visiting the general hospital in fallujah is like living it was nightmare. children with two heads tumors wealth of nations missing limbs and macao been unbearable literally they say every family here is sheltering or hiding a deformed monstrous child. who had to. get away and the grandmother you know my daughter cries all day long it but she hopes to see her daughter get better. i deeply affected i leave the city with its new born monsters. we head for baghdad on the banks of the tigris.

baghdad can be translated as the garden of peace. but it's a better fragile peace the patrols are iraqi wearing uniforms supplied by the u.s. the army is divided by political religious and tribal conflicts everyone fights for his own camp. the president is kurd the prime minister shia and the parliament is run by sunnis. in paradise square opposite the royal mosque stands a concrete pedestal. here once through the absolute symbol of power a statue of saddam hussein. on april ninth two thousand and three it was torn to the ground of the united states believed it of one of the. all

. nine years have passed the square is empty and the city appears to be in a state of siege. is that our passenger alley theater director back from exile in paris waited for a long time to see his enemy fall and return to his native city. where i was thrown in prison and when i got out i was given five days to leave baghdad and iraq that gave me to. put folly the combat continues. i do through theater that he hopes to win it is methodist to reinvest the public with a sense of resistance and a taste for life. i don't have it out. today i see a country filled with weapons the overriding color in the city is khaki the color of soldiers. i see young people with no future men and women deprived of any

feeling of citizenship think their own people have forgotten their rights and their duties. as if they were lost but i completely lost. not. more time it would only shoulda been more than it. in baghdad no one knows who the enemy is anymore sunni's she is islamists christians each with their armies and militia each fighting the other. not of us i know some store guys who joined al qaeda just to get some money. so out of the hardened. of several al qaeda gives them money whereas the government abandons them farther from jail floors. that paid to kill here on that floor so close. to showboat so they've ruined their futures their lives and their families find out almost. you know on my for nothing goes.

on october thirty first twenty ten a terrorist group claiming all kind of affiliation occupied the catholic cathedral in baghdad. five suicide bombers activated their explosive belts fifty eight people were killed. in nine years of occupation of civil and religious wars and attacks of caused more than one hundred ten thousand victims essentially civilian.

syriac khaldiyeh an orthodox and armenian churches have become choice targets. al qaeda assassins and sunni and shia fanatics agree on nothing except on evicting the christians they accuse of being western crusaders. baghdad is a raising its a lustrous christian past. checkpoints abound every hundred meters crossing baghdad is a permanent obstacle course. but i think iraq is a battlefield for an array of foreign forces. iran supports the shia brothers while saudi arabia age there's the sunnis. and as for the month i live in al i don't hear a sunny district. in two thousand and six i was all for. it was subjected to rocket fire at least fifty rockets falling on us every day. it never stopped. you know me

the streets were filled with corpses and there was fighting everywhere to show out i'm out of you know that i deserve a new the battles raged for seventy two hours you know. the army the militia everyone was fighting maybe high up i banged and bodies became prey fit to be devoured by stray dogs that my little girl saw dogs eating the dead which i had never seen before in my life packet which has left me ritual from just a verdict of. living in baghdad means surviving attacks but it's also an everyday battle. in the capital of the world's third biggest oil producer the electricity system works for just a few hours a day. the best business in town is selling generators. for howlett my drive on a visit to the barber after ten days on the road should be

a moment to relax a moment of peace but nothing is that simple. yes quite simply hell here sheer hell. thousand of it's not a normal life like other people have around the world. may god act to improve things what do you say to the good of will know for sure god is good that. the school teacher she's invited us to. get out of iowa. how have you got through it as

a woman. i grew up in email on your head. first the war with iran then the embargo and the two american intervention. but the first in one thousand nine hundred and the second in two thousand and three. for the iran war my brother was arrested and there was just my dad to take care of the family all those girls had no work my father ran a small business. we barely grown up when the embargo strangle the whole country can you imagine no fruit or vegetables meat we couldn't afford and fish even more so. it's only today that i can buy but we lived in safety the women could move about without any problem we had peace but in poverty i think that the. son i was. among the sort of one of my wife is devout but as we have guests i can drink we may be poor but we still have

a sense of hospitality. i'm doing a sunni and a shia follow up on today war and religion have also imposed by hundreds of love. as the lights go out once again the neighborhoods back up generators take over have your message that give. no not in the thing that we were hearing ok i'm shia my husband assume must have had now after the war the two religions can't intermarry anymore and that's and it wasn't the case before and what was important was the people of the each other and what's the distinction between shia and sunni thinly it shameful treating people this way in iraq where all muslims must live. and so what a muslim man asks for the hand of

a muslim woman according to islamic tradition by far and that's all that and how it was at the end of the war that this division appears shia sunni. but yet now we've come to threats headed how does a sunni there an area shiite is that we're seeing as you look at that what if the alternative is to get divorced or die you know if you don't agree to get divorced you risk death you could think you're going to janish if not in our neighborhood they shot a woman in front of her husband and children for the unique reason she was shia and he was sunni except you know she. this morning i'm not just leaving baghdad i'm fleeing baghdad. but the city gates the soldier who checks out passports tells us yet another attack a scar to the capital. was. another checkpoint on the right of babylon we present our passports and passes. a country

apprehensive. this guy is like twilight i feel like i'm wandering in the kingdom of the dead it's raining sand. prayers of punctuated each day on the road i sleep while he converses with his god . amidst the wind blown sand appears the mythical city of babylon. in his delusions of grandeur saddam hussein emerged himself to be its king the heir to throw the president of the iraqi republic saddam hussein in one thousand eight hundred eight

inaugurated the restored city of babylon first built by nebuchadnezzar between six o four and five sixty two b.c. . at the height of his power like the ancient kings before him. built his palace in the heart of the legendary city. his tower of babel crashed down around him and the dust of pride and ambition. his memory has been left to the ravages of time and the insults of his survivors. commission free accreditation free as for charges free. range from three to three stooges free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free media dog hearty dot com.

