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You can read our review of the show \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13906957/lands-end-for-site-cliff-house-review\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11905761/amazon-oil-this-week-in-california-news","authors":["236"],"programs":["news_7052"],"categories":["news_223","news_19906","news_457","news_6188","news_13","news_356"],"tags":["news_1611","news_30687","news_18538","news_27504","news_843","news_30689","news_25015","news_233","news_29150","news_30688","news_9","news_20297","news_19177","news_3833","news_20562","news_23749","news_30632","news_30686","news_30685"],"featImg":"news_11905858","label":"news_7052"},"news_11878309":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11878309","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11878309","score":null,"sort":[1623956657000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"after-rep-barbara-lees-years-long-fight-house-votes-to-repeal-2002-iraq-war-powers-resolution","title":"After Rep. Barbara Lee's Years-Long Fight, House Votes to Repeal 2002 Iraq War Powers Resolution","publishDate":1623956657,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday moved to repeal a nearly two-decade-old war powers measure, marking what many lawmakers hope will be the beginning of the end of wide-ranging authorities given to the president after the 9/11 terror attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote was 268 to 161. The measure now heads to the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee — who in 2001 and 2002 voted against two war power measures passed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks — was the sponsor of the repeal bill. The plan would end the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force, or AUMF, that greenlighted then-President George W. Bush's plans to invade Iraq.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been such a long time coming,\" Lee said ahead of Thursday's vote. \"It's Congress' responsibility to authorize the use of force, and that authorization cannot be blank checks that stay as authorizations for any administration to use the way they see fit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rep. Barbara Lee\"]'In many ways, Congress never really had the backbone to repeal it. Congress has been missing in action. We've been derelict in our duty. And I've been trying year after year after year to get this repealed.'[/pullquote]Lee's legislation has drawn growing bipartisan support. Her repeal of the 2002 authority, which was issued Oct. 16 of that year, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/256\">more than 130 cosponsors\u003c/a> now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/SAP-HR-256.pdf\">statement\u003c/a> issued Monday, the White House said it supports the bill. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED checked in with Lee on Wednesday about her long fight against the AUMF and the legislative road ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an outdated authorization,” Lee told KQED’s Brian Watt. \"The Iraq War was over, actually. President Obama said it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/10/21/141590282/obama-to-address-iraq-troop-withdrawal\">officially over\u003c/a> in 2011.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Is an Authorization for the Use of Military Force?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bush, Obama and Trump administrations have cited the 2002 AUMF to justify many counterterrorism measures all over the world. The precedent for this was set in 2001 when an earlier military authorization was passed in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Lee cast the sole vote against the 2001 AUMF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvnLtMKzX6Y\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's no way we should have done that,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should have had a more narrowly targeted sunset and authorization if we were going to retaliate and bring the terrorists to justice in a way that would not cause more terror, more havoc and more anger in the world. So we've got to be more careful and more rational in how we use our military force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Why AUMFs Are Still Around\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In many ways, Congress never really had the backbone to repeal it,” Lee said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at what the Congress has been doing, it's been ... allowing our responsibilities to be taken on by the executive branch. The Constitution requires members of Congress to authorize the use of force if the president wants to go to war. It's easier to just say, 'Well, that wasn't our problem. Let the president do it. He has the authorization to use force wherever he or she wants to go and bomb or wants to engage our troops.' And I just think Congress has been missing in action. We've been derelict in our duty. And I've been trying year after year after year to get this repealed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Past Repeal Attempts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House lawmakers voted last year and in 2019 to repeal the 2002 AUMF. The Senate has never taken it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said she’s “cautiously optimistic” when asked if this time senators would act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm building support in the Senate. I've got many members of the Senate who I know, who I have been working with over the years. And I'll be on it, as the bill moves out of the House, hopefully with bipartisan support and over to the Senate,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Senate, Virginia Democrat Tim Kaine is sponsoring a \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/10/cosponsors?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22AUMF%22%5D%7D&r=2&s=1\">similar bill\u003c/a> with help from Indiana Republican Todd Young and four other GOP senators. On Wednesday, the repeal drew the support of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It will eliminate the danger of a future administration reaching back into the legal dustbin to use it as a justification for military adventurism,\" Schumer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Senate committee is slated to take up the plan next week. Lee also has backing from the Biden administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Elections do have consequences,” Lee said. “President Biden has issued a statement of support. I've been working with this administration since the campaign, actually, to make sure that they understood why we needed to repeal this, that I was so humbled and honored that the president really understood the reason I've been doing this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from NPR's Claudia Grisales and KQED's Brian Watt and Alexander Gonzalez.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'It's been such a long time coming,' said Democratic East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee ahead of the U.S. House's approval Thursday of her bill to repeal the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1623967292,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":850},"headData":{"title":"After Rep. 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Barbara Lee's Years-Long Fight, House Votes to Repeal 2002 Iraq War Powers Resolution","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/514af619-d6a1-4e26-9419-ad4a012266d8/audio.mp3","path":"/news/11878309/after-rep-barbara-lees-years-long-fight-house-votes-to-repeal-2002-iraq-war-powers-resolution","audioDuration":228000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday moved to repeal a nearly two-decade-old war powers measure, marking what many lawmakers hope will be the beginning of the end of wide-ranging authorities given to the president after the 9/11 terror attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote was 268 to 161. The measure now heads to the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee — who in 2001 and 2002 voted against two war power measures passed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks — was the sponsor of the repeal bill. The plan would end the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force, or AUMF, that greenlighted then-President George W. Bush's plans to invade Iraq.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been such a long time coming,\" Lee said ahead of Thursday's vote. \"It's Congress' responsibility to authorize the use of force, and that authorization cannot be blank checks that stay as authorizations for any administration to use the way they see fit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'In many ways, Congress never really had the backbone to repeal it. Congress has been missing in action. We've been derelict in our duty. And I've been trying year after year after year to get this repealed.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Rep. Barbara Lee","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Lee's legislation has drawn growing bipartisan support. Her repeal of the 2002 authority, which was issued Oct. 16 of that year, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/256\">more than 130 cosponsors\u003c/a> now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/SAP-HR-256.pdf\">statement\u003c/a> issued Monday, the White House said it supports the bill. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED checked in with Lee on Wednesday about her long fight against the AUMF and the legislative road ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an outdated authorization,” Lee told KQED’s Brian Watt. \"The Iraq War was over, actually. President Obama said it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/10/21/141590282/obama-to-address-iraq-troop-withdrawal\">officially over\u003c/a> in 2011.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Is an Authorization for the Use of Military Force?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bush, Obama and Trump administrations have cited the 2002 AUMF to justify many counterterrorism measures all over the world. The precedent for this was set in 2001 when an earlier military authorization was passed in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Lee cast the sole vote against the 2001 AUMF.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/mvnLtMKzX6Y'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/mvnLtMKzX6Y'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“There's no way we should have done that,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should have had a more narrowly targeted sunset and authorization if we were going to retaliate and bring the terrorists to justice in a way that would not cause more terror, more havoc and more anger in the world. So we've got to be more careful and more rational in how we use our military force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Why AUMFs Are Still Around\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In many ways, Congress never really had the backbone to repeal it,” Lee said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at what the Congress has been doing, it's been ... allowing our responsibilities to be taken on by the executive branch. The Constitution requires members of Congress to authorize the use of force if the president wants to go to war. It's easier to just say, 'Well, that wasn't our problem. Let the president do it. He has the authorization to use force wherever he or she wants to go and bomb or wants to engage our troops.' And I just think Congress has been missing in action. We've been derelict in our duty. And I've been trying year after year after year to get this repealed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Past Repeal Attempts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House lawmakers voted last year and in 2019 to repeal the 2002 AUMF. The Senate has never taken it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said she’s “cautiously optimistic” when asked if this time senators would act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm building support in the Senate. I've got many members of the Senate who I know, who I have been working with over the years. And I'll be on it, as the bill moves out of the House, hopefully with bipartisan support and over to the Senate,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Senate, Virginia Democrat Tim Kaine is sponsoring a \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/10/cosponsors?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22AUMF%22%5D%7D&r=2&s=1\">similar bill\u003c/a> with help from Indiana Republican Todd Young and four other GOP senators. On Wednesday, the repeal drew the support of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It will eliminate the danger of a future administration reaching back into the legal dustbin to use it as a justification for military adventurism,\" Schumer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Senate committee is slated to take up the plan next week. Lee also has backing from the Biden administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Elections do have consequences,” Lee said. “President Biden has issued a statement of support. I've been working with this administration since the campaign, actually, to make sure that they understood why we needed to repeal this, that I was so humbled and honored that the president really understood the reason I've been doing this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from NPR's Claudia Grisales and KQED's Brian Watt and Alexander Gonzalez.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11878309/after-rep-barbara-lees-years-long-fight-house-votes-to-repeal-2002-iraq-war-powers-resolution","authors":["237"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_29588","news_22185","news_20149","news_233","news_29587","news_17968","news_387"],"featImg":"news_11878401","label":"news"},"news_11794896":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11794896","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11794896","score":null,"sort":[1578620041000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"for-seasoned-bay-area-anti-war-activists-latest-demonstrations-are-deja-vu-all-over-again","title":"For Seasoned Bay Area Anti-War Activists, Latest Demonstrations Are Deja Vu All Over Again","publishDate":1578620041,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Medea Benjamin has seen this movie before. Many more times than she ever wanted to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The veteran peace activist and one-time Green Party Senate candidate, has been at the forefront of Bay Area anti-war efforts for decades, leading huge demonstrations against a multitude of U.S. military conflicts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Medea Benjamin, anti-war activist\"]'We feel like the only way we're going to be able to stop another war is if we really show a lot of public opposition, and quickly.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benjamin, 67, who co-founded the women’s peace group CODEPINK in 2002, helped organize \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11793900/no-more-wars-hundreds-march-against-possible-us-military-action-in-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last weekend's march\u003c/a> in San Francisco in response to the recent U.S. military drone \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11793796/u-s-kills-top-iranian-military-leader-in-airstrike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">attack \u003c/a>that killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. And she's likely to be a visible presence Thursday evening, when thousands of demonstrators throughout the Bay Area — and in other cities across the country — are expected to take to the streets in opposition to U.S. military conflict with Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anti-war movement, which grew formidable in the lead-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 — with the Bay Area serving as the base for major organizing efforts — is now having to rebuild itself largely from scratch, Benjamin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have memories of organizing large demonstrations even during the 1991 Gulf War. And then in the lead up to Iraq, we had massive numbers of people coming out in the Bay Area,” she said. “[But] we're just getting started now because the anti-war movement has really crumbled. And that goes back to the election of Barack Obama when people thought he was going to get us out of the wars, when there were other issues that took people's attention, like the financial crisis, and more recently, the climate crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, “And then there's also the fact that we've been in these wars now for almost 20 years, and it's hard to get people mobilized when it becomes sort of the norm to know that your country is at war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This strikes particularly true for younger Americans, who have grown up with U.S. military conflicts perpetually playing in the background, Benjamin noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a low-grade infection that you learn to live with,” she said. \"But it shouldn’t be that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795200\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/GettyImages-188107343.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11795200\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/GettyImages-188107343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/GettyImages-188107343.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/GettyImages-188107343-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/GettyImages-188107343-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/GettyImages-188107343-1020x678.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medea Benjamin (C), co-founder of the anti-war group CODEPINK, and other activists hold signs during a rally against U.S. drone attacks in front of the White House in on Nov. 15, 2013 ahead of the Global Drone Summit. \u003ccite>(Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In spite of that, Benjamin was heartened by the significant turnout at last Saturday's actions, which she said were organized within 48 hours and drew thousands of people, old and young, who took to the streets in more than 80 cities across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco was among the biggest. We were really proud of the people of the Bay Area who came out in large numbers,” she said, noting solid representation from both the old guard and younger faces from new groups like the Democratic Socialists of America and About Face. “We feel like the only way we're going to be able to stop another war is if we really show a lot of public opposition, and quickly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Becker, the western region coordinator of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.answercoalition.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Act Now to Stop War and End Racism\u003c/a> – or ANSWER – Coalition, which helped organize Saturday's events, said he was pleasantly surprised by how quickly demonstrations spread across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a way, we got a much bigger response this past Saturday than we did at the beginning of the Iraq anti-war movement of 2002-2003,” said Becker, 72, noting that early demonstrations back then were relatively small but mushroomed as the prospect of war grew closer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"anti-war-movement\"]Becker helped form ANSWER in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, initially organizing protests against the invasion of Afghanistan. The group has since been a key player in America's anti-war movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So that was the beginning, really, of the [modern] anti-war movement,” he said, recalling the first protests he helped organize in October 2001, when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan. “And of course, that war has turned into an utter disaster. Iraq turned into an utter disaster.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move to assassinate Soleimani and step up sanctions on Iran, Becker said, represents a disastrous continuation of U.S. policy in the Middle East and adds new urgency to anti-war efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that there is a very widespread sentiment against a new war,” he said. “So we will go forward now with organizing what we hope will be major anti-war protests, saying no new war in the Middle East and end this endless war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both he and Benjamin said they truly believe that unlike during the run-up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Americans today are overwhelmingly opposed to getting involved in a new conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795199\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/202-anti-war-rally.