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Podcast 1: Breakfast with Dahr Jamail

Posted February 8th, 2006 by ringverse
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The first of a series of interviews we conducted whilst we were at the al-Jazeera Forum last week.
This is a 20 minute Breakfast Interview with Dahr Jamail, covering his experiences in Iraq and Fallujah, the failings of mainstream media in reporting Iraq, and the potential for disaster if the rhetoric directed at Iran turns into US action.

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Weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people and US soldiers, Dahr Jamail went to Iraq to report on the war himself.

His dispatches were quickly recognized as an important media resource and he is now writing for the Inter Press Service, The Asia Times and many other outlets. His reports have also been published with The Nation, The Sunday Herald, Islam Online, the Guardian and the Independent to name just a few. Dahr's dispatches and hard news stories have been translated into French, Polish, German, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic and Turkish. On radio as well as television, Dahr reports for Democracy Now!, the BBC, and numerous other stations around the globe. Dahr is also special correspondent for Flashpoints.

Dahr has spent a total of 8 months in occupied Iraq as one of only a few independent US journalists in the country. Dahr uses the DahrJamailIraq.com website and his popular mailing list to disseminate his dispatches.