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Before we start this episode, a warning, you'll hear some disturbing descriptions of violence.

Something else.

It's April 2003 and Jane Arraf is in Iraq. It's two weeks since American and British

forces invaded the country and Jane is there to cover the war for CNN.

She's traveling along the front line when she hears that Iraqi forces are about to give up

the ancient city of Mosul. The US Army would now be in control.

We were driving around the circle that's near the governor's office and near the central bank.

And the central bank had been set on fire, so there were flames coming out of the bank and

there were people running out of it, out of those flames,

with armloads of cash, just as much cash as they could grab

and some of it was charred at the edges.

And amid all that, there was gunfire.

She'd assumed US forces would be there running Mosel. And we got to the center of the city

where I expected to see some sort of American presence and there was

the eeriest vacuum.

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