The Devil You Don't Know: Going Back to Iraq - Softcover

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'What really comes through and is startlingly refreshing are al-Jezairy's encounters with ordinary Iraqis...during the American occupation. Through them come all the extraordinary Iraqi stories that have been so hard for Westerners to capture all these years.'-RAGEH OMAAR

In 1979, journalist Zuhair al-Jezairy fled Iraq and certain death after openly criticising Saddam Hussein's regime. Twenty-five years later he is back, and cautiously celebrating the toppling of the hated Ba'ath Party.

As editor of a newspaper, he breaks the Oil for Food scandal, disclosing the names of Arabs and Westerners who were involved. He then sets up a television company and travels all over Iraq, documenting the country's descent into sectarianism and hopeless violence, soon becoming a target himself.

Al-Jezairy's first-hand accounts of the looting of Baghdad, the destruction of government buildings., and indiscriminate bombings are a searing, personal and unique account of Iraq after Saddam Hussein.

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