Hamoodi family and supporters prepare for looming prison date

Thursday, August 9, 2012 | 6:00 a.m. CDT; updated 1:09 p.m. CST, Thursday, March 7, 2013

COLUMBIA — Just as they do every sundown during Ramadan, the Hamoodi family gathered to break the day's fast. Shakir Hamoodi poured his family glasses of whole milk and passed around a bowl of sticky-sweet Tunisian dates. They prayed together. Then they feasted.

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