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The three separate views of Iraq from Baghdad consisted of a documentary movie, that Blackwater USA shootout and stressed-out children. Jim Maceda filed an In Depth report for NBC on the mental health of Baghdad's war orphans: a UNICEF study has found that half the city's pre-teens have been eyewitness to "a major traumatic event." He called them "the lost generation--tens of thousands of emotionally disturbed Iraqi kids." For them, there is the grand total of one child psychiatrist in the entire city. Dr Haidar abdul-Mosen offers "basic therapy--little more than comforting words."

The FBI intends to have its investigation of last month's shootout involving Blackwater bodyguards completed "in days," stated CBS' Elizabeth Palmer. She took a trip to the traffic circle in Baghdad's Nisoor Square, where it is now estimated that 17 civilians were killed, and found no evidence of FBI diligence. The fight was supposedly started by a car that drove towards a Blackwater convoy yet "astonishingly that car full of forensic clues is still sitting by the side of the road three weeks later." The bodyguards opened fire on a city bus, "a bus that we found back on its regular route, driving right past the scene of the shooting." The driver showed Palmer its bullet holes but has not been approached by the FBI: "Our investigation turned up many witnesses who have not yet been interviewed."

Inside the Green Zone the US military is organizing packed houses for a new documentary "to say the least a very unique launch for a new film," as ABC's Miguel Marquez (subscription required) put it. Meeting Resistance is a movie profile made by a pair of journalists, one British, one American, of "a teacher, a wife, a soldier" who each decide to take up arms. "All say they hate living under occupation." The audiences are made up of ordinary soldiers in an attempt by military brass to offer insight into "what motivates Iraqis to fight Americans."

Andrew Tyndall 10/9/07 8:26:58 pm

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