Daily Life in Wartime Iraq
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Journalist Dahr Jamail gives us an up-close look at daily life in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. Jamail is one of the few unaffiliated, unembedded journalists covering the war in Iraq. His new book is Beyond the Green Zone.
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Comments [7]
Death Squads!?
I expected them when Negroponte of the Central American Death Squads and Iran-Contra was brought to Iraq, but this is the first I heard about them.
U.S. Tanks blowing off civilians' limbs?! U.S. Snipers targeting civilians? CNN sitting on the footage?!
The corporate consolidated US Media is killing our democracy!
What about the mysterious death of Nicholas Berg, one of the first Americans taken hostage?
A 'freelance' cellphone tower installer in Iraq... doesn’t make sense.
And he met Zacharias Mousaoui, 'by chance' lending him his Hotmail account.
His beheading footage had him in a Guantanomo jump suit, and the prison and guards looked like Abu Ghraib's.
The sound was obviously dubbed, kind of like the recent Hormuz Strait 'Philippino Monkey' pysop (against the US like Tonkin) where the Iranian speedboats were faked as threatening the US warships.
Why & who sent Anthrax Attack "person of interest" Stephen Hatfill to Iraq in 2003 to make a full scale model mobile Anthrax lab -- so the troops could recognize what they were looking for. Couldn't the troops use a drawing? After this happened, the FBI's Hatfill investigation.
I think hero Ambassador Joseph Wilson's op-ed put too much heat on the Bush2 administration in the summer of 2003 for a planted lab. His wife would have debunked it, too.
Who tipped the White House off to take Cipro before Anthrax was received at the DC P.O.s?
'Aspens turn in clusters...' after all.
can anyone really know what is happening if it is filtered through an interpreter?
It's disgraceful that the mainstream corporate media has not really shown this war in it's ugly entirety
Is Iraq similar to what happened in Panama years ago, but obviously on a much larger scale?
The reduction is due to people being bought off...like they said...temporary solution
Leonard - please ask how much of the reduction in voilence is due to the ethnic cleansing being largely complete. Thanks.
Some of his reports described the American forces being really brutal to Iraqi civilians. Is that right?
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