Hadia waits with her children and her brother-in-law Kareem at Al Khalidi Medical Center in Amman, Jordan where they will get medical checkups before being granted visas to the United States. Hadia Khanfoosh and her children flee Iraq and come to America to join her son, Saleh, and her husband, Raheem after being apart for over a year. Through an international medical intervention, Saleh Khalaf, 10, on the brink of death after a bomb explosion, was brought from Iraq to Oakland Children's Hospital along with his father, Raheem in November 2003. They were granted political asylum when it became unsafe for them to return to Iraq. Deanne Fitzmaurice / The Chronicle Photo: Deanne Fitzmaurice
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