A series of very short video vignettes (2-3 minutes) that provide glimpses of what everyday life is like for a middle class family in Baghdad. The males in the family are the main focus; one of the videos not included here features their mother. There is a dedicated website:
Meanwhile, in Fallujah, sometime co-writer with Dahr Jamail Ali al-Fadhily has a rather unsettling and disturbing article based on testimony from many residents in the al-Anbar province west of Baghdad. He reports that Iraqis here are reporting regular killings carried out by U.S. forces that many see as part of a ‘genocidal’ strategy (IPS, 30 march 2007):
Since the mysterious explosion at the Shia al-Askari shrine in Samara in February last year, more than 100 Iraqis have been killed daily on average, without any forceful action by the Iraqi government and the U.S. military to stop the killings. U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces working with them are also executing people seized during home raids and other operations, residents say.
Also see:
* Mike Davis, Have the Car-bombers Already Defeated the Surge?: The Weapon No One Can Stop, TomDispatch (27 March 2007)
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* Juan Cole: Top Ten Myths About Iraq 2006
* Who wants a civil war in Iraq?
* Information Warfare, Psy-ops and the Power of Myth
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