baghdad. in the summer of 2006, the army and collaboration of the iraqi army totally cleansed the sunnis of korea is like a man. there was a the neighbor had wealthy the americans were watching. in western baghdad, there is iraqi colonel called colonel sabina to go into peoples homes, sunni homes, arrest the husband have random and fours the women to have sex within for the release of their husbands. i do want to make it seem like she has her being brutally here. she has had american seniority. they had the american military, iraqi police, iraqi army and they had the mahdi army. they had the numbers to defeat the sunnis. in the summer of 2006 come even a little earlier, americans finally came to the realist nation three years too late that the occupation was a problem. the american commander began to describe the american occupation of a problem in our presence in iraq is creating antibodies. that was certainly true in the main struggle in iraq was antieducation come a national liberation stru

in the spring of 1941, the jews of baghdad were on edge. they lived there for 2600 years but they knew there were many arab nazis. when i say and arab nazi i am not talking about a guy running around with a swastika armband. i am talking about hitler youth, i mean actual 100,000 young iraqi jews who went to nuremberg, who went to germany to why it -- march in porche like parades, iraqi arabs who went to germany, brought the concept back to organize the german basis and who considered themselves actual nazis. i need to tell you the second most powerful name for a young child in the arab world was hitler. in fact you could today see some people on the internet, arabs whose name is hitler. i will give you an example. google a man by the name of hitler tantwi. he is an ordinary civil servant in charge of sufficiency. his name is hitler. they had a little theory going on. that adolf hitler was not born in austria. his real name was mohammad hadar. he was a little egyptian boy who visited all the mosques and he was the new savior of the arab peop

this is the four lane highway just like an interstate that connected ramadi and baghdad. they would do highway patrol. highway patrol was so full of firefights and burnout cars on the side of the road that they nicknamed it my last vocabulary word, operation bad bags. they named all their operations after 80s movies. i will read to you a particularly bad day on mad max and afterwards briefly explain how it echoed throughout time. excuse me for using some names i haven't introduced you to but when every picture them pick jimmy ten years ago because they are very young, skinny guys, their helmets look too big for them. don't picture rambo. because you won't have the right image in your head. i am taking you back to 2004 in the sunni triangle. by the end of the week when kenny david philipps wooley -- kenneth eastridge learned his cousin was going back to mad max everyone was on edge. they were trained to protect themselves from an. es by watching for anything out of the ordinary. the problem was they soon also learn almost everything in their corner of iraq was out of the o

they were just outside of town outside of baghdad. why were they there? they had one job, secure the oil. and they did secure the oil for british petroleum. and they said if we don't secure that oil, if the nazis get that oil, they will be unstoppable. well, the nazis did not get that oil. and eventually, the pagram was stopped because someone had the courage in the iraqi government which was changing form from minute to minute to call out guards and suppress the agitation. thereafter, the arabs changed their tactics and said we will no longer work with just urban riots and mass mayhem in the cities. we'll help hitler do what he wanted to do. cross the mountains, come around and exterminate of jews of palestine. how? first of all, we'll make common cause with the iranian. what does the word "iran" mean? aryen. they are the true aryen. the name was changed in persia to invoke the well entrenched name of iran, aryen, as a massive-nazi dominated infrastructure. so after the british took over the oil wells, secured them, that they had from decades in iraq, fo

. >> on march 5th, 2007, a car bomb was exploded on mutanabbi street in baghdad. mutanabbi street is a mixed shia-suni area. more than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded. this locale is the historic center of baghdad book selling, a winding street filled with bookstores and outdoor book stalls. named after the famous 10th century classic poet, al-mutanabbi, this is an old and established street for book selling and has been for hundreds of years. mutanabbi street also holds cafes, stationary shops, and even tea and tobacco shops. it has been the heart and soul of the baghdad literary and intellectual community. this tragedy is part of a wider and continuing tragedy, but one that we want to isolate and address, not only for the loss of lives but also for the implications underlying the destruction of a street where books were sold. book selling on mutanabbi street is no different from book selling here. we traffic in memory, ideas and dreams. in that sense, we feel that mutanabbi street starts at the front door of all of our book shops. mutanabbi

