BAGHDAD — “We only want a normal life,” says Um Qasim, sitting in a bombed out building in Baghdad. She and others around have been saying that for years. Um Qasim lives with 13 family members in a brick shanty on the edge of a former military intelligence building in the Mansoor district of Baghdad. [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Dahr on SiriusXM, Reporting from Iraq
Dahr corresponds by phone from Baghdad, explaining the current state of affairs in Iraq, and what has changed since over the years, with satellite radio talk show host Pete Dominick. Download MP3
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Iraqi Doctors in Hiding Treat as They Can
BAGHDAD — Seventy percent of Iraq’s doctors are reported to have fled the war-torn country in the face of death threats and kidnappings. Those who remain live in fear, often in conditions close to house arrest. “I was threatened I would be killed because I was working for the Iraqi government at the Medical City,” [...]