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Nouriya Itais Wadi (Nour Weidi; Nour al-Khal; Nooriya Tuaiz)
Nouriya Itais Wadi is a 31-year-old reporter who worked as an interepreter for Steven Vincent, a freelance journalist. They were seized together in central Basra by 4 armed men in a white police car. According to Ms. Wadi, they were taken to a nearby building, bound and beaten. The two were then returned to the street and shot repeatedly in the back. Ms. Wadi lived despite critical injuries, and is recuperating in a Kuwaiti hospital. Her case is tagged as an escape here because she survived contrary to the intentions of her captors and without outside intervention; the fact of the mater is that Ms. Wadi was left for dead. Mr. Vincent's widow Lisa has stated that she is trying to sponsor Ms. Wadi in order to bring her to the United States.
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