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care about because they're profit driven industry that sells us and facials that garbage he calls it breaking news i'm happy martin and we're going to break that. download the official publication yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's if you're away from your television or it just doesn't matter now with your mobile devices you can watch artsy anytime anywhere. and the end of the road lies come the mecca of vatican and medina of the shia world .

but the ring of al-qaeda is the real enemy of iraq and even of all the arab regions several terrorist organizations have been exported by neighboring countries. they are responsible for so many victims since baghdad fell. and i would stress that most of the attacks have targeted the shia. yet it was just one of the. pilgrims are well protected here all the offices and soldiers are shia. several million faithful including many from iran come every year to visit the mosques in karbala a boon for the holy city. religion is a river of gold as the saying goes. we get more it's obvious that when a country's native sons defend it things go better and they're always better than an occupier. and invader always has trouble understanding the country they occupy

and as the air proverb says no one knows the roads of mecca better than its own inhabitants limit that shout but if i have it. it's this is. the main prayer takes place in the hussein most. the him i'm sermons a political resonance and a broadcast throughout iraq and the shia world and. the shias today are imposing their numbers and their power. in the prayers always and with cries to the glory of the prophet hussein the son of ali allegedly designated by mohammed to be his only successor you know that there. was. many on the underside

a million shias were detained and many of them were assassinated and thrown into mass graves and then and i myself your servant spent twelve years in iraqi jails about my family only received news of me one or two years after i was released. i was even afraid of my own brother i thought he was an officer who. and to interrogate me all about yes we suffered and the prisons were filled with shias only when every. living kabbalah is like crossing a graveyard. everywhere all portraits of shia mountains fall in for the glory of the prophet hussein mohammed their. little bit of.

getting any. possible. on the baghdad bass run highway in the middle of the desert a faithful taxi finally gives up the ghost. i feel suddenly vulnerable alone in the wilderness. as if by magic a man appears from the sands to help us out babs this is the renowned a desert hospitality. we had for a camp for the men who maintained the highway once they were all soldiers in

saddam's army. when the americans came many deserted. without knowing who we all got to make room for us to share that meal. with out of the massive intake iraqi army was hunger thirst and fatigue. remember your family was taken hostage and she deserves it. you horrible new days when they caught people who ran away they were simply hang out with them while your one i spent seven years in the army and it was very tough talk insanity days a soldier was paid two thousand dinos less than the bag he was carrying was worth we can definitely say we were really miserable. the highway splits the desert and on each side of the road to bask in the vast oil

fields of rumaylah. more than half of the iraqi production is pumped from this burning desert a treasure chest within the sound. shell b.p. exxon mobil and the chinese cineplex of already got their hands on the bulk of it. at last we reached bastrop where the euphrates and the tigris meet. travelers once called the city the venice of the south. who comes to kill us and destroy our country and good before we said it the americans but the americans have gone and now my general so who else is continuing the job. that nobody knows of there's no work in the situation is unlivable i

say yes it was better before. conversely if we talk about security and civic respect we can say it was a hundred percent better under saddam. today there's no respect for the citizens and as if we were no longer men that's the truth that's honestly what i feel for ya . we are less and less respected before an iraqi could walk with his head held high anywhere in the world and especially at home as long as the state was not affected or undermined things have changed a lot i can tell you the situation was much better before. the venice of the self was awash with detritus of all kinds half of the inhabitants are unemployed it's a humanitarian and social disaster area. here we have absolutely nothing. where we going but at that event in this oil rich country we

can't find work. this is how we live the children of this country why is it fair does god accept this master is in the middle of all the country's oil wealth it's like the mother of oil but he doesn't seem to gain from it the inhabitants are poor and the streets are filled with the unemployed and it. was once one of the richest cities in iraq today it seems to have been forgotten by both god and mankind because of oil is cruel indeed. and yet in the heart of the shantytowns is always given freely. and sweet offering .

by our government isn't he and when it did i think government doesn't take care of the poor and is only there to save itself until it sound pockets i do expect things to change what. i heard that no minister has taken the trouble to come and see us to ask how we survived or ask us if we. need and i think we have nobody to talk to . and so since the americans left the poor in the powerless join the militia and the terrorist groups who at least provide money and protection. everywhere in the city are portraits of the shia in my tired out saddam is radical troops feed on poverty .

the road ends at our file on the banks of the persian gulf the end of our journey. from this is the outback hoyle terminal rising from the water far from terrorist attacks and on a constant military surveillance where iraq's fortune oil flows in and out. the country's fortune and perhaps misfortune two. wars here have always been closed in the same color black. and foul was at the mouth of the shuttle our best during where the tigris joins the euphrates forming the border with a ramp. on the iranian bank a gigantic portrait of the m.m. how many is there to taunt us

a reminder that americans have gone leaving pandora's box wide open. in this valley on me personally i never thought i know collaborated with the americans. which i would show where i work i am and always have been a taxi driving us. i still can't cross the country no. to south from south dakota and fowle taxi i go wherever i can find work and i don't hesitate god be praised all i want to still live i. was. twenty days on the road perhaps one hundred checkpoints. with my friend khaled we crossed a country which is officially no longer at war but where peace is not being restored a country divided by sectarian shia sunni and kurd communities

a country where terror is a daily issue. so the manja kook muscle to create. baghdad bob a lone cub alla bass for as far as i'll file we traveled the road where danger is ever present. khaled was under the protection of his going to a meet ups of providence. the

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