on the road to bass for this morning the u.s. army is beginning to withdraw from iraq. in december twenty ninth and nine years of occupation the last american troops are finally leaving the country. and remember the guy got in about it and the only way to get it members of the iraqis anger towards the departing invaders who once dreamed of being liberators the departure resembles abandonment and escape despite the optimistic speeches. a. cease. a.

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april twenty twelve and i'm back in iraq and so on the border with turkey. i have an appointment this morning with khaled and his taxi. family the united states that they would make a democracy out of iraq in the heart of the arab world but iraq i see today is a country on the brink of chaos torn between three groups sunni's and shia's. it is a country divided a stranger to peace the town about to cross a taxi ride to the heart of iraqi history. from the hole in the north travelled down through l b let some ammonia. tikrit

volusia baghdad babylon. and i'll file a road map of the iraqi tragedy. so obviously i'm delighted the americans have finally left iraq as much as we are rockies are very happy not to see it or hear anymore enough was enough 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 because we were living in peace and they came to destroy our country and also but all of us 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.

was. 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 being made possible by the discovery of all. 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 is a member of the new kurdish parliament. but just you know in iraq we can say that oil has always been a curse. but today in kurdistan that's changing. foreign oil companies are coming here to work with. 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. that he had any of this that. 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 and put the. no one to one or the people who want their own country a country called could look at it 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 riches.

without driver khalid we had east towards the mountains along the border with around. 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. and school. nine hundred eighty eight during the allen national a military campaign waged by saddam against the kurds my village was completely destroyed. and that some of the inhabitants would be ported to southern iraq and locked up in the terrible new grandson prison camp. many women children and men when nasa could 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 of a 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 their villages. burning gassing and destroying the villages meant controlling kurdistan.

lunches like a homage to the victims on the menu adama stuffed vegetables prepared by a midwife. 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 one. 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 and passengers foreign or anyone with. this road has seen a lot of drama how many times did the american shoot 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 what if you're right about the attacks and kidnappings are frequent in area. at the moment 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

al-qaeda or 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 keg. so i went to. this morning's planters around occurred but the network who can kurdistan's independence he would pay with his own blood. said i want to. cut a book. that has to become part of current standing and that leaves it's vital we are 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 that is in 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 me i am a kurd and hospitality is a custom with us. you can continue your journey after the middle. i swear before

god when i come to the restaurant with me you are welcome but. a way of calling. for khaled it's time to pray. and 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. was. it said that 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 in the opening of a private school a generous act which has attracted m.p.'s attention i don't like. 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 hobby hello about me hello little you know a nothing of hobbies that is simple but it. got a man introduced himself as a member of a terrorist organisation and demanded money for that and 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 in. michael but we have to we're still life has to go on. that. neither the terrorists or you or anyone else can stop me from work and the still only god is the master of my destiny.

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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. my name is ahmed and about i am a law student today is a festival of university day that's why we can see all the troops they're here to protect us. the situation is very difficult the country is undergoing a wave of anonymous attacks and assassination 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 are 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 and. 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. i 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're 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. but god will save iraq

a little. sorry. he had to draw yet they want to make iraq a wretched country cannot be. but that would be assassinate the best among us the terrorist who kills a journalist like my colleague at the news channel or who kills a religious man behind an economic 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 seen. in the city center the mosque still bears the name of the man who built it was saddam hussein was. delist come to pay a final homage to his murdered friend. on april second two thousand and twelve.

in a journalist for a local t.v. station was killed instantly when his car exploded. down. 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. for the americans didn't come here to look for weapons of mass destruction nor to hunt down saddam hussein they came to rob us and to kill us asian iraq it was a unified country but then what happened when they arrived 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 not but 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. as we leave tikrit we come to a village in the heart of saddam hussein's kingdom where 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 were two kalashnikovs and seven hundred fifty thousand dollars.

ah there are those taxis a gas guzzler and we need more petrol. but it was here. we seek out the black market and the power level 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. now faltering 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 custom as the whole affair was an american manipulation.

movement the greek word plays a key role in the arab world and. the americans use the country to trap saddam of like them very i mean how did before they set the bait up and he took it for what 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 fever victory sign is aimed

at as we finally enter the ravaged city of fallujah. joe was the scene of one of the most violent american offensives of the. g.i. summerlee killed youngsters and whole families here any time last korea kalisch recover. but that blew up hearts and caused a lot of fatalities. fallujah is the most ravaged city in iraq of them annoy you. know yes that's the american answer but. the heat is unbearable and the motor is overheating the local grocer helpless to cool it. he's a man driven by anger he experienced the battle of fallujah at first hand and how

hot it was watch i was how they are you could not 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. heads are 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 that saddam the only way that i could know if there's justice in the world bush will have to answer for is war crimes and crimes against humanity he claimed iraq had weapons of mass destruction but where were they these weapons. let me although i do know that this was a killer using white phosphorous bomb while the moment so i'm not even the mosque was saved from his barbarity when i look at the ruined minaret well on. that's bush's democracy and the judgment of them about the other was a good idea. on

november seventh two thousand for a deluge of iron and fire rains down on the city of two hundred mosques had to die it was a last stronghold for the al qaeda mujahideen. twelve thousand marines three hundred tanks on one hundred also helicopters were launched against pollution. 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. in their offensive it's

thought the u.s. troops used white phosphorous bombs and depleted uranium weapons banned by all international conventions. to 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

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don't follow my example you know it can be dangerous for your health. a massive march towards the prime minister's office is met with a cloud of tear gas from police in the turkish capital one a large protest against the government is up and running in istanbul. this after troop restless days of party clashes in the city sparked by a brutal crackdown on the peaceful environmental rally which reportedly left two people there. also this hour and an army of riot gear club police around the european central bank in frankfurt charging into crowds of protesters from the scene where many thousands were demanding an end to austerity. also promised sunny cleric calls for a plan islamic jihad against president granted him an infidel worse than jews and christians just days.