foreign companies. let me tell you if you. come back you take it off the. wire. but it is. a little. out of country company come here. china's national petroleum corporation has partnered with british giant b.p. to develop the remaining oil fields the largest in iraq. newly arrived chinese oil workers and other foreign employees meet their security details in this composite pass or airport. for us to a private security escort is still obligatory and this is all. that. was the 1st city to fall in the 2003 u.s. led invasion. i came here that summit to report on angry protests that have broken

out against the lack of electricity. today there isn't much improvement in the basic services people were protesting for 9 years ago as rest still suffers power cuts. unemployment also is widespread here almost a quarter of people under 30 don't have jobs. and while there are signs of new money flowing in the cost of living is rising fast. oh my god that it's a good thing of the snow played. on them and. they can see that's a look at what isn't so much how much i can elissa. community in the budget has sat for 9 years union leader. has fought to keep iraq's oil wealth flowing to iraqis not just the foreign companies iraq's deputy prime minister for energy says that the deals the government has signed with foreign investors are reaping rewards we have. in clissold production for $3000000.00 barrels per day and doing this it will

add another. half a 1000000 of more better the president so the progress is there. but despite record outputs of this frustration the company is developing the fields importing labor. and that there is no meaningful legislation to protect iraqi jumps. isn't to be looked at and that it isn't to be affected in total but are an end to the i'm in mind that you might talk about this if you've got the money but you could be and that is that and that. i left and i wanted to get up and said it was. saddam he says it was the us decision to dismantle iraq's army and national industries in the name of the both a vacation the coolest widespread unemployment and created a launch pool of angry men ready to take up arms. from we

joined north toward men jaf. along the road lined with symbols to commemorate a battle lost and injustice done. the same a trio of want to yell solemn finally of peace surrounds the city. it is possibly the largest burial ground in the world and the final resting place to which many shia aspire. the scale of this place is breathtaking for 14 centuries shia from all over the world been bringing that to be buried here it's so immense that in that job they say this city is fall for the living hall for the dead. in 2004 the serenity of the valley of peace was violated. that spring finds his loyalty tied around the side of the son of one of iraq's most revered shia clerics. 4 u.s.

forces in baghdad and the holy cities of karbala. and here in the jack. up e.g.o.'s. as i already know landed here. destroyed everything. at the beginning of august trying to root out sanders mahdi army and take control of. u.s. marines invaded the cemetery when taken into a part of the graveyard where you can actually see the destruction from the fighting that took place in 2004 there's r.p.g. holes in the walls some of these graves are completely destroyed a member speaking to iraqis at the time who simply couldn't believe that things had to tarry to such an extent that this one of the most holy and sacred sites in all of iraq had turned into a battleground between the mighty army and the americans. hundreds of monte finds as dined in the battle. in a new section of the cemetery built for sound as followers killed in the uprisings

and sectarian violence that the u.s. led occupation provoked. families comes on of that day. so. no one knows how many iraqis have been killed since the invasion. of them it's range from more than 150002 over a 1000000. for years the u.s. claims not to keep a body count. but there are some 6000 graves in this cemetery learn where the grief seems impossible to bury. early shock a saddam's mother died during the violence in 2004 his brother is buried here in the section reserved for those killed by u.s. forces. but a lot of course we're looking at. these

were the people the u.s. military expected to welcome them. but they soon made enemies of people like allie and his family. if i thought i should be. ok for. a job if i could be here in america. who. could you tell you to.

just follow his listens to him deliver some of his most incendiary sermons against the occupation. in his base in the nearby city of coup for. now santa spends much of his time in iran and on this friday he isn't here. but the message is political populist and doesn't shy away from criticizing the government in baghdad what iraqis to see yeah it was here a year ago i was here was you're here where here you are here for this sermon addresses the deepening conflict between iraqi prime minister nouri al maliki's party and opposition blocs to his virtually paralyzed parliament for months was there a sheet where he was over the years sadder has cultivated the image of an independent champion of the dispossessed shia who make up his base. i

mean he's transformed himself from a leader of a militia into the leader of a political party an important one on which maliki reliance to maintain power. for years saddam hussein had banned public celebrations of shia festivals and limits of the flow of iranian pilgrims to man jack. now the pilgrims and tourists are back prompting a booming trade in hotel developments. and there are unconfirmed reports that iran is planning to spend a $1000000000.00 to refurbish the showing. off the decades of being victims the shia majority in iraq have emerged the victim is. a shia who now holds the top post of prime minister and commander in chief and government positions are distributed according to ethnic and sectarian quotas. i i i.

the new balance of power in iraq has raised fears that iran's influence is growing both in baghdad and here in the jaff ayatollah ali al sistani is the top spiritual guide for iraqi shia and the leader of the school of clerics that government is trying. early in the occupation he demanded the us organize direct elections while opposing iranian style theocratic governance. system is 81 years old and there are reports that iran is campaigning to have one of their ayatollah succeed him. in iraq these days regional ambitions run like undercurrents reshaping the country. but over the past 9 years political violence has literally refashioned the landscape. i haven't been back to back that in about 5 years my only just entering the city but immediately the 1st thing that strikes you as you drive in is one thing that's really changed the schools.

