This week marks the one year anniversary of the attack on Iraq. One year since the first U.S. bombs were dropped on Baghdad, leading to that moment when Saddam’s statue was trampled by rejoicing Iraqis. The award-winning Washington Post reporter Anthony Shadid was there during those adrenalin-filled first days of the fall of Baghdad, and has been there for the last twelve months, chronicling the bloody and unpredictable process that the U.S. administration refers to as “reconstruction.”
In covering this story, Shadid has gone beyond the capital of Baghdad and the political players who dominate the news, and instead has turned his reporter’s eye to less examined locations places like Basra, Najaf and Nasariya, and to the ordinary people who live in there.
Guests:
Anthony Shadid, award winning reporter for The Washington Post.