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WARE [narrating]:
We all have dark places buried within.
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I know I found mine...
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...in a war in Iraq.
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A place inside me I never knew I had.
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A place I was led to by my own obsession
with the world’s most feared terrorist--
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[speaking Arabic]
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a man who would choose me
to be his messenger.
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[machine gun fire]
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It was 2003, and the Americans
were about to invade Iraq
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to oust the dictator, Saddam Hussein.
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I was a war correspondent
for Time magazine
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sent in to cover the conflict
from the north.
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I’m not sure I can ever tell you what
drove me to come to this crazy place,
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but I loved being a journalist,
hunting a story.
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-MAN: Here it comes.
-WARE: Where are we going to go?
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-To this bunker?
-Uh...
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Let’s do it quick, mate.
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WARE [narrating]:
I was a small-town boy from Australia.
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This was my chance to get out.
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[explosion]
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I was in my 30s, young and dumb enough
that war had a false sense of adventure.
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I simply couldn’t have been happier.
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[explosion]
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Fuck me.
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-[men laughing]
-Shh!
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That one was close.
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-Next time, take cover when they fire.
-Yes.
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WARE: The forward scout has just told us
he believes another mortar is on its way.
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-Where?
-[explosions in distance]
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WARE [narrating]:
This was the first day I’d held a camera--
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[explosion]
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a small, beat-up Handycam
I’ve carried with me ever since.
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In the end, I shot hundreds of hours
of tape, capturing my war on film.
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And in those tapes I found this story
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that I guess I’m finally ready to share.
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WARE: Do you want to go forward with
this man on the nightly probe? Tom?
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Tell him it would make for
a great story, but I’d better not.
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Ask Mick if he will go.
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I tell him I’d think about going
with a man I trust,
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and I think I trust this man very much.
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[gunfire]
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The funny thing is, we sit here and take
the exact same risks as these guys.
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There’s nothing that separates us.
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We can be as far in as we like.
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We can be journalists.
We can be noncombatants.
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That matters nothing to these mortars.
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We’re fucking close.
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GEORGE W. BUSH:
Saddam Hussein and his sons
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must leave Iraq within 48 hours.
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Their refusal to do so
will result in military conflict.
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For their own safety,
all foreign nationals,
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including journalists and inspectors,
should leave Iraq immediately.
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Well, right now
we’re in the back of a sheep truck...
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...and we’re leaving
the border town of Chamchamal
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to drive two hours forward
to approach the Iraqi front line.
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We believe we’re maybe three, four days
away from the beginning of the war.
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So that we can try and get there
before anyone else.
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GEORGE W. BUSH:
My fellow citizens,
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at this hour,
American and Coalition forces
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are in the early stages
of military operations
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to disarm Iraq, to free its people
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and to defend the world
from grave danger.
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We spent the night here
under the Iraqi guns.
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We received word that Bush
had addressed the nation
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and essentially declared war.
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The Iraqis are not entirely enamored
with Saddam’s secular regime.
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However, they support
his anti-American cause.
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[whispers] I love America.
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[explosion]
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WARE [on radio]: All of a sudden, there
was a god-awful explosion just behind us
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in what should have been a safe area.
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WARE [narrating]: I’m not sure
when things went wrong with me,
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but it must have started
on this quiet road.
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There’s a journalist who’s been killed
by a car bomb or a suicide bomber.
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Probably not a good idea to be here long.
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WARE [on radio]: I spun around
and across a grassy field...
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...I saw the fireball
and the smoke plume.
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WARE [narrating]:
Something inside me changed, seeing this.
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The brutality of it,
its cruel kind of violence.
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The memory of it
stowing away in my mind,
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coming with me as I collected
the dead man’s body and sent him home.
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And then I went south
to the Iraqi capital.
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GEORGE W. BUSH:
My fellow Americans,
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major combat operations
in Iraq have ended.
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In the Battle of Iraq,
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the United States and our allies
have prevailed.
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WARE [narrating]: When I first arrived in
Baghdad, it wasn’t yet a bad place to be.
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A city under American occupation,
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it still had hope
that now things would be better
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and the Iraqis would be able
to live their lives.
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I felt daunted, still a junior reporter.
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There were hundreds of other journalists
who had all been here longer.
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I was convinced I had arrived late,
already behind the curve.
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I was less afraid of a war zone
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than I was terrified
I’d make a fool of myself.
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But I was lucky to live here
in the Time magazine bureau
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with other writers and photographers,
like the great Yuri Kozyrev,
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who became my Russian brother.
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Hello.
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And our staff of Iraqis
who were more like family.
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At our head was Ali, a grumpy genius.
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There was Omar,
our conscientious office manager.
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-Hi, Mick.
-And Nathan, my young translator.
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WARE: CIA asked me
to get your photograph.
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[laughs]
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WARE [narrating]: It was our job
to try to understand what was going on
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beyond the press conferences
and sound bites.
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They were my eyes and ears,
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and we were a brotherhood pushing out
into the madness on our own.
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I didn’t have time to write my will.
[laughing]
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Oh, man. All the time you bring me
to some shit, you know? [laughs]
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WARE [narrating]: It didn’t take long
to realize that something was going wrong,
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that the facade of a successful Iraq
was already coming apart.
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FEMALE REPORTER:
People are getting hotter and angrier.
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MALE REPORTER:
An air of desperation.
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MALE REPORTER #2: A remote-controlled
explosive set off while US troops passed.
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WARE [narrating]:
In this car, a teenage boy died,
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shot by a nervous American soldier
at a checkpoint near our house.
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His brother had been with him
in the car when he died.
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[in Arabic] Tell those fucking Americans
my brother’s blood will not be in vain.
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I’m gonna do something big.
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They’ve taken my brother’s life!
They stole his life!
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WARE [narrating]: You couldn’t help
but feel his sense of betrayal.
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And he wasn’t alone.
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Behind all the Iraqis’ anger,
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an armed resistance
against the Americans was rising.
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It was small at first--
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hit-and-run insurgent attacks,
shootings and roadside bombs.
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But then an explosion
rocked our neighborhood,
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larger than anything before.
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Driving towards it,
I had no idea what it was
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until I saw this.
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[car horns blaring]
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[sirens wailing]
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[men shouting in Arabic]
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-WARE: Is it a car bomb? What was it?
-MAN: Yeah, a car bomb. Jordanian embassy.
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MAN [in Arabic] Don’t film! Don’t film!
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WARE: Michael Ware.
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MAN: Michael, I believe
something’s just occurred.
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WARE [on phone]: Yeah, Steve.
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Um, a suicide bombing
has just taken place
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at the Jordanian embassy
here in Baghdad.
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At least one or two car bombs
were involved,
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and it has completely destroyed
the front of the Jordanian embassy.
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There are a large number of wounded
and a number of killed.
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The scene is one
of total chaos, Steve.
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[in Arabic] What are you filming?
Why do you film the dead?
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They’re just removing another body now.
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So, people are very emotional.
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[sirens wailing in distance]
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It was the first suicide bombing
ever in Baghdad--
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a violence worse than anything
that had come before.
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No one knew who had done it,
but it had only just begun.
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[indistinct]
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[explosion]
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MALE REPORTER: The bombing
of UN headquarters in Baghdad
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killed at least 20 people
and wounded 100 others.
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No one has claimed responsibility
for the attack.
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WARE [narrating]:
This is when I started obsessing.
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These attacks were so dark, so sinister.
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I was becoming possessed by the idea
of how someone could do these things,
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of the hideous resolve
they must have had in their heart.
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And they were out there somewhere,
lurking in the shadows.
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[man speaking Arabic]
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Already fear, like a virus,
was spreading.
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From town to town,
platoon to platoon.
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On a stretch of rural highway
known for roadside bombs,
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a kid in a clunker of a car
says he’s run out of fuel.
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[in Arabic] It’s run out of gas.
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SOLDIER: Hey, hey.
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-There’s no gas.
-SOLDIER: No gas?
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-SOLDIER #2: It’s a wire.
-SOLDIER: A wire right there.
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-SOLDIER #2: You see that wire?
-SOLDIER #3: Blue wire.
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Behind that rock! Move!
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Get down, get down!
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WARE [narrating]: Impossible to know
whether he’d planted that bomb
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or if his car had really broken down.
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In a war like this,
everyone was suspect,
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everyone as guilty
as they were innocent.
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Hey, keep your fucking head down!
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-No, no, mister.
-Fuck you.
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[in Arabic] No, no. It’s not working.
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MALE REPORTER: A car bomb in Baghdad
killed 10 people and wounded many more.
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The apparent target was a police station.
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WARE [narrating]:
The Americans’ grip kept slipping,
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fighting an enemy they couldn’t see.
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It was hard just looking on
from the sidelines.
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I felt somehow
there was more I should be doing,
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to know who those men were,
to understand why they were fighting.
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At least that’s what I told myself
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as I began crossing to the other side
to talk to the insurgents.
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It took months, turning to anyone
with cousins or old war buddies
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or friends who might know someone
who knew someone still carrying a gun.
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I was fumbling, but over time
it seemed to be working.
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Gaining trust after trust,
the guerrillas began to let me inside.
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[man speaking Arabic]
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This homemade tape they gave me
was proof I’d made contact.
