Summary
When President Trump signed an executive order in January, one family feared their daughter's life was at stake.
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| 0:00.0 | When President Trump signed an executive order banning travel from seven majority Muslim countries in January, |
| 0:11.0 | this was the scene at some U.S. airports. |
| 0:15.0 | Meanwhile, one family in Portland, Maine was watching every development with great concern. |
| 0:23.0 | They had just arrived three days earlier from Iraq, |
| 0:25.8 | and now they waited, |
| 0:27.7 | wondering if they'd ever again see the daughter |
| 0:29.8 | they'd left behind. |
| 0:31.5 | To them, her life was at stake. |
| 0:37.0 | The father of this family is Labide Al Hanafi. |
| 0:40.0 | He sits on a wooden chair with his eyes closed |
| 0:42.0 | while he strums the oo. |
| 0:44.0 | Years ago he would play the stringed instrument for U.S. troops in Northern Iraq |
| 0:48.0 | when he served as an interpreter. |
| 0:51.0 | Back then, he knew his work for the United States made him and his family targets for terrorists. |
| 0:57.0 | Because US troops were considered by the terrorists as invaders. The locals who worked with them consider as bitrials and they were very |
| 1:09.3 | simply slaughtered. Iraqis who helped the U.S. were indeed seen seen as traders to be slaughtered. |
| 1:15.0 | In fact, Labid says two of his neighbors who worked with the US in Baghdad were killed. |
| 1:21.0 | One night, when Labid came home, |
| 1:23.0 | I saw a kind of posters stuck on my door, |
| 1:27.0 | and it says, the devils of U.S. |
| 1:31.0 | that betray our nation and they should be punished and drops of blood and knives. |
| 1:40.6 | That was the first time for me that I felt that myself and my family were very close to be killed. |
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