"A Safe House for Iraqi Allies"
(12/15/06) By Kirk W. Johnson
I recently heard from an Iraqi friend of mine, whose identity I am compelled to conceal. Until a month ago, 'Y' was working for the U.S. Agency for International Development, helping in its multibillion-dollar effort to rebuild Iraq. After two years of sneaking into the Green Zone to work for the United States, his identity was exposed...
"Hounded by Insurgents, Abandoned by Us"
(4/18/07) By Kirk W. Johnson
The crisis over Iraq's refugees is the first major policy issue in which Iraqi civilians are front and center. We debate how the surge looks today or how oil will be distributed tomorrow on the banks of a swelling river of human misery: two million Iraqis who couldn't bear to live in Iraq anymore, and another two million displaced internally but too poor to flee...
"Betrayed"
(3/26/07) By George Packer
On a cold, wet night in January, I met two young Iraqi men in the lobby of the Palestine Hotel, in central Baghdad. A few Arabic television studios had rooms on the upper floors of the building, but the hotel was otherwise vacant. In the lobby, a bucket collected drips of rainwater; at the gift shop, which was closed, a shelf displayed film, batteries, and sheathed daggers covered in dust. A sign from another era read, "We have great pleasure in announcing the opening of the Internet cafe 24 hour a day. At the business center on the first floor. The management."...
"Allies Left Behind?"
(7/15/07) By Dan Harris and Lenny Bourin
Kirk Johnson is the keeper of what he calls the saddest list in the world - a list of Iraqis who worked for the United States but are now marked for death and on the run.
Johnson says that the U.S. effort in Iraq "would not have functioned without these people. And they risk their lives every single day to come through checkpoints that are routinely mortared and shelled and hit by suicide bombers and snipers just to come and help us -- because they believe in America enough to help us rebuild their country."
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