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Dahr Jamail
A freelance journalist reporting from Iraq who, being an Iraqi himself, often has free access to areas and situations avoided by Western journalists
By Dahr Jamail on January 12, 2012
Prior to the US-led invasion, the Bush administration promised the war would bring Iraqis a better life. That promise has yet to be fulfilled as clean water, reliable power and basic daily essentials are still in short supply
Posted in Iraq |
By Dahr Jamail on April 9, 2011
Fears grow that Japan’s ongoing nuclear disaster may be worse than Chernobyl
Posted in Current Affairs, Fukushima |
By Dahr Jamail on October 31, 2007
Iraq war veterans now stationed at a base here in upstate New York say that morale among US soldiers in the country is so poor, many are simply parking their Humvees and pretending to be on patrol, a practice dubbed “search and avoid” missions
Posted in Iraq
By Dahr Jamail on March 4, 2007
The Iraqi coalition authorities have found a new way to combat insurgents: by targeting Iraqi women
Posted in Iraq
By Dahr Jamail on February 1, 2007
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reports that 100,000 Iraqis are fleeing the country every month, with many heading toward Jordan. Now, however things are changing
Posted in Iraq
By Dahr Jamail on January 11, 2007
Stressed and overstretched US soldiers appear to be punishing Iraqi civilians while suffering from some form of post-traumatic stress disorder
Posted in Iraq
By Dahr Jamail on December 25, 2006
According to a survey conducted by US and Iraqi doctors published in the Lancet Medical Journal Oct. 11 this year, 654,965 Iraqis, or 2.5 percent of the entire population of the country, have died as a result of the U.S.-led invasion and occupation
Posted in Iraq
By Dahr Jamail on December 20, 2006
Two in three children in Iraq have simply stopped going to school, according to a government report
Posted in Iraq
By Dahr Jamail on November 5, 2006
“We are back to point zero,” a senior officer in the Ministry of Interior told IPS. “Our forces are either loyal to militias and political parties or too powerless to do their duties”
Posted in Iraq
By Dahr Jamail on October 23, 2006
Having been given free rein by Coalition forces, who allow them to travel unhindered during curfew hours, death squads from the Ministry of Interior posing as Iraqi police are killing more people than ever in the capital
Posted in Iraq
By Dahr Jamail on September 20, 2006
Destroying infrastructure and cutting water and power “for days and even weeks is routine reaction to the resistance”, one resident said of the US occupation of Ramadi. It also happens to be exactly what the Israelis are doing in the Gaza and West Bank
Posted in Iraq
By Dahr Jamail on August 11, 2006
Dahr Jamail reflects on the city that was once known as the ‘Paris of the Orient’ but now resembles Stalingrad at the height of WWII
Posted in Current Affairs
By Dahr Jamail on June 2, 2006
The current media coverage over the massacre in Haditha misses the point entirely, writes Dahr Jamail. Just like Abu Ghraib, while the media spotlight shines squarely on the Haditha massacre, countless other atrocities continue almost daily
Posted in Iraq
By Dahr Jamail on April 7, 2006
“It amazes me that so many people in the US today somehow seriously believe that American soldiers would never kill civilians”, writes Dahr Jamail. As he recounts a few incidents that illustrate that this has now become a day-to-day event in Iraq
Posted in Iraq
By Dahr Jamail on March 31, 2006
A disturbing trend noticeable in Iraq for quite some time now is that each aggressive Israeli military operation in the occupied territories results in a corresponding increase in the number of attacks on US forces in Iraq. One of the first instances of this was the assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in March [...]
Posted in Iraq
By Dahr Jamail on March 24, 2006
The latest US military push in Iraq, Operation Swarmer, is more of a media blitz than a military campaign: a photo op intended to sell a horrendously failed misadventure, writes Dahr Jamail
Posted in Iraq
By Dahr Jamail on August 10, 2005
Dahr Jamail attends a Veterans for Peace National Convention in Dallas where he finds combat veterans recently returned from Iraq, seething with resentment and remorse
Posted in Iraq
By Dahr Jamail on July 6, 2005
Disturbing evidence is emerging of how the US occupation forces are targeting medical workers, writes Dahr Jamail
Posted in Iraq
By Dahr Jamail on July 1, 2005
Dahr Jamail on how reporting the truth about events in Iraq inevitably means having to face censorship
Posted in Iraq
By Dahr Jamail on July 1, 2005
Eyewitness account from ‘unembedded’ reporter Dahr Jamail in Baghdad
Posted in Iraq