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Eyewitness to a Siege
Life among the snipers and the worshipers in a holy city held hostage • FULL STORY

Laurent Van der Stockt / Gamma for Newsweek

HIGHLIGHTS

• Talk Transcript: Saving Eden
Christopher Dickey joined us on Wednesday, August 25, at noon ET to discuss the pillaging of Iraq and whether priceless archeological artifacts can be saved.

• Taunts, Traps and Tests
Iraq's new leader gets tough—by unleashing the U.S. Marines. Can that win him respect?

• Zakaria: Why Kerry Is Right on Iraq
Perhaps Iraq would have been a disaster no matter what. But there's a thinly veiled racism behind such views, implying Iraqis are savages.

• ‘We Pray the Insurgents Will Achieve Victory’
Fallujah’s leading cleric discusses the spate of civilian kidnappings and the difference between ‘honest’ and ‘dishonest’ insurgency

• Dickey: Buyer Beware
Ahmad Chalabi is treated like a scapegoat by the Bush administration. But as Washington pushes him away, Tehran appears happy to receive him

• Q&A: A Soldier Seeks the Truth About Iraq
An Iraq veteran hopes his new group will generate a grassroots effort to examine what went wrong with Washington’s post-war plans

• A Battle Over Blame
Rumsfeld may be rebuked by his own commission investigating prison abuse

• Dickey: A Clockwork Orange Alert?
The timing of the arrests in Pakistan and the alerts in the United States continue to raise questions about the politics of terror

WEB EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE

JULY 2004

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• BENEATH THE HOODS
Many of the tortured at Abu Ghraib were common criminals, not terrorists

• Dickey: October Surprises• Dickey: Can This Mayor Rebuild Baghdad?

JUNE 2004

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• IRAQ AFTER THE OCCUPATION
Iraqis fervently hope that their new government can do better than their incompetent occupiers

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• Dickey: Iraq’s Dictator-in-Waiting?• Iraqis React to Handover

MAY 2004

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• LIU: GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER?
The Najaf ceasefire raises questions about when—and if—Moqtada al-Sadr will ever face trial on charges of murder and theft

• Iraq's Shahristani on Handover, Abu Ghraib• New Questions for Iraq Prison Commander

APRIL 2004

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• IRAQ: WAR OF PERCEPTIONS
The U.S. military is devising a plan to end the siege of Fallujah. But will it win on the battleground of Iraqi public opinion?

• Mean Streets• Should Images of War Dead be Banned?

MARCH 2004

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• ATTACKS ON JOURNALISTS HAMPER COVERAGE
Insurgents are mixing up their tactics in Iraq, increasingly targeting journalists and other foreigners—and making it hard for news organizations to staff their bureaus in Baghdad

• Fineman: Is Fallujah the New Somalia?• War Stories: Stress Takes Its Toll in Iraq

FEBRUARY 2004

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• THE IRAQI HANDOVER: WILL THE DATE SLIDE?
Worried about civil war, some Bush insiders want to delay the Iraqi handover past June. The Bush political team sees that as a very bad idea. And so does Iraq's administrator

• Holding the Line• The Tale of The Lying Defector

JANUARY 2004

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• TAKING TEA—AND IRAQ'S PULSE—IN BAGHDAD
Our correspondent canvasses the cafés of Baghdad to find out what the average Iraqi thinks of the U.S. occupation

• Dickey: Bush’s Bad Judgment on Iraq Intel• Terror Watch: Is CIA Really to Blame for Iraq Intelligence?

DECEMBER 2003

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• HOW WE GOT SADDAM
'Don't shoot,' the bearded, submissive man said to the soldiers. He was Saddam Hussein, hiding in a hole, the man the Pentagon called 'High Value Target Number One.' The story of his capture--and what's next.

• Dickey: Did U.S. Capture Saddam's Mojo?• Zakaria: The 'Republic of Fear' Is Dead

NOVEMBER 2003

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• CHINOOK DOWN
The chopper attack that killed 16 U.S. soldiers provided the most frightening indication yet that the shadowy Iraqi insurgency is growing more sophisticated and more deadly

• Lessons of History• Iraq’s Donkey Desperadoes

OCTOBER 2003

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• THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS PLACE
Even before the al Rashid attack and car bombings, life in Baghdad was a daily dance with death

• Show Me the Money• The Other Casualties

SEPTEMBER 2003

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• ANOTHER BOMB IN BAGHDAD
Latest attack has political subtext

• The Only Way Out Is Forward• Dickey: Pride and Prejudices

AUGUST 2003

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• A MIGHTY FALL
Tariq Aziz was once the international face of Saddam’s regime. Now his family is angry that U.S. troops are still keeping him prisoner

• Darkness Visible• Roughest Region

JULY 2003

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• ‘THEY HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT’
A guerrilla-war expert assesses the tactics used against American troops in Iraq—and how the U.S. soldiers should be trained to fight back

• Excessive Force?• Longing for Home

JUNE 2003

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• UDAY’S HOME MOVIES
Saddam Hussein’s son left behind an extensive video collection in his palaces—many of the films featuring himself

• ‘I Said, “Please, God, Don’t Kill Me”’• Deadly Hot

MAY 2003

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• ATTACKS ON THE RISE
Two U.S. soldiers were killed and nine wounded on Tuesday in Iraq. It was the most serious attack since major combat was declared over on May 1. Does this mark a new phase of violence?

