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it shock and awe. it was going to make the middle east safe and democratic. but there was no proper plan to govern after saddam hussein. removing him left a security vacuum in the heart of the middle east. iraqis died. the jihadists thrived. at a mass grave in sinjar, near the syrian border, it was clear how the past still blights the present. on august the 3rd 2014, jihadists of islamic state killed dozens of men here from iraq s yazidi minority. they took the women as slaves. identity cards in clothes, left to rot. bones dna tests might give them a properfuneral.
suad, who was 16 on that day, was taken to syria and sold many times until she was rescued in 2019. translation: islamic state did not spare anyone. - they took us all for themselves. we were all raped. they were killing people before our eyes. when it happened, the occupation was over. iraqis were killing iraqis. but it was the security vacuum after the invasion that gave the murderousjihadist ideologies room to grow. no one protected us. that was the reason. that was the reason that thousands were kidnapped, and thousands were killed. and hundreds of thousands were displaced. this is part of the terrible legacy left by chaos and violence after the invasion. iraq sunk into a nightmare. no one knows exactly how many iraqis were killed.
jeremy bowen looks at the lasting impact of the iraq war, two decades on. the invasion was a catastrophe for iraqis. the scars it left are still raw in iraq and across the middle east. the lights are on again, though they need private generators to keep them going. this country feels safer this year, though iraqis live with the dangers directly linked to the invasion exactly 20 years ago. explosions. the americans called it shock and awe. it was going to make the middle east safe and democratic. but there was no proper plan to govern after saddam hussein. removing him left a security vacuum
we were all raped. they were killing people before our eyes. when it happened, the occupation was over. iraqis were killing iraqis. but it was the security vacuum after the invasion that gave the murderous jihadist ideologies room to grow. no one protected us. that was the reason. that was the reason that thousands were kidnapped, and thousands were killed. and hundreds of thousands were displaced. this is part of the terrible legacy left by chaos and violence after the invasion. iraq sunk into a nightmare. no one knows exactly how many iraqis were killed. it s in the hundreds of thousands. in camps are thousands of islamic state veterans and their families. many from mosul, a couple of hours away. its old town is still in ruins, from the battle against thejihadists of is.