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Ibrahim Hadidi, a UK-trained local doctor with his skills allowing him to easily leave the war-ravaged country, is still treating patients in Aleppo.
"Being here is my duty, I feel I'm among my family," he told RT's Lizzie Phelan, currently reporting from Syria's former biggest city. "My students, my patients, my relatives, my people, all of them are my family. Syria is my home and I will not leave whatever happens. And I have a great hope that this country will come back to be rebuilt, to be far better than the previous situation of these troubles."
"[The terrorists] don't want people to stay in their country and to build health authorities and health centers to give these very important and vital health centers to people," he told RT, adding that the doctors have also been targeted by extremists.
Hadidi's own hospital had been seized by the opposition forces. But he would not take his skills abroad.
Comment: Indeed, the "terrorists" (of both jihadi and American think-tanker breeds) do not want Syrians to stay in Syria. Like Operation Condor, the Contras, or any other U.S.-backed assassination or death-squad operation, the goal is to kill or displace the most talented members of a target population - the people with the ability to create and sustain a stable, sovereign nation. U.S. policy has always been to neutralize such leaders.
Comment: The increase in terror attacks in the past two years seems to have affected American's fears. Be prepared to give up more rights in the name of fighting terrorism.