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It’s probably the first
insurgent video of the war.
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[in Arabic] The rocket-launcher group
remains behind the first hill.
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The mortar group remains behind
the second hill.
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You understand the plan, comrades?
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MAN #2: One, two, three--
then the explosion.
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Now it begins.
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MAN [in English]: One, two, three.
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MAN #2 [in Arabic]: Hit it. Hit it.
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[continuing in Arabic] Come on!
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-Fouad?
-Hmm?
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-Is this video with sound?
-God willing.
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We advise every honorable Iraqi mujahid
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to defend their country and their honor.
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We don’t accept any forces,
whether Arab or Western,
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to conquer or rebuild Iraq.
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Depend on Allah, mujahideen.
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Allah!
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[in Arabic] Sir, all the Americans
were attacked over there.
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MAN #2: What did you blow up?
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-The mother of all ammo depots.
-The armored vehicles?
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-The armored vehicles all around it.
-Well done.
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-I got it twice.
-Well done. Well done, lions.
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-Go with Allah on your side.
-God willing.
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WARE [narrating]: I know these men
and feel bad about this tape,
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filmed just for me when I insisted
on proof they were really fighting.
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Soon, I wasn’t just watching their tapes.
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They began taking me to secret meetings
in the dead of night.
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[heavy breathing]
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That’s my breathing
as I’m doing the filming.
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It was frightening.
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I’d surrendered myself
to these guerrillas,
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men the Americans were hunting
and I had found,
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not knowing if they were friends
or if they were going to kill me.
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I guess I knew it was insane,
but I couldn’t help myself.
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MAN [in Arabic]:
This is a message from us.
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By Allah, by Allah, by Allah.
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They will not have a restful day
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while there is a single Arab, Muslim,
Iraqi breathing in the land of Iraq.
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I was brought to this barn,
blindfolded in the trunk of a car.
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[in Arabic] We will not stop resisting
the occupation until our last martyr.
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Soon it wasn’t enough
just to meet them.
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They insisted on taking me and Yuri
on our first attack.
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We were on the outskirts of the heavily
protected US base at Baghdad Airport.
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There was a guilt in watching this happen
as they targeted the Americans.
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-[in Arabic] Give me your scarf.
-In the name of God the Merciful, why?
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Because I don’t want my face filmed.
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All I could think about
was chopper pilots’ video screens,
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where they can see anything
in the dark.
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The insurgents saw my unease.
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“Don’t worry,” they told me.
“We do this all the time.”
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Prophet Mohammad, peace be upon Him,
said it’s jihad until doomsday.
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And we will wage jihad and wage jihad
until the Americans leave our homeland.
250
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[chattering in Arabic]
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Pull your hands. Go, Go!
252
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-What do I do?
-You pull it.
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Where’s the American plane?
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Aircraft.
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These men saw themselves as nationalists,
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fighting to rid their country
of an occupier.
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But for all the blood they’d spilled,
258
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they were not waging
a holy war of suicide bombings.
259
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That, they told me, was someone else.
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Someone who scared even them.
261
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A man called Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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Zarqawi, who lived only in secrets,
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in mystery,
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with so little known.
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He was a Jordanian,
a militant radicalized in a prison,
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had run a terror camp in Afghanistan
267
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and was now somewhere in Iraq,
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waiting to bring the country
to its knees.
269
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It had been almost a year for me here,
270
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and at our house we prepared
for Christmas vacations.
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Happy Christmas!
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One, two--
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One, two, three.
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-Hey!
-[Kozyrev laughs]
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But our family
was about to be torn apart.
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[laughter]
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Omar adored his son, Qutab,
and I adored Omar.
278
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Soon, a few blocks
from where he’s standing,
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Omar will be gunned down.
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Merry Christmas, Abu Jack.
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WARE: Merry Christmas, Omar.
Abu Qutab.
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Abu Qutab.
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And for a moment,
the war lost its distance.
284
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It had found us.
285
00:18:08,360 --> 00:18:12,400
Omar’s death forced us to leave that house
where we’d been so happy
286
00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:15,240
to seek safety
in a well-guarded hotel.
287
00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:18,560
That’s where I was when Zarqawi
showed himself to the world.
288
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[man speaking Arabic]
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That’s him, they say,
reading from those pages.
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Beneath him is Nicholas Berg,
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a young American contractor
Zarqawi had kidnapped.
292
00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:33,280
My name is Nick Berg.
My father’s name is Michael.
293
00:18:33,360 --> 00:18:35,680
My mother’s name is Suzanne.
294
00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:39,080
I have a brother and sister,
David and Sara.
295
00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:43,800
I live in West Chester, Pennsylvania,
near Philadelphia.
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[in Arabic] You will see nothing from us
except corpses
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and casket after casket
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slaughtered in this way.
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God is great!
300
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[Berg screaming]
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There is no justification
302
00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,640
for the brutal execution of Nicholas Berg.
303
00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:13,520
No justification whatsoever.
304
00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:16,560
WARE [narrating]:
That day, it felt the entire war stopped,
305
00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:19,400
the wind knocked out of it
by the horror.
306
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Zarqawi was escalating.
307
00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:27,520
Then late one night in our hotel,
it all became very personal.
308
00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:33,080
A Zarqawi contact knocked on my door,
a DVD in hand.
309
00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:35,440
“The Prince of Princes ordered me,”
he said.
310
00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:38,200
“Give this to the infidel.”
311
00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:42,440
From the beginning, Zarqawi had
been filming his masterpiece,
312
00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:45,840
something that would
change the war forever.
313
00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:50,480
And now that it was ready,
he’d given it to me.
314
00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:53,280
[speaking Arabic]
315
00:19:53,360 --> 00:19:56,800
This is the first-ever film
of suicide bombings in Iraq
316
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and the kids who were doing it.
317
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This one reading his living will,
318
00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:03,880
saying his farewells
in a darkened ceremony
319
00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:06,400
before setting off
to an American checkpoint.
320
00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:10,480
[singing in Arabic]
A torrent of my longing
321
00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:26,040
I see you all leaving,
and you will not be returning
322
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In the name of God the Merciful.
323
00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:30,880
This is all it is. A button only.
324
00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:35,480
Don’t forget us in your prayers.
We shall be missing you.
325
00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:52,880
MALE REPORTER: This Western journalist
views horrifying video
326
00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:56,960
sent to him by
an Islamic insurgent group in Iraq.
327
00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:59,640
WARE: Oh, my God! I’ve not seen this.
328
00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:02,520
MALE REPORTER:
Michael Ware, working for Time magazine,
329
00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:04,840
is walking a professional knife edge,
330
00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:08,600
an unlikely go-between
for anti-Western militants.
331
00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:13,200
WARE: Whether you think I’m fortunate
or whether you think I’m doomed,
332
00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:18,400
the point is, I’ve been given a window
into something that no one else has.
333
00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:20,520
What we see here
334
00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:24,760
is Zarqawi’s terrorist group’s attack
on an American convoy.
335
00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:28,080
A pre-positioned cameraman
knows where the bomb will go off.
336
00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:33,040
A suicide driver will intercept
this convoy and detonate that explosion.
337
00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:36,480
[shouting in Arabic]
338
00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:44,760
This is a very, very sophisticated part
339
00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:47,640
of Zarqawi’s information campaign,
340
00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:51,960
stamping him as the star
of the new global jihad.
341
00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:55,120
♪♪ [singing in Arabic]
342
00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,920
It’s just fascinating
to watch a face like that...
343
00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:02,920
...and know that, in a day or two,
he’s dead.
344
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,720
He knows this is coming
and he welcomes it.
345
00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:08,880
This is their power.
It’s what they often say to me.
346
00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,360
“Our great advantage over you,
347
00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:15,360
that you are afraid of death
and we are not.”
348
00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:17,960
[speaking Arabic]
349
00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:30,080
WARE [narrating]:
I’d never know why he sent it to me.
350
00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,600
It had to have come
from being out there,
351
00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:35,600
the foreigner roaming
among the insurgents,
352
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:39,560
from fighters I knew
who knew him or his men.
353
00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:43,320
It was too big to think about,
354
00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:45,640
paralyzing to contemplate,
355
00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:47,880
a man like that choosing me.
356
00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:57,720
I felt he’d made me complicit,
somehow, in his war.
357
00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:00,200
Now there could be no turning back.
358
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,640
The Americans
were losing control of the war.
359
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:12,520
First, some of the desert provinces went.
360
00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,320
Then it was the highways.
361
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:18,920
[soldiers shouting]
362
00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,120
Bullshit! Bullshit!
363
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,120
It’s an ambush!
364
00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,480
Till finally the US
was losing Baghdad itself.
365
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:35,440
In the heart of the capital,
366
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,760
Haifa Street was a special
kind of hell to the Americans.
367
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:42,000
MALE REPORTER: Last night,
two more soldiers killed on patrol here,
368
00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:47,040
making this one of the deadliest 24 hours
since major combat was declared over.
369
00:23:47,120 --> 00:23:50,360
WARE [narrating]: Soldiers dubbed
its corridors “Purple Heart Lane”
370
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:52,600
and “RPG Alley,”
371
00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:55,720
a place where even children
fought against them.
372
00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:58,880
It’s where Yuri and I met this boy,
373
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:02,080
his parents killed
in an air strike on Fallujah.
