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On 2011, I was sitting
with my friends.
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Suddenly, a guy came.
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He was wearing a big coat,
and it was huge.
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I will never forget
the fear in his eyes,
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and he started to yell
"Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar!"
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And he exploded.
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And he killed 12 that day,
seven of them my friends.
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He was 17. His father and brother
was killed by the American troops.
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And he was seeking revenge.
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BARACK OBAMA: For nearly nine years,
our nation has been at war in Iraq.
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The troops are now preparing
to make their final march
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across the border
and out of the country.
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Iraq's future will be in the hands
of its own people.
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Our war there will be over.
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At the end of 2011,
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all the coalition forces
finally left Iraq.
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It just touches my heart
to see our troops coming home.
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HORN HONKING
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God bless us!
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The huge surge of thousands
of extra American troops had helped
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defeat Al-Qaeda in Iraq
and end the civil war.
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Now, the country was being run
by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
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DISTANT GUNFIRE
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When the Americans say that,
"We did something good in Iraq,"
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I want them to look into my eyes
and tell me this.
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They didn't bring freedom.
They brought chaos.
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Allahu akbar!
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My friend! How are you?
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How's your day?
Not too bad, can't complain, yeah.
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Another day in paradise.
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LAUGHING: Yeah!
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Waleed is one of over 2 million
people forced to leave Iraq
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since war began in 2003.
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He came to Canada when he was
21 years old after receiving
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death threats for working
with foreign journalists.
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They do say, and it's true,
"Home is where your heart is."
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And my heart is in Baghdad
and forever will be.
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Plus, it's fucking cold here!
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HE LAUGHS
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I arrived to Canada.
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I met this beautiful,
loving fricking woman.
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I married.
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Got educated here.
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I studied film and media.
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My name is Waleed Moudhafar.
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Sorry.
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I was really an intense individual
at that time. Go.
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My name is Waleed Moudhafar.
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I left my country eight years ago.
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And now, I want to return.
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I couldn't return home until 2012,
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cos that's when I finally got
my permanent residency.
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I spoke to my wife and I was like,
"I can't take it any more.
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"I got to go home."
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And I knew that
my brothers were waiting for me.
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LAUGHTER
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HORN HONKS, MUSIC BLARES
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I don't even know what I'm going
to do when I see my mother.
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SHE ULULATES
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IN OWN LANGUAGE:
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I mean, not to see your mum
for nine years...
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It was an insanely happy moment.
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MUSIC PLAYS
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And it just hit me.
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I left my brothers, they were kids.
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The youngest was nine years old.
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I put him to bed.
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And I was thinking, like, it's
almost like I was in a dream and
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I just woke up and you're expecting
that not two minutes have gone by.
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I wanted to do
a high school friend reunion.
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Some of them, you know,
started coming up with excuses
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and excuses, and there was this
friend of mine called Hakem.
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He finally will was like "No, no.
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"If you want to hang out, just come
here. We'll hang out, you and I."
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And I was like,
"But why? Our friends?"
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And he was, like, "Because
you fucking invited al-Samiri."
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"Yeah!"
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And I was like,
"Do you not remember?"
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We freaking snuck out
of school together.
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It was, like, we did all of these...
Of course I invited him!
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And the guy was like,
"Oh, you're one of those.
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"He is Sunni."
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And I was like, "Hold on.
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"Do you mean to tell me
that you don't speak to him
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"because he's Sunni?"
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And he was like, "Yeah."
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And he was like, "And let me
tell you something, Waleed.
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"The Iraqi you left is no more.
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"This is the new Iraq."
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SHOUTING IN ARABIC ON LOUD-HAILER
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In the two years
since American troops withdrew,
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sectarian tensions that had driven
the civil war resurfaced.
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All over Iraq,
Sunni Muslims were protesting
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against the Shia-led government.
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Allahu akbar!
