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Thread: In 2011, Furat, 23, met with me in Iraq's capital to discuss his surviving the Oct 31, 2010 attack on Our Lady of Salvation Syriac Catholic Cathedral in Baghdad, Sayedat AlNajat سيدة النجاة.
"I would like the world to know what happened here," he said.
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"I would like the world to know what happened here," he said.
#PopeFrancisInIraq
Going back, Sun. Jan 29, 2006 was a bloody day for Christians in Iraq. Car bombs exploded in coordinated attacks on at least four churches in Baghdad & the northern city of Kirkuk within 20 minutes, as well as outside the Vatican mission in the capital, killing & wounding dozens.
"Aftr the 2006 attacks the govt. supplied army vehicles to secure churches on Sundays. Then they started bringing private security who weren't well trained," Furat said. "Just hours before the Sayedat AlNajat attack, I thought to myself how easy it would be to bomb the church."
