Basra
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Sep 14, 2026
Omar DewachiGUEST
I tell the story from Baghdad.
Omar DewachiGUEST
I tell the story from Mosul, from Basra.
Omar DewachiGUEST
There are, um, uh, uh, different kind of wounded, uh, cities, uh, and wounded populations and wounded landscapes that are, ha- have become a site of these ruination of the clinic or ruination of the state, where one could actually see survival, uh, experiences of these patients.
Omar DewachiGUEST
What are the doctors thinking? Uh, how are they are reorganizing themselves? And then in addition to that, there are, there is a layer of exploitation, uh, uh, business, uh, uh, deals happening, uh, between private hospitals in Beirut and the Iraqi state, uh, uh, patients getting compensation, patients are denied compensation.
Ashraf DockratGUEST
Uh, she lived between, uh, 717 and 801, um, uh, and, and, and, and, and was a Sufi, a Muslim saint.
Ashraf DockratGUEST
Um, she was born in, in Basra, therefore she, she's called Basri.
Ashraf DockratGUEST
And she was a Rabia because she was the fourth daughter of a family, and, um, she was born into a poor family, but she was very devoted to Allah from a young age.
Ashraf DockratGUEST
When her father died, she became an orphan, and, uh, she was captured by thieves and then sold into slavery.
Jacob PraschHOST
It's an artificial state.
Jacob PraschHOST
Southern Iraq is down by the Sha'at al-Arab, the area above Basra.
Jacob PraschHOST
that area is demographically solidly, very solidly Shia.
Jacob PraschHOST
You've got about a 20% population of the country, demographically, basically situated in and around Baghdad.
Michael YonGUEST
Now, keep in mind, it goes pretty close to the Euphrates.
Michael YonGUEST
Go to Baghdad and go to Basra.
Michael YonGUEST
Right.
Michael YonGUEST
I was down in Basra a lot with the British forces and the British were, you know, uh and all those guys were involved for so long and i've been i've been to a british cemetery in iraq in fact i photographed every headstone i mean that it was a bunch of nigerian soldiers and gurkhas and and people from all over the world that were in the british army right this is a long this is the great game what did kipling write and kim and 1901 one of the best sentences ever written about the great game he said uh you know the game is so great that one sees but a little at a time and so you know i've been getting out trying to see as much of it as i can see like what exactly is going on here and that's why it took me years but finally i've gotten to the point where i can very well predict things because i know what the alligator is doing i know how it hunts and i know what its basic intentions are we don't know specifically how they'll do things or exactly what they'll do but for instance you know i was on with katherine austin fitz uh and and mike actually uh what about a month ago right mike
MikeHOST
yeah when was that a couple weeks
Michael YonGUEST
ago and so what did katherine that was about a month or a month and a half katherine asked She asked me when we were together, or on this, with you, what did I think the chances are, I think, of the war resuming with Iran, like kinetically.
Chris BinchGUEST
There was British soldiers there.
Chris BinchGUEST
And while I was down in Basra for that short period of time, for that seven days, I actually bumped into people that were on tour with Tupara.
Chris BinchGUEST
And I'm cutting around with a beard and a Czech shirt and a bit of body armour and an AK-47.
Chris BinchGUEST
And they were like... what are you doing? If you join the SES, have not told us about it.
Chris BinchGUEST
I don't mean like traffic-wise, that as well, but also with the presence of US soldiers in Humvees and that.
Chris BinchGUEST
There was a massive US presence there in Baghdad.
Chris BinchGUEST
Obviously, the Brits were down in Basra.
Chris BinchGUEST
The second company I went out with, I was working predominantly in Baghdad and sort of out of the green zone and districts around there.
Jack HibbsHOST
You're going this way.
Jack HibbsHOST
So when it came from India over here across the Arabian Sea up into the Gulf of, uh, uh, the Hormuz where the problems are going on right today, across the Arabian Sea, up into the Persian Gulf to Basra, then would go across through Basra over to what is today Iraq, over to Lebanon, and then it would get to the Mediterranean world.
Jack HibbsHOST
That was where the trade went, that it was coming from India and China.
Jack HibbsHOST
But the Sassanians who were up here in what is today Iran started battling the Byzantines up here in what is Turkey, and that shut down that trade route, so they had to redirect it down to, just pre- pretend that I have my map right, they, down to here in Aden, which is at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula.
Neale SmilesGUEST
when
Stuart LyleGUEST
you look at Herrick, um, you're looking at sort of about 10 years of Herrick and then prior to that in, in Basra, where actually there was over, over time, we actually had fewer people in the section who were even able to mount a banner.
Stuart LyleGUEST
But that didn't stop the army being able to go out and getting involved in close combat scraps.
Stuart LyleGUEST
So you couldn't mind doing the UGL, a sharpshooter, the GBMG, the light machine gun.
Jonathan Ivo LöwerHOST
I'm thinking of someone like the great...
Jonathan Ivo LöwerHOST
Islamic saint, if you will, and mystic rabbi of Basra, who was said to have walked through the city, a burning talk in one hand and a mug with water in the other hand.
Jonathan Ivo LöwerHOST
And when asked what she is doing, she answered, I want to burn down paradise and I want to extinguish the fires of hell.
Jonathan Ivo LöwerHOST
And she is said to have prayed, oh God, if I follow you, if I seek you because I want to be admitted into paradise, then please close its doors to me.
Jonathan Ivo LöwerHOST
But if I seek you for your own sake, then please don't turn away from me.
Jonathan Ivo LöwerHOST
Then please let me find you.
Jonathan Ivo LöwerHOST
How great, how infinite is the abyss between someone like Rabia of Basra and these Mohammedan youth around here.
Jonathan Ivo LöwerHOST
And it very clearly shows you, I mean, of course, these were abused.
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Section eight, The Leopard and the Lion.
speaker_11NARRATOR
In the neighborhood of Bassorah there was a lovely island, in which grew a most delightful wood, where pleasing breezes whispered their love stories to the rustling leaves.
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This enchanting forest was watered with several fountains, whence a number of recreating streams ran gently winding to every part of it.
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In this lovely place there lodged a leopard so furious that even the most daring lion durst not approach within a league of his habitation.
AcerabelNARRATOR
3.
AcerabelNARRATOR
Gnosticism Though little direct evidence is available, the conspicuous place occupied by the theory of gnosis in early Sufi speculation suggests contact with Christian Gnosticism, and it is worth noting that the parents of Maruf al-Karkhi, whose definition of Sufism as the apprehension of divine realities was quoted on the first page of this introduction, are said to have been Sabians, i.e. Mandaeans, dwelling in the Babylonian fenland between Basra and Wasit.
AcerabelNARRATOR
Other Muslim saints had learned the mystery of the great name.
AcerabelNARRATOR
It was communicated to Ibrahim ibn Adham by a man whom he met while traveling in the desert, and as soon as he pronounced it, he saw the prophet Qadir, Elias.
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