seems way too eager to arm radical foreigners and disarm average americans when they should be doing the exact opposite but that's just my opinion. visiting the general hospital in fallujah is like living it was a nightmare. children with two heads toomas malformations missing limbs and macao been unbearable literally they say every family here is sheltering or hiding a deformed monstrous child. from. getting

me and the grandmother you know my daughter cries all day long it is but she hopes to see her daughter get better. i. i deeply affected i leave for lucia the city with its newborn monsters. we head for baghdad on the banks of the tigris. baghdad can be translated as the garden of peace. but it's a bitter fragile peace the patrols or 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 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 and the united states believed it of 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 is through theatre that he hopes to win it is methodist 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 wasn't the overriding color in the city is khaki the color of soldiers it was 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 than a beginner shoulda been more than a. 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. not of lawless i know some of your guys who joined al qaeda just to get some money. so out of the car then the model of seven gives the money whereas the government abandons them farther thought there were flaws. but 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. i know i might 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 caused more than one hundred ten thousand victims a century civilian. syriac l.d.n. orthodox and armenian churches have become choice targets. al qaeda assassins and sunni and shia fanatics agree on nothing except on effecting the christians they accuse of being western crusaders. baghdad as it were. using it's

a less 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 attributed 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 of you know their ideas revenue the battles raged for seventy two hours you know. al-qaeda the army the militia everyone was fighting maybe higher 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 ritual from just. 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 china 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. 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 the not for sure god is good and. evil. but i'm. sure the school teacher she's invited us to. hear out of twenty years of. how you got through it as a woman. i grew up in email on your head and how first the war with iran then the embargo and the two american intervention i sound. a little but my 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 strangled 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 lets you down i want. to. come up with a sort of 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. up doing a sunday and a shia for the rest 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. that.

none not in the thing that we were hearing. on shia my husband assume must have 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 cindy 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 my faith and that's all but i think how it was at the end of the war that this division appears shia sunni. but yet now we've come to threats headed how does a sunni there an area shiite is that we're seeing as we look at that what if the alternative is to get divorced or da 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. the city gates the soldier who checks out passports tells us yet another attack a scar to the capital. well it's. another checkpoint on the road to babylon we present our passports and passes. a 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 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 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. 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. canada. why not what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cars are there are no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on r g. we speak your language. news programs and documentaries in spanish what matters to you breaking news. it

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a good live. animal. i. find i'm a little. 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. they are responsible for so many victims since baghdad fell . you know at the end i would stress that most of the attacks have targeted the shia community cannot just man up and say. pilgrims are well protected here

all the offices and soldiers. 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 the hussein mosques. 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 end 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 and thrown into mass graves and. 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 it was an officer who come to interrogate me yes 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 there. little bit the. dust. 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 renowned desert hospitality. we had for a camp for the men who maintain the highway once they were old soldiers in saddam's army. when the americans came many deserted. them without knowing who we all got to make room for us to share their name. with out of the massive take iraqi army was hunger thirst and fatigue. remember your family was taken hostage and she deserves it. it really horrible new

days when they caught people who ran away they were simply hang on. one and i spent seven years in the army and it was very tough. in santa most 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 and mushroom. more than half of iraqi production is pumped from this burning desert a treasure chest within the sand. shale 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 and 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 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 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 the situation was much better before. the venice of the self is 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 the other but 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 in 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 the focus of oh my god no minister has taken the trouble to come and see us to ask how we survived or ask us if we need anything like that we have nobody to talk to.

and so since the americans left the poor in the path. well as join the militia and the terrorist groups who would least provide money and protection. everywhere in the city of portraits of the shia in might i doubt saddam his radical troops feed on poverty. the road ends and 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 talk to 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. which i watch i work i am and always have been a taxi driving us. i still can cross the country north to south from south dakota and follow or i go wherever i can find work have that i don't hesitate god

be praised all i want to still live. twenty days on the road perhaps one hundred checkpoints. with my friend khaled and we crossed a country which is officially no longer at war but where peace is not being restored to a country divided by sectarian shia sunni and kurd communities a country where tara is a daily issue. from

the hoa they'll be able so the manja kook muscle to create for. baghdad babilonia cabala bastro as far as i'll file we traveled a road where danger is ever present. khaled was under the protection of his god i'm a lapse of providence. cherub

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i'm not. a stumbles tank seems quiet he's punctual on to government demonstrations called the third day in a row and me to tears unless could return to the tucker safely with a renewed vigor if the police move in. all this out to two restless days with tear gas and water cannons and pepper spray used to quell the public fury which reported in the two people died and sound strong with moderations all across the. plaza involved want to know me of ryan to get at least around the european central bank in frankfurt laying into clouds of protest and report from the scene where many thousands demanded and start receipt. and also prominent sunni cleric calls for up.