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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…
Dahr Jamail
Dahr Jamail is the Baghdad correspondent for The NewStandard. Jamail, a political activist from Anchorage, Alaska, first traveled to Iraq in November 2003 to write about the effects of the US occupation on the Iraqi people. After nine weeks covering Iraq under occupation, he returned to the US and addressed audiences in Alaska and the Northeast about his experience. He has recently returned to Iraq in order to continue reporting on US occupation and privatization. You can view his dispatches and articles at http://newstandardnews.net/iraq.
Yesterday, before the usual morning gunfire in the streets which has become my morning alarm clock, Abu Talat phones me. There is…
*Journalists and residents who have fled Fallujah share accounts of US troops killing unarmed and wounded people; Dahr Jamail continues interviewing survivors…
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…
Abut Talat and I, snarled in the horrendous daily traffic of Baghdad, decide to laugh about it. “Maybe we should consider a…
BAGHDAD, Nov 30 (IPS) – The Iraqi ministry of health is failing to provide enough support to hundreds of thousands who fled…
I’m in need of a haircut, so I ask Abu Talat if he thinks it would be safe to get one here,…
BAGHDAD, Nov 26 (IPS) – The U.S. military has used poison gas and other non-conventional weapons against civilians in Fallujah, eyewitnesses report.…
“Doctors in Fallujah are reporting there are patients in the hospital there who were forced out by the Americans,†said Mehdi Abdulla,…
BAGHDAD, Nov 23 (IPS) – The prime minister is following in the footsteps of the last president. The rule of Ayad Allawi,…