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He was just spreading the photos with them. And after 2003 when we had so many explosions after Saddam Hussein fell, he was going to Kirkuk and all the places that there was conflict and terrorist attacks, just to bring back photos for the local publications. I’m actually the youngest brother, and we’re six brothers. It came through your brother who had been a photographer? Is that right? And I’ve known one of the guys who founded the agency with you and your brother, also for a long time-Sebastian Meyer, who is now back in New York. I think a lot of journalists in foreign correspondents have. I’ve known about your work and your agency for a long time. I think having the same drink has given me more power and energy. Najm: While I do that same job that he was doing. Thornburgh: This is your own kind of meditation on him or memory of him. So this is what I am drinking on a daily basis. Najm: I drove him to Kirkuk, and that was the last time that I saw him. Thornburgh: When you were driving him around and you guys had some juices? Najm: It is the last drink that I drunk with my brother in 2014 when I was driving my car. Why did you choose Jumex as the thing we should drink? Especially when it’s very hot and sunny outside. Thornburgh: That is the sound of opening a Jumex pineapple coconut flavored drink. I’m going to let my fingernails grow out before I come to Iraq again so I can open all the foil.

Tell me what were as we, pull the foil tabs off of these things. Nathan Thornburgh: Well, let’s get into this.

#OBAMA AHMED WOW THATS A NICE CLOCK FULL#

Listen to the full episode, for free, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an edited and condensed transcript from my conversation with Ahmed. That to me says it all: legacy, longevity, layers. As the head of Metrography, the agency that his brother started with Sebastian Meyer, Ahmed is helping over 70 Iraqi journalists work to tell their own story. Kamaran’s brother Ahmed turned away from the conservative religion of his own family by not only searching for his brother, but by adopting Kamaran’s life’s mission as his own. In this episode’s interview, we’re reaching deep into one of those tragedies, the disappearance of photojournalist Kamaran Najm. The layers of life in this beneath this fortress have to give you some sort of optimism, or at least a longer lens on the current tragedies of Iraq. I feel like we’ve been talking a lot about time in these Iraq episodes, the idea that a place this ancient must be able to persevere through the agonies of the present. There have been people living, building, and dying on that exact spot since at least 5,000 BC, and the dramatic height of the citadel comes from all the layers of life, the mudbrick buildings that rose and collapsed and then were built on top of, over and over, through the millennia. This structure is the oldest continually inhabited place on earth. I’ve been doing most of the recording, including this interview, in the corner of my room at the Fareeq Hotel, but life in Erbil is really about the streets, the endless blocks of food carts and lamb stew joints on Iskan Street, the kids darting in and out of the archways of the market, and more than anything, the imposing sight of the Citadel, a dun-colored fortress atop a mound that rises almost 100 feet above of the rest of the flat cityscape Seems fitting to end on a call to prayer at the Erbil Citadel. The Texas ruling “is an assault on 133 million Americans with pre-existing conditions” and on “the 20 million Americans who rely on the A.C.A.’s consumer protections for healthcare,” Becerra said in a statement.And here we are, at the last of our episodes in Iraq. They argue that the tax law changes do not mean that the whole Affordable Care Act becomes unconstitutional. Opposing the Republican lawsuit were 17 Democratic attorneys general led by Xavier Becerra of California. She vowed that when Democrats take over the House of Representatives in January, lawmakers “will move swiftly to formally intervene in the appeals process” to uphold Obamacare. While the court’s “absurd ruling will be immediately appealed, Republicans are fully responsible for this cruel decision,” she said. O’Connor’s late Friday ruling “exposes the monstrous endgame of Republicans’ all-out assault on people with pre-existing conditions and Americans’ access to affordable healthcare,” Pelosi said in a statement. Polls consistently show that the ACA coverage guarantee regardless of pre-existing health conditions has strong popular support - an issue the Democrats used with great success in the recent November midterm elections in which they won control of the House of Representatives.

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