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Comments on the Keynote
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The day before Kurt Lang gave his paper at the 2007 WAPOR meeting I received the following message on my BlackBerry: ‘Two simultaneous car bombs outside the health ministry in central Baghdad killed seven people and wounded 23 on Tuesday. There was also another car bomb attack near Sadr City in Baghdad; eight people were killed and 22 wounded. Three earlier car bombs killed a total of nine people and wounded 28.’
A day earlier I received a rundown of available video shots of another day's attacks: ‘#052: Shows Baghdad's Jamila district—U.S. troops and Iraqi police at the site. Close up of wreckage of car. Grieving men hugging each other and crying.’
‘#040: Shows wide shot of the bombing site. Remains of the car bomb. Man is shouting at his friends, ‘Here comes the Americans, be aware'cause they shoot randomly.’
Receiving these messages did not put me in an ideal