374
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,640
He’d been taken in
by his insurgent uncle.
375
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,120
MAN [in Arabic]: Come on, Hammudi.
Come here.
376
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,160
-God is great.
-God is great.
377
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,520
Look this way. God is great.
378
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:15,280
BOY: God is great.
379
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,080
[men chattering in Arabic]
380
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,640
[men chattering in Arabic]
381
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,040
I knew Haifa Street well.
382
00:24:36,120 --> 00:24:38,720
Its insurgent commander was a friend,
383
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,160
at least to the extent of his interests.
384
00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:44,920
And in war, that’s the best type
of friend you can hope for.
385
00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:49,080
MAN: Don’t show it.
They fucking shoot at cameras.
386
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,720
-[man #2 speaking Arabic]
-He said take a picture.
387
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,560
MAN #2 [in Arabic]:
Haifa Street is blocked.
388
00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:58,560
-He said it’s closed.
-[in Arabic] I don’t want my face on film.
389
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:02,680
That’s him, my friend, who I can’t film
for fear he’d be identified.
390
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:05,360
We are moving around Haifa Street,
391
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:09,920
which is now controlled by
the Iraqi mujahideen, or holy warriors.
392
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:11,680
This is the insurgents,
393
00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,800
the guerrillas who are fighting
against the American forces
394
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,520
and the interim Iraqi government.
395
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:23,880
-MAN [in Arabic]: Is it a free-fire zone?
-MAN #2: It’s a forbidden area.
396
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,320
WARE: A US unit has moved into the area.
397
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:31,080
Armored Bradley Fighting Vehicles
have taken up positions.
398
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:34,320
Normally, whenever American troops
come into this area,
399
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,800
the insurgents attack.
400
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:39,640
MAN: Stop.
401
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:43,200
[in Arabic] It is not my hand,
but the hand of God.
402
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:46,400
Allahu akbar.
403
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:49,760
-Allahu akbar.
-Again! Again!
404
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:53,680
WARE: They were lobbing mortars
at a base a few hundred meters away.
405
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:55,320
Allahu akbar.
406
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,120
-Should I shoot it?
-Shoot.
407
00:25:59,360 --> 00:26:01,280
Remove it. Remove it.
408
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:07,960
[speaking Arabic]
409
00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:12,720
Let’s go!
410
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,760
The area was a prize
in the midst of the city
411
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,640
that Zarqawi wanted for himself.
412
00:26:20,360 --> 00:26:22,720
First, he sent his men
in ones and twos.
413
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,640
Then twos became threes and fours.
414
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,040
Soon, word came back.
415
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,680
Zarqawi had taken over Haifa Street.
416
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,480
-Allahu akbar!
-Allahu akbar!
417
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:40,640
[shouting in Arabic]
418
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:44,640
My friend, the insurgent commander,
had been overthrown
419
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,960
and sent one of his men to bring me back
so I could see for myself.
420
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:52,640
Zarqawi had seized
the equivalent of midtown Manhattan,
421
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:54,640
right in the middle of Baghdad.
422
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:57,200
[man speaking Arabic]
423
00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:00,800
[in Arabic]
Ahead, ahead, ahead. Go, go, go!
424
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,400
-[in English] This?
-Where? Where?
425
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,040
Zarqawi’s black flags line the streets,
426
00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:09,120
his fighters everywhere.
427
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,200
[in Arabic] Another one.
428
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:14,760
They’ll shoot the car.
They’ll shoot and burn the car.
429
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,080
-Really?
-I swear by God!
430
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,880
We made one pass down the boulevard.
431
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,560
Then another.
432
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:30,280
[in English] Continue.
433
00:27:30,360 --> 00:27:33,120
Wait, wait, wait.
Many, many mujahideen here.
434
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,040
Until we were spotted.
435
00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:37,720
One of Zarqawi’s men
stepping out from the curb,
436
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:41,320
pulling the pin on a grenade,
stopping our car.
437
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,040
That’s all the tape I have.
438
00:27:46,120 --> 00:27:49,280
From this point on,
it’s only jagged, brittle memory.
439
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:54,440
A swarm of jihadis grabbed our car,
reaching in to grab me.
440
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:56,840
Clawing, dragging me.
441
00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,040
They were going to cut my head off,
442
00:27:59,120 --> 00:28:02,400
like I’d seen them do
in so many videos--
443
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:07,400
grabbed by the hair from behind,
screaming as the sawing began,
444
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,360
legs flailing.
445
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:11,840
The images reeling through my mind.
446
00:28:13,360 --> 00:28:17,800
I stood beneath a banner,
beside a man with a knife, waiting.
447
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,440
[man speaking Arabic]
448
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:27,360
That’s when he spoke up,
my insurgent escort,
449
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,240
the one my friend
had sent to bring me in.
450
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:34,360
He threatened Zarqawi’s men
with a turf war if they killed me.
451
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:39,920
I just wasn’t worth it.
Even Zarqawi’s men saw that.
452
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:43,200
With gritted teeth,
they shoved me back into the car.
453
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:46,160
It was over.
454
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:51,240
[children shouting, squealing]
455
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,800
But in a way, it would never be over.
456
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,960
For the next three days,
I didn’t leave my bedroom.
457
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:09,360
I wanted to be sick
whenever I was in a car.
458
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,480
I still hate shaving
with blades near my face.
459
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:20,520
I guess most people
would have left Iraq after that.
460
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,160
I don’t know.
It’s a thought I never had.
461
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,880
Maybe by then,
it was already too late for me...
462
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,440
-[wailing]
-...to let it all go.
463
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,960
Now I craved, almost sickly,
to know more,
464
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:37,040
to comprehend
the enormity of him-- Zarqawi.
465
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:41,760
If he was obscene,
my intrigue was becoming perverse.
466
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:45,360
The dark idea of him
would not leave my mind.
467
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:48,320
And Zarqawi was never far away.
468
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:51,600
Two car bombs.
469
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:55,600
His suicide bombings kept coming,
even to our door.
470
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,960
-MAN: He’s coming.
-If they’re coming, I wanna be ready.
471
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,560
MAN: Mick, you cannot
go outside with a gun.
472
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:03,840
WARE: I’m not going outside with a gun.
473
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,080
[shouting in Arabic]
Get back! You get back!
474
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,320
Get back! Get back!
475
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,680
I’m Australian.
I’m American. I’m American.
476
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,240
I’m a journalist! I’m a--
477
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:16,960
I live here!
478
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:21,440
WARE [narrating]: The Americans
pursued Zarqawi relentlessly,
479
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,640
but still he was taking over the war.
480
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:32,120
In Fallujah, a city west of Baghdad,
he now ruled.
481
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:33,920
An insurgent stronghold,
482
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,040
the Americans had no choice
but to take the city back,
483
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,720
assembling a force
of 10,000 troops to do it.
484
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:45,280
At last, Zarqawi’s men
were making a stand,
485
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:49,000
daring to confront
the full might of the US military.
486
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,280
And I wasn’t going to miss it.
487
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,200
Eh? [grunts]
488
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:58,320
Fuck you.
489
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,440
WARE: Didn’t you take a photo
of me sleeping?
490
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:03,640
Yes.
491
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,040
-Fuck you.
-[laughs]
492
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,640
If Iraq is to be free
and a peaceful society,
493
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,480
one part of the country
cannot remain under the rule
494
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:30,440
of assassins and terrorists.
495
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:32,560
We will hunt down the criminals.
496
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,920
We will kill them or capture them.
497
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,560
FEMALE REPORTER: US commanders
made a somber prediction--
498
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:40,400
the street fighting could be
the heaviest since Vietnam.
499
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:44,400
Our purpose is to give back Fallujah
to the people of Iraq.
500
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:49,080
We are to clear this city
of the terrorists and the criminals.
501
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:52,480
There is nothing walking in that town
that I’m afraid of
502
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,200
because I got you all with me.
503
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:56,720
SOLDIERS: Whoa!
504
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,520
You make contact,
I expect you to finish it.
505
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,160
Finish it with the biggest weapon
you’ve got.
506
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,480
Leaders have got to account
for your soldiers.
507
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,680
Know where they’re at on the battlefield.
Support them.
508
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:09,400
If they get in a catfight,
509
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:13,080
I expect you guys to pile on
and kick somebody’s ass.
510
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,560
I’m not afraid of anything in there.
511
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:17,920
And neither should you be.
512
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,680
You reach around,
you put your arms around each other,
513
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,600
walk into this city together
and you walk out together.
514
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:25,480
SOLDIERS: Whoa!
515
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:26,960
Let’s pray.
516
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:32,720
Heavenly Father, your word says
you do not give us a spirit of fear,
517
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,080
but of courage and of sound mind.
518
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,640
I ask you
to give these soldiers today
519
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:41,360
that courage that they have to do
to accomplish this task.
520
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,520
Protect each soldier
as they go into battlefields.
521
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:49,400
Let us be able to take all back with us.
In your precious and holy name, amen.
522
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,040
Hey, Fallujah’s that way, y’all.
523
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:54,520
[laughs]
524
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:59,360
Hey, Jack. It’s your dad here, mate.
525
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,280
Just about to go
into the battle of Fallujah.
526
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:04,360
I love you, Son.
