ABC News producer Mike Tuggle went out with Alaa Uldeen Aziz several times to cover the military, the politicians, and the people of Iraq. He remembers:
“In February, we were shooting a story on Iraqis getting married. Even with the bloodshed and turmoil, this hope remains that two people will live happily ever after. We shot for about 45 minutes. At that point I couldn’t tell that anything had changed, but Alaa felt *something*. He looked at me and said, ‘It is time to go. Now.’ I trusted him. I don’t live there and the small things that a local sees go right by me.”
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