Hanaa, Dabbach’s wife, plied us with dark coffee and plates of hummus, tabbouleh and sweets made of pistachios and honey. Suhail Dabbach, an actor and director from Iraq, settled in Albuquerque with his family, from left, daughter Ghasak, 19, wife Hanaa, son Essa, 5, and son Yahya, 7. So when I pulled up to a public housing complex north of Downtown Albuquerque the other day and found Iraqi refugee Suhail Dabbach standing outside waiting to meet me, there was a moment of shock as I came face to face with “Black Suit Man.”ĭabbach had a day off from work and his two youngest children were riding their bikes outside as we sat in his living room and talked about his surprising path from being featured in an Academy Award-winning picture to working as a cook in a senior living home in Albuquerque. The six-minute scene, more than anything else in the movie, is nerve wracking and indelible. He raises his eyes to the sky and prays to Allah as the seconds tick down, time runs out and he’s engulfed in smoke and fire. soldiers call for bolt cutters and try to remove the vest of explosives locked onto his chest. The bomber, known as “Black Suit Man” in the movie’s credits, begs for his life in frantic Arabic, while the U.S. Army bomb squad confronts and attempts to disarm a repentant Iraqi suicide bomber.
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