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THEY SING
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Sunni anger was being fuelled
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by Iraq's Prime Minister
Nouri al-Maliki.
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Maliki is a Shi'ite sectarian
to the end, to his core.
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He couldn't look at a Sunni Iraqi
without seeing a terrorist,
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and he treated them like that.
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And on top of that, he just turns
out to be just spectacularly
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breathtakingly corrupt.
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And the Americans,
in their blindness,
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kept him in power forever and ever,
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and they could've gotten rid of him,
they could've pushed him out.
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Dexter Filkins had been reporting
on Iraq for over a decade.
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Maliki was really
aggressively alienating
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the Sunni population in Iraq.
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Mass arrests, no trials,
thousands of men held,
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families don't know where they are.
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They're basically just thrown
in a dungeon somewhere,
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and that was happening
just on a huge scale - everywhere.
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Treating them in a way
that was kind of guaranteed to stir
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a kind of resentment
and ultimately violence.
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You could feel it,
you could feel the anger.
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I have to leave again.
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And I know something bad
is going to happen.
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And I was sobbing like a kid.
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SHE SOBS
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Cos I didn't know
whether I'll see them again or not.
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And saying goodbye
to my brothers, like, I...
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THEY CRY
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Shit could hit the fan
at any second.
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ANY second in Iraq.
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Yeah.
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Something was a-brewing.
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And that thing...
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..fucked us for good now.
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SIRENS BLARING
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HORNS HONKING
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MAN SPEAKING ON LOUD-HAILER
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CROWD CHEERS
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We drove through the city.
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The Army that used to insult
the people on a daily basis
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in the checkpoints have disappeared.
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They collapsed.
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We thought the security forces
would come back, fight back,
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the terrorists would leave.
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But then when I saw the weapons,
the new cars,
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they were almost all in one uniform.
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I became totally sure
that Isis is here to stay.
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RAPID GUNFIRE
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Can you just explain
why people are cheering?
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They weren't welcoming Isis.
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But after years of oppression
from corrupted troops
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and governments,
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people felt free for the first time.
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In their life.
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This is what Isis
was selling to people.
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That Maliki and his government
is gone.
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Soon after the so-called
Islamic State took Mosul,
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Omar lost his job as a professor
of history at the university.
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When Isis came to Mosul,
part of the change
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they wanted to do in the city
is to change the education.
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And simply they summarised
all of this by saying that,
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"Any education system that
is not serving the word of Allah
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"and preparing a fighter
is unaccepted education.
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"We need good Muslim fighters."
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So, they forced all the teachers
to rewrite the schoolbooks.
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What we used to see as the police
now is the Islamic police.
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What used to be Iraqi flag
now is the black flag of Isis.
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From day one,
you would see in the street
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what they call the media outlet.
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Putting on the TV, on the monitor,
Isis videos.
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Showing their propaganda.
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Each mosque had one media point,
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very big screens like those used in
public squares to watch football.
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VIDEO PLAYING
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MUSIC PLAYS
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I saw, myself, children
between 12 to 15 years old
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joining Isis
just after watching a video.
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Beyond this checkpoint and the first
Isis checkpoint on the eastern
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edge of Mosul, there's perhaps
1,000 yards of no man's land.
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This was as close as we dare go.
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We could just make out the
jihadist's black-and-white flag.
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I went to the Kurdish part of Iraq
right after Isis had rolled in.
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And I looked into the Caliphate.
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And, black flag, checkpoints.
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I remember just thinking, like,
"There it is." You know? Like,
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for years, Al-Qaeda was
this, like, shadow army.
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They blow up a mosque, they blow up
a market, and then they disappear.
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And, like, these guys,
like, they took the territory.
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And it was like... It was the
Islamic State, and you could see it,
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and there it was - right in front
of me, a big black flag.
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Crazy.
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How did you feel
looking into the Caliphate?
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HE CHUCKLES
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HE EXHALES FORCEFULLY
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Man...
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Man, I don't know how I felt then.
