February 2003 Iraq. More than 300 people arrived in Baghdad to try to stop the war. They went there as human shields, placing themselves in strategic spots to prevent them from being bombed, but negotiations with Saddam Hussein’s regime did not turn out as they had hoped they would. A human shield diary shows the great disparities between a people’s movement and a dictatorial regime.
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Six years into a disatrous war in Iraq, stories have emerged about a staggeringly incompetent pre-war intellegence effeor that got nearly everything wrong...but the truth is much more troubling.
Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill's exclusive report on the last man standing between Blackwater and impunity for the mercenary company's role in the massacre of Iraqi civilians in Nisur Square, Iraq.
Moqtada al Sadr and his militia, the Mehdi Army, have been America's most intractable opponents in Iraq. For five years, they have controlled large sections of the country - including half of Baghdad, defied attempts to marginalize them politically, fought pitched battles with the US Marines and only grown in size and influence. But in the Spring of 2008, the Iraqi and U.S. military launched surprising attacks against Sadr strongholds in Basra and Baghdad. After a few weeks of stiff resistance, cease-fires were negotiated and the Mehdi Army melted away from the street.
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