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NY Big Voice Video Diary #11
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Not Enough Cemetery to Go Around
The Abu Hanifa Mosque is a famous Sunni mosque in Adhamiya. After the invasion the mosque constructed a new cemetery originally for fighters in the war but it has since been expanded.
Now the cemetery takes all manners of victims of Iraq sectarian violence and it has open to Shi’as as well.
Although stories about Iraq accentuate sectarian violence and the possibility of a looming civil war, there are many accounts of Iraqi's coming together in opposition to sectarianism. One story is about how the Abu Hanifa mosque helped survivors of the Kadhmiya bridge tragedy in 2005.
Unfortunately this new cemetery can not hold all of the martyrs and others dieing each day in Iraq, and they expect to build many more in the coming months. The caretaker of the Abu Hanifa cemetery says they dig an average of 4-5 graves each day, and this is just for one cemetery in a city of five million inhabitants.
As the Iraq study group returns dire statistics from the situation in Iraq, one wonders when the stories of mutual aid and collective support in Baghdad's communities will begin to get more play in the media. Although a civil war now seems inevitable, perhaps a better understanding of the solidarity present within Baghdadis and Iraqis can provide another direction for Iraq's future.
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A Mother Tells a Martyr's Story
It's nearly a daily occurrence that we read in the news of a half dozen or more insurgents or resistance fighters killed by US, Coalition, or Iraqi security forces.
Rarely, however, do we hear the full story, rarely do we hear of the fighter, or martyr's experience. Although the press generally refers to them as insurgents, Iraqis killed on all sides of the conflict are generally referred to in Iraq as martyrs.
Ali was one fighter among many who have been killed during the war in Iraq. He was killed during one of many shootouts in the past year in Adhamiya. Correspondent Isam Rasheed met his mother by chance in a new cemetery that has been built for Martyrs, those killed by Coalition forces or in the rising sectarian violence.
Iraqis, and Arabs generally, have vastly different opinions of the resistance movement. For some more insight, see videos such as, A Conversation with an Iraqi Policeman, this conversation between two Sunni doctors, Iraqis Discuss the Resistance, and this interview with Yusef Rababa, a man who knew Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi personally.
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Tags: iraq, baghdad, aliveinbaghdad, terrorism, waronterror
Car Bomb Survivors, No Longer Statistics
Although car bombs are a regular occurrence in Baghdad, it's nearly impossible to find accounts from the victims.
The victims in this story survived a car bombing this summer in the Adhamiya neighborhood, but due to complications, we were only able to bring you their stories now. These images are graphic, but they depict an aspect of daily life in Baghdad.
The media carries numbers of dead and wounded soldiers, security forces, and civilians, but without bringing their stories directly to the viewership, it may be impossible to ever truly understand the particulars of life in a place like Baghdad.
In this video you'll see what happens to some of the dozens of people whose stories are reported only in your daily newspaper's injured statistics.
Tags: iraq, baghdad, aliveinbaghdad, terrorism, waronterror carbomb
Saturday, December 09, 2006
This is Steve's movie of Jim reading the New York Times review for the first time--and the reaction of both of them about it.
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Someone wrote to ask if I could please set this up for RSS feed. First, I deleted the message inadvertently (I apologize).
Then I attempted to set it up but FeedBurner is giving me fits and it won't even let me register for the support forum, since it keeps rejecting my confirmation code (yes, I'm certain that the letters are case specific). I've written to "contact us" at FeedBurner, but am not holding my breath for a speedy reply.
Anyway, whoever asked about RSS feed, know that I'm working on it, if I don't have a heart attack from trying to work with FeedBurner.
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I was not a Daily Show viewer when 9/11 happened, so I never saw Jon Stewart's return to the screen. I happened to see this yesterday and was so emotionally affected. It was a 3-kleenex video. Possibly the most "real" thing I've seen in a very long time (aside by some of the coverage of Katrina)