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GUEST: Dahr Jamail, Independent Journalist, Author of “Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatched from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq”

U.S. forces claim that they killed 25 so-called suspected insurgents last Tuesday in air strikes north of Baghdad. Sunni council leaders counter the official claim and say that 45 people were killed and that they were pro-U.S. allies. Air strikes by the U.S. military in Iraq have increased in recent weeks, as has the civilian death toll as a result. As conflicting accounts over suspected Al Qaeda and civilian deaths are reported by the corporate media as “incidents,” independent journalist Dahr Jamail has released a new book, “Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq.” The narrative chronicles his experiences reporting in the wake of the U.S. invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq. In the months following the start of the war in 2003, Jamail was motivated to bridge the gap between the corporate media and the Iraqi people. Over the course of two years, Jamail spent a total of eight months as an independent journalist reporting on the realities on the ground in Iraq. As one of the few unembedded reporters from the United States, Jamail was able to bring alternative perspectives from the siege of Fallujah. His Mideast dispatches have been published in the Guardian, the Independent, Foreign Policy in Focus, and more. John Pilger has said of Jamail’s work that it is “international journalism at its best.”

Dahr Jamail Speaking Engagements:

Dahr Jamail and Jeremy Scahill
Friday, November 16th in Los Angeles at 7pm:
UTLA Union Hall
3303 West Wilshire Blvd at Berendo.

Dahr Jamail and Jeremy Scahill
Saturday, November 17th in The Valley at 7pm:
First Unitarian Church of Studio City
12355 Moorpark between Laurel Canyon and Whitsett.

For more information, visit www.dahrjamailiraq.com/