Monthly Archives: May 2005

“Things are getting worse by the day.”

By Dahr Jamail | Published: May 30, 2005

The mayhem continues in Iraq, with today at least 40 people dead, including five US soldiers in Diyala province as the meltdown of the failed US-led occupation continues. Two suicide bombers detonated themselves after walking into a crowd of police officers in Hilla, south of Baghdad. The policemen were demonstrating outside the mayor’s office to [...]

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Sketchy Details

By Dahr Jamail | Published: 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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Daily Life in Baghdad, from Afar

By Dahr Jamail | Published: May 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 [...]

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Displaced Iraqis Simmering with Anger in Amman

By Dahr Jamail | The Ester Republic | Published: May 22, 2005

Interviews with some decidedly angry Iraqis who are refugees living in Amman, Jordan. Amman, Jordan — It isn’t difficult to find Iraqis in Amman nowadays. The word on the street is that somewhere around half a million have come to Jordan over the last couple of years, seeking security and/or jobs, since they have neither [...]

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