Iraq: Generation Invasion

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Twenty years after the US-led invasion, four young Iraqis recall life under foreign occupation and share their hopes and fears for the future. Shedding a light on post-Saddam Iraq are: 26-year-old Dima who rebelled against religious extremists in her native Basra and has rediscovered a love of singing; Bassam, an enthusiastic environmentalist helping re-green the city of Mosul; Ahmed, a Kurdish graduate struggling to make ends meet in a local barber shop; and Baraa, a female publisher, whose message to the world is “Iraqis need a second chance.”

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0:00.0	The Global Jigsaw is the new podcast from BBC Monitoring, the BBC team tracking and analyzing media in 100 languages.
0:09.0	We're lifting the language barrier, showing you the world through the eyes of its media, where conflicting narratives are competing to influence your views.
0:18.0	Search for the Global Jigsaw wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:23.0	The following program contains graphic descriptions that some listeners may find disturbing.
0:31.0	Hello and welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Surface.
0:37.0	This is Iraq, Generation Invasion.
0:42.0	The assault began in the early hours of this morning when 40 cruise missiles were launched.
0:47.0	Iraqi civilians do not go to work. Stay in your homes and listen to coalition radio stations for instructions.
0:55.0	It is 20 years since US forces invited our country.
1:01.0	All of us contributing to this program where children at the time.
1:07.0	We are from Basra, Mosul, Erbil, and Baghdad.
1:13.0	There is no doubt that the push into Iraq has now begun.
1:17.0	Now that conflict has come, the only way to limit its duration is to apply the SIC force.
1:25.0	Some of us have changed our names for security.
1:30.0	Sometimes we speak in Arabic. These are our stories.
1:35.0	This is what we lift through.
1:38.0	And this is what we are doing to rebuild Iraq.
1:44.0	The Syrian Army is the most powerful.
1:52.0	I am going to go to the airport.
1:55.0	I am going to go to the airport.
1:58.0	Hi, my name is Ahmad.
2:00.0	I live here in Erbil, in the Kurdish area of Iraq.
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