Iraqis Recall When ISIS Took Over Mosul in 2014 | FRONTLINE

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  • Опубликовано: 6 июн 2024
  • Ten years ago, ISIS was gaining strength and seizing territory in Iraq - including the city of Mosul, home to more than a million Iraqis. In this excerpt from FRONTLINE’s 2020 documentary “Once Upon a Time in Iraq,” Iraqis recall what it was like when ISIS took over Iraq’s second largest city in June 2014.
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    The full documentary tells the story of the Iraq War from the perspective of the Iraqis who lived through it. They share their personal accounts and lasting memories of life under Saddam Hussein, the U.S.-led invasion of their country and the 17 years of chaos that followed - from sectarian violence to the rise and brutal reign of ISIS.
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  • @frontline
    @frontline  Месяц назад +7

    For more, watch our 2020 documentary “Once Upon a Time in Iraq,” telling the story of the Iraq War from the perspective of the Iraqis who lived through it. ruclips.net/video/T2L4jcVqo8s/видео.html

    • @howmanybeansmakefive
      @howmanybeansmakefive Месяц назад +1

      If you can, watch the BBC version instead! The PBS version cuts 3 hours of material and adds an editorialized US narration.

  • @howmanybeansmakefive
    @howmanybeansmakefive Месяц назад +27

    This is a very powerful doc, but watch the original BBC version instead! The PBS/Frontline version has a lot of cut material (over 3 hours worth) and inserts a heavily editorialized american narration, which alters/removes the most revealing and critical aspects of the doc

    • @howmanybeansmakefive
      @howmanybeansmakefive Месяц назад +3

      @@agoogleuser4317 Once Upon a Time in Iraq BBC Version is better

    • @hayderuk3338
      @hayderuk3338 Месяц назад

      People in Mosul were very happy to see ISIS because they shared the same religion, However, the Baghdad government and the majority of Iraqis from different sect of Islam.

  • @guybeingaguy
    @guybeingaguy Месяц назад +53

    Americans are forever damned if we do, damned if we don’t.

    • @quincyquincy4764
      @quincyquincy4764 Месяц назад +9

      Americans need to learn that greed and might will always create more problems.
      The invasion of Iraq is sin your country can't walk away from

    • @BelloBudo007
      @BelloBudo007 Месяц назад

      @@quincyquincy4764 As an Australian I well remember our Prime Minister selling us this crazy idea of WMD (weapons of Mass Destruction), the evil of Saddam Hussein & saving the Middle East. Experts were advising us that no WMD existed and not being listened to.

    • @slickrick2420
      @slickrick2420 Месяц назад

      ​@@quincyquincy4764 It's the sin of the Republican President and the Republican politicians who voted for the war. Virtually every Democratic politician voted against it, and it was liberals who were anti-war.

    • @abdiganiaden
      @abdiganiaden Месяц назад

      @purplelove937you can’t just watch sad things happen

    • @jvb1232
      @jvb1232 Месяц назад

      @@quincyquincy4764So the US should just have ignored Saddam Hussein? He had already invaded 2 of its neighbours and used poison gas on his own people. The lesser of 2 evils is still an evil.
      Also the US could never have know what the end result could be . They cant look into the future.
      If you want to blame anyone, blame Saddam Hussein who started it al…

  • @hackedbyBLAGH
    @hackedbyBLAGH Месяц назад +49

    Religion destroyed our potential

    • @D_isco_D_ancer
      @D_isco_D_ancer Месяц назад

      Humans wont be able to move into a higher development stage until we get rid of Religion.

    • @ChandranPrema123
      @ChandranPrema123 Месяц назад +1

      Didn't you guys choose this

    • @LexlutherVII
      @LexlutherVII Месяц назад

      blame usa

    • @Arctturius
      @Arctturius 29 дней назад

      The leaders and this militia were not following a single ruling of sharia, some people who have absolutely no knowledge about the religion will put the blame right away on religion whereas they were paid to do this.
      Their tactics sadly works with people like you.

  • @danielrsson2171
    @danielrsson2171 Месяц назад +4

    Interesting yet terrifying!

  • @HH-tj9yi
    @HH-tj9yi Месяц назад +9

    This is the result of the catastrophic American policy in the region!

