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David Enders, for the Pulitzer Center
Basra, Iraq
No stranger to hardship, northern Bihar state – India's poorest and most corrupt – is faced with some degree of flooding each year. But none in distant memory compare to this year's monsoon deluge, a symptom of climate change that has affected tens of millions, killed hundreds and exposed the extent of state neglect rooted in class politics.
black smoke billows into a starless sky.
we were the ones who dried the canals and planted death in the river bank - powder and steel among the reeds. smallpox in a dakota blizzard. boot leather on the slave-bricked streets.
custer's 7th cavalry dismounts in fallahat.a hand pressed to the heart, just above his 9.
black points float in clear blue irises.her rank is missing from her uniform.
why does nothing taste good?
I filmed this kid after a car bombing on Sunday. He died at the hospital later of internal injuries.
There is increasing awareness of the post traumatic stress disorder
Richard Rowley, for the Pulitzer Center
Iraq
black smoke billows into a starless sky.
we were the ones who dried the canals and planted death in the river bank -
powder and steel among the reeds.
smallpox in a dakota blizzard.
boot leather on the slave-bricked streets.
custer's 7th cavalry dismounts in fallahat.
a hand pressed to the heart, just above his 9.
black points float in clear blue irises.
her rank is missing from her uniform.
why does nothing taste good?
David Enders, for the Pulitzer Center
Iraq
I filmed this kid after a car bombing on Sunday. He died at the hospital later of internal injuries.
David Enders, for the Pulitzer Center
Iraq
The break in blogging is due to Rick and I being on an embed and not having the time to blog or a regular internet connection. But as we come off the embed, I want to address that subject. Some people still maintain it is impossible to tell an accurate story embedded, I see it as the only way possible to find out what's going on with the military.
U.S. forces have brokered an agreement between Sunni and Shi'ite tribal leaders to join forces against al Qaeda and other extremists, extending a policy that has transformed the security situation in western Anbar province to this area north of the capital.
The extremists struck back yesterday with a suicide car bomb aimed at one of the Sunni tribes involved in the deal, killing three militiamen and wounding 14.
Video from trip up river from El Charco
Richard Rowley, for the Pulitzer Center
Iraq
land smears into sky without a seam
diesel generators shudder and spit
tar softens in the cracked streets
women, habayas billowing black, carry water over the river of sewage in shola
poison leaches into the ground.
headed south
the tigris rolls slowly to basra
bloated with corpses,
A boy injured by a car bombing last Sunday, July 22, 2007. He later died of internal injuries.
Enders comments on what it means to report in Iraq, what "security" means in the safest neighborhood in Baghdad, the role of militias and more.
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