Document 29.2 Farnaz Fassihi, Report from Baghdad, 2004
Farnaz Fassihi | Report from Baghdad, 2004
After U.S. forces ousted Saddam Hussein in 2003, civil war broke out between rival religious sects of Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims. Many Iraqis viewed the United States as an occupying power despite efforts to reconstruct the war-torn nation and promote free elections. In an e-mail to friends in the United States, Wall Street Journal correspondent Farnaz Fassihi presents a frank assessment of the deteriorating conditions in Baghdad in September 2004.
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Source: Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler, eds., Women’s Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present (New York: Dial Press, 2005), 758–60.
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