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Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Jamail: Living Under the Bombs

Znet Article, February, 02 2005 Dahr Jamail
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Living Under the Bombs

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Jamail: Some Just Voted for Food

Znet Article, January, 31 2005 Dahr Jamail
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Some Just Voted for Food

Znet Article 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. ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Jamail: Vote Where, How, and for Whom?

Znet Article, January, 26 2005 Dahr Jamail
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Vote Where, How, and for Whom?

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Jamail: The Tsunami of Iraq

Znet Article, January, 16 2005 Dahr Jamail
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The morgues at the hospitals of Baghdad are filling to capacity. At Yarmouk Hospital in central Baghdad, the three freezers reek of decaying bodies, despite the temperature. The smell rushes out at us as the doors are opened. I’ve smelled...

Znet Article Jamail: Baghdad, As Usual

Znet Article, January, 10 2005 Dahr Jamail
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The usual spiral descent in the airplane landed me into a grey day in Baghdad…the weather the same as when I left a few weeks ago. The usual hordes of ‘Global’ mercenaries crowded the airport…where a person isnâS...

Znet Article Jamail: U.S. Military Families Bring Help

Znet Article, January, 08 2005 Dahr Jamail
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AMMAN, Jan 7 (IPS) - Families of some U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq plan a strong protest to mark the second anniversary of the invasion. The group 'Military Families Speak Out' will hold a demonstration in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in the Unit...

Znet Article Jamail: Iraq: The Devastation

Znet Article, January, 07 2005 Dahr Jamail
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Iraq: The Devastation

Znet Article Jamail: Iraq: The Devastation

Znet Article, January, 07 2005 Dahr Jamail
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Iraq: The Devastation

Znet Article Jamail: Living in Garbage

Znet Article, December, 26 2004 Dahr Jamail
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The dump is a dusty wasteland. Heaps of Baghdad’s rotting wastes are strewn about several square miles of the battered capital city. Engaged in their futile battle to remove the endless amounts of garbage from streets, blue garbage trucks ...

Znet Article Jamail: Respite

Znet Article, December, 15 2004 Dahr Jamail
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December 11-13, 2004 11 Dec. "My list is now 32," says Salam as he arrives at the hotel, "Now 32 of my friends have been killed." He still has tears in his eyes, even though he's being stoic. Another of his friends has been shot and killed. ...

Znet Article Jamail: Iraq's Reality

Znet Article, December, 13 2004 Dahr Jamail
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Charles Shaw: How long have you been reporting on Iraq, and what brought you there? Dahr Jamail:  I have spent 6 of the last 12 months in Iraq. As I mentioned, what brought me here was the nearly total failure of the US 'mainstream' media to show...

Znet Article Jamail: Health Care Given A 'New Look'

Znet Article, December, 07 2004 Dahr Jamail
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BAGHDAD, Dec 7 (IPS) - The Baghdad Medical City has begun to look nice in its new coat of paint. It does not look that nice to Dr Hammad Hussein, ophthalmology resident at the centre. ”I have not seen anything which indicates any rebuildi...

Znet Article Jamail: Trophy Hunting?

Znet Article, December, 05 2004 Dahr Jamail
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Yesterday, before the usual morning gunfire in the streets which has become my morning alarm clock, Abu Talat phones me. There is very heavy fighting over in al-Adhamiya. Two giant explosions occurred around 6:15am, followed by mortar blasts, then...

Znet Article Jamail: Quiet of Destruction

Znet Article, December, 03 2004 Dahr Jamail
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It's a late morning start today...as I'm waiting for Abu Talat, who calls to tell me he is snarled in traffic and will be late once again, huge explosions shake my hotel. Shortly thereafter mortars are exploding in the "green zone" as the loud war...

Znet Article Jamail: The Refugees of Fallujah

Znet Article, December, 03 2004 Dahr Jamail
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*Journalists and residents who have fled Fallujah share accounts of US troops killing unarmed and wounded people; Dahr Jamail continues interviewing survivors as images of a city under US assault further emerge.* Baghdad , Dec 3 - Men now seekin...

Znet Article Jamail: Neglect Follows Siege of Fallujah

Znet Article, December, 01 2004 Dahr Jamail
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BAGHDAD, Nov 30 (IPS) - The Iraqi ministry of health is failing to provide enough support to hundreds of thousands who fled Fallujah. Doctors in Baghdad are perplexed why there has been little or no assistance from the health ministry to resident...

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