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There are journalists at �, � �Al-Mada�, » in Baghdad, particularly its neighbors, as officials or craftsmen disguise. A visit to the local press in the gefÃ� � hrliche city in the world.


Each �, � �Wort� wrong, �" can bring the death of journalists in Baghdad. Image: Keystone

The death is in their hands, they hÃ� � lt it between thumb and forefinger. A � grÃ� its USB stick. � s NervÃ� knocking them to the glass of the editorial desk. �, � �I vorgewagt� far, �" says Danah Latifa, whose real name is not known to have, 29 years, Jean Jacket, blondiertes hair. �, � �HÃ� � r auf�, », say lately always hÃ� � often their colleagues. �, � �HÃ� � r auf�, », says her husband at home to your three children do not know what they are about � tagsÃ� makes. � kÃ� you could be the neighbors erzÃ� � hlen. Nevertheless, Latifa Danah weiterrecherchiert in this city that her notepad tÃ� � compensated with even more misery and crimes fÃ� � llte. In the streets, she questions, not to dare. She looked out where no one common sense. But now she just stares at her fingers that they do not get more quiet. �, � "These people are extremely unberechenbar�, �" she mutters. The USB stick save their searches Ã� � ber-organ trafficking mafia of Baghdad. Latifa Danah sits in the RedaktionsrÃ� the newspaper umen � �, � �Al-Mada�, » and white, whose death in the hands hÃ� � lt: eigenen.Ihr the workplace is a zweistÃ� � ckiges GebÃ� buildings in the center, where once the heart of the capital was. The road, paved frÃ� � forth, is torn up, the dust on her rages in mÃ� � chtigen vertebrae. UserblÃ� rundown HÃ� � � cke sÃ� � umen the street, families live in the ruins, they have to protect the windows sealed. The only color is the red logo of �, � �Al-Mada�, » on the barriers. �, � �The horizontal, », the zweitgrÃ� � sste Iraqi newspaper, circulation 15,000, beschÃ� � ftigt 30 editors and 14 correspondents. Since the invasion by the United States, they have something daring, the fÃ� � r the history of their country is unique. �, � �The Experimenta, », he calls it the publisher: Free Press. For decades, Saddam Hussein bore only four newspapers in the country. After his fall, 420 gegrÃ� � nds, of which 150 exist today. From �, � �Experimenta, », however, was a massacre. 276 journalists and media workers were now in Iraq were killed, most of them in Baghdad. � entfÃ� Many were executed, many are still missing. In no other conflict since the Second World War, so many died rapporteur. � WÃ� while most auslÃ� � ndische the country correspondents lÃ� � NGST have left fÃ� � hren Iraqi reporters continue tÃ� � pared their struggle for truth and the Ãr? Berleben. Click clack click clack. Danah USB stick on the glass desk. In the background the GrossraumbÃ� Office of �, � �Al-Mada�, », where the designers have a scream attack, characterized the cartoonist and the parliamentary correspondent cleans his gun. Latifa worked fÃ� Danah � r the Investigation Department, third BÃ� � Rozelle left. Blue PlastikwÃ� � nde on gray tiles. The Head, a mole stature, round shoulders, a round belly, stÃ� � tzt the jaw to the fist. �, � �Put the story but first to Seite.�, » There's a new industry in Baghdad, she reported him. Ãr? Doctors have her like this erzÃ� � hlt. That a victim of the Mafia BombenanschlÃ� � gen einsammelt and in a particular hospital fÃ� � executed. To them there to rob a kidney. In the next days nÃ� � � she wants �???? disguised as VerkÃ� � uferin their own institutions �???? � in this hospital, in order to get more details. Until three years ago was Danah clerks in the Ministry of Justice, now she is the most ambitious reporter of the department. One, with her boss, a GemÃ� � tsmensch, sometimes schwertut so angry she is so rough. Drives them to anger, power lies in each of their words. The war took her home and family, she and her husband went into the Ausland.�, � "I do not know if we verÃ� public kÃ� � � nnen�, », buzzing the head. One of the worst crime syndicates nest in health, and Latifa Danah it is already several times just to escape. Again and again, discuss it in the BÃ� � Rozelle departments of the question: Which brings us to history? The war in Baghdad has dismantled hundreds of items, in faith, their own armies grÃ� � nds in economic SchutzbÃ� � ndnisse the MÃ� � men under arms, in Mafia fractions. The fronts between them are often invisible, in the weekly change them and form a coalition bekÃ� � mpfen each other. It is fÃ� � r Danah not always easy to get the faults to Ã� � berschauen. Just as recently at the orphanage. It stretches the ErzÃ� � hlen her neck and stÃ� � HNT. In the area of the Shiite Mehdi Army, one of the re � MilizionÃ� had told her: Come, you must stop. He fÃ� � hrte them to a children's home. The staff had fled or been getÃ� � ing, blood stains on the WÃ� � nd that they had zurÃ� orphans' � ckgelassen. Danah brings the photos. �, � �DAA, », she says, pointing with a lacquered fingernail on the floor of KlassenrÃ� � ume. Kotbedeckt. Another picture shows a wine by MÃ� � dchen, 13 years, with an infant in her arms. �, � "The children are being raped by the militias. They use to ihnen.