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Greetings.

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Daytime. Jorf al-Sakhar. Frontline trenches of the battle against ISIS.

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Seyyed, where are we heading?

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We’re heading to the place where we plan to make a new trench. We’ll see.

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Every inch of land we take back, we immediately set about
making trenches and we defend it to the last drop of our blood.

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Greetings, brave men!



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Go see what he’s up to.

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You go on ahead and show the way.

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Take cover

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Don’t rush!

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Don’t rush!

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Where’s that sniper?

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Pinpoint him.


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Yes, he was shooting from that house.

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I’ll aim for the house then.

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See that flag?

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Take cover!

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Spread out.

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Don’t bunch up. They’ll hit you with mortar.

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That’s right, we’ll start from there.


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This place is called “Doreyd.”

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We’ll start the operations from that rear house.

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Right, this is “Doreyd.”

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The Black Flag

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A documentary by Majed Neisi


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For years now whenever Iraq is mentioned many
people think especially of Jorf al-Sakhar.



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This area is approximately 60 kilometers
south-west of Baghdad, the Iraqi capital,

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and about 30 kilometers from the city of Karbala.

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After 2003, the main Al-Qaeda network in
Iraq grew out of this place.

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In over a decade the NATO forces and the
Iraqi army did everything they could to eliminate

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the terror network from here.

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But the more they tried the less successful they were.


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Jorf al-Sakhar runs along the Euphrates river on
one side and the Iraqi desert on the other.

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It also reaches right up to the Anbar province and
therefore is of deep strategic importance for either side.

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As time wore on, this area turned into something
of a plague within striking distance of the capital.

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It was like a doomed island unto itself,
one which Al-Qaeda passed on to ISIS.

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It is here, then, that I took my camera along with
volunteer Shia forces who have been battling against ISIS.



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And here’s the Euphrates river.

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This is the palm forest next to the Euphrates.
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This is the main paved road.

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And this here is our headquarters.

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This is our trench and it continues
until police headquarters.

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These are the houses that the
enemy uses to sneak on us.

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It uses these hideouts to hit us at
“Doreyd” and also at this trench.

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Either we have to leave an escape route for
the enemy so they can run north …

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Or else they have to just stay here and get killed.

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Do we know when operations begin?

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Tomorrow.

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You mean it’s that close?

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That’s right. We begin tomorrow.

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Tomorrow we’re going to start shelling the area in grids.


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Our operations should last four days.

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First they shell each grid for us,
and then we attack on foot.

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They’ll blow the place square grid by
square grid with rockets and mortars.

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I used to live in Baghdad.

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When the Americans first came to Iraq something
happened right in front of my very eyes.

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The Americans were patrolling everywhere.

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They were even around the Abu Javadin shrine.

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They were everywhere.

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I had just come out of the Abu Javadin shrine.

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And saw this American soldier
was beating up an Iraqi woman.

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We Iraqis, we have our dignity.

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No woman is going to get beaten up in front of a man.

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No matter what that woman may have done.


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I got angry and beat up the American.

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They restrained me. Then their interpreter came.

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He asked, “Why did you hit him?”

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Then he asked me what my religion was.

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I told him I was Shia.

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He asked, “Do you belong to the Mahdi Army?”

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The Mahdi Army had just recently been created.

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I told him no, I didn’t belong to the Mahdi Army .
But God willing soon I’d belong to the warriors
of Imam Zaman, the Messiah.


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There’s a sniper around. Be careful.

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Everyone stay down.


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Did you guys blow that house up?

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Yes.

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They’d come inside this house and shoot at us from inside.

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We’ll cut them off from that point and we’ll go forward.

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And we’ll meet up with the Kataib fighters over there.

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That’s their headquarters, see?

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Abu Mustafa, bring gas for them here.


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Is it time for lunch?

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They serve lunch now?

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I told them to go with another car.

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Which car? This car is for hauling food.

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Seyyed spoke to me. He’s taken off
the car’s shield. That’s why he’s late.

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A curse on that shield!

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The fighters were left without food until now.

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You didn’t feed them till now.

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Always serve this food warm.

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Tell the cook to make sure he serves warm food.
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(Chanting)

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Oh DA’ESH, we hail from the town of Dhi Qar.

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We have no fear of your suicide
 bombs, nor of your bullets and guns.

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Our elders and our young, they all have heeded the call.



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Now true warriors have entered
the fray and cowards are running away.

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The fighters of Jorf al-Sakhar are regular people.

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They were leading their normal lives at their jobs.

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And one of those people is me.
I am a student at the holy Najaf seminary.

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And I’m still studying.

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You see that red water tank?


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Right, their sniper is over there.

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But the thing that happened in Iraq after the fall
of Mosul and the advance of these accursed ISIS …

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Made all of us start thinking about jihad
and how to confront this enemy.

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Until at last Ayatollah Sistani gave the fatwa for jihad
through his spokesman, Sheikh Abdulmehdi Karabalai.

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This single word, jihad, made all the faithful stand up.

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When I was watching the sermon for the jihad …


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I saw people who were weeping.

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The Sheikh said, “The faithful who
are able to should carry guns now.”

