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Interview: Major Upswing in Iraq Violence
US soldiers have been dying in larger numbers, one per day for the past five days. There had been thirty five bombings in Baghdad alone during the month of April, by the time we phoned Jamail April 27th.
Hundreds of civilians have been killed, hundreds more wounded, and there is no end in sight. Does this mean the Obama administration will change withdrawal plans? The administration confirmed US combat troops will leave Iraq by August of 2010.
Could the government of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki survive without the US occupation to prop it up?
We’ll discuss these questions and more with Dahr Jamail, author of ‘Beyond the Green Zone, Dispatches from an unembedded journalist in occupied Iraq’.
Iraqi Doctors in Hiding
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. Dahr Jamail and Jason Coppola speak with doctors in a Baghdad hospital about life during war and occupation.
Scott Horton Interviews Dahr Jamail
Dahr Jamail, writer for Foreign Policy in Focus, discusses the Iraqi government’s unwillingness to incorporate Sunni “Awakening Councils” into the regular army, the walled-off autonomous conclaves within Baghdad, the decimation of Iraq’s health care system and forty years of U.S. meddling in Iraqi affairs.
Fisherman on Tigris River
A fisherman in Baghdad speaks to Dahr Jamail and Jason Coppola in the shadow of the massive new US embassy on the Tigris River about life during occupation.
Dahr on SiriusXM, Reporting from Iraq
Dahr corresponds by phone from Baghdad, explaining the current state of affairs in Iraq, and what has changed since over the years, with satellite radio talk show host Pete Dominick.
Dahr on Antiwar Radio
From the Antiwar.com intro: Dahr Jamail discusses the Winter Soldier testimonies, the critical dehumanization process in waging war, the intentional tactics the military uses to foment these views, the complete black-out of the Winter Soldier testimonies by the U.S. corporate media, “drop-weapons” used by soldiers to frame dead civilians as enemies in Iraq, lies told by recruiters to brainwash young soldiers, the lie of the success of the “surge” in a much more fragmented political situation in Iraq and the horrific situations soldiers deal with everyday in Iraq.
Dahr Featured on Al Jazeera English
Dahr, along with other independent journalists, talks about getting the story out in spite of mainstream media blackouts and negligence.
Dahr Receives Martha Gelhorn Award for Journalism
Dahr Jamail Interviewed by TruthOut.org
Matt Renner of Truthout.org asks Dahr about some of the untold stories of the Iraq war, including the hidden (by the US media) ramifications of the so-called “surge” strategy and the backstory to the brutal 2004 sieges of Fallujah. Dahr also discusses the personal impact and choices related to being an “unembedded” correspondent reporting from a US-occupied war zone.
Dahr Jamail with Raed Jarrar on Democracy Now!
Dahr Jamail and Iraqi analyst Raed Jarrar interviewed by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! in response to President Bush’s 2008 State of the Union address. Topics include life on the ground in Iraq today, the appearance of US policy changes toward Iraq, and the much-touted “surge” — including analysis of the US’s new Sunni “allies” in Al-Anbar province.
