Iraq's dangerous uncertain future
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Leila Fadel: Iraqis will hold America accountable for what happens next.
Leila Fadel, Baghdad Bureau Chief of McClatchy Newspapers, speaks to Paul Jay about the changes in Iraq over the past four years. "Things, security-wise, have calmed down," says Fadel. In terms of whether the Iraqi people will be able to provide their own security when the United States leaves, Fadel says that, "there is a sense of a waiting game going on here... I think the fight for power is just beginning." She says that there is, "the sense of the necessary evil, a lot of people want the US to leave but they're not sure that Iraq can defend its borders because its security forces were broken apart and built from the bottom up and they're not ready. They don't have an army that's necessarily loyal to the government, they're loyal to political parties that have sectarian or ethnic leanings. So there's nothing for them to really hold on to or be sure of in their country." People will hold America accountable for their current suffering and what happens next.
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."
Leila Fadel, Baghdad Bureau Chief of McClatchy Newspapers, speaks to Paul Jay about the changes in Iraq over the past four years. "Things, security-wise, have calmed down," says Fadel. In terms of whether the Iraqi people will be able to provide their own security when the United States leaves, Fadel says that, "there is a sense of a waiting game going on here... I think the fight for power is just beginning." She says that there is, "the sense of the necessary evil, a lot of people want the US to leave but they're not sure that Iraq can defend its borders because its security forces were broken apart and built from the bottom up and they're not ready. They don't have an army that's necessarily loyal to the government, they're loyal to political parties that have sectarian or ethnic leanings. So there's nothing for them to really hold on to or be sure of in their country." People will hold America accountable for their current suffering and what happens next.
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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