75 US Soldiers Become Citizens During Veteran's Day Ceremony In Baghdad...

Hope they survive long enough to enjoy their citizenship

Agence France-Presse November 11, 2006 04:32 PM

At the end of the brutal eight-year long Iran-Iraq war, Mehdi Ostadhashemi's mother fled with him to the United States to make a new life.

Now, 18 years later and a soldier in the US army, in a palace built bySaddam Hussein to commemorate his "victory" over Iran all those years ago, Ostadhashemi received his American citizenship on Saturday, Veterans' Day, together with 74 others.

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