, Fathil, his mother, Muwtaha, a younger brother and sister, Amer and Nurham, in Hayalshoab, a working class district of Baghdad. His father worked for a private bus company, and had poured his savings into the small home for his family. On Sunday, Feb. 17, 1991, around midnight a cruse missile hit the civil defense center located beside Saif's house. The fire and debris from the explosion next door ignited tanks of gas in Saif's home. The house was largely destroyed, and everyone was severely burned.
	Saif with his grandmother in 1992