 So we're gonna go to page 68 68 68 Look at the image being shared Kebabs and fluja chapter 4. Oh Thank you all they're got Okay, chapter 4 Kebabs and fluja and we're gonna read The caption here for this picture. I got a feeling. This is the same stuff. Darchemal rent. What the f? Okay This Sadik Zoman was detained from his home In Kirkuk Kirkuk by the US military Held for one month then dropped off at a Salah Hadid hospital in Tick tick Rick tick writ by US soldiers He was comatose with electrical burn marks on his feet and genitals The back of his head was bashed in and he had multiple bruises on his legs chest and back January 4 photo unknown photographer chapter 4 Kebabs in fluja Beyond the green zone dispatches from unembedded journalists in occupied Iraq. Darchemal forward by Someone that lost their soul Chapter 4 Kebabs and fluja on December 19th 2003 Nearly fortnight after the event the coalition provisional authority Released this official statement about an attack on Paul Bremer's convoy the civil civil administrator announced that he had survived in Quote in prompt to attack on December 4th December 6 The CPA at that point was still unwilling to acknowledge that the Iraqi resistance was already a well-coordinated Sophisticated movement backed by an efficient intelligence system the official line from the US government therefore projected this and other attacks as random unorganized Incidents less than two months earlier on October 26 2003 US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfewitz the number two civilian in the Pentagon was nearly killed when between eight and ten rockets slammed Into the heavy Defended al-Rashid hotel where he was staying The future president of the World Bank Narrowly escaped death when the rockets reached the eleventh floor just one floor beneath his own At this point we were delivered What what what what was soon to become the ref the refrain of the official US line Line on attacks by the Resistance it was first mouthed by Brigadier General Martin Dempsey commander of the first armored division and Echoed later by Secretary of State Colin Powell and repeated ad nauseam in the following years on Occasion on occasions that marked each tipping point or turning of the corner for the occupation Dempsey told reporters quote If we look back at some of what we might describe as more Sensational attacks. I think you'll see it's usually the case that they follow some positive event in the lives of the Iraqi people end quote He added referencing Referencing a recent lifting of the curfew that that shrouded Baghdad quote This is another example of that We take three steps forward and they try to pull us one step back and in fact it doesn't work end quote Dempsey told reporters he didn't believe wolfowitz was the target of the attack Quote, I think this probably took a couple of months to prepare His travel itinerary certainly wasn't known at that point in time end quote This was the exact line taken by Pentagon officials to describe the attack on Bremmer In that instance the press was told that the attackers probably didn't know that it was the CPA heads Convoy that they were attacking it may have been Pure coincidence that the rockets were aimed at the side of the hotel Well wolfowitz was and had missed his room by a few yards a Coincidence similar to the attack the day before On the Arashit Hotel when a US Army Black Hawk helicopter guarding wolfowitz in Tick-Ritt was hit by our by RPG fire Which wounded some of his crew some of his crew According to US Officials, this was certainly another opportunistic random and desperate attack This same propaganda was recycled to describe the attack on Paul Bremmer's convoy on December 6 2003 the day Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld visited Iraq Coalition spokesman dawn center Let reporters know at a press conference that their quote was no evidence of a planned assassination attempt on Bremmer end quote and that quote it was probably a random kind of attack end quote To reinforce the point further He elaborated quote attacks occur there all the time and he happened to drive through it Three months after Bremmer was attacked General John Abbe Zed the top ranking US general in the Middle East was attacked by a flurry of RPGs That struck his convoy when he was visiting Major General Charles Swanak in Fallujah General Abbe Abbe Zed Commander of US forces in Iraq was confident that the group who carried out the attack was not Respons representative of the rest of people in Fallujah Every day on the streets of Baghdad. I was witnessing the deterioration of conditions in Iraq I had been in Iraq for barely a month and had seen the steady rise in the number of people begging on the streets Women sent their children after me with their hands stretched out as I walked to an internet cafe or to buy some food There were times when I had a child grabbing onto either arm and as I walked This grew worse when the temperatures dipped as the winter months set in In a cold wet rainy day. I sat in the lobby of the Agadir Talking with Baha Staring out the window at the falling rain. He said quote see how there are fewer cars now Fewer people can afford the petrol and now people will be freezing in their homes and quote Meanwhile, there was also escalation in the number of murders and kidnapings after the pro Saddam