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 the grown people have forgotten their rights and their duties. as if they were lost but i completely lost. not. more time to be doing your shoulder but more than that. in baghdad no one knows who the enemy is anymore sunni's shias islamists christians each with their armies and militia each fighting the other. and i don't know i know sunny shore guys who joined al qaeda just to get some money. so out of the car then the model of seven gives them money whereas the government abandons them by the thumping of laws. that paid to kill here on that floor.

about michelle obama so they've ruined their futures that lives and their families find out oh my while home. 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 cosmoline one hundred ten thousand victims essentially civilian.

syria 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 illustrates christian past. checkpoints abound every hundred meters crossing baghdad is a permanent obstacle course. but i think iraq is a battlefield for a ray of foreign forces. iran supports the shia brothers while saudi arabia age there is the sunnis. and as for the month i live in. 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. me the streets were filled with corpses and there was fighting everywhere to show. you know their ideas of a new the battles raged for seventy two hours you know that al qaeda the army the militia everyone was fighting men. abandoned 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. living in baghdad mean 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. 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. yes quite simply hell here sheer hell. 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 the not for sure god is good. living on. the schoolteacher she's invited us to dinner.

i'm. getting out of twenty years of war how if 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 i sound. a little but my first in one nine hundred ninety 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 it but we lived in safety the women could move about without any problem we had peace but in poverty i think that there's anything that. john i want. i love

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 and zara a sunni and a shia from the rest couple today war and religion have also imposed by andre's on love. as the lights go out once again the neighborhoods back up generators take over. that. that is not in the thing that we were hearing. on shia my husband a sunni muslim had now after the war the two religions can't intermarry anymore that at the end of it that's when it wasn't the case before and what was important was that people loved each other and what's the distinction between shia and sunni thingy it's shameful treating people this way in iraq while muslims mostly.

so what a muslim man asks for the hand of a muslim woman according to islamic tradition my friend that's all but i think it was at the end of the war that this division appears shia sunni. but i think now we've come to threats to take it how does a sunni there nary a shiite is that we're seeing as we 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 youngish 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 said that 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 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. prayers have punctuated each day on the road i sleep while he converses with his god. amidst the wind blown sound appears the mythical city of babylon. in his delusions of grandeur saddam hussein emerged himself to be its king the heir to threaten 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. 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. wealthy british style.

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the new cover international airport in the very heart of moscow. at the end of the road lies come the mecca of vatican and medina of the shia world. but funding 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 what they are responsible for so many victims since baghdad fell. you know i thought i would stress that most of the attacks have

targeted the shia community came up just in one upmanship. pilgrims are well protected here all the officers 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 all. yes 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. of it if i have it. this is. the main prayer takes place in the same 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. and. prayers always end with cries to the glory of the prophet hussein the son of ali allegedly designated by mohammed to be his only successor you never heard that there was. but many on the underside a million shias were detained and many of them were assassinated then thrown into mass graves and center i myself your servant spent twelve years in iraqi jails 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 yes we suffered and the prisons were filled with shias only when they be. leaving kabbalah is like crossing a graveyard. everywhere all portraits of shia mountains fall in for the glory of the prophet hussein mohammed there. little good. thing as. possible. on the baghdad bass run highway in the middle of the desert our faithful taxi finally gives up the ghost. i feel suddenly vulnerable alone in the wilderness.

as if by magic a man appears from the sams to help us out perhaps this is the renowned a desert hospitality. we had for a camp for the men who maintain the highway once they were all soldiers and saddam's army. when the americans came many deserted. without knowing who we are to make room for us to share that meal. without a massive take iraqi army was hunger thirst and fatigue. a member of

your family was taken hostage or she deserves it. you horrible in the 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. in saturn's 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 at the moment. the highway splits the desert and on each side of the road to bask in the vast oil fields of rumaylah kona and mushroom. more than half of the rocky production is pumped from this burning desert a treasure chest within the sound. shell b.p. exxon mobil and the chinese sing a pack of ready 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 of 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 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 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 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 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 in my pocket 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 have no minister has taken the trouble to come and see us to ask how we survive or ask us if we. needy and i think we have nobody to talk to.

and so since the americans left the poor and the powerless join the militia and the terrorist groups who would least provide money and protection. everywhere in the city of portraits of the she might i doubt saddam his 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 hour back 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. when israeli army personally i never thought i know collaborated with the americans . well john what chile i work i am and always have been a taxi driver se. i so i cross the country north to south from south

dakota and follow all taxi i go wherever i can find work i 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

the hoa l.b.l. so the manja kook muscle to create for. baghdad bob alone karbala as far as i'll file we've traveled a road where danger is ever present. khaled was under the protection of these gaunt and me maps of providence.

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the u.s. military withdrawal but hopes for democracy i'm odd by bombings and protests the reports from the hot press. and tens of thousands in bahrain vent their fury over the upcoming four with a one grand prix race scene is giving the gypsum a seat to the regime it's continuing a crackdown on anti-government protests. craving ten pm saturday night here in moscow kevin zero in broadcasting tonight from artie's h.q. in moscow it's good to have your company so that a teenage suspects in monday's deadly marathon bombings in boston has been captured by police a day long manhunt shut the city down while armored vehicles and tactical teams combing the suburb.