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 “It’s necessary they take up weapons and stand against the terrorists.”

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It had been 96 years since a fatwa had been issued.

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And two, three generations had never seen such a fatwa.

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The Shia rose up, and so did I.

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And I met a brother named Seyyed Ahmad Zameli.

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He was fighting at that time in the Yusufiya district.

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Seyyed Jafar, what are you guys doing?

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We are cleaning up. We’re making
the place look like a weapons’ display.

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These bombs were planted by DA’ESH. We extracted them.

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Seyyed, they won’t blow up. Aren’t they dangerous?

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They might blow actually. They’re dangerous.

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Then why did you guys leave them by headquarters?

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They’re dangerous, yes. But better if they’re close
to us rather than close to our soldiers.

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Today we saw a whole battalion from the army
that had been next to us in the trenches retreating.

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They’d collected all their belongings.

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The first truck that started moving out, I said to the man,
“Get down and take your stuff back where they were.”

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He says, “But our forces are attacking DA’ESH from the north.

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Meaning, if there is an attack on DA’ESH from the
north, then they’re going to come right at us in the south.


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And we, well, we’re not that many. And so
they’ll probably defeat us and continue on.

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Then they’d probably take the Sindij area and this whole
place will turn to how it used to be in the beginning.
They’d push on to Musayib even.

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We have plenty of fighters. It’s weapons we’re lacking.
Let the army give us its weapons and leave if it wants to.

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How about some 12 ½ millimeter, and also RPG’s.
And maybe four RPG rockets.

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RPG’s alone cost 400 dollars each.

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That’s what it is. 400 dollars for an RPG.

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Ask him if the 14 ½ millimeter is brand new.

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Abu Ali, just one question:

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Is the 14 ½ millimeter new?

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What?

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We do want RPG rockets.

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We need ammo for the BKC machine gun.
Right now we’re looking for a donor to help us.

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How much does he charge for a thousand bullets?

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How much for a thousand?

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What’s your last offer?

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We’ll pay 400 dollars for a thousand of them.

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Tell him we’re poor people. We’re paying out of our own pockets.

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If you give us a thousand for 400 dollars, then
we might be able to find a donor to pay for it.

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They’ve messed this one up by hitting it with a screwdriver.
They brought it for me that day to fix it.

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Are you a sniper?

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Yes.
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How many hits do you have so far?

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I ‘d love to take some of them out, but I still haven’t been able to.

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I’m twenty-one years old.

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What made you come here?

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For our beliefs and the fatwa.


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Were you studying before?

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I study economics at the university.

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I’m still a college student.

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From here to Jorf al-Sakhar’s central tower is two kilometers.

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But at nights our distance from DA’ESH is only five hundred meters.

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Because at nights we advance, plant bombs, and wait for them.

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I was walking all the way to the Imam Reza shrine in Iran.


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When I heard about the fatwa, I came back to do my duty.

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I’m a government employee. I left the office to come here.

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I have a family and am their sole provider.

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My oldest child is fifteen. No one but me provides for them.

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But right now this situation is more important to me than family.

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I left the family at the house.

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Where we live there’s no one else around. It’s just us.
I left the family there.

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Welcome!

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Seyyed, come sit.

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Heat and cold and thirst and hunger are nothing.

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We  have to free our country. We have to do it for our beliefs.
We have to make sure no Iraqi woman is ever abused.

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 (The men pray)

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This was one of the hideouts of the terrorists.

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From here they’d try to creep on us.

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They were here?

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Yes, they were in this area. This all belonged to the terrorists.

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Neither the army nor anyone else could get close to them.

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This is their so called sharia court.

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They’d put people on trial here and execute them a little ways off.

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They’d execute them in the cane fields and throw them in the river.

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The bodies would float down river until Musayib.


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Does this sign have a meaning?

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These are the forces of Haydaria and the Qaria forces.

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And this lion represents Imam Ali. And these here, they are our weapons.



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Seyyed Ahmad was always fighting alongside other Shia groups.

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But ever since ISIS entered Iraq, he decided to
create a volunteer regiment of his own.

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His first appearance as a commander
of his own forces was at Jorf al-Sakhar.

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Three months earlier, his forces fighting alongside other Shia
groups had managed to free the areas adjacent to Jorf al-Sakhar.

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They had covered this tunnel with tree branches.

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Their sniper would lie here in wait.
He had the whole area in his sights from here.

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This is the tunnel they dug.

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They dig from here and come out on the other side of the street.

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Up here the street is paved.

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They even have electric wires going. Look!

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Did you catch anyone here?

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We caught a Saudi man here.

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Look at how these lizards have made themselves a home here.

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DA’ESH are no different from these lizards.

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Operations are to begin from here.

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Where are the cane fields?

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They are here


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Your forces are supposed to enter to help us.

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No, we’re not supposed to come in.

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If an Abrams tank was here …

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It could take over the entire place.

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DA’ESH are deadly afraid of the Abrams.


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 (Music and song from inside the car)

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When you want to lift something heavy, you sit first and lift like this.


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Who told me they had a runny nose?

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You smoke?

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No, I don’t.

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That man is a dentist.

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DA’ESH won’t quit today.

