{"id":3410,"date":"2007-04-03T18:51:49","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T01:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/03\/dahr-jamail\/"},"modified":"2007-04-03T18:51:49","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T01:51:49","slug":"dahr-jamail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/03\/dahr-jamail\/","title":{"rendered":"Dahr Jamail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Independent journalist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/jamail\/\">Dahr Jamail<\/a> reports from Doha, Qatar about John McCain&#8217;s lies, the surge&#8217;s success at moving some insurgents from town to town, the fact that the U.S. is not leaving Iraq any time soon, Speaker Pelosi in Syria, that country&#8217;s friendly cooperation with the U.S. in torturing and murdering those renditioned there, the Saudi king and Iraqi president&#8217;s denunciation of the occupation of Iraq, the need to talk with Hezbollah, for Israel to make peace with it&#8217;s neighbors, the possibility of war with Iran.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissentradio.com\/charles\/aw0402dahrjamail.mp3\"><strong>MP3 here<\/strong><\/a>. (16:44)<\/p>\n<p>In late 2003, 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, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dahrjamailiraq.com\/\">Dahr Jamail<\/a> went to Iraq to report on the war himself.<\/p>\n<p>His dispatches were quickly recognized as an important media resource.          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, Foreign Policy in Focus, and the Independent to name          just a few. Dahr&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Dahr has spent a total of 8 months in occupied Iraq as one of only a          few independent US journalists in the country. In the MidEast, Dahr has          also has reported from Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. Dahr uses the DahrJamailIraq.com          website and his popular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dahrjamailiraq.com\/email_list\/index.php\">mailing          list<\/a> to disseminate his dispatches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Middle East Mess<\/em><\/strong>: Independent journalist keeps track<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3410"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}