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the road full of danger. clear evidence from north to south. the route of iraqi tragedy. after the war waiting for peace. talks e r t.

on the road to bass for this morning the u.s. army is beginning to withdraw from iraq. in december twentieth after nine years of occupation the last american troops are finally leaving the country. every guy got in about it and i do have a little bit of the iraqis anger towards the departing invaders who once dreamed of being liberators their departure resembles abandonment and escape despite the optimistic speeches. a. cease.

a full twenty twelve and i'm back in iraq and so on the border with turkey. i have an appointment this morning with khaled and his taxi. family the united states that they would make a democracy out of iraq in the heart of the arab world but iraq i see today is a country on the brink of chaos torn between three groups sunni's and shia's. it is a country divided a stranger to peace that i'm about to cross a taxi ride to the heart of iraqi history. from the hole in the north of travel down through l b let some ammonia cook was soon tikrit volusia baghdad babylon. and i'll file

a road map of the iraqi tragedy. so obviously i'm delighted the americans have finally left iraq as much as we are rock is a very happy not to see it or hear any more enough was enough the americans occupied us so we hate them like they lean here in iraq they killed in creating the conditions for chaos they are responsible for the whole tragedy because we were living in peace and they came to destroy our country and also brought all of us out of the. journey begins on the mountains of iraqi kurdistan. an army of two hundred thousand soldiers called peshmerga watch over this rather particular region of a country. that . jeff.

was. my first stop is an l.b.o. the capital of iraqi kurdistan is the only region of iraq today that is seeing peace and an economic boom the miracle of be made possible by the discovery of. oil on kurdish territory. for a long time dominated by baghdad and saddam hussein kurdistan dreams of achieving autonomy. the first customer the first passenger on our trip is a member of the new kurdish parliament. but in iraq we can say that oil has always been a curse. but today in kurdistan that's changing. foreign oil companies are coming here to work with. the revenues of finally being used for reconstruction what negative it's

a huge difference for us as in saddam's times we never benefited from the oil money or. that he had any put this that i don't know that yet either. so it's quite simple we are kurds before we're iraqis and where i think they're very rapidly as soon as we have been able to create a stable basis for building a country ninety nine percent of people will vote for independence because the. know what the what the people want their own country a country called could just. as that they want their own passport but there's no kurdish one i suppose you could stand. a land of trafford's kurdistan is discovering well through its oil a nightmare for baghdad which had long controlled with the resources and riches. without driver khalid we had east towards the mountains along the border with

around. driving through abandoned villages i feel like i'm visiting cemeteries. passenger ahmed is a survivor today he's on a pilgrimage paying tribute to the dead. in a school. so i started nine hundred eighty eight during the al and that fall a military campaign waged by saddam against the kurds my village was completely destroyed. and that some of the inhabitants would be ported to southern iraq and locked up in the terrible new grice oman prison count. many women children and men were massacred and thrown into mass graves.

the kurds have always dreamed of independence saddam hussein decided to eliminate the problem once and for all. his cousin to go down in history as chemical ali was in charge of the repression. on march sixteenth one thousand nine hundred eight his helicopters dropped bombs loaded with toxic gas over kurdish villages. one hundred thousand civilians were killed and three thousand villages were raised the kurds rebellion was crushed. here in the villages the peshmerga who didn't built up supply. anyone opposed to saddam could seek refuge here. so the regime began by attacking the villages for saddam burning gassing and destroying the villages meant controlling kurdistan.

lunches like a homage to the victims on the menu adama stuffed vegetables prepared by a mad wife. sunny like saddam hussein my driver. he didn't know or didn't want to know the terrible truth. look i'll show you the house where i was born yeah here on this hill where we're sitting is like a memorial to the village as it was before the tragedy it was here that the villagers came together every evening to talk to play backgammon and listen to the radio. i leave a comment to mourn and commemorate his loved ones. we continue towards the east and kirkuk the former capital of kurdistan today on iraqi territory. so what if that god be praised i'm not scared of when the region was under american control i was afraid about it but as soon as the iraqi police and army took over things got much better if the americans didn't know the region they were afraid and