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They’re keeping at it.

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Since morning they’ve been saying their Allah Akbars.

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You bastards!

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You are facing the Shia of the Prince of the Believers.

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We are not afraid.

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We don’t surrender.

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Our shields are our bare chests.

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We are already wearing our shrouds of death.

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We will fight you.

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We are not afraid of you, you cowards!

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We saw two from DA’ESH were huddled doing
something, and another guy was standing.

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I hit them from here with a PKC.

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After that there wasn’t a peep from them again

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Do you see those two palms?
There were three of them there.

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 (Religious lamentation)

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What calamity is this that Imam Hossein had to suffer!


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Oh Imam Hossein, we don't wish to live without you!


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What calamity is this that Imam Hossein had to suffer!

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Oh Imam Hossein, without your constant remembrance,
life itself is not worth living.

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What calamity is this that Imam Hossein had to suffer!


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Bring it over, we’ll eat together.

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What’s this?


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Fish.

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Where did you get it?

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The river.

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What can we do! At nights we eat fish from the river.

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Oh fisherman, catch me a fish!

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Damn!

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Come and eat.


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May it get stuck in your throat!

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If I put it here, it’s easier for me to eat.

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Are you guys behind the trench right now?

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We’re eating in the middle of combat.

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What a spread! A fish spread.

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Greetings.

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Greetings, Seyyed.


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Is this Abbas?

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Yes.

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What are you doing here?

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Isn’t your post over there?

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Everyone’s in their positions.

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How many people there?

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Seyyed Ahmad, come rest a bit.


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Thanks.

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There’s a chair here.

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I’ll go take a look around and come back.

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I wrote a poem in this trench. Join me with your clapping while I sing.

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The best of friends made their vows
of blood-brotherhood in this trench.

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We are ready for our death shrouds.

00:24:17:12 to 00:24:22:20
We are your soil and earth, Oh Seyyed; you know this well.

00:24:27:04 to 00:24:31:10
We are ready for death, and because
our cause is just we will not sleep.

00:24:31:13 to 00:24:36:00
Oh DA’ESH, listen up: your doom is at hand
the moment we decide to take revenge.

00:24:49:12 to 00:24:53:20
We are the forces of Al-Qariya

00:24:54:05 to 00:24:58:13
When we wrestle with death, our arms are raised as winners.

00:25:01:12 to 00:25:03:24
Greetings, Seyyed.

00:25:05:02 to 00:25:06:01
Greetings.

00:25:08:21 to 00:25:10:08
How are you?

00:25:13:10 to 00:25:16:05
I was behind the wheel talking to him on
the phone when I fell into a bad pothole.

00:25:27:17 to 00:25:31:21
Is this the sound of wind or are they shooting?

00:25:38:12 to 00:25:40:18
We don’t have anti-tank missiles.

00:25:47:14 to 00:25:49:05
We have SPG 9 rockets over there.

00:25:53:24 to 00:25:57:13
Oh Mehdi, Oh Hidden Imam, you are our
commander and we stay true and fast to our oath.

00:26:20:05 to 00:26:22:02
How many BKC machine guns do you have?


00:26:22:23 to 00:26:25:02
We have two BKC’s and one sniper rifle.

00:26:25:07 to 00:26:27:02
How many cartridge belts do you have?

00:26:35:00 to 00:26:39:01
They’ve been pestering us today. They keep attacking.

00:26:47:22 to 00:26:48:20
Do you have enough ammo?

00:26:49:00 to 00:26:50:09
We do.

00:26:53:08 to 00:26:54:07
Hurry brother!

00:26:56:15 to 00:26:58:13
Turn the lights out.


00:26:58:19 to 00:27:08:21
We were only 80 meters away from them.
Even light machine guns were reaching us.

00:27:11:11 to 00:27:14:07
Say it again. I didn’t hear you very well.

00:27:15:04 to 00:27:18:07
Was this the sound of firing or a car honking?

00:27:21:19 to 00:27:25:12
 (Singing)

00:27:31:05 to 27:35:09
Whoever is against the children of the
Prophet, we will not have mercy on him.

00:27:35:22 to 00:27:41:14
Don’t expect compassion from us.

00:27:52:07 to 00:27:54:19
We are men of the desert.

00:27:55:07 to 00:28:00:00
If made angry, we will charge towards you.

00:28:26:05 to 00:28:28:16
Turn the camera off. Hurry! It gives off light.

00:28:28:19 to 00:28:31:06
A mortar round fell right next to you and you didn’t hear it.

00:28:31:09 to 00:28:34:19
Right. It fell right here.

00:28:35:14 to 00:28:37:19
We plan to penetrate the heart of the enemy’s territory.

00:28:37:22 to 00:28:40:19
We eat breakfast and get ourselves ready.

00:28:41:05 to 00:28:44:23
Where’s that rocket they fired? It’ll hit us any moment.

00:28:45:00 to 00:28:47:08
Friday, October 24, 2014.
Operations begin.

00:28:47:11 to 00:28:49:14
Right there.

00:28:51:13 to 00:28:53:08
There, there!

00:29:01:10 to 00:29:03:24
I thought it was a bird flying.

