Civilian Slaughter Update
On Tuesday, May 30 Truthout published my article “Countles My Lai Massacres in Iraq.” Here are a couple of recent pieces of information to augment that story. Today the AP has just released this story: 2 Iraqi women killed by coalition troops
Countless My Lai Massacres in Iraq
The media feeding frenzy around what has been referred to as “Iraq’s My Lai” has become frenetic. Focus on US Marines slaughtering at least 20 civilians in Haditha last November is reminiscent of the media spasm around the “scandal” of Abu Ghraib during April and May 2004. Yet just like Abu Ghraib, while the media
Dahr Jamail Speaks About the Haditha Massacre on Democracy Now!
An internal military investigation has found that U.S. marines killed as many as 24 Iraqis – including women and children – in the city of Haditha on November 19, 2005 and then tried to cover it up. In this video, Amy Goodman speaks with: an attorney and researcher at Human Rights Watch, independent journalist Dahr
Amendment on Video Link
I recently sent out a brief email announcement that included a link to a filmed interview with Jesse MacBeth. Upon further investigation, I found more questions than answers about the personal history of Mr. MacBeth. I therefore removed the posting of the email with the link from my website. dahrjamail.net never hosted the video interview
Support Our Troops, Anybody?
So Long as I Am Your Commander in Chief As the violence in Iraq continues to escalate, at least 2,450 US soldiers have been killed, with roughly ten times that number seriously wounded since the beginning of the Invasion in March 2003. If current trends continue, May will be one of the deadliest months of
All of Us Participate in a New Iraq
US Last Friday I was at the University of Texas, Austin, giving a presentation on Iraq. After dumping an hour’s worth of horrible “real news” about Iraq, I was asked the question I have by now learnt to expect: “Is there anything good happening there at all?” I understand why people ask this. There must
“Reason for Their Death Is Known”
Death in Iraq. It is relentless and incessant. Know what it is like when scores of your fellow citizens are being killed every single day while the world proceeds unheedingly on? As a journalist I’ve had but a taste of that poison during my eight months in Iraq. Try it out: be an Iraqi for