trigger happy and they didn't hesitate to fire anyone who approached them passenger foreign or anyone. on this road has seen a lot of drama how many times did the american shoot down iraqis here for no reason gotta go. through the windscreen the first iraqi checkpoint appears it's time to lower the camera and film or discreetly. that. the soldiers here are regularly targeted by armed groups and are also quick to shoot what to do and about the attacks and kidnappings are frequent in area. at the moment checking our identity an itinerary takes too long hours. but at last we can hit the road again a road that is more than dangerous. to be honest no one took this road before

al-qaeda basically all the terrorists control the region and everyone is afraid of venturing out on this road today we feel a bit safer judging that our budget. the constant road blocks me now two hundred kilometer journey takes eight hours. nighters fall and when i reach her coke and the sky is lit up by flast tanks the city floats on a vast sea of oil. for centuries pilgrims came here to gather around the eternal flames. the kurds would dearly love to reclaim the city the former capital of baghdad. is unwilling to lose such a profitable treasure. one term to a majority of kids today is a mix of turkmen arabs kurds and christians a veritable ethnic powder keg.

so i went to. this morning's plant is a round occurred but the network who can kurdistan's independence he would pay with his own blood. said i would have. passed to become part of kurdistan and that it's vital that we are bonded by blood to go to but them they can kill us and shoot at us but he won't change anything we are linked to kurdistan as of a city i mean we cannot live outside of kurdistan it would be like dying. my brother we invite you to a restaurant. my i cannot let you go without inviting me i am a kurd and hospitality is a custom with us. you can continue your journey after the mail and i swear before god when i come to the restaurant with me you are welcome when you're. away of

course. for khaled it's time to pray. for us to eat. as we enter the village a few policemen appear as an escort. i would say to watch as they say to protect us . and so i pay for everyone's meal was a kind of friendly tax and that was. it said of kirkuk could be one of the world's richest cities it is certainly one of the most dangerous. discreet and ordinary heroines. who is a kurd investor are opposed and fortune in the opening of a private school a generous act which has attracted m.p.'s attention. don't let. this man i'm terrified so little if i do the day after not thought it was broadcast to promote

the school to physio and so i got a telephone call i would you know bold enough to join with that oh yes first a hobby hello about a new hello how do you know a nothing about hobbies that is simple. a man introduced himself as a member of a terrorist organisation and demanded money. and my colleagues were terrorized through. other like so's the school for a month and then i said we have to open it again we can't just give him. we have to we're still life has to go on. sale neither the terrorists nor anyone else can stop me from working as a pistol only god is the master of my destiny. download

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when we reach must to the second biggest city in iraq it has been locked down by the army. the previous night two bombs went off in the suit. i have to negotiate with the military chiefs for three hours before they let me and. across what appears to be a dead sitting and yet today mosul is in party mode. my name is ahmed on about i'm a law student today is a festival of university day that's why we can see all the troops they're here to protect us. the situation is very difficult the country is undergoing a wave of anonymous attacks and assassination my dream is quite simple i just want to live in an iraq that's safe and at peace it's a magnificent country mustn't forget that it was once respectfully known as mesopotamia the land between two rivers i dream of peace. but peace seems

impossible. the americans have gone but now kurds shias and sunnis battle for control of the city even the mosques are under military protection the internet in killing goes on in the name of allah. a leave muscle with no regrets. this road fraught with danger can also hold certain surprises in the stops to help a friend even in iraq one can run out of petrol. it's hilarious we have the world's second biggest oil reserves and we're short of petrol and gas. were reduced to filling up on the black market at exorbitant prices. common sense would suggest that petrol was available in quantity and free perhaps not free but not too expensive anyway and what. john.

as soon as we arrived on the outskirts of tikrit saddam hussein's former stronghold where arrested by the police i have the feeling we were expected. after a few hours of questioning were put under house arrest in a hotel and forbidden from going out. and the situation eases the following afternoon when we're granted two hours of freedom but we're still under close surveillance. the next man who joins us in the taxi is in mourning his name's fire deal he's a journalist and he lost his best friends just two days ago. but god will save iraq . sorry.

