Blogs about Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
2007-11-05 21:07 The Iraq war has become a disaster that we have chosen to forget
By Madeleine Bunting (THE GUARDIAN, 05/11/07): "You think you are innocent, but you're not," said the British Muslim suicide bomber in the Channel 4 television drama Britz last week. As the compelling actor Manjinder Virk recited her suicide statement to camera, she went on: thousands of women and children are dying every day in Iraq and Afghanistan, and yet the governments responsible have been returned to power.Her assertion sticks in the mind because it goes straight to the heart of how we ch …
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2007-07-29 16:42 PBS FRONTLINE: THE INSURGENCY 3 OF 3
PBS FRONTLINE: THE INSURGENCY PART 3 OF 3 How will these points of friction affect the future of the insurgency "Zarqawi remains a force to be reckoned with," says Michael Ware. "However, through the attrition of war, he has lost men, materiel and leaders. Some of that personnel and that leadership has been replaced with Iraqis where once there had been foreigners. That has brought about at first subtle, now much more tangible changes." One tangible change was the insurgent response to recent na …
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2007-07-29 16:20 PBS FRONTLINE: THE INSURGENCY 2 OF 3
PBS FRONTLINE: THE INSURGENCY PART 2 OF 3 Baathist loyalists who had fought for Saddam made up the initial resistance to coalition forces. "Before, I carried my weapon as an officer in the Iraqi army against the Americans," says Abu Mohammed, a senior leader within the Iraqi nationalist branch of the insurgency. "So it is natural I would fight the Americans now. The resistance is a natural reaction to any occupation." Slowly, however, Baathist groups ran low on funding. This provided an opening …
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2007-06-24 03:26 'Tiny alleyways and streets and houses'
Two reporters debate the future of Iraq. It is a bleak picture, as the following excerpt shows. Ghaith Abdul Ahad : 'In Baghdad, in 2003 or 2004, it was kind of impossible to say that's a Sunni or that's a Shia neighbourhood.' Rajiv Chandrasekaran : 'Or even that's a Sunni or that's a Shia person. Nobody identified themselves as that. You'd ask any man on the street "Who are you" They would say first, "I'm an Iraqi"; then he'd say his tribe; and finally, maybe on the third or fourth try, they mi …
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2007-06-23 01:14 Partition may be the only solution
Award-winning reporters Ghaith Abdul Ahad and Rajiv Chandrasekaran discuss how the Iraq conflict has unfolded - and what the future holds.
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2007-06-15 19:01 M.H.Z.'s Great Expectations
In the past I have written about the different perspectives that one finds among the Iraqi bloggers in their chronicles of or reflections on the 2003 invasion and the subsequent fall of Saddam Hussein's regime (" War and its Discontents "). Now M.H.Z., a young Iraqi blogger from Baghdad but currently living in Erbil, has added his account of those days in Baghdad in his latest blog entry, Iraqi history, the one I lived so far ." M.H.Z. first explains what it was like to grow up in Saddam-era Bag …
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2007-06-11 00:35 Let's Catch a Wave!
Since Shaqawa and Mohammed (Last of Iraqis) have started blogging in the last few months, I've been wondering whether they belong to the third or perhaps the fourth wave of Iraqi bloggers. Konfused Kid suggested that we order them by year of appearance and that seems reasonable to me. 2002 Salam Pax -- September, 2002. 2003 Ghaith Abdul-Ahad -- June, 2003. Nawar (Ishtar Talking) -- July, 2003. Riverbend -- August, 2003. Zeyad -- October, 2003. Kurdo -- October, 2003. Fayrouz -- October, 2003. Ih …
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2007-06-09 03:35 Oil Smuggling in Iraq
At last! Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is back with his second dispatch from southern Iraq. In this report he investigates how clans and militias are making money hand over fist by smuggling oil out of Basra: "The Ashur smuggle oil. For years under Saddam Hussein, they worked as mere guards at Abu Flus terminal at the mouth of the Gulf. But as the state collapsed after the invasion in 2003 and economic anarchy set in, they took over the port and became the quasi-official authority there. Never have the fami …
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2007-05-21 11:22 Iraqi Bloggers Central: Three-Year Anniversary!
Along with everyone else here, I had followed the leadup to the war in Iraq and then the invasion that began in March, 2003. Over the summer and into the fall of that year, I began to read, on a daily basis, the writing of a small group of bloggers from Iraq, the first two being architecture students, Salam Pax and Ghaith Abdul-Ahad. By May of 2004, when I began blogging here, there were about fifteen Iraqi bloggers. As it turned out, those who were in favor of the removal of Saddam enabled comm …
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2007-05-20 16:11 Basra Writ Large
Although currently based in Lebanon, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad (our man G.) has made a trip down to Basra to report on what's happening on the ground in Iraq's second-largest city. According to Ghaith, there are four separate groups jockeying for power in Basra: 1) the Madhi militia, about half of which are loyal to Muqtada Al-Sadr, 2) the Fadhila militia, who are opposed to Iranian influence in Basra, 3) the Badr Brigade, the armed militia of SCIRI, which had been exiled in Iran for the twenty years be …
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