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...Iraqi military operation Wednesday, after the U.S. and its allies had finally located him. A well-placed intelligence source in Jordan told TIME that the CIA was tipped off after Jordanian intelligence learned of a meeting that Zarqawi planned to hold in the town of Baquba, north of Baghdad. His safe house was targeted in an air attack, and, says the same source, the Jordanian-born leader of the group al-Qaeda in Iraq was killed in the bombing. A senior Jordanian official confirmed that "there was a Jordanian security role in this." The official said he believed the breakthrough...
...Haditha. On Tuesday Warner fired off a stern letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, announcing that he wanted to hold hearings on the attack last Nov. 19, in which members of a Marine company are accused of gunning down two dozen innocent civilians in the village northwest of Baghdad. The first witness Warner wants before his panel is Army Maj. Gen. Eldon Bargewell, who has just completed an investigation into whether senior officers in Iraq looked the other way when news of killings trickled up the chain of command or tried to cover...
...painting, drawing and diary-making. A typical Gittoes canvas, with its Goya-like grotesqueries, can make Picasso's Guernica look like a picnic. But on arriving in Iraq in 2003, the artist felt a new medium was required to capture the surreality of what he was experiencing. Meeting Baghdad's gangsta rap?spouting U.S. Marines, Gittoes was inspired to shoot the musical documentary Soundtrack to War (2004), in which mainly black soldiers sing straight to camera over the sound of rifle fire. Some of the eye-opening footage was used by Michael Moore in Fahrenheit 9/11, and Gittoes' f?ted film...
...film's most memorable characters is Elliott Lovett, last seen rapping in Uday Hussein's former palace. When he told the filmmaker his Miami hometown was more dangerous than Baghdad, "I followed that lead like you would as a journalist," says Gittoes. And what that led to is Rampage, the documentary that has its Australian premiere at the Sydney Film Festival next week. In 103 fast-and-furious minutes, we meet Lovett's neighborhood of Brown Sub. It's Miami Vice without the pastel suits and palm trees, a no-go zone where AK-47s are the weapons of choice...
Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism has selected 28 journalists from the United States and around the world for its 69th class of fellows, including Dexter Filkins, a Baghdad correspondent for the New York Times. Like several of the other fellows, he will focus his studies the U.S.’s interaction with the Islamic world. Filkins’ research will examine the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and look at the relationship between the Western and Islamic worlds after September 11th. Eliza Griswold, another Nieman fellow and a freelance journalist whose byline has appeared...