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Suddenly, Iraqis swarmed around the women. They opened fire and shot at their legs. One woman was killed. Others were seriously injured. Nadia's friend lost her 21-year-old son that day. While videotaping the march, he was surrounded by Iraqis and led away. He cannot be found. After the attack on the demonstration, many husbands wanted their wives and children out of the country. While willing to risk their own lives, they did not want to witness the deaths of their loved ones. Mansoor wanted Nadia to leave. He told her that she was his weak point. He did not feel free to risk her life. She was the mother of his four daughters. The children would need one parent. He insisted she go to Saudi Arabia and join their babies. Nadia could not bear to leave him but she eventually faced the unbearable. It was the second hardest act of her life. 

Nadia carried on her volunteer work in Riyadh. There were many Kuwaiti refugees that needed help. While it was physically safer, she pursued each task as if it were life or death. Her diligence became well-known. She did what she could. And, she waited in vain for some word of Mansoor. 

Nadia's eldest daughter confessed pride of her warrior father. She knew her father could never accept waiting outside his country's borders while men of another land claimed Kuwait as their own. 

As if she didn't have enough worries, Nadia frets about the Palestinians under Israeli control. She and Mansoor financially supported three Palestinian families. They sent them money for food, rent, and their children's educations. When the Iraqis invaded Kuwait, Nadia and Mansoor lost all their money. As a result, three families in Palestine are without food. Nadia is frantic with worry. In one family, the father is elderly and cannot work. The sons of two of the families are in Israeli prisons and do not have any support. Nadia knows the families will go hungry and the children will have to drop out of school. The repercussions of the Iraqi invasion are felt in the stomachs of Palestinians on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip.

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