The Edge of Battles
The Edge of Battles
In this chapter, Hayder Hamid Jawad, Luay Ali Hussein, and Adel Rasheed Majeed talk about their experiences during the Iraq war. In 1988 Hayder Hamid Jawad moved from Baghdad to Kirkuk, which has long been home to Kurds, Arabs, and Turkmen. Around this time Saddam Hussein was undertaking a campaign to increase the Arab population in the city in an apparent effort to edge out the Kurdish population. A simmering dispute chiefly between Kurds and Arabs over control of the city began to boil over shortly after the U.S. invasion. Luay Ali Hussein, a Shi'ite, was working as a blacksmith in Fallujah's industrial sector as insurgents began to gather in the city following the invasion. In 2004, U.S. forces launched a counterinsurgency offensive in Fallujah following the public slaying of four Blackwater security contractors in the spring of that year. Adel Rasheed Majeed, a carpenter and lifelong Baghdad resident, was among those who supported Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, leader of the Mahdi Army militia, in the fight against the Americans in August of 2004 in Najaf.
Keywords: invasion, Hayder Hamid Jawad, Luay Ali Hussein, Adel Rasheed Majeed, Iraq war, Kirkuk, Saddam Hussein, Fallujah, Moqtada al-Sadr, Najaf
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