00:29:05:23 to 00:29:09:02
Majed, look at those two rockets.

00:29:12:14 to 00:29:16:01
Until I give the orders no one is to fire a single bullet.

00:29:16:08 to 00:29:18:21
Understood, brothers?


00:29:21:10 to 00:29:24:22
In the name of Prophet Mohammad you are all victors.

00:29:25:23 to 00:29:28:20
No, you don’t come with us. Turn around.

00:29:29:16 to 00:29:34:03
But I want to come. Rasul, I want to come.

00:29:34:24 to 00:29:36:19
Then come with me.

00:29:39:05 to 00:29:44:14
It was 7 in the morning when the
volunteer force came out of the trenches.

00:29:48:00 to 00:29:56:09
Comrades of the trench of Ashtar,
listen up! Do not even shoot one bullet.


00:29:55:20 to 00:30:00:12
Not even one round should be fired without prior orders.

00:30:01:01 to 00:30:09:01
I had just eaten breakfast and was enjoying my strong,
sweet Arabic tea when the rockets started flying overhead.

00:30:09:04 to 00:30:13:22
From the whistle of the rockets you could tell
how far away from us they were going to hit.

00:30:14:01 to 00:30:18:11
Since last night, they had rained rockets on the ISIS positions.

00:30:18:20 to 00:30:23:23
They were firing the rockets from the main
headquarters which was a few kilometers behind us.

00:30:24:02 to 00:30:33:00
This battle, like all battles, obviously had a ‘situation room,’ a room
that directed all the various forces in action.


00:30:36:08 to 00:30:38:23
Wait, who took that shot?

00:30:41:24 to 00:30:44:13
Don’t go inside that house. It might be booby-trapped.

00:30:50:09 to 00:30:53:07
You too, sit down. You’re too tall as it is.

00:31:01:11 to 00:31:03:10
Follow me.

00:31:04:06 to 00:31:07:21
The attack began from all four sides of Jorf al-Sakhar.

00:31:07:24 to 00:31:16:06
And fighting forces like Kataib Hezbollah, Asaib Ahl Haq, the Badr
Brigade,  the Army and other groups started the attack simultaneously



00:31:16:23 to 00:31:22:20
My camera followed from the south with the Al-Qaria
force led by Seyyed Ahmad and also

00:31:22:23 to 00:31:29:07

the Ali Akbar force led by Haj Qasim Mosalah of the Imam Hossein shrine.

00:31:29:13 to 00:31:37:19
Now we were really in ISIS territory, an area where until last night
we could barely stick our heads above the trench knowing

00:31:37:24 to 00:31:39:07
You, you’re a sniper. So take point.

00:31:40:03 to 00:31:43:18
their snipers were waiting for us.

00:31:44:20 to 00:31:49:02
I followed a group of thirty who were pointmen, or ‘lane-openers.’



00:31:49:11 to 00:31:53:20
They were guys who had pretty much put their
lives on the line; they defused the mines,

00:31:55:23 to 00:32:00:04
and if there was an attack they would lay suppressing
fire in order to open the way for the forces behind them.

00:32:00:08 to 00:32:04:21
In the time I was with them I slowly got to learn the military
terminology they use amongst themselves.

00:32:05:16 to 00:32:10:21
I sat below ground in the ditch that
supplied water to the trees. I was filming.

00:32:10:20 to 00:32:16:04
A sniper began taking shots at me and I changed my place.
00:32:16:07 to 00:32:20:01
I ran up a few steps, and just then a shell fell
exactly where I’d been a few seconds ago.


00:32:20:04 to 00:32:22:01
Death was a few steps away.

00:32:22:04 to 00:32:24:02
My God, was I really there just now?

00:32:24:05 to 00:32:26:18
Yes, you were exactly in the place that just blew up.

00:32:26:22 to 00:32:27:23
No one was behind you, was there?
00:32:28:01 to 00:32:28:16
No, no one.

00:32:28:22 to 00:32:30:17
You don’t want to carry a gun?

00:32:33:11 to 00:32:35:00
You want to fight with your camera?

00:32:50:07 to 00:32:54:15
Abu Mustafa, did you hear the chicken in the middle of that firefight?


00:32:54:22 to 00:32:57:17
It was clucking like that because it had a bunch of chicks.

00:32:58:00 to 00:32:59:17
Will you give me a CD copy of this film?

00:32:59:20 to 00:33:01:13
I will.

00:33:10:16 to 00:33:14:02
Our love for you is not because anyone commanded us.

00:33:14:05 to 00:33:18:12
Oh Seyyed Ali Sistani, your soul is in our hearts.

00:33:19:13 to 00:33:23:14
Today we remain true to the oath of our brothers.

00:33:28:19 to 00:33:30:18
There’s no antenna.

00:33:32:20 to 00:33:35:23
We are in the middle of a fight and there’s no antenna.

00:33:36:06 to 00:33:40:09
Today we want to take our revenge for our brother martyrs in Amerli.

00:33:40:15 to 00:33:42:21
And also revenge for our murdered brothers at Camp Speicher.

00:33:43:11 to 00:33:48:18
We are the children of Imam Hossein and today we are
going to take revenge for the shedding of their blood.

