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The News Sampler Menu April 13, 2009
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Explosion imminent
On March 20 six years ago, US-led forces entered Iraq for a military campaign that continues till today. theasiamag.com looks back spillover effect on its neighbours.
Life, unscripted
Two Americans bring an Iraqi boy maimed and blinded by the war back to the United States for treatment. Filmmaker Abdullah Boushahri tells a side to this true story that questions their good intentions.
The Beginning
The way I started the film was by total coincidence. I didn't even know about a child called Ahmad.
The Filming
.. by the time I finished the film, I ended up on a very different path from what I started with. Other things jumped in and surprised me.
The Children
I ended up seeing how a child like Ahmad is an example of an Arabic child or any child in the world, who is a victim of any war that happens to any society.
Day 71, January 9, 2009
IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN: BACK TO BASICS
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