After Seven Years: Iraq War “Forgotten”

DAHLIA WASFI, info@liberatethis.com, http://liberatethis.com
     Born in New York to an American Jewish mother (daughter of 
Holocaust survivors) and an Iraqi Muslim father, Wasfi has a medical 
degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She spent 
three months in Iraq with her family in 2006. She has been speaking 
against the occupation since 2004. She is currently working on a book on 
her experiences.

DAHR JAMAIL, dahrjamail@gmail.com, http://dahrjamailiraq.com
     Jamail's most recent piece is "The New 'Forgotten' War," which 
states: "While U.S. forces have begun to slowly pull back in Iraq, 
approximately 96,000 American troops and 114,000 private contractors 
still remain in the country -- along with an embassy the size of Vatican 
City. Upwards of 400 Iraqi civilians still die in a typical month (Iraq 
Body Count, 12/31/09), and fallout from the occupation that is now 
responsible, by some estimates, for 1 million Iraqi deaths (Extra!, 
1/2/08) continues to severely impact Iraqis in ways that go uncovered by 
the U.S. press. ...

     "Corporate media coverage of the ongoing Iraqi refugee crisis -- 
the U.N. estimates that more than 4.5 million Iraqis in all have been 
displaced from their homes (UNHCR.org, 1/09) -- continues to be scant. 
The stories that do appear tend to be local stories about Iraqi refugees 
in the newspaper's home city (e.g., Chicago Tribune, 10/25/09). ...

     Jamail is the author of "Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an 
Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq" and "The Will to Resist: 
Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan." He recently wrote 
the pieces "U.S. Using Iraqi Political Discord to Justify Continuance of 
Occupation" and "Women Miss Saddam."

For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167