baghdad is battle scarred and sectioned off by blast walls that were raised 1st around government ministries and military bases then around hotels filled with foreigners and then the sectarian attacks escalated around neighborhoods. the city was reconfigured is iraqis fled mixed areas for the relative safety of religious and ethnic lee homogenously enclaves. harboring the wounds and stories of the bloodshed the occupation unleashed many remain there protected by concrete walls checkpoints and each other. more than 1300000 people across iraq a still displaced. and in baghdad almost half a 1000000 remain in camps like this one on the edge of the shia neighborhood of cademy. said and it was one of the. abu said john's family was living in

town near a sunni neighborhood north of baghdad where resistance to the occupation was fierce . al qaeda also found a home there as it chased others out. all. in the. so why did you have. a sheet when the family fled they left everything behind in school to. tell you. and although they live in constant fear of eviction they say they can't return to tommy cold virus yet and that is yeah i know that is that he had to step out a i don't but nasa budgeted us up but then i had a look yet at the isn't. that what about when you bust them but. that kind of fucked it up like i did with us. in the sunni neighborhood of gasoline where they came to escape threats from the mahdi army in 2695 and a mother in law

a struggling to can for their household including his 2 kids. like almost one in 10 women in iraq they always goes. hand as husband hussein was killed by u.s. forces during a raid on the markets in 2005. she had just learned she was pregnant with their 2nd child i don't. i don't even want to. going to have to talk. to us said mom what obviously meant that awesome i got a little bit of the. diana thought i had to take the bad. out of that i want to put on an hour or 2 gets me home by saturday am on cyber that you have a nominee. 2 years later as many as 2nd son nuri was killed in a militia attack. the family lost another breadwinner and bureaucracy has made it difficult for them to get the support payment the government extends to widows or

so they say. there are no hung up damayan not shown on the show must have been somber somehow know how cool modern moment is that one my parents want to hear no i don't know and i don't want to know bill yet begun to know that there's you know not just like a suburb of the day. that was up. but simply because another i was that was out of the other stuff that. said what they will that's a little song but i want to turn on the hand yeah i know some men met the new model no artifacts are necessary home on going to our. national it's going i mean. other. than home. and then would you approach it in the must do it for clooney jaiku and i'm going to. come in you might do only would

shout. about how to we could help and i saw. maybe last spent 7 months seen u.s. custody at abu ghraib prison and more than a year and a half in the u.s. run detention camps. he has testified to us military investigators that abu ghraib he was stripped and paraded naked with a sack over his head dressed in women's underwear cuffed and hung from a window frame for hours when he asked to pray and beaten into unconsciousness. and given another herman. how many did it. feel good and i thought i had. them and i didn't get the. money he says it was part of u.s. interrogators strategy is they trying to quell resistance that the u.s. times terrorism or detaining people across the country especially those from sunni

areas. as much. over the past year human rights groups have reported that iraqi government security forces have conducted sweeps preemptively arresting hundreds of people detaining and sometimes torturing them in secret prisons inside the international zone some of the same people who were detained by the americans and were accused of being terrorists then many live in sunni areas in and around baghdad from where armed groups still orchestrate attacks. the government says there are no secret prisons i could say that there is no secret detention so we will come now he will not arise for amnesty organization and united nation organization to come and check and to find out whether there is

a secret detention center and. the no no no no no no no but the arrests have fueled the perception in communities like this one that the government is targeting them much like u.s. forces used to follow we've come for friday prayer and i'm in. a sunni neighborhood that for many years was an important center of anti occupation resistance but. getting here hasn't been easy and it is not recurring being stopped from getting access to the main mosque anatomy or a police checkpoint further down the street our soldiers through our security guards currently negotiating with them to get approval for something we already have approval to do. and when prayers are over no one here is willing to speak to us. people here are definitely scared to speak on camera they're saying that if they talk to us they think they'll be arrested down the line and we've now been told that we're not allowed to film anywhere outside the compound around that the main mosque the guards have taken down the details of our security guards and said

that if we go outside that gates and stop filming we'll be arrested. i kind of but many people the deputy prime minister salah almost like tells us that the fear we felt in and amir is warranted he receives frequent reports that those arrested face extortion by security forces when that again to go to the trial they have to pay him money in order to work through that otherwise then i know they would like the trial there were just there brought out of 10 years. as the sunni deputy prime minister with temporarily suspended shortly off the u.s. troops withdrew in december and off that he called prime minister maliki a dictator. by 111. especially when it was restored sectarianism but there are many political parties that exist there were elections held here there are ministries controlled by different ministers and this isn't a dictatorship who is it and they get

a minister over the fence or is that i think of a minister of interior. intelligence who is a. part of this country. next destination is the only city in iraq where victory celebrations were held as the last u.s. soldier left the country. protested the u.s. military presence in their city from the beginning of the occupation. and when the mutilated bodies of 4 american contractors was strung on this bridge across the euphrates in 2004. fate was sealed. what followed were 2 of the largest assaults of the entire war with u.s. marines using devastating firepower to bomb the city into submission. the bloody campaigns had a profound effect on the residents of fallujah. today on the. list but you know. i don't like. being

told that these graves are actually for people who are still dying as a result of the fighting that happened back in 2004 these are the graves of babies who died having birth defects and other diseases. 9 year old cannot speak eat on his own. his 2 younger siblings are buried in what's called martyrs cemetery how to die i'm going to. let. you know what it is.