Ever since Sara Saleem crawled out of her prison window in Basra 11 years ago, the Iraqi-born Kurdish American citizen has been waiting for the kind of help she once expected her government would provide — ensuring that her captors receive proper punishment and that her own stolen fortune is restored.

She’s still waiting.

Two decades ago, Saleem became chief of engineering for a property development firm co-owned by Nechir al Barzani, then Kurdistan’s prime minister.

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