Suroosh Alvi

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  • In Saddam's Shadow

    Ten years after the US invasion of Iraq, VICE founder Suroosh Alvi returns to Baghdad to see how the city is doing. We meet a biker gang that misses Saddam, a gay activist, the metal band Dog Faced Corpse, and members of the Iraqi military whose bomb...

  • In Saddam's Shadow

    VICE founder Suroosh Alvi returns to Baghdad ten years after the US invasion. In the fourth and final part of the documentary, we learn about the ADE 651, a small device the Iraqi military uses at checkpoints to detect bombs in cars. Problem is, these...

  • In Saddam's Shadow

    VICE founder Suroosh Alvi returns to Baghdad ten years after the US invasion. In part three, we hang out with Iraqi metal band Dog Faced Corpse and investigate the struggles of emo kids and gays living in Baghdad. There have been reports of emo...

  • In Saddam's Shadow - Part 2

    VICE founder Suroosh Alvi returns to Baghdad ten years after the US invasion. In part two, we witness an awe-inspiring outdoor group prayer and then get a glimpse of metal band Acrassicauda's former practice space that was destroyed during the war.

  • In Saddam's Shadow - Part 1

    Ten years after the US invasion of Iraq, we return to Baghdad to see how the city is doing. VICE founder Suroosh Alvi gets a tour of a city that used to be covered nonstop in the American media, but now seems to be somewhat forgotten.

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