this point this unraveling is the subject of a recent article by journalist staff reporter with truthout dot org and one of the very few on and that a journalist to have reported from the ground in iraq during the u.s. invasion in two thousand and three on earlier dars joined me and i first asked him to break down exactly what events have taken place since the u.s. withdrawal that have led to iraq becoming a near failed state. is really all started with maliki took power because since that time all he has really been launching organized are going attack against the the minority sunni population there's been reports on massive amounts of torture detainees being about he's been seen in government forces and upright and i really sunni neighborhoods of baghdad as well as in towns like allusion to detain sudanese and holding them in secret prisons a lot of this is. come out over the years many years since he's been in power human rights watch has done reports on it as has amnesia and the senior national on his secret detention facilities around baghdad and this escalated to a point where begi

we have a situation that looks the way it does today and in a recent article you just wrote for truthout really great article you describe daily life in iraq during the height of the occupation as being a walk in the park compared to how violent the country is they paint that picture for our viewers i'm just an average iraq what they deal with on a database and. there's a man whom i quote in the article who is a sunni man who's married with three small children living in the middle of baghdad in a predominantly sunni neighborhood and he i quote him at length in the article because his story is so telling of so many sunni's now living as a minority population being persecuted by the maliki regime in baghdad and he said that we literally can't go north south east or west because there's fighting if we go north east or west if we can't go south because the area is completely controlled by shia militias that are basically hunting sunni at this point we have the mahdi army the badr brigade etc other shia militias that are literally going around trying to find sunni's the kill they've taken th

that country crucial story of bringing to light thank you for doing it dar jamal staff reporter truthout dot org an author of beyond the green zone really pushing your insights thank you coming up all the latest on the ground from gaza stay tuned. on american in the financial world. tacked. on to generally take no demand it's great it's not going to get any economic benefit in life. and i'm hot. the interview. they want to say to those countries back to the middle ages a public event. for the database and you know they derive the ability to bury a very rigid interpretation of if you look at a country like egypt for example sound very high poverty the reason this might also be i think is because the religious led calls the boundary and the border and that's the kind of suppression if you look at the liberal the state of a country like turkey most ninety nine percent muslim led economy it's. this weekend saw the bloodiest days since the start of israel's nearly two week long assault on the gaza strip operation protective on saturday night i.d.f. forces crushed the residential neighborhood

of that country crucial story bringing to light thank you for doing it dar jamal staff reporter truthout dot org an author of beyond the green zone really pushing your insights thank you. coming up all the all the latest on the ground from gaza stay tuned. oh. this weekend saw the bloodiest days since the start of israel's nearly two week long assault on the gaza strip operation protective show on saturday night i.d.f. forces crushed the residential neighborhood of shy. killing at least sixty people in just one hour in fact the shelling was so severe ambulances couldn't even access the area to assist the dying and injured left line in the streets now israel's launched a media campaign justifying the atrocity claiming that rockets were being kept below the village and just this morning the i.d.f. bombed the hospital killing three people and wounding fifty more this wasn't the first. time israel specifically targeted a medical center since the siege began the bloodshed has brought gaza's death toll to at least five hundred thirty seven people killed at the time of this broadcast according