Dhiya Hamid al-Karbuli, a truck driver from a village near the Syrian border, said he fled with his wife, six children, his brother, sister and mother after U.S. troops commandeered their home last month.
“They broke into my house before Ramadan and they are still there,” he told The Associated Press by telephone from his brother’s home in Baghdad. “We were not able to tolerate seeing them damage our house in front of our very eyes.… I was afraid to ask them to leave.”
“They were eating our food. They took all the food from the refrigerator, and used all our stored junk food too. The major gave me $20 so we could shop for ourselves and for them. It was not enough.”