Today 30 of June 2009 , There are HUGE misconceptions surrounding U.S troop withdrawal on the 30th of June. The occupying troops only pulled few kilometers from the cities centers to rest on well equipped bases in very strategic positions which are ...
In three weeks time it’s the 6th anniversary for the fall/liberation of Baghdad. My best memory [was] when I asked my friends to make a surprise for our friend R who lost her dad and several relatives, I thought she needed to feel excited and happy ...
I didn't write about good events for long time, I am so glad I had good news to tell, yesterday I visited my friend, she is studying medicine, I didn't see her for 2 years! I had a great time.. They say I’ve jinxed the place again. Iraqis are too ...
The day before yesterday a car bomb exploded close to our house, but we were warned and expected it so there were little damages (a single window). No human losses in the neighborhood, thank God. There are 18 provinces in Iraq and each will have it’s ...
So Obama, the booma, won the elections. [Booma means owl, but in Iraqi dialect it also means someone very stupid]… Change, change, change. Change is on its way. Change to the vicious Bush administration. The Bush administration that lied, tricked, ...
I asked a few Iraqis, many did not seem to have interest in the US politics “We have enough of the Iraqi one let alone the US” in their own words. Wasn’t Biden’s ‘intellectual’ heft supposed to be the whole point of adding him to the Obama ticket to ...
when we reached Baghdad … the very first sight that upset me and filled my eyes with tears , was the large no. of beggars in the streets, they were old women under the burning sun , with four or five years old skinny kids. The other day we had a call ...
Ahmed (BlogIraq) is dead. He was killed in Baghdad on April 11th, 2008… He had an appointment that day with a guy he knew. This guy was supposed to get him some documents that prove corruption in some USAID office back in Baghdad. I don't have ...
The occupiers have decided to implement the Israeli style ghettos of imprisoning people in concrete walls. When this didn’t solve their problem, they came to the idea of mass slaughter of the whole of Sadr-City, using mass bombing, rockets and heavy ...
we were threatened by terrorists who wanted to kill my dad, I spent the whole nights thinking, and crying, I was in shock, and terrified…I kept wondering with tears in my eyes, what will happen next? Will they Kill my dad? Kidnap one of my family ...
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