US veteran seeks asylum for Iraqi man who saved his life

LOS ANGELES — After three military combat tours in warn-torn Iraq, Chase Millsap returned home to get on with a civilian life, but there was one thing he couldn't do: leave a comrade behind, certainly not one who had saved his life.

Especially not the former Iraqi military officer who, because he had worked with the Americans, was now living a precarious existence as a refugee dodging Islamic State militants seeking to kill him.

http://www.startribune.com/us-veteran-seeks-asylum-for-iraqi-man-who-saved-his-life/380452411/