�, � "That was her baby from a tormentor has been made. Just an hour, did it in GebÃ� � ude kÃ� write your stay, then came armed. �, � "The wanted to shoot us, we are just gerannt.�, » � hlt Danah erzÃ� breathless, this story and many others, and often it must be at the end of the story run. Your fingers have aufgehÃ� � rt, with the stick to play. They grab the phone. When her husband after they come home, he asks worriedly. �, � "This Arbeit�, �" she says softly behind. Far too often they scream at the last time their children. The TÃ� � r, from the street to the editorial fÃ� � HRT, makes teachers, craftsmen, officials � �???? they r � fÃ� their neighbors and relatives are �???? � Journalists again. Many still hide outside their IdentitÃ� � t. Every day they go through metamorphosis to the Head of Culture, the corrector, the sports reporter. They curse, because it's the BÃ� � ro again three hours to reach spÃ� � t, if the traffic by a car bomb or patrols of Americans collapses. Among the editors, many poets and writers, as newcomers to journalism came. A Hull team that HÃ� � half of those who in 2003 �, � �Al-Mada�, » began. The other half is HÃ� � fled abroad or out of fear has abandoned the profession. There are no unemployed in Iraq journalists. The publisher of �, � �Al-Mada�, �" has long prohibited its editors, their names verÃ� � public so that they are not enticed away kÃ� � nnen.Kurz only looks the photographer Saad al-Kalidi, when the blast Ã� � ber the HausdÃ� � cher hunts. He pulls in front of the VerlagsgebÃ� � ude in fÃ� � accommodations morning cigarette. �, � �Far away, a Sprengsatz.�, » No car bomb which klÃ� � nge brighter. He has by all employees at �, � �Al-Mada�, » the best-trained GehÃ� � r. He is the GefÃ� � hrdetste of all, the most visible, the camera sometimes its not as fast journeys, as it should. Before him stands his Yamaha moped, he defiantly has its front side with a TotenschÃ� � Ã� � del berklebt. The 31-JÃ� years of shows on the dusty machine, �, � "this is my Leben�, ». Saad is fast and as quickly away, he lÃ� � chelt lot of jokes, knock on RÃ� jovial � cken and shoulders, never lÃ� � nger in a place as fÃ� � nf minutes, otherwise, he says, �, � �I land in a Kofferraum�, � �. What happened in Baghdad the definition fÃ� � r � hrung EntfÃ� is. Each of his movements, even here on the editorial staff, is elastic, springy, again ZurÃ� � ckweichen gefasst.So he has the last five years fÃ� � Ã� � berlebt. Almost � tÃ� like there is still one of Ãr? Mountaineering reefs on journalists. The police prÃ� � gelt them in searches, the MilitÃ� r � blackmails them, the mob followed them. Saad is no war correspondents, but his camera moves to the war. �, � �There is a press photographer! �, », a recently screamed as he fÃ� � r an order in a demonstration mitmarschierte. The radical SchiitenfÃ� Guide As-Sadr had his AnhÃ� � nger on the road called. � PlÃ� useful was Al-Kalidi surrounded by hundreds. �, � "If a starting hÃ� � tte me to beat all other wÃ� � Ã� � ber hergefallen me. I wÃ� � re dead gewesen.�, � �But one cried, �, �" I know this man he is gut.�, � �The four rescued the family's father. To whom he owes his life, he has not. Another time, only � kÃ� recently, he came zufÃ� � llig at a marketplace in which exactly a SelbstmordattentÃ� � ter in the air had blown, Ã� � berall frazzled and fragmented parts of corpse MarktstÃ� � nde. In a shock mistook Ãr? Berlebender the AusrÃ� � stung by the photographer with a SprengstoffgÃ� � rtel, he screamed: SelbstmordattentÃ� � ter! The soldiers began to fire. �, � �Saad! �, », now call colleagues from the inside. He schnippt the dump in the Staub.�, � �Saad! �, », always calls it, at which desk he also stands to HÃ� associations of editors to fly high, mostly in vain to win him. He is at �, � �Al-Mada�, �" the only photographer. He photographed cultural celebrations, initiations, technology fairs, and always between a car bomb attack. His brother, Mahdi, also a photographer, he now has to be brought in the newspaper. Because he absolutely needs relief. �, � �Ãr? Berlass me gefÃ� hrliche Sachen� �, », he told him. �, � "You're not even verheiratet.