00:33:50:04 to 00:33:51:02
Get down!

00:33:51:07 to 00:33:52:22
Don’t tell him anything. Let him learn to have some fear.

00:33:54:12 to 00:33:56:20
You have to feel the scent of gunpowder.

00:34:03:22 to 00:34:05:21
It smells like cardamoms!

00:34:11:12 to 00:34:18:19
Iraqis are this way. They like to always
gather together and feel good. Even in war.

00:34:18:23 to 00:34:20:23
But, I mean, to gather together like this in the midst of a firefight?

00:34:21:00 to 00:34:22:09
Yes.

00:34:24:05 to 00:34:28:04
To be honest, right now each of us should be twenty meters apart.

00:34:30:04 to 00:34:32:08
Silence!

00:34:35:18 to 00:34:38:07
I can hear DA’ESH chanting Allah Akbar.


00:34:44:11 to 00:34:46:05
Spread out.

00:34:51:21 to 00:34:53:24
We’re in their line of fire here. We have to move.

00:34:54:03 to 00:34:55:24
Which way should we go?

00:34:56:15 to 00:34:58:16
They’re firing at us.

00:35:17:13 to 00:35:19:24
Let all the other groups know what’s happening here.

00:35:20:18 to 00:35:23:14
ALAM 2, ALAM 2, I’m in the lion’s mouth right now.

00:35:24:02 to 00:35:26:00
ASAD 3, I’m doing fine.

00:35:27:18 to 00:35:30:08
In the name of Imam Hossein, I’m also fine.

00:35:30:16 to 00:35:33:06
Abu Mustafa would never wear a bullet proof vest.

00:35:33:09 to 00:35:38:01
He’d laugh and say, “When your time comes
to die, with or without a vest doesn’t matter.”

00:35:38:03 to 00:35:40:01
But I knew better.

00:35:40:04 to 00:35:44:09
He didn’t wear a vest because there wasn’t enough vests to
go around. And he wanted his fighters to have them before him.

00:35:44:19 to 00:35:48:07
Abu Mustafa took a bullet the next day and was killed.


00:36:11:21 to 00:36:18:22
Tell Haj Qasim to come with the tractor and open the way.
By the time he arrives we’ll be at the enemy’s trenches.

00:36:50:09 to 00:36:53:01
Watch over this landmine so I can move.

00:36:53:02 to 00:36:53:22
There’s a mine here?

00:36:54:00 to 00:36:55:10
Yes, it’s by the palm tree.

00:36:56:14 to 00:37:00:19
Seyyed, don’t come this way. There’s mine here.

00:37:02:02 to 00:37:04:16
I’m watching it.

00:37:05:00 to 00:37:06:09
Here, under this tree.

00:37:06:12 to 00:37:08:16
I’m a cameraman.

00:37:16:07 to 00:37:18:10
Has this mine been defused?

00:37:18:13 to 00:37:19:22
What are you talking about?

00:37:20:04 to 00:37:24:19
No it hasn’t. You see this blue trip-wire? Do you know how to defuse it?

00:37:24:22 to 00:37:26:05
How should I know?

00:37:37:11 to 00:37:40:05
Fellas, who has the container for the RPG rockets?

00:37:40:18 to 00:37:43:07
Where’s the container for them?


00:37:55:08 to 00:38:00:15
The palm forest was so thick here
that sunlight could barely reach us.

00:38:00:19 to 00:38:07:06
Had a heavy armor detachment come this way
they would have surely been lost amongst the trees.

00:38:07:10 to 00:38:10:16
Behind each tree there were ISIS men and
they were shooting from every direction.

00:38:10:19 to 00:38:13:20
It was like a symphony of death.

00:38:13:23 to 00:38:17:00
You could only see a few meters
ahead of you because of the trees.

00:38:17:05 to 00:38:18:15
There are mines here. Don’t go any further.

00:38:18:21 to 00:38:22:21
I was scared and I had no idea where my north and south were.

00:38:23:00 to 00:38:25:17
The ground was teeming with mines that ISIS had planted.

00:38:25:19 to 00:38:28:16
It really was as if the only thing growing in this area were mines.

00:38:44:23 to 00:38:47:09
Who shouted for me to stop?

00:38:49:02 to 00:38:52:21
I don’t know who I should take orders from anymore.

00:39:10:20 to 00:39:17:15
Look, how he’s taking out that anti-tank mine with his bare hands.

00:39:23:05 to 00:39:26:00
That’s a hero for you right there.


00:39:35:22 to 00:39:39:04
Abu Abdullah was in charge of logistics and he
also opened the path for us with the tractor.

00:39:39:07 to 00:39:42:19
He never carried a weapon, nor did he
ever duck when the shooting started.

00:39:42:22 to 00:39:45:02
He was able to quickly cut trails for us.

00:39:45:05 to 00:39:48:18
I kept telling him to duck, but he never did.
He’d only laugh about it.

00:39:48:21 to 00:39:52:06
But the following day he got injured; he got a bullet in the face.

00:40:31:21 to 00:40:34:11
They’re not here. They ran away.


00:40:34:14 to 00:40:36:03
Look, a shell came down here.

