Productions
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8 September 2007
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ABC Nightline
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The Wesam Delaema case |
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In 2003 Dutch Iraqi Wesam Delaema visits his mother country Iraq after the US and UK invaded. He marries his wife in Bagdad and wants to finally see his family again. To show his friends in The Netherlands the other side of Iraq, he decides to film everything during his trip. When he films in his birth town Faluja, he ends up filming local masked fighters with the infra red function on his camera. In sinister green light the fighters show Wesam where they placed what seems to be a road bomb. After Wesam arrived back in The Netherlands he is suspected of being involved in the Berg case. It turns out that Wesam has nothing to do with it, but the Dutch keep on following him, and even arrest him, just after his wife arrived from Iraq. In this period the video tapes are found in his house. He is jailed and even extradited to the US. In January the Wesam trial will start in Washington. Since Wesam Delaema arrived in The Netherlands he created a large network of friends. These friends cannot believe that Wesma did something wrong, and do everything they can to proof his innocence and help his wife and brother.
Activities: research and set-up, archive footage research.