“During the nights of Shock and Awe, in 2003, Bassam used to listen to reports on the Western radio of the American and British fighter planes setting off … As the bombs fell, he’d blast a George Harrison’s song on repeat. He played it so many times that after a while even his mother, who speaks no English, would start to loudly sing as the planes approached: “Give me love, give me love, give me peace on earth, give me life, give me life, keep me free from birth . . .”
The Iraqi Suitcase by Laura Waddington
Source: George Harrison sings Give Me Love, live in Japan 1991. George Harrison (YouTube)