Bibliograph

Setback of the century, 11th September cracks on the mirrors of Iraq War

Type

Label

Setback of the century, 11th September cracks on the mirrors of Iraq War

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Setback of the century

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

11th September cracks on the mirrors of Iraq War

Summary

Three months after the US war on Iraq in 2003, I decided to travel to my home town, Mosul in northern Iraq just to embrace my family members and close friends. While I was walking around Mosul streets seeking what has been left of my childhood, a US patrol stopped me to ask : "Where are you from? Why are you here?" Immediately, I burst out into laughter. The soldier turned to a sergeant next to him and wondered: "Is he mad?" Then, he angrily asked, "Why are you laughing?" That laughter soon turned into a philosophical question. "Imagine yourself in my place, what would you answer?. The soldier got more upset while the outrage was raging me. In the evening of the same day, I heard in the news, that a US patrol was hit in an explosion in the same street. The image of the 20-year-old soldier immediately flashed up in my mind to tell me: I wish I had an answer from that soldier to my question. This is how I came to write this book in an attempt to outline a wider scene of the backgrounds that led to wage that war on Iraq

Target audience

adult

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