How much it all means to one Iraqi.
Returning to Iraq last summer after fleeing Saddam Hussein's secret police 22 years earlier was the happiest day of his life, Jawad Alamiri said.
Until Sunday.
"Now that's the happiest day of my life," a beaming Alamiri, 42, said yesterday with his wife, Istbraq Abdulameer, and daughter next to him in his Northeast Philadelphia home.
That's when he got the news he had awaited so long - that Hussein had been captured and would never terrorize another member of his family again. Three siblings had been killed by Hussein's henchmen and he was on a list to be executed, he said, before he escaped to Kuwait and then the United States.
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