527
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:07,000
[machine gun fire]
528
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,560
WARE [narrating]: We were
the first American unit into the city
529
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:18,400
and were quickly surrounded
by Zarqawi’s suicidal fighters
530
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,600
who had stayed behind
when everyone else had fled.
531
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:25,520
[shell explodes]
532
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,600
-[soldiers shouting]
-Hey, I’m hit!
533
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:31,360
Hold on. Hold on.
534
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:32,520
Nick?
535
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,400
[soldiers shouting]
536
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:38,280
-Good. I’m good, man.
-You’re all set.
537
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,400
WARE [narrating]:
It’s odd, the things I remember.
538
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:46,000
The boys’ faces
and how old they made me feel.
539
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:47,360
Where is it at?
540
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:48,960
That their leader, Lieutenant Meeno,
541
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:52,040
had worked in an office
till not so long ago.
542
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:54,960
-There!
-Fuck!
543
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:56,800
And that Staff Sergeant David Bellavia
544
00:33:56,880 --> 00:34:01,120
was about to celebrate his 29th birthday
in the midst of the battle.
545
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,320
-SOLDIER: Of all places!
-[laughter]
546
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,880
-It’s a Purple Heart.
-It’s a purple dick!
547
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:13,920
-It’s a purple penis!
-RPG fire or something.
548
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,040
-Where did that happen?
-[gunfire continues]
549
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:21,040
Hey, Doc, he’s gonna walk off--
He’s gonna walk it off, right?
550
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,160
Yeah, he’ll be all right.
551
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:33,400
The other American units
were stalled entering the city.
552
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,560
The further we fought,
the more we were on our own.
553
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,480
So we’d have to go back onto the streets,
554
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:45,400
through ghostly houses the soldiers
thought they’d already won,
555
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:48,480
looking for fighters
hiding in the crevices.
556
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:56,440
We have the good fortune
of doing our own BDA.
557
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:58,440
Now we know we’re killing people.
558
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:02,440
We know what they got. We can make sure
all those weapons systems get spiked.
559
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:05,640
Okay, so that’s the plan.
We’re gonna leave shortly.
560
00:35:05,720 --> 00:35:09,120
[soldiers shouting]
561
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,680
We’re about to go into this compound.
There are six to eight dudes--
562
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:16,760
-This one here?
-No, over here.
563
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,760
They haven’t been able to find ’em.
564
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:23,440
Before we roll in,
I’m gonna pound it with tank rounds.
565
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:27,600
Just wait. Have your guys
in a cover position. Don’t be in the open.
566
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,800
WARE [narrating]:
It was six of Zarqawi’s suicidal jihadis
567
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,600
cornered in a block of empty houses.
568
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,480
With night coming,
they had no way out.
569
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,320
Once it hits that house,
we’re gonna be here.
570
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:42,720
We’re gonna come out here
and we’re gonna assault this way.
571
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:47,080
Push those fuckers this way so if he runs,
the tanks can direct him here.
572
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:58,800
SOLDIER: Let’s go!
Push through, first squad!
573
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:00,960
-First squad, get up here!
-[soldiers shouting]
574
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,480
Alpha team!
Alpha team, get up here! Alpha team!
575
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:05,600
[soldiers continue shouting]
576
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:09,960
SOLDIER: I want the last man in Bravo
in this spot when you assault.
577
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:11,600
SOLDIER #3: We’re okay here.
578
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,120
-SOLDIER #2: My bad, Bravo.
-SOLDIER: First floor secure?
579
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:15,760
SOLDIER #2:
First floor secure.
580
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:20,880
Here we go, here we go.
Last man in Bravo, take that spot.
581
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:22,440
-Bravo? Who is--
-Over here.
582
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:26,800
WARE [narrating]: From the first house,
we knew the jihadis were not far away.
583
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:30,080
SOLDIER: You gotta keep your weapon
up there. Stay up there.
584
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:34,920
All right, Bravo. Split squad.
Go right, go left.
585
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:36,800
Let’s go.
586
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,600
We got a back door over here
that’s opened up.
587
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:43,480
-It’s open.
-Blood on the basin.
588
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:50,160
WARE [narrating]: The search went on
for hours. House after house in the dark.
589
00:36:50,240 --> 00:36:52,520
Till we entered one last home.
590
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:55,600
-[soldiers shouting]
-[gunfire]
591
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:04,400
It was a trap.
Ambushed from six feet away.
592
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:07,080
[gunfire continues]
593
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:10,160
-Bullets ripping through the walls.
-[gunfire continues]
594
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:17,760
SOLDIER: Hey! What the fuck!
595
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,800
-SOLDIER #2: I got shrapnel--
-SOLDIER #1: I need a Bradley!
596
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,400
-WARE: Have you been hit?
-Get me a Bradley!
597
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:25,200
-Are you all right?
-I’m good.
598
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:26,880
-Have you been hit?
-I’m good!
599
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:28,080
-[gunshot]
-Who is shooting?
600
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:30,520
WARE [narrating]:
Zarqawi’s men had the advantage.
601
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:32,600
We scrambled back onto the street.
602
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:34,200
-Get back!
-WARE: I’m trying.
603
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:36,120
There’s people in front of me!
604
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:37,920
SOLDIER: Get out of here.
605
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,120
WARE: Yuri? Yuri!
606
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,280
-[gunshots]
-Yuri!
607
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:44,000
SOLDIER:
Out of here! Go!
608
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,200
SOLDIER:
We are not gonna fucking die!
609
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,280
-SOLDIER #2: Is anyone fucking hit?
-SOLDIER: Nobody’s hit!
610
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:56,800
SOLDIER: Everything is fucking crazy.
We just got shot at at point-blank range.
611
00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:00,640
WARE [narrating]: Someone had to go
back in there. Someone had to kill them.
612
00:38:00,720 --> 00:38:02,960
SOLDIER:
Yeah, I wanna go after ’em.
613
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:06,480
-It was Staff Sergeant Bellavia.
-BELLAVIA: I wanna go.
614
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:08,080
I wanna go.
615
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,360
BELLAVIA: This guy is shooting
from point-blank range.
616
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:14,360
-You wanna stay?
-SOLDIER: I’ll stay here.
617
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:18,680
-BELLAVIA: All right, let’s go get ’em.
-One sergeant followed. I went with them.
618
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:25,240
SOLDIER: You’re coming.
You’re fucking coming.
619
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:29,960
[soldiers shouting]
620
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:32,760
[gunfire]
621
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:40,360
WARE [narrating]:
Bellavia killed two in the hallway.
622
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:41,960
-SOLDIER: Who is that?
-WARE: Mick!
623
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:45,440
-Who is it? Who?
-Mick! The journalist!
624
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:47,800
Then he pushed further inside.
625
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,840
I lost him, blinded without night vision
626
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,240
and suddenly alone
in a house full of death.
627
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,160
And then it went quiet.
628
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:01,800
No gunfire, no Sergeant Bell.
629
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:04,320
Something was wrong.
630
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:09,080
[rubble clattering]
631
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:11,640
I ran back to the others outside.
632
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:14,480
WARE: Hey!
633
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:17,720
-Who can hear me?
-SOLDIERS: Yeah!
634
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:21,160
They need a couple more guys!
Sergeant Bell’s not answering!
635
00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:23,160
[gunshots]
636
00:39:23,240 --> 00:39:27,760
WARE: Pauly and someone else
are on the right side of the garage.
637
00:39:28,720 --> 00:39:30,400
SOLDIER:
Right side of the garage!
638
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:34,080
WARE: And Sergeant Bella
and someone else went in.
639
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,200
And we haven’t heard from them.
640
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,760
WARE: Have you heard anything
from inside that house?
641
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:50,520
-No.
-WARE: Man, it’s gone quiet.
642
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:54,200
-SOLDIER #2: That’s not good.
-SOLDIER #3: I hope there’s no injuries.
643
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,400
WARE [narrating]:
These were the longest of minutes.
644
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,320
-I don’t know what’s going on.
-First ten. Then 20.
645
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:02,160
Not knowing if Bellavia was alive.
646
00:40:02,240 --> 00:40:06,000
I couldn’t sit still.
I couldn’t just watch.
647
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:07,680
He might need help.
648
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:12,960
I ran back to the door of the house
to see if I could hear him.
649
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:17,040
Then a sound came from inside.
650
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:19,440
[man shouts, faint]
651
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:21,400
WARE: Someone’s calling out.
652
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:22,960
-From where?
-WARE: Inside.
653
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:24,880
-I can’t hear it.
-WARE: I can.
654
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:27,480
-SOLDIER: Sergeant Bell?
-[man shouting, faint]
655
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:31,640
-[gunfire, explosions]
-Sergeant Bell!
656
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:38,920
WARE [narrating]: He was alive.
On his own, he’d crept through the house,
657
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:43,600
killing five of Zarqawi’s men,
some in hand-to-hand combat.
658
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,160
-SOLDIER: Hey, Bell.
-Yeah, hold on.
659
00:40:52,240 --> 00:40:53,760
SOLDIER #2: Talk to six.
660
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:56,240
-SOLDIER: What’s he want?
-SOLDIER #2: A report.
661
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:59,800
I got three dead fuckers
who tried to shoot us at five meters!
