Betrayed in Iraq

Submitted by jimstaro on March 30, 2009 - 16:16

Originally posted 2009-03-30 10:34:19 -0500, bumped by carol

March 30, 2009

 

Leila Fadel: Leaders of Awakening Councils are arrested, tortured and killed by Iraq government

 

 

Leila Fadel, Baghdad Bureau Chief of McClatchy Newspapers speaks to Paul Jay about the recent escalation in violence in Iraq's capital. She says the former fighters termed the "Sons of Iraq" who have turned on Al Qaeda and joined the U.S. are now being persecuted by the Iraq government. She says the Maliki government is afraid of the power they've accumulated in the neighborhoods they were put to protect by the U.S. and many are now in exile or in hiding.

 

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jimstaro

March 30, 2009 - 11:42

Could what was dampened, the needed spark, match, be dry enough to restart the death and destruction that never really stopped??

 

 

 

"The wise man points to the stars and the fool sees only the finger - and discusses it 24/7 on cable."

jimstaro

March 30, 2009 - 20:11

Targeted by the Taliban, the 'Three Cups of Tea' Author Never Gave Up on His Peacebuilding Efforts

 

The ABC Video Report

 

His Book: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time (Paperback)

 

How Peace Is Won!! The Hearts and Minds Understand, That's Universal!!!

 

"The wise man points to the stars and the fool sees only the finger - and discusses it 24/7 on cable."

jimstaro

March 30, 2009 - 20:24

Seymour Hersh: Obama To Spotlight Syria

Seymour Hersh reports that a major change in American policy toward Syria is underway. As Hersh explains in his April 6 article for The New Yorker, "Syria Calling," the Obama administration is considering mediating talks between Israel and Syria

Brings up the NPR Player to listen

"The wise man points to the stars and the fool sees only the finger - and discusses it 24/7 on cable."

carol white

March 31, 2009 - 16:56

New Yorker, Annals of National Security, Syria Calling.

carol

jimstaro

March 31, 2009 - 09:39

Is calm in Iraq just the eye of the storm?

 

"Are my people aware of what's happening to me?

"Ask the river, does it still remember me?

"And the people, do they still hold their noses high?

"Are they sleeping in comfort and in peace?

"With an unembarrassed smile upon their lips,

"Tell them I am a hostage to humiliation."

&Mdash; Abu Izzuddin, a recently released Iraqi detainee

GARMA, Iraq — Mohammed walked in disbelief through the rich green grass that carpets the farm behind his modest family home. For more than three years, he'd seen no green, no hanging branches in the orchards near his home in Garma, in Anbar province in western Iraq.

 

"The wise man points to the stars and the fool sees only the finger - and discusses it 24/7 on cable."