I recently received this letter from an Iraqi friend who lives in Baghdad. It is written as an open letter to Mr. Bush. -DJ While there is deep concern about the possibility of civil war, the common talk between all groups now in Iraq is the poor infrastructure, poor electricity, deficiency of fuels, bad drinking
Coalitions Reject Election Results
BAGHDAD — Many Iraqis are demanding a new poll after more than 1,500 cases of election fraud and forgery were reported in the Dec. 15 elections, at least 30 of them “extremely serious”. The results so far indicate a strong win for Shia religious groups. There are widespread complaints that many of the instances of
People Concerned More About Own Lives than Saddam’s
BAGHDAD — Most Iraqis are more concerned with finding jobs, putting food on the table, personal safety and the removal of the occupation forces than the ongoing trial of former dictator Saddam Hussein. Hussein, along with seven other officials have been charged with crimes against humanity, as well as being charges in connection with the
Iraqis Reject Increased Fuel Costs
BAGHDAD, Dec 21 (IPS) – For two days demonstrations have continued across Iraq in protest against the government’s decision to raise the price of petrol, cooking and heating fuels. With costs increased up to nine-fold, Iraq’s oil minister, Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum has threatened to resign. Yet this has done nothing to quell the outburst of
Iraqis Glad 2005 Over, Dim Hopes for 2006
BAGHDAD, Dec 20 (IPS) – Despite the parliamentary elections last week and temporary ease in violence, Iraqis remain bitter about the outgoing year, and sceptical of 2006. “As a doctor I usually travel daily from home to college,” said Um Feras, a doctor of physics at Baghdad University who asked that her last name be
Tomgram: Dahr Jamail on the Missing Air War in Iraq
From the destroyed Japanese and German cities of World War II to the devastated Korean peninsula of the early 1950s, from the ravaged South Vietnamese countryside of the late 1960s to the “highway of death” on which much of a fleeing Iraqi army was destroyed in the first Gulf War of 1991, air power has
The Truth is Out: 7.5 Minutes with Dahr Jamail
Dahr Jamail’s talk at CIIS in San Francisco is recorded and edited by Truthout.org to make a hard hitting 7.5 minute video VIDEO SPECIAL | Dahr Jamail: Reporting on Iraq A Film By Sari Gelzer Dahr Jamail shares the stories of Iraqi civilians he interviewed while spending 8 months in occupied-Iraq as an independent journalist.
“Pacified” Fallujah
Lies cost lives in Iraq. Remember the reasons given by the US military and puppet interim Iraqi government for Operation Phantom Fury against Fallujah? Just prior to the November, 2004 assault on that city, the primary reasons given for the massacre in Fallujah were: to provide “security and stability” for the upcoming January 30 “elections”
Where People Cannot Afford Their Country
BAGHDAD, Dec 1 (IPS) – Despite the allocation of billions of dollars of U.S. government money for “reconstruction”, Iraqis are struggling to exist amidst soaring prices, unemployment, a devastated infrastructure, and cuts in services. Iraqis received a monthly food ration during the Oil for Food programme which was set up to provide relief during the
Fadi Harouny Interviews Dahr Jamail (Arabic)
Radio Canada International Interview in November, 2005, with Fadi Harouny, Announcer-Producer Montreal, Canada http://www.rcinet.ca Note: This interview has been translated to Arabic. Download Windows Media (WMA)