    • @Zen2k4r-
      @Zen2k4r- Месяц назад +2

      No

    • @Kvasiir
      @Kvasiir Месяц назад +1

      No, it’s the result of unfettered Islamic extremism

    • @hasibhakanovic6682
      @hasibhakanovic6682 Месяц назад

      ​@@Kvasiir It's the result of you westerners putting Ba'ath in the cradle of Islam.

  • @nunyabznz
    @nunyabznz Месяц назад +6

    Horrible situation!

  • @alqaisii5837
    @alqaisii5837 5 дней назад

    I was at my uncle’s house , woke up late to the sound of helicopters and bombing and shooting, were gaming on ps3 all night long with my cousin , we had to get out of the city , what a day

  • @Teddy_Graham
    @Teddy_Graham Месяц назад +1

    These short videos are exhausting

  • @JewishBrother
    @JewishBrother Месяц назад +3

    The last guy couldnt have said it any better. I disagree with the invasion, Saddam was a piece of 💩. But their withdrawal made their invasion wrong in the first place.

    • @alexandrastanaev4399
      @alexandrastanaev4399 Месяц назад

      Maybe it shouldn't have all mess done for Israel?

    • @JewishBrother
      @JewishBrother 22 дня назад

      @@alexandrastanaev4399 What?

    • @alexandrastanaev4399
      @alexandrastanaev4399 21 день назад

      @@JewishBrother you will get when you find out how did yor country destroy Palestine and forced Palestinians out.

    • @nasigoreng150
      @nasigoreng150 16 дней назад

      ​@@alexandrastanaev4399wasnt it about oil?

    • @alexandrastanaev4399
      @alexandrastanaev4399 16 дней назад

      @@nasigoreng150 Who knows? But Bush just lied about WMDs and he believed in those lies himself.

  • @mithicash1444
    @mithicash1444 Месяц назад

    I remember being in boot camp in San Diego when Obama addressed ISIS in a press conference. Eventhough we were in training and were supposed to be completely isolated for 3 months, our drill instructors sat us down and let us listen to it on the radio. I remember the DIs saying that this conflict could be the one that our generation might have to respond to.

    • @hasibhakanovic6682
      @hasibhakanovic6682 Месяц назад

      That goes to show you how typically theatrical and clueless Americans are.
      In the end, America relied on proxy forces to defeat ISIS and only took to the skies, sometimes with remote aircraft.

  • @eb-pe8xg
    @eb-pe8xg Месяц назад +19

    "They weren't welcoming ISIS." Yes they were, enthusiastically.

    • @countering-religion
      @countering-religion Месяц назад +2

      Not so different from Americans welcoming the continental army in 1777

    • @hasibhakanovic6682
      @hasibhakanovic6682 Месяц назад

      ISIS filmed and released those videos, meaning it was what they wanted the world to see, not historical reality. Sunni tribes had fought ISIS, consistently, up until around 2014. Why'd they lose the will to fight?

    • @Yonatan-wv9hs
      @Yonatan-wv9hs Месяц назад

      @hasibhakanovic6682 And look what happened? We lost an Islamic nation in the making. Had we united we could have created one easily

    • @hasibhakanovic6682
      @hasibhakanovic6682 Месяц назад

      ​@@Yonatan-wv9hs What was the Islamic nation 'in the making'? The pseudo-Sunni death cult with the crayon "seal of Muhammad"?

    • @hasibhakanovic6682
      @hasibhakanovic6682 Месяц назад

      ​@@Yonatan-wv9hs This is all irrelevant to the point: the Shi'ite-Twelver government became increasingly radical, and ordinary Sunnis who fought "ISIS" lost the will to fight. It's very easy to feign support, and the point is Mosul had fought off ISIS many times in the past but mysteriously stopped.

  • @matthew-jy5jp
    @matthew-jy5jp Месяц назад

    PBS is our national treasure

  • @chandermanitomar3766
    @chandermanitomar3766 Месяц назад +2

    They all were part of isis the public supported islamic jihad's that's why they were able to take Whole city without any trouble

  • @lochdedy8674
    @lochdedy8674 Месяц назад +5

    Thanks, Bush, and you too, Obama! (Sarcastic)

  • @PsyChoAnaLize
    @PsyChoAnaLize 4 дня назад

    We’re damned when we do and damned when we don’t!

