Sabir Karim

From the news reports:

The father of seven and a senior auditor in Iraq's new Industry Ministry--his job was to scrutinise the lucrative contracts given to businessmen to rebuild the country ...

Sabr Karim had worked for the Industry Ministry for 30 years. "He was a very honest guy," his brother Yahyia said. ...

He was a silent man. He loved his family and he was a fluent English speaker; he read law books and he went to the mosque. He was a very private person." ...

I left--quickly--with the memory of what Sabr Karim's youngest son, 11-year old Mohamed, with big, framed glasses, said. I had asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up. He paused and then said: "I want to be like my father."

IND 16 Jul 2004