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Jamail: Sketchy Details
Znet Article, May, 28 2005
Dahr Jamail
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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...
Jamail: Daily Life in Baghdad, from Afar
Znet Article, May, 23 2005
Dahr Jamail
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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 pri...
Jamail: Displaced Iraqis Simmering with Anger in Amman
Znet Article, May, 22 2005
Dahr Jamail
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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 at home in ...
Jamail: "Democracy" in Iraq
Znet Article, May, 19 2005
Dahr Jamail
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I neither read nor listen to corporate media drivel concerning Iraq...but today I wonder what they could possibly be saying to justify the failed occupation of Iraq on this horrible day. I also wonder how people in America have yet to take the app...
Jamail: Coming Home
Znet Article, May, 19 2005
Dahr Jamail
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It isn't an accident that, after 11 weeks, only as I'm leaving again, do I find myself able to write about what it was like to come home -- back to the United States after my latest several month stint in Iraq. Only now, with the U.S. growing ever...
Jamail: A "Welcome Parade" of Blood and Seething Anger
Znet Article, May, 16 2005
Dahr Jamail
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As if to add insult to injury, with over 400 Iraqis killed in violence during the first two weeks of the newly sworn in Iraqi "government," US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice made a surprise one day visit to the newest US colony. After visitin...
Jamail: Life in Falluja
Znet Article, April, 02 2005
Dahr Jamail
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DAHR JAMAIL spent eight months working as an independent journalist in Iraq. As one of the few journalists not “embedded†with U.S. forces, his reports earned a reputation for being an uncompromising look at life under occupation...
Jamail: Media Held Guilty of Deception
Znet Article, February, 15 2005
Dahr Jamail
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*ROME, Feb 14 (IPS) - A peoples tribunal has held much of Western media guilty of inciting violence and deceiving people in its reporting of Iraq.* The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI), an international peoples initiative seeking the truth about the ...
Jamail: Stories from Fallujah
Znet Article, February, 09 2005
Dahr Jamail
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These are the stories that will continue to emerge from the rubble of Fallujah for years. No, for generations… Speaking on condition of anonymity, the doctor sits with me in a hotel room in Amman, where he is now a refugee. He’d s...
Jamail: Living Under the Bombs
Znet Article, February, 02 2005
Dahr Jamail
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Living Under the Bombs
Jamail: What They're Not Telling You About the
Znet Article, February, 01 2005
Dahr Jamail
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The day of blood and elections has passed, and the blaring trumpets of corporate media hailing it as a successful show of "democracy" have subsided to a dull roar. After a day which left 50 people dead in Iraq, both civilians and soldiers, the de...
Jamail: Some Just Voted for Food
Znet Article, January, 31 2005
Dahr Jamail
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Some Just Voted for Food
Jamail: High Anxiety
Znet Article, January, 29 2005
Dahr Jamail
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Despite a continuing increase in the already draconian security measures imposed across Iraq, the bombs keep coming. Today in the al-Dora district of Baghdad a primary school which had been a designated polling station was struck by a car bomb. ...
Jamail: Unity or War
Znet Article, January, 27 2005
Dahr Jamail
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While hundreds of thousands of Kurdish people are traveling from northern Iraq to Kirkuk to vote, many families in Baghdad are leaving the city in fear of a huge wave of violence. Violence continues to escalate throughout Iraq in the run-up to th...
Jamail: Vote Where, How, and for Whom?
Znet Article, January, 26 2005
Dahr Jamail
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Vote Where, How, and for Whom?
Jamail: Iraq Election Analyisis
Znet Article, January, 24 2005
Dahr Jamail
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"I will not be voting because it is a useless charade," says Salah Abrahim as he pushes his car towards a petrol station to get fuel in a bustling street in the Karrada district of Baghdad, a sector of the capital city populated primarily by Shia ...
Jamail: Car Bombs
Znet Article, January, 19 2005
Dahr Jamail
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The thundering blast rocks me awake at 7:05am. The first thing my eyes see are the curtains of my room flowing in, as if a strong wind is blowing into my room. ‘Holy shit, they hit the embassy,’ I think to myself, ‘the bl...
Jamail: Destroying Babylon
Znet Article, January, 18 2005
Dahr Jamail
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The onslaught of Mosul has begun, as occupation forces are launching attacks into Iraq’s third largest city. While there are mass resignations of police and elections polling staff there, yet another new police chief has been awarded contr...
Jamail: Iraqis Discuss Voting, Or Not, in Elections Held Amidst Chaos
Znet Article, January, 17 2005
Dahr Jamail
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Despite the continuing escalation of violence here, Iraqi officials insist the country's first-ever general assembly elections remain on schedule, even if preparations have fallen well off track in many areas where rebels have caused grave disru...
Jamail: Blood is Precious
Znet Article, January, 17 2005
Dahr Jamail
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Family members left behind by those who have died violent deaths amidst the occupation of Iraq, whether they are Iraqi or American, have every reason to be bitter. After all, each death is due to an illegal occupation as the result of an illegal i...