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11795199\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/202-anti-war-rally.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/202-anti-war-rally.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/202-anti-war-rally-160x114.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Becker leads a rally in San Francisco (circa 2002) opposing U.S. occupation in the Middle East. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Richard Becker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We do have to reach out to people who are of different ideologies to say that this war is going to hurt everybody and that it's not a partisan issue,” Benjamin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benjamin noted the frustration of finding herself, and the country, in a place similar to where it was nearly two decades ago — planning demonstrations and facing the threat of war with another Middle Eastern country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's really discouraging, I mean, I feel like such a failure as somebody who's spent basically every day of my life since the 9/11 attacks trying to stop these wars,” she said. “We just have to keep doing this and find more creative ways, more effective ways to do this work, because obviously what we've done has not been enough.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The latest round of demonstrations against U.S. military action in Iran follow a long tradition of Bay Area anti-war activism. 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Many more times than she ever wanted to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The veteran peace activist and one-time Green Party Senate candidate, has been at the forefront of Bay Area anti-war efforts for decades, leading huge demonstrations against a multitude of U.S. military conflicts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We feel like the only way we're going to be able to stop another war is if we really show a lot of public opposition, and quickly.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Medea Benjamin, anti-war activist","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benjamin, 67, who co-founded the women’s peace group CODEPINK in 2002, helped organize \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11793900/no-more-wars-hundreds-march-against-possible-us-military-action-in-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last weekend's march\u003c/a> in San Francisco in response to the recent U.S. military drone \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11793796/u-s-kills-top-iranian-military-leader-in-airstrike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">attack \u003c/a>that killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. And she's likely to be a visible presence Thursday evening, when thousands of demonstrators throughout the Bay Area — and in other cities across the country — are expected to take to the streets in opposition to U.S. military conflict with Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anti-war movement, which grew formidable in the lead-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 — with the Bay Area serving as the base for major organizing efforts — is now having to rebuild itself largely from scratch, Benjamin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have memories of organizing large demonstrations even during the 1991 Gulf War. And then in the lead up to Iraq, we had massive numbers of people coming out in the Bay Area,” she said. “[But] we're just getting started now because the anti-war movement has really crumbled. And that goes back to the election of Barack Obama when people thought he was going to get us out of the wars, when there were other issues that took people's attention, like the financial crisis, and more recently, the climate crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, “And then there's also the fact that we've been in these wars now for almost 20 years, and it's hard to get people mobilized when it becomes sort of the norm to know that your country is at war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This strikes particularly true for younger Americans, who have grown up with U.S. military conflicts perpetually playing in the background, Benjamin noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a low-grade infection that you learn to live with,” she said. \"But it shouldn’t be that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795200\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/GettyImages-188107343.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11795200\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/GettyImages-188107343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/GettyImages-188107343.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/GettyImages-188107343-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/GettyImages-188107343-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/GettyImages-188107343-1020x678.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medea Benjamin (C), co-founder of the anti-war group CODEPINK, and other activists hold signs during a rally against U.S. drone attacks in front of the White House in on Nov. 15, 2013 ahead of the Global Drone Summit. \u003ccite>(Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In spite of that, Benjamin was heartened by the significant turnout at last Saturday's actions, which she said were organized within 48 hours and drew thousands of people, old and young, who took to the streets in more than 80 cities across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco was among the biggest. We were really proud of the people of the Bay Area who came out in large numbers,” she said, noting solid representation from both the old guard and younger faces from new groups like the Democratic Socialists of America and About Face. “We feel like the only way we're going to be able to stop another war is if we really show a lot of public opposition, and quickly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Becker, the western region coordinator of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.answercoalition.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Act Now to Stop War and End Racism\u003c/a> – or ANSWER – Coalition, which helped organize Saturday's events, said he was pleasantly surprised by how quickly demonstrations spread across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a way, we got a much bigger response this past Saturday than we did at the beginning of the Iraq anti-war movement of 2002-2003,” said Becker, 72, noting that early demonstrations back then were relatively small but mushroomed as the prospect of war grew closer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"anti-war-movement"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Becker helped form ANSWER in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, initially organizing protests against the invasion of Afghanistan. The group has since been a key player in America's anti-war movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So that was the beginning, really, of the [modern] anti-war movement,” he said, recalling the first protests he helped organize in October 2001, when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan. “And of course, that war has turned into an utter disaster. Iraq turned into an utter disaster.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move to assassinate Soleimani and step up sanctions on Iran, Becker said, represents a disastrous continuation of U.S. policy in the Middle East and adds new urgency to anti-war efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that there is a very widespread sentiment against a new war,” he said. “So we will go forward now with organizing what we hope will be major anti-war protests, saying no new war in the Middle East and end this endless war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both he and Benjamin said they truly believe that unlike during the run-up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Americans today are overwhelmingly opposed to getting involved in a new conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795199\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/202-anti-war-rally.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11795199\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/202-anti-war-rally.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/202-anti-war-rally.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/202-anti-war-rally-160x114.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Becker leads a rally in San Francisco (circa 2002) opposing U.S. occupation in the Middle East. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Richard Becker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We do have to reach out to people who are of different ideologies to say that this war is going to hurt everybody and that it's not a partisan issue,” Benjamin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benjamin noted the frustration of finding herself, and the country, in a place similar to where it was nearly two decades ago — planning demonstrations and facing the threat of war with another Middle Eastern country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's really discouraging, I mean, I feel like such a failure as somebody who's spent basically every day of my life since the 9/11 attacks trying to stop these wars,” she said. “We just have to keep doing this and find more creative ways, more effective ways to do this work, because obviously what we've done has not been enough.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11794896/for-seasoned-bay-area-anti-war-activists-latest-demonstrations-are-deja-vu-all-over-again","authors":["1263","248"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_21707","news_339","news_233","news_27261"],"featImg":"news_11794072","label":"news"},"news_11793796":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11793796","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11793796","score":null,"sort":[1578067447000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"u-s-kills-top-iranian-military-leader-in-airstrike","title":"U.S. Kills Top Iranian Military Leader in Airstrike","publishDate":1578067447,"format":"standard","headTitle":"NPR | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 2:12 p.m. PT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. forces assassinated Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in an airstrike late Thursday, Eastern time. The strike, near the Baghdad International Airport, was an escalation of tensions between Washington and Tehran that is prompting concerns of further violence in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense Secretary Mark Esper \u003ca href=\"https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2049534/statement-by-the-department-of-defense/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said\u003c/a> the Pentagon took a \"decisive defensive action\" in killing Soleimani, who Esper says was plotting to target American diplomats and service members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This strike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans,\" Esper said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump, who authorized the attack, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/03/793293543/there-will-be-reprisals-democrats-warn-of-fallout-from-killing-of-iranian-genera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">made his first public remarks Friday afternoon \u003c/a>and defended the action as necessary to protect national security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war,\" Trump said from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11793871\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11793871\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/trumpreax.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/trumpreax.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/trumpreax-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/trumpreax-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/trumpreax-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/trumpreax-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump makes a statement at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on Jan. 3, 2020, a day after the U.S. launched an airstrike in Baghdad that killed a top Iranian general. Trump said that America does not seek war or regime change with Iran. \u003ccite>(Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For two decades, Soleimani led the elite Quds Force, a branch of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, responsible for the country's intelligence and military operations outside of Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamid Mousavi, a political science professor at the University of Tehran, said the strike stunned many Iranians who revere the military leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\"]'America — and the world — cannot afford to have tensions escalate to the point of no return.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It would be akin to Iran assassinating the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,\" Mousavi told NPR. \"Essentially, it's an act of war.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Department on Friday urged U.S. citizens to immediately leave Iraq, where officials say the embassy in Baghdad was attacked by Iran-backed militias earlier in the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike on Soleimani came a week after a rocket attack in northern Iraq killed a U.S. contractor. American officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/01/792739572/why-the-u-s-embassy-in-iraq-became-a-target-of-anger-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said\u003c/a> an Iranian-backed militia was responsible. The Trump administration also tied Soleimani to recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/31/792579958/mob-angered-by-airstrikes-tries-to-storm-u-s-embassy-compound-in-baghdad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">violent protests\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement the airstrike against Soleimani was \"disproportionate,\" arguing that it \"risks provoking further dangerous escalation of violence. America — and the world — cannot afford to have tensions escalate to the point of no return.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1213096517063589890\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland congresswoman Barbara Lee echoed Pelosi, saying the strike without congressional authorization was a \"dangerous escalation of tensions\" that brings the U.S. and Iran \"close to the brink of war.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We must work to prevent further military action in the region,\" Lee said in a statement. \"We have known for years that there is no military solution, and it’s past time to return to a diplomatic strategy with our allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congresswoman Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo, said in a statement that Trump has \" ... waved the red flag at Iran since the beginning of his Presidency and ignored the pleas of our Allies to remain in the [Iran nuclear deal].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans celebrated the killing of Soleimani, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1212929356424785920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saying\u003c/a> America is safer after the violent leader was brought to justice. But Democrats largely slammed the White House for not consulting Congress before the strike and worried the attack \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1212954668340563969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">would lead\u003c/a> to an \"almost inevitable escalation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iranian leaders quickly responded to the attack as well, expressing outrage over the killing. The country's foreign minister, Javad Zarif, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JZarif/status/1212946202280579073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called\u003c/a> it \"an act of international terrorism,\" saying the U.S. \"bears responsibility for all consequences of its rogue adventurism.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said in a statement on Iranian state TV that a \"harsh retaliation is waiting\" for the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11793824 label='We want to hear from you' hero=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/GettyImages-1191140256-1-1020x680.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iranian President Hassan Rouhani \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/HassanRouhani/status/1213009152093696005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was\u003c/a> just as forceful, describing the strike as a \"heinous crime\" for which Iran will seek revenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike also killed Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an adviser to Soleimani.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So the biggest question now is how does Tehran respond?\" \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ilangoldenberg/status/1212938815121309696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote\u003c/a> Ilan Goldenberg, a Middle East security expert who worked on Iran issues in the Obama administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Targeting an American diplomatic facility or senior leader with a terrorist attack elsewhere in the world may feel proportional for the Iranians but this is very hard to pull off. Outside of the Mideast their capabilities are much more limited,\" Goldenberg \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ilangoldenberg/status/1212939867430309892\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naysan Rafati, a senior Iran analyst at the International Crisis Group, underscored just how significant the death of Soleimani is inside Iran, where he is among the country's most revered military leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a major blow to the Iranians, symbolically as well as strategically. There has been no individual as deeply associated with Iran's regional network of partners and proxies as Soleimani, which made him a hero to Tehran's allies and a villain without peer to its rivals,\" Rafati said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump, who is vacationing on his estate in Florida, tweeted a photo of an American flag with no other message. Trump had earlier vowed that Iran would \"pay a very big price\" for the unrest at the U.S. embassy compound in Baghdad.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Soleimani and the Quds Force\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Soleimani was one of Iran's most powerful and shadowy figures. As leader of the Quds Force, he was said to be responsible for the country's development and coordination with militias and proxy forces throughout the Middle East. U.S. officials accuse him of coordinating Iraqi militia attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. officials have also accused Soleimani of sponsoring terrorism and singled him out as a major figure for decades. The Trump administration placed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — which includes the Quds Force — on the State Department's list of terrorist groups. It was the first time a government's official military was placed on the list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norman Roule, now retired, tracked Iran through his career with the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. He told NPR's \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> the death of Soleimani was significant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Norman_Roule/status/1212922169539407878?