Good reporting from Iraq

The Institute for War and Peace Reporting (to which recently started linking on the sidebar here) has a great-looking quartet of new stories up today from their reportorial trainees there:
(1) This, from Aqil Jabbar, reporting from Najaf and Kufa, titled Fallujah fighters provide military training for Sadrist forces. I haven’t seen anyone cover that angle before. And he has some good details there.
(2) This, from Zainab Naji in Ana, western Iraq, writing on the theme, An unofficial court imposes harsh sentences on Iraqis who work for the Americans and their allies.
That piece was really interesting. The court in question has, she writes, been operating since late 2003. It’s basically under the auspices of local clerics there.
A couple of other aspects of the story struck me as notable. It’s the first time I’ve seen IWPR’s Iraq program using material from ma female trainee. Hurrah! And secondly, Naji quotes a LOT of local people, on the record, who seem very familiar with the working of this court–which has even beheaded at least one alleged collaborator with the occupation. That indicates to me that the people she quoted have just about zero fear of retribution against themselves on the behalf of the US authorities or the Allawi people.
And then, (3) and (4), there are two interesting stories written by young (?) journos associated with a youth publication called “Liberal Education”, in the Kurdish city of Suleimaniyah. This one is about the discrimination some Kurdish students say they have experienced in various majority-Arab cities in the country. And this one is about the experiences various ethnic-Arab Iraqis report having had during sojourns in Iraqi Kurdistan: some good, and some very bad.
I think it’s great to have the young journos work on both sides of that issue. The general picture that emerges, however, is of increasing ethnic polarization.
Anyway, I’ve got to run. I just wanted to share those with y’all. Check them out.

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