Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Saturday November 29 2003 — A7 Iraq occupation Q I I FBOmMSMBilg Director using film ‘liberated’ after invasion BAGHDAD Iraq (API — ' Art school dropout Odni Rasheed is directing Ir iq’s movie in first feature-lengt- h more than a decade with t'lm he “lihefated"Trom Saddam Hussein’s culture ministry after the dictator's fall The subject: the fateful spring days when the Ameri- -' ' cans invaded and the regime collapsed It's'a time of shame felt by Baghdadis over the looting of the city and joy mixed with pain from being liberated and occupied at once “Where is Baghdad in the midst of this real-lif- e nightmare and dream at the same time?" Rasheed 30 muses in an introduction to the film “What is it like for the city's' ' streets to feel pain under the weight of the tanks?” The film reels that Rasheed and his friends found in the ministry's storeroom were past their expiration date Hence the film's name ft3 Iraqis question Bush’s secret visit to Baghdad DlTSKJJ BAGHDAD Iraq (AP) — lew opinions Some people applauded'-whaPresident Bush's surprise visit to Iraq was the talk of called a hold move ' and they kebab teahouses expressed vague hopes Baghdad's that it would help bring seen- shops and mosques Friday' with many Iraqis asking'why rity political stability and lie didn't take advantage of' jobs to their his trip to see firsthand how country But they stressed it his rule has treated them was results — not a photo Many complained that opportunity — that would boost Bush's popularity here Bush met with few Iraqis r ' 'll- he takes care of Iraq he during his secret w ill he welcomed here If not and Thursday stay evening — w hether he's here or in the' never left the grounds of a White House — he is of iiq heavily fortified US base to us” said Fadel Hadi Several called thy trip an v 59 playing dominoes at a " electoral stunt and took 'offense that he would use ' ' : teahouse '“If his isil brings us some good he will hewel- their country as his:stage come every day” “He visited Iraq for the ' Ahmed Kheiri 24 saw sake of the Americans not as a campaign lactic the Iraqis He didn't come to “He came for the sake of see how we arc doing” Muzhcr AhdHanush 54 said the elections” Kheiri said in his barbershop “To come “He never thought of the what Iraqi people He doesn't care say helloand leave about us It was' a personal good does that do?'' AP photo visit for his ow n sake’-- ' US forces in Iraq generaltook the trip as a morale Iraqi politicians had mixed ly Iraqi movie director Odai Rasheed center background overlooks the filming of Iraq's first to the visit reactions comtheir and boost praised movie in more than a decade in the center of Baghdad last week The movie “Gheir Saleh' or “Under Mouwafik a w hat they in chief mander lor Exposure takes place in the days that immediately followed the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in April member of the US appointcalled a courageous moveed Governing Council who “It's an extremely film is limited — - he says it’s came but it's mired in blood met Bush bn Thursday said : by the deranged man and his admirable gesture It's really half what is needed to shiwt mother who seek to heal his and dirt” the president “reaffirmed his a good example as a leader” film — so he wound with religious rituals ' his In supporting roles are a Childs Galvez of country's commitment to Capt Craig must economize Characters The soldier is played by ston Texas said at hit base building a new democratic deranged young man who ' Bassem Hamad a sculptor and prosperous Iraq” in the nmlhern city of Tikrit' lives with his mother next speak directly to the camera Another member of the ' with whose work — a shape reprea bold statement' that “It's door to Hassan's luxurious sharing their thoughts ' ' viewers he’s confident of the job house and who obsessively Governing Council Mah- replaced senting freedom nioud Othnian said the trip “The soldier willspeak bronze statue of the we' re doing here to come collects nylon bags from the meant little w he the war doesn’t in about the reach”Saddam stood ithin Paradise that enemy's city's streets “They represent he But feels The understand before Marine? US the colors of Baghdad” pain Iraqis generally among Square Rasheed says disappointed in the US-le- d toppled it ' ' ' See FILM on A14 occupation the trip swayed Ras heed's supply of raw There also is a young Iraqi ' solder wounded in the US ALL YOU CAN EAT Any( rtaptacamant Wndows Army's final assault on Bagh- Tfuin SfVCklf dad He is found and cared for ' t war-shatter- ed - two-ho- ' - ur ' v the-visi- feature-lengt- h -- : - ' : te “Gheir Saleh” or “Under ' Exposure” - ' “Gheir Saleh" explores the of death through the lives of three friends —- Hassan a movie director Moataz a cello player dying of cancer and Maysoun a postgraduate '' archaeology student with whom both men are in love — in the days immediately after Saddam's ouster ' “What’s Baghdad like " today?’’ Moataz asks Hassan in one scene “Horror Baghdad is not Baghdad anymore” Hasten replies “There is pain in every meter you walk The freedom we wanted for years' ideal L- - - 16-fo- ot : : GaaGaoTrs® 11 Lise We're at the Willow’s Restaurant every Saturday - 10am-2p- m - Kelsey :: rfU Season Hot Slone Massage JSOhr JfcifiJay Gift Certificates Theif44itk‘ c‘sin u lib jvyiilnhk1 ?u Logan 435-76031- Receive SO)' off your Massage when you buy 1 gift certificate 770-569- $1995 open 4PM-10P- Netelle IkyUr LIHIT Call Today SUSHI vWj EVERYDAY 6024 SOUTH SOUTH OGDEN 5 laKatnl in Hvtlc Park s to change your ' windows this winter? 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