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"A friend of mine sent me this video and it sent me back to a dusty, dirty side street in al-Dora.
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Back in September 2004, I was on a photo shoot, shadowing a tanker from 1st of the 8th Cavalry. We hung out in his room, played Ghost Recon, talked and got ready for a patrol through the neighborhoods of that restive area. We knew it was a bad place. Things happened there. People, a lot of them, we're turned off there. We didn't know it consciously but unconsciously. Both sides of this current sectarian war were making a very under-the-radar play for Dora. Mostly Shia but with a significant number of Sunni and Christians, the place boiled under the surface. We just never saw it for what it was. We just saw violence and wanted to stop it the best we could."
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