On July 12, 2007, four years after the start of the Iraq War, U.S. Apache helicopters attacked the Al-Amin al-Thaniyah neighborhood of New Baghdad. Sajad and his 4-year-old sister were rescued by a U.S. soldier named Ethan McCord. Many years later, speaking to the camera, Ethan says: "I feel used, I feel used for being in Iraq... We should have never been there."