By way of Steve CollA girl named best as Mumina sits earlier than a darkened window, her face silhouetted to cover her id. Off digital camera, she is wondered by way of Tulsi Gabbard, then a 35-year-old Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii with grand ambitions. Gabbard activates her to inform her harrowing tale. “They wore mask. They saved taking pictures…till they ran out of bullets,” Mumina says, recounting an evening close to Damascus when Islamist rebels preventing the regime of Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, gunned down her father as she watched. Gabbard comforted Mumina: “You’re extremely courageous and powerful.”
