Exploring Iraqi Hospitality: A Cultural Insight

Caught Live on Instagram: "In a stark and unsettling broadcast on Iraqi state television—later aired worldwide by Al Jazeera—on March 23, 2003, several American soldiers captured during the early days of the Iraq War were interviewed under duress. The prisoners, members of the 507th Maintenance Company ambushed in Nasiriyah, appeared bloodied, bandaged, and visibly terrified as they answered questions from an off-camera interviewer. One soldier, when asked about his purpose in Iraq, responded qu