662
00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:01,600
WARE [narrating]:
We were all stunned,
663
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:05,480
but Bellavia, I think,
had found something in that house,
664
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:07,440
a part of him he never knew.
665
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:09,240
-SOLDIER: Fuck.
-[soldiers shouting]
666
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:10,880
That’s it. Moving out!
667
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:13,640
-Hey, uh, suck up.
-Yeah.
668
00:41:13,720 --> 00:41:15,840
[soldiers chattering]
669
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:24,000
WARE [narrating]:
Me, I’d had no place going back in there,
670
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:27,400
but I’d felt there was
nowhere else for me to be.
671
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:32,320
And all I’d found inside was that
I no longer cared about dying.
672
00:41:40,240 --> 00:41:42,520
After six days of heavy fighting,
673
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:46,160
US forces say tonight
they have taken the town of Fallujah.
674
00:41:46,720 --> 00:41:50,520
FEMALE REPORTER: US and Iraqi forces
are now in control of 70% of Fallujah.
675
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:53,880
FEMALE REPORTER #2: A devastating
display of American firepower.
676
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,320
The battle for Fallujah is all but over.
677
00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:00,160
WARE [narrating]:
It was a false sense of victory.
678
00:42:00,240 --> 00:42:04,280
For Zarqawi, the battle
had been a display of his power,
679
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:09,320
his men willing to die in nothing more
than an act of glorious defiance.
680
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:12,760
And their suicidal devotion to him
only grew stronger.
681
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:16,040
-[children chattering]
-[speaking Arabic]
682
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,480
By now, Zarqawi controlled
large chunks of the country
683
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:33,600
and he was becoming more barbaric,
684
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:37,080
bringing his vision
of an Islamic state to life.
685
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,720
This is footage Zarqawi
never meant the world to see--
686
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:50,520
these men posting notices announcing
the fate of a man held in their car.
687
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:54,560
Accused of informing to the Americans,
688
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:56,640
he’s been sentenced to death.
689
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:06,320
CHILDREN [in Arabic]:
God keep you safe.
690
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,160
MAN: Allah give you victory.
Allah give us victory.
691
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:28,880
[weapon cocks]
692
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:31,000
[in Arabic] Keep going.
693
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:44,120
Move away, old man.
694
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:46,840
Old man, give us space.
695
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,680
Please, move on!
696
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:03,080
God is great!
697
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:23,800
Come, you can drive through.
698
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:27,560
WARE [narrating]: His methods
were horrifying, even to Al-Qaeda.
699
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:32,280
Osama bin Laden’s deputy
wrote to Zarqawi,
700
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:35,280
urging him to curb his violent excesses.
701
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:37,280
Step back, step back.
702
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:38,720
He ignored them.
703
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:45,800
This film was retrieved
from the computer hard drive
704
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:49,200
of one of Zarqawi’s
top military officials,
705
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:53,680
videos brought to me by insurgents
I knew who’d drifted to Zarqawi
706
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:57,200
but eventually chose to resign
from the terror network.
707
00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:02,440
Reporting one morning to their boss,
they blew his brains all over a wall.
708
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:05,040
As they left, one turned and asked,
709
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:08,160
“Do you think
Mick would want his computer?”
710
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:13,720
MEN: Allahu akbar. Allahu akbar.
711
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:17,520
People, I am innocent!
712
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:21,200
Men said to be thieves or looters
hung like piñatas.
713
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:25,400
[men pleading in Arabic]
714
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:29,400
Zarqawi’s world
was one of unimaginable terror,
715
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:32,720
everyone within it a prisoner
of his distorted reality.
716
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,600
-[gunshots]
-[men shouting, screaming]
717
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:41,760
-Allahu akbar. Allahu akbar.
-[gunshots continue]
718
00:45:42,720 --> 00:45:45,160
There was only one place left to go--
719
00:45:45,240 --> 00:45:48,320
into the very heart of Zarqawi’s power,
720
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:53,200
to a province called Anbar
where he’d forged his Islamic state,
721
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:58,640
to a city he’d made his dark capital,
a city called Ramadi.
722
00:45:58,720 --> 00:46:01,880
It was a forbidden place
to a foreigner like me.
723
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:05,560
The only way in was to join
the American units stationed here,
724
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:07,400
fighting for their lives
725
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:10,600
in a hell their commanders
called “the meat grinder.”
726
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:12,280
Fuck.
727
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:14,000
So bad was the fighting,
728
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:18,160
the Americans were struggling
just to keep this one solitary road open,
729
00:46:18,240 --> 00:46:21,240
a road dotted
with five lonely US outposts.
730
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:24,960
It was the soldiers’ only lifeline
to the outside world.
731
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:31,600
I’d heard there was
a group of marines under siege,
732
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:34,160
ordered to hold the line,
whatever the cost,
733
00:46:34,240 --> 00:46:37,240
at a post known as the gov center.
734
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:38,880
WARE: Hey, guys.
735
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:43,720
Stay underneath the glass.
There’s snipers running around here.
736
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:46,080
WARE: What’s this place like?
737
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:47,520
It’s nice.
738
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:50,960
[chuckles]
Look out of the window.
739
00:46:53,240 --> 00:46:54,920
-You look out?
-Yeah.
740
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:56,840
You see how it is, this place.
741
00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:59,800
-[gunfire]
-Coming in! Coming in!
742
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:05,360
Here, on their second tours,
Lance Corporal Jose Taseco--
743
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:07,000
Fuck ’em up, partner!
744
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:08,680
...and Corporal Nathan Buck.
745
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:12,120
Trying to get the go-ahead
to launch that 40 down there.
746
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:16,440
When we got to Ramadi, the first day--
We had contact the first patrol we did.
747
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:18,800
We were the first patrol out.
748
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:22,200
So, it was just like, “What up?”
I couldn’t even believe it.
749
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:25,800
[gunfire]
750
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:29,000
Doc! Get in here, Doc.
751
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:32,960
Watch my rifle.
752
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:34,480
He’s hurt pretty bad.
753
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:37,120
BUCK: We lost three marines
and a corpsman.
754
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:39,880
You just gotta keep your head up.
755
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:42,040
Keep on pushing through, you know?
756
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:46,240
You can’t let yourself get down,
’cause one person gets down and out of it,
757
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:51,120
then it has a tendency to float
throughout the platoon and the company.
758
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:53,720
So we... go out there and...
759
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:58,440
...do the good service
and do what we can to get back.
760
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:00,480
Get their blood back too.
761
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:05,240
WARE [narrating]: No winners here,
just kids on an impossible mission,
762
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:09,600
patrols sent out onto the streets
as little more than bait
763
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:11,440
to lure out Zarqawi’s fighters.
764
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,680
[loud gunfire]
765
00:48:15,240 --> 00:48:17,120
The Americans were outnumbered,
766
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:20,680
with barely a third of the troops
they actually needed.
767
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:24,040
-What do you see?
-It’s in that house. It’s in the house!
768
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:28,120
-Which house?
-[gunfire]
769
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:29,520
Sniper AK on the roof!
770
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:31,640
-Which house?
-[soldiers shouting]
771
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:34,600
Hey, fucking check down there.
772
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:36,920
[chuckling]
Hey, just an old man.
773
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,840
Direct straight. That house.
That two-story house.
774
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:42,680
[soldiers chattering, shouting]
775
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:47,320
-Need you as a terp, sir.
-Right there on the wall.
776
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:49,240
Is this ours or Zarqawi’s propaganda?
777
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:52,360
Huh. Yo, there’s two.
778
00:48:54,720 --> 00:48:56,400
There’s two of them.
779
00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:59,920
I have this pharmacy.
This-- This pharmacy.
780
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:02,440
-This yours?
-No, no.
781
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:04,440
This pharmacy.
I own this pharmacy.
782
00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:06,600
-He’s good.
-I am work this pharmacy.
783
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:08,680
I don’t care where you work.
784
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:12,600
-[soldier speaking Arabic]
-MAN: I don’t know.
785
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:16,000
It’s on your fucking store.
This is your shop, right?
786
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:19,000
Mister, I am work this pharmacy.
787
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:21,320
-This pharmacy, I am work this--
-You work here?
788
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:24,000
-[speaking Arabic]
-[speaking Arabic]
789
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:26,760
SOLDIER: Colonel Kelly,
do you know what direction that--
790
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:28,680
Okay, so what do you--
791
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:31,800
If you work in that pharmacy,
what are you doing here?
792
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:35,360
-I am speaking with me--
-About that? How to blow up Humvees?
793
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:38,800
No, no. No. I am work this pharmacy.
794
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:41,200
Okay. Close your store up.
795
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:42,720
Close your store.
796
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:45,280
Close this store, close that store.
797
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:47,120
Do you understand what I’m saying?
798
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:48,720
-Close the pharmacy?
-Yes.
799
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:50,800
And you close this one.
800
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:53,720
If you get froggy, I will kill you.
801
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:57,040
This guy, cuff him
after he closes his fucking door.
802
00:49:57,120 --> 00:49:59,800
SOLDIER:
Hey, we got movement back here.
803
00:49:59,880 --> 00:50:01,800
Hey. Fuckin’ face the building.
804
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:05,080
[soldiers chattering]
805
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:07,400
Close your eyes.
806
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:14,240
First team, we’re moving down.
