WATCH VIDEO
Watch an excerpt from the film.
Gianni Magazzeni, UN Human Rights chief talks about the torture victims in Iraq.
Michael Gordon, the Chief Military Correspondent for the New York Times talks about the enemy that the U.S. military was unprepared to face.
Jack Keane the U.S. Army's vice chief of staff during the first year of the war discusses how the war was waged.
New York Times Baghdad bureau chief John Burns discusses the financing behind the Iraqi insurgency.
New York Times Baghdad bureau chief John Burns discusses the potential consequences of civil war in Iraq.
New York Times Baghdad bureau chief John Burns discusses the prospects of securing Baghdad with the latest "surge" of American troops.
FACTS ABOUT BAGHDAD
- Baghdad's population is estimated to be about seven million.
- It is the largest city in Iraq and the second largest in the Arab world (after Cairo).
- At its peak the death toll in Baghdad reached 200 civilians a day or 34,000 in the past year.
- The war is costing $2 billion per week and 70 American lives a month.
- The Tigris river in Baghdad has become an ethnic demarcation link - Sunnis on the west and Shias on the east.
LISTEN ONLINE
EXTERNAL LINKS
- New York Times: Breaking Iraqi News
- New York Times: The Battle for Baghdad
- New York Times: Casualities of War
- CBC News: Iraq After the War
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
His last film Nuclear Jihad, was awarded an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for broadcast journalism.
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