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Znet Article Jamail: Fleeing Lebanese Speak of Indiscriminate Bombing

Znet Article, July, 17 2006 Dahr Jamail
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ADDABBAOUSIYEH (northern Lebanese border. The bombing has killed more than 100 Lebanese civilians so far. Several border points between Syria and Lebanon are being deluged with refugees. Lebanon has a long border with Syria towards its south, eas...

Znet Article Jamail: IRAQ: Residents Struggle to Survive, In and Out of Ramadi

Znet Article, June, 23 2006 Dahr Jamail
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RAMADI, Jun 19 (IPS) - As the threat of a giant U.S. military operation in Ramadi lingers and sporadic clashes plague the city daily, residents struggle to cope, both inside and outside the sealed city. A week spent in Ramadi, the capital of Anba...

Znet Article Jamail: IRAQ: Residents Struggle to Survive, In and Out of Ramadi

Znet Article, June, 23 2006 Dahr Jamail
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RAMADI, Jun 19 (IPS) - As the threat of a giant U.S. military operation in Ramadi lingers and sporadic clashes plague the city daily, residents struggle to cope, both inside and outside the sealed city. A week spent in Ramadi, the capital of Anba...

Znet Article Jamail: Deeper Into the Quagmire

Znet Article, June, 22 2006 Dahr Jamail
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On Tuesday, June 13th, while Mr. Bush spent a brave five hours in the "green zone" of Baghdad with puppet Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, at least 36 people were killed across Iraq amidst a wave of bombings. 18 of those died in a spasm of bom...

Znet Article Jamail: Residents Struggle to Survive, In and Out of Ramadi

Znet Article, June, 21 2006 Dahr Jamail
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*RAMADI, Jun 19 (IPS) - As the threat of a giant U.S. military operation in Ramadi lingers and sporadic clashes plague the city daily, residents struggle to cope, both inside and outside the sealed city.* A week spent in Ramadi, the capital of An...

Znet Article Jamail: Ramadi: Fallujah Redux

Znet Article, June, 15 2006 Dahr Jamail
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Fearful residents are now pouring out of Ramadi after the US military has been assaulting the city for months with tactics like cutting water, electricity and medical aid, imposing curfews, and attacking by means of snipers and random air strikes....

Znet Article Jamail: Cherishing Children

Znet Article, May, 24 2006 Dahr Jamail
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Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.                             - Joan Ganz Cooney If, as I would like to believe, the above quote suggests all children and not merely those born in Western democracies, I am no longer certai...

Znet Article Jamail: Baghdad Morgue Overflowing Daily

Znet Article, April, 15 2006 Dahr Jamail
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BAGHDAD, Apr 14 (IPS) - As sectarian killings continue to rise in Iraq, the central morgue in Baghdad is unable to keep up with the daily influx of bodies. * The morgue is receiving a minimum of 60 bodies a day and sometimes more than 100, a morg...

Znet Article Jamail: Iraq: Permanent US Colony

Znet Article, March, 17 2006 Dahr Jamail
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Why does the Bush Administration refuse to discuss withdrawing occupation forces from Iraq? Why is Halliburton, who landed the no-bid contracts to construct and maintain US military bases in Iraq, posting higher profits than ever before in its 86-...

Znet Article Jamail: See Dick Loot

Znet Article, March, 09 2006 Dahr Jamail
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See Dick Loot Halliburton and its subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) have been making hay in the burning Iraqi sun for years now. It is, of course, no coincidence that the man sitting as vice president played a key role with his influence i...

Znet Article Jamail: Tracing the Trail of Torture

Znet Article, March, 05 2006 Dahr Jamail
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Tracing the Trail of Torture

Znet Article Jamail: Al-Jazeera Succeeding Under Pressure

Znet Article, February, 05 2006 Dahr Jamail
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Al-Jazeera Succeeding Under Pressure

Znet Article Jamail: An Increasingly Aerial Occupation

Znet Article, December, 14 2005 Dahr Jamail
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An Increasingly Aerial Occupation

Znet Article Jamail: CPT

Znet Article, November, 30 2005 Dahr Jamail
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Four members of the Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) in Baghdad have been abducted and taken hostage recently. This event is horribly dismaying for me, as I’ve known embers of CPT since before I ever ventured to Iraq. Back in November of 2...