  • @mixi2090
    @mixi2090 15 дней назад

    That first scene. It must have been horrifying seeing ISIS rolling in.

  • @andilecounguer442
    @andilecounguer442 17 часов назад

    I just don’t understand these Middle East wars , anybody can just overthrow government and claim ownership of the state , Just like that ?

  • @danam0228
    @danam0228 Месяц назад +2

    I would like to know from people in Iraq if things are now better in Iraq than they were before 9/11

    • @womsky4537
      @womsky4537 Месяц назад +3

      For Sunni Muslims, no, for Shia/Kurds, yes.

    • @Arctturius
      @Arctturius 29 дней назад

      ​@@womsky4537The Kurds get their salary once every 2-3 months.
      People are barely living, there are no employments as well so it's just hard to live when the government steals all the money

    • @womsky4537
      @womsky4537 29 дней назад

      @@Arctturius My heart goes to my Kurdish people, I wish to see the day that they get their independence from this corrupt government, and to get their own government who prioritizes their people first.

  • @ekaner117
    @ekaner117 Месяц назад +2

    Politicians kinda ruin everything

    • @thetogo2962
      @thetogo2962 Месяц назад

      No it was those damn Islamic terrorists that ruined it

  • @busterbeagle2167
    @busterbeagle2167 Месяц назад

    So when their brothers took over the country and their other brothers ran and hid

  • @alexandrastanaev4399
    @alexandrastanaev4399 Месяц назад

    4:33 if he said the truth, then what was the point for US to invade Iraq once it was unnecessary to do so?

  • @alexandrastanaev4399
    @alexandrastanaev4399 Месяц назад +2

    And it's all Bush's fault!

  • @devilpupbear09
    @devilpupbear09 Месяц назад +1

    They're like the MS-13 of the Middle East

  • @Manx123
    @Manx123 Месяц назад +1

    Not that it's unimportant what foreigners went through a decade ago against ISIS, (remember them?), but shouldn't you be doing relevant reporting related to conditions which should inform the electorate in an election year?
    That queston is rhetorical. This is PBS, who will unfailingly support the establishment, particularly Democrats, not only because the latter happen to support funding public broadcasting more, but, for various reasons, PBS's staff will natrually ideologically align with them. And of course, the current state of America, and thus reporting on it, does not make Biden look good.

  • @D_isco_D_ancer
    @D_isco_D_ancer Месяц назад +5

    "America made two mistakes, Invade Iraq and leave Iraq" I mean WTF...

    • @askosefamerve
      @askosefamerve Месяц назад +1

      Invasion created ISIS.
      They left and ISIS came back.

    • @womsky4537
      @womsky4537 Месяц назад +1

      I think he just means leaving before Iraq was stable enough, but honestly I think Iraq would never been stable enough to begin with, Iran has too much influence on these Shia Muslims of ours, a white bearded man with a towel on his head pulling the strings of these people effortlessly.

    • @LexlutherVII
      @LexlutherVII Месяц назад

      the same in Syria and Libya

    • @_Fighta_
      @_Fighta_ 22 дня назад

      @@womsky4537exactly but a lot of Muslims talk for other Muslims giving no chance for others to speak out.

    • @Godzillamonstrosity
      @Godzillamonstrosity 7 дней назад

      ​@@womsky4537exactly, Iraq would never have been stable enough for the US to leave it which was why US shouldn't have invaded Iraq to begin with lol.

  • @mohamed1022
    @mohamed1022 Месяц назад

    Ahmed al basheer what the hell?

  • @abui5750
    @abui5750 Месяц назад +5

    Is the Black Flag from Isis or from islam?

    • @robertc3263
      @robertc3263 Месяц назад +8

      Both

    • @jthagreat8
      @jthagreat8 Месяц назад

      Do muslims support them?

    • @hasibhakanovic6682
      @hasibhakanovic6682 Месяц назад +1

      Every answer in response to your question is wrong... that's why you don't trust random people on the internet, ever.

    • @hasibhakanovic6682
      @hasibhakanovic6682 Месяц назад

      @ChristusVictor-vc9op Total ignoramus!

