"Among those displaced is Alaa Naji, a single mother of two small children who lost her husband in a terrorist attack. A United Nations employee, he was fatally injured when a car bomb exploded at the Jordanian Embassy in Iraq in August 2003. To support their two small children, Naji — who has an English degree — found work with the U.N. and the U.S. Army in Baghdad. But within a couple of months, she started getting notes that threatened her family.
"And they said, 'Prepare yourself. You gonna be killed,'" Naji recalls. "And the colleagues, they said, 'Alaa, your life very dangerous, your work is very sensitive. You work in a very dangerous place. Please think for your kids.'"
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