nfinityi
24 Mar 2007, 04:50 PM
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/03/26/070326fa_fact_packer
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9074560
I haven't read the article, but I listened to the interview of the author with Terry Gross from Fresh Air. Basically it talks about how all the Iraqis who work with Americans in even the most trivial way are labelled as collaborators and marked for death by insurgents, and how the United States won't do anything to help them in return.
It goes on to talk of an instance in which a man feels that his brother is safer at home with a bullet in his eye than in the local hospital, because it's been taken over by an unfriendly faction.
It also goes on to talk about instances such as a mother being asked my a member of Al Quaeda how she would like her sons to be killed, and it's a pretty interesting, yet heart-wrenching article.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9074560
I haven't read the article, but I listened to the interview of the author with Terry Gross from Fresh Air. Basically it talks about how all the Iraqis who work with Americans in even the most trivial way are labelled as collaborators and marked for death by insurgents, and how the United States won't do anything to help them in return.
It goes on to talk of an instance in which a man feels that his brother is safer at home with a bullet in his eye than in the local hospital, because it's been taken over by an unfriendly faction.
It also goes on to talk about instances such as a mother being asked my a member of Al Quaeda how she would like her sons to be killed, and it's a pretty interesting, yet heart-wrenching article.