807
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:19,280
[soldiers shouting]
808
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:22,520
[in Arabic] Give me your telephone,
telephone number.
809
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:27,200
[in English] If I see “Ali Baba,”
I’ll call you.
810
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:29,040
-SOLDIER: You’ll call us?
-Call you.
811
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:30,960
SOLDIER: If you see Ali Baba?
812
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:33,440
Hey, I’ll call you if I see Ali Baba.
813
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:36,160
I’ll give you a ring.
814
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:41,440
-[explosion]
-Go, go, go, go!
815
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:44,120
Go, go, go! [shouts]
816
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:50,800
Freeze, motherfucker!
817
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:53,800
[soldiers shouting]
818
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:57,720
Hurry up, hurry up! Hurry up!
819
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:00,840
-Get in, get in. Let’s go.
-We got one here.
820
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:03,040
Pick it up.
821
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:06,360
-Pick up the fucking rocks.
-Pick up the fucking rocks.
822
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:08,800
-Yes!
-Hey, get back.
823
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:13,200
-Hey, do that--
-SOLDIER: Watch your rooftop.
824
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:16,200
Pick up the rocks!
825
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:21,240
-[speaking Arabic]
-Let’s detain this fuckin’ asshole.
826
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:22,920
SOLDIER: Okay, sir.
827
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:28,360
WARE [narrating]: For marines, nothing
in this city is quite what it seems.
828
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:32,600
A family man with a phone,
wires, rubber tubing--
829
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:35,480
all possible bomb-making equipment.
830
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:37,320
Gunshot residue on his hands.
831
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:40,240
See how it turned that color?
With the specks?
832
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:44,080
Guy’s fucking definitely been firing
a weapon in the last couple of hours.
833
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:45,360
What’s going on?
834
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:47,960
100 meters down,
there were two guys turkey-peeking.
835
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:51,280
-They did that two or three times.
-[gunshot]
836
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:53,240
[return gunfire]
837
00:51:57,320 --> 00:51:59,200
WARE: What kind of day is this?
838
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:01,960
This is a fucking normal day in Ramadi.
839
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:10,200
WARE [narrating]: Back patrolling
with Corporals Buck and Taseco,
840
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:13,600
we went to a rooftop to watch over
another American patrol.
841
00:52:13,680 --> 00:52:17,160
Keep your eyes open.
And try to stay low too, okay?
842
00:52:17,720 --> 00:52:21,320
You see anybody moving,
looking at us, you know what to do.
843
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:23,320
There’s always someone
watching our position.
844
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:26,200
Keep moving around. Don’t stay still.
845
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:27,360
[gunshot]
846
00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:28,720
-Shit.
-Shit!
847
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:31,360
Holy goddamn. Whew.
848
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:33,880
-See where that came from?
-In front of me.
849
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:35,400
Holy shit.
850
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:38,960
-The motherfuckers are right here.
-They’re moving around us.
851
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:41,360
Oh, shit. Buck, I saw movement.
852
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:44,080
-Where at?
-There’s someone in that building.
853
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:47,000
The fucking window with the gate.
Fifty meters away.
854
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:48,720
Hold on one sec.
855
00:52:49,720 --> 00:52:51,160
There’s someone there.
856
00:52:51,240 --> 00:52:53,480
One, two, three.
857
00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:55,560
You son of a bitch!
858
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:06,240
Whoo-hoo! Yeah, boy!
859
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:18,240
-Fuck!
-Motherfuckers still out here, dude!
860
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:20,720
-My heart. Whew!
-[soldier laughing]
861
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:23,600
We’re here way too fuckin’ long, man.
862
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:25,880
We should’ve pissed fucking out of here.
863
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:29,120
WARE [narrating]:
With Zarqawi’s men circling,
864
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:31,280
it’s only 200 yards to home.
865
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:33,120
Everyone, whoa! Hey!
866
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:35,800
Will!
867
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:42,440
[gunshot]
868
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:49,320
[gunfire]
869
00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:02,440
[gunfire continues]
870
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:10,640
[shouting, groaning]
871
00:54:10,720 --> 00:54:13,880
-Where the fuck this motherfucker at?
-[shouting continues]
872
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:23,320
Pick it up, Benny! Let’s go!
873
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:26,160
-Let’s go! Let’s go!
-Come on, motherfuckers.
874
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:30,600
[soldiers shouting]
875
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:37,640
Let’s go, dude.
876
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:41,520
Come on in! Come on in!
877
00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:42,960
-Let’s go.
-Pick it up!
878
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:44,840
Yes, I’m good. I’m moving.
879
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:47,080
What the fuck?
880
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:51,200
Leave my boy outside, huh, motherfucker?
Get up! Get up there!
881
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:53,200
What the fuck, man?
882
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:59,520
REPORTER: For an hour and a half today,
Sunni rebels went at two military outposts
883
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:02,560
in the town of Ramadi
with everything they had.
884
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:05,600
FEMALE REPORTER: Militants
trade fire on Ramadi’s main streets,
885
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:07,720
clashes that grow deadlier by the day.
886
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:10,240
FEMALE REPORTER #2:
Every time these marines leave base,
887
00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:12,800
there’s every chance
they won’t make it back.
888
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:15,080
[gunfire]
889
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:17,440
[car horn honking]
890
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:19,920
-Allahu akbar!
-[gunfire]
891
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:24,560
WARE [narrating]:
Zarqawi wanted the Americans gone.
892
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:27,280
To him, their very presence was an insult.
893
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:29,840
This dump truck,
packed with explosives,
894
00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:33,080
heads for a US outpost called OP Hotel.
895
00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:37,160
♪♪ [singing in Arabic]
896
00:56:13,720 --> 00:56:18,960
MAN: Soon as we got hit, the one NCO left
started re-emplacing weapon systems.
897
00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:23,440
Weapons were blown across the building.
All these guys were buried.
898
00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:25,400
First, he re-established security.
899
00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:29,120
Second thing was start pulling our guys
to a casualty collection point.
900
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:30,880
Our medic took over with the casualties.
901
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:34,600
He took over with the re-consolidation
of ammo and sectors of fire.
902
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:37,280
Was able to defend that position.
903
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:41,200
There was a follow-on wave
that was supposed to hit us,
904
00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:42,920
try to overrun us.
905
00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:48,360
Guys got back in their positions,
kept firing and maintained--
906
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:49,680
[distant gunfire]
907
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:52,360
WARE [narrating]: They’d been bombed
within weeks of arriving,
908
00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:56,360
Second Lieutenant Joe Walker
and the 30-odd men he commands.
909
00:56:56,440 --> 00:56:59,920
Not a single day had passed since
without them being attacked.
910
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,400
-WARE: Are you a West Pointer, sir?
-No.
911
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:06,000
I went to a small private college
in South Carolina called Wofford College.
912
00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:07,840
-Uh-huh.
-And, um...
913
00:57:09,120 --> 00:57:12,440
decided this is what I wanted to do
after September 11.
914
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:15,640
It’s been full steam ahead ever since.
915
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:19,800
Southern-looking observation position.
916
00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:23,440
Most of the contact down to the south
comes from small arms
917
00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:28,000
or people observing the hotel
with binoculars, filming us.
918
00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:31,160
That’s-- That’s considered
engagement criteria.
919
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:34,960
I like this bunker.
920
00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:37,800
-WARE: Think we could make a reservation?
-Oh, yeah.
921
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:42,560
And let’s buy some property in Ramadi.
922
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:47,160
WARE: Now’s the time to get in,
while the market’s sort of in a slump.
923
00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:49,760
Then when the boom comes,
we make a killing.
924
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:51,440
Yep.
925
00:57:51,520 --> 00:57:55,840
-Let’s be serious then.
-Yeah, this is a serious situation, Yuri.
926
00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:57,840
This is no time for levity.
927
00:57:57,920 --> 00:57:59,240
Fuck off.
928
00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:03,600
What I’m about to show you is one of
our additions since we were attacked.
929
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:06,640
We brought our snipers,
the battalion snipers in,
930
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:09,080
to occupy a position on top of the hotel
931
00:58:09,160 --> 00:58:12,560
which allows them 360-degree overwatch
932
00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:14,880
out to 2,000 meters.
933
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:19,440
They have a couple of confirmed kills
up here ranging out to 1,400 meters.
934
00:58:19,520 --> 00:58:21,440
So they’re pretty impressive.
935
00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:23,520
Been a good tool for us.
936
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:28,400
MAN: Yep.
937
00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:32,960
-Fellas.
-Sir.
938
00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:37,480
WALKER: We get RPG’s fired at us
every other day.
939
00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:42,120
Sniper rounds. We’ll take single rounds
from 360 degrees.
940
00:58:43,120 --> 00:58:46,080
It is a drive-you-crazy waiting game.
941
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:48,200
When are they gonna hit us next?
942
00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:52,160
It’ll wear on you.
943
00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:58,760
WARE [narrating]: Nowhere in Iraq was the
war as bloody for the Americans as here.
944
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:01,240
[helicopter passes]
945
00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:03,080
WALKER: In this platoon, since July,
946
00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:06,880
we’ve had eight WIA, six KIA.
947
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:18,080
All of my squad leaders
and section leaders have been wounded.