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I... Look, I was...
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At that point,
looking into the Caliphate, I was...
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You know, once again, the Americans
had, like, thrown it away. You know?
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They'd thrown it away.
I mean, I was there in 2003
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when they took down Saddam -
they threw it away, you know?
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I was there in 2008 after the surge,
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and the violence had gone
to nothing.
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It was done. Al-Qaeda was finished.
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And what happens?
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The Americans leave,
and so Omar al-Baghdadi,
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he's the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq,
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he dispatches like
half a dozen guys to Syria.
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Like, go to Syria and form
essentially what becomes Isis.
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And that takes basically two years.
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And it's an army that invades Iraq.
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It's the same guys. It's the same
guys, they just changed T-shirts.
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Al-Qaeda to Isis.
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You could trace that thing
all the way back to 2003.
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All the people who were in it,
all the mistakes that the Americans
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had made, and it all had manifested
itself into this.
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HORNS HONKING
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GUNFIRE
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Two days after the attack on Mosul,
Isis forces pushed south to Tikrit.
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Birthplace of Iraq's former dictator
Saddam Hussein.
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Camp Speicher had been built
by the Americans during the war.
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It was now being used by the
Iraqi Army to train new recruits.
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Ali Hussein Kadhim
lives 250km south of Tikrit
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in a region
that is almost entirely Shia.
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He started his army training
just 12 days before Isis attacked.
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MAN SINGING
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When news reached the base
that Isis had invaded Tikrit,
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most of the officers fled,
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leaving thousands
of untrained cadets
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to fend for themselves.
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MEN YELL IN DISTANCE
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THEY YELL BACK
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Many of the Isis commanders
were once part of Saddam's regime.
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When they rounded up
the young cadets,
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they sent the Sunnis home
and only took the Shia to repent.
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OVERLAPPING SPEECH
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NO AUDIO
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GUNSHOTS
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HE SIGHS SHAKENLY
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HE SIGHS
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IMITATES SNORING
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Over 1,500 cadets
were slaughtered by Isis.
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Hussein Kadhim
was the only known survivor.
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But some of the young recruits
had evaded capture
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and were now desperately
trying to escape.
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DISTANT SHOUTS
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Three days before the massacre,
Um Qusay's eldest son and husband
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had gone to Mosul.
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They were murdered
at an Isis checkpoint.
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Though Um Qusay and the people
of Al Alam were mostly Sunnis,
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they risked certain death
by hiding nearly 900 Shia cadets.
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SHE PRAYS
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APPLAUSE
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This award is reserved
for those women around the world
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who have shown incredible courage.
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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
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MAN YELLING ON TV
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I was back in Canada.
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My brother called me and he was
like, "Daesh just took over Tikrit."
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And then
the Speicher thing happened.
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It was a matter of time until Daesh
come to Baghdad, and we're Shia.
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Cos my dad is Shia,
so we're known as a Shia,
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and my dad was in the army.
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So, first mark.
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Like, they will be the first to go.
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And I was like,
"OK, how much money do you have?"
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And he was like, "I don't have any."
And I was like, "All right.
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"OK, give me one day,
and I'll come back to you."
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So, I scrounged up as much money as
I can put together, send it over and
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I was like, "You buy tickets right
now and you go to Turkey right now."
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So, I moved the whole family
to Turkey within a matter of a week.
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And I remember talking to my wife
and telling her, I was like...
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"It just never stops.
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"It never stops.
Nobody wants us to stay alive."
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Like, Daesh made us look
at Al-Qaeda time and they were like,
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"They're just a bunch of jokers,
these guys!"
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And they were in comparison.
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We heard of Speicher.
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As Isis distributed directly videos,
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so we were aware
of what was happening.
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They were talking like
that it is a great victory
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for the Islamic State.
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GUNSHOT ON TV
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GUNSHOTS
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But I still remember seeing
those people in the truck
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while begging Isis.
