Iraq's People Forgotten Victims of the 21st-Century Holocaust

Firas Al-Atraqchi

The war that should have been prevented is once again dominating Arab foreign policy and the concerns of the politicos in the Middle East and Washington, but the most important stories - that of the Iraqi people themselves - are going unreported. On Thursday, the Iraq Study Group (ISG) released their much vaunted assessment of how to bandage Iraq back together. But to analysts who have in the past three years watched the US get further bogged down, the ISG provided absolutely nothing new to the Iraq equation. Last week, Iraq's Prime Minister Nur Al-Maliki met with US President George Bush in Amman to discuss Iraq. Both praised one another in one of the most bizarre and farcical rendition of two men at their wit’s end. During the press conference, 60 Iraqis were reported killed in Baghda (...) While Iraqi leaders were meeting in Cairo and Washington, a report was published in the London-based Al Quds Al Arabi highlighting the number of deaths on a daily basis in Iraq. The newspaper report quotes the Iraqi Southern Research Center for Strategic Planning as saying that it finds nearly 400 Iraqis are killed in Baghdad alone every day. These are 400 stories that go untold every day by the foreign press which instead has fixated itself with photo opportunities and mere public relations events...

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