A Tribute To The Iraqi Kids Who Were Bombed in 1990

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Amazing Oud Player - Naseer Shamma

Please watch the whole video - only then will you realize what a great composition this is.

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Absolutely amazing...

It starts off with children playing...Young kids, older kids, then they are all playing together...They are running and jumping around...Little girls in frocks and little boys...Suddenly the siren sounds, and the American war planes start bombing and the machine guns start firing...Children running around, trying to look for cover and shelter...After the bombardment, a few kids left alive are crying feebly...The scene changes to that of despair and devastation amidst the desert...People come and see the carnage...They are crying...Women, elderly, seeing the children dead...They are beating their chests...Then the weeping turns to anger...Then helplessness, but the world is busy in its enjoyments, doing nothing while the Iraqis die...Everyone going about their business as if nothing happened...In the end, everything is as if nothing happened...

Truly a master of this instrument...What a picture he paints with his notes...Very nice...Very moving...

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http://www.counterpunch.org/baroud03292003.html

http://www.freearabvoice.org/newsbytes/visitWMDSiteInBaghdad.htm

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Yep, that is one masterpeice! I’ve never seen such a great composition ever in my life - telling a story without words.

Too bad youtube removed the video :mad:

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One handed Oud playing…

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The video is no longer available, what happened freedom of speech kicked in again

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Here is a different version of the track (audio):

“L’Abri d’Al-Amiriyya”](http://wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=10257&starttime=2:32:06)

…not as good as the original.

Shamma says, “I don’t remember exactly how I felt but I found myself going to the site of the massacre the next day. I took my oud along and started to play, . . . in the middle of the burnt out backpacks, toys and clothes” (Sherif Iskander Nakhla, “In Progress: Legends of the Oud,” Al-Ahram Weekly 654, September 4-10, 2003).

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