1/ I cried after this interview. Guest on my show at @akhbar was Haidar (@Mrjan_97). During 2019 protests in Baghdad, he was hit by tear gas canister, lost half his face. Hoping for treatment he flew to Belarus, walked 4 days to Poland, now in Germany.

Before & after 😢

Thread: ImageImage
2/ Haider explains when he was hit: "Gas canister fired by riot police hit me. It was 2300 hr. I fell on the ground. I'm laying on my back, looking at the sky. My body cold. I feel smoke getting out of my ears, mouth &eyes. I was unconscious for 5 days".
3/ After 5 days Haider woke up in the hospital, he asked his family for a mirror to look at his face. "They hesitated, said it's only a minor injury. But I said: Give me a mirror! I looked in the mirror - I saw my youth, my future, my life is gone. Everything for me is finished." ImageImage
4/ I asked Haidar if he now regrets that he ever joined these protests in 2019? "I don't regret I participated in the protests", he said, "but I regret that I stood up for people who aren't worth it...people who love to be obedient & subordinate."

5/ I also asked Haidar why he decided to leave Iraq. "The government didn't help me, the people didn't help me. I went to the health ministry I asked them for treatment. 'You protested against the government, so why should we treat you?', they said."

6/ Hoping to change his life & get medical treatment in the West, Haidar left Iraq and flew about a month ago to Belarus. After four days of walking in the cold forests near the Polish border, he managed to get to Poland. A car then drove him to Germany.

7/ Haidar already applied for asylum in Germany. According to him, he is still waiting for one paper and then he will be allowed to go see any doctor.

And hopefully they can help him with restoring his face.

8/ My full @akhbar interview with Haidar is now available on youtube. It is in Arabic. Here the link:

9/ I normally don't do this but I am making an exception. If there are journalists out there who want to interview Haidar or highlight his situation, pls contact me. My dm is open. Thank you.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with Jenan Moussa

Jenan Moussa Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @jenanmoussa

18 Nov
١/ هذه المقابلة أبكتني 😢. ضيفي هذا الأسبوع هو الناشط العراقي حيدر آل مرجان @Mrjan_97.

خلال احتجاجات عام 2019 في #بغداد، أصيب بقنبلة غاز مسيل للدموع وفقد نصف وجهه. على أمل العلاج، سافر مؤخرا إلى بيلاروسيا، ومشى لمدة 4 أيام إلى بولندا ليصل بعدها الى ألمانيا.

صورة حيدر قبل و بعد: ImageImage
٢/ في هذا المقطع، يتذكر حيدر لحظة إصابته: قوات الشغب ضربتني قنبلة مسيلة للدموع أصابت فكي الأعلى والأسفل، تعرضت للإصابة الساعة ١١ بالليل، سقطت غلى الأرض، أصدقائي حولي ينادون حيدر حيدر، جسمي بارد، الدخان يطلع من فمي وعيوني، بعدها أغمى علي لمدة ٥ ايام.

٣/ بعد ٥ أيام في الغيبوبة، استيقظ حيدر في المستشفى. طلب من عائلته مرآة لينظر إلى وجهه. ترددوا وقالوا له إن إصابته طفيفة لكنه أصر.

نظرت في المرآة - "شفت انه شبابي راح، مستقبلي راح، حياتي راحت. كل شيء تدمر، كل شيء انتهى." ImageImage
Read 7 tweets
11 Nov
1/ لماذا لم تُنشر صور جثة #بن_لادن بعد أكثر من عشر سنوات على تنفيذ العملية؟

وجهت هذا السؤال إلى روبرت أونيل @mchooyah الرجل الذي قتل زعيم القاعدة السابق وهذا جوابه: 👇

٢/ طلبت من روبرت أونيل، الرجل الذي قتل #بن_لادن، أن يصف لي لحظة إطلاقه الرصاصة التي أصابت زعيم #القاعدة السابق.
👇👇👇

٣/ كيف تعامل روبرت أونيل مع عائلة #أسامة_بن_لادن في اللحظات الأولى بعد قتله زعيم القاعدة السابق؟

"في ذلك الوقت فكرت في نفسي هل ما فعلته للتو هو أفضل أم أسوأ عمل قمت به لأنني لم أكن أعلم ماذا سيجري بعدها"
Read 4 tweets
11 Nov
1/ My interview for @akhbar with the man who killed Osama bin Laden. 1st time he speaks to Arabic tv. I asked @mchooyah why U.S. never published pics of body of dead OBL. "I have no answer to that (...) but I know where they (the pics) are."
2/ This first interview in the Arab media with the man who killed Osama bin Laden took place via Zoom and is in English with Arabic subs.

I also asked @mchooyah to describe the moment when he faced OBL during the Abbottabad raid.

This is what he said 👇
3/ Acc to @mchooyah his book on the killing of Osama bin Laden might get translated into Arabic. He also explained to me what happened after he shot OBL. "Is this the best thing I have done or the worst thing? Because I dont know what's gonna happen now."
Read 4 tweets
28 Aug
1/ I'm in touch with sources on the ground at Pak-Afghan border at Torkham. Taliban now in control on Afghan side. I received really crazy footage of Afghan children walking in tracks of trucks to illegally enter Pakistan and sell clothes there.

@akhbar

2/ As you can see in the footage I obtained from Torkham border between Pakistan and Afghanistan: Border is open for traffic. Armed Taliban fighters stand on Afghan side. Afghan flag has been removed and replaced with white Taliban flag.

@akhbar
3/ The footage also shows Pakistani border forces on their side of the border standing only meters away from the Taliban fighters on the Afghan side. All looks pretty relaxed. The trucks you see in the report passing from Afg to Pak are mostly carrying fresh fruit.

@akhbar
Read 8 tweets
1 Aug
1/ Last week ISIS woman Omaima Abdi was sentenced in Hamburg.

On Aug 3rd it's 7th commemoration of Yazidi genocide.

So this is good time to write up my personal take on how I cracked Abdi's story.

In a nutshell: I'm proud but also worried for my safety. akhbaralaan.net/news/special-r…
2/ As my story is in Arabic, let me tweet some parts out in English. You can of course also use google translate on the Arabic piece.
3/ When I obtained, through a source in Syria, the content of a mobile of an ISIS member, my heart was in my mouth. 1000s of pics, videos +other files. Everything was there. I knew this potentially was a big story, but I never realized it would be this big.

@akhbar
Read 22 tweets
22 Jul
1/ #break German court sentenced today the ISIS woman whose Syria phone content I published to 6 extra months in jail for having used enslaved Yazidi women as she lived in Raqqa. In 2020 this ISIS woman already got 3,5 yrs so total now 4 yrs jail. Details: akhbaralaan.net/news/special-r…
2/ During the trial, ISIS woman Omaima Abdi admitted to having used enslaved two Yazidis -among them a 13 yr old enslaved girl- as she lived in Raqqa. Although Abdi blamed media for a witch-hunt against her, she eventually apologized to the Yazidi women.

@akhbar
3/ Abdi further stated that she wants to forget about the whole ISIS episode as soon as possible. “After I am free, I would like to set up a hairdressing studio,” she said, “And I want to be as soon as possible reunited with my four children”.

@akhbar
Read 17 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

:(