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S1 Episode 6 - "Year Zero"

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Afghanistan - The Sky Is Falling

After the invasion, arakes woke up to a country where electricity had vanished and clean water was gone. Looting of public property, of shops, of homes, of cars, of trucks, was everywhere. A 21 year old student who was surveying the absolute destruction in his own neighborhood said, matter of factly, fuck all americans. And on top of all that, erakes had a foreign army, a hundred an 50 thousand troops worth, patrolling their streets. It sontonted almost immediately after therbuting we think. i want to go now to a bit of our conversation with our iraki friend, raad.

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