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Aired: Monday, April 05, 2004
Radical Shiite militiamen shout from the top of the governor's house they occupied in the southern city of Basra, Iraq (AP)
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Over the past year, most Iraqi resistance to U.S. troops has come from minority Sunni areas. But now it seems the majority Shiites are acting against Americans too, as Shiite cleric Moqtada Al Sadr urges revolt against "the law of the American tyranny and its filthy constitution."
Just how widespread is Iraqi resentment of the coalition forces, and how should the U.S. respond? |
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Rod Nordland, Baghdad bureau chief, Newsweek
Bernard Trainor, retired Marine Corps three-star general and former deputy chief of staff for plans, policies and operations, New York Times military correspondent and author of "The Generals' War: The Inside Story of the Persian Gulf War"
Richard Norton, professor of national security policy at the United States Naval War College: Dilip Hiro, writer for the Guardian and author of 15 books on the Middle East including, "Iraq In the Eye of the Storm" and "Secrets and Lies: Operation "Iraqi Freedom" and After" |
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An Embed Looks Back | Listen
The recent surge of violence in Iraq has put not just the lives of soldiers and civilians at risk. In the past ten days alone, four media workers have been killed in Iraq. Since the war began a year ago, a total of 23 members of the press have died there.
It was one year ago tomorrow that NBC's David Bloom became the second American journalist to die during the war in Iraq. A few days earlier, The Atlantic Monthly's Michael Kelly had been the first.
Boston Herald reporter Jules Crittenden had become friends with both Bloom and Kelly while he served as an embedded reporter in Iraq last spring. Crittenden was traveling with a tank company in the Army's 3rd Infantry Division -- the same company that led the taking of Baghdad a year ago this week. In this radio diary, Jules Crittenden looks back and remembers David Bloom, Michael Kelly, and the Iraqis whose deaths he witnessed firsthand:
with guest(s):
Jules Crittenden, reporter for Boston Herald
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