Beyond The Green Zone; Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq

Chicago, Illinois: Haymarket Books, 2007. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 7.75 inches. xvi, 313, [5] pages. Includes Foreword by Amy Goodnam and Denis Moynihan, Introduction, Afterword, Notes, Acknowledgments, and Index. Topics covered include Entering Iraq; Peering into an Abyss; Growing Fury and Unrest; Kebabs in Fallujah; Craving Health and Freedom; Going "Home"; Reentering the Inferno; Sarajevo on the Euphrates; Raiding Mosques, Torturing Iraqis; The Aftermath in Fallujah; Shattered Dreams; "Nobody Here Likes the Occupiers'; Leaving the Volcano for the Eye of the Hurricane; Spiraling into Occupied Iraq; Operation Phantom Fury; Into Oblivion; Dying for Democracy; and Coming "Home". We walk slowly under the scorching sun along dusty rows of humble headstones. She continues reading them aloud to me, Old man wearing jacket with dishdasha, near industrial center. He has a key in his hand. Many of the bodies were buried before they could be identified. Tears welling up in my eyes she quietly reads, Man wearing red track suit. She points to another row, three women killed in car leaving city by American missile. As the occupation of Iraq unravels, the demand for independent reporting is growing. Since 2003, unembedded journalist Dahr Jamail has filed indispensable reports from Iraq that have made him this generations chronicler of the unfolding disaster there. In these collected dispatches, Jamail presents never-before-published details of the siege of Fallujah and examines the origins of the Iraqi insurgency. With trademark bravery and a quiet and humble commitment to telling the stories of those forced to live on the other end of the barrel of the U.S. foreign policy machine gun, Jamail ensured that the history of the Iraq occupation would not be written exclusively by self-proclaimed victors and the powerful. Simply put, Dahr Jarmail is the conscience of America war reporting, the quintessential unembedded reporter. Dahr Jamail does us a great service, by taking us past the lies of our political leaders, past the cowardice of the mainstream press, into the streets, the homes, the lives of Iraqis living under US occupation. If what he has seen could be conveyed to all Americans, this ugly war in Iraq would quickly come to an end. A superb journalist.--Howard Zinn.