Salam Pax in Baghdad
Trial by Press Conference
The strangest of press conferences was broadcast live on Al-Iraqiya today.In what looks like a reaction to the terrible incident in Abu Ghraib in which more than 30 people were killed Ministry of Interior spokesman Abdul-Karim Khalaf, paraded two alleged...
Two Iraqi journalists killed in suicide attack west of Baghdad
Iraqi television channel al-Baghdadiya says that two of it's journalists were amongst the 33 Iraqis killed in a suicide attack today. They were covering reconciliation meeting taking place in Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad.Al-Iraqiya, the state funded Iraqi television channel...
Iraqi journalist banned from covering the opening of the Iraqi Museum
Al Hurra reporter Ahmad Aram said last night that he and other Iraqi reporters were not allowed to enter the Iraqi Museum during the opening ceremony which took place yesterday. He also alleges that Iraqi security forces hit the Hurra...
On Shoes and Journalism
Ok, let’s get one thing straight before I get my head bitten off again.. The Shoe was a most fitting farewell to a person who brought so much grief and sadness to Iraq in the name of freedom. It was...
Baghdad is looking good... just keep your eye on the bits being rebuilt
On March 2007, just a couple of months before I left Iraq, a car bomb exploded in the middle of my favourite street in central Baghdad, al-Mutanabi Street (GMaps). The bomb killed more than 40 people and just totally destroyed...