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IRAQ: Praying, Not Playing
By Maki al-Nazzal and Dahr Jamail*
DAMASCUS - In the struggle now just to stay alive, everyone has forgotten that Iraq has lost, among other things, its tradition in sports. Some of its best sportsmen are now refugees.
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IRAQ: Food Crisis Hits Fallujah
By Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail*
FALLUJAH - Sharp increases in food prices have generated a new wave of anti-occupation and anti-U.S. sentiment in Fallujah.
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IRAQ: Running Out of Water in Rising Heat
By Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail*
BAQUBA - Water supply is drying out in what was once the agriculturally rich Diyala province north of Baghdad. Baquba, the capital city of Diyala, is now running out of water both for drinking and for irrigation.
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IRAQ: Five Years On, Fallujah in Tatters
By Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail*
FALLUJAH - Fallujah remains a crippled city years after the November 2004 U.S.-led assault.
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IRAQ: From One Dictator to the Next
Analysis by Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail*
BAGHDAD - Many Iraqis have come to believe that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is just as much a dictator as Saddam Hussein was.
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IRAQ: 'Not Our Country To Return To'
By Maki al-Nazzal and Dahr Jamail*
DAMASCUS - More Iraqis continue to flee their country than the numbers returning, despite official claims to the contrary.
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US-IRAQ: Ill-Equipped Soldiers Opt for "Search and Avoid"
By Dahr Jamail
WATERTOWN, New York - Iraq war veterans now stationed at a base here say that morale among U.S. soldiers in the country is so poor, many are simply parking their Humvees and pretending to be on patrol, a practice dubbed "search and avoid" missions.
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IRAQ: Media Held Guilty of Deception
By Dahr Jamail
ROME - A peoples tribunal has held much of Western media guilty of inciting violence and deceiving people in its reporting of Iraq.
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IRAQ: Some Just Voted for Food
By Dahr Jamail
BAGHDAD - Voting in Baghdad was linked with receipt of food rations, several voters said after the Sunday poll.
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IRAQ: 'Unusual Weapons' Used in Fallujah
By Dahr Jamail
BAGHDAD - The U.S. military has used poison gas and other non-conventional weapons against civilians in Fallujah, eyewitnesses report..
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Dahr Jamail is co-winner of the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism 2007.
Since 2004, Dahr has covered post-invasion Iraq. Together with local writers, he has brought out the voices on the streets and the experiences of people.

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