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1212922169539407878&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2020%2F01%2F02%2F793208096%2Firaqi-tv-says-top-iranian-military-leader-killed-in-rocket-strikes-on-iraqi-airp\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can expect seismic waves to go through the Shia communities of Lebanon, Iraq and Iran,\" Roule said. \"You can expect that the Iranians and the Iraqi militia groups will certainly seek some sort of retribution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roule called Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was also killed, Soleimani's \"senior-most lieutenant in the Iraqi military architecture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roule said he believed the U.S. would not have carried out the strikes unless \"a significant terrorist attack was underway or about to be undertaken by these individuals and if neutralizing these individuals would prevent that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"iran\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soleimani's Quds Force is a \"sort of a mixture of our special operations and Central Intelligence Agency,\" according to Roule. \"He [had] been given charge of Iran's foreign policy in the region and in essence he used that authority to create a series of militias based on the Lebanese Hezbollah.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a military commander he would not actually rank in capacity or stature with a first-world military commander, such as a U.S. general. However, his political reach was vast ... in that Iran basically ceded its regional activities to his purview,\" Roule said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/07/27/632933227/commander-of-irans-quds-force-we-are-ready-if-u-s-attacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In 2018\u003c/a>, Soleimani spoke with political authority when he responded to a tweet by President Trump, who said Iran would \"suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before\" if it repeated threats against the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soleimani was \u003ca href=\"https://en.mehrnews.com/news/136088/We-are-closer-to-you-than-you-think-Gen-Soleimani-to-Trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quoted by the semiofficial Tasnim news agency\u003c/a>: \"As a soldier, it is my duty to respond to your threats,\" he said. \"It is not in our president's dignity to respond to you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Come. We are ready,\" Soleimani said, accusing Trump of using \"the language of nightclubs and gambling halls.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you begin the war, we will end the war,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Peter Jon Shuler contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post will be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\"> NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani was killed in Baghdad late Thursday Eastern time. The U.S. secretary of defense said Soleimani \"was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members throughout the region.\"","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1578159463,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":45,"wordCount":1419},"headData":{"title":"U.S. Kills Top Iranian Military Leader in Airstrike | KQED","description":"Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani was killed in Baghdad late Thursday Eastern time. The U.S. secretary of defense said Soleimani "was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members throughout the region."","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"U.S. Kills Top Iranian Military Leader in Airstrike","datePublished":"2020-01-03T16:04:07.000Z","dateModified":"2020-01-04T17:37:43.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11793796 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11793796","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/01/03/u-s-kills-top-iranian-military-leader-in-airstrike/","disqusTitle":"U.S. Kills Top Iranian Military Leader in Airstrike","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"npr.org","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/638550790/bobby-allyn\">Bobby Allyn\u003ca /> and Barbara Campbell\u003cbr />NPR\u003c/strong>","nprImageAgency":"Iraqi Prime Minister Press Office via AP","nprStoryId":"793208096","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=793208096&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/02/793208096/iraqi-tv-says-top-iranian-military-leader-killed-in-rocket-strikes-on-iraqi-airp?ft=nprml&f=793208096","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Fri, 03 Jan 2020 09:03:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 02 Jan 2020 21:29:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Fri, 03 Jan 2020 09:03:17 -0500","path":"/news/11793796/u-s-kills-top-iranian-military-leader-in-airstrike","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 2:12 p.m. PT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. forces assassinated Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in an airstrike late Thursday, Eastern time. The strike, near the Baghdad International Airport, was an escalation of tensions between Washington and Tehran that is prompting concerns of further violence in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense Secretary Mark Esper \u003ca href=\"https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2049534/statement-by-the-department-of-defense/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said\u003c/a> the Pentagon took a \"decisive defensive action\" in killing Soleimani, who Esper says was plotting to target American diplomats and service members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This strike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans,\" Esper said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump, who authorized the attack, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/03/793293543/there-will-be-reprisals-democrats-warn-of-fallout-from-killing-of-iranian-genera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">made his first public remarks Friday afternoon \u003c/a>and defended the action as necessary to protect national security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war,\" Trump said from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11793871\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11793871\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/trumpreax.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/trumpreax.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/trumpreax-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/trumpreax-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/trumpreax-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/trumpreax-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump makes a statement at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on Jan. 3, 2020, a day after the U.S. launched an airstrike in Baghdad that killed a top Iranian general. Trump said that America does not seek war or regime change with Iran. \u003ccite>(Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For two decades, Soleimani led the elite Quds Force, a branch of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, responsible for the country's intelligence and military operations outside of Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamid Mousavi, a political science professor at the University of Tehran, said the strike stunned many Iranians who revere the military leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'America — and the world — cannot afford to have tensions escalate to the point of no return.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It would be akin to Iran assassinating the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,\" Mousavi told NPR. \"Essentially, it's an act of war.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Department on Friday urged U.S. citizens to immediately leave Iraq, where officials say the embassy in Baghdad was attacked by Iran-backed militias earlier in the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike on Soleimani came a week after a rocket attack in northern Iraq killed a U.S. contractor. American officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/01/792739572/why-the-u-s-embassy-in-iraq-became-a-target-of-anger-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said\u003c/a> an Iranian-backed militia was responsible. The Trump administration also tied Soleimani to recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/31/792579958/mob-angered-by-airstrikes-tries-to-storm-u-s-embassy-compound-in-baghdad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">violent protests\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement the airstrike against Soleimani was \"disproportionate,\" arguing that it \"risks provoking further dangerous escalation of violence. America — and the world — cannot afford to have tensions escalate to the point of no return.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1213096517063589890"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Oakland congresswoman Barbara Lee echoed Pelosi, saying the strike without congressional authorization was a \"dangerous escalation of tensions\" that brings the U.S. and Iran \"close to the brink of war.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We must work to prevent further military action in the region,\" Lee said in a statement. \"We have known for years that there is no military solution, and it’s past time to return to a diplomatic strategy with our allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congresswoman Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo, said in a statement that Trump has \" ... waved the red flag at Iran since the beginning of his Presidency and ignored the pleas of our Allies to remain in the [Iran nuclear deal].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans celebrated the killing of Soleimani, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1212929356424785920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saying\u003c/a> America is safer after the violent leader was brought to justice. But Democrats largely slammed the White House for not consulting Congress before the strike and worried the attack \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1212954668340563969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">would lead\u003c/a> to an \"almost inevitable escalation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iranian leaders quickly responded to the attack as well, expressing outrage over the killing. The country's foreign minister, Javad Zarif, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JZarif/status/1212946202280579073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called\u003c/a> it \"an act of international terrorism,\" saying the U.S. \"bears responsibility for all consequences of its rogue adventurism.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said in a statement on Iranian state TV that a \"harsh retaliation is waiting\" for the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11793824","label":"We want to hear from you ","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/GettyImages-1191140256-1-1020x680.jpg"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iranian President Hassan Rouhani \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/HassanRouhani/status/1213009152093696005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was\u003c/a> just as forceful, describing the strike as a \"heinous crime\" for which Iran will seek revenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike also killed Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an adviser to Soleimani.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So the biggest question now is how does Tehran respond?\" \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ilangoldenberg/status/1212938815121309696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote\u003c/a> Ilan Goldenberg, a Middle East security expert who worked on Iran issues in the Obama administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Targeting an American diplomatic facility or senior leader with a terrorist attack elsewhere in the world may feel proportional for the Iranians but this is very hard to pull off. Outside of the Mideast their capabilities are much more limited,\" Goldenberg \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ilangoldenberg/status/1212939867430309892\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naysan Rafati, a senior Iran analyst at the International Crisis Group, underscored just how significant the death of Soleimani is inside Iran, where he is among the country's most revered military leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a major blow to the Iranians, symbolically as well as strategically. There has been no individual as deeply associated with Iran's regional network of partners and proxies as Soleimani, which made him a hero to Tehran's allies and a villain without peer to its rivals,\" Rafati said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump, who is vacationing on his estate in Florida, tweeted a photo of an American flag with no other message. Trump had earlier vowed that Iran would \"pay a very big price\" for the unrest at the U.S. embassy compound in Baghdad.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Soleimani and the Quds Force\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Soleimani was one of Iran's most powerful and shadowy figures. As leader of the Quds Force, he was said to be responsible for the country's development and coordination with militias and proxy forces throughout the Middle East. U.S. officials accuse him of coordinating Iraqi militia attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. officials have also accused Soleimani of sponsoring terrorism and singled him out as a major figure for decades. The Trump administration placed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — which includes the Quds Force — on the State Department's list of terrorist groups. It was the first time a government's official military was placed on the list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norman Roule, now retired, tracked Iran through his career with the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. He told NPR's \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> the death of Soleimani was significant.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1212922169539407878"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\"You can expect seismic waves to go through the Shia communities of Lebanon, Iraq and Iran,\" Roule said. \"You can expect that the Iranians and the Iraqi militia groups will certainly seek some sort of retribution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roule called Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was also killed, Soleimani's \"senior-most lieutenant in the Iraqi military architecture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roule said he believed the U.S. would not have carried out the strikes unless \"a significant terrorist attack was underway or about to be undertaken by these individuals and if neutralizing these individuals would prevent that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"iran","label":"Related coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soleimani's Quds Force is a \"sort of a mixture of our special operations and Central Intelligence Agency,\" according to Roule. \"He [had] been given charge of Iran's foreign policy in the region and in essence he used that authority to create a series of militias based on the Lebanese Hezbollah.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a military commander he would not actually rank in capacity or stature with a first-world military commander, such as a U.S. general. However, his political reach was vast ... in that Iran basically ceded its regional activities to his purview,\" Roule said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/07/27/632933227/commander-of-irans-quds-force-we-are-ready-if-u-s-attacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In 2018\u003c/a>, Soleimani spoke with political authority when he responded to a tweet by President Trump, who said Iran would \"suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before\" if it repeated threats against the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soleimani was \u003ca href=\"https://en.mehrnews.com/news/136088/We-are-closer-to-you-than-you-think-Gen-Soleimani-to-Trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quoted by the semiofficial Tasnim news agency\u003c/a>: \"As a soldier, it is my duty to respond to your threats,\" he said. \"It is not in our president's dignity to respond to you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Come. We are ready,\" Soleimani said, accusing Trump of using \"the language of nightclubs and gambling halls.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you begin the war, we will end the war,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Peter Jon Shuler contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post will be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\"> NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11793796/u-s-kills-top-iranian-military-leader-in-airstrike","authors":["byline_news_11793796"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_1323","news_19542","news_339","news_233","news_17827","news_27247"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11793912","label":"source_news_11793796"},"news_11793229":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11793229","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11793229","score":null,"sort":[1577650109000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"u-s-steps-up-deportations-to-iraq-despite-worsening-violence-there","title":"U.S. Steps Up Deportations to Iraq, Despite Worsening Violence There","publishDate":1577650109,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>The apartment in Baghdad where Jimmy Aldaoud lived — and died, just two months after being deported from the U.S. — has been cleaned and emptied. But on the windowsill in the bedroom, there's a remnant of the fear he felt about being sent to a country where he'd never been: two plastic toy pistols with orange foam tips and bright pink suction-cup darts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He would sleep with these in his hands,\" says Samir Kada, another deportee from the U.S. who lives next door and looked out for him. \"He said, 'If anybody comes, I'm going to pull it on them. I swear to God.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldaoud, 41, died Aug. 6, two weeks after\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/2228632/videos/10111835012432033/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> making a video\u003c/a> saying he was scared and sick, and begging to go back to the United States. His family and friends say he had diabetes and had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the apartment, next to the toy guns, there's an unused syringe for the insulin Aldaoud would forget to refrigerate and leave out in the heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldaoud's death caused an outcry in his Michigan community of Chaldean Christians, a minority that, along with other minorities, has faced discrimination and sometimes persecution and even targeted killings in Iraq. Human rights groups and members of Congress have called for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2537/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> to delay deportations.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='immigration' label='Related Coverage.']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, the Trump administration ordered stepped-up deportations of Iraqis convicted of felonies who were in the U.S. legally but had not become citizens. U.S. and international law prevent deportation back to countries where deportees would be under threat. But ICE has continued to deport Iraqis to a country now wracked by anti-government protests and renewed violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the deportees hadn't seen Iraq since they were children, and some had never seen it at all. Most served time for felonies in U.S. prisons years ago, and those convictions have prevented them from becoming citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldaoud was born in Greece to Iraqi refugee parents who came to the U.S. legally in 1979, when he was a baby. He spoke no Arabic and had never been to Iraq when ICE picked him up in Michigan as part of a sweep in 2017. He'd served time for convictions in a series of criminal charges over the course of two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After almost two years in immigration detention, the 41-year-old Christian man was sent to Najaf, a Shiite holy city in southern Iraq.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"His family called me. They told me, 'Please go pick up Jimmy.' I mean, you know, he ain't got no papers. He ain't got no clothes — nothing, nothing — not even a penny,\" says Kada, another member of Michigan's Chaldean Christian community, deported in 2018. \"Anyways, he came, and he went into a depression.