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Iraq elections

By The World ⋅ March 12, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

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Results are slowly emerging in Iraq from last Saturday’s parliamentary elections. Anchor Marco Werman gets the latest from reporter Ben Gilbert, who’s in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

Counting underway in Iraqi election

By The World ⋅ March 8, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

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The voter turnout in Iraq’s general elections was 62%, officials say, despite attacks that killed 38 people. Preliminary results are not expected for several days but the turnout figure is down from the 75% who voted in the 2005 general elections. Prime Minister Nouri Maliki’s State of Law Coalition is widely expected to win the most seats. Ben Gilbert is reporting from the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. Download MP3 (Photo: Ben Gilbert)

The Iraqi election in Kirkuk

By The World ⋅ March 8, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

President Barack Obama hailed a “milestone” in the history of Iraq, as it completed its second parliamentary election since the 2003 invasion. He praised the courage of voters who turned out despite bomb and mortar attacks that killed at least 35 people. Reporter Ben Gilbert has been covering the election for The World from the northern city of Kirkuk.

Kirkuk and the Iraqi election

By The World ⋅ March 5, 2010 ⋅ One comment ⋅ Transcript

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Nearly 1.5 million Iraqis living abroad have begun casting their votes in parliamentary elections, people in Iraq itself will vote on Sunday. The northern city of Kirkuk is ground zero for a potential conflict following the planned US withdrawal: the struggle between Arabs and Kurds over a large part of the country’s north. In his second story from Kirkuk, reporter Ben Gilbert looks at the role Kirkuk plays in the Iraq vote. Download MP3 (Photo: Ben Gilbert)

Ben Gilbert’s first report from Kirkuk
Iraqi voters discuss election
The struggle for Iraq

More violence as Iraqi vote begins

By The World ⋅ March 4, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

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At least 14 people have been killed in Baghdad on the first day of voting in Iraq’s parliamentary elections. On Wednesday, three suicide bombers attacked police and a hospital in Baquba, killing at least 30 people. Reporter Ben Gilbert accompanied an American embasssy election observer team in Kirkuk. Download MP3 (Photo: Ben Gilbert)

Fallujah doctors report rise in birth defects

By Michael Rass ⋅ March 4, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

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Download MP3Doctors in the Iraqi city of Fallujah are reporting a high level of birth defects, with some blaming weapons used by the US after the Iraq invasion. BBC world affairs editor John Simpson (pictured) visited a new, US-funded hospital in Fallujah where pediatrician Samira al-Ani told him that she was seeing as many as two or three cases a day, mainly cardiac defects. Download MP3

BBC online story with video

Suicide attacks in Iraq ahead of vote

By The World ⋅ March 3, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

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Suicide attacks in the central Iraqi city of Baquba have killed more than 30 people and injured dozens more. The attacks come just days before parliamentary elections, the third since the US-led invasion in 2003. Marco Werman talks with Sahar Issa, a correspondent for McClatchey Newspapers in Baghdad. Download MP3

BBC coverage
The struggle for Iraq

IEDs in Afghanistan

By The World ⋅ February 12, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

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Improvised explosive devices – or IEDs – are crude but deadly devices that have cost thousands of lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. US military commanders say they’re the primary threat facing troops there. Ben Gilbert has the first of several stories on IEDs in Afghanistan and the effort to counter them.

Baghdad rocked by deadly triple blast

By The World ⋅ January 25, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

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At least 36 people have died in three large explosions apparently targeting hotels in the heart of Iraq’s capital. More than 70 were injured in the Baghdad blasts, which police said were caused by suicide car bombers. The attacks came as the Iraqi government announced that Saddam Hussein’s former defense minister Ali Hassan al-Majid – also known as “Chemical Ali” – had been executed. The BBC’s Jim Muir is in Baghdad. Download MP3 (AP Photo: Khalid Mohammed)

The poet of Baghdad

By The World ⋅ January 12, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

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Nabeel Yasin is a highly-acclaimed Iraqi poet who was blacklisted in his country in 1978 for refusing to write poems glorifying Saddam Hussein’s regime. Now three decades later he is back in his homeland where he is running for prime minister in the elections scheduled in March. Jeb Sharp talks with Yasin. Download MP3

Briton released from captivity in Iraq

By The World ⋅ December 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

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Peter Moore, one of five British men taken hostage in Iraq in May 2007 has been released alive from captivity. Mr. Moore, an IT consultant was seized in Baghdad in May 2007, was in good health and “absolutely delighted at his release”.The World’s Laura Lynch reports from London. Download MP3

BBC coverage
British hostages in Iraq: Timeline

US soldier in Iraq spreads holiday cheer

By The World ⋅ December 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

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An audio postcard from a US base in Iraq, courtesy of independent radio producer Jake Warga. He spoke to one soldier at the base who is performing holiday songs to cheer up his comrades this time of year.
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Hacking into American drone aircraft

By The World ⋅ December 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

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Insurgents in Iraq have hacked into live video feeds from unmanned American drone aircraft, US media reports say. Shia fighters are said to have used off-the-shelf software programs to capture the footage. The hacking was possible because the remotely flown planes have an unprotected communications link. Alex Gallafent reports. Download MP3

Son of Babylon

By The World ⋅ December 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

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Bombs are still going off in Baghdad, but one Iraqi filmmaker hasn’t let that stop production on his new feature film Son of Babylon. Mohammed Al Daradji tells host Marco Werman about his new project that’s been selected to screen at the Sundance Film Festival next month. Download MP3 (Photo: Movie still from Son of Babylon)

Iraqi film festival

By The World ⋅ December 4, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

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Some Iraqi film-makers have decided to use the visible scars of violence as a backdrop for a film festival. Screenings are being held on the very sites of some of the deadliest bombings to hit Baghdad in recent months. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with one of the organizers, Husam Al Shara.