here once to 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 to have wonderful. nine years have passed the square is empty and the city appears to be in a state of siege. oh 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. and it's 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 wasn't the overriding color in the city is khaki the color of soldiers but it was i see young people with no future men and women deprived of any feeling of citizenship figure on people have forgotten their rights and their duties. as if they were lost but i completely lost. not. more time to be doing a shoulder bit more than that. 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 of your guys who joined al qaeda just to get some money. so out of the car then the model of several al qaeda gives the money whereas the. government abandons them by

the barrel of laws. that paid to kill here on that of course. about michelle obama so they've ruined their futures that lives and their families find out oh my while. 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 a cause more than one hundred ten thousand victims essentially civilians.

in. syria khaldiyeh an orthodox and armenian churches have become choice targets. al qaeda assassins and sunni and shia fanatics agree on nothing except only victim the christians they accuse of being western crusaders. baghdad is a raising its illustrious 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 for iran supports the shia brothers while saudi arabia age there's the sunnis. as for the month i live in. a

sunny district. in two thousand and six it was all full of. it was subjected to rocket fire at least fifty rockets falling on us every day it never stops how would . you know me if the streets were filled with corpses and there was fighting everywhere to show modoc you know that i deserve a new the battle. as you know. the army the militia everyone was fighting. a band 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 up to prophetically up. living in baghdad ming 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

khaled my driver 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. love and 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 so what do you say to the good of will know for sure god is good that. haven't. been. so hard she got

a school teacher she's invited us to dinner. i'm . going out of twenty years of. how if you go through it as a woman. i grew up in the. first the war with iran and then the embargo. and the two american intervention i see them break a little but the first in one thousand nine hundred and the second in two thousand and three. for the around war my brother was arrested and there was just my dad to take care of the family all us 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 it but we lived in safety the women could move about without any problem we had peace but in poverty i think that the only thing

that lets you down i want. to. come up with a 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. abdu is our a sunni and the shia from a rough couple today war and religion have also imposed by hundreds on love. as the lights go out once again the neighborhoods back up generators take over. are your message that you. now think that we are unique ok you know i'm shia my husband a sunni must have had now after the war the two religions can't intermarry anymore and that's when it wasn't the case before what was important was that people loved

each other and what's the distinction between shia and sunni of thinly it's shameful treating people this way in iraq where all muslims must live. so what a muslim man asks for the hand of a muslim woman according to islamic tradition back and that's all but i think it was at the end of the war that this division appeared shia sunni. but i guess now we've come to threats to take it how does a sunny day or an area it is the worst thing as you know i think what if the alternative is to get divorced or dalek you know if you don't agree to get divorced you risk death thinking you know i think yeah you know not really they shot a woman in front of her husband and children for the unique reason she was shia and he was sunni said that she. this morning i'm not just leaving baghdad i'm fleeing baghdad. but the city gates

the soldier who checks our passports tells us yet another attack a scar to the capital. follows. another checkpoint on the road to babylon we present our passports and passes and i enter a shia country apprehensive. the sky is like twilight i feel like i'm wandering in the kingdom of the dead it's raining sand. highlands prayers have punctuated each day on the road i sleep while he converses with his guard. amidst the wind blown sand appears the mythical city of babylon. in his delusions

of grandeur saddam hussein imagine himself to be its king the heir to throw the president of the iraqi republic saddam hussein in one nine hundred eighty 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 said 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. wealthy british style.

markets why not scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on r g. they've been living this way since the seventeenth century. their rituals are strict. their communities on the syllabus. the clearly distinguish between their own and the alien. and guard their family and faiths and the treasure.

of. the mission free accreditation free zones for judges free. range humans free risk free. to tide free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free media. daugaard t. dot com mean. at the end of the road lies come the mecca of vatican and medina of the shia world. but something of god and other al qaeda is the real enemy of iraq and even of all the arab regions i don't believe several terrorist organizations have been exported by neighboring countries i don't know but they are responsible for so many victims since baghdad fell. and i would stress that most of the attacks have targeted the

shia community but that's been 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 don't know what it's obvious that when a country's native sons defend it things go better than when 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 i have it if i have it. that. this is. the main prayer takes place in the same most. the interim sermons of 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 end with. i used to the glory of the prophet hussein the son of ali allegedly designated by muhammad to be is only successor. never care. but many on under saddam a million shias were detained and many of them were assassinated and thrown into mass graves and. i myself your servant spent twelve years in iraq e.j. lost 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 come to

interrogate me all about us we suffered and the prisons were filled with us only when the f.b.i. . leaving kabbalah is like crossing a graveyard. everywhere all portraits of shia month has fallen for the glory of the prophet who say mohammed sat. a little bit of the. bus. 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 sam's to help us out perhaps this is the renowned a desert hospitality. we had for a camp for the man who maintained the highway once they were all soldiers and saddam's army. when the americans came many deserted. and. without knowing who we are to make room for us to share that meal. with out of massive iraqi army was hunger thirst and fatigue.

remember your family was taken hostage or she deserves it. you horrible new days when they called people who ran away they were simply hang on. i spent seven years in the army and it was very tough. insanities days a soldier was paid two thousand dinos less than the bank 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 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 reach bass from the euphrates and the tigris meet. travellers once called the city the venice of the south. who comes to kill us and destroy our country and good it before we said it the americans but the americans have gone and now my general so who else is continuing the job of a that nobody knows of there's no work and 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. we

are less and less respected before in iraq you could walk by this 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 that 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 when it if the 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 while the focus of oh my god no minister has taken the trouble to come and see us to ask how we survive 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 mum and saddam his radical troops feed on poverty. the road ends i'll file on the banks of the persian gulf the end of our journey. 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. been especially on me personally i never thought an old collaborated with the americans. would just watch i work i am and always have been a taxi driving us. i still can't cross the country no. to south gen from south

dakota and follow all taxi i go wherever i can find work have that i don't hesitate god be praised all i want to still live my. twenty days on the road perhaps one hundred checkpoints. with my friend khaled we've 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 tara is a daily issue. from

zoho they'll be real so the ammonia kook muscle to create for. baghdad babilonia kabbalah as far as i'll file we've traveled a road where danger is ever present. khaled was under the protection of these god and me maps of providence.

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