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And this guy who was killing them
using the pistol
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and throwing them into the river.
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W-W-Who would be able to do this?
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Who CAN do this?
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One of my students
became a member of Isis.
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I mean, what are you doing?
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I wanted to talk to him
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as if I'm still his teacher.
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But then I realised, like,
"No. Be careful."
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Because the way he spoke to me
was...
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He was really one of them.
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Completely a different person.
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Er...
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Yeah.
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Once you are part of Isis,
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you are a monster.
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Can you start by telling -
did you know you were joining Isis?
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MUSIC PLAYS
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CHANTING
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All right, so what happens
at the training camp?
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By the end of 2014,
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Isis controlled many of
the major cities north of Baghdad.
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In the so-called Islamic State, they
began the systematic destruction of
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all cultural and religious artefacts
that challenge their beliefs.
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And a new constitution demanded
that everybody live according
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to ancient laws
from the time of Muhammad.
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The largest city
under Isis control was Mosul.
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Isis controlled
all the media in Mosul.
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And for people like Tahany, the only
way to find out what was really
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going on was to read a secret
blogger called Mosul Eye.
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There were rumours in town.
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Some people were saying Mosul Eye
is a Jewish Iraqi who love his city.
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Some others saying that this is
a professional psychological
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operation from CIA.
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Isis feared what Mosul Eye
was doing.
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Telling them,
"You're not alone in town.
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"Someone is watching you.
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"Isis is not controlling
everything in our life."
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Someone said...
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.."I wish I know who was Mosul Eye,
because I would behead him myself."
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From the very beginning, I felt the
responsibility and the importance
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of exposing what's happening...
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..putting everything online.
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This led to the creation
of Mosul Eye.
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INTERVIEWER: That was you? Yeah.
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At least I was doing
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something against them...
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..that Isis, with all its weapons,
couldn't manipulate.
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The truth.
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CHANTING
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The normal day under Isis rule
was hand cutting...
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..stoning women in the street...
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..and execution.
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This was a normal day under Isis.
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And if this didn't happen,
we would say, like,
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"Wow, there's something wrong!
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"Why there is no execution?"
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INTERVIEWER: Did you watch that?
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Yes.
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They were beheaded.
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HE SIGHS
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For over a year,
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Mosul Eye published the names of
all the people executed by Isis.
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But it was getting harder
to keep his identity secret.
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The house next door...
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..where I live was...
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..an Isis senior leader.
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The house behind us
was also an Isis leader.
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The fear that my family
would be punished...
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..as a result of what I was doing
was getting higher.
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The moment I decided
to leave Mosul was
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the most difficult moment
in my life.
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BARACK OBAMA: Any time
we take military action,
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there are risks involved.
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This counterterrorism campaign
will be waged through a steady,
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relentless effort to take out Isil,
wherever they exist,
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using our airpower.
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Though targeted air strikes were
already being used against Isis,
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American bombing intensified
at the end of 2016,
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as Kurdish and Iraqi troops
pushed the so-called Islamic State
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back into Mosul.
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GUNFIRE AND EXPLOSIONS
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You know, to his credit,
I think Obama was concerned about
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civilian casualties and,
like, making more enemies.
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CHEERING
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When Trump came in, it was like...
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.."We're not going
to sit around here
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"and worry about
civilian casualties."
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Like, "We're going after those guys.
We're going to kill those guys.
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"Gloves are off, man.
Go after them."
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We are putting America first.
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At the same time, we're here...
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..to help others.
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May God bless you,
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may God protect you,
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and may God always keep you safe.
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EXPLOSION
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SHOUTING
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ECHOING SCREAMS, GUNFIRE
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HE SIGHS
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CHILD CRIES
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SHOUTING, GUNFIRE
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SHOUTING, GUNFIRE
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SHOUTING
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After nine months
of intense fighting,
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Mosul was liberated
from Isis control.