Hussein Demonstrations following his capture in which more than 40 Iraqis were killed by the Americans Baghdad had settled back into a hesitant hesitant tense quiet piercing this relative calm would be random bombs and sporadic gunfire along since normalized aspect of night in Baghdad Christmas Eve in Baghdad was a surreal experience for a Westerner after a day of interviews Akhil and I arrived at the Agadir to find the lobby filled with people Flurring around Discussing the attack on the big hotel We obtained we obtained enough sketch sketchy details to send us out Once again in the direction of the most heavily fortified hotel compound in Baghdad that of the nearby Shira Sheraton Palestine hotel complex We did so purely by trial and error since accurate details are hard to come by in such situations We asked the US soldier who did not know what happened But directed us towards the French embassy down the street where we had been told the attack took place He seemed quite friendly, so I asked where he was from. I am from California He said I could tell I could tell he wasn't sure if I was American due to my beard and The Kaffaya wrapped around my neck to continue the conversation. I said quote. I'm from Alaska How are you doing mad and quote he replied quote? Hanging in there brother hanging in there. I was born in Anchorage, but now I live in San Diego and quote I Told him to keep hanging in there and he thanked me as we began to walk away I heard him say quote Merry Christmas in court I swung around and wished them the same and saw him smiling at the instant Instance of normals normalcy amid the chaos of war and torn Baghdad We eventually reached the small field outside the hotel complex and were met by several Iraqi police Manning a small checkpoint. They told us the attack had been launched from the field Situated between the teach tickeries and the hotel Tigris tickeries Between the Tigris and the hotel one of them who was smoking a cigarette and eyeing us nervously Filled in the details quote at approximately 8 30 p.m. A car pulled up near a palm tree in this small field two men got out of the car calmly and Unloaded a small Russian made collision collision a missile by the time it had launched and Slam into the top floor of the hotel. We realized what was happening and started shooting at them We had a big gun battle and the shot over Shot and shot over 120 rounds at them, but they managed to escape and quote Walking down at Unlit side street back towards my hotel. We stopped at a tea vendor About two blocks from where the where the missile had been launched a keel didn't think the guards Guard story really stacked up. And so he asked the tea man what he had heard There had been no shell casings around where they had Where they where they said they had fired 120 times and the guards Had not been able to tell us what type of car it was even though they said they had shown Their spotlight on it The tea man confirmed our hunch when he said he had heard the huge missile explosion But no bullets at all stories of incompetent hastily trained Iraqi police Abandoned as did stories of resistance fighters joining the police as Infiltrators which is probably what the men that we had talked with outside the hotel had been the trend of Infiltration into the into both the Iraqi police and army by member of members of the resistance Increased exponentially in the coming months what we had just witnessed of the Collab collaboration between the Iraqi police and Iraqi resistance at the Sheraton Hotel Incident was but a prelude to infiltration on a massive scale to occur in the security forces This was a this reading was a different reading than what Darjumal read The video that I posted on my channel So this basically this book is basically Darjumal giving an account on a daily basis of Some of the things he does some of the stuff is very Just routine stuff. Some of the stuff goes into detail and I believe it gets Heavier as Darjumal Continues his stay in Iraq because he gets to know people and Some of the people he gets to know they die Okay, and there's some pictures that he has here District about that the day after so that was saying was captured Right, and this is Darjumal's This is Darjumal Huge respect to this guy Will kill the the person in the bottom, right? and he lived in Alaska and When this thing happened when the invasion of Iraq took place basically If I recall click correctly, he sold everything he had Put some stuff in storage packed up his bag bags and flew to Iraq to be an Uninvented journalist, and it wasn't a journalist before I forget what he was doing before Okay, let's read his little write-up Darjumal is an independent journalist who has covered the Middle East for more than four years He has reported extensively from inside Iraq for eight months and has also reported from Syria Turkey Lebanon and Jordan Jamal writes for the inter-press service Asia times and many other outlets His reports have been published in the national the Sunday Herald the guard the guardian foreign policy and focus and the Independent among other publications on radio as well and television Jamal has reported for DN and Numerous other stations around the globe Jamal is also special correspondent for flashpoint on K P F a radio Pacifica He lives in, California. Okay, and this book came out in in in 2007, okay