• Coming Out of the Shadows• ‘Why Rumsfeld Is Wrong’

APRIL 2003

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• ON BAGHDAD’S FRONTLINES
NEWSWEEK’s Kevin Peraino, embedded with the Third Infantry Division, filed this on-scene report on the battle for the Saddam International Airport

• Aiding the Enemy• Saddam's Victims: The ‘Abu Earless’ Brigade

MARCH 2003

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• EMBED REPORT: THE FINAL HOURS
The battalion that fired the first shots of the last gulf war is given its orders to begin fighting this one

• Analysis: Not What America Expected• ‘We Will Turn Bush Into a Dog’

WAR IN IRAQ

Complete coverage of the war in Iraq, by month

• March 2003
• April 2003
• May 2003
• June 2003
• July 2003
• August 2003
• September 2003
• October 2003
• November 2003
• December 2003
• January 2004
• February 2004
• March 2004
• April 2004
• May 2004
• June 2004
• July 2004
• Main War on Iraq section front

AUDIO

Rod Nordland reports on the latest fighting in Iraq:

•	The situation in Najaf
•	Moqtada al-Sadr's possible hiding places
•	Iraqi reaction to the al-Sadr forces
•	Relations between U.S. forces and Iraq's new leaders
•	The role of Ahmad Chalabi

LIVE TALKS

• The Iraqi Handover
Rod Nordland joined us on Wednesday, June 30 at noon ET to discuss the Iraq handover. Read the transcript.

IRAQ, ONE YEAR LATER
• Christopher Dickey joined us for a talk on Iraq on March 19. Read the transcript.

PHOTO GALLERY

A Year of War

•	A dictator has been toppled, a military has been destroyed and thousands have been killed. Iraq, 12 months after the bombing began. Launch Flash presentation

PREVIOUS COVERAGE FROM THE MAGAZINE

From our archives

•	April 21 issue: How to Win the Peace
•	April 14 issue: Saving Private Lynch
•	April 7 issue: A Plan Under Attack
•	March 31 issue: The War Room
•	March 24 issue: America the Arrogant
•	March 17 issue: Saddam's War Plan

SPECIAL FEATURE

• American and British troops killed in Iraq

PHOTO GALLERIES

More Photo Galleries

From shock and awe to protests at home to the fall of Baghdad. The story of the war on Iraq, in photos

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INTERACTIVE

Taking It To the Streets

An interactive guide to urban warfare.

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INTERACTIVE

Targeting Baghdad

An interactive map of the Iraqi capital.

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AUDIO

•	Rod Nordland, in Basra, on Iraqi police returning to the streets and Baghdad police's first arrest
•	Kevin Peraino with the 3rd ID on camping out in Saddam's palace, how the Iraqi soldiers lived and more
•	Arian Campo-Flores with the 3rd ID on the end of resistance at the airport, and the troops' feeling that the end is near
•	Arian Campo-Flores with the 3rd ID on capturing a fedayeen compound, troops showing fatigue and more
•	Ron Haviv on the biggest concern for U.S. troops, surviving a sandstorm and more...
•	Kevin Peraino on civilian reaction to troops, Iraqi POW comments, first gas scare and more
•	Kevin Peraino with the 3rd ID on the snafus that keep the supply convoys busy
•	Melinda Liu on the bombing of Iraq's capital and Saddam's propaganda machine
•	Colin Soloway on life in a desert sandstorm, threats to his convoy and more
•	Arian Campo-Flores on his unit's skirmish with Iraqi forces, the biggest threat facing the soldiers and more
•	Colin Soloway on reaction to the first casualties and the start of 'shock and awe'
•	Babak Dehghanpisheh on strikes in Northern Iraq
•	Kevin Peraino on his entry into Iraq with ground forces

VIDEO

•	U.S. security sweeps strain relations with Iraqi villagers
•	A visit to Baghdad's morgue
•	Chasing looters with Alpha Company
•	Baghdad's Committee for Missing Persons
•	The grisly hunt for Saddam's last victims
•	How U.S. soldiers are beating boredom at the Euphrates
•	A Shiite demonstration turns violent in Basra
•	A hospital director survives a missile attack
•	A prisoner of war surrenders to Rod Nordland
•	Former political prisoners show how they were tortured in Basra
•	Air raid sirens in Kuwait City

VIDEO

•	U.S. security sweeps strain relations with Iraqi villagers
•	A visit to Baghdad's morgue
•	Chasing looters with Alpha Company
•	Baghdad's Committee for Missing Persons
•	The grisly hunt for Saddam's last victims
•	How U.S. soldiers are beating boredom at the Euphrates
•	A Shiite demonstration turns violent in Basra
•	A hospital director survives a missile attack
•	A prisoner of war surrenders to Rod Nordland
•	Former political prisoners show how they were tortured in Basra
•	Air raid sirens in Kuwait City

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