mobile devices you can watch artie anytime anywhere. visiting the general hospital in fallujah is like living it was a nightmare. children with two heads tumors wealth of nations missing limbs and macao brain on bearable little they say every family here is sheltering or hiding a deformed monstrous child. all of them. 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 newborn monsters. we head for baghdad on the banks of the tigris. to. baghdad can be translated as the garden of peace. but it's a better fragile peace the patrols or iraqi wearing uniforms are blind by the us 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 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 a 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 jamie to. put folly the combat continues. and it's through theatre that he hopes to win it his method is to reinvest the public with a sense of resistance and a taste for life. i know that 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 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 your shoulder but 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. nine out of us i know so much or guys who joined al qaeda just to get some money. so out of the hard. of several al qaeda gives them money whereas the government abandons them.

there were flaws. but that paid to kill here on that floor still closed about michelle obama so they've ruined their futures that lives and their families find out all the while home. 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 cause more than one hundred ten thousand victims

a century civilian. syriac khaldiyeh and also docks and armenian churches have become choice targets. al qaeda assassins and sunni and shia fanatics agree on nothing except only fixing the christians they accuse of being western crusaders. baghdad is a raising its illustrious christian past. checkpoints abound every hundred meters in crossing baghdad is a permanent obstacle course. that almighty iraq is a battlefield for a ray of foreign forces from iran supports the shia brothers while saudi arabia age there is the sunnis. as for the month i live in. a sunny district.

in two thousand and six it was all. 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 préfet 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 just at the apathetic about. 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. yes quite simply hell here sheer hell. sadness 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 i. haven't. been. so hard she does. she's invited us to dinner.

among. young adults twenty years off. how have you got through it as a woman. i grew up in a male on your head and how first the war with iran then the embargo and the two american intervention i see. a little 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 only thing that

lets you down i want. to. come up with this one of my wife is developed 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 a shia from the rest couple today war and religion have also imposed boundaries on love. as the lights go out once again the neighborhoods back up generators take over i do all. that give. not in the same when are you. i'm shia my husband is sunni must have had now after the war the two religions can't intermarriage anymore and that's and 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 of sunni it's shameful treating people this way in iraq with all muslims there was. so much a muslim man asks for the hand of a muslim woman according to islamic tradition by faith and that's all but how it was at the end of the war that this division appeared shia sunni. but i guess now we've come to threats. how does the sunni dare marry a shiite is the worst thing as yet but what if the alternative is to get divorced or die you know if you don't agree to get divorced you risk death thinking you know and yet here 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 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. 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. khaled's 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 in the dust of pride and ambition. his memory has been left to the ravages of time and the insults of his survivors.

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is easy to. see. at the end of the road lies come the mecca of vatican and medina of the shia world . but the god of the 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 the shia it. pilgrims are well protected. all the officers and soldiers are shia. several million faithful including many from iran come every year to visit the mosques and kabbalah 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.

this is. the main prayer takes place in hussein most. the interim 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 then thrown into

mass graves and center by 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 you be. leaving kabbalah is like crossing a graveyard. everywhere all portraits of shia mountains fall in for the glory of the prophet hussein mohammed they're. little bit. 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 sands to help us out perhaps this is the right now the desert hospitality. we had for a camp for the men who maintained the highway once they were all soldiers and saddam's army. when the americans came many deserted. and.

without knowing who we all got to make room for us to share that. with out of massive the iraqi army was hunger thirst and fatigue. remember your family was taken hostage and she deserves it. you horrible in the days when they called people who ran away they were simply hang out with them one on 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 bank he was carrying was worth we can definitely say we were really miserable. not wroth about sharing. the highway splits the desert and on each side of the road to basra and 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 reach best 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 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 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 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 that 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 there 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 mind that 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 or that. my head of 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 and 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. and 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 outback oil 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 i know collaborated with the

americans. well john what chile where i work i am and always have been a taxi driving us here. i still can't 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 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 ill so the manja kook must soon to create for. baghdad bob alone kabbalah as far as i'll file we've traveled a road where danger is ever present. khaled was under the protection of his god and me maps of providence.

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