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Jamail: "...The Horrible Truth"
Znet Article, April, 25 2009
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
On April 23, over 73 Iraqis were killed in two separate suicide attacks. One bomber detonated his explosives in central Baghdad as a group of policemen were distributing relief supplies to Iraqis who had been driven from their homes during the US-...
Jamail: Attacks Commence
Znet Article, April, 21 2009
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
Everyone knows the analogy of the beehive. When it is goaded, countless bees emerge, attacking the tormentor. Right now in Iraq, the formerly US-backed al-Sahwa (Sons of Iraq) Sunni militia, ripe with broken promises from both the occupiers of the...
Jamail: Iraq in Fragments
Znet Article, April, 16 2009
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
On Wednesday, March 25, Major General David Perkins of the U.S. military, referring to how often the U.S. military was being attacked in Iraq, told reporters in Baghdad, "Attacks are at their lowest since August 2003." Perkins added, "There were 1...
Jamail: No Coincidences in Iraq
Znet Article, April, 13 2009
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
Following George W. Bush’s example of keeping war funding off the books, President Barack Obama is seeking $83.4 billion in additional “emergency†funding for the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which, if approved, would bring the 200...
Jamail: The Growing Storm
Znet Article, April, 04 2009
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
Last weekend, the Iraqi government arrested an Awakening Group leader of a Baghdad neighborhood, then moved into the area. With the help of US occupation forces, they disarmed the militiamen under his control, but only after fighting broke out bet...
Jamail: The Ongoing Occupation of Iraqi Artists
Znet Article, March, 15 2009
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
For centuries, artists, writers, and intellectuals have been meeting in Baghdad's teahouses over tulip-shaped glasses of sweet lemon tea, cigarettes, and shisha pipes.
Jamail: IRAQ: Medical Care At Last, At a Price
Znet Article, March, 06 2009
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
Prompt medical care is at last on offer in Iraq, for those who can find the dollars for it.
Jamail: Iraqi Doctors in Hiding Treat as They Can
Znet Article, February, 21 2009
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
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.
Jamail: Still Homeless in Baghdad
Znet Article, February, 20 2009
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
"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.
Jamail: Iraq's "Teflon Don"
Znet Article, February, 17 2009
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
Driving through Fallujah, once the most rebellious Sunni city in this country, I saw little evidence of any kind of reconstruction underway.
Jamail: Boys With Toys
Znet Article, February, 16 2009
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
It is not the threat of violence that weighs on the people of Iraq. It is the omnipresent occurrence of violence that has resulted in the desperate nation wide chant, "We are tired. All we want is for normal life to return."
Jamail: No Unemployment Among Iraqi Gravediggers
Znet Article, February, 06 2009
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
Amidst the soaring unemployment in Iraq, the gravediggers have been busy. So busy that officials have no record of the number of graves dug; of the real death toll, that is.
Jamail: Iraq Elections Could Be a Telling Signpost
Znet Article, February, 01 2009
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
After strong polling for the provincial elections Saturday, Iraqis are looking out for new signposts of political recovery from the U.S.-led invasion and occupation.
Jamail: Tentative Hope Rises Ahead of Elections
Znet Article, January, 29 2009
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
Uncertainty and tension are running high in Baghdad ahead of the provincial election due Jan. 31. But this time fears are also touched by a new hope.
Jamail: The Monstrosity of War
Znet Article, January, 07 2009
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
Agence France-Presse reports that the first person killed when the Israeli military began to enter Gaza on Saturday was a Palestinian child...
Jamail: As Usual, the NYT Ignores Iraqi Opinion; Anecdotes trump polls on withdrawal
Znet Article, December, 19 2008
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
The New York Times failed spectacularly in its coverage of Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction, helping lead the country into war and only much later publishing a half-hearted mea culpa...
Jamail: Iraq War Vets Transforming Trauma
Znet Article, September, 21 2008
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
By using the written word and art, veterans of the U.S. occupation of Iraq are transforming their trauma into a message of both healing and resistance to the failed U.S. adventure.
Jamail: "We Blew Her to Pieces"
Znet Article, September, 18 2008
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
Aside from the Iraqi people, nobody knows what the U.S. military is doing in Iraq better than the soldiers themselves. A new book gives readers vivid and detailed accounts of the devastation the U.S. occupation has brought to Iraq, in the soldiers...
Jamail: The Tale Of A Palestinian Journalist
Znet Article, July, 08 2008
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
Muhammad Omer and I jointly received the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in London on 16 June (1). Omer is a 24-year-old Palestinian with whom I feel honoured to have shared this award, as I told the audience at the prize-giving ceremony. His...
Jamail: He Lacks Privilege
Znet Article, July, 04 2008
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
The torture of Mohammed Omer by Israeli security forces
Al-fadhily: Corruption Eats Into Food Rations
Znet Article, May, 08 2008
Ali Al-fadhily
Al-fadhily's ZSpace page
Iraqis survived the sanctions after the first Gulf War (1990) with the support of rations through the Public Distribution System (PDS). The aid was set up in 1995 as part of the UN's Oil-for-Food programme.
Jamail: Mccain, Obama And Clinton Silent On Iraq Exit
Znet Article, May, 06 2008
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
As soon as it was clear that the presidential primaries would be the news story of the year in the US, Iraq was dropped by the media. The occupation and the campaign for the presidential nominations were de-linked almost from the start. So we don'...
Al-nazzal: Poverty Gets the Survivors
Znet Article, April, 26 2008
Maki Al-nazzal
Al-nazzal's ZSpace page
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates there are 1.5 million Iraqis in Syria. But the economy of Syria itself is struggling under U.S. sanctions...
Jamail: Iraq Has Only Militants, No Civilians
Znet Article, April, 24 2008
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
From the beginning of the American occupation in Iraq, air strikes and attacks by the U.S. military have only killed "militants," "criminals," "suspected insurgents," "IED [Improvised Explosive Device] emplacers," "anti-American fighters," "terror...
Jamail: Iraq: Five Years, And Counting
Znet Article, March, 18 2008
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
Devastation on the ground and largely held Iraqi opinion contradicts claims by U.S. officials that the situation in Iraq has improved towards the fifth anniversary of the invasion Mar. 20.
Jamail: Surviving Somehow Behind a Concrete Purdah
Znet Article, March, 07 2008
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
Iraq, where women once had more rights and freedom than most others in the Arab world, has turned deadly for women who dream of education and a professional career.
Jamail: "Reality Is Totally Different"
Znet Article, January, 28 2008
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
Accounts of "progress" and the lack thereof in Iraq from some Iraqis themselves.
Jamail: The Myth of Sectarian Violence in Iraq
Znet Article, January, 09 2008
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
If the U.S. leaves Iraq, the violent sectarianism between the Sunni and Shia will worsen. This is what Republicans and Democrats alike will have us believe. This key piece of rhetoric is used to justify the continuance of the occupation of Iraq.
Jamail: 2007 Was Worst Year of Iraq Occupation
Znet Article, January, 07 2008
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
Despite all the claims of improvements, 2007 has been the worst year yet in Iraq.
Jamail: A Slap in the Face for Iraq's Parliament
Znet Article, January, 06 2008
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
The end of 2007 produced a telltale indication of what the New Year seems likely to bring to Iraq. "We the Iraqi members of Parliament signing below demand a timetable for withdrawal of the occupation forces [MNF] from our beloved Iraq," 144 membe...
