Talk Nation Radio for January 7, 2011
Journalist Dahr Jamail Reports from Baghdad on Political Chaos: Sectarian violence aimed at leaders is killing civilians instead

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Investigative journalist Dahr Jamail joins us from Baghdad where new violence that has left at 100âs of civilian Shiiteâs dead and wounded.

Dahr Jamail is Bagdad correspondent for Al Jazeera and author of 'Beyond the Green Zone, Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq', and 'The Will to Resist, Soldiers who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan'. He has been covering Iraq off and on since 2003 and has won many awards for his hard hitting reports that reveal the human cost of the U.S. war and occupation.

You can find his work at Al Jazeera English and Inter Press Service, Truthout, The Nation, The Sunday Herald in Scotland, the Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, Le Monde Diplomatique, and the Independent, as well as other publications or go to his web site, www.dahrjamail.net.

News Links:

Wave of bombings leaves scores dead in Iraq By Dahr Jamail | Al Jazeera English | Published: January 5, 2012
At least 70 killed and more than 100 wounded in the latest attacks in mainly Shia areas across the country.

Fallujah babies: Under a new kind of siege By Dahr Jamail | Al Jazeera English | Published: January 6, 2012
Doctors and residents blame US weapons for catastrophic levels of birth defects in Fallujahâs newborns.

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