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kada and others who knew Aldaoud say he was afraid to leave the apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He talked to himself all day — 'God, please take me back home; please, God, I don't know nothing over here. I'm scared. I'm Christian. I'm this, I'm that.' He was walking over here naked, like, with no clothes. I told him, 'We can't do that over here.' Like, he was going crazy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kada, 39, says ICE deported Aldaoud with a month's worth of insulin and no other medication. Asked by NPR, ICE would say only that it deported him with an adequate supply of medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldaoud called Kada in early August, crying, saying he was on the floor and he couldn't breathe. An ambulance took Aldaoud to the hospital, which discharged him a few hours later. When an Iraqi friend checked on him later that same day, he found Aldaoud lifeless on the floor. The morgue listed Aldaoud's cause of death as heart failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\"I don't have anything to prove who I am\"\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Most of the deportees have no valid Iraqi identification documents. They are sent from the U.S. with no passport, only a one-way travel document known as a \u003cem>laissez passer,\u003c/em> issued by the Iraqi Embassy in Washington, D.C. With no way to prove who they are, they are subject to arrest at Iraqi checkpoints, can't rent apartments or even receive money via wire transfers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can't speak Arabic,\" says Kada. \"We can't read and write. We can't do nothing. We can't go anywhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nashat Butris was deported in July with no money and no clothes. He says he stayed with Jimmy Aldaoud for a few days when he arrived. Now he has a bunk in a sparsely furnished room at a shelter run by a church in Baghdad. He has no relatives in Iraq and speaks only broken Arabic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Samir Kada']'We can't read and write. We can't do nothing. We can't go anywhere.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just shocking. Everything is shocking to me,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butris' deportation resulted from a conviction for cocaine possession years ago. The\u003cem> laissez passer\u003c/em> issued by the Iraqi Embassy includes a photo of him wearing an orange prison jumpsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This government here, they're not believing in this travel document,\" he says. \"I have no IDs and I'm not allowed to leave this compound because I don't have anything to prove who I am.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kada, who owned businesses in Michigan, is luckier than most. He has money — enough to pay for the Iraqi ID he says cost him $6,000, and which allows him greater freedom of movement than other deportees. But most, like Butris and Aldaoud, have little or nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\"We don't want another Jimmy Aldaoud\"\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, the Iraqi Embassy has issued travel documents for about 140 Iraqis due to be deported, according to a foreign ministry official in Baghdad who asked not to be identified in order to speak with NPR candidly. So far, about 60 of those 140 have been deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Aldaoud's death, the embassy stopped issuing travel documents for those scheduled for deportation but known to have significant health problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't want another Jimmy Aldaoud,\" said the foreign ministry source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the deportees agree to be sent to Iraq simply to avoid what ICE tells them could be years in immigration detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Honestly, the pressure that the United States government put on me and what I had to endure, this was the only way to get physical freedom,\" explains Benjamin Rayes, 47, a machine tool autoworker in Michigan who was deported to Iraq in early December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rayes served four years in a U.S. prison for insurance fraud. After his release from a halfway house two years ago, ICE arrested him and placed him in immigration detention before putting him on a plane to Baghdad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Benjamin Rayes']'Honestly, the pressure that the United States government put on me and what I had to endure, this was the only way to get physical freedom'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His life so far in Iraq is tightly constrained. The father of two girls, ages 7 and 10, Rayes says he was interrogated for hours when he landed in Baghdad without an Iraqi ID. His Chaldean Christian family is originally from the north of Iraq, but all of his relatives have emigrated. For now, he's staying with friends of friends in the south of Iraq. Without ID, he can't travel even within the country to apply for the documents he needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding to the challenges facing deportees is the worsening violence since anti-government protests began raging in Baghdad and the southern provinces in October. Iranian-backed militias that are believed responsible for killing and abducting protesters blame \"U.S. agents\" for fomenting the protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already in danger of arrest and detention, Iraqis affiliated with the U.S. risk being accused of being U.S. spies. For many deportees, tattoos, American accents and lack of Arabic language skills make them easy targets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite intense pressure on Iraq to accept more deportees, Iraq refused until last year to issue travel documents for Iraqi citizens who refuse deportation. That policy changed with a new Iraqi government last year, according to another foreign ministry official, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\"They tell me I'm not welcome\"\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Almost two years after he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/26/662218863/they-know-i-m-different-deportee-struggles-in-iraq-after-decades-living-in-u-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deported\u003c/a>, Naser al-Shimary lives in fear in southern Iraq. He was beaten last year by a group of strangers, and his neighbors were too frightened to help him. Now he sleeps with a kitchen knife next to him for protection. At night, he padlocks himself into the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People refer to me as 'the American,' \" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Samir Kada and other deportees, Shimary has visible tattoos, uncommon in Iraq. He says mosques refuse to let him in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They tell me I'm not welcome because tattoos signify bad character,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He loves his pet dog, but that's caused trouble for him too. People in his neighborhood tell him dogs are religiously unclean and he fears she will be poisoned. \"She is all the friends and family I have here,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shimary, who used to play chess with Jimmy Aldaoud back in the U.S. while they were both in ICE detention, is a U.S.-certified mechanic. But he has struggled to find work in the south and is afraid to take a job in Baghdad or farther north, areas he thinks would be even more dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the U.S., he had an auto body shop. His partner and son, who recently turned 5, are still there. The two visited him in Baghdad last year, but Shimary believes it's too dangerous in Iraq for them to return. He's hoping to find a way to resettle in another country with his family. For now, he relies on video calls to his son — including one to wish him happy birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was like, 'Papa, I saved you a piece of cake. If you want it, you gotta come here and get it,' \" he says. Shimary says he laughed, \"because I can't show weakness,\" but says it hurt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He knows he won't be going back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=U.S.+Steps+Up+Deportations+To+Iraq%2C+Despite+Worsening+Violence+There&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Many deportees have arrived in Iraq without money, valid IDs or knowledge of the language and country. They struggle to find work and fear going out. \"Everything is shocking to me,\" one deportee says.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1577650109,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":44,"wordCount":1752},"headData":{"title":"U.S. Steps Up Deportations to Iraq, Despite Worsening Violence There | KQED","description":"Many deportees have arrived in Iraq without money, valid IDs or knowledge of the language and country. They struggle to find work and fear going out. 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But on the windowsill in the bedroom, there's a remnant of the fear he felt about being sent to a country where he'd never been: two plastic toy pistols with orange foam tips and bright pink suction-cup darts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He would sleep with these in his hands,\" says Samir Kada, another deportee from the U.S. who lives next door and looked out for him. \"He said, 'If anybody comes, I'm going to pull it on them. I swear to God.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldaoud, 41, died Aug. 6, two weeks after\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/2228632/videos/10111835012432033/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> making a video\u003c/a> saying he was scared and sick, and begging to go back to the United States. His family and friends say he had diabetes and had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the apartment, next to the toy guns, there's an unused syringe for the insulin Aldaoud would forget to refrigerate and leave out in the heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldaoud's death caused an outcry in his Michigan community of Chaldean Christians, a minority that, along with other minorities, has faced discrimination and sometimes persecution and even targeted killings in Iraq. Human rights groups and members of Congress have called for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2537/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> to delay deportations.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"immigration","label":"Related Coverage. "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, the Trump administration ordered stepped-up deportations of Iraqis convicted of felonies who were in the U.S. legally but had not become citizens. U.S. and international law prevent deportation back to countries where deportees would be under threat. But ICE has continued to deport Iraqis to a country now wracked by anti-government protests and renewed violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the deportees hadn't seen Iraq since they were children, and some had never seen it at all. Most served time for felonies in U.S. prisons years ago, and those convictions have prevented them from becoming citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldaoud was born in Greece to Iraqi refugee parents who came to the U.S. legally in 1979, when he was a baby. He spoke no Arabic and had never been to Iraq when ICE picked him up in Michigan as part of a sweep in 2017. He'd served time for convictions in a series of criminal charges over the course of two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After almost two years in immigration detention, the 41-year-old Christian man was sent to Najaf, a Shiite holy city in southern Iraq.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"His family called me. They told me, 'Please go pick up Jimmy.' I mean, you know, he ain't got no papers. He ain't got no clothes — nothing, nothing — not even a penny,\" says Kada, another member of Michigan's Chaldean Christian community, deported in 2018. \"Anyways, he came, and he went into a depression.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kada and others who knew Aldaoud say he was afraid to leave the apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He talked to himself all day — 'God, please take me back home; please, God, I don't know nothing over here. I'm scared. I'm Christian. I'm this, I'm that.' He was walking over here naked, like, with no clothes. I told him, 'We can't do that over here.' Like, he was going crazy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kada, 39, says ICE deported Aldaoud with a month's worth of insulin and no other medication. Asked by NPR, ICE would say only that it deported him with an adequate supply of medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldaoud called Kada in early August, crying, saying he was on the floor and he couldn't breathe. An ambulance took Aldaoud to the hospital, which discharged him a few hours later. When an Iraqi friend checked on him later that same day, he found Aldaoud lifeless on the floor. The morgue listed Aldaoud's cause of death as heart failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\"I don't have anything to prove who I am\"\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Most of the deportees have no valid Iraqi identification documents. They are sent from the U.S. with no passport, only a one-way travel document known as a \u003cem>laissez passer,\u003c/em> issued by the Iraqi Embassy in Washington, D.C. With no way to prove who they are, they are subject to arrest at Iraqi checkpoints, can't rent apartments or even receive money via wire transfers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can't speak Arabic,\" says Kada. \"We can't read and write. We can't do nothing. We can't go anywhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nashat Butris was deported in July with no money and no clothes. He says he stayed with Jimmy Aldaoud for a few days when he arrived. Now he has a bunk in a sparsely furnished room at a shelter run by a church in Baghdad. He has no relatives in Iraq and speaks only broken Arabic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We can't read and write. We can't do nothing. We can't go anywhere.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Samir Kada","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just shocking. Everything is shocking to me,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butris' deportation resulted from a conviction for cocaine possession years ago. The\u003cem> laissez passer\u003c/em> issued by the Iraqi Embassy includes a photo of him wearing an orange prison jumpsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This government here, they're not believing in this travel document,\" he says. \"I have no IDs and I'm not allowed to leave this compound because I don't have anything to prove who I am.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kada, who owned businesses in Michigan, is luckier than most. He has money — enough to pay for the Iraqi ID he says cost him $6,000, and which allows him greater freedom of movement than other deportees. But most, like Butris and Aldaoud, have little or nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\"We don't want another Jimmy Aldaoud\"\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, the Iraqi Embassy has issued travel documents for about 140 Iraqis due to be deported, according to a foreign ministry official in Baghdad who asked not to be identified in order to speak with NPR candidly. So far, about 60 of those 140 have been deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Aldaoud's death, the embassy stopped issuing travel documents for those scheduled for deportation but known to have significant health problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't want another Jimmy Aldaoud,\" said the foreign ministry source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the deportees agree to be sent to Iraq simply to avoid what ICE tells them could be years in immigration detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Honestly, the pressure that the United States government put on me and what I had to endure, this was the only way to get physical freedom,\" explains Benjamin Rayes, 47, a machine tool autoworker in Michigan who was deported to Iraq in early December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rayes served four years in a U.S. prison for insurance fraud. After his release from a halfway house two years ago, ICE arrested him and placed him in immigration detention before putting him on a plane to Baghdad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Honestly, the pressure that the United States government put on me and what I had to endure, this was the only way to get physical freedom'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Benjamin Rayes","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His life so far in Iraq is tightly constrained. The father of two girls, ages 7 and 10, Rayes says he was interrogated for hours when he landed in Baghdad without an Iraqi ID. His Chaldean Christian family is originally from the north of Iraq, but all of his relatives have emigrated. For now, he's staying with friends of friends in the south of Iraq. Without ID, he can't travel even within the country to apply for the documents he needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding to the challenges facing deportees is the worsening violence since anti-government protests began raging in Baghdad and the southern provinces in October. Iranian-backed militias that are believed responsible for killing and abducting protesters blame \"U.S. agents\" for fomenting the protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already in danger of arrest and detention, Iraqis affiliated with the U.S. risk being accused of being U.S. spies. For many deportees, tattoos, American accents and lack of Arabic language skills make them easy targets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite intense pressure on Iraq to accept more deportees, Iraq refused until last year to issue travel documents for Iraqi citizens who refuse deportation. That policy changed with a new Iraqi government last year, according to another foreign ministry official, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\"They tell me I'm not welcome\"\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Almost two years after he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/26/662218863/they-know-i-m-different-deportee-struggles-in-iraq-after-decades-living-in-u-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deported\u003c/a>, Naser al-Shimary lives in fear in southern Iraq. He was beaten last year by a group of strangers, and his neighbors were too frightened to help him. Now he sleeps with a kitchen knife next to him for protection. At night, he padlocks himself into the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People refer to me as 'the American,' \" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Samir Kada and other deportees, Shimary has visible tattoos, uncommon in Iraq. He says mosques refuse to let him in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They tell me I'm not welcome because tattoos signify bad character,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He loves his pet dog, but that's caused trouble for him too. People in his neighborhood tell him dogs are religiously unclean and he fears she will be poisoned. \"She is all the friends and family I have here,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shimary, who used to play chess with Jimmy Aldaoud back in the U.S. while they were both in ICE detention, is a U.S.-certified mechanic. But he has struggled to find work in the south and is afraid to take a job in Baghdad or farther north, areas he thinks would be even more dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the U.S., he had an auto body shop. His partner and son, who recently turned 5, are still there. The two visited him in Baghdad last year, but Shimary believes it's too dangerous in Iraq for them to return. He's hoping to find a way to resettle in another country with his family. For now, he relies on video calls to his son — including one to wish him happy birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was like, 'Papa, I saved you a piece of cake. If you want it, you gotta come here and get it,' \" he says. Shimary says he laughed, \"because I can't show weakness,\" but says it hurt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He knows he won't be going back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=U.S.