The accidental journalist who covered the war in Iraq
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 20 March 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:11.0 | Today, the accidental journalist who'd go on to become |
| 0:14.3 | one of the most decorated foreign correspondents of his generation. |
| 0:30.0 | I lived a very boring life under Saddam. |
| 0:38.0 | Our life was dominated by Saddam, whether we wanted or not. |
| 0:43.0 | He was on TV all the time. His pictures were in our school books. |
| 0:47.0 | His poems were recited in school. |
| 0:50.0 | We praised him. |
| 0:53.0 | We lived through him. |
| 0:57.0 | He was more important in our life than God himself. |
| 1:02.0 | Geith Abdul Ahad grew up in Baghdad. |
| 1:05.0 | Spent his whole life there. |
| 1:07.0 | Soar a lot. |
| 1:08.0 | The Iraq has invaded, neighboring state of Kuwait, |
| 1:11.0 | with fighting reported along the border. |
| 1:13.0 | The residents say that they were away from the war. |
| 1:15.0 | After the Kuwait invasion and the subsequent 1991 war, |
| 1:21.0 | 40 days of bombings. |
| 1:23.0 | Hundreds of Allied aircraft, American, British, Saudi Arabian and Kuwaiti, |
| 1:27.0 | began a series of heavy bombing raids on targets in Iraq. |
| 1:31.0 | Then came the sanctions. |
| 1:33.0 | No more trade with Iraq, a boycott of Iraq, the oil, a ban on arms sales, a ban on financial issues. |
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