| Most of Aaron’s reporting from Iraq can
be found listed at www.antiwar.com/glantz.
Below are some key articles to understanding the conflict. |
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Humvees
Aren't the Problem
Antiwar.com, 1/04/05
There has been a lot of talk about Humvees lately, ever since
an American soldier asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
why soldiers were going to war in unarmored vehicles.
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| ABU GHRAIB |
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Think
of Those the U.S. Has Detained
Inter Press News Service – 4/21/04
BAGHDAD, Apr 21 - Private First Class Matt Maupin assigned to
the U.S. Army Reserve's 724th Transportation Company based at
Bartonville, Illinois, became the first prisoner taken by Iraqi
insurgents since the fall of Saddam Hussein. The U.S. military
is currently holding more than 20,000 Iraqis behind bars --
most of them taken during house to house searches by the U.S.
military.
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Prisoners
Are at Least Survivors
Inter Press News Serivce – 4/30/05
BAGHDAD, Apr 30 (IPS) - The treatment of Iraqi prisoners apparent
from the CBS pictures is not the American way of doing things,
U.S. President George W. Bush declared Friday. But the indications
on the ground in Iraq are that such treatment may not be the
exception.
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Close
Abu Ghraib, Stop the New Prison
Commondreams.org, 6/23/05
Congressional Democrats are demanding more oversight over US
prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. In a letter
released Thursday, Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi joined
170 other members of Congress, introduced legislation to establish
an Independent Commission to investigate abuses of detainees
caught during the “global war on terror.”
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0623-24.htm |
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| THE SHI’ITES |
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Shia
Party Rises From the Ashes
Inter Press News Service, 2/28/05
ARBIL, Feb 28 (IPS) - In the early days of the U.S. occupation
of Iraq, when the international media was discovering mass graves
throughout the country, journalists of all types were documenting
the full scope of the old regime's brutality. Having just arrived
myself, I paid a visit to the Free Prisoners Committee. The
U.S. military had given Saddam's political prisoners an old
Ba'ath party building and custody of many of the regime's prison
records.
http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=27650 |
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Najaf
peace deal shows why U.S. troops must leave Iraq
San Francisco Chronicle, 8/31/04
Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani's triumphant return to the Iraqi holy
city of Najaf last week should clearly illustrate one point:
135,000 American soldiers are not needed to keep the peace.
In fact, it is their continued presence that makes Iraq so dangerous.
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Sadr
Attacks U.S. with Democracy
Inter Press News Service, 4/22/04
BAGHDAD, Apr 22 - Until recently, it was easy to find Sheikh
Salim Mejid Jumar, one of Muqtada Sadr's top leaders in Baghdad.
The cleric dressed in flowing white robes could be found most
days in the municipal building of Baghdad's poor and primarily
Shia neighbourhood Showle. He is a member of the municipal governing
council and he came to power last June in an election organised
by Sadr's
forces
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| THE SUNNI TRIANGLE |
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Fallujah
Cannot Even Bury Its Dead
Inter Press News Service, 4/20/04
BAGHDAD, The story of Yusuf Fakri Amash is the story of so much
of Fallujah. The 11-year-old boy just managed to escape from
the town with his family. But not before the U.S. military killed
his best friend.
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Saddam
Will Miss Old Buddy Reagan
Inter Press News Service, 6/12/04
BAGHDAD, Jun 12 (IPS) - The Iraq issue today may never have
arisen if it were not for the support former U.S. president
Ronald Reagan gave Saddam Hussein.
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| THE KURDS |
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Mercenary
Boom in Iraq Creates Tension at Home and Abroad
Corpwatch. 3/23/04
Kirkuk, Iraq -- Mamand Kesnazani reclines in his high-backed
leather chair and puts his feet on top of his desk inside the
main security gate of Iraq's northern oil field. The former
fighter for Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK),
Kesnazani came to Kirkuk the same day as the American Army last
April. He's been guarding the oil field ever since.
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Some
Saddam Men Make It to the Election List
Inter Press News Service, 1/24//05
KIRKUK, Iraq, Jan 24 (IPS) - Iraq's two main Kurdish political
parties have put aside their differences for the Jan. 30 election.
Like the Shias in the South, they have organised a single, sectarian
ticket that they hope all Kurds will vote for.
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Kurdish
Parties Eye Independence
Inter Press News Service, 1/26/05
ARBIL, Jan 26 (IPS) - Ahmed Khani sips his tea as he reclines
in a high-back leather chair, a sepia-toned portrait of the
father of Iraqi Kurdish nationalism, the late Mullah Mustafa
Barzani behind him. In the portrait, Barzani wears military
fatigues and the traditional Kurdish headscarf. Khani is wearing
a suit.
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How America Lost Iraq
