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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
World Tribunal for Iraq,
Culminating Session Testimony
Istanbul, Turkey
25 June 2005
Thank you very much for inviting
me to the Culminating Session of the World Tribunal on Iraq. I first went to
Iraq in November of 2003 as an American citizen both frustrated and horrified by
what my un-elected government was doing. I went to report on the situation
because I was deeply troubled by the “journalism” being provided by the
corporate media. At the time, as a frustrated mountain climber from Alaska
working as a journalist in Iraq, I never would have believed I would be
providing
testimony to the World Tribunal on Iraq. I want to thank the organizers for this
opportunity. I am honored to be here in solidarity with the Iraqi
people.
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Iraqi Hospitals in Crisis (Special Report)
Dahr Jamail reports on the struggling health care
situation in Iraq. The report surveys 13 Iraqi Hospitals, examines the actions
taken by US military against hospitals and care workers that constitute war
crimes as defined by the Geneva conventions, discusses and documents cases of US
medical personnel complicit in torture through failures to document the visible
signs of torture on their patients, and much more. Read Special Report
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State Sponsored Civil
War
June 10,
2005
It is also being reported that
members of the Badr Organization, who are essentially running much of the
“security” in southern Iraq at this point, have been
instituting
Sharia law. Thus, women are
reporting being threatened with death or rape if they attend university,
and more conservative clothing rules are being enforced.
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Sketchy
Details
May 27, 2005
Yesterday Iraq’s
Minister of Defense, Sadoun al-Dulaimi, announced that starting Saturday 40,000
Iraqi troops will seal Baghdad and begin to “hunt down insurgents and their
weapons.” Baghdad will be divided into two main sections, east and west, and
within each section there will be smaller areas of control.
There will be at least 675 checkpoints...
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Article
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Daily Life in Baghdad,
from Afar
May 20-22, 2005
It’s coming apart at the seams now in Iraq. We
saw on the news today that members of the Mehdi Army in the south, the militia
of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, exchanged gunfire with members of the ING (Iraqi
National Guard) who in the south are primarily, if not entirely composed of
members of the Badr Army, also a Shia group. So now we have Shia fighting
Shia... Read
Article
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Dahr Jamail.
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Updated June 01,
2005
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