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STAFF PICKS: The U.S. Wars and the Rise of ISIS / Robert Fisk, Patrick Cockburn

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This Is Hell!

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4.9937 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Producer Dan plays two interviews from the vault that deal with the U.S. war in Iraq, and the subsequent rise of ISIS in the region.

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0:00.0

Oh, Picket back!

0:13.0

Jack! This is Hellians,

0:33.0

Hell.

0:35.0

Hell.

0:38.0

Greetings this is Helliansions peace be upon you. This is not Chuck. He's fine though. He's on vacation. It's getting some much needed

0:51.0

R&R.

0:53.2

So I'm your substitute teacher, board operator Dan.

0:56.8

We're going to wheel in that huge CRT television and watch a video today.

1:02.4

That's right. I did the back breaking work of combing through the 26 years of archival materials in the This is Hell vaults, which are safely housed in an undisclosed location 3,000 feet below sea level.

1:15.8

My afternoon began, pleasantly, the facilities droids took my hat and coat and I set to work

1:20.9

selecting the perfect audio cube to play for you that this is hell faithful.

1:27.0

But as the day wore on, my alarm increased, having become absorbed in the task of finding an arresting interview.

1:34.3

I seem to have lost myself in a Borhazian library of this is hell episodes from years

1:39.1

long past.

1:41.1

Wandering from room to room, my heartbeat quickened the hum of the bunker's generator filled my ears and ghosts grinned maliciously at the periphery of my vision and it was only then in the grip of panic and oxygen psychosis

1:55.4

that I stumbled upon an audio cube more perfect than any other I had encountered

2:01.4

that day it contained a 2005 interview Chuck conducted

2:05.7

with the legendary late investigative journalist Robert Fisk. And that is precisely what I'm going to play for you, you all this morning, you lucky turnips.

2:17.0

Robert Fisk was a famous Middle East correspondent.

2:21.0

He broke the story of the Sabra and Chitila massacre in Lebanon and interviewed

2:26.1

Osama bin Laden on three separate occasions.

2:29.6

In 2019 I watched a documentary about Robert's 40 years of reporting entitled This is Not a Movie,

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