Torture Survivors Thrive on a New Kind of Treatment in Seattle

Jasmine Pettis 3/14/144:00 AM

Like any refugee, Amer Kuba was supposed to find a safe haven in the United States.

By the time he arrived in Seattle four years ago from the Middle East, he had already endured the unthinkable.

In 2003, after an innocuous transaction with American troops at his Baghdad electronics store, a sequence of events followed that would haunt Kuba well into the future. Accused of being a spy and collaborating with the U.S. military, Kuba’s store was bombed, his father and brother killed by terrorists.

Later, he was kidnapped at gunpoint, and kept in a single room with 60 or 70 others without bathrooms, food, or water, watching others murdered and fearing for his life.

http://www.seattleglobalist.com/2014/03/10/torture-survivors-treatment-seattle/21460

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