A Labasheeda-based woman says her experience of fleeing from a Middle Eastern country having been told she was in ‘imminent danger’.
Ruth O’Neill and her husband Shane – who both live in the West Clare village – moved to Kuwait in May 2003, where the pair worked at Kuwait International Airport with a commercial company that dealt with the US military.
The US and British invasion of Iraq in March 2003 subsequently destabilised the region, leading to Al Qaeda becoming active in a number of nearby countries, including Kuwait.
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Ruth describes her departure after being told she was in imminent danger from Al Qaeda…
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