Clarissa Ward : Two thoughts…I really might die, this could be it… and what am I doing here?

Update: 2022-04-11

Description

Clarissa Ward was caught in a targeted suicide bomb attack whilst working in Iraq in 2005.

This week CNN’s nine-time Emmy award winning correspondent discusses how 9/11 changed the course of her career and life. From the challenges and advantages of being a female war journalist to becoming obsessed with the Syrian civil war, and the trauma of losing friends and colleagues in the field.

Her story about how she found herself singing for a group of women in Syria during an airstrike is also both poignant and moving.

Show Notes:

On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist Clarissa Ward
Tug of War podcast hosted by Clarissa Ward
@clarissaward

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Sebastian Junger : Some sand sort of sprayed into the side of my face. I was like, damn, what was that? And then I heard the burst

2022-06-2901:05:16

Guillermo Galdos (part two) : Two Black Hawk helicopters appeared on top of us…spraying with bullets. I remember hearing the trees falling down. It looked like the end of the world

2022-06-2201:05:53

Guillermo Galdos (part one) : This guy was shooting his gun.... And suddenly they hit him in the head, right in the forehead. And I remember thinking, what the hell am I doing here?

2022-06-1558:10

Anas Aremeyaw Anas : We don’t care you are journalists. The rule is simple. We will kill you

2022-06-0859:45

Mais Al-Bayaa (part two) : I kept screaming “is anyone alive?” but I did not hear anyone. I genuinely thought I was dead

2022-06-0147:19

Mais Al-Bayaa (part one) : I was asleep in my bed, three bullets came just above my head and the curtain was burned

2022-05-2545:17

Sam Kiley : It wasn’t a question of talking your way out of it, it was all over, it was just waiting for the bullet

2022-05-1847:41

Shoaib Sharifi (part two) : Your head will be chopped after 4 o’ clock today. I felt, tasted and smelt death, and I cried

2022-05-1101:09:26

Shoaib Sharifi (part one) : My heart started pounding and the man with a dagger approaching to chop a head, and I fainted

2022-05-0448:01

Janine di Giovanni : I had been told this before that they would just assassinate me because they didn’t want any witnesses

2022-04-2758:45

Stuart Ramsay : lying on the back, just watching the whole car slowly but surely disintegrate… I said to myself I am going to die and I wonder if it's going to hurt