No 12-year-old should have to experience being hung upside down by the ankles while being beaten with clubs. Unfortunately, this was the reality for Hamody Jasim growing up in Baghdad, Iraq under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. For 25 years, Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq as one of the world’s most brutal dictators.
However, Jasim would become a patriot for both the United States and his own country.