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I'm still 33,
and I have lived all of this.
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How many things happened?
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Americans, Al-Qaeda,
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Zarqawi, the civil war,
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the killing of Sunnis,
the killing of Shia,
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the executions, the beheadings.
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It's a miracle I'm still able
to talk, isn't it?
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It's very dangerous to forget...
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..because memory all
is what's left for us.
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I remember the...
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..the people in my neighbourhood...
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..and that we were able
to play in the street...
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..with no fear.
401
00:54:13,883 --> 00:54:15,443
Yeah, this is...
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HE SIGHS
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00:54:15,443 --> 00:54:19,643
This is what I remember
when I was a child in Mosul.
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00:54:23,443 --> 00:54:25,843
Mosul is known of its minaret...
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..which we call "our old lady"...
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00:54:31,323 --> 00:54:33,803
..because it's watching us
and protecting us.
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00:54:37,963 --> 00:54:41,563
You would find
very old and ancient houses.
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You would see a mosque close
to a church and then a shrine.
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It's the place where you belong
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and the place where you identify
yourself with.
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And when the sun shine...
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..you could feel that the sun is
shining just because Mosul is there.
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Unfortunately, everything
I have described has been destroyed.
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My city is gone.
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TONY BLAIR: Removing Saddam will be
a blessing to the Iraqi people.
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President Bush and I
have committed ourselves
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to peace in the Middle East.
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We shall help Iraq
move towards democracy.
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We will strive to see it done.
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GEORGE W BUSH: The goals of
our coalition are clear and limited.
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Coalition forces will help
maintain law and order,
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so that Iraqis can live in security.
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And I assure every citizen
of Iraq...
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..your nation will soon be free.
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INTERVIEWER: So I'm going to
ask you... Where do we end?
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Oh, man! Like, where do we END end?
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Where does it end?
Where does this story end?
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I don't know. I mean, I think...
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No time in the foreseeable future.
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00:57:08,843 --> 00:57:11,523
It's like there is no solution.
It's the Middle East.
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There's no solution.
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00:57:13,723 --> 00:57:15,403
But it will engage us forever.
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00:57:17,483 --> 00:57:18,803
Will it engage you forever?
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00:57:18,803 --> 00:57:20,123
No.
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I spent a lot of time there.
I was... I'm very lucky to be alive.
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00:57:24,243 --> 00:57:26,323
Very lucky.
A lot of people I know are not.
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00:57:28,843 --> 00:57:31,323
Enough. Enough for me.
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INTERVIEWER: Are you all right?
Yeah.
439
00:57:44,643 --> 00:57:47,083
Yeah.
440
00:57:47,083 --> 00:57:48,123
Yeah, man.
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00:57:49,803 --> 00:57:50,843
It's all good.
442
00:57:52,963 --> 00:57:54,083
It's all good.
443
00:58:00,203 --> 00:58:03,203
No, it's not, man. Life is...
444
00:58:03,203 --> 00:58:04,643
It's unfair.
445
00:58:04,643 --> 00:58:08,603
But it's OK. You know, I'm not
unique when it comes to that.
446
00:58:11,483 --> 00:58:13,643
And the world goes
round and round, man.
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00:58:14,723 --> 00:58:16,763
The world goes round and round.
448
00:58:19,923 --> 00:58:21,523
HE SIGHS
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NEWS ARCHIVE: Iraq has been gripped
by an unprecedented wave
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of protests in recent weeks...
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00:58:27,683 --> 00:58:30,923
The unrest began over corruption
and economic hardship...
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00:58:30,923 --> 00:58:35,403
A former ambassador tells us
pulling out might revitalise Isis.
453
00:58:35,403 --> 00:58:36,683
They're still on the scene,
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and they will take advantage
of any opening they can find...
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This was the moment that the US
assassinated Qasem Soleimani...
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3,000 US troops
are heading to the region.
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The threat still looms of a new
conflict across the Middle East.