+Steps+Up+Deportations+To+Iraq%2C+Despite+Worsening+Violence+There&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11793229/u-s-steps-up-deportations-to-iraq-despite-worsening-violence-there","authors":["byline_news_11793229"],"categories":["news_1169","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_20202","news_233"],"featImg":"news_11793230","label":"source_news_11793229"},"news_11791133":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11791133","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11791133","score":null,"sort":[1576506422000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-large-chaldean-iraqi-population-is-thriving-in-the-san-diego-suburbs","title":"A Large Chaldean Iraqi Population is Thriving in the San Diego Suburbs","publishDate":1576506422,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Dream | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Walk down Main Street in El Cajon and you feel like you're on the set of an old Western. The wide street is lined with old-fashioned storefronts selling antique furniture and used clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Sunday evening, people were swing dancing to country music at a restaurant called Downtown Cafe. But across the street in a park, there was a different scene: more than 100 people gathered in solidarity with the on-going street protests in Iraq over alleged corruption and economic hardships. They made speeches and sang in Arabic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedad Schlotte is the vice-president of the San Diego chapter of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/adcnational/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee\u003c/a> and a leader at the protest. She said the protests demonstrated the dichotomy she inhabits: She moved to the U.S. in the 1980s but still feels a strong connection with Iraq.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791146\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/16/a-large-chaldean-iraqi-population-is-thriving-in-the-san-diego-suburbs/20191110_161730/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11791146\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11791146\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191110_161730.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191110_161730.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191110_161730-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191110_161730-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191110_161730-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191110_161730-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191110_161730-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191110_161730-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191110_161730-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191110_161730-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191110_161730-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wedad Schlotte, the vice-president of the San Diego chapter of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, helps lead a protest in El Cajon, Nov. 10, 2019. \u003ccite>(Claire Trageser/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I feel torn between my country, United States, and between my homeland,\" she said. \"I came to the United States to study and return. But I fell in love with the democracy and the sense of justice and the educational opportunities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This dichotomy is something a lot of people feel in El Cajon. The city lies about 10 miles inland from San Diego, and its population is more than 70% white, with generally conservative, Republican politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in recent decades, the city has been changing — it's now home to one of the largest populations in the country of Chaldeans, a persecuted religious and ethnic minority from Iraq. They are part of a larger Middle Eastern community in El Cajon, with refugees and immigrants from Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are about \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sd-me-readersrepnb-0528-story.html\">15,000\u003c/a> Chaldeans in El Cajon, and the community has made its stamp on the city. Restaurants, clothing stores, jewelry shops and corner markets are owned by Chaldeans, catering to their community. Plus, there are Chaldean schools and churches, even a Chaldean radio station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besma Coda, who works for \u003ca href=\"http://www.syhc.org/cmss-medical-services/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chaldean Middle Eastern Social Services\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization that helps new arrivals adjust to their new city, said once El Cajon was established as a destination for Chaldeans, that's where refugees want to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If people first move to Tennessee or somewhere else in the country, when they hear about the community here they would take their stuff after they resettle and they would come to El Cajon,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is still one area where Coda would like to see Chaldeans make more progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Political, we're not there yet,\" she said. \"But I'm hoping the new generation, I hope they would be involved with politics and get into higher positions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791147\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/16/a-large-chaldean-iraqi-population-is-thriving-in-the-san-diego-suburbs/20191015_151937/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11791147\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11791147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191015_151937.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191015_151937.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191015_151937-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191015_151937-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191015_151937-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191015_151937-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191015_151937-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191015_151937-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191015_151937-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191015_151937-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191015_151937-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Aqrawi opens the door to his new real estate office in El Cajon. \u003ccite>(Claire Trageser/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That may happen in the November 2020 election. Mike Aqrawi is one of the area’s top real estate agents, catering specifically to the Chaldean community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Seventy percent of my clients are Middle Eastern and Chaldean, and 30% are local residents who are selling their homes to my clients,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now he’s running for a seat on the El Cajon City Council, vying to be one of the first to represent the interests of his community. Those interests divide into two groups, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are people who migrate, and they are low-income. They live in apartments, and they're trying to improve their lives; and they have those challenges,\" Aqrawi said. \"And the other people who are improving their lives, trying to improve El Cajon by opening more businesses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent arrivals need reduced crime and better services, while people who have been in El Cajon longer need easier permitting processes and better city planning to help open businesses, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, no one is challenging Aqrawi for the City Council seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of enduring religious persecution in Iraq, the community is hoping new political power will move them from the sidelines to become an even more interwoven part of their city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Dream series is a statewide media collaboration of CalMatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the James Irvine Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11768052\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219-160x44.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In recent decades, the city has been changing. It's now home to one of the largest populations in the country of Chaldeans, a persecuted religious and ethnic minority from Iraq.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1576521925,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":730},"headData":{"title":"A Large Chaldean Iraqi Population is Thriving in the San Diego Suburbs | KQED","description":"In recent decades, the city has been changing. It's now home to one of the largest populations in the country of Chaldeans, a persecuted religious and ethnic minority from Iraq.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"A Large Chaldean Iraqi Population is Thriving in the San Diego Suburbs","datePublished":"2019-12-16T14:27:02.000Z","dateModified":"2019-12-16T18:45:25.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11791133 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11791133","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/16/a-large-chaldean-iraqi-population-is-thriving-in-the-san-diego-suburbs/","disqusTitle":"A Large Chaldean Iraqi Population is Thriving in the San Diego Suburbs","source":"KPBS","sourceUrl":"https://www.kpbs.org/news/2019/dec/03/large-chaldean-iraqi-population-thriving-san-diego/","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/staff/claire-trageser/\">Claire Trageser\u003c/a>\u003cbr>KPBS","audioTrackLength":266,"path":"/news/11791133/a-large-chaldean-iraqi-population-is-thriving-in-the-san-diego-suburbs","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2019/12/TrageserChaldean.mp3","audioDuration":265000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Walk down Main Street in El Cajon and you feel like you're on the set of an old Western. The wide street is lined with old-fashioned storefronts selling antique furniture and used clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Sunday evening, people were swing dancing to country music at a restaurant called Downtown Cafe. But across the street in a park, there was a different scene: more than 100 people gathered in solidarity with the on-going street protests in Iraq over alleged corruption and economic hardships. They made speeches and sang in Arabic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedad Schlotte is the vice-president of the San Diego chapter of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/adcnational/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee\u003c/a> and a leader at the protest. She said the protests demonstrated the dichotomy she inhabits: She moved to the U.S. in the 1980s but still feels a strong connection with Iraq.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791146\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/16/a-large-chaldean-iraqi-population-is-thriving-in-the-san-diego-suburbs/20191110_161730/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11791146\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11791146\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191110_161730.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191110_161730.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191110_161730-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191110_161730-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191110_161730-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191110_161730-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191110_161730-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191110_161730-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191110_161730-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191110_161730-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191110_161730-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wedad Schlotte, the vice-president of the San Diego chapter of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, helps lead a protest in El Cajon, Nov. 10, 2019. \u003ccite>(Claire Trageser/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I feel torn between my country, United States, and between my homeland,\" she said. \"I came to the United States to study and return. But I fell in love with the democracy and the sense of justice and the educational opportunities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This dichotomy is something a lot of people feel in El Cajon. The city lies about 10 miles inland from San Diego, and its population is more than 70% white, with generally conservative, Republican politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in recent decades, the city has been changing — it's now home to one of the largest populations in the country of Chaldeans, a persecuted religious and ethnic minority from Iraq. They are part of a larger Middle Eastern community in El Cajon, with refugees and immigrants from Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are about \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sd-me-readersrepnb-0528-story.html\">15,000\u003c/a> Chaldeans in El Cajon, and the community has made its stamp on the city. Restaurants, clothing stores, jewelry shops and corner markets are owned by Chaldeans, catering to their community. Plus, there are Chaldean schools and churches, even a Chaldean radio station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besma Coda, who works for \u003ca href=\"http://www.syhc.org/cmss-medical-services/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chaldean Middle Eastern Social Services\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization that helps new arrivals adjust to their new city, said once El Cajon was established as a destination for Chaldeans, that's where refugees want to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If people first move to Tennessee or somewhere else in the country, when they hear about the community here they would take their stuff after they resettle and they would come to El Cajon,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is still one area where Coda would like to see Chaldeans make more progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Political, we're not there yet,\" she said. \"But I'm hoping the new generation, I hope they would be involved with politics and get into higher positions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791147\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/16/a-large-chaldean-iraqi-population-is-thriving-in-the-san-diego-suburbs/20191015_151937/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11791147\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11791147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191015_151937.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191015_151937.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191015_151937-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191015_151937-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191015_151937-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191015_151937-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191015_151937-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191015_151937-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191015_151937-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191015_151937-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/20191015_151937-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Aqrawi opens the door to his new real estate office in El Cajon. \u003ccite>(Claire Trageser/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That may happen in the November 2020 election. Mike Aqrawi is one of the area’s top real estate agents, catering specifically to the Chaldean community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Seventy percent of my clients are Middle Eastern and Chaldean, and 30% are local residents who are selling their homes to my clients,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now he’s running for a seat on the El Cajon City Council, vying to be one of the first to represent the interests of his community. Those interests divide into two groups, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are people who migrate, and they are low-income. They live in apartments, and they're trying to improve their lives; and they have those challenges,\" Aqrawi said. \"And the other people who are improving their lives, trying to improve El Cajon by opening more businesses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent arrivals need reduced crime and better services, while people who have been in El Cajon longer need easier permitting processes and better city planning to help open businesses, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, no one is challenging Aqrawi for the City Council seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of enduring religious persecution in Iraq, the community is hoping new political power will move them from the sidelines to become an even more interwoven part of their city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Dream series is a statewide media collaboration of CalMatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the James Irvine Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11768052\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219-160x44.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11791133/a-large-chaldean-iraqi-population-is-thriving-in-the-san-diego-suburbs","authors":["byline_news_11791133"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_21879"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19999","news_20611","news_233","news_19006","news_4486","news_26775","news_26543"],"affiliates":["news_7054"],"featImg":"news_11791145","label":"source_news_11791133"},"news_11143844":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11143844","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11143844","score":null,"sort":[1477333976000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"u-s-soldiers-told-to-repay-thousands-in-signing-bonuses-from-height-of-war-effort","title":"California Soldiers Told to Repay Signing Bonuses From Height of War Effort","publishDate":1477333976,"format":"image","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>In most cases, when an employer pays a signing bonus to attract new workers, that payment is understood to be essentially unrecoverable. But the Pentagon has a different understanding — and it's ordering the California National Guard to claw back thousands of dollars paid to soldiers who re-enlisted to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in many cases, an employer would also have a tough time arguing that decade-old lapses in its own oversight should trigger wage garnishments and tax liens against its workers. But again, this is the U.S. military, and its officials say the law requires them to reclaim the overpayments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the gist of a report by \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-national-guard-bonus-20161020-snap-story.html\">the Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>, which says nearly 10,000 soldiers are now scrambling to pay back signing bonuses that helped the Pentagon cope with the task of using an all-volunteer service to fight two prolonged international conflicts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to doling out cash for re-enlistment, the Pentagon offered student loan repayments. The incentives were seen as crucial to the military's effort to keep its ranks flush, but auditors say the rules should have limited the largest payments to certain skill areas — and that in the rush to staff the war effort, the bonuses were given out too liberally, the L.A. Times reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We have to change the law to make this right.'\u003ccite>Congressman John Garamendi\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Responding to the newspaper's story Sunday, the California National Guard points out that the repayments are part of a federal program run by the National Guard Bureau and the Department of the Army.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CAGUARD/posts/10154523711193796\">The state military service says\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The California National Guard does not have the authority to unilaterally waive these debts. However, the California National Guard welcomes any law passed by Congress to waive these debts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Until that time, our priority is to advocate for our Soldiers through this difficult process.