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WASHINGTON – Nine-year-old Ahmad Alkhalaf smiles easily as he talks in Arabic about his dreams. He wants to go to school and grow up to be a doctor – to help others. But, before that he wants Americans to know him and also learn about other Syrian children and the suffering many have had to endure through an ongoing civil war.
When the president delivers his State of the Union address Tuesday night, Ahmad will be there, along his father, as Moulton’s guest.
You can listen to the full interview here.
Ahmad Alkhalaf, a 9-year-old Syrian refugee, lost both of his arms and three of his siblings during an attack on a refugee camp inside Syria where his family was living two years ago.
Tuesday night, he will become the face of the Syrian refugee crisis at the State of the Union address at a time when there is much mistrust of refugees after recent terror attacks.
BOSTON - Representative Seth Moulton has invited a 9-year-old Syrian refugee as his guest at President Obama’s final State of the Union address.
Ahmad Alkhalaf lost his arms and three of his siblings were killed when a bomb hit the Syrian refugee camp where he and his family were living. He’s recovering at Boston Children’s Hospital while his family remains in Turkey.
Other members of the state’s all-Democratic delegation have announced guests for Tuesday’s speech.
By: Nik DeCosta-Klipa
Nine-year-old Ahmad Alkhalaf, of Sharon, has come a long way from his home country of Syria to watch President Barack Obama deliver his final State of the Union address.
When Ahmad was seven, he lost three siblings and both his arms when the Syrian government bombed his family’s refugee camp. His experience, sadly, is not unlike that of thousands caught in the Syrian conflict.
A 9-year-old Syrian refugee who lost both of his arms and three of his siblings in a bombing raid in his home country will be a guest of U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton at tonight’s State of the Union address.
“It’s amazing, he lost both arms but he is not thinking about himself, he’s thinking about so many other Syrians who are suffering under ISIS and their regime,” Moulton told the Herald from his D.C. office.
Ahmad Alkhalaf has an infectious smile that lights up the room. All eyes were on the Syrian boy as he walked into Rep. Seth Moulton’s office.
It’s a special day for the nine-year old.
Ahmad was invited by the Massachusetts's congressman to be his guest at President Obama’s last State of the Union held tonight at the U.S. Capitol.
U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton has expanded efforts to reform at-sea monitoring for groundfishing vessels, corralling a regional and bipartisan group of federal legislators to urge NOAA to accept changes already approved by the New England Fisheries Management Council and supported by NOAA Regional Administrator John Bullard.
LOWELL - U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, who recently slammed Gov. Charlie Baker for saying he wasn't interested in accepting Syrian refugees before he learned about the federal government's screening process, is bringing a 9-year-old Syrian refugee to the State of the Union tonight. Ahmad Alkhalaf, who lost both his arms in a regime airstrike while in a Syrian refugee camp, will be Moulton's guest at President Barack Obama's final State of the Union address.
By Yvonne Abraham
\If you want them here so badly, why don’t you take in a refugee?
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