"Iraq: Death of a Nation" examines how the U.S. invasion and occupation created a multi-faceted civil war in which the U.S. is now actively arming multiple factions. Last summer, the project focused on how Iraq's refugee crisis was created by the invasion and the fighting that has followed.
All the rooms are full
Published August 5, 2008
All the rooms are full at the Bourj Babel Hotel outside of Basra. Every guest is there to visit a family member inside of the US detention facility at Bucca.
At 3:30 AM minivans take them out into the the desert where they wait at the first gate until it opens at 7 AM.
There is no electricity and the town is dark. Oil flares light the sky. Bucca burns on the desert floor like an alien city.
Our driver to Basra was playing this song on the trip.
David Enders, for the Pulitzer Center
Pulitzer Center Staff
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Richard Rowley of Big Noise Films has made four award winning feature documentaries with international theatrical distribution and dozens of short films and television pieces. He has reported from...
