UPRISING IN IRAQ

Fighting the Americans 24 May 2004
One afternoon in Najaf I joined the Mahdi militia as they fought against American forces. Many of them were middle class and well educated.

The journey where death waits around every turn 1 June 2004
By the summer of 2004 most roads outside Baghdad were unsafe for foreigners. But one town gained a particularly nasty reputation. One afternoon we got badly stuck in Mahmudiyah, a place where to show you face is to invite imminent death.

Baghdad doctors despair at hospital's filthy conditions and lack of drugs 5 June 2004
Dying in squalor, the children betrayed by broken promises. A year after the occupation began many Iraqis were still living in terrible conditions.

American Sniper in Baghdad 17 July 2004

Although I had never been embedded I spent a few days in the US base at Sadr City in the summer of 2004 with a sniper unit. One of the snipers, Griff, had a remarkable story to tell.