Friday, March 23, 2007

Iraq and Desert Storm aftermath

The documentaries / interviews etc come from sources like the BBC and are pooled into the PBS website under the section of Fronline. The section I chose "voices in the storm" is especially interesting as it recounts eye witnesses accounts of the failed kurd uprising and the road to basra (became the "highway of death" for the iraqi soldiers). The information provided on this website is very diverse but I chose this section as it illustrates some real life events in Desert Storm like the failed uprising though the uprisings we see in the film are in southern shiite iraq. We also saw dead corpses of iraqi troops in the desert which showed the intensity and devastation of the US's aerial bombing leading up to the Ground War.

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