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Chris Hunter is a decorated high-threat bomb disposal operator. He had been in Iraq, on operation Telic, for just four days when he was shot in an ambush.
Two decades later he lives in the country that nearly claimed his life and works for a charity clearing explosives left by the Islamic State terror group.
He tells Kate Gerbeau how he now has friends who may have tried to kill him years ago, what life is like in Iraq 20 years after the invasion, and what motivates him to stay for as long as he can.
By BFBS Radio5
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Chris Hunter is a decorated high-threat bomb disposal operator. He had been in Iraq, on operation Telic, for just four days when he was shot in an ambush.
Two decades later he lives in the country that nearly claimed his life and works for a charity clearing explosives left by the Islamic State terror group.
He tells Kate Gerbeau how he now has friends who may have tried to kill him years ago, what life is like in Iraq 20 years after the invasion, and what motivates him to stay for as long as he can.

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