{"id":361,"date":"2015-03-27T10:29:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T15:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=361"},"modified":"2015-03-27T10:29:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T15:29:49","slug":"terror-for-migrant-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/03\/27\/terror-for-migrant-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Terror for Migrant Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Betsy Hiel in the Pittsburg Tribune-Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The men worked in Sirte, midway between Benghazi and Tripoli on Libya’s coast and the birthplace of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, who was killed there by rebels in 2011.<\/p>\n

They lived in 15-room compounds, each with a fenced and gated courtyard.<\/p>\n

The ISIS gunmen easily scaled the fences, they said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were two rooms for Christians,\u201d recalled Hamdi Ashour, 29, a construction worker who shared Mahrouf’s quarters. \u201cWe pointed out one.\u201d<\/p>\n

He and the frightened workers said Christian men sleeping in the second room \u201cwere our cousins from our village and were Muslim,\u201d Ashour said. \u201cIf they opened up that second door, we would have been killed, too,\u201d because the gunmen would have easily discovered that the sleeping men were Copts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey opened up the first room and took seven Christians.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, we were afraid,\u201d said Mahrouf, explaining the horrible decision they made at gunpoint. \u201cThese people came at us with weapons loaded and banging on the door.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hostages dead, survivors saddled with guilt.\u00a0 What drives men to commit such crimes?\u00a0 Mundane problems such as lack of jobs?\u00a0 Or is religious mania to blame?<\/p>\n

(h\/t The Arabist<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Betsy Hiel in the Pittsburg Tribune-Review: The men worked in Sirte, midway between Benghazi and Tripoli on Libya’s coast and the birthplace of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, who was killed there by rebels in 2011. They lived in 15-room compounds, each with a fenced and gated courtyard. The ISIS gunmen \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}