After surgery for a shoulder wound caused by a sniper’s bullet, Muktar Alkhazmi was eager to go home to help build a new Libya.
(Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff)
A bullet sent him to Salem. A dream sent him home.
Libyan rebel came to Mass. for medical treatment
After surgery for a shoulder wound caused by a sniper’s bullet, Muktar Alkhazmi was eager to go home to help build a new Libya.
(Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff)
At a rehabilitation hospital in Salem, Muktar Alkhazmi used his right hand to raise his outstretched left arm. He grimaced. Annette Coté, the physical therapist, touched his quivering shoulder, then frowned. “How many repetitions have you been doing?’’ she asked. “Khamzeen,’’ Alkhazmi replied. “Fifty,’’ said his Arabic-English interpreter. Coté chastised her patient; he was supposed to do 15, and he was risking another injury. But the accountant-turned-freedom fighter was impatient to return home to Libya.
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