troops are finally leaving the country. every guy got in about it and the only way to get members of the iraqis anger towards the departing invaders who once dreamed of being liberators their departure resembles abandonment and escape despite the optimistic speeches. cease.

they pull twenty twelve and i'm back in iraq in soho on the border with turkey. i have an appointment this morning with a lebanese taxi. families in the united states said they would make a democracy out of iraq in the heart of the arab world. but the iraq i see today is a country on the brink of chaos torn between three groups kurds sunnis and shias.

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. little ammonia. tikrit volusia baghdad babylon. and. a road map of the iraqi tragedy. serve obviously i'm delighted the americans have finally left iraq as much as we are rockies are very happy not to see it here anymore enough was enough of 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 of them and of course we were living in peace and they came to destroy our country and also without all the years 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 the country. of. origin. was no more 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 been 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 said alex is a member of the new kurdish parliament. that's the.

biggest you know with in iraq we can say that oil has always been a curse. but today in kurdistan that's changing there's no foreign oil companies are coming here to work you know. montoya revenues are finally being used for reconstruction of what negative it's a huge difference for us as in saddam's times we never benefited from the oil money or tide and you see i would he had any of this that i don't know that yet and i know he went so it's quite simple we are kurds before we're iraqis and can wear them out so 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 this is that. no one to one or the people want their own country a country called could stand looking at him as that they want their own passport

but there's no kurdish one i suppose you could stand. a land of shepherd's kurdistan is discovering well through its oil a nightmare for baghdad which had long controlled with the resources and richards. without drive a holiday we had east towards the mountains along the border with a round. 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 early as i don't know so i stuck in one thousand nine hundred eight during the alan. file

a military campaign waged by saddam against the kurds my village was completely destroyed. and that some of the inhabitants would be pulled to southern iraq and locked up in the terrible new grandson on prison counted. but on many women children and men women last weekend 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. lunch is like a homage to the victims on the menu adama stuffed vegetables prepared by a man to wife. a 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 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 at anyone who approached them passenger foreign or anyone with a sign on this road has seen a lot of drama how many times did the americans shut 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 a drug about the attacks and kidnappings are frequent in the area. and there is no 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 the 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 at getting there but it. the constant road blocks me now two hundred kilometer journey takes eight hours. night has fallen 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. he 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 cake. said i want to talk about this morning's planter's around occurred but the network who can kurdistan's independence he would pay with his own blood. kind of book. that has to become part of current standing and that it's vital we're bonded by blood to go to them but that they can kill us and shoot at us but

he won't change anything we are linked to kurdistan as i'm a city i mean we cannot live outside of kurdistan it would be like dying. my brother we invite you to a restaurant. i cannot let you go without inviting you i am a kurd and hospitality is a custom with us. you can continue your journey after the mail and i swear before god i come to the restaurant with me you are welcome when you get away of course. for khaled it's time to pray. for us to eat. as we enter the village a few peace men appear as an escort. i would say to watch as they say to protect us . and so i pay for everyone's meal as a kind of friendly tax and what. it said of kirkuk could be one of the world's richest cities it is certainly one of the

most dangerous. discreet an ordinary heroin. saima who is a kurd investor are opposed and fortune and the opening of a private school a generous act which has attracted m.p.'s attention. i'm terrified. if i do the day after or not that was broadcast to promote the school to physio and so i got a telephone call and i'm with you old enough to join with the know your first solo hobby hello about any hello little you know name nothing of hobbies it is someone bought it. and then introduced himself as a member of a terrorist organisation and demanded money for them one of my colleagues were terrorized through. other like cells 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. that. neither the terrorists nor anyone else can stop me from working as a pistol only god is the master of my destiny. wealthy british style aside some time to the title of my current. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cons a report on our. children from want to financials and have a special face as how it got to. mama.

a child shouldn't live in an orphanage for a long child should be raised in a family during these years a little eleven children have been returned by adoptive families. the one to eighty percent of the children from lower orphanage a place to find. the child has brought us so much happiness.

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 in. across what appears to be a dead city and yet today mosul is in party mode. and. i

asked my name is ahmed on about i'm a law student just to be out today is a festival the university day that's why we can see all the troops they're here to protect us jade. the situation is very difficult the country is undergoing a wave of anonymous attacks and assassination joyed 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 trial of 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 were 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 feel he's a journalist and he lost his best friends just two days ago. god will save iraq. sorry. we had to draw they want to make iraq a wretched country not be. glad when they assassinate the best among us. the terrorist who kills a journalist like my colleague at the news channel who kills a religious man back 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 have any of us. in the city center the mosque still bears the name of the man who built it was saddam hussein's. idealist come to pay a final homage to his murdered friend. i am on april second two thousand and twelve rounds a holiday in a journalist for a local t.v. station was killed instantly when his car exploded. was not. 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 nor to hunt down certain are saying they came to rob us and to kill us asian 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 there in the open 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 that all muslims are the self that. as we leave tikrit we come to a village the heart of saddam hussein's kingdom. well 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 with two kalashnikovs and seven hundred fifty thousand dollars. by the. other are those taxis a gas guzzler and we need more petrol. but it was here. we seek out the black market a parallel 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 on the machines

a cool down with a hose. for the men it's time to wash and pray before sitting down for a meal. that surprised by my presence but soon opened up. for the sunny customers the whole affair was an american manipulation. movement the greek word the ideal weight plays a key role in the arab world and. the americans use the country to trap set up by them fearing i mean how did the ford they set the boat up and he took it. 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 v. for victory sign is aimed at as we finally enter the ravaged city of fallujah. and the little girl oh joe was the scene of one of the most violent american offensives. a g.i. summerlee killed youngsters and whole families here yani. kalisch

recover. but they 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 lots of legit . 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 hard it was was i am what they are you call that democracy now it's quite simply about killing and stealing our wealth our lands with burnt from the effects of the white phosphorous bombs and now our children are gone disfigured one of the gods. they're 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 the could do if there's 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 there was a killer using white phosphorous bomb while the mamma thought not even the mosque was safe from his barbarity look at the ruined minarik well that's bush's democracy in the judgement only a little more about the other bullshit. on november seventh two thousand and four a deluge of fire rained 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 one 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 phosphorous bombs and depleted uranium weapons by all international conventions. our new passenger is not administrator at the general hospital. since the battle of

fallujah ended has kept 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. up i learnt that the war is far from over in fact it's still going on for the stigmata rivera and their evolving in two thousand and five we noted a spectacular increase in genetic malformations a new born babies how large the. voters only show a tiny part of their reality just for the month of january we recorded forty three

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