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Bombing at Basra, Iraq in 2003. A tour of the scenes of the destruction in the residential neighborhoods.

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Unidentified talking head male talks with unseen interviewer.
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POV moving vehicle drives past damaged and destroyed bridge. Tanks drive by on the highway in the dessert. Stopped at a checkpoint, Middle Eastern man wearing a red cap peeks into car and talks about road obstruction due to an accident. With narration unseen from within the vehicle as it drives along.
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Continued POV from the moving vehicle through the desert on a roadway. A car with a coffin on top passes by.. The car drives by residential homes destroyed by bombing in Basra, Iraq. Narrator talks about Basra having been heavily bombed, including gas stations, residential areas, and the Sheraton hotel.
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Hands holding a large five pound fragment of a piece of shrapnel. Looks like a piece of cement. A man shines a flashlight on the fragment.
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Narrator walks through the rubble of the site of the bombing at Basra. Pan the untouched teaching hospital spared in the bombing. Reporter talks with a local official who expresses his anger
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POV moving vehicle drives through Basra past rubble and damaged buildings. A local man states 28 people died in one of the buildings
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A poster hangs from a pole in front of a damaged building. A local man states to unseen reporter that 28 people died in the building. Same man looks through a pile of school books left behind and resting on the rubble. The man states he is sorry for his home town and that Basra has suffered alot.
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Pan across bombed out buildings in a residential area of Basra and the piles of rubble scattered everywhere
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