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Dahr Jamail is an independent journalist currently
stationed in Iraq. Mr. Jamail submits his work to various
publications around the world, and also has a web site at http://dahrjamailiraq.com
dispatches
from Iraq
by Dahr Jamail
Censorship
At long
last, the culminating session of the World Tribunal on Iraq is upon us. As a
witness providing testimony, like the other witnesses I’m being interviewed by
many outlets. Today, one of them was by reporters for one of the larger
newspapers in Turkey, the Yeni Safak Newspaper.
I’ll
leave the reporters nameless, for reasons you’ll soon see. Read
article
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Slash and Burn
She
lays dazed in the crowded hospital room, languidly waving her bruised arm at the
flies. Her shins, shattered by bullets from US soldiers when they fired through
the front door of her house, are both covered by casts. Small plastic drainage
backs filled with red fluid sit upon her abdomen, where she took shrapnel from
another bullet.
Fatima
Harouz, 12 years old, lives in Latifiya, a city just south of Baghdad. Just
three days ago soldiers attacked her home. Her mother, standing with us says,
“They attacked our home and there weren’t even any resistance fighters in our
area.” Her brother was shot and killed, and his wife was wounded as their home
was ransacked by soldiers. “Before they left, they killed all of our chickens,”
added Fatima’s mother, her eyes a mixture of fear, shock and
rage. Read
article
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"What Have We
Done?"
As the blood of US soldiers continues to drain
into the hot sands of Iraq over the last several days with at least 27 US
soldiers killed and the approval rating for his handling of the debacle in Iraq
dropping to an all-time low of 38%, Mr. Bush commented from the comforts of his
ranch in Crawford, Texas today, “We will stay the course, we will complete the
job in Iraq.”
Just a two hour drive away in Dallas, at the
Veterans for Peace National Convention in Dallas, I’m sitting with a roomful of
veterans from the current quagmire. Read article
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Posted August 07, 2005
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