    • @hasibhakanovic6682
      @hasibhakanovic6682 Месяц назад

      ​@@robertc3263 Show me any primary source material indicating any symbol on this flag ever used in Islamic history. Reference sources, ignoramus!

  • @Quran-Moshaf
    @Quran-Moshaf Месяц назад +1

    this channel blocked forever

    • @womsky4537
      @womsky4537 Месяц назад

      Ok then take ur sh*tty Quran and get out!

  • @markberryhill2715
    @markberryhill2715 Месяц назад

    $7 trillion with a T dollars,and thousands of lives wasted, all for one man - George Bush.

  • @jakebredthauer5100
    @jakebredthauer5100 Месяц назад

    From 2020,
    what about ww3?

    • @REV-1
      @REV-1 Месяц назад

      What?

    • @REV-1
      @REV-1 Месяц назад

      2019
      And that was a meme? 😂wtf??

    • @jakebredthauer5100
      @jakebredthauer5100 Месяц назад

      @@REV-1
      This video is from the year 2020.

  • @sanjayvaidya4925
    @sanjayvaidya4925 5 дней назад

    Afghanistan same formula.

  • @denizb.4142
    @denizb.4142 Месяц назад +1

    Thank you Bush and Obama

  • @Mo-fx2ud
    @Mo-fx2ud День назад

    Yerp, classic Mossad tactics

  • @SteveXNYC
    @SteveXNYC Месяц назад +3

    People need religion, their brain do not allow them to learn anything better.

  • @tenoapjabdul
    @tenoapjabdul Месяц назад

    That man is hot af❤

  • @ralphee7487
    @ralphee7487 Месяц назад +5

    Every country in the middle east is like a confused child. When you have major problems which is most of the time, you say "help, help, help us now." America intervenes and you say "you are part of the problem you need to leave." The Americans leave and then you blame them for leaving. Increíble.

    • @kellenwaters9087
      @kellenwaters9087 Месяц назад +1

      So let’s stop intervening. Though iraq was sold to the American people with the lie that they had WMD. Maybe you should place some blame on the people who lied to you rather than the Iraqis we totally fuqed.

    • @ycc7744
      @ycc7744 Месяц назад +1

      Iraqis did not ask for the US to invade Iraq in 2003z That decision was done by the US. Like 95% of the world was against that invasion. iSIS only exists because of that invasion, so of course it’s the US’s job to clean up there own mess.

    • @toudi_p
      @toudi_p Месяц назад +1

      ​@@ycc7744some iraqis said americans made 2 mistakes. First one - when they came to iraq, second one - when they left

  • @rolandthethompsongunner64
    @rolandthethompsongunner64 Месяц назад +5

    Then Iraq begged the US to rescue them 😂

    • @jesusnieves9221
      @jesusnieves9221 Месяц назад +4

      The government did, not the people 😆

    • @lifeovdeath
      @lifeovdeath Месяц назад +3

      Actually Iraq didn’t beg for anything except the weapons which it purchased to be delivered. Iran intervened and the US only intervened when they feared that an Iranian supported victory, also the US didn’t intervene until the Kurds were attacked.

    • @womsky4537
      @womsky4537 Месяц назад

      They cried for help... And they US answered once again.

    • @jesusnieves9221
      @jesusnieves9221 Месяц назад

      @@womsky4537 And yet their being constantly attacked by Iraqis and the parliament has repeatedly asked the US to leave. You're coping hard as a brick, GI Joe is not reality.

    • @hasibhakanovic6682
      @hasibhakanovic6682 Месяц назад

      @@jesusnieves9221 The people wanted to be beheaded? I'm sure they did.

  • @hourbee5535
    @hourbee5535 Месяц назад +6

    Obama's legacy.

    • @d4mdcykey
      @d4mdcykey Месяц назад +16

      The ignorance of such a statement would be hilarious if it was not so pathetic and sad.

    • @crashburn3292
      @crashburn3292 Месяц назад +1

      On March 17, 2003, in the wake of 9/11, President George Bush sent U.S. forces to invade Iraq vowing to destroy Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, to avoid "9/11 on an unimaginable scale" which were never found, in a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, and you've somehow decided that's Obama's legacy? *Brilliant.*