A discussion about the US effort to stabilize and rebuild post-war Iraq.  In the six months since President Bush declared an end to major combat in Iraq, more American soldiers have been killed than during the war itself. No weapons of mass destruction have been found. Saddam is still at large. And for many Iraqis life under occupation is worse than it was before the war.  Experts from the region are interviewed and the occupation is explored from the perspective of Middle Eastern TV news reports, viewed by more than 280 million people in the region.

GUESTS:

BAHA AL-SHIBIB, Iraqi, engineer (retired), former high ranking Baath Party official and CEO of Iraq Electric Industries who fled Iraq under threat of death and advised US State Dept. on post-Iraq plans. 

ABBAS KADHIM, Iraqi, graduate student and instructor at UC Berkeley who took part in the uprising in Southern Iraq after 1st Gulf War and also fled Iraq under threat of death.

JAMAL DAJANI, Director of Middle Eastern Programming and co-producer of Mosaic

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