Live from Baghdad: heeeeere’s Dan

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The BBC’s Dan Damon is in Iraq, patrolling on foot with the US military. On Dan Damon’s first night in Baghdad he was at the scene of an explosion that killed a military defense official. He joins The Takeaway from the BBC bureau in Baghdad about what its like to be on night patrol with the US military and watch Iraqis slowly pick up the pieces of their fractured nation.

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