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    Voicing the Eagle

    By Amanda Matti

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    Aide to the United States Military.
    In his own words, Fahdl recounts his story of going from life as a twenty-one-year-old, upper-middle class student at the University of Baghdad to being recruited right off his neighborhood streets to serve as an interpreter for a United States Army unit just days after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime. Over the next two years, Fahdl goes on to translate for U.S. drill sergeants training new Iraqi Army recruits in Ramadi , serves alongside U.S. Marines during the first Battle of Fallujah, and eventually lands a position as a linguist with Iraq’s newly formed national intelligence agency in Baghdad. Along the way, he suffers combat injuries, faces the challenges of integrating with American soldiers in the U.S. camps, is hunted by local insurgency groups for assisting the ”infidels” and eventually falls in love with an American service member.
    Voicing the Eagle is a unique, firsthand perspective on one of the United States most controversial foreign conflicts.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW & B Publishers
    Release dateAug 28, 2017
    ISBN9781635549355
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    Voicing the Eagle
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    Amanda Matti

    Amanda Matti served six years in the US Navy as an intel analyst and is an Iraq War veteran. She is the author of three books. Her memoir, A Foreign Affair, tells the story of her 2005 deployment to Baghdad, where she met her husband, an Iraqi national who served as her translator. Her second book, Voicing the Eagle, chronicles her husband’s story of working as an interpreter for US forces in Iraq. Her latest work, New Dawn Underground, is a counter-terrorism thriller about a female CIA analyst who poses as a Washington Post journalist to infiltrate a terrorist organization in Iraq. Matti lives in San Diego with her husband, Fahdi, and their two daughters.

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      Voicing the Eagle is an eye-opener! I am so glad Amanda Matti wrote the prequel to A Foreign Affair. Now we know what happened to Fahdi before they met. More people should know what life was and is really like in Iraq. Most think terrible things about those in the Middle East when they are just like the rest of us with dreams and goals, love their children, want to have the freedom to education and religion, career aspirations, and PEACE. Fahdi is such a brave man on so many levels, and a great husband and father. We get to hear in his own words about the trials, hardships, being shot, and how he helped his country and the United States as a translator. Well written and real page-turner.

      — CJ Loiacono