Life
in Baghdad After the War: "And you know... when a bomb fell over
someplace, you could just feel the ground shaking under your feet." play
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Amin:
"There was a great battle in our area, a tank was on that camp and it was
fighting with the... U.S. forces and it started shooting everywhere and attacked
a house - my neighbor. It was a bad battle. We weren't here because we left.
But we were happy to return back to our home and see that nothing has been destroyed,
because many of the homes have big damage. The area was happy, just happy that
everyone's safe." play
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"Remember what I told you about security? Three
hours after you left, my neighbor's house was attacked by six Iraqi tanks."
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Farah:
"We saw the worst things, you can't even imagine the kinds of things...
hearing explosions every day... we couldn't sleep at night... It was - I can't
tell you about it." play
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Shakir:
(Talking about the soldiers) "Some people will say 'I hate wars
- I don't want to be here... I don't like being in the war... I was against
the war, I was protesting against the war..." And a lot of people will
say, 'No, I want to be here, I'm being paid' ... stuff like that." play
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Akram:
"My mother used to get frightened when you know... there was bombing, and
she just took the kids and stayed right here, and read the Holy Koran and prayed
to God 'just save us.'" play
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