Stories by Raed Jarrar
Raed Jarrar is Iraq Consultant to the American Friends Service Committee. He blogs at Raed in the Middle.
Posted on May 18, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Two key deadlines are approaching for U.S. troops to exit Iraq, deadlines that were won through the work of millions of Iraqis and Americans. We can't stop now.
Posted on Mar 5, 2010
Two weeks before Iraq's elections, Army Gen. Ray Odierno released a statement about U.S. progress in the country that flew in the face of Obama's official position.
Posted on Nov 19, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Obama has muddied the waters in his response to the current election crisis.
Posted on Mar 27, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The traditional media is incapable of reporting what's going on in Southern Iraq.
Posted on Mar 24, 2008, Source: Foreign Policy in Focus
The Iraqi-Iraqi conflict is similar to the U.S. civil war: Iraqis who are want a centralized government are fighting against those favor secession.
Posted on Dec 20, 2007, Source: AlterNet
A majority of Iraqi lawmakers say renewal requests not ratified by the parliament are illegal.
Posted on Nov 9, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Bush needs the U.N.'s cover to justify the occupation, but the only way he can renew the expiring U.N. mandate is to cut Iraq's frail democracy out of the process.
Posted on Oct 15, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Let's call Joe Biden's Senate plan to split Iraq in three pieces for what it is: a blueprint for ethnic cleansing and possibly a full-blown civil war.
Posted on Oct 5, 2007, Source: AlterNet
The conventional wisdom has it all wrong.
Posted on Sep 10, 2007, Source: AlterNet
As Gen. Petraeus takes the D.C. stage, he and the media are only giving half of the story. Shockingly, the United States, Iran and al Qaeda have the same goals in Iraq.
Posted on Jun 8, 2007, Source: AlterNet
When George Bush announced that he favored keeping troops in Iraq for decades, the media apparently didn't think the opinion of Iraqis mattered.
Posted on Jun 5, 2007, Source: AlterNet
While Washington lawmakers play procedural games with an out-of-control executive branch, Iraqi legislators are working to bring an end to the occupation of their country.
Posted on May 21, 2007
Iraq's resistance groups have offered a series of peace plans that might put an end to the country's sectarian violence, but they've been ignored by the U.S.-led coalition because they're opposed to foreign occupation and privatization of oil.
Posted on May 9, 2007, Source: AlterNet
More than half of the members of Iraq's parliament rejected for the first time on Tuesday the continuing occupation of their country. The U.S. media ignored the story.
Posted on Aug 10, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Iraq never had a history of sectarian conflicts. U.S. policy choices provided a perfect road map for starting one.
Posted on Jun 28, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Thanks to U.S. meddling, Iraq's new reconciliation plan will probably not entice many insurgents to lay down their weapons.