�, » For a time it seemed as if it has become quiet in Baghdad. The number of tÃ� compared AnschlÃ� � � ge in the city dropped last year from 120 to 12-15 Thanks to the high Ãr? Lpreisen, the government has SicherheitskrÃ� � � fte kÃ� can multiply. There are editors of �, � �Al-Mada�, », dare it again, even after dusk the VerlagsgebÃ� � ude to leave. In car pooling, they are home to the EntfÃ� � hrungsrisiko be minimized. You schwÃ� � rmen because now finally back up the SchnapslÃ� � � tten hÃ�. That is what many service after closing at home doing: drinking. Drinking and writing. There are few alternatives. They talk Ã� � ber the period a year ago, when she ge lÃ� � � ck zurÃ� decades. The death of two editorial staff members. A distant memory. KÃ� � When they could not come back any time, as hÃ� � tte the killings, perhaps just a little put off. They can be reluctant to AnschlÃ� � ge which, since February of many have become. On the back is now covered Ãr? Lpreis and the consequences fÃ� � r the state budget. They cling to their little GlÃ� � ck. Now they sit alleum large conference table, her frÃ� � afternoon, and remain silent. If the publisher is there, only he speaks. �, � "We love him like our Vatera, », say his LeibwÃ� � chter. �, � "Bring him to me! Bring me the zustÃ�-employed writer! �, � "he thunders in the round. Fakhri Kareem is a wÃ� � rdevolle appearance, gray suit, gray mustache and designer glasses, blue. Angrily hurls it to the newspaper of today. �, � �r � FÃ� here do I pay not a cent! �, » Too many spelling errors. Too many boring formulations. Too many weak news, the only government communications that chew. And too many photos. �, � �Four images on one page! �, », empÃ� � rt be the boss. �, � "In your honor! �, », he is the head of the gossip column. �, � "If your page design? �, » The Head hÃ� � ren criticism, return to their PlÃ� � tze zurÃ� � ck and leave on the glass table with a dense pattern welding moist FingerabdrÃ� � cke. The publisher has been suffering for some time from sleep problems. For hours he is awake at home. Kareem sat fÃ� � r his Ãr? Conviction under Saddam in GefÃ� � ngnis, nds grÃ� � �, � �Al-Mada�, » 1994 in Syrian exile. A Kurdish communists, the Democrats turned to the main occupation and now advisor to the Iraqi PrÃ� � President Jalal Talabani is. Again and again he escaped in the last few years ScharfschÃ� � tzen and SprengsÃ� � tzen. �, � �The GrosszÃ� � gige�, », what his name means in German, lives in Baghdad on the grounds of the fortress PUK, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. The party of President PrÃ� � whose picture almost every day the site of Aufmacher �, � �Al-Mada�, » � schmÃ� CKT. Talabani financed the editors hauptsÃ� � chlich that rÃ� � umt Kareem freimÃ� � tant one. Here the experiment reached the limit of its free press. There is no newspaper in Iraq without political donors. Without exception, each is the voice of a party or militia. From where else should the money come �???? � by the reader? �, � �The more you sell, the more lose Dua, », complains Kareem. Even prices, the only paper covering costs, the market does not accept. Advertising? Comes almost exclusively from government agencies. $ 40,000 a month in labor costs of $ 60,000. �, � �Al-Mada�, » is one of four newspapers, the most popular are unabhÃ� � � �???? under the MÃ� possibilities. A country must be free press can afford kÃ� �, Iraq currently can not. The photographer blÃ� � st re cigarette smoke into the sky earthy. �, � "It now depends fÃ� � ana again, �" says Saad suddenly. When he was last night was on the way home, he noticed 200 meters in front of his house an Opel Astra. The stand in the middle of the road, with the engine running. He looked in and saw a dead person with a head shot at the wheel, the foot on the brake pedal. � ZunÃ� ChST he had carefully ZÃ� � � ssel ndschlÃ� reversed so that the wagon is not anfÃ� � executed, if the foot slipping off the corpse. � NatÃ� of course he could not photograph the scene, far too close to his house. Even his neighbors dÃ� � rfen learn nothing. There are more murders again, he says, more EntfÃ� � currencies. He runs on his computer up to do the photo a quick cultural event to edit. � PlÃ� useful shuddered the generator, the flickering neon light and darkness fÃ� llt � Ã� � ber the BÃ� � ro. Ãr? About the politics, culture, bars, the reports provided by users and WaisenhÃ� � corruption act. It begins in darkness with cigarette smolder. One after another lights up like GlÃ� � hwÃ� � rmchen. The editors breathe through. Finally break from the war. During the night, in the province of another colleague entfÃ� � executed. He had fÃ� r � a local newspaper worked to his studies. He has just 20. (The Bund) Added: 13.06.2009, 15:35 clock