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In its statement, the service adds that its adjutant general, Maj. Gen. David S. Baldwin, created an assistance center that has helped some of its soldiers retain $37 million \"of original bonus payments.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem of improper use of military troop-level incentives isn't limited to California — but the state has emerged as a focal point because of two factors: the large size of its guard force, and a history of overpayments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento Valley Congressman John Garamendi, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, says he's proposing legislation to change a federal law that would require the soldiers to return the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it is disgusting. These men and women answered the country’s call. They went off to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan and many were wounded in many different ways, their lives were disrupted. The signing bonuses were appropriate at the time. And then to go back years later and to say 'well there were some mistakes made by the recruiting officers and therefore we want all the money back' is absolutely unacceptable. And we have to change the law to make this right,\" Garamendi says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Garamendi's legislative fix is approved, any service member who accepted a recruiting bonus between 2005 and 2009 would not be required to return any money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A scandal over the California National Guard's use of bonus money was first unearthed in 2010, when \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/article2573111.html\">the Sacramento Bee reported\u003c/a> that its incentive program had misspent as much as $100 million. The program's onetime leader, former Master Sgt. Toni Jaffe, was later \u003ca href=\"https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/losangeles/press-releases/2012/former-california-national-guard-master-sergeant-sentenced-to-30-months-in-federal-prison-in-15-million-false-claims-case\">sentenced to 30 months in prison\u003c/a>, after pleading guilty to making $15 million in false claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it was first discovered, that scandal was deemed \"war profiteering\" and was said to have benefited guard members who hadn't logged any combat duty; high-ranking officers were mentioned. But in the years since, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/article2580422.html\">lower-ranking service members have complained\u003c/a> about garnished checks and a prolonged review process, saying they've done nothing wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the work of 42 auditors who reviewed the California cases now complete, the repayments are back in the spotlight — and service members and veterans, as well as members of the public, have been venting their anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CAGUARD/?hc_ref=SEARCH\">California guard's Facebook page\u003c/a>, several people hijacked a post about training to comment on the bonus repayments, with one man writing, \"The officials who screwed over our service members need to do the right thing and pay back the money. DISGUSTING.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And after the guard responded to the Times story Monday, a commenter criticized its stance, writing, \"Meanwhile vets are suffering while one bureaucracy waits to 'welcome' another bureaucracy to take responsibility and force it to do the right thing. Pathetic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Revelations about fraud and mismanagement in the Pentagon's retention program emerged after the program's budget swelled between 2000 and 2008 — when the Defense Department went from spending $891 million for selective re-enlistment bonuses to spending $1.4 billion on them, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2010/RAND_MG950.pdf\">a 2010 research paper by the RAND defense institute\u003c/a>. By the end of that period, the military was also spending $625 million yearly to pay enlistment bonuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not unusual for signing bonuses to have strings attached. But in the civilian world, conditions for repayment are often limited to cases where an employee spends less than a year in their new job. In the case of the California National Guard, soldiers who say they held up their end of the contract — serving the required three- or six-year re-enlistment period — are being told to repay a key incentive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them is Robert Richmond, who has \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/supreme-court-stop-army-from-taking-back-signing-bonuses-10-years-later-after-vets-completed-contracts\">begun an online petition\u003c/a> that calls for the Army to \"stop stealing back signing bonuses 10 years later.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond says he signed the contract in good faith, and in his petition, he describes a scenario that's reminiscent of the recent Wells Fargo cross-selling scandal, saying that a lower-ranking figure has been punished for committing fraud that was motivated at least in part by a need to meet targets set by her superiors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond also appears in the L.A. Times story; here's a sample from his petition:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Like many other soldiers, I honorably completed my contract in 2012 and two years later they sent me a letter stating I had to pay the money back. Each contract has a different excuse. They stated the reason I was not eligible for the contract was because I had over 20 years of service at the time. I had originally signed up more than 20 years prior, but had breaks in service and only had 15 credible years of service, not 20. Although at the time, they informed me I was eligible for a bonus, now they are saying I was not.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Like other veterans who are refusing to pay up, Richmond is now incurring interest on the repayment amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its General Rules about the recovery of pay and bonuses, \u003ca href=\"http://militarypay.defense.gov/Pay/Recoupment/Rules.aspx\">the Department of Defense states\u003c/a>, \"As a general rule, repayment will not be sought if the member's inability to fulfill the eligibility requirements is due to circumstances determined reasonably beyond the member's control.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after dozens of auditors reviewed its system that had paid soldiers bonuses without determining their eligibility, the California National Guard's veterans started getting repayment notices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People like me just got screwed,\" a 42-year-old veteran tells the Times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That veteran, former Army Capt. Christopher Van Meter, fought in Iraq. He tells the newspaper he refinanced his mortgage to repay $25,000 in re-enlistment bonuses and $21,000 in student loan repayments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another veteran — former Army Master Sgt. Susan Haley, who served in Afghanistan and spent more than 25 years in the service — tells the newspaper that she's now sending the Pentagon $650 each month to repay $20,500 in bonuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel totally betrayed,\" Haley says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put those dollar figures in perspective, we can look at \u003ca href=\"http://army.com/sites/army.com/files/r601_280.pdf\">the Army's payment and retention policy\u003c/a> — specifically, a summary of its Selective Reenlistment Bonus program that was laid out early in 2006:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The objective of the SRB program is to increase the number of reenlistments in critical MOSs [Military Occupational Specialty] that do not have adequate retention levels to man the career force. Although Department of Defense policy permits SRB payments of up to $45,000.00, soldiers may be paid bonuses up to six times their monthly basic pay at discharge, times the number of years of additional obligated service, or $20,000.00, whichever is less.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>While some veterans are working to repay the money, others are filing appeals, engaging in what's likely to be a prolonged fight against the service to which they once belonged. California National Guard officials tell the Times that they've been helping veterans through the appeals process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We'd be more than happy to absolve these people of their debts,\" Maj. Gen. Matthew Beevers, deputy commander of the California National Guard, tells the Times. \"We just can't do it. We'd be breaking the law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the earliest reviews of the Army's post-Iraq invasion bonus system came in 2007, when \u003ca href=\"http://www.dodig.mil/audit/reports/FY07/07-077.pdf\">the Defense Department's inspector general\u003c/a> examined the program called the Reenlistment, Reclassification, and Assignment System (RETAIN). But at the time, the central issue wasn't whether too much money was being paid, but rather whether the service was paying out bonuses quickly enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=U.S.+Soldiers+Told+To+Repay+Thousands+In+Signing+Bonuses+From+Height+Of+War+Effort&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Under threat of wage garnishes and tax liens, the California National Guard is pursuing bonuses it says it never should have paid.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1480544182,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":38,"wordCount":1590},"headData":{"title":"California Soldiers Told to Repay Signing Bonuses From Height of War Effort | KQED","description":"Under threat of wage garnishes and tax liens, the California National Guard is pursuing bonuses it says it never should have paid.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Soldiers Told to Repay Signing Bonuses From Height of War Effort","datePublished":"2016-10-24T18:32:56.000Z","dateModified":"2016-11-30T22:16:22.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11143844 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11143844","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/24/u-s-soldiers-told-to-repay-thousands-in-signing-bonuses-from-height-of-war-effort/","disqusTitle":"California Soldiers Told to Repay Signing Bonuses From Height of War Effort","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"http://www.npr.org/","nprImageCredit":"Brennan Linsley","nprByline":"Bill Chappell","nprImageAgency":"AP","nprStoryId":"499065155","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=499065155&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/23/499065155/u-s-soldiers-told-to-repay-thousands-in-signing-bonuses-from-height-of-war-effor?ft=nprml&f=499065155","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Mon, 24 Oct 2016 11:03:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Sun, 23 Oct 2016 14:43:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Mon, 24 Oct 2016 11:03:57 -0400","path":"/news/11143844/u-s-soldiers-told-to-repay-thousands-in-signing-bonuses-from-height-of-war-effort","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In most cases, when an employer pays a signing bonus to attract new workers, that payment is understood to be essentially unrecoverable. But the Pentagon has a different understanding — and it's ordering the California National Guard to claw back thousands of dollars paid to soldiers who re-enlisted to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in many cases, an employer would also have a tough time arguing that decade-old lapses in its own oversight should trigger wage garnishments and tax liens against its workers. But again, this is the U.S. military, and its officials say the law requires them to reclaim the overpayments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the gist of a report by \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-national-guard-bonus-20161020-snap-story.html\">the Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>, which says nearly 10,000 soldiers are now scrambling to pay back signing bonuses that helped the Pentagon cope with the task of using an all-volunteer service to fight two prolonged international conflicts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to doling out cash for re-enlistment, the Pentagon offered student loan repayments. The incentives were seen as crucial to the military's effort to keep its ranks flush, but auditors say the rules should have limited the largest payments to certain skill areas — and that in the rush to staff the war effort, the bonuses were given out too liberally, the L.A. Times reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We have to change the law to make this right.'\u003ccite>Congressman John Garamendi\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Responding to the newspaper's story Sunday, the California National Guard points out that the repayments are part of a federal program run by the National Guard Bureau and the Department of the Army.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CAGUARD/posts/10154523711193796\">The state military service says\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The California National Guard does not have the authority to unilaterally waive these debts. However, the California National Guard welcomes any law passed by Congress to waive these debts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Until that time, our priority is to advocate for our Soldiers through this difficult process.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In its statement, the service adds that its adjutant general, Maj. Gen. David S. Baldwin, created an assistance center that has helped some of its soldiers retain $37 million \"of original bonus payments.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem of improper use of military troop-level incentives isn't limited to California — but the state has emerged as a focal point because of two factors: the large size of its guard force, and a history of overpayments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento Valley Congressman John Garamendi, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, says he's proposing legislation to change a federal law that would require the soldiers to return the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it is disgusting. These men and women answered the country’s call. They went off to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan and many were wounded in many different ways, their lives were disrupted. The signing bonuses were appropriate at the time. And then to go back years later and to say 'well there were some mistakes made by the recruiting officers and therefore we want all the money back' is absolutely unacceptable. And we have to change the law to make this right,\" Garamendi says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Garamendi's legislative fix is approved, any service member who accepted a recruiting bonus between 2005 and 2009 would not be required to return any money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A scandal over the California National Guard's use of bonus money was first unearthed in 2010, when \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/article2573111.html\">the Sacramento Bee reported\u003c/a> that its incentive program had misspent as much as $100 million. The program's onetime leader, former Master Sgt. Toni Jaffe, was later \u003ca href=\"https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/losangeles/press-releases/2012/former-california-national-guard-master-sergeant-sentenced-to-30-months-in-federal-prison-in-15-million-false-claims-case\">sentenced to 30 months in prison\u003c/a>, after pleading guilty to making $15 million in false claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it was first discovered, that scandal was deemed \"war profiteering\" and was said to have benefited guard members who hadn't logged any combat duty; high-ranking officers were mentioned. But in the years since, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/article2580422.html\">lower-ranking service members have complained\u003c/a> about garnished checks and a prolonged review process, saying they've done nothing wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the work of 42 auditors who reviewed the California cases now complete, the repayments are back in the spotlight — and service members and veterans, as well as members of the public, have been venting their anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CAGUARD/?hc_ref=SEARCH\">California guard's Facebook page\u003c/a>, several people hijacked a post about training to comment on the bonus repayments, with one man writing, \"The officials who screwed over our service members need to do the right thing and pay back the money. DISGUSTING.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And after the guard responded to the Times story Monday, a commenter criticized its stance, writing, \"Meanwhile vets are suffering while one bureaucracy waits to 'welcome' another bureaucracy to take responsibility and force it to do the right thing. Pathetic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Revelations about fraud and mismanagement in the Pentagon's retention program emerged after the program's budget swelled between 2000 and 2008 — when the Defense Department went from spending $891 million for selective re-enlistment bonuses to spending $1.4 billion on them, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2010/RAND_MG950.pdf\">a 2010 research paper by the RAND defense institute\u003c/a>. By the end of that period, the military was also spending $625 million yearly to pay enlistment bonuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not unusual for signing bonuses to have strings attached. But in the civilian world, conditions for repayment are often limited to cases where an employee spends less than a year in their new job. In the case of the California National Guard, soldiers who say they held up their end of the contract — serving the required three- or six-year re-enlistment period — are being told to repay a key incentive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them is Robert Richmond, who has \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/supreme-court-stop-army-from-taking-back-signing-bonuses-10-years-later-after-vets-completed-contracts\">begun an online petition\u003c/a> that calls for the Army to \"stop stealing back signing bonuses 10 years later.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond says he signed the contract in good faith, and in his petition, he describes a scenario that's reminiscent of the recent Wells Fargo cross-selling scandal, saying that a lower-ranking figure has been punished for committing fraud that was motivated at least in part by a need to meet targets set by her superiors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond also appears in the L.A. Times story; here's a sample from his petition:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Like many other soldiers, I honorably completed my contract in 2012 and two years later they sent me a letter stating I had to pay the money back. Each contract has a different excuse. They stated the reason I was not eligible for the contract was because I had over 20 years of service at the time. I had originally signed up more than 20 years prior, but had breaks in service and only had 15 credible years of service, not 20. Although at the time, they informed me I was eligible for a bonus, now they are saying I was not.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Like other veterans who are refusing to pay up, Richmond is now incurring interest on the repayment amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its General Rules about the recovery of pay and bonuses, \u003ca href=\"http://militarypay.defense.gov/Pay/Recoupment/Rules.aspx\">the Department of Defense states\u003c/a>, \"As a general rule, repayment will not be sought if the member's inability to fulfill the eligibility requirements is due to circumstances determined reasonably beyond the member's control.