Shaima Alawadi

Shaima Alawadi and her family fled Iraq nearly two decades ago as Saddam Hussein crushed a Shiite uprising, settling in the US, so they would no longer face persecution, a family friend said.

Shaima Alawadi and her family fled Iraq nearly two decades ago as Saddam Hussein crushed a Shiite uprising, settling in the US, so they would no longer face persecution, a family friend said.