Jen Banbury

  • Rummy's scapegoat

    Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski -- former commander at Abu Ghraib -- says she was hung out to dry by the Pentagon.
    By Jen Banbury November 10, 2005

  • Rage and danger in Kurdistan

    Angry with the U.S. for betraying their dream of independence, the Kurds could ignite an Iraqi civil war.
    By Jen Banbury July 22, 2004

  • Fleeing Baghdad

    I didn't want to leave the nation my country tore apart. But then came warnings that our house was targeted. A farewell portrait of a place on the edge of the abyss.
    By Jen Banbury April 7, 2004

  • "We are sleeping lions. We're waiting to eat Americans"

    For the first time, I've started to feel unsafe in Iraq.
    By Jen Banbury March 20, 2004

  • "Guantanamo on steroids"

    Abu Ghraib was an infamous prison under Saddam. Now, for Iraqis seeking relatives detained by the U.S. military, it is still a place where men disappear.
    By Jen Banbury March 3, 2004

  • The hermetically sealed conquerors

    Hunkered down in their weird security zone, the Americans who run Iraq have almost no contact with the country or its people.
    By Jen Banbury February 20, 2004

  • Inside the Green Zone

    For Iraqis living in the surreal city within a city from which the U.S. runs Iraq, the invasion is already ancient history. What they want is electricity, water and a social life.
    By Jen Banbury February 6, 2004

  • Enter the ayatollahs

    Will Iraq turn into an Iranian-style theocracy or a more tolerant Muslim state? As zero hour for America's grand experiment approaches, Shiite leaders hold the key.
    By Jen Banbury January 30, 2004

  • "God has given us victory!"

    Joyous Iraqis celebrate Saddam's capture, but no one knows if the tyrant's videotaped humiliation will end the guerrilla rebellion.
    By Jen Banbury December 14, 2003

  • Out of the shadows

    Armed only with ancient film, scraps of paper, broken buildings and an irrepressible passion to create, Baghdad's artists are emerging from the long darkness of Saddam.
    By Jen Banbury December 11, 2003

  • Night raid in Baghdad

    "Twenty-three hours of boredom and a minute of hell": Our reporter joins U.S. troops on a mission to find guerrillas.
    By Jen Banbury December 4, 2003

  • Operation Iron Hammer: Make noise, kill cows

    If the U.S. wants to capture or kill Iraqi insurgents, local residents ask, why is it providing advance notice of its attacks?
    By Jen Banbury November 21, 2003

  • From Baghdad to Brooklyn and back: A deportee's strange, sad tale

    All Iraq-born Anas wanted to do was raise his family in New York. But the U.S. kicked him out, and now he's a lost soul in a broken city.
    By Jen Banbury November 13, 2003

  • Waiting for the command to start killing Americans

    In Sadr City, a friendly young Shiite shopkeeper buys me a 7 Up, then says he wants his ayatollah to call for jihad. And he's not alone.
    By Jen Banbury November 5, 2003

  • 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 October 29, 2003

  • Mystery roundup

    Humor and history dominate our eclectic selection of 1998's best crime fiction.
    By Suzette Lalime December 24, 1998

  • Like A Hole In The Head

    Suzette Lalime Davidson review 'Like a Hole in the Head' by Jen Banbury
    By Suzette Lalime Davidson May 1, 1998
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