There aren’t many who can do what Don Teague did.
A few years ago, the former Baghdad correspondent for NBC and devout Christian brought over to the United States a young Iraqi Muslim he had known for only a month.
Not only that, he also made her a part of his family.
“God has something in mind for Rafraf, and it wasn’t for her to die at the hands of Iraqi insurgents,” Teague recalls thinking.
It was at NBC’s Baghdad bureau that Teague first met Rafraf Barrak, who – at the age of 22 – was hired in the summer of 2003 to be the news bureau’s youngest translator.
Teague was only scheduled to work for one month in Baghdad before returning home to his wife and two daughters in Atlanta.
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