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Streets of fear Streets of fear
A Georgetown professor goes to Baghdad to assess post-war conditions and finds terror spreading by the day -- and the U.S. unable to stop it.
By Samer Shehata Nov 12, 2003
Right Hook Right Hook
The New York Post dismisses the rising U.S. body count; Oliver North says let the CIA play dirty. Plus: David Brooks says kill the evil scum; Canadian pundit Barbara Amiel gushes over Bush's "stern cowboy looks."
By Mark Follman Nov 5, 2003
The severed foot The severed foot
Yesterday's bombings left Iraqis scared, pissed off and just plain freaked out. They also left a grisly souvenir, which some giggling kids showed me in the tall grass.
By Jen Banbury Oct 29, 2003
Baghdad's shame Baghdad's shame
Babies die daily of treatable diseases while their doctors search for black-market drugs, because the U.S can't fix Iraq's corrupt, crime-plagued health system.
By Brandon Sprague and Adam Shemper Aug 28, 2003
Portrait of an Iraqi rebel
He is a handball player. He hated life under Saddam. But now, as a foot soldier in an enigmatic resistance movement, he wants the U.S. out of Iraq.
By Ferry Biedermann Aug 16, 2003
Letters
Readers respond to stories on the deepening postwar quagmire, anger in the U.S. intelligence community and the Pentagon's own private spy shop.
Jul 19, 2003
Idiocy of the week
It was originally reported that 170,000 priceless artifacts were looted from Iraq's national museum. That number now stands at 33. Will overeager Bush critics issue corrections?
By Andrew Sullivan Jun 10, 2003
Wild in the streets of Baghdad Wild in the streets of Baghdad
Belatedly, the Pentagon is cracking down on looting and violence in the Iraqi capital. But U.S. credibility is already deeply damaged.
By Michelle Goldberg May 17, 2003
An avant-garde phoenix rises out of Baghdad's ashes
In a ruined theater, in front of a weeping audience, a group of dissident artists stages the capital's first uncensored play in decades.
By Phillip Robertson May 7, 2003
A poet returns to hell A poet returns to hell
Hamid al Mokhtar wrote novels and poems. For this, he was imprisoned and tortured for eight years at the vast Abu Ghraib prison complex in Baghdad. Today, he goes back to the scene of his nightmares.
By Phillip Robertson May 1, 2003
What happened to Iraq's army? What happened to Iraq's army?
Nobody knows how many thousands of Iraqi soldiers were killed -- and the U.S. doesn't seem eager to let reporters find out.
By Ferry Biedermann Apr 22, 2003
The end of civilization The end of civilization
The sacking of Iraq's museums is like a "lobotomy" of an entire culture, say art experts. And they warned the Pentagon repeatedly of this potential catastrophe months before the war.
By Louise Witt Apr 17, 2003
"What if someone stole the Constitution and the Liberty Bell?" "What if someone stole the Constitution and the Liberty Bell?"
An American expert in Islamic art tries to measure the cultural devastation caused by the Baghdad museum looting.
By Karen Croft Apr 17, 2003
"Not America, not Saddam, just Islam!" "Not America, not Saddam, just Islam!"
In the Baghdad slum formerly known as Saddam City, gunfire and bloody mayhem break out in a packed meeting hall, as Shiite sheiks move in to Iraq's power vacuum.
By Ferry Biedermann Apr 16, 2003
Why the antiwar movement was right
The speedy fall of Baghdad proves a preemptive strike was unnecessary.
By Arianna Huffington Apr 16, 2003
Liberation day Liberation day
Even those opposed to the war should celebrate a shining moment in the history of freedom -- the fall of Saddam Hussein.
By Gary Kamiya Apr 11, 2003
Joe Conason's Journal Joe Conason's Journal
Only the Iraqis themselves can determine whether the cost of this victory was too great.
Apr 9, 2003
Watching Saddam fall
I thrilled to see Baghdadis topple the statue of their tyrant. And yet it's entirely too early for us to know exactly what it means.
By Joan Walsh Apr 9, 2003
Death trap Death trap
Iraqis tell their American relatives of the daily horror of being caught between Saddam's death squads and the ferocious firepower of the U.S. military.
By Louise Witt Apr 3, 2003
Baghdad diary
I'm a nurse, but my visits to local hospitals to see the children wounded by American bombs leave me helpless and angry.
By Cathy Breen Mar 29, 2003
"Knife fight in a phone booth" "Knife fight in a phone booth"
Coalition forces can win the battle of Baghdad, but grisly images of death and destruction could cost them the war for Arab hearts and minds.
By Eric Boehlert Mar 28, 2003
Playing with Saddam's mind
An expert in psychological operations sees the U.S. engaged in an elaborate effort to collapse the will of the Iraqi regime. And the media are a tool.
By Eric Boehlert Mar 21, 2003
U.N. inspector to Saddam: Stop playing games
As weapons inspectors in Baghdad grow increasingly frustrated at Iraq's "piecemeal approach," even some Iraqis ask why their government doesn't simply come clean.
By Ferry Biedermann Feb 26, 2003
So long, Saddam? So long, Saddam?
As war looms, Iraqis have started doing the unthinkable: Criticizing Saddam Hussein.
By Ferry Biedermann Feb 19, 2003
Waiting for the bombs Waiting for the bombs
On the streets of Baghdad, Iraqis fear that neither Osama bin Laden nor the pope will be able to help them now.
By Ferry Biedermann Feb 13, 2003
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