Pain and Loss of Beheading Lingers for Son

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Now the family feels abandoned by America, for whom Ibrahim sacrificed his life.


The U.S. military in Iraq never comments on its network of informants, past or present. But the beheading of Ibrahim indicates his death was the work of Iraqi insurgents, who have made decapitation the gruesome signature of their campaign against foreigners and Iraqi collaborators, often filming the act and distributing it on Web sites.


According to his wife, Ibrahim started off as a friend to Americans. They would visit the couple's home, and the Ibrahims would offer them food and drink. At some point the Americans, whom Mrs. Ibrahim did not identify, asked him to work for them.


Ibrahim was certainly qualified to help the Americans. He knew Mosul well and he was a Kurd. Kurds were persecuted under Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) and supported the 2003 U.S. invasion that toppled his regime.


From that point on, Ibrahim had regular contacts with Americans, said his wife, an Arab.

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1. This is how Americans compensate those who give their lives for "Freedom"

She says the Americans have not offered the family any financial assistance; they have not even visited them to pay their respects.

Mrs. Ibrahim and her sons now live with Ibrahim's family in Irbil, in the Kurdish self-ruled region of northern Iraq.

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"There's no government. Nobody's helping us or telling us who did it. I'm a guard here trying to make money to support his five boys," the elder Ibrahim said.

The family has asked officials at the Kurdistan Democratic Party, one of two major Kurdish parties, for help but was told the case did not concern them.

"The Americans should help us. He died because of them," said Khaled's widow. "I want my children to have normal lives when they grow up."