How the Death of a Muslim Recruit Revealed a Culture of Brutality in the Marines
It was late at night on March 7, 2016, when Ghazala Siddiqui heard the phone ring and hurriedly reached for it, eager to hear the voice of her son. An indecipherable torrent of words spewed from the breathless caller.
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‘‘ThisisrecruitSiddiqui.Ihavearrivedsafely
atParrisIsland.Pleasedonotsendanyfoodor
bulkyitemstomeinthemail.Iwillcontactyou
in7to9daysbyletterwithmynewaddress.
Thankyouforyoursupport.
Goodbyefornow.’’
Silence.
‘‘Raheel?’’ she said. The phone was dead. The call lasted less than five seconds. In her darkened living room in Taylor, Mich., a suburb of Detroit, Ghazala worried. The previous morning, Raheel, a 20-year-old Marine Corps recruit, left for boot camp on Parris Island, S.C. He had promised to call his parents when he arrived, and Ghazala and her husband, Masood, had been waiting by the phone. But the call, when it came, was strange, with an almost deafening noise in the background. Ghazala couldn’t be sure it was even him. In the morning, she phoned Raheel’s recruiter. ‘‘No one knows my son’s voice better than me,’’ she said. ‘‘That didn’t sound like my son.’
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