Almost every day for three years, prison guards at one of Saddam
Hussein's most notorious prisons tortured Sami Alkarim.
Now, in a cruel twist of fate, the accomplished Iraqi artist is being
treated like a terrorist by the U.S., the country where he sought
refuge.
U.S.
officials have told him they can't give him permanent residency in
Denver because of messenger work he did as a teenager for the same
political party that counts the current p
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