Iraq’s Ambassador to the US Set to Run Boston Marathon

Lukman Faily, Iraq’s ambassador to the United States, is running the Boston Marathon.

Faily likens the 26.2 mile run to the Iraqi people’s efforts to rebuild that nation.

In an op-ed piece in the April 17 edition of the Boston Herald, Faily writes that he is running in support of terror victims in Boston and in his home country.

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Faily ran the Tokyo Marathon in 2012 to raise money for victims of the 2011 tsunami that killed 20,000 Japanese citizens, according to Runner’s World. He ran Tokyo again in 2013, according to the magazine.

In the Boston Herald, Faily wrote about the upcoming elections in Iraq and the efforts for those elections to be free and fair.

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