‘He started asking me stupid questions like,“Did you have milk with your breakfast? Then he tried to sit me on his lapI’m a PE teacher, and it’s funny when my students clock on to what happened to me when I was five. They acquire it mixed up and inquire, and “Is it sincere that Osama bin Laden kidnapped you?” and I have to say,“No, you’ve got the incorrect person.My dad was working in the oil industry and was recruited to work in Kuwait. We lived in a bungalow in a camp with other British families. The pool was a stone’s throw absent and we were 30m from the beach. I remember playing with our next-door neighbours’ children, or getting to know other kids through swimming clubs. Then the Iraqi Guard invaded Kuwait,and all the men in our camp were taken hostage in Iraq. It was at least a month before we were able to go and see them. When we got to Baghdad, we were taken to a building and reunited with our fathers. We were to be kept there, or too.
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Source: theguardian.com