00:40:37:08 to 00:40:38:19
Seyyed, please bring your head down.

00:40:38:22 to 00:40:41:00
Tell me how you’re feeling.

00:40:41:03 to 00:40:50:07
Truly, our spirits are up. With God’s help I’ve managed to
let go of all my bonds to this material world.

00:40:51:03 to 00:40:56:09
We’ve been … wait let me focus it.

00:40:57:13 to :00:41:23
We’ve been in very close combat
with ISIS for about two straight hours now.

00:41:02:01 to 00:41:05:18
We’ve advanced about one kilometer so far.

00:41:06:11 to 00:41:09:04
Yes, it’s taken about two to three hours until now.

00:41:09:07 to 00:41:12:07
I’m very, very tired.

00:41:12:16 to 00:41:25:14
This is my first experience going in with a group like this,
men who go ahead of everybody else to open up the way.

00:41:26:10 to 00:41:28:11
They just brought over a martyr.

00:41:41:17 to 00:41:49:23
I’m going back right now with a ‘martyr’ they’re taking back to the rear.

00:41:52:01 to 00:41:58:01
This is war. This is war and there’s nothing one can do about it.

00:42:03:10 to 00:42:04:17
(Song for a martyr)

00:42:06:22 to 00:42:11:18
Let me say goodbye to my son.

00:42:12:15 to 00:42:16:14
Maybe when he hears my sighs he’ll get up.

00:42:19:07 to 00:42:22:01
Let me say goodbye to my son
.
00:42:25:08 to 00:42:28:24
Should I now ready him for burial?

00:42:29:22 to 00:42:32:20
He was in such a hurry to die.

00:42:33:19 to 00:42:37:11
When oh when will you hear his voice again?

00:42:38 to 00:42:41:11
When oh when will you hear his voice again?

00:42:42:06 to 00:42:45:24
Apple of my eyes, when will I see you again?

00:42:48:23 to 00:42:51:23
Let me say goodbye to my boy.


00:43:10:15 to 00:43:15:11
Close combat lasted 7 hours. Around the
Mid-day prayer the first day of battle ended.


00:43:15:15 to 00:43:19:19
Originally, the fighters were to advance
only 200 meters from the south.


00:43:19:23 to 00:43:23:23
But they quickly managed to advance a whole kilometer.

00:43:24:01 to 00:43:28:04
There’s only 700 meters from this here fire to the heart of Jorf al-Sakhar.


00:43:28:09 to 00:43:34:16
Seyyed Ahmad and his fighters have to prepare themselves
for tomorrow’s fight and finally break the spell of Jorf al-Sakhar.

00:43:34:19 to 00:43:36:03
Tea is ready.

00:43:36:06 to 00:43:38:21
I’ll come back in a bit.

00:43:40:01 to 00:43:44:22
We rely on the generosity of people who help us.

00:43:45:00 to 00:43:51:20
I know a few merchants and true believers who help us.

00:43:51:24 to 00:43:55:00
Like this guy that you just saw.

00:43:55:03 to 00:43:58:07
He’s a patron, a responsible man, and someone with true faith.


00:43:58:09 to 00:44:04:06
He told me, “Seyyed, I’ll do my best for you.”

00:44:04:09 to 00:44:06:23
 “I’ll get ammo for you,” he said.

00:44:07:01 to 00:44:09:11
 “I’ll get what the fighters need,” he said.

00:44:09:14 to 00:44:11:04
 “Food for the soldiers too.”

00:44:11:07 to 00:44:12:14
 “Whatever it takes I’ll do for you,” he said.

00:44:12:15 to 00:44:18:11
We’ve suffered so much because of this weak government we have.



00:44:18:16 to 00:44:21:04
How come the fighters have stayed with
you considering the tough situation?

00:44:21:07 to 00:44:35:13
The fighters have stayed for me. They can see how hard
I run around for them, how hard I work.

00:44:25:16 to 00:44:31:16
I make sure food and supplies reach them.

00:44:31:18 to 00:44:39:19
They care for me and that’s why they’ve stayed. With the
situation as it is, if there was someone else in charge
the fighters would have gone home by now.

00:44:39:22 to 00:44:43:18
Where there’s no food, no help, no water …

00:44:43:20 to 00:44:48:04
Then things get tough for all the groups.

00:44:48:23 to 00:44:52:24
Right now those in charge in government should be
thinking about the difficulties the volunteer forces are facing.

00:44:53:02 to 00:44:55:01
The typical volunteer force commander has no authority anymore.

00:44:55:04 to 00:44:59:05
His fighters have not been able to go home now for a good two, three months.

00:44:59:08 to 00:45:01:12
Well, why haven’t they?

00:45:01:15 to 00:45:03:13
Because of the fatwa.

00:45:03:15 to 00:45:11:21
We carry this fatwa in our heart and souls and we won’t
quit until we either vanquish the enemy or become martyrs.
00:45:22:23 to 00:45:28:04
Tonight is a vital night. I’ll sleep here to keep our fighters’ spirits up.

00:45:31:10 to 00:45:35:14
This here is pretty good for sleeping.

