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BEEP JOHN NIXON: Periodically, we lose
electricity and the room goes dark. And all of a sudden we're like...
"What happened? What happened? "What's going on?" And meanwhile, like,
Saddam never flinched. It just, it didn't faze him one bit. The other thing is that,
when we'd be talking, you could hear explosions
in the background, and he was fully aware
that things aren't going well, and he said, "You have to understand
Iraqis, they're always plotting, "and you have to keep your eyes
on them 24 hours a day." Saddam had his hand
on the lid, basically, and had these people suppressed... ..and when we removed Saddam,
we removed his hand from the lid - and once the lid came off, out of the sewer came Zarqawi
and Al-Qaeda In Iraq
electricity and the room goes dark. And all of a sudden we're like...
"What happened? What happened? "What's going on?" And meanwhile, like,
Saddam never flinched. It just, it didn't faze him one bit. The other thing is that,
when we'd be talking, you could hear explosions
in the background, and he was fully aware
that things aren't going well, and he said, "You have to understand
Iraqis, they're always plotting, "and you have to keep your eyes
on them 24 hours a day." Saddam had his hand
on the lid, basically, and had these people suppressed... ..and when we removed Saddam,
we removed his hand from the lid - and once the lid came off, out of the sewer came Zarqawi
and Al-Qaeda In Iraq
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JOHN NIXON: Periodically, we lose
electricity and the room goes dark.
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And all of a sudden we're like...
"What happened? What happened?
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"What's going on?"
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And meanwhile, like,
Saddam never flinched.
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It just, it didn't faze him one bit.
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The other thing is that,
when we'd be talking,
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you could hear explosions
in the background,
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and he was fully aware
that things aren't going well,
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and he said, "You have to understand
Iraqis, they're always plotting,
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"and you have to keep your eyes
on them 24 hours a day."
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Saddam had his hand
on the lid, basically,
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and had these people suppressed...
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..and when we removed Saddam,
we removed his hand from the lid -
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and once the lid came off,
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out of the sewer came Zarqawi
and Al-Qaeda In Iraq.
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With unique personal archive from civilians and soldiers from both sides of the conflict, this series takes viewers closer to the realities of war and life under ISIS than they have ever been before.
