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Zain El Abideen Akram, grandson of Abed Hassan Hamoodi

From the news reports:

The family is well educated and well respected. None had ever joined the Baath Party, but all were important members of the community. ...

Zain El Abideen Akram, 18, who so badly wanted to be a doctor like his father that when he was only 13 he would pester visitors by insisting on taking their blood pressure.

NYT 10 May 2003

Ayad Hamoodi lives in the big empty house with his wife and children, trying to honour the memory of those who perished: his mother, son, brother, sister, and six nieces and nephews.

"It was the most difficult decision of my life," he says. "But the soul of our whole family is in this house. That's why I decided to stay. One of us had to stay here. If all of us had left Basra, our whole family would be destroyed."

Globe and Mail 06 Mar 2004

Age 18
Sex Male
Occupation Unrecorded
Nationality Iraqi
Marital status Unrecorded
Parental status Unrecorded

Recorded in IBC incident j017

Location: Basra

Date: 5 April 2003