00:45:36:21 to 00:45:41:20
Seyyed, during my guard duty no one is going to sleep.

00:45:43:03 to 00:45:47:11
Whoever falls asleep I’ll steal their weapon.

00:45:47:21 to 00:45:50:13
So then, these missing weapons, you’re the one who took them, ay?

00:45:50:16 to 00:45:53:01
After I steal them I know what to do with them.
I’ll hand them over to the interrogators.

00:45:53:04 to 00:45:54:23
Stop fooling around.

00:45:57:08 to 00:46:00:00
One day this old guy brought me a gun.

00:46:00:03 to 00:46:05:23
He said, “This belongs to the soldier who
fell sleep at his post. You take it now.”

00:46:06:11 to 00:46:09:23
The poor kid, he comes up to me and asks if I’ve seen his gun.

00:46:10:01 to 00:46:11:16
And I said I didn’t have it.

00:46:11:19 to 00:46:16:01
I didn’t lie either. Because I’d thrown it to the side.

00:46:16:03 to 00:46:18:19
The kid’s name was Haydar. He started crying.

00:46:18:22 to 00:46:19:24
Which Haydar are you talking about?

00:46:20:02 to 00:46:21:21
The fellow from Kut.


00:46:21:24 to 00:46:22:24
The one from Baghdad?

00:46:23:02 to 00:46:25:07
No, he’s from Kut.

00:46:26:06 to 00:46:29:15
Right, you’re talking about Haydar. The skinny, tall boy.

00:46:29:18 to 00:46:33:09
I told him, “Stop crying. Even if it was with me I wouldn’t give it back to you.”

00:46:33:12 to 00:46:39:07
I told him, “If you fall asleep again, I’ll give your
weapon to Seyyed Ahmad.”

00:46:39:10 to 00:46:45:16
I’ve told everybody: “Fall asleep and I’m taking your weapon!”
And if I can’t steal their weapon, at least I’ll take the magazine out of it.


00:46:35:19 to 00:46:48:03
You won’t ever grow up. Go on!

00:46:48:06 to 00:46:50:15
Goodnight.


00:47:22:08 to 00:47:27:11
Two days we’ve been attacking nonstop.
This is the beginning of the attacks for the second day.

00:47:28:04 to 00:47:30:03
Majed, where are you?

00:47:33:08: to 00:47:35:01
I’m grateful for the protection you gave me yesterday.

00:47:35:04 to 00:47:37:09
I’m at your service.

00:47:44:00 to 00:47:45:20
In the name of Imam Ali, all stand up!

00:47:53:00 to 00:47:54:16
Zero hour has arrived.

00:48:22:08 to 00:48:24:01
Seyyed, take a look at my back and see what’s wrong with it.

00:48:28:04 to 00:48:25:13
Let me see.

00:48:29:15 to 00:48:31:17
It’s nothing. Just a scratch from shrapnel.

00:48:32:04 to 00:48:33:14
Get up, get up!


00:48:54:15 to 00:48:56:10
Were you hit?

00:49:01:14 to 00:49:49:04:12
Take off the bulletproof vest and let me see.

00:49:32 to 00:49:33:07
Majed!

00:49:33:10 to 00:49:34:04
Yes?

00:49:36:01 to 00:49:37:10
Come here.

00:49:37:13 to 00:49:38:18
Where are you?

00:49:38:21 to 00:49:41:11
Come. Stay with me.

00:49:45:06 to 00:49:47:18
Listen, the enemy is in front of you.

00:49:47:21 to 00:49:49:06
My ears don’t hear anything anymore.

00:49:49:09 to 00:49:52:22
You go ahead and give us some suppressing fire. I’ll be behind you.

00:50:21:02 to 00:50:22:15
Take cover.

00:50:25:05 to 00:50:27:18
I said sit!

00:50:28:09 to 00:50:30:17
Lie down!

00:50:38:20 to 00:50:40:16
Stop talking!

00:50:41:06 to 00:50:43:03
Nobody shoot!

00:50:43:06 to 00:50:45:10
Why are you all making such a racket?

00:50:50:07 to 00:50:52:22
Bring me the cartridge belt.


00:50:56:16 to 00:50:59:11
Go get me a cartridge belt.

00:51:11:16 to 00:51:13:10
Wait!

00:51:13:13 to 00:51:15:04
You’re all doing everything wrong.

00:51:15:07 to 00:51:18:07
Come back and spread out.

00:51:18:10 to 00:51:21:05
What do you think you’re all doing bunching up like this?

00:51:27:06 to 00:51:31:16
I told you to go with five people, not a whole platoon.

00:51:48:06 to 00:51:51:12
In war, whoever lags behind from the group is lost.

00:51:51:15 to:00:51:57:05
They had us surrounded. The firefight was so
intense that I got separated from Seyyed Ahmad.

00:51:57:08 to 00:52:01:06
He and the fighters managed to
break siege and go back on the attack.

00:52:01:09 to 00:52:56:24
But I had to retreat 50 meters and stay behind
with Haj Qasem, the commander of the southern forces.

00:52:07:22 to 00:52:13:04
Bravo! May your shot always find its target.

