Iraq 20 years on: Return to Baghdad

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22-03-2023 • 32 mins

Twenty years on, the invasion of Iraq is widely seen as a fiasco. But still today the conflict has ongoing consequences for Iraq and Iraqis. Times correspondent Catherine Philp is back in Baghdad to meet people and hear how they were affected then - and now.

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Guests:

  • Catherine Philp, Diplomatic Correspondent, The Times.
  • Dr Saad Eskander, historian and director of the Iraq National Library and Archives.
  • Bader Katr, translator.
  • Iraqi family in Sadr city.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Clips: BBC, CBS, AP, Al Jazeera, Journeyman Pictures, CNN, The Washington Post.


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