Bill Moyers' Journal tonight: Leila Fadel:News From Sadr City

[babylonsister]

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04182008/profile.html

April 18, 2008
Leila Fadel: News From Sadr City

As the war in Iraq moves further into its fifth year, bombings and shootings continue — especially in Sadr City. Among the journalists on the ground in that conflicted area is Leila Fadel, the Baghdad bureau chief for McClatchy Company. Fadel spoke with Bill Moyers when she was in New York to receive the George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting.

Fadel's work is not only featured in the 30 McClatchy newspapers around the country, but in her blog, Baghdad Observer. In her April 2, 2008 blog posting Fadel acknowledged a critique by a military friend about her recent article on the civilian casualties of U.S. operations in the area. Fadel noted the complexity of the situation faced by Iraqis and U.S. forces alike, as well as reporters on the ground:

The point of the piece today was to show the general anger and sadness felt in Sadr City. Today our bureau will tell another story and tomorrow another. Everyone of them will anger someone, everyone will shine a light on a different struggle in this war.

You can read the stories which earned Leila Fadel her Polk Award below:

* A ride through the landscape of war, 10/07/07
* Iraqi's chilling tales of revenge, 06/22/07
* Mahdi Army makes a final push to control southwest Baghdad, 6/11/2007
* Ordinary life hardly the norm in Baghdad, 09/14/07
* As U.S. officials touted progress, Blackwater guards killed 16, 09/27/07
* For Baghdad couples, love often lost amid sectarian struggle, 08/22/07
* Ambassador sees tough path in Iraq, 08/21/07
* Iraqi prime minister says he won\'t resign, 8/28/07
* U.S. sponsorship of Sunni groups worries Iraq's government, 11/29/07
* In Iraqi villages devastated by blasts, recovery and mourning continue, 08/21/07

> Leila Fadel will be taking viewer questions on The Moyers Blog.

> Read Leila Fadel, April 18, 2008 report" "GIs in Sadr City under fire from friends and foes".

> Plus, read the blog of the McClatchy staff in Iraq: Inside Iraq.

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1. Thanks for the heads up....

[malaise]

2. Thanks n/t

[babylonsister]

3. Kick! On here @9pmCT. Check local listings. nt

[KatyaR]

4. What a well-spoken, intelligent woman.

I am so impressed with her--I nearly fell off the couch when she said she was 26 years old and had been made bureau chief after only a year in Iraq (she's been there two years). She has the knowledge and maturity of a much older person.

Her writing definitely sounds like a must read.

[babylonsister]

6. I just heard her age also; amazing, and brave. You can find

her blog here, I think, among others:

http://washingtonbureau.typepad.com/iraq/

[L. Coyote]

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