As with 130-Degree Air Conditioning, the source material for this video loop comes from the small archive of special ops combat videos at http://globalspecialoperations.com/combatvideos.html. The original is included below, described on the website as "Graphic Shooting By U. S. Marines of a Terrorist with a Rocket-Propelled Grenade (:37)". "Abu's Lawn" loops a portion cut out of the original, chosen as much for its music as its choreography. The title is generated from a homo-phonic translation of the Arabic being shouted. "Abu's Lawn" was originally emailed to Tom Raworth, who used the source footage to make a video named "id.mov". It too is included below.
Raworth:
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