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Chapter 8 - Below are excerpts of a poem by the great Omar Mukhtar (translated from Arabic):

My only illness is being at al Agailla camp, the imprisonment of my tribe and the long way from home

My only illness is the loss of my beloved, good-looking strong people on top of camels and best-looking horses

My only illness is having to lose my dignity at my advanced age and the loss of our finest people, the ones we cannot do without

My only illness is the torturing of our young women, with their bodies exposed

My only illness is the loss of sweet and good people and having to be ruled by grotesque people whose straight faces show nothing but misery

My only illness is the broken hearts, the falling tears and all the herds with no protector of care-taker