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Betrayed (Paperback, New)
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Betrayed (Paperback, New)
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Loot Price R347
Discovery Miles 3 470
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Drama / 5m, 6f Millions of Iraqis, spanning the country's religious
and ethnic spectrum, welcomed the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. But
the mostly young men and women who embraced America's project so
enthusiastically that they were prepared to risk their lives for it
by aiding the U.S. forces constitute a small minority. On a cold,
wet night in January 2007, George Packer met two such Iraqi men in
the lobby of the Palestine Hotel, in central Baghdad to hear their
story and those of other Iraqis working as translators and
additional key personnel for the U.S. military and occupation
authorities. They assumed that their perspective would be valuable
to foreigners who knew little or nothing of Iraq. But instead of
respect and gratitude, those who chose to help bridge the gap
between the occupiers and the occupied were met with suspicion and
hostility. They have been killed by insurgents and militias,
ignored by U.S. officials, fired from their jobs without reason or
recourse, and prevented from fleeing to the States for safety.
Based on Packer's account in The New Yorker, Betrayed is a riveting
and morally complex drama that explores in the Iraqis' own words
the ways in which we have already abandoned them. It will have its
world premiere in January 2008, off-Broadway at the Culture
Project. .,."the clarity of the writing, the urgency of the story
being told ... give the play a sharp dramatic impact and a
plain-spoken beauty. Painful human experience is presented here as
just that. Nothing else is necessary to awaken sympathy, despair
and awareness of a grave moral failure on the part of the American
government." - New York Times
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