Baghdad is more divided than ever - a short film courtesy of Guardian Films
In the first of Ghaith Abdul-Ahad's extraordinary series of films to mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, he investigates the claims that the US military surge is bringing stability to Iraq. By travelling through the heart of Baghdad he exposes how, by enclosing the Sunni and Shia populations behind 12ft walls, the surge has left the city more divided and desperate than ever.
Journey to Baghdad killing fields Is the surge working? City of Walls Part 2 - a short film courtesy of Guardian Films
On the fifth anniversary of the US/British-led invasion of Iraq, the Guardian's award-winning foreign correspondent Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has teamed up with ITV News to bring us a series of extraordinary films for the ITV News and guardian.co.uk. In these unprecedented films he, as an Iraqi, goes where foreign journalists can no longer go - to the heart of Baghdad's most dangerous sectarian zones. He uncovers Iraq's own killing fields where only the "killers and the killed" can visit; and he reveals the desperate truth of the trafficked children of Iraq.
If you were forced to live like this, What Would You Do!
Especially for the children who survive, it's a training ground for hatred and retaliations, it's a mind altering experiance robbing the children of the childhood they should have, it's the total opposite of what they should be experiancing, it changes their lives from what they could have become, it destroys the lives around them and their own!
Toting menacing looking toy guns, young boys swarm around an abandoned car, chanting battle cries of a Shiite militia and pointing their play weapons at the “terrorist” in the driver’s seat.
In this day and age these 'games' are the training ground for the next Jihadists in that part of the world, to carry their 'game' outside of those confines!
“You coward! I will kill you,” shouted 6-year-old Haidar Faraj, who played a Shiite militiaman from the Shiite Mahdi Army militia on a recent afternoon in Hurriyah. His younger brother Abbas was the Sunni “terrorist.”
Their future is being laid out before them by us so called 'Responsible Adults'!
“They challenge teachers and even threaten them,” said biology teacher Abu Ali. “They are so frustrated and do not care about their work because they think they may end up displaced or killed, so why should they bother to study.”
A Recent Video Production I put together:
"Child of War"
After viewing you would be wise to visit these two Reports below. This is just one of the results many of us, opposed to the failed policies, right from the beginning, were saying would happen if those policies were carried out, it has only gotten worse since they were!
And 'Finally' there is a recognition of what already has been developing and not only as to the above! There is much more at the sites than the initial reports! And what will happen has Nothing to do with 'Hating' our Freedoms and Democracy nor Religious Ideologies!
"I think the Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude" - The pResident {Yep up to 655,000 are really Grateful, many in their Mass Graves, as are their Survivors}
"I think once they get in harm's way, Congress's tradition is to support those troops," Mr. Hadley said. {Harms Way, shows what the administration thinks of the Troops, it's called a Strong Defense!}
The Failed Policies will Haunt Us and the World for Decades!
