BBC News looks at life in Iraq through the eyes of five different people.
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Asleep on the Roof
Posted on July 28, 2008 by Laith
Mudhafer al-Husaini is an Iraqi employee of The New York Times in Baghdad.
BAGHDAD — Throughout their history, Iraqis have slept on their rooftops in the nights of summer, with the cool air of the evening, the fresh breeze of the dawn and the beautiful image of the sky
http://baghdadbureau.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/25/asleep-on-the-roof/
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Social Worker in Baghdad
Posted on July 28, 2008 by Laith
Social worker Samir Jassem set up an orphanage for scores of children who have lost their families. His project has provided some children with a secure home and now, against the odds, some of these unfortunate children have turned their lives around and become part of the Iraqi junior diving team.
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In one Black Night, another Baghdad neighborhood is walled in
Posted on July 14, 2008 by Laith
Whether it is good or bad, this I can say about the wall. It is exhausting me. I now wait at the checkpoint every day, sweltering in a vehicle with no air conditioning as the thermometer rises past 100. My father has suffered too. When I dropped by to say hello after work, I saw that his legs were bandaged. “What happened?” I asked. “I found a good entrance,” he said. “But the second day, when I wanted to use it again, it was smaller, and I didn’t have the energy to go looking for another one.”
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/07/iraq-in-one-bla.html
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Alcohol is flowing again in Baghdad
Posted on July 2, 2008 by Laith
BAGHDAD — Iraqis no longer have to settle just for thick Turkish coffee, cardamom-laced tea, strawberry-flavored milk or bottled water to quench their summertime thirst. Beer and alcoholic beverages are readily available once again.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20080701/wl_mcclatchy/2980682
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Iraq to sue oil-for-food suspects
Posted on June 30, 2008 by Laith
The Iraqi government has said it will file lawsuits in US courts against firms and people suspected of illegally profiting from a UN programme.
The UN oil-for-food programme allowed Saddam Hussein’s government to sell oil in order to buy humanitarian supplies during UN sanctions from 1996-2003.
An inquiry found that 2,200 firms paid $1.8bn in bribes to Iraqi officials.
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Iraqi artefacts return to Baghdad
Posted on June 10, 2008 by Laith
The Iraqi antiquities department has taken delivery of 11 ancient ceremonial seals that were looted after the US-led invasion of the country in 2003. Originally from the national museum, the artefacts, some of which date from 3,000BC, were seized by US customs officials in the city of Philadelphia.
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A shoulder to cry on in Baghdad
Posted on June 4, 2008 by Laith
The US military says levels of violence in Iraq are at their lowest for four years, but what psychological effect has constant unrest had on ordinary Iraqis? Caroline Wyatt returns to Baghdad after a 10-year absence to find out. The Baghdad I remembered was a sprawling city, a place of honking horns and barely-controlled anarchy on the roads. Amid the narrow, uneven pavements of the gold market, I jostled for space with shoppers peering closely at the gold necklaces given to brides at their wedding.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7427372.stm
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An Intolerable Situation for Iraqi Children
Posted on June 2, 2008 by Laith
Amman/ Baghdad/ New York, 25 April 2008 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, in concluding her visit to Iraq of 20-25 April, stated that children of Iraq are the silent victims of the on-going violence.
“Many of them no longer go to school, many are recruited for violent activities or detained in custody, they lack access to the most basic services and manifest a wide range of psychological symptoms from the violence in their everyday lives”. Increasing cases of gender based violence are also reported. “It is an intolerable situation” she said. She called on religious, political, military and community leaders to send one clear message to Iraqi children: “Stay out of the violence and go back to school”.
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Marine lied over Haditha deaths
Posted on May 29, 2008 by Laith
A US marine lied to cover up a squad’s killings of 24 civilians in Iraq’s city of Haditha in 2005, a US prosecutor has said at the officer’s court martial. The prosecutor’s comments came during opening statements in the trial of Lt Andrew Grayson in California. Lt Grayson is charged with obstructing justice and making false statements in connection with the case. He rejects the allegations. He is the first of three defendants to go on trial.
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