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after dozens of auditors reviewed its system that had paid soldiers bonuses without determining their eligibility, the California National Guard's veterans started getting repayment notices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People like me just got screwed,\" a 42-year-old veteran tells the Times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That veteran, former Army Capt. Christopher Van Meter, fought in Iraq. He tells the newspaper he refinanced his mortgage to repay $25,000 in re-enlistment bonuses and $21,000 in student loan repayments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another veteran — former Army Master Sgt. Susan Haley, who served in Afghanistan and spent more than 25 years in the service — tells the newspaper that she's now sending the Pentagon $650 each month to repay $20,500 in bonuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel totally betrayed,\" Haley says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put those dollar figures in perspective, we can look at \u003ca href=\"http://army.com/sites/army.com/files/r601_280.pdf\">the Army's payment and retention policy\u003c/a> — specifically, a summary of its Selective Reenlistment Bonus program that was laid out early in 2006:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The objective of the SRB program is to increase the number of reenlistments in critical MOSs [Military Occupational Specialty] that do not have adequate retention levels to man the career force. Although Department of Defense policy permits SRB payments of up to $45,000.00, soldiers may be paid bonuses up to six times their monthly basic pay at discharge, times the number of years of additional obligated service, or $20,000.00, whichever is less.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>While some veterans are working to repay the money, others are filing appeals, engaging in what's likely to be a prolonged fight against the service to which they once belonged. California National Guard officials tell the Times that they've been helping veterans through the appeals process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We'd be more than happy to absolve these people of their debts,\" Maj. Gen. Matthew Beevers, deputy commander of the California National Guard, tells the Times. \"We just can't do it. We'd be breaking the law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the earliest reviews of the Army's post-Iraq invasion bonus system came in 2007, when \u003ca href=\"http://www.dodig.mil/audit/reports/FY07/07-077.pdf\">the Defense Department's inspector general\u003c/a> examined the program called the Reenlistment, Reclassification, and Assignment System (RETAIN). But at the time, the central issue wasn't whether too much money was being paid, but rather whether the service was paying out bonuses quickly enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=U.S.+Soldiers+Told+To+Repay+Thousands+In+Signing+Bonuses+From+Height+Of+War+Effort&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11143844/u-s-soldiers-told-to-repay-thousands-in-signing-bonuses-from-height-of-war-effort","authors":["byline_news_11143844"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19537","news_20098","news_233","news_80","news_20100","news_17286"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11143850","label":"source_news_11143844"},"news_10796779":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10796779","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10796779","score":null,"sort":[1450339524000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"torn-from-their-homeland-bay-area-assyrians-yearn-for-persecution-to-end","title":"Torn From Their Homeland, Bay Area Assyrians Yearn for Persecution to End","publishDate":1450339524,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>On a recent Sunday morning inside Mar Yosip Assyrian Church of the East in San Jose, sunbeams slant through clouds of incense smoke onto the face of the Rev. Lawrance Namato as he leads his congregation in a liturgy nearly 2,000 years old. The suited men and veiled women in the pews — nearly all of them Assyrian — join in the ancient chants as they pray for peace and resolution to a crisis both historic and modern: the persecution of their brothers and sisters in the Middle East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indigenous to northern Iraq, Assyrians have lived in the region for more than 6,000 years. They converted as a people to Christianity in the first century A.D. and are one of the oldest continuous Christian communities in the world. But in the past century, violence and religious persecution have escalated, forcing most of them to seek safety in other countries. Some 10,000 now reside in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the rise of the self-described Islamic State, they now risk vanishing from their homeland altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is that “the Christians have nowhere to go,” said Namato, whose family fled Kirkuk, Iraq, when he was 14 as former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein rose to power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2LUkoEgF8A\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the parishioners at Mar Yosip are from Iraq or Iran, although a few are from Syria and other countries in the Middle East. Many in the community still have family in the Middle East: some who have remained by choice, others who are caught in the limbo of refugee camps as they await a chance at a new life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the rise of the Islamic State, Assyrians in the Bay Area have tried multiple avenues to help their relatives in the region. Some have petitioned the State Department to more forcefully defend Christians in the Middle East. Others are urging the United States Agency for International Development to directly fund Assyrian humanitarian aid groups. And others are working to get families approved for asylum in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Before the war the Assyrians [in Syria] had a good life and they were safe. Now, they are targeted by everybody.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But many in the community feel disappointed so far in the U.S. response. And there is a deep worry that this ancient group could disappear completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We kind of feel like our life is paralyzed,” said Rochelle Yousefian, president of the Assyrian American Association of San Jose. “The government that we are so proud of living in, in the country of peace, is not taking any actions. It’s not even open to listen to these atrocities. It makes us feel hopeless; it makes us unproductive because we don’t know what to do, we don’t know how to help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The history of Assyrian Christians in the Middle East has been punctuated by periods of violent persecution. In 1915, the year Assyrians call the Seyfo — “the year of the sword” — the Ottoman Empire slaughtered as many as 300,000 Assyrians. In 2003, it was estimated that 30,000 Assyrian Christians still lived in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq. But after the Islamic State captured the city in the summer of 2014, none remain — having been either killed or forced to flee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10796850\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10796850\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy.jpg\" alt=\"The Assyrian liturgy -- which has been used by the Assyrian Church of the East for nearly 2,000 years -- is printed in English and the Assyrian language.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Assyrian liturgy -- which has been used by the Assyrian Church of the East for nearly 2,000 years -- is printed in English and the Assyrian language. \u003ccite>(Kaitlyn Landgraf/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is a genocide,” said Albert Nissan, a Mar Yosip parishioner who emigrated from Baghdad in 1975 and has family members still living there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people who emptied Mosul of its Christians are the same people who bombed Paris,” he added, referring to the November attacks by Islamic extremists that killed 130 people and injured hundreds more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Safety in Syria\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, many Assyrians sought refuge in Syria, which was comparably peaceful at the time. But they were held in U.N. refugee camps “for years,” said Namato, and when civil war broke out in Syria five years ago, some were trapped again by the violence they had hoped to escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conditions for Assyrians in Syrian refugee camps are “horrible,” said Poline Maiel, a parishioner of Mar Yosip. Girls risk being kidnapped and Christians are frequently targets of violence, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever we think about [Syrian President Bashar al-] Assad, before the war the Assyrians [in Syria] had a good life and they were safe. Now, they are targeted by everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, the Islamic State captured around 230 Assyrian Christians in Syria and held them for a ransom of around $14 million. That month, Assyrian bishops in the United States called on Secretary of State John Kerry to take “concrete steps to help the remaining Assyrian Christians in the region to protect themselves.” The Islamic State released some of the sick and elderly prisoners, but continues to hold around 150 Assyrian Christian hostages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, three of the hostages were executed. One of the victims was the first cousin of a parishioner at Mar Yosip, and other family members are still being held for ransom by the Islamic State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asylum at Last\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2014, Shamiran left her village outside Mosul with her three teenage children on temporary visitor visas to attend a family wedding and visit her parents in the Bay Area, who are parishioners at Mar Yosip. But when ISIS overtook Mosul that summer, her husband, who had remained in Iraq, told her not to return because of the security risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unable to return to Iraq, “Shamiran” — who didn’t want her real name used because of security concerns — and her children applied for asylum in the United States. In June, nearly a year after their arrival, they were granted asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10796862\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10796862 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion.jpg\" alt=\"Iraqi Assyrian Christians attend a ceremony at Saint Youhanna church in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq on September 18, 2015.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1238\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-768x495.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-1440x929.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-1180x761.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-960x619.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iraqi Assyrian Christians attend a ceremony at Saint Youhanna church in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on Sept. 18, 2015. \u003ccite>(SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In broken English, Shamiran described the experience of Christians in Mosul who were forced to flee the city and have their houses marked as being inhabited by Christians. “There were many Christian families in Mosul,” she said. “They left everything in Mosul and they went. [ISIS] put Arabic letter “Nun” [on our houses]. It means Christian — “Nazarene.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shamiran’s husband’s request for asylum has also been approved, but he’s still waiting for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad to certify his identity and complete a background check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having been in the United States for a year and a half now, Shamiran has found a job working at a grocery store, and her three children are earning A’s in Bay Area high schools. But she yearns for the day when she can be reunited with her husband. “My husband is safe now, thank God. I need for him to come here to live in peace with us to be a family again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Waiting for Visas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the few Assyrian Christians left in the Middle East, the threat of attacks by the Islamic State makes each day more perilous. But migrating to the West has become increasingly difficult, as waves of refugees from the Middle East and North Africa pour into Europe. In the United States, fears of terrorism have prompted debates about how many — if any — refugees the United States should admit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Namato agrees that refugees to the United States should be screened carefully to prevent terrorists from being admitted to the country. “But they have to differentiate between who’s doing the killing and who’s being persecuted,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10796864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10796864\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo.jpg\" alt=\"California Rep. Anna Eshoo, the only Assyrian member of Congress.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1264\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-400x263.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-800x527.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-768x506.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-1440x948.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-1180x777.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-960x632.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Rep. Anna Eshoo, the only Assyrian member of Congress. \u003ccite>(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rep. Anna Eshoo, the only Assyrian member of Congress, serves California’s 18th Congressional District, covering parts of San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties. Eshoo, a Democrat whose parents are Assyrian Christians who fled persecution in the Middle East, voted in November against a House Republican bill to pause the admittance of Syrian refugees into the United States. Despite its passage by a wide majority that included many Democratic votes, Eshoo voted against the measure because it amounted to a “bureaucratic blockade for all refugee applicants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Eshoo, who is the co-chair of the Religious Minorities in the Middle East Caucus, called on President Barack Obama to do more to help Middle Eastern religious minorities like Assyrians by prioritizing additional security support for vulnerable populations, especially the ancient Christian community. Eshoo has also called on the president to designate an additional 5,000 priority refugee visas for religious minorities from the Middle East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the process, said Eshoo in a recent interview, is “very, very slow,” since the United States has a complex system of rules for granting refugee visas. Eshoo says her goal is to expedite visas for Middle East Christians, since she fears that relief might not arrive before they are “dead and gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Assyrians are one of the world's oldest Christian communities. But with the rise of ISIS, they now risk vanishing from their homeland altogether.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1450397559,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1564},"headData":{"title":"Torn From Their Homeland, Bay Area Assyrians Yearn for Persecution to End | KQED","description":"Assyrians are one of the world's oldest Christian communities. But with the rise of ISIS, they now risk vanishing from their homeland altogether.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Torn From Their Homeland, Bay Area Assyrians Yearn for Persecution to End","datePublished":"2015-12-17T08:05:24.000Z","dateModified":"2015-12-18T00:12:39.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10796779 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10796779","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/17/torn-from-their-homeland-bay-area-assyrians-yearn-for-persecution-to-end/","disqusTitle":"Torn From Their Homeland, Bay Area Assyrians Yearn for Persecution to End","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/author/kaitlynlandgraf/\">Kaitlyn Landgraf\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/\">Peninsula Press\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/10796779/torn-from-their-homeland-bay-area-assyrians-yearn-for-persecution-to-end","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On a recent Sunday morning inside Mar Yosip Assyrian Church of the East in San Jose, sunbeams slant through clouds of incense smoke onto the face of the Rev. Lawrance Namato as he leads his congregation in a liturgy nearly 2,000 years old. The suited men and veiled women in the pews — nearly all of them Assyrian — join in the ancient chants as they pray for peace and resolution to a crisis both historic and modern: the persecution of their brothers and sisters in the Middle East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indigenous to northern Iraq, Assyrians have lived in the region for more than 6,000 years. They converted as a people to Christianity in the first century A.D. and are one of the oldest continuous Christian communities in the world. But in the past century, violence and religious persecution have escalated, forcing most of them to seek safety in other countries. Some 10,000 now reside in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the rise of the self-described Islamic State, they now risk vanishing from their homeland altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is that “the Christians have nowhere to go,” said Namato, whose family fled Kirkuk, Iraq, when he was 14 as former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein rose to power.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/p2LUkoEgF8A'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/p2LUkoEgF8A'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the parishioners at Mar Yosip are from Iraq or Iran, although a few are from Syria and other countries in the Middle East. Many in the community still have family in the Middle East: some who have remained by choice, others who are caught in the limbo of refugee camps as they await a chance at a new life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the rise of the Islamic State, Assyrians in the Bay Area have tried multiple avenues to help their relatives in the region. Some have petitioned the State Department to more forcefully defend Christians in the Middle East. Others are urging the United States Agency for International Development to directly fund Assyrian humanitarian aid groups. And others are working to get families approved for asylum in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Before the war the Assyrians [in Syria] had a good life and they were safe. Now, they are targeted by everybody.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But many in the community feel disappointed so far in the U.S. response. And there is a deep worry that this ancient group could disappear completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We kind of feel like our life is paralyzed,” said Rochelle Yousefian, president of the Assyrian American Association of San Jose. “The government that we are so proud of living in, in the country of peace, is not taking any actions. It’s not even open to listen to these atrocities. It makes us feel hopeless; it makes us unproductive because we don’t know what to do, we don’t know how to help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The history of Assyrian Christians in the Middle East has been punctuated by periods of violent persecution. In 1915, the year Assyrians call the Seyfo — “the year of the sword” — the Ottoman Empire slaughtered as many as 300,000 Assyrians. In 2003, it was estimated that 30,000 Assyrian Christians still lived in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq. But after the Islamic State captured the city in the summer of 2014, none remain — having been either killed or forced to flee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10796850\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10796850\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy.jpg\" alt=\"The Assyrian liturgy -- which has been used by the Assyrian Church of the East for nearly 2,000 years -- is printed in English and the Assyrian language.