Powerful reports from Baghdad, by Guardian report Ghaith Abdul-Ahad. The whole city is divided up, with every neighborhood a walled sectarian compound; and even as the place has started bustling here and there, the general quiet is as tense as in a prison torn apart by gangs and guards, and only recently calmed down. (Yet the killing is still going on, but less openly and more efficiently than in the past.)
We owe this shattered country everything. MCM From Imad Khadduri: Baghdad - City of Walls After six years of occupation, hundreds of thousands Iraqis dead, four to five million Iraqis displaced, five thousand American soldiers dead and tens of billions of dollars siphoned, one end result is that Baghdad is a City of Walls. This is a series of four videos (10-12 minutes each) by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, a Baghdad-born award-winning photographer and journalist for the Guardian. The series was shown on Al-Jazeera English channel in its Witness program. The last in the series (part 4) is the most recently filmed and is definitly worth seeing . <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WkPAnIcZz8>Witness - Baghdad City of Walls - 5 April 09 - Part 1 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WkPAnIcZz8>Witness - Baghdad City of Walls - 5 April 09 - Part 2 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK8LGLDLmVQ>Witness - Baghdad City of Walls - 5 April 09 - Part 3 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK8LGLDLmVQ>Witness - Baghdad City of Walls - 5 April 09 - Part 4 . -- Imad Khadduri <http://abutamam.blogspot.com/>http://abutamam.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Mark Crispin Miller's "News From Underground" newsgroup. To unsubscribe, send a blank email to newsfromunderground-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com OR go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