the government has stopped people from coming here to the center of baghdad to show their feelings. the bridge behind me is one of the main routes into baghdad, like every other route into the city sealed up today. no one is getting in. very few people are joining the protest. the government insists this is for security reasons, but it raises questions over its commitment to democratic freedoms. >> you are watching "bbc world news." i am peter dobbie. these are the headlines. the libyan leader tells his supporters in tripoli to fight to defend the country. in the eastern city, protesters celebrate their success. turning our attention to new zealand, the number of people killed by the devastating earthquake on tuesday has risen to 213. more than 200 still missing in christchurch. thousands of survivors are still without power and it could take weeks or supplies to be reconnected. our correspondent went to the epicenter of the quake. >> it is a landscape that looks blissfully tranquil. 3 miles under this mountain range was the epicenter of tuesday's quake. it sends a mass of older hur

jonathan had reports now from the capital, baghdad. >> the people here have just as many reasons to be angry as their neighbors and the rest of the arab world. how they would like to return to some kind of normality, since the fall of saddam hussein off eight years ago, but it has not. been waiting for electricity. most people only get a few hours every day. and they're waiting for food prices to come down to something like affordable levels, but that has not happened either. people here are living in levels of poverty that are hard to believe for a country that has the second-largest oil reserves. you can understand the frustration. there are many demonstrating across the country that feel the same. they are also living under a government that is staggeringly corrupt. just a few years ago they took over from the americans, but the numbers here are not that big. and there is a reason for that, because the government has stopped people from coming to the center of baghdad to share their feelings. the bridge behind me is one of the main routes into baghdad and like every other route and

moscow this is our team with me and he said no way it's six pm here in the russian capital and in baghdad and secretary and violence has forced iraqi christians to seek haven in a relatively calm northern region of kurdistan hundreds of thousands of the minority group fled there in the years following the two thousand and three u.s. led invasion and as sebastian wire reports from iraq those who stayed are a continued target of extremist. every night miriam gets ready for bed with her family but it's not her bed it's not even her house miriam and her family are christian iraqis who have been forced to flee from baghdad to the semi autonomous kurdish region because they become targets of extremist groups in the country in two thousand and seven miriam was hit by a bomb that was planted outside her house. i went out with my on just to buy some chocolate and come back i went out and didn't see anything i just had the bomb and i fell to the ground and the room was lying in the street with her foot dangling from her leg her father i had rushed outside. i saw my daughter lying on the ground it w

this local is the historic center of baghdad book selling. a winding street filled with book stores and out door book stalls. named after the famous 10th century arab poet, this is an old and established street for book selling and has been for hundreds of years. book selling on this street is no different from book selling here. we traffic in memory, ideas and dreams. in that sense we feel the street starts at the front door of all of our book shops. monthknabe street starts here. >> just before the street was eviscerated by a searing length of deathsand despair, delusion and destruction that destroyed more than the 30 lives. twisted more than the 100 souls who were bent and crippled amidst it's rage. just before the moment you were the proclamation, the prayer as they summoned and swore laugh, controlled, denied and affirmed. did you hear the words as they fell. for 2,000 years we have. what do you think. this says, map, border, resistance. truth. spirit, faith. doctrine, domaine. love, free, open, winds, cut. did you here the euphony of th

fifty six people were killed by militants when they attacked the our lady of salvation church in baghdad in the following weeks dozens more were killed in attacks across the country many fear that eventually christians will be driven out of iraq completely of the eight hundred thousand christians in the country before two thousand and three almost half of fled in the past month alone four thousand have moved to the comparative safety of the northern kurdish region here they can worship and live in peace but in living their homes they've lost absolutely everything many like miriam's father and are forced to make a living cleaning toilets in bars and restaurants hegemony i served first seven years in the military under saddam hussein i'm an iraqi christian and i don't have a square stretch of land to my name why what's my crime many in the church feel that countries in the west are responsible. some opinion americans are liars we don't trust them their reputation is terrible because everywhere they've been they have like the us train the sunni and shia and they just watch while they kill i

he did a poor job of mustering the the attack on baghdad.emember, halfway up towards baghdad, and it took us longer to go through what one analyst called the most incompetent armed forces of the world, the iraqi armed forces, and then when we got there, there is a complete failure to understand what we had just done. a christian, western nation, we had just occupied a middle eastern, muslim nation. and we expected what? we expected them to thank us for it? we expected them to behave towards us like we were liberators? it takes an abysmal lack of appreciation for what you are actually doing to have that kind of approach to the problem. he said in an interview that we did just fine up to the mission accomplice statement by president bush on the aircraft carrier, and yes, we took baghdad, but you got yourself into a hole that we are just beginning to get out of eight years later. it was a disaster for american policy in the world. it tore us apart domestically. it helped to bankrupt our defense budget, even though we have been spending huge, ad

