CHANNEL4 PRES. IRAQ: THE HIDDEN STORY 1 OF 3
In the groundbreaking Channel 4 documentary Iraq - The Hidden Story startling images of the Iraq we never see come to light, along with the truth about how they are gathered out on the dangerous streets of a country in turmoil.
The chaotic bloodbath that has consumed Iraq often comes to our TV screens sanitized and carefully edited, to make it a little easier to stomach as we drink our morning coffee, or relax after a day at the office.
But there is a different story being captured by independent journalists and bloggers bringing back news from the front line.
As this powerful sequence from the documentary makes apparent there are two very different Baghdads.
The one we see on the TV news, albeit carefully filtered for our consumption, is that of the 'red zone', the vast majority of this city on fire with civil unrest, American occupying forces run rampant and everyday acts of terrorism and brutality claiming the lives of hundreds of people every week.
And then there is the walled, heavily militarized, guarded 'green zone', the base of operations of occupying forces, and home to the Western media who rarely venture beyond its walls, instead relying on Iraqis to source the footage and images they will modify for home consumption.
In this sequence we see the unsettling juxtaposition of these two worlds, as women and children run for their lives amid volleys of gunfire in the red zone, while a US official bemoans the seating arrangements in a green zone conference room.
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