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Baghdad Reporter Posts Youtube Video
Greatscat! —
Part One: US claims that the military surge is bringing stability to Iraq. By travelling through the heart of Baghdad its easy to see by enclosing the Sunni and Shia populations behind 12ft walls, the surge has left the city more divided and desperate than ever. Part Two: One Baghdad's killings fields on the edge of Sadr City. The scene of thousands of sectarian murders over the last three years, it is a desolate and evil place: 'Only the killers and the killed ever come here' says Abdul-Ahad. Here in the thousands of unmarked graves lie the victims of militia gangs. Video by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad. Part Three: An orphanage in Sadr city, where children speak of their hatred of ...
The surge is working? Hardly.
Crooks and Liars —
A Guardian journalist returns home to Iraq to find that far from what we hear in the US, the surge has produced nothing approaching normalcy or peace, but rather ghettos seething with violence, with nothing but makeshift walls dividing the increasingly hostile warring factions. ...
Surge success illustrated
Newshoggers.com —
By Libby
This post at Crooks & Liars didn't receive nearly enough attention. A Guardian journalist, who is a native Iraqi, returns to Baghdad to video the scenes the elite media can't show us because they would be killed if they tried to get the footage. Watch it in full. It's under 15 minutes long in total. This is what "the success" of ...
Behind the walls of Baghdad
The Reaction —
By Libby Spencer Crooks & Liars posts a video series that takes us to the streets in Baghdad where the elite media are unable to go for fear of being shot on sight. A Guardian journalist, who is also a native Iraqi, returns to his home and finds the 'success' of the surge is not what it's cracked up to be. Watch it in full. It's under 15 minutes long in total. Part Two: The Killing Fields. Part Three: The Lost Generation. Horrifying. It looks more like a living hell than peace and normalcy ...
