The Guardian: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad finds there is evidence that the killing is still going on Story Transcript Baghdad March 2009 GHAITH ABDUL-AHAD, THE GUARDIAN: I waited several months before I returned to Baghdad. So much has changed since my last visit. There is a sense of tentative joy. Watched over by the statue of the […]
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Ghaith Abdul-Ahad (born in Baghdad, Iraq, 1975) is an unembedded Iraqi journalist who began working after the U.S. invasion and has written for The Guardian and Washington Post and published photographs in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Times (London), and other media outlets.[1] Ghaith studied architecture at Baghdad University and had never traveled outside Iraq prior to the Iraq war. As a deserter from Saddam Hussein's Iraqi army, he lived underground in Baghdad for six years, having to change his residence every few months in order to avoid detection and arrest. He began doing street photography in 2001 and was determined to document conditions in Baghdad during the war. This aroused suspicion, and he was arrested three days before the end of major combat operations, though he was able to escape by bribing his guards.
