Correspondent Dahr Jamail reports from Baghdad
Abu Talat picks me up at my hotel and were off through the uncharacteristically empty streets of central Baghdad en route to the airport. Its early enough that we drive with the windows down rather than running the air conditioner,...
How much worse does it need to get here before the occupiers consider changing their policy? One hundred dead every day? In light of what happened here yesterday, it appears as though were heading in that direction. For those of...
Ask Dahr: 7 Questions and Answers with Dahr Jamail
The other night, I sent Dahr Jamail a batch of seven questions, culled from the first several dozen emails his readers sent in response to my recent appeal for letters. I sent the originals along as well. Dahr is reading...
Mohammed works at our hotel. He just came up to deliver our laundry. When we asked how he was doing, he took off his sunglasses to show us a black eye. Not so good, he said....
I revisited Chuwader General Hospital in Sadr City yesterday. Unlike at Yarmouk Hospital, the manager at Chuwader was very open about the desperate plight facing his hospital, where 78 doctors work with desperate medicine and equipment shortages to serve an...
The evening of the 21st found me at a CPA-approved demonstration of Shia men in support of the recent US airstrike of Fallujah. Remember, demonstrations in Iraq now must obtain permission from the CPA, otherwise risk being broken up by...
On May 4, we published a story about Sadiq Zoman, an Iraqi who US troops abducted from his home in Kirkuk and, one month later, dropped off at a Tikrit hospital in a "persistent vegetative state," his body exhibiting telltale...
The floor of my hotel rumbled as yet another bomb detonated in central Baghdad at 8:55 am today. My colleague down the hall showed up and asked, Did you feel that? I responded, Yeah, Abu Talat is scheduled to show...
No weblog entry today, but we have a couple of exciting ideas in the works with regard to The NewStandard's Iraq coverage. First, something we've been wanting to do for a while and can't wait on any longer: Dahr Jamail...
Dr. Faiq Amin, the manager of the Medico Legal Institute (ie, the Baghdad morgue), told me a couple of days ago that their maximum holding capacity is 90 bodies. Since Janurary an average of over 600 bodies each month have...
I havent slept very well the last couple of nights, as the growing anxiety of car bombs has me waking at the smallest noises outside my window nowadays. Dave was typing on his computer as I walk past him to...
NewStandard Article: "Americans, Iraqis Vie for Control of Security Forces"
We've posted another hard news article by Dahr Jamail: The Iraqi Police and Civil Defense Corps find their work hampered by US authorities, but signs emerge that greater independence for local security forces means greater control by the growing resistance......
Several of us are sitting in the hotel room having lunch, watching the news trying to keep up with the violence daily engulfing Iraq. Let me give you a quick rundown from the last 24 hours....
The student is gone; the master has arrived.
This became a very popular saying in Iraq after the US ousted Saddam Hussein. The situation continues to degrade in occupied Iraq. I know Im beginning to sound like a broken record... but the need to describe life on the...
While a restful experience, driving around the mountains and green fields of Kurdistan did not provide the complete escape from the troubles of Iraq for which we had hoped....