US property developer claims Iraqi president ordered her kidnap and 43 day torture with beatings and electric cords: lawsuit

When her Iraqi captors told Sara Saleem that they were digging her grave outside her prison cell, the real estate developer and engineer began plotting her escape, eventually using a metal spoon to pry off a window frame and fleeing down a drain pipe to safety.

Saleem, 47, a US citizen of Kurdish ethnicity, claims she was kidnapped, tortured and held for ransom for more than a month at a prison near Basra in a story with all the twists and turns of a Hollywood thriller.

After trying for years to seek justice over her treatment in Iraq, the mother of three is now suing a host of Iraqi government officials as well as terrorist groups Hezbollah and Asa’ib Ahl al-Haqq (AAH) in US federal

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