Ali salman dhahir was wearing his new uniform the morning he was shot in front of his 15-year-old daughter. At 7:45 a.m. on Nov. 11, Dhahir, a Baghdad police officer, dropped Diana off at her high school. Sitting in one of his unit's blue-and-white Nissan pickups, he watched as she walked toward class to make sure she got inside safely. Suddenly a submachine gun fitted with a silencer opened fire from across the street. Glass shattered as the windshield became a web of cracks. Dhahir's driver took a bullet in the head and another in the neck and died. Dhahir was luckier. Three slugs went into his left shoulder and one punched a hole in his right hand, but he survived. "It was a well-planned operation," says Dhahir, who has returned to work at the station in downtown Baghdad. "They were terrorists."
展开▼
