Thursday, September 18, 2003 |
02:42 - Baghdad Blog
http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml;jsessionid=FN4MZAYNLTRV3LA5AINCF4A?todayDate=cu
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Ah yes: this is why I keep listening to NPR on the way home from work. It's because every so often, Terry Gross will have on some guest who's just too interesting to pass up. And I can hardly think of a more interesting candidate for the position than today's guest: Salam Pax.
I didn't get to hear the whole thing-- we were running back and forth getting lattices from Home Despot to finish up the fence with-- but what I did hear was most excellent. You get to hear about Salam's life and times, how good his English is, what it was like in Baghdad during the bombing (which, it must be noted, was a subject that Terry just kept goading and goading and hoping he would expand upon, but all he did was talk about how "precision bombs are just scarily accurate" and how the bombing and even the ground invasion of Baghdad proper were as nothing compared to how scared his fellow Iraqis were of the Ba'athist army and what they might do.)
The audio's all archived, so I'll be grabbing an hour tomorrow to absorb the whole thing.
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