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Assyrian liturgy -- which has been used by the Assyrian Church of the East for nearly 2,000 years -- is printed in English and the Assyrian language. \u003ccite>(Kaitlyn Landgraf/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is a genocide,” said Albert Nissan, a Mar Yosip parishioner who emigrated from Baghdad in 1975 and has family members still living there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people who emptied Mosul of its Christians are the same people who bombed Paris,” he added, referring to the November attacks by Islamic extremists that killed 130 people and injured hundreds more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Safety in Syria\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, many Assyrians sought refuge in Syria, which was comparably peaceful at the time. But they were held in U.N. refugee camps “for years,” said Namato, and when civil war broke out in Syria five years ago, some were trapped again by the violence they had hoped to escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conditions for Assyrians in Syrian refugee camps are “horrible,” said Poline Maiel, a parishioner of Mar Yosip. Girls risk being kidnapped and Christians are frequently targets of violence, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever we think about [Syrian President Bashar al-] Assad, before the war the Assyrians [in Syria] had a good life and they were safe. Now, they are targeted by everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, the Islamic State captured around 230 Assyrian Christians in Syria and held them for a ransom of around $14 million. That month, Assyrian bishops in the United States called on Secretary of State John Kerry to take “concrete steps to help the remaining Assyrian Christians in the region to protect themselves.” The Islamic State released some of the sick and elderly prisoners, but continues to hold around 150 Assyrian Christian hostages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, three of the hostages were executed. One of the victims was the first cousin of a parishioner at Mar Yosip, and other family members are still being held for ransom by the Islamic State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asylum at Last\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2014, Shamiran left her village outside Mosul with her three teenage children on temporary visitor visas to attend a family wedding and visit her parents in the Bay Area, who are parishioners at Mar Yosip. But when ISIS overtook Mosul that summer, her husband, who had remained in Iraq, told her not to return because of the security risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unable to return to Iraq, “Shamiran” — who didn’t want her real name used because of security concerns — and her children applied for asylum in the United States. In June, nearly a year after their arrival, they were granted asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10796862\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10796862 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion.jpg\" alt=\"Iraqi Assyrian Christians attend a ceremony at Saint Youhanna church in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq on September 18, 2015.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1238\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-768x495.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-1440x929.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-1180x761.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-960x619.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iraqi Assyrian Christians attend a ceremony at Saint Youhanna church in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on Sept. 18, 2015. \u003ccite>(SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In broken English, Shamiran described the experience of Christians in Mosul who were forced to flee the city and have their houses marked as being inhabited by Christians. “There were many Christian families in Mosul,” she said. “They left everything in Mosul and they went. [ISIS] put Arabic letter “Nun” [on our houses]. It means Christian — “Nazarene.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shamiran’s husband’s request for asylum has also been approved, but he’s still waiting for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad to certify his identity and complete a background check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having been in the United States for a year and a half now, Shamiran has found a job working at a grocery store, and her three children are earning A’s in Bay Area high schools. But she yearns for the day when she can be reunited with her husband. “My husband is safe now, thank God. I need for him to come here to live in peace with us to be a family again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Waiting for Visas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the few Assyrian Christians left in the Middle East, the threat of attacks by the Islamic State makes each day more perilous. But migrating to the West has become increasingly difficult, as waves of refugees from the Middle East and North Africa pour into Europe. In the United States, fears of terrorism have prompted debates about how many — if any — refugees the United States should admit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Namato agrees that refugees to the United States should be screened carefully to prevent terrorists from being admitted to the country. “But they have to differentiate between who’s doing the killing and who’s being persecuted,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10796864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10796864\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo.jpg\" alt=\"California Rep. Anna Eshoo, the only Assyrian member of Congress.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1264\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-400x263.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-800x527.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-768x506.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-1440x948.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-1180x777.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-960x632.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Rep. Anna Eshoo, the only Assyrian member of Congress. \u003ccite>(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rep. Anna Eshoo, the only Assyrian member of Congress, serves California’s 18th Congressional District, covering parts of San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties. Eshoo, a Democrat whose parents are Assyrian Christians who fled persecution in the Middle East, voted in November against a House Republican bill to pause the admittance of Syrian refugees into the United States. Despite its passage by a wide majority that included many Democratic votes, Eshoo voted against the measure because it amounted to a “bureaucratic blockade for all refugee applicants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Eshoo, who is the co-chair of the Religious Minorities in the Middle East Caucus, called on President Barack Obama to do more to help Middle Eastern religious minorities like Assyrians by prioritizing additional security support for vulnerable populations, especially the ancient Christian community. Eshoo has also called on the president to designate an additional 5,000 priority refugee visas for religious minorities from the Middle East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the process, said Eshoo in a recent interview, is “very, very slow,” since the United States has a complex system of rules for granting refugee visas. Eshoo says her goal is to expedite visas for Middle East Christians, since she fears that relief might not arrive before they are “dead and gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10796779/torn-from-their-homeland-bay-area-assyrians-yearn-for-persecution-to-end","authors":["byline_news_10796779"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_233","news_6780","news_856","news_18541","news_4768","news_17286"],"affiliates":["news_5933"],"featImg":"news_10796837","label":"news_72"},"news_10347799":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10347799","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10347799","score":null,"sort":[1415746859000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"inked-up-veterans-tell-stories-of-war-through-their-tattoos","title":"Inked-up Veterans Tell Stories of War Through Their Tattoos","publishDate":1415746859,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>If you’ve ever wondered what someone’s tattoos meant but were afraid to ask, two dozen California military veterans are sharing their bodies and their stories online in hopes they can make you less hesitant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.warink.org\" target=\"_blank\">\"War Ink\"\u003c/a> multimedia project launches today. It’s meant to bridge a gap between veterans and the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10347853\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/zak-bass-web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10347853\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/zak-bass-web-400x281.jpg\" alt=\"Iraq War veteran Zak Bass shows off his tattoos, including one of the War Ink logo. (Left: Courtesy War Ink, Right: James Tensuan/KQED) \" width=\"400\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/zak-bass-web-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/zak-bass-web-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/zak-bass-web.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iraq War veteran Zak Bass shows off his tattoos, including one of the War Ink logo. (Left: Courtesy War Ink, Right: James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jose Cruz, who served four tours with the Marines in Iraq, had his four tattoos photographed extensively for the website. They include a cross with initials of some fallen comrades, the Marine \"Semper Fi\" motto, his own last name, and a tribal tattoo with an angel and skull.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those tattoos keep me grounded as a person and as reminders of where I’ve been, what I’ve done, who I am, and also help in deciding who I’m gonna be,” said Cruz, who was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, but has lived in California since he was 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10347850\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Glazier.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10347850\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Glazier-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"William Glazier shows off his tattoo that pays tribute to the 75th Ranger Regiment. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Glazier-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Glazier-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Glazier.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Glazier shows off his tattoo that pays tribute to the 75th Ranger Regiment. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We don’t get these tattoos just because we want to be flashy, or because we want to be cool. These tattoos actually mean something to us,\" Cruz said. \"It’s a way of expressing those stories, those experiences, sometimes even emotions that are a lot easier when they are portrayed in a picture instead of actually using words.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just photos. \u003ca href=\"http://www.warink.org\" target=\"_blank\">Warink.org \u003c/a>features videos and audio testimonials of soldiers talking about themselves and their tattoos. The goal is to let veterans tell their stories on their own terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"\u003cem>War Ink\u003c/em> emerged out of a need to recognize veterans’ service and sacrifices, and to bridge the divide between the veteran and civilian communities,\" according to the project's website. The focus on tattoos functions as a \"springboard for California veterans to share their stories.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10347866\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/mike-ergo.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10347866\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/mike-ergo-400x300.png\" alt=\"Iraq War veteran Mike Ergo poses with his young daughter, Adeline. (Courtesy War Ink)\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/mike-ergo-400x300.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/mike-ergo-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/mike-ergo.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iraq War veteran Mike Ergo poses with his young daughter, Adeline. (Courtesy War Ink)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10347867\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/glazier.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10347867\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/glazier-400x300.png\" alt='Ron \"Doc\" Riveira served with the California Army National Guards 184th Air Assault as a senior medic. (Courtesy War Ink)' width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/glazier-400x300.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/glazier-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/glazier.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ron \"Doc\" Riveira served with the California Army National Guard's 184th Air Assault as a senior medic. (Courtesy War Ink)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mike Ergo, who did two tours of duty in Iraq with the 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, is now a social worker and readjustment counselor for Veterans Affairs. He participated in the War Ink project to help find common ground between veteran and civilian communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My hope is that the idea of letting veterans tell their stories ... can avoid putting us in the stereotypical lights of heroes, perpetrators or broken people who need pity,\" Ergo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These people come back from war with all of these experiences inside them and then they go into a world where there is no place for any of those experiences,\" said former combat medic Jason Deitch, who created War Ink along with Chris Brown, senior community library manager for the Contra Costa County library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The library received grants for the project from Cal Humanities and the Pacific Library Partnership, and \u003ca href=\"http://ccclib.org/press_releases/2014/warink.html\" target=\"_blank\">teamed up with a cooperative of more than 20 library systems throughout the state.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to use their own stories, in their own words, to tell the experience of our veterans,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/qfkb7gEePvU\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Two dozen California military veterans put their bodies and stories online in new interactive project.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1415747365,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":566},"headData":{"title":"Inked-up Veterans Tell Stories of War Through Their Tattoos | KQED","description":"Two dozen California military veterans put their bodies and stories online in new interactive project.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Inked-up Veterans Tell Stories of War Through Their Tattoos","datePublished":"2014-11-11T23:00:59.000Z","dateModified":"2014-11-11T23:09:25.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10347799 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10347799","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/11/inked-up-veterans-tell-stories-of-war-through-their-tattoos/","disqusTitle":"Inked-up Veterans Tell Stories of War Through Their Tattoos","customPermalink":"2014/11/11/inked-up-veterans-tell-stories-of-war-through-their-tattoos/","path":"/news/10347799/inked-up-veterans-tell-stories-of-war-through-their-tattoos","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you’ve ever wondered what someone’s tattoos meant but were afraid to ask, two dozen California military veterans are sharing their bodies and their stories online in hopes they can make you less hesitant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.warink.org\" target=\"_blank\">\"War Ink\"\u003c/a> multimedia project launches today. It’s meant to bridge a gap between veterans and the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10347853\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/zak-bass-web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10347853\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/zak-bass-web-400x281.jpg\" alt=\"Iraq War veteran Zak Bass shows off his tattoos, including one of the War Ink logo. (Left: Courtesy War Ink, Right: James Tensuan/KQED) \" width=\"400\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/zak-bass-web-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/zak-bass-web-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/zak-bass-web.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iraq War veteran Zak Bass shows off his tattoos, including one of the War Ink logo. (Left: Courtesy War Ink, Right: James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jose Cruz, who served four tours with the Marines in Iraq, had his four tattoos photographed extensively for the website. They include a cross with initials of some fallen comrades, the Marine \"Semper Fi\" motto, his own last name, and a tribal tattoo with an angel and skull.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those tattoos keep me grounded as a person and as reminders of where I’ve been, what I’ve done, who I am, and also help in deciding who I’m gonna be,” said Cruz, who was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, but has lived in California since he was 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10347850\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Glazier.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10347850\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Glazier-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"William Glazier shows off his tattoo that pays tribute to the 75th Ranger Regiment. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Glazier-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Glazier-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Glazier.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Glazier shows off his tattoo that pays tribute to the 75th Ranger Regiment. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We don’t get these tattoos just because we want to be flashy, or because we want to be cool. These tattoos actually mean something to us,\" Cruz said. \"It’s a way of expressing those stories, those experiences, sometimes even emotions that are a lot easier when they are portrayed in a picture instead of actually using words.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just photos. \u003ca href=\"http://www.warink.org\" target=\"_blank\">Warink.org \u003c/a>features videos and audio testimonials of soldiers talking about themselves and their tattoos. The goal is to let veterans tell their stories on their own terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"\u003cem>War Ink\u003c/em> emerged out of a need to recognize veterans’ service and sacrifices, and to bridge the divide between the veteran and civilian communities,\" according to the project's website. The focus on tattoos functions as a \"springboard for California veterans to share their stories.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10347866\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/mike-ergo.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10347866\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/mike-ergo-400x300.png\" alt=\"Iraq War veteran Mike Ergo poses with his young daughter, Adeline. (Courtesy War Ink)\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/mike-ergo-400x300.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/mike-ergo-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/mike-ergo.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iraq War veteran Mike Ergo poses with his young daughter, Adeline. (Courtesy War Ink)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10347867\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/glazier.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10347867\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/glazier-400x300.png\" alt='Ron \"Doc\" Riveira served with the California Army National Guards 184th Air Assault as a senior medic. 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