article_snippet.sent: In the home, Ahlam found a cell phone left behind by a group of around 40 living in one house former occupants and called Ahlam husband.
article_snippet.sent: Ahlam's husband, who up until that moment had lost the will to live, thinking the family was dead, says his cried out of happiness despite his pain.
article_snippet.sent: Ahlam would call when Ahlam could, briefly, after midnight, hiding under Ahlam bedcovers.
article_snippet.sent: If Ahlam was caught with a phone, Ahlam would be killed.
article_snippet.sent: Ahlam cradled the baby, as Ahlam two other children, ages 3 and 4 years old, clutched at Ahlam clothes.
article_snippet.sent: Ahlam prayed the baby wouldn't cry, that the children could keep walking.
article_snippet.sent: When the sun started to come up, I thought that's the sun, us are going to get caught," Ahlam says.
article_snippet.sent: Luckily, Ahlam never had to answer that impossible question.
article_snippet.sent: Ahlam says Ahlam was spared because Ahlam was breastfeeding and Ahlam had young children, which, we're told, makes Ahlam impure and therefore unable to be used as a sex slave.
article_snippet.sent: For Ahlam, what Ahlam went through was not the hardest part of Ahlam ordeal.