Sara Daniel, envoyée spéciale en Irak, juin 2005. Sara Daniel a vécu pendant deux semaines parmi les soldats du 2e bataillon de la Big Red One, une division de combat qui a participé aux deux guerres mondiales. Elle a partagé…
On the video cassette the Qatari television station Al-Jazeera received – but never broadcast for « humanitarian reasons » – a brunette woman with emaciated features begs that her life be spared and then faints. To bring her to, a bucket of…
« I am responsible for the beheading of American agent Nicolas Berg, the Korean Kim Sun-il and the Iraqi spies in American pay. » The man facing me in his white dishdasha is thirty years old, with a short black beard and…
This morning at Camp Bravo in Baghdad’s Amariya quarter, headquarters of the Iraqi Army’s 303rd battalion, all routine patrols have been suspended. A big raid is about to take place on Abu Ghraib. Famous for its prison, the city has…
This morning at Camp Bravo in Baghdad’s Amariya quarter, headquarters of the Iraqi Army’s 303rd battalion, all routine patrols have been suspended. A big raid is about to take place on Abu Ghraib. Famous for its prison, the city has…
In the Sadr City City Hall, that November morning, the atmosphere was tense. Some days before, the American soldiers guarding the City Hall had shot down the Iraqi mayor they had just chosen… because he refused a body search at…
Exhausted and haggard, Dr. Ibrahim crosses the antechamber of the Abou Hanifa mosque in Baghdad, where he has come to get blood and medicine. At twenty-eight, this young doctor is one of the most brilliant surgeons of his generation. In…
Malgré des combats acharnés, les marines ne sont pas venus à bout d’une guérilla où se côtoient désormais islamistes, partisans de Saddam et combattants étrangers. Sara Daniel raconte comment la ville rebelle est devenue aux yeux des Irakiens le symbole…
Ils s?appellent Roger, Allen, Ed, Ivan. Ils étaient officiers, simple soldat, aumônier. Notre envoyée spéciale en Irak, Sara Daniel, les avait rencontrés il y a quelques mois à Fallouja, à Ramadi, à Bagdad, à Sadr City. Elle les a retrouvés…