Nir Rosen on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines http://www.truthdig.com/nir_rosen Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2006 2006-10-04T02:39:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo Hizb Allah, Party of God http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/200601003_hiz_ballah_party_of_god/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/200601003_hiz_ballah_party_of_god/ hezbollah, hizballah, ismalic, lebanon, muslim, nasrallah, Lebanese girls

In the wake of Israel’s 33-day war with Hizballah, the 24-year-old Islamic movement has become the most popular political party in the Middle East. Here’s why that shouldn’t worry us.

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Truthdig contributor Nir Rosen presents an oral history of a U.S Army Special Forces soldier who describes how he and his unit created more insurgents than they killed in Iraq.

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Truthdig contributor Nir Rosen, an American reporter who has lived for the last three years in Iraq and who can pass as Middle Eastern, describes what it’s like to live under the boot of a culturally callous—and sometimes criminal—occupying force in Iraq.

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]]> 2006-06-28T00:55:00+00:00 The Many Faces of Abu Musab al Zarqawi http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/20060609_abu_musab_al_zarqawi/ http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/20060609_abu_musab_al_zarqawi/ abu, al-zarqawi, killed, musab, nir, qaeda, rosen, terrorist, zarqawi, Iraq He led Al Qaeda in Iraq, but who was he? What drove Zarqawi to his murderous ends? And what can we learn from his death? Nir Rosen, one of the only Western journalists to have reported extensively from inside the Iraqi insurgency, lays out some answers.
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