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Baghdad till 15 years ago was the meaning of caliphs, odalisques, belly dance, wealth, gold, dates, palms.
Then, with the first Gulf war (1991), all TVs started to show us everyday death, atrocity, genocides, conventional and nuclear weapons, dictatorship and tyranny.
I'm an electrical engineer (but now I'm in a different business) and I have worked in Iraq from beginning 1979 till May 1985 when I left the country without advise (but this is an another story).
As a consultant for one of the Ministry of Iraq I was able to move freely around the country and to visit all cities and places including the ones forbidden to foreigners.
My memories are dated back at the day I left Iraq even if I kept some contacts and I got information from my Iraqi friends.
My hope is to be able, one day, to return to Iraq and to Baghdad that I think ...
traveller55 25.05.2005
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Advantages: full of action, real life story, very cheap Disadvantages: no extra's on the DVD
I'm a big fan of military films and I was excited when I spotted this online for £3.99 (thank you play.com).
This film tells a real life story of a group of American soldiers who were on a "normal" sortie in Iraq back in 2004. This isn't your typical Gulf war film though, you don't see the aircraft or any other air support and there's no bombs or an easy way out when the going gets tough. Nor was it one "the" big movies when it came out but all the same this is a quality film about a real story.
The film follows a group of soldiers on just one of their long days fighting insurgents. The combat/shooting scenes are numerous as you would expect but in this film everything is very realistic. As well as following the American soldiers it also shows you their involvement with the Iraq police force and how they come together to fight ...
Advantages: A true story about life in Saddam's time, particulary the prisons. Disadvantages: Can be very sickening.
It is a true and sad story of a lady from the cream of the Iraq society, with grandparents, both governmental ministers, that have shaped the Iraqi politics. He paternal grandfather a well-known military man and her maternal grandfather an educator and author, and parents were great opposers of Saddam and his Baath party, even though they are sunni too.
Just beacuse she has a printer shop got her to prison. A prison which is full of aching hearts and stories that will bring tears to your eyes.
It is heart-breaking the way she talks about the lives of those prison in-mates who she got to know well over the time.Each with a story worse than hers. About the torturing of a mother and her toddler watching, or the banker who was called in when the bank manager stole millions and she and other co-workers had to testify to his wrong doings ...