Znet Article Jamail: Hospitals Under Siege

Znet Article, November, 30 2005 Dahr Jamail
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RAMADI, Nov 29 (IPS) - Hospital personnel are reporting regular raids and interference by the U.S. military as fighting continues in the volatile Al-Anbar province of Iraq.* The U.S. raids come as the hospitals face increasing lack of vital suppl...

Znet Article Jamail: Life Goes On in Fallujah's Rubble

Znet Article, November, 24 2005 Dahr Jamail
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SAN FRANCISCO, California, Nov 23 (IPS) - A year after the U.S.-led "Operation Phantom Fury" damaged or destroyed 36,000 homes, 60 schools and 65 mosques in Fallujah, Iraq, residents inside the city continue to suffer from lack of compensation, sl...

Znet Article Jamail: Elections and other Deceptions in Iraq

Znet Article, October, 18 2005 Dahr Jamail
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Just before Saturday's so-called constitutional referendum vote in occupied Iraq, one of my close friends in Baghdad wrote me, "I would like to point out that we are three days away from the referendum, yet very large sectors of Iraqi people could...

Znet Article Jamail: More Dissent, More Censorship

Znet Article, September, 28 2005 Dahr Jamail
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A quarter of a million people jammed the streets of the capital this past weekend, as Mr. Bush conveniently found himself visiting the US Northern Command's HQ in Colorado Springs. While veterans from the current debacle in Iraq and scores of mil...

Znet Article Jamail: Warring on Voters

Znet Article, September, 17 2005 Dahr Jamail
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For the last several days at least 6,000 US soldiers along with approximately 4,000 Iraqi soldiers (Read-members of the Kurdish Peshmerga and Shia Badr Army) were laying siege to the city of Tal-Afar, near Mosul in northern Iraq. It is estimated t...

Znet Article Jamail: The Zarqawi Phenomenon

Znet Article, July, 05 2005 Dahr Jamail
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A remarkable proportion of the violence taking place in Iraq is regularly credited to the Jordanian Ahmad al-Khalayleh, better known as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and his organization Al Qaeda in Iraq. Sometimes it seems no car bomb goes off, no ambush...

Znet Article Jamail: More Evidence Indicts U.S.

Znet Article, June, 28 2005 Dahr Jamail
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ISTANBUL, Jun 27 (IPS) - New evidence on U.S. war crimes and violations of international law was presented at the concluding session of the World Tribunal on Iraq at hearings in Istanbul Sunday. The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) is a 'peoples' cou...

Znet Article Jamail: World Tribunal for Iraq

Znet Article, June, 27 2005 Dahr Jamail
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Istanbul, Turkey Thank you very much for inviting me to the Culminating Session of the World Tribunal on Iraq. I first went to Iraq in November of 2003 as an American citizen both frustrated and horrified by what my unelected government was doi...

Znet Article Jamail: Censorship

Znet Article, June, 24 2005 Dahr Jamail
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At long last, the culminating session of the World Tribunal on Iraq is upon us. As a witness providing testimony, like the other witnesses I’m being interviewed by many outlets. Today, one of them was by reporters for one of the larger new...

Znet Article Jamail: State Sponsored Civil War

Znet Article, June, 14 2005 Dahr Jamail
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Yesterday at a conference in Baghdad, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, a prominent Shia leader who is also the head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq announced, "In gratitude to the efforts, sacrifices and heroic positions of our broth...

Znet Article Jamail: Who Cares?

Znet Article, June, 09 2005 Dahr Jamail
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Suicide bombers unleashed another day of hell across Iraq today, killing at least 18 and wounding over 67. Four of them struck Iraqi Security forces, along with US military convoys around Baghdad. Despite the huge US-backed Iraqi security operati...

Znet Article Jamail: Desperate for Work, Blind to Dangers

Znet Article, June, 08 2005 Dahr Jamail
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AMMAN, Jun 7 (IPS) - Ahlam Najam just needed a job. At 25, she had a university degree in education but could not find work as teacher. When Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR), subsidiary of the U.S. firm Halliburton offered her a job as a security gua...

Znet Article Jamail: Death and Humiliation

Znet Article, May, 31 2005 Dahr Jamail
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"Iraq Dispatches" The mayhem continues in Iraq, with today at least 40 people dead, including five US soldiers in Diyala province as the meltdown of the failed US-led occupation continues. Two suicide bombers detonated themselves after walking in...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

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