00:52:12:24 to 00:52:17:18
Our boys have just reached the house
belonging to the judge from DA’ESH.

00:52:17:20 to 00:52:20:09
Their police headquarters is on fire too.

00:52:20:12 to 00:52:23:07
Keep firing for now.

00:52:33:04 to 00:52:35:20
Go towards the house.

00:52:38:09 to 00:52:40:14
Be careful with the house.

00:53:08:12 to 00:53:10:06
Come, let’s move past here fast.

00:53:25:16 to 00:53:32:06
Abu Hasan, are you alongside the main street right now?

00:53:32:09 to 00:53:38:21
Are the central administrative buildings near you?

00:53:40:04 to 00:53:46:19
I’m exactly on the shoulders of the paved road.

00:53:51:20 to 00:53:53:24
Where are the central administrative buildings?


00:53:54:07 to 00:53:57:03
This is it.

00:54:00:01 to 00:54:04:18
Stop. Don’t advance so much.

00:54:11:00 to 00:54:14:01
This building was in our hands last night and now they have it.

00:54:14:04 to 00:54:15:04
Be careful of that house.

00:54:15:07 to 00:54:22:21
Abu Abdullah, listen up. Where is the exact location of their base?
Tell me your precise target.

00:54:23:14 to 00:54:31:11
I need an accurate military report, so I know your exact location.



00:54:32:04 to 00:54:40:17
Inside the school. Inside the school there is
a Hummer and several of the DA’ESH.

00:54:40:20 to 00:54:46:12
There’s some in the mosque too.

00:54:49:23 to 00:54:53:11
Hurry up. Hurry! What’s the matter with you guys?

00:54:56:02 to 00:54:57:21
Come, come!

00:54:59:08 to 00:55:03:04
Abu Mustafa, what’s up?

00:55:04:05 to 00:55:06:22
Haji, don’t bother with the mosque. We have complete control
of the area and we’ve encircled the school and their base.
Give me a little time and I’ll finish the job.


00:55:21:15 to 00:27:12
Abu Mustafa, how sweet victory is.

00:55:27:15 to 00:55:29:15
But I’m begging you not to rush into it.

00:55:29:18 to 00:55:32:18
The mosque and the house may have been booby-trapped.

00:55:32:21 to 00:55:35:03
We still have time for fighting.

00:55:35:06 to 00:55:39:14
The enemy is running away. We can see them
with our binoculars and from our planes.

00:55:56:16 to 00:56:02:20
Make sure they only try to escape through the river.
You can get them inside the river then.

00:56:03:14 to 00:56:05:11
Haji, give the orders.

00:56:05:14 to 00:56:11:11
I don’t want any of these scum to get away alive.

00:56:13:23 to 00:56:17:06
You give the orders; we’re ready.

00:56:17:09 to 00:56:19:11
Take care of yourself.

00:56:19:14 to 00:56:25:14
Our pilots are letting us know the enemy
is escaping through the river right now.

00:56:25:17 to 00:56:28:24
Just make sure you have complete control
of the area and that none of them escape.

00:56:30:06 to 00:56:32:12
Cut that rope.


00:57:03:15 to 00:57:06:05
Be careful. Don't trample on it. It has the name of the Prophet on it.

00:57:08:14 to 00:57:10:06
This is the center of Jorf al-Sakhar

00:57:30:12 to 00:57:35:02
Bravo for this victory!

00:57:44:20 to 00:57:48:10
Enjoy it and may God protect all of you.

00:57:48:13 to 00:57:50:11
This is ALAM 1.

00:57:50:14 to 00:57:53:09
I’m patrolling the frontline.

00:57:53:12 to 00:57:56:01
In the center of Jorf al-Sakhar.


00:57:56:04 to 00:58:00:10
We’ve liberated everything until the very
limits of the center of Jorf al-Sakhar.

00:58:24:03 to 00:58:30:14
 (Heroic native music being played)

00:59:23:14 to 00:59:27:19
We have won and entered the area.
00:59:52:07 to 00:59:53:23
Salam Aleikum.

01:00:11:11 to 01:00:14:10
It’s nothing. A booby-trap.

01:00:15:12 to 01:00:18:07
Take your weapon off the ground.

01:00:18:16 to 01:00:21:22
Gather up.


01:00:23:21 to 01:00:25:24
We’re in the center of Jorf al-Sakhar right now.

01:00:26:02 to 01:00:29:12
And the entire town is liberated.

01:00:29:15 to 01:00:32:23
And we’re advancing further ahead.


01:00:50:01 to 01:00:53:22
Out of the group I was with, Abu Abdullah was injured.

01:00:54:00 to 01:00:55:23
Abu Mustafa was killed.

01:00:56:01 to 01:00:05

The fighter who took a few videos for me
with his mobile got a bullet in his waist.


01:01:00:08 to 01:01:11:23

And the young man who was my bodyguard, I saw him step on a mine.
From the distance I saw that he was lifted up in
the air and then there was barely anything left of him.

01:01:31:04 to 01:01:37:04
 (Music and song from inside the car)


01:02:14:11 to 01:02:18:13
I still have a lot of work ahead of me.

01:02:29:01 to 01:02:30:16
Damn!