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'l saw a tall, shy, handsome soldier. He had the m0st for questioning. There is no guarantee that she will make
beautiful eyes I had ever seen,'says Ehdaa. Ehdaa had it out of lraq - Saddam didn't all0w doctors to have
never met an American before in her life. But soon, she passports. She spends three hours going nowhere, when
was seeing this American every few days. Blackwell had the improbable happens: one ofthe guards recognises her
been in lraq only a few weeks, but between patrols and from an article he read about an lraqi woman who married
weapons raids, she'd bring him home-cooked meals and an American soldier. And in this dusty little outpost, fame
hours of conversation. 'l started thinking, what we are is a passport. Ehdaa continues on her journey and at
doing is impossible. l'm Muslim and he's a Christian. l'm last, in Jordan, the couple are reunited. 'She looks just as
lraqi and he's American. lt just can't happen,' says Ehdaa. beautiful as the firsttime I saw her. I feel so comfortable.
'lt did. Love can produce miracles, I do believe this now.'
It s like I haven't been away from her for six months,' says
After three months of war-zone dating, Blackwell took the Bla c kwell.
plunge - keeping, of course, with localtradition, where ,*K ln a sense,the Blackwells are exactlywhatthe Pentagon
a marriage proposal is a question asked man-to-man. had dreamed of at the start of the war - American soldiers
Blackwell asked Ehdaa's brother, who told him.'l'd be embraced by lraq. lt seems ironic that when the military
honoured for you to marry my sister.' But under local got what it wanted, at least on a small scale, it manoeuvred
law, a Muslim woman can marry only a Muslim man. So to divide, only to be outflanked by a soldier who would not
Blackwell stood before an lraqijudge and said in Arabic: disobey the orders of his heart.
'There's only one God and that's God and Mohamed is
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the messenger of God.'Through those words. Blackwell
became a Muslim. lt was a conversion of convenience, not i
convi ction.
G The couplewas readyto say'l do' when Blackwell's 5 Read the Reoding fip on page 30. Complete these verb-noun
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commanding officer stepped in. There was no regulation collocations from the text.
against a marriage, but the battalion commander was a to a (secret) mission
worried that, in a war zone, it would be a dangerous b to a bullet-proof vest
distraction. So he ordered Blackwell notto get married. c to an order
'We were brought together by some, some higher force --
uu d to on patrol
than ourselves, and itwas meantto be,'says Blackwell. e to to an attack
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f to-adetour
'And I wasn't going to let anybody stop that.' For the first
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time in his career, Sgt Blackwell set 0ut to disobey an g to guard
order. 0n a sizzling August morning, he went out on patrol h to - charges
with a small team. The soldiers responded to a rocket
'o afiack. But on the way back to base, the patrol made an 6 Complete the sentences with collocations from exercise 5.
unauthorised detour to a restaurant. Are the phrases used literally or figurativety?
H Two soldiers with heavyweapons stood guard outside. 1 On the way home from schoot, we into town to
Blackwell went into the courtyard where Ehdaa was buy a new video game.
waiting with her family, a judge, and a pair of rings. Friends 2 The chief executive was accused of negligence, but
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'u translated the Arabic vows and recorded 0n tape one small by pointing out that the events in question
moment of peace in a larger war. lt ended with a kiss on occurred before his term of employment began.
the forehead, and then Blackwell went back on patrol with 3 Three members of the battation were severely
his team. 0nce the battalion commander found out about reprimanded for after they gave unauthorised
the wedding, Blackwell was exiled to Baghdad lsland in interviews to the press.
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the Tigris River. However, no charges were filed against 4 Some African governments to eradicate malaria
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Blackwell, and it may be that the Army just wanted the by 2015.
whole thing to go away. Blackwell got away with no more 5 They met on the steps of the Art lnstitute of Chicago,
than a reprimand and left the military with an honourable where two bronze lions outside the entrance.
discharge. 6 Some areas of town are considered so lawless that potice
85 officers are instructed to _
I But six months after his wedding, Blackwell said goodbye - before going on foot
to his mother and headed back towards the war zone he patro[.
had recently left. Ehdaa, escorted by her little brother, sped
7 ffi Worl< in pairs. Thinl< about a story you know which
past the war zones of Fallujah and Ramadi towards the
rendezvous on the border between lraq and Jordan. Soon, involves love triumphing over obstacles. lt could be a true
story, a book or a film. Answer the questions.
'o the 11,000-kilometre separation is cut down to a stretch 0f
highway, 80 kilometres long. 1 What exactly were the obstacles?
J Atthe border, guards searchthe carthree times, and 2 How did the coupte manage to overcome them?
Jordanian intelligence pulls Ehdaa and her brother aside 3 What is your opinion of the story?
i I ffiffi Work in pairs. Present your story to the class.

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