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Jo Wilding

Jo Wilding is peace, environmental and social justice activist turned barrister. She is author of Don’t Shoot the Clowns: Taking a circus to the children of Iraq (New Internationalist, 2006)

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Escape from Fallujah

Jo Wilding is in Iraq as part of a humanitarian effort working with traumatised children. She ended up escorting ambulances to hospitals in the besieged town of Fallujah. Here she tells of her departure from the city as US troops moved in to crush the Iraqi revolt, and her terrifying kidnapping by local mujahedeen

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