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August 16, 2009
Improvised Explosives in Iraq: Of makers, disarmers, and the dead.
The Hurt Locker is a film about a US bomb squad dying and cheating death in the heat and dust of Iraq. It is fiction, shot and edited in documentary style. Creepy Realism. Coming out of the movie I am still wondering: why did the US decide to send soldiers to hell, and how could the US-UK coalition commit the arson that removed a dictatorship to create the Iraqi hell in the first place? Questions, not new. The Hurt Locker is out in US theaters now. It's worth seeing.
This week, the New York Times ran a remarkable piece titled How Baida Wanted to Die about a Iraqi suicide bomber who did not manage to explode her bomb. It is wide-spread religion that brainwashed a young woman. But the horrors of war and her marriage triggered her decision to join those who carry their belt stuffed with explosives to a busy market. A police officer told the reporter before her interview with the young woman: "You're going to like Baida".
Posted by dr at August 16, 2009 12:26 AM