Read about Dahr Jamail and the independent news
reports from the mideast at
Dahr Jamail's MidEast Dispatches

www.darjamailiraq.com

Seneca 2, the Political Science Department of WVSU,
the WV Council of Churches and WV Patriots for Peace
sponsored independent journalist Dahr Jamail to talk
about The Ground Truth in Iraq and Future US Plans in
the Middle East, on February 13th at
West Virginia State University Student Union.

Jamail was born and raised in Houston, Texas, and is a
graduate of Texas A&M University. Weary of the US
media coverage of the war, Jamail said, I started
saving my money and came to the front lines to start telling the truth from Iraq in November, 2003. Since then, his dispatches at www.dahrjamailiraq.com have chronicled the tragic decline in Iraq.

A fearless and relentless reporter, Jamail recounts the people’s stories people dying from lack of food, water borne diseases, and health care the list is longer than any of us know, he says. He went into Fallujah during the US siege on the city, and later interviewed refugees to uncover the use of illegal weapons used against the people. His reports and his video, Eyewitness in Iraq, are unforgettable accounts of the civilian carnage in Fallujah. He and Jonathan Steele wrote, This is our Guernica.

While the government claims that, the good things happening in Iraq are not getting reported, Jamail’s Iraq Dispatches show the opposite is true, offering eyewitness accounts as evidence. He details the shameful war profiteering by American corporations, the destruction of the Iraqi economy, and the people’s despair, terror, rage, and powerlessness. Theirs is life without hope. He says they have a saying, Today is better than tomorrow.

Jamail writes for the Inter Press Service and The Asian Times, among others; his reports have been widely published including in The Nation, The Sunday Herald, the Guardian and the Independent. He reports for Democracy Now, the BBC, and numerous other stations around the world.

Jamail will soon be returning to the Middle East, undoubtedly at great personal risk.

Highlights of Dahr Jamail's Presentation on Iraq

Crisis of the People - Destruction of the Country

Health care and Daily Life - over half of Iraqi physicians have fled the country; 2,000 have been killed. Hospitals lack medicine, equipment, supplies and electricity. Infant mortality rate soaring. Women, children and elderly suffering the most.

2 hours of electricity per day with temperature over 100 degrees. No way to preserve food. Water diseased/contaminated. Bechtel paid $1.03 billion to construct water treatment plants – but no work done.

Education and Children – only 30% of 3.5 million children are attending school. 92% of children examined show learning impediments related to current climate of fear.

Refugees and Displacement – Refugee crisis largest since 1948 creation of state of Israel. Over 1.5 million fled the country. 1,300 displaced daily. 1.7 million internally displaced. Civilian deaths over 600,000. Millions of refugees.

Death Squads – killing squads in “Salvadoran option” style sweeping through Iraq. Decline into chaos continues.

Jamail predicts – an invasion of Iran. A third destroyer has left for the region…

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