Going by the book: Perryville slaughterhouse processes goats according to Muslim custom

Monday, January 9, 2006

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- When Qasim Al-Ganzawy and his brother Satar were fleeing for their lives from Saddam Hussein, they did not have much time to think about the future. In 1991 the two brothers fled the brutal attacks unleashed by the Iraqi dictator to quell a Kurdish uprising in northern Iraq. They feared for their lives and they mourned the family members they had lost in the attacks which largely targeted civilians in their hometown of Kirkouk.

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