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Aaron Glantz has reported from Iraq extensively during
occupation. Below are links to some of his most important
radio stories and documentaries.
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Iraq:
One Year of Occupation and Resistance
More than 700 US Troops have died on Iraq soil since George
Bush declared “Mission Accomplished.” During that
same time, soldiers in America's "Coalition of the Willing"
have killed more than 100,000 Iraqis. ... Photographs have surfaced
showing severe torture in America's Abu Grahib, where occupation
forces hold some 15,000 prisoners for supporting the resistance.
In this special hour long edition of Free Speech Radio News,
we'll be taking a look at how US occupation forces succeeded
in alienating the majority of Iraq's 25 million people. A people
who overwhelmingly supported America after the removal of Saddam
Hussein. Our correspondent on the ground is Aaron Glantz:
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Kurds:
From Oppressed to Oppressors
The Kurds are often called the largest population in the world
without a country. 40 million of them live in the mountainous
terrain of Turkey, Syria, Iran, and Iraq --- and they've lived
under oppression in each of those countries for most of the
last century. On this edition, correspondent Aaron Glantz takes
an in depth look at the six million Kurds in Iraq, their years
of suffering under Saddam Hussein's regime, and their drive
towards an independent country in the future.
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Candidates
on Kurdish Election Slate Include Ba’athists
While voter turnout was extremely low in Sunni areas of Iraq,
it was a different story in the Kurdish north. Kurds make up
about 20% of Iraq's population and they voted in large numbers
in yesterday's elections. In addition to choosing a National
Assembly and governing councils in the 18 provinces, Kurdish
voters will also select a national legislature. Pacifica reporter
Aaron Glantz was in Iraqi Kurdistan during the elections. He
filed this report.
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United
States Military Kills Two Senior Sheiks in Hilla
As the tense standoff between the United States and radical
Shiite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr continues in Iraq we go to Najaf
and Hilla to get a report from Aaron Glantz of Free Speech Radio
News on the killing of two Sheikhs by U.S. soldiers in Hilla.
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Abu
Ghraib: New Warden, Same Prison
As CBS broadcasts pictures of U.S. soldiers committing acts
of abuse against Iraqi prisoners, we go to Iraq for a report
on the notorious Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad where thousands
of Iraqis are imprisoned and subjected to human rights abuses
by their new jailers - the U.S. military.
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Stadium
of Death: Fallujah Residents Bury the Dead After Deadly Siege
U.S. forces pull out of Fallujah following a brutal U.S. siege
which killed some 600 Iraqis, wounded 1,000 and left some 60,000
people displaced. We go to Fallujah to get a report from Free
Speech Radio News' Aaron Glantz who describes dozens of bodies
buried in the city's soccer stadium after US forces blocked
roads heading toward the cemetery.
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U.S.
Bombs Student Dormitory in Arbil
Iraqi Kurdistan is normally a quiet place. Kurdish fighters
fought alongside the United States in the initial invasion.
Since the fall of Saddam, the area has been governed by Kurdish
leaders, whose followers provide security. There are no American
soldiers on the streets and no humvee patrols. The area hadn't
seen a single American attack. Until this month that is. From
Arbil, Aaron Glantz has the story.
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Accusations
of Iraqi Voter Fraud
Us Marines General Mike Hagee has issued a statement that he
has "counseled" Lt. General James N Mattis, after
Mattis made a statement this week in San Diego that "It's
fun to shoot some people," referring to shooting men in
Afghanistan. Hagee also excused Mattis' remarks, saying that
they reflect the reality of war, and stated that he was confident
Mattis would continue to serve. Meanwhile, Bush Administration
officials are now comparing allegations of fraud in Iraq's election
to the 2000 Presidential election in the US. Speaking to reporters
in Turkey, US Undersecretary of State Douglas Feith refused
to comment on allegations of massive voter fraud in Iraq's Northern
oil city of Kirkuk. "These problems happen also in countries
with rooted democratic traditions," he told the reporters
adding, quote: "We were deeply embarrassed by the elections
in Florida." And, in Northern Iraq, Arabs and ethnic Turks
are refusing to recognize the election results, as Aaron Glantz
reports from Kirkuk.
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Report
from Inside Fallujah (2004)
The CIA announced today that its inspector general is conducting
an investigation into the death of an Iraqi prisoner while being
held at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad. This comes as the
New Yorker magazine is reporting this week that a US military
investigation carried out by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba uncovered
evidence of “war crimes” against inmates of Abu Ghraib
prison, with such “crimes” as breaking chemical lights
and pouring phosphoric liquid on detainees; pouring cold water
on naked detainees; beating and threatening male detainees with
rape and sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light. The graphic
images of torture being committed by US soldiers has also brought
to light the growing and largely unregulated role of private
contractors in the interrogation of detainees. While today seven
soldiers have been reprimanded for their involvement, lawyers
for some of the soldiers say the soldiers are acting in part
under the instruction of mercenary interrogators hired by the
Pentagon. Meanwhile, FSRN’s Iraq correspondent Aaron Glantz
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No
Food, Buy Guns, Report from Fallujah (2003)
UNICEF said today that thousands of Iraqi children will die
unless they are made top priority in the chaotic post-war situation.
This as international aid agencies today appealed for the UN
to be given a key role in the rebuilding of Iraq. Oxfam, Islamic
Relief, and Caritas, among others issued a statement today saying
the UN must play a role in doing what the US and British have
so far failed to do, stop the spread of disease and hunger across
the country. And as Aaron Glantz reports from Faluja, Iraq,
while Iraqi's are organizing to bring stability, the devastation
to their land has left them with little resources to rebuild.
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How America Lost Iraq
