7 posts tagged “war”
Last night, Brian Conley, of Alive in Bagdhad, began posting on twitter (which will soon be down til
about 10 pm tonight) the news that one of his reporters had been killed. Below are some of his updates (He has also written a post about what he knows so far):
| First Alive in Baghdad staff member killed. There was a US raid, we don't know how he was killed. |
He was working on a secret project, I don't know if I can release his name yet.
It was a project about the Badr Corps, his mom told us he was killed in a multinational raid, but we dont know if it was US or ING. [this was his 1,000th update on twitter]
that brings AIB deaths for
2007 to 5, Isams cousin, omars dad, nabeels brother, and hayders
sister, and now our correspondent Ali
Ali was the last survivor of three sons, he is survived by his sister and mother. He was 24.
@annierocks at least they are in Syria, but his dad and brothers are all dead, so who knows how they're paying the bills. (paypal?!)
Alive in Baghdad correspondent Ali Shafeya was killed on December 14th, details are still coming in. He was 24, survived by mom and sister
you can make a donation to suport his family to smallworldnews@gmail.com via paypal, please note that it is for Ali's family
they say that security is improving, but 2 relatives of Iraqi staffers have died in the last month.
Omar is at the funeral now, with his mom and sister, we hope to have the full story in the next three hours, thx for your donations so far
e news last night, Ali Shafeya, an AIB correspondent, was killed yesterday in Habibya, we are still waiting for the details. Stay tuned.
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| @acarvin advice on dealing with dead colleagues, especially on supporting my bureau chief omar who is taking it hardest. i am a wreck too |
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| @newmediajim thanks. means a lot. you know i was out for a pre-christmas gift from my fiancen. death always happens when u least expect it |
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| At 11:30PM 12/14 Iraqi National Guard arrived at Ali's street. 15 minutes later gunfire was heard by neighbors. Ali did not answer his phone |
After 3:00am Baghdad time the INGs left. Neighbors called his cousin Amar, who went to the house where Ali had been alone
He was found shot dead in the living room. Amar called the Iraqi Police and gave the story he heard from Ali's neighbors. More info soon.
Ali Shafeya was shot 31 times in the head and chest. According to the morgue he was killed instantly. He would have been 24 on Sunday.
correction, 23. He was born December 16th, 1984
Producer Michael Kirk took part in an online discussion. He also was on the media roundtable (direct audio link) on Your Call Radio on June 15th. Also see Frontline's past programs on Iraq (probably the best coverage on television in the US).
Show us a photo of someone else taking a photo.
Submitted by ydnar.
I have so many, but here is one from the anti-war march on Saturday.
Sunday, December 10 @ 2 PM
Olney Hall at College of
Marin
835 College Avenue
Kentfield, CA 94904
Suggested donation: $10
Co-sponsored by Marin Peace and Justice Coalition, Take On The Media, College of Marin, Students for Social Responsibility and Progressive Democrats of America
Sunday, December 10 @ 7 PM
First
Congregational Church of Oakland
2501 Harrison Street
Oakland, CA
94612
Suggested donation: $10
Co-sponsored by Media Alliance, Take On The Media, Global Exchange, American Friends Service Committee, Progressive Democrats of America, Don’t Attack Iran Coalition, and First Congregational Church of Oakland
A book signing with Scott Ritter and Jeff Cohen will immediately follow each event.
For more information visit www.ustourofduty.org or call 310.842.8794
Scott Ritter, author of
TARGET IRAN and IRAQ CONFIDENTIAL, was one of UNSCOM’s most senior
weapons inspectors in Iraq between 1991 and 1998, after having served for eight
years as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. As a Marine, he
conducted arms inspections in the former Soviet Union, and provided analysis of
Iraq’s missile capacity to General Schwarzkopf in the 1991 Gulf War. Nation
Books is the publisher of “Target Iran: The Truth About the White House’s Plans
for Regime Change” and “Iraq Confidential.” “The important thing to know
about Scott Ritter is that he was right.” - Seymour Hersh
Jeff Cohen, author of CABLE NEWS CONFIDENTIAL, worked for MSNBC as an
on-air commentator and senior producer of “Donahue” until the show was
terminated on the eve of the Iraq war. He founded Fairness and Accuracy in
Reporting (FAIR), co-hosted CNN’s “Crossfire,” was a weekly panelist on Fox News
Channel’s “Newswatch,” and appeared frequently on many national TV and radio
programs, including “The Today Show,” “Larry King Live,” “The O’Reilly Factor,”
C-SPAN, and NPR. PoliPointPress is the publisher of Cable News Confidential: My
Misadventures in Corporate Media.” "Jeff Cohen's dissection of cable TV
news is both irresistibly funny and civically painful. It goes from uproarious
anecdotes to those that make you wince." - Molly Ivins
U.S.
TOUR OF DUTY is a non-profit project that supports and promotes the anti-war
advocacy of Iraq veterans, military families, performers, and policy analysts by
organizing public forums, developing media strategies, and producing audio/video
content. More info at www.ustourofduty.org
the process of making Iraq in Fragments in detail in his production notes, but you really need to see the film in a theater if you can. It will eventually be on HBO, but there is a reason it won the best cinematography award among others at Sundance. They don't seem to have an email list, so probably the best way to find when it will play near you
is, yes, to make the film a friend on myspace.
Longley spends time with an 11-year-old boy in Bagdhad, the followers of Moqtada Sadr in Nasseriya, and the Kurds in northern Iraq. He shows the rifts in the country which have been widened by the US occupation at a time when some political leaders like Joe Biden (who will now be chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee) are talking about breaking Iraq into fragments. But at a panel at the Chicago Humanities Festival last Sunday, everyone warned this was the wrong approach. Juan Cole wrote about it in more detail in an op-ed.
The film, like My Country, My Country which aired in October on POV, provides a rare look at Iraq from the persective of Iraqis. The kind of complex coverage the commercial broadcast and cable news networks should be providing.
If only every voter watched the first three Frontline programs of the season: tonight's The Lost Year in Iraq, last week's The Enemy Within, and The Return of the Taliban. They form kind of a trilogy though they are really just the latest in an ongoing series of what is among the best journalism of the post 9/11 era (and you can watch them all online).
Tonight's documentary chronicles the year after the fall of Bagdhad. I first learned from an earlier Frontline that
the Pentagon ignored State Department plans for a post-war Iraq. Since then, many books have gone into more detail, but seeing it outlines over an hour of television still has an impact (and probably an even greater impact for people who haven't been following Iraq as closely as I have).
And My Country, My Country which airs on Wednesday, October 25th as part of POV on PBS shows the consequences of that lost first year.
I'll write more about My Country, My Country before it airs on POV on PBS on October 25th.
But if you can see it during the limited release in theaters (including LA & Chicago), you should. It is a gorgeous film particularly blown up to 35mm. And director Laura Poitras will be in some of the cities including San Francisco at the Lumiere on Friday, September 8th at the 7 pm and 9:45 shows and Saturday, September 9th at the Shattuck at the 3:25 pm and 7:50 pm shows.
Poitras spent eight months in Iraq covering the build-up to the January 2006 elections. She focuses
on a Sunni doctor running for a local position in Bagdhad, but also follows the US military's preparations
and a contractor hired to provide security.
It is the kind of in-depth coverage that the networks and cable news networks should be providing.
And people like George Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, and Joe Lieberman should see. Poitras
says she has been asked by people in the military to screen it. Poitras was interviewed by indieWire.
