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Safe from War, but Barely Surviving

AUBURN, Maine - The Iraqi translator called Shark knew his life was at risk every day that he worked for American troops in Iraq. Insurgents viewed translators as traitors and had wounded or killed scores of his colleagues. But he believed the Americans would improve life in his country, and despite receiving dozens of death threats, he translated for Americans while they trained Iraqi soldiers and went on patrols.

After a bomb ripped through his car just as he, his wife, and baby son were about to get in, he asked the United States for asylum.