Anna Prouse
was first a journalist, then a
Red Cross
delegate chosen to run a field hospital in Baghdad and finally a member of the
Cpa (Coalition Provisional Authority)
, the provisional government legitimized by the UN Security Council to overthrow the regime. dictatorial of
Saddam Hussein
. A frontline woman who is now writing her autobiography will be out in September.
An out of the ordinary life whose history is also intertwined with a personal war, the one against his illness. The story goes through the experience in
Baghdad and Nassiriya
, the attacks directed at her and the fatwa she escaped.
"I survived at least three attacks in my eight years of work in Iraq, where they also killed friends, and a fatwa (death sentence by order of a religious authority) - she explains -.
In the course of my life, death seemed to always be possible .
coming any moment
, I didn't have time to think about it. But when I was diagnosed with a brain tumor it was different, and even my husband, my rock, he who is a marine, burst into tears and I was really scared. "
