One Year Later: American Muslim Survivor of Islamabad Terror Attack Speaks Out - General Surgery
(Los Angeles - 10/5/10) -- One year ago today, a suicide bomber attacked the Islamabad headquarters of the United Nations Food Program. Today, the Muslim Public Affairs Council released a special video message from Adam Motiwala, an American Muslim who was injured in the attacks while he working working for the UN Food Program. Motiwala was working in the Islamabad office when a suicide bomber attacked the heavily secured compound on a Monday morning, killing five UN staffers and injuring four others. "This is a heinous crime committed against those who have been working tirelessly to assist the poor and vulnerable on the front lines of hunger and other human suffering in Pakistan," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Associated Press the day of the attack. Motiwala was an information officer for the World Food Program in Islamabad, an office that was established to help the more than three million displaced Pakistanis due to ongoing fighting. He suffered injuries to his head, legs and stomach and was flown to Dubai for immediate surgery to remove shrapnel from his head behind his ear, as well as in his ankle. Click here to watch the video Motiwala posted on Facebook last year while he was in the hospital awaiting surgery. According to a recent report, 85 percent of al-Qaeda's victims between 2004 and 2008 were non-Western individuals, and the figure is higher (98 percent) if you look solely at the period of 2006-2008. In the video, Motiwala recalls what happened on ...
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