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Tears On The Sand
Tears On The Sand
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Noted Plastic Surgeon, Dr. Joseph Agris has been going on missions around the work for decades, providing much needed reconstructive surgery to children and adults who would otherwise be appearance. He has taught hundreds of physicians and surgeons how to perform advanced surgical techniques on their own.
In recent years, however, he began seeing more and more patients in the Middle Eat - particularly in Pakistan - who suffered not from birth defects, but from acts of unimaginable cruelty. From the thousands of women whose faces and bodies are horribly burned as a means of discipline and petty revenge, to the bodies of innocent victims of drone rocket attacks whose deaths are the result of being in the vicinity of a suspected "high-value" target. Dr. Agris has seen some of the most gruesome examples of inhumanity imaginable.
The more inhumanity Dr. Agris witnessed, the more he felt driven to find, interview and understand the man who was simultaneously the most hated and most highly revered man on earth: Osama bin Laden
This is the story of the doctor's evolving mission, of the many thousands of lives devastated by a brutality that goes unnoticed and unpunished, and ultimately, of his meetings with the infamous Sheik, the last of which the doctor barely escaped with his life.
Dr. Agris, well-known in Pakistan as Dr. Angel or the "Crazy Texan," has been forced to recognize that the release of the information in this book, he will likely never be able to return to Pakistan, for he reveals a level of subterfuge at the highest levels of their government, as well as his own. To return would spell near - certain death.
His hope in that by informing the public about the problems that have been heretofore hidden, conditions in Pakistan might improve, and the death toll diminish. And though he might not be able to personally return to his newly-beloved Pakistan, it is his hope that the profits from the book might provide the funding for future medical missions, as well as a reduction in the need for those missions.
In recent years, however, he began seeing more and more patients in the Middle Eat - particularly in Pakistan - who suffered not from birth defects, but from acts of unimaginable cruelty. From the thousands of women whose faces and bodies are horribly burned as a means of discipline and petty revenge, to the bodies of innocent victims of drone rocket attacks whose deaths are the result of being in the vicinity of a suspected "high-value" target. Dr. Agris has seen some of the most gruesome examples of inhumanity imaginable.
The more inhumanity Dr. Agris witnessed, the more he felt driven to find, interview and understand the man who was simultaneously the most hated and most highly revered man on earth: Osama bin Laden
This is the story of the doctor's evolving mission, of the many thousands of lives devastated by a brutality that goes unnoticed and unpunished, and ultimately, of his meetings with the infamous Sheik, the last of which the doctor barely escaped with his life.
Dr. Agris, well-known in Pakistan as Dr. Angel or the "Crazy Texan," has been forced to recognize that the release of the information in this book, he will likely never be able to return to Pakistan, for he reveals a level of subterfuge at the highest levels of their government, as well as his own. To return would spell near - certain death.
His hope in that by informing the public about the problems that have been heretofore hidden, conditions in Pakistan might improve, and the death toll diminish. And though he might not be able to personally return to his newly-beloved Pakistan, it is his hope that the profits from the book might provide the funding for future medical missions, as well as a reduction in the need for those missions.
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