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Series 1: 2. Insurgency. Lt Colonel Nate Sassaman and Iraqi civilian Alaa Adel reflect on the Iraqi insurgency. 59 mins. Series 1: 3. Fallujah. The battle of Fallujah is told by accounts...
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America eventually leaves Iraq, but when Isis emerges to...
- 5. Legacy
2 / 5 Lt Colonel Nate Sassaman and Iraqi civilian Alaa Adel reflect on the Iraqi insurgency. War — Series 1 1 / 5 Iraq civilians recall their initial hopes before the realities of war...
1,572,127 views • Premiered Jul 14, 2020 • #FRONTLINE. The story of the Iraq war and the chaos that followed, told by Iraqis who lived through it. ...more.
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The initial hope, felt by many Iraqis, would be tragically short lived once the realities of occupation with no postwar plan hit the streets of Baghdad. Insurgency . When Lieutenant Colonel Nate Sassaman arrived in Iraq in 2003, his belief in the task ahead - of delivering democracy and stability to the Iraqi people - was unquestioning.
The series chronologically covers the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein, and its subsequent occupation of Iraq (2003–2011); the first phase of the Iraqi insurgency (2003–2006); the Iraqi Civil War (2006–2008); the post-US withdrawal insurgency (2011–2013); and the War ...
With this spring marking the 20-year anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, “Once Upon a Time in Iraq: Fallujah” tells the story of the battle to retake the key city of Fallujah from a violent insurgency that was taking root across Iraq after the U.S. ousted Saddam Hussein.
Jul 25, 2020 · The five-part documentary series, directed by James Bluemel and narrated by actor Andy Serkis, tells the traumatic tale of the last 17 years in Iraq: the US-UK led invasion, its aftermath and its legacy.