Dahr Jamail
admin March 2nd, 2008
Dahr Jamail is an unembedded reporter meaning that he did not participate in the Pentagon embed program, rather traveled through Iraq with Iraqis and human rights workers seeking a true picture of the devastation caused by the US invasion and subsequent occupation. His reporting about Fallujah led to the US admitting that they committed the war crime of using white phosphorus as an anti-personnel weapon on unarmed civilians there during the US siege. His compelling news reports are distributed by InterPress Service and are compiled on his own web site, DahrJamailIraq.com. Dahr’s compelling personal stories of his visits to this active war zone are available in the Haymarket book, BEYOND THE GREEN ZONE: DISPATCHES FROM AN UNEMBEDDED JOURNALIST IN OCCUPIED IRAQ with a foreward by Amy Goodman.
On November 4, 2007, the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice, Students Educating Students About the Middle East (SESAME, of the Evergreen State College), and Building Revolution by Increasing Community Knowledge (BRICK, of South Puget Sound Community College) sponsored a fundraising speaking engagement for Dahr Jamail and poet Suheir Hammad at the Capitol Theatre in downtown Olympia.
Dahr gives an overview with examples of the establishment’s media portrayal of the war.
Dahr gives a broad sense of the numbers of Iraqis who have been killed, wounded, displaced and/or put in dire need of emergency services.
Dahr highlights the disparity between media reports from Fallujah and the first hand accounts he heard from Iraqis.
Dahr reads from his book, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Reporter in Iraq on the political situation within Iraq with an Iraqi political scientist.
Dahr on the reports and conventional wisdom of sectarian differences ad civil war in Iraq
Dahr on private contract soldiers and security in Iraq- Blackwater mercenaries.
I had the chance to interview Dahr at the July 2006 Vets for Peace national conference at the University of Washington in Seattle for Reclaiming Democracy, a production of the South Sound Chapter of the Alliance for Democracy.This interview is 30 minutes. Camera: Rus Geh, Jacqui Brown Miller. Edited by Rus Geh.