you're doing your they want to me. iraq a wretched country had located the north be. but that would be assassinate the best among us the terrorist who kills a journalist like my colleague at the news channel who kills a religious man behind an academic or teacher certainly doesn't do it for religious reasons it's obvious he does it mostly for money because our religion does not tolerate all these crimes the only motive for these crimes is money and they're ordered from outside to kill our best people any of us. in the city center the mosque still bears the name of the man who built it was a done. deal it's come to pay a final homage to his murdered friend. on april second two thousand and twelve. a holiday in a journalist for a local t.v. station was killed instantly when his car exploded.

was. a relaxing evening along the banks of the tigris overseen by the palace of the local hero sadam. saddam was always surrounded by members of his own tribe and many here miss the man who built a sunni state much to their advantage. they can injure or kill the americans didn't come here to look for weapons of mass destruction or to hunt down saddam hussein they came to rob us and to kill us ation iraq it was a unified country but at the moment when they arrived at the americans that triggered divisions by creating ethnic conflicts just you know this very well. they destroyed everything and then they left but they are not but in reality they're still here they make people think they've gone but they're still present their aim is to create discord in iraq with all my life and that is all that.

as we leave tikrit we come to a village the heart of saddam hussein's kingdom where he was finally caught. on december fourteenth two thousand and three saddam was captured at dawn in his hideout in a farmyard a miserable rattle two meters underground. disheveled and distraught he surrendered to the american forces. in his possession were two kalashnikovs and seven hundred fifty thousand dollars. by. now there are no taxis a gas guzzler and we need more petrol. but it was here. we seek out the black

market power business which fills the coffers of a few politicians civil servants and terrorist groups to. the oil money benefits everyone apart from the iraqi people. not. enough of. the temperature hits more than forty degrees and the machines are cool down with the hose. for the men it's time to wash and pray before sitting down for a meal. that surprised by my presence but soon open up. for the sunny customers the whole affair was an american manipulation. movement that referred to weight plays a key role in the arab world and. the americans use. country to trap saddam.

harbored the horde they set the board up and he took it up over it was a prearranged ambush. it's time to leave and head for lucia khaled doesn't like stopping for too long. kidnappings are frequent here and for the criminal gangs everyone has a price probably including me. the killing in the kidnappings may be motivated by political or religious convictions but increasingly simply for profit. i've lost count of the checkpoints along the way but the controls this morning seem interminable. i don't know who this fever victory sign is aimed at as we finally enter the ravaged city of fallujah.

and joe was the scene of one of the most violent american offensives of. a g.i. summerlee killed youngsters and whole families here. come last carry a collision and cover. all of their blew up cars and caused a lot of fatalities. our fallujah is the most ravaged city in iraq of them annoying. oh yes that's the america a legit ok. the heat is unbearable and our motor is overheating the local grocer helps us to cool it. he's a man driven by anger he experienced the battle of fallujah at first hand and how do i watch i am what they are you call that democracy now it's quite simply about

killing and stealing are well. from the effects of the white phosphorous bombs and now our children are gone disfigured. heads are not what they are so beloved all the god living with us go and see the hospitals and you'll see mothers throwing away their babies deform the by all the chemical weapons. and all could do if there is justice in the world bush will have to answer for his war crimes and crimes against humanity he claimed iraq had weapons of mass destruction but where were they these weapons. before let me although i do know that this was a killer using white phosphorous bomb while the moment so i'm not even the mosque was saved from his barbarity when i look at the ruined minarik. that's bush's democracy and the job is only a little more about the other bullshit i be at. on november seventh two thousand for a deluge of fire rains down on the city of two hundred mosques. to die it was

a last stronghold for al qaeda. twelve thousand marines three hundred tanks and a hundred also helicopters were launched against. the biggest urban battle in iraq was under way. the american victory was total the casualty figures speak for themselves one hundred american soldiers were killed and on the iraqi side it's estimated there were between four and five thousand victims most of them civilians. the battle left a city in ruins where death continue to take its toll. and their offensive it's thought the u.s. troops used white phosphorus bombs and depleted uranium weapons by all

international conventions. so our new passenger is not administrator at the general hospital. since the battle of fallujah ended he is going to records of the children born with congenital malformation. for him there's no doubt the americans were responsible for this tragedy. for me the administrator's office becomes an empty chamber of horrors. now but i looked at the war is far from over in fact it's still going on with the boat for

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