hiding a deformed monstrous child. you have to. get it undergo another 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 had 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 are iraqi wearing uniforms supplied 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 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 little. 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 for all and return to his native city. when 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. 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 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 lawless i know some store guys who joined al qaeda just to get some money. so out of the car then the model of several al qaeda gives them money whereas the government abandons them by the thumping of laws. that paid to kill here on their floors. about michelle obama so they've ruined their futures that lives and their families find out oh my while home. my for nothing.

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 only victim the

christians they accuse of being western crusaders. baghdad is raising its a loss tree as 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 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 objected 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 how to you know their ideas revenue the battles raged for seventy two hours you know. al-qaeda. i mean the militia everyone was fighting mad the 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 path and it was me ritual from just up the apathetic about. 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. 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 without.

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. having. 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 on you and how first the war with iran and then the embargo and the two american intervention i sound. a little but now. the

first in one nine hundred ninety and the second in two thousand and three. live for the around 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 the only thing that that's really done 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 son and a share for the rest couple today war and religion have also imposed by andres on love. as the lights go out once again the

neighborhoods back up generators take over are you or a mess of the family that you. now think that we were hearing. from shia my husband is sunni must have had now after the war the two religions can't intermarriage anymore and 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 of sydney it's 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 faith and that's all. but i think how it was at the end of the war that this division appeared shia sunni. but i guess now we've come to threats head how does a sunny day or an area see out in the hours 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 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 he knew 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. 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 emerged himself to be its king the heir to the throne 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 saddam 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. world with. science technology innovation all the least of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. they played a family jazz band together. play hijacked a plane together. most of them from music to tara.

twenty five years old questions still remain. as bad hi jack. limitation and free credit take should free in-store judges are free to make amends three. three stooges free. download free broadcast plug in video for your media projects and free media to r.t. dot com you. live. good speed. her.

i wish i. looked. good luck with a good. place to. play lists. and i'm a. little. live. at the end of the road lies come the mecca of vatican and medina of the shia world .

but something about the not 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 that's one of the. pilgrims are well protected here all the offices and soldiers a 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 a sheaf invader always has trouble understanding the country they occupy and as the

heir proverb says no one knows the roads of mecca better than its own inhabitants limit that. i have it if i have it. this is. the main prayer takes place and he's saying most. the interim sermons have 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 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 years were detained and many of them were assassinated then thrown into mass graves and it's not much of a. 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 of us we suffered and the prisons were filled with shias only when the f.b.i. . leaving kabbalah is like crossing a graveyard. everywhere all portraits of shia mountains fallen for the glory of the prophet hussein mohammed their. little bit of.

a hospital. on the back the 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 babs 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 in

saddam's army. when the americans came many deserted. without knowing who we all go. to make room for us to share that. with out of my take iraqi army was hunger thirst and fatigue. remember your family was taken hostage by she deserves it. you horrible new days when they call people who ran away they were simply hang on. i spent seven years in the army and it was very tough. insana most days a soldier was paid two thousand dinars 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 bastra and the vast

oil fields of rumaylah emotional. 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 reached bastrop but 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 of it 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 one 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 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 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. this year 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 could 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. 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. from this is the al back of all 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 clothed 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 iran. on the iranian bank a gigantic portrait of the m.m. how many is there to talk to 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. which i want your i work to be i am and always have been a taxi driver se. i still can cross the country north to south from that hotel follow all taxi i go wherever i can find work and 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 bill so the manja 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 his god and me.

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