we also will keep the baghdad prt in corporation running out of the embassy. so we'll have five, and then we're looking at ways in various other areas such asty y'all la and other --ty allah and other areas that are important to conduct fly-ins to leverage the presence of either the police trainers or the osci to develop, if you will, lily pads that i can physically get security in so that i can move and have contact with the governmental folks so that we maintain some of the tremendous contacts and some of the tremendous programs that west virginia had in places -- that we've had in places where we continue to have a significant presence. >> thank you. we'd like to continue the oversight there this october of 2010 -- there in october of 2010. the state department had over 1,000 employees and be -- 2,700 contractors in iraq. reports indicate that they plan to have and hire 7,000 more security contractors. ambassador jeffrey, how will you insure that these contracts are fulfilled in an appropriate manner avoiding the types of problems that surfaced under the bl

i believe there is still not a saudi embassy in baghdad. how do we transition towards a point where iraq can play a constructive role regionally as we move out of a military-d to a civilian-led presence in iraq? >> thank y, senator. we touched a bit on iran. let me go around counterclockwise from north toward the west and south. turkey, as i mentioned, is a major trading, investment and energy partner of iraq's. that relationship is developing in a very, very important, almost dramatic way. the current erdogan government has taken a very different approach than earlier governments with the kurdistan regional govnment in the north and now has a good and close relationship with it. but also at the same time primacy to the central government, of course, in baghdad. we're seeing this in increased energy, exports, through tuey, increased turkish investments, not just in energy but particularly in oil and other energy fields, electricity, housing, and, again, two-way trade. the turk do have security interests in iraq, particularly the presence of

i believe there is still not a saudi embassy in baghdad. how do we transition towards a point where iraq can play a constructive role regionally as we move out of a military-led to a civilian-led presence in iraq? >> thank you, senator. we touched a bit on iran. let me go around counterclockwise from north toward the west and south. turkey, as i mentioned, is a major trading, investment and energy partner of iraq's. that relationship is developing in a very, very important, almost dramatic way. the current erdogan government has taken a very different approach than earlier governments with the kurdistan regional government in the north and now has a good and close relationship with it. but also at the same time primacy to the central government, of course, in baghdad. we're seeing this in increased energy, exports, through turkey, increased turkish investments, not just in energy but particularly in oil and other energy fields, electricity, housing, and, again, two-way trade. the turks do have security interests in iraq, particularly the pr

christian iraqis who have been forced to flee from baghdad to the semi autonomous kurdish region because they become targets of extremist groups in the country in two thousand and seven miriam was hit by a bomb that was planted outside her house they lack i went out with my arms just to buy some chocolate and come back and went out and didn't see anything i just had the bomb and i fell to the ground miriam was lying in the street with her foot dangling from her leg her father i had rushed outside. i saw my daughter lying lightly groans it was a live in my my daughter was lying in the growing and people were running shouting everything was covered in dust and a shortage of glass so i picked up my daughter with her legs dangling i almost lost it i was shaking my daughter's date she's been hit by a bomb but. luckily i had was able to get her to a doctor who could repair her leg but others have not been so lucky in october last year fifty six people were killed by militants when they attacked the our lady of salvation church in baghdad in the following weeks dozens more were killed in attack

chimp colleagues while working in iraq many fitzsimmons shot the man dead during a drunken brawl in baghdad he's the first wedding westerner convicted in a rocky court since the two thousand and three invasion his follows a deal between baghdad and washington that allows iraqi authorities to prosecute foreign contractors who violate the country's nerves. in the hollywood news the eighty third oscars in los angeles the king's speech reign supreme gathered for academy awards including best actor for karl inderfurth portrayal of king george the sixth natalie portman won best actress for her performance as a troubled ballerina in black swan her biggest rival was the social network the story of facebook's inception three statuettes. russian black caviar producers hope to ship more than two tons of the delicacy to the european union this year and it could soon become more affordable because russian scientists have found a way to harvest the eggs without killing the sturgeon that means families could be enjoying caviar without breaking the bank. this is the new klondike home to black gold caviar l