948
00:59:18,160 --> 00:59:21,800
For a while, our company
was fighting at less than 70%.
949
00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:26,760
When you’re in a static defense,
you’re sitting around waiting to get hit.
950
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:34,560
Guns are clean. Guns are reloaded.
951
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:37,040
WALKER:
It’s just a day-to-day struggle.
952
00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:40,520
Everybody goes into survival mode.
Everybody just wants to get home.
953
00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:55,640
I seen things that’ll blow your mind.
954
00:59:55,720 --> 00:59:59,400
It’ll be an all-out contact, and there’ll
be kids playing soccer right there.
955
00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:01,680
Here comes more people
round the corner.
956
01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:03,800
-Same guy?
-A kid and a lady.
957
01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:06,520
-A kid, a lady--
-Same guy and another guy.
958
01:00:06,600 --> 01:00:09,720
WARE [narrating]: This woman and child
are used as human shields
959
01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:12,880
to move Zarqawi’s fighters into position.
960
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:14,440
Send your warning shot.
961
01:00:14,520 --> 01:00:16,760
-Is he inside the building?
-Warning shots.
962
01:00:18,160 --> 01:00:19,720
We got it.
963
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:22,600
-Imshi!
-Warning shot.
964
01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:25,880
-[gunshot]
-MAN [on radio]: Warning shot.
965
01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:28,280
SOLDIER:
They’re bouncing right beside.
966
01:00:33,520 --> 01:00:35,120
Imshi!
967
01:00:36,200 --> 01:00:37,360
Dumb-asses!
968
01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:40,600
-Is that another one right there?
-Where?
969
01:00:40,680 --> 01:00:42,280
-No--
-Yeah, it is.
970
01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:44,720
-Warning shots.
-[gunshot]
971
01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:47,440
He’s moving now.
972
01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:51,880
-There you go. S-AK. S-AK.
-Watch out. Get down.
973
01:00:51,960 --> 01:00:55,040
AK fire from north of Saddam Mosque.
974
01:00:55,120 --> 01:00:57,040
AK fire from north
of Saddam Mosque.
975
01:00:57,120 --> 01:01:00,520
-[explosion]
-SOLDIER: Did you say dump trucks?
976
01:01:00,600 --> 01:01:03,840
-SOLDIER #2: Dump trucks on “Y” Road.
-SOLDIER #1: Am I engaging?
977
01:01:03,920 --> 01:01:05,960
SOLDIER #2: Take them down. Engage.
978
01:01:06,040 --> 01:01:08,360
Do not even let them come close.
979
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:11,920
There’s someone firing out there now.
980
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:14,760
-They’re shooting at something.
-Can you see anything?
981
01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:17,360
MAN [on radio]:
You have a target. Engage.
982
01:01:17,440 --> 01:01:18,760
OFFICER:
Suppress, suppress.
983
01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:21,840
-Shoot y’all motherfuckers!
-Suppress! Suppress!
984
01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:25,080
Return fire. Suppress. Look out.
985
01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:26,680
Fire!
986
01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:38,400
MAN [on radio]: Everybody calm down
and give me a direction of where they are.
987
01:01:38,480 --> 01:01:40,040
Roger. You have five men--
988
01:01:40,120 --> 01:01:43,280
MAN [on radio]: Be advised.
Dump trucks moving south on Apple.
989
01:01:43,360 --> 01:01:44,760
They’re trying to get here.
990
01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:48,000
-See any vehicle, kill it.
-[explosion]
991
01:01:48,080 --> 01:01:51,680
-Smoke from the northeast.
-[gunfire continues]
992
01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:03,840
WARE [narrating]: All five US bases
in the city were being hit at once,
993
01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:07,960
Zarqawi’s men lashing out
in a massive coordinated assault.
994
01:02:11,920 --> 01:02:13,520
Fuck!
995
01:02:15,000 --> 01:02:16,560
Watch yourself! Watch yourself!
996
01:02:16,640 --> 01:02:18,480
WARE [narrating]:
By nightfall it was over.
997
01:02:18,560 --> 01:02:21,320
The Americans
had beaten back the attack.
998
01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:23,640
But still, the threat remained.
999
01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:26,160
Zarqawi’s men would come again.
1000
01:02:27,880 --> 01:02:29,480
Soon.
1001
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:33,000
WALKER: I try to remember the big picture,
1002
01:02:33,080 --> 01:02:36,320
but when I got guys
gettin’ shot and gettin’ killed,
1003
01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:39,280
you get tunnel vision
and you hate this place.
1004
01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:41,640
You start hatin’ everybody here.
1005
01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:45,720
WARE [narrating]: I could see
good men here losing their grip,
1006
01:02:45,800 --> 01:02:47,680
losing themselves.
1007
01:02:55,080 --> 01:02:56,680
[gunshot]
1008
01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:01,000
[mortar blast in distance]
1009
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:05,880
Zarqawi was now as wanted a man
as Osama bin Laden,
1010
01:03:05,960 --> 01:03:09,200
the Americans putting
a $25 million bounty on his head.
1011
01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:12,080
And still he waged his war,
1012
01:03:12,160 --> 01:03:14,880
destroying one of the holiest of mosques,
1013
01:03:14,960 --> 01:03:18,000
inciting a savage civil war
he’d planned all along,
1014
01:03:18,080 --> 01:03:20,440
turning Iraqis on each other
in a bloodletting
1015
01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:23,520
the likes of which the country
had never seen.
1016
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:27,760
It was to be his greatest legacy.
1017
01:03:29,400 --> 01:03:33,360
After years of pursuit,
the Americans finally found Zarqawi
1018
01:03:33,440 --> 01:03:37,880
where he slept at night,
in a small farmhouse north of Baghdad.
1019
01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:42,200
Acting on a last-minute
piece of intelligence,
1020
01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:45,000
two F-16’s were scrambled,
1021
01:03:45,080 --> 01:03:47,240
dropping one 500-pound bomb.
1022
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:52,480
Then another.
1023
01:03:57,280 --> 01:03:59,600
MALE REPORTER:
The most wanted man in Iraq is dead.
1024
01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:02,600
Terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
is taken out--
1025
01:04:02,680 --> 01:04:05,520
MALE REPORTER #2:
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been killed.
1026
01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:07,920
Now Zarqawi has met his end.
1027
01:04:09,080 --> 01:04:11,240
This violent man will never murder again.
1028
01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:14,160
-[speaking Arabic]
-[speaking French]
1029
01:04:18,200 --> 01:04:20,360
FEMALE REPORTER:
On the streets, jubilation.
1030
01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:24,000
He’s called Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,
the slaughtering sheikh.
1031
01:04:24,080 --> 01:04:26,840
Well, no more.
Tonight he is a dead man.
1032
01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:29,640
MALE REPORTER #3:
Baghdad police were ecstatic, singing,
1033
01:04:29,720 --> 01:04:33,560
“Zarqawi, where are you today?
Zarqawi, where’s the terrorist now?”
1034
01:04:33,640 --> 01:04:37,000
WARE [narrating]:
You can only be so hunted for so long.
1035
01:04:37,080 --> 01:04:40,040
But I guess I knew it wasn’t really over.
1036
01:04:40,640 --> 01:04:44,880
Zarqawi’s men kept fighting,
and so his holy war raged on,
1037
01:04:44,960 --> 01:04:48,960
the idea he’d unleashed
too powerful to have died with him.
1038
01:04:51,440 --> 01:04:52,840
-Allahu akbar.
-[gunshot]
1039
01:04:52,920 --> 01:04:55,520
-Allahu akbar. Allahu akbar!
-[gunfire]
1040
01:05:08,120 --> 01:05:11,600
“Certain dark chambers
of the heart, once opened,
1041
01:05:11,680 --> 01:05:14,160
can never be closed again.”
1042
01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:16,640
Or so a soldier wrote after serving here.
1043
01:05:23,360 --> 01:05:28,440
I know this is what Zarqawi
had done to so many of us,
1044
01:05:28,520 --> 01:05:31,560
to the Americans, to the Iraqis,
1045
01:05:32,080 --> 01:05:33,480
to me--
1046
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:39,280
showed us recesses in our souls
we never knew we had.
1047
01:05:41,120 --> 01:05:43,280
[explosion]
1048
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:45,920
I found my darkest place here,
1049
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:49,680
on a US patrol to sweep
a suspected terrorist village.
1050
01:05:55,800 --> 01:05:57,920
-A shot rings out.
-[gunshot]
1051
01:05:59,040 --> 01:06:03,920
Soldiers on the rooftop had seen
a man running past us with a gun.
1052
01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:06,600
Where’s he at, brother?
Where’s he at?
1053
01:06:06,680 --> 01:06:08,840
Who took that shot?
1054
01:06:37,480 --> 01:06:39,840
He’s gone that way, but he’s still here.
1055
01:06:40,560 --> 01:06:42,560
Right here! He’s right here!
1056
01:06:44,200 --> 01:06:46,720
[soldiers chattering]
1057
01:06:46,800 --> 01:06:49,920
-Back up. Back up.
-Rod, get over here.
1058
01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:52,080
Tell him to show us his hands.
1059
01:06:52,160 --> 01:06:55,440
Tell him he’ll get shot again
if he doesn’t show his hands.
