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The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 19 October 2025
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| 0:29.6 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batcher. I'm with the author and journalist. |
| 0:36.0 | Reith Abdelahad, his new book is A Stranger in Your Own City, travels in the Middle East long war. |
| 0:43.2 | Wraith, you paint a beautiful scene of your father showing you in the high in the sky over Baghdad, an F4 Phantom. |
| 0:46.1 | Who was your father at that moment? |
| 0:47.9 | What did he make of the F4 Phantom for the, I believe you were five years old? |
| 0:53.7 | I was five. |
| 0:54.8 | My father was a, what do we call an amateur interested in aviation and planes |
| 1:01.2 | and collected all these, you know, foreign magazines about airplanes and jet fighters. |
| 1:07.0 | He had a few friends who were pilots in the Iraq Air Force. |
| 1:09.6 | So this is where he could, you know, spot the F4 flying over Baghdad. |
| 1:16.5 | I really remember that day as my first war. |
| 1:20.2 | I went to my parents' bedroom. |
| 1:22.4 | My father later took me to the roof, seeing that was the first time I hear the sounds of heavy anti-aircraft machine guns. |
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