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Betrayed In Iraq

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Leila Fadel: Leaders of Awakening Councils are arrested, tortured and killed by Iraq government.

Leila Fadel, Baghdad Bureau Chief of McClatchy Newspapers speaks to Paul Jay about the recent escalation in violence in Iraq's capital. She says the former fighters termed the "Sons of Iraq" who have turned on Al Qaeda and joined the U.S. are now being persecuted by the Iraq government. She says the Maliki government is afraid of the power they've accumulated in the neighborhoods they were put to protect by the U.S. and many are now in exile or in hiding.

Leila Fadel is the chief of the Baghdad bureau of McClatchy Newspapers. She has covered the war in Iraq for Knight Ridder and now McClatchy on and off since June 2005, as well as the 34-day war in Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel in the summer of 2006. Prior to joining the McClatchy team she worked at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as a crime and higher education reporter.

Fadel graduated from Northeastern University in Boston in 2004 and has lived in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. She speaks conversational Arabic. She was named print journalist of the year by the Houston Press Club for her work in 2005 and won a Katie Award from the Dallas Press Club in 2006 for her portfolio of work.

Her Iraq reporting won her Print Journalist of the Year honors from the Houston Press Club citing her work from "Bedford (Texas) to Baghdad."
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  • Inofuilwell
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      Inofuilwell  

    • Am I crazy or couldn't this "coalition" of various religious alliances been accomplished if after the escape of Saddam from Baghdad, had we concentrated on rebuilding destroyed infrastructure and left the fleshing out of the constitution and structure of Government to the Iraqis?

      Correct me if I am wrong but wasn't there a time when the vacuum left by Saddam left a hole that wasn't immediately filled with insurgents?

      Wasn't it instead filled with angry citizens that had seen their infrastructure destroyed?

      Wasn't it also the ineffectively slow and corrupt US-controlled system to rebuild even a level of service they had enjoyed under Hussein that further alienated ordinary Iraqis?

    • 3 years ago
  • endautism
  • jubal
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      jubal  

    • The only solution to the problems that could result if America leaves Iraq is to leave the country divided into three or four separate sovereign states.

    • 3 years ago
  • jubal
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      jubal  

    • This smells so much like what the US did to groups in Afghanistan when they encouraged them to rise up against the Russians. America betrayed those groups and didn't come through with any of the promises they had made; claiming that they didn't have the authority to override the government of Afghanistan.

      This betrayal had a lot to do with the Taliban coming to power, they capitalized on the anger felt as a result of the betrayal.

    • 3 years ago
  • jh64487
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      jh64487  

    • er...supposedly for trying to revive the baath party.

      realistically it was never going to work. the sunni's view the shiites as heretics and have been in control for decades. peace maintained through brutality. now the shoe is on the other foot.

      I say let them decide what they wanna do with their country even if there is violence. Iraq was created by france and britain after ww1 or 2 so its not even a real nation. its a western creation.

      and like most western things outside of the west, it failed

    • 3 years ago
  • maasanova
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      maasanova  

    • Oh yeah that's the guy who changed his mind after he figured out he was about to have an "accident" if he didn't quickly change his tune.

    • 3 years ago
  • jkw077
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      jkw077  

    • Van Romero, an explosives expert and former director of the Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center at New Mexico Tech, said on September 11, 2001, "My opinion is, based on the videotapes, that after the airplanes hit the World Trade Center there were some explosive devices inside the buildings that caused the towers to collapse." Mr. Romero's comments have been widely censored in the U.S. press.

    • 3 years ago
  • maasanova
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      maasanova  

    • This was the plan all along by the Pentagon; to break up Iran into three to four managable parts.

      Don't forget that the reason why we are in Iraq is because the Office of Special Plans, an Israeli intelligence front of mostly Jewish Zionists, cooked up bogus intelligence about ficticious Iraqi WMD.

      Events Leading Up to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq

      http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_timeline_of_the_200...

      This situation was never meant to be resolved. And now we have the UK leaving Basra and handing it over to US forces.

    • 3 years ago
  • pjacobs51
  • ejasun
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      ejasun  
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    • Iraqi government for dragging its feet: It had promised to give the Sons of Iraq jobs in the security forces. Instead, the Iraqi government has arrested some of its leaders.

      The Sons of Iraq, or Awakening Councils, the U.S.-created program helped turn the tide against the insurgency by offering steady employment to disaffected Sunni Arabs in exchange for help battling al-Qaeda and other militant groups

    • 3 years ago
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