1060
01:06:56,200 --> 01:07:00,120
Tell this dude to show us his hands,
or he’s gonna get shot.
1061
01:07:00,200 --> 01:07:02,240
Hey, people, back up.
1062
01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:04,520
-Hey!
-Get away from him. Good job.
1063
01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:07,040
-[interpreter speaking Arabic]
-Hands!
1064
01:07:11,400 --> 01:07:14,280
-Where’s the fucking weapon?
-[interpreter speaking Arabic]
1065
01:07:14,360 --> 01:07:15,800
Push back a little bit.
1066
01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:19,520
-Push back a little bit.
-Okay.
1067
01:07:19,600 --> 01:07:21,840
Hey, set up over there.
1068
01:07:28,320 --> 01:07:29,720
[speaking Arabic]
1069
01:07:30,680 --> 01:07:33,200
He’s in the process of dying, dude.
1070
01:07:35,160 --> 01:07:36,760
Hey.
1071
01:07:38,480 --> 01:07:41,600
Yeah, he’s fuckin’--
He’s dying right here, man.
1072
01:07:41,680 --> 01:07:43,240
Hey.
1073
01:07:52,320 --> 01:07:54,080
-There’s the weapon.
-Where’s the weapon?
1074
01:07:54,160 --> 01:07:56,360
-Right there behind his head.
-Okay.
1075
01:07:56,440 --> 01:07:59,240
Drag him into the fuckin’ courtyard.
Go. Let’s go.
1076
01:07:59,320 --> 01:08:02,320
-Roger that.
-Kibble. Grab him. Drag him. Go.
1077
01:08:05,720 --> 01:08:07,960
SOLDIER:
What’s up, kid? How you doin’?
1078
01:08:08,040 --> 01:08:10,240
-Not so good, huh?
-SOLDIER #2: Yeah.
1079
01:08:10,320 --> 01:08:12,960
-You got him. You got him.
-Fucked up, bro.
1080
01:08:32,080 --> 01:08:33,760
SOLDIER:
What’s that thing?
1081
01:08:33,840 --> 01:08:36,000
-There’s a gun over there.
-We got it.
1082
01:08:36,080 --> 01:08:39,080
[soldiers chattering]
1083
01:08:40,360 --> 01:08:41,760
SOLDIER: All right.
1084
01:08:44,440 --> 01:08:47,440
Hey, did you see where
this motherfucker popped out of?
1085
01:08:49,560 --> 01:08:52,720
-East of route line, correct?
-Fifty meters east of route line.
1086
01:08:52,800 --> 01:08:56,000
-How is he doing?
-Tell them he’s dying.
1087
01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:00,320
Hey.
1088
01:09:02,280 --> 01:09:06,240
Get people on the roof.
Lot of you should be in the courtyard.
1089
01:09:06,320 --> 01:09:08,440
We don’t have a good roof here, man.
1090
01:09:08,520 --> 01:09:10,520
-Yeah, there’s no--
-There’s no roof here.
1091
01:09:10,600 --> 01:09:12,880
We got a flat roof.
1092
01:09:12,960 --> 01:09:15,000
Gentlemen, establish security.
1093
01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:18,120
[soldiers chattering]
1094
01:09:18,200 --> 01:09:20,400
IRAQI MAN:
He works for Al-Qaeda, sir.
1095
01:09:20,480 --> 01:09:22,280
Warning, warning.
1096
01:09:28,160 --> 01:09:30,560
[man gasping]
1097
01:09:38,280 --> 01:09:39,960
I got two more right here.
1098
01:09:40,040 --> 01:09:43,880
Hey, you’re about to die, dude.
That was a good idea, huh?
1099
01:09:43,960 --> 01:09:45,480
[interpreter speaking Arabic]
1100
01:09:45,560 --> 01:09:48,280
-Where was he shot?
-I don’t fucking know.
1101
01:09:49,640 --> 01:09:51,880
The head, probably under the fucking arm.
1102
01:09:51,960 --> 01:09:54,880
-Yeah, ’cause it’s coming down.
-You want me to look?
1103
01:09:54,960 --> 01:09:56,320
-No, it’s--
-You okay?
1104
01:09:56,400 --> 01:09:59,400
-Doesn’t matter, man.
-Give him fuckin’ minimal aid.
1105
01:10:00,120 --> 01:10:02,800
Give him fuckin’ aid, but fuckin’--
1106
01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:05,880
I ain’t telling you
to fuckin’ perform surgery.
1107
01:10:09,440 --> 01:10:11,040
-Fuck!
-All right, come here.
1108
01:10:11,120 --> 01:10:13,560
Let’s talk to his fucking family.
1109
01:10:18,640 --> 01:10:20,680
Why don’t you just fuckin’ die.
1110
01:10:20,760 --> 01:10:23,080
Hey, Doc’s coming here. Doc’s got it.
1111
01:10:23,160 --> 01:10:25,320
-Watch out.
-I don’t wanna fuckin’--
1112
01:10:25,400 --> 01:10:26,760
This fuck.
1113
01:10:29,160 --> 01:10:33,120
I ain’t telling you to fix him,
but you need to look at him.
1114
01:10:34,880 --> 01:10:38,280
Take a quick look, Doc.
Not gonna help. He’s fuckin’ worthless.
1115
01:10:38,360 --> 01:10:39,920
He just died. Stopped breathing.
1116
01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:42,000
-He just stopped breathing?
-Yeah.
1117
01:10:43,000 --> 01:10:45,080
Yeah, he’s done.
1118
01:10:45,160 --> 01:10:46,800
Any ID on the guy?
1119
01:10:46,880 --> 01:10:50,360
-No. All he had was two mags.
-Double-checked his fuckin’ pockets?
1120
01:10:50,440 --> 01:10:51,920
I just checked ’em.
1121
01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:53,720
Anybody got blankets?
1122
01:10:54,920 --> 01:10:57,440
Get a sheet or something.
1123
01:10:57,520 --> 01:10:59,720
You got ID there, bro?
1124
01:10:59,800 --> 01:11:02,320
Oh, you do have ID of some sort.
1125
01:11:02,400 --> 01:11:05,000
Hey, keep watching outside there, bro.
1126
01:11:06,040 --> 01:11:08,720
-[wheezes]
-That’s just called shock, yo.
1127
01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:16,000
[gasping]
1128
01:11:20,880 --> 01:11:24,680
[gasping, louder]
1129
01:11:26,240 --> 01:11:28,480
-Here you go. Good job.
-[gasping continues]
1130
01:11:29,800 --> 01:11:31,560
[soldier laughs]
1131
01:11:34,160 --> 01:11:35,680
[loud gasp]
1132
01:11:46,880 --> 01:11:48,680
[gasping continues]
1133
01:11:52,000 --> 01:11:53,920
SOLDIER: He dead yet?
1134
01:11:56,400 --> 01:11:58,040
He still twitching?
1135
01:11:58,120 --> 01:12:01,320
Yeah. He stopped for a long time.
Thought he was dead.
1136
01:12:01,400 --> 01:12:03,200
He have a pulse?
1137
01:12:03,280 --> 01:12:05,600
You can see his skull and his brains.
1138
01:12:05,680 --> 01:12:09,280
-[man gasps]
-Unless you want to do a CASEVAC?
1139
01:12:09,360 --> 01:12:10,840
No. The motherfucker’s dead.
1140
01:12:13,040 --> 01:12:17,360
WARE [narrating]: Through his gasping,
it was my silence I could hear.
1141
01:12:17,440 --> 01:12:21,200
All I had to do
was say something, anything,
1142
01:12:21,280 --> 01:12:23,520
simply clear my throat,
1143
01:12:23,600 --> 01:12:27,400
to force the soldiers to give him
the medical aid they were meant to.
1144
01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:31,360
But I didn’t. I just let it happen.
1145
01:12:31,440 --> 01:12:35,440
No, that’s just twitching and spasming.
He doesn’t have a pulse.
1146
01:12:35,520 --> 01:12:37,760
-He’s alive-ish.
-No.
1147
01:12:37,840 --> 01:12:42,320
Maybe I was just too twisted up inside,
the soldiers too,
1148
01:12:43,200 --> 01:12:47,720
the brutality of it all having slowly
shaved away at our souls.
1149
01:12:48,920 --> 01:12:51,920
But I fear it might be more than that.
1150
01:12:52,000 --> 01:12:55,960
They say, “Only the dead
have seen the end of war.”
1151
01:12:58,760 --> 01:13:03,280
Does that mean it lives in all of us,
waiting to be found?
1152
01:13:05,920 --> 01:13:09,200
In the end,
I spent almost seven years in Iraq.
1153
01:13:09,280 --> 01:13:13,480
But I did make it home,
never to go to war again.
1154
01:13:14,680 --> 01:13:16,920
It took time,
1155
01:13:17,000 --> 01:13:20,720
but somehow I learned to reconcile
with myself the things I’d seen--
1156
01:13:20,800 --> 01:13:22,600
The final attack has begun.
1157
01:13:22,680 --> 01:13:24,160
...the things I’d done.
1158
01:13:25,080 --> 01:13:29,440
But I will always know
that at some unknown place,
1159
01:13:29,520 --> 01:13:31,480
at some forgotten hour,
1160
01:13:31,560 --> 01:13:34,960
I became a man I never thought I’d be.