Blood of my Brother

Wed, May 3rd, 2006/6:30 pm/34th Street/$12

This is part of an e-mail I sent to a teacher of mine where I go to school in RI. It was about a year ago that I sent this and I have one more year behind me and having been in Iraq. I will find out what my status is during my next drill if I am going back. I would love to be at the Tribecca Film Festival again but I am down south on biz.

Hi Dr. John,
I was down in NY for the Tribecca film festival and I managed to catch this movie. It was Blood of my Brother in which an American soldier kills an Iraqi guard on duty at one of the mosques. It was subtitled and mostly in Arabic. It was brutal, like Iraq, it told the story from a POV of the brother and his family. NOt a feel good movie but a story that needs to be put out, not that it will have any real legs because it isn't what most people want to see about Iraq.

Seeing this movie really gives one insights on what was going on about a month ago in Sadr City.
Iraqis in Sadr City, a Baghdad district, responded strongly to a speech by the cleric Moktada al-Sadr that condemned the American presence.