Amy Goodman
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Journalists: U.S. Failures in Iraq Helped Fuel Current Sectarian Crisis
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June 12, 2014
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20:16Now PlayingIraq is on the brink of disintegration as Sunni militants seize more towns and now set their sights on the capital Baghdad. In the past few days Al Qaedalinked Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have seized control of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, as well as Tikrit and Dhuluiya. Meanwhile Iraqi Kurds have seized control of the northern oil city of Kirkuk. The Sunni militants now control a territory that stretches from the eastern edge of Aleppo, Syria, to Falluja in western Iraq and now the northern city of Mosul. Their advance has caused a humanitarian catastrophe, displacing some 500,000 people in Mosul alone. Mosul fell in part because U.S.trained Iraqi forces abandoned their posts. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has reportedly urged the U.S. to carry out airstrikes in recent months but the Obama administration has declined the request so far. We are joined by two guestsNed Parker, Reuters Bureau Chief in Baghdad; and Mohammed al Dulaimy, an Iraqi journalist with McClatchy Newspapers who reported from Iraq for years and is now seeking U.S. asylum out of fear for his safety if he returns. This is Dulaimy's first TV interview after years of maintaining a lowprofile to protect his safety.
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