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## Video: THEATER OF WAR

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_Published 2011-06-14. THEATER OF WAR_


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## Transcript

[ MUSIC ] [ SOUND ] This is not a secret. You can report us. We are earning a 6 million [ INAUDIBLE ] Everywhere, all tribes, all streets, all cities, Libya is hell. [ NOISE ] It's been very, very strange from the beginning and and you think like if you spend enough time somewhere, like, you would kind of see through the cracks. And instead of cracks, I mean it's become more of a tighter bubble. [ NOISE ] We were watching the TV when they passes the resolution at the UN and, and then we figured you know it would be just kind of like a matter of hours before they would start at least patrolling.

We didn't know if they were gonna. And he'd start humming or, or, what, you know. But, but we kinda knew that something was, about to happen. [ SOUND ] [ UNKNOWN ] [ SOUND ] Why he kill my brother? It's a criminal! It's a criminal! [ SOUND ] Now it's real, you know, it feels real, it feels like, okay now we're in a war and it's happening truthfully where as before the war was in the East. So the people living here didn't get a sense of what it was like, but now at night you can see tracer fire and you can hear the entire crowd, so it's kind of more real. Cause when the moon [ INAUDIBLE ] [ MUSIC ] That was one of their kind of examples of this weird kind of See [ UNKNOWN ] I dont even know anymore like what's really going on, the more time you spend here it's like, I think it's less and less understanding.

[ MUSIC ] [ SOUND ]

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