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Attempts on Death Iman Mersal He is searching for theBaghdad 2003. The city is in flames, caught between a violent dictatorship and an illegal invasion. For the US it is mission accomplished. For Iraqis it is the beginning of a nightmare apocalypse in which over half a million people will die. Meanwhile the worlds cameras stuff themselves with dust and human flesh. Attempts on Death is an attempt by the Iraqi poet and diplomat Chawki Abdelamir to understand the historic destruction of his country and