| Reportages | |
| Afghanistan |
As in the Days of the Soviet Union Shahnawaz Tanaï, former defense minister for Najibullah's pro-Soviet government, compares the two occupations of Afghanistan. |
| Afghanistan |
Talking With the Enemy Former Taliban are part of the ongoing dialogue between the Karzai government and the Taliban in Pakistan. (Photo: Codepink / Flickr) Obama has finally opted for troop reinforcement. But by evoking the beginning of a scheduled withdrawal 18 months from now, he has also incited the Karzai government to keep the channels of discussion with the Taliban open. |
| Iran |
The Three Lives of Moussavi Thursday 25 June 2009 by: Sara Daniel | Visit article original @ Le Nouvel Observateur Sara Daniel writes of Mir Hossein Moussavi, "Little by little, lifted by the human tide of his supporters who refused to leave the streets after the announcement of the results, he has changed. Now, he says: 'I have grown.'" Pillar of the revolution, then a technocrat for the Islamic Republic, he has become the hero of the reform camp. Opposite a regime at bay, the former Iranian prime minister claims he's ready for martyrdom. |
| Iran |
"Moussavi Himself Did Not Expect a Movement of Such Scope" by: Sarah Halifa-Legrand Interviews Sara Daniel | Visit article original @ Le Nouvel Observateur Even though the regime prohibited this Monday's demonstration, Mir Hossein Moussavi decided to hold it and to be there after having first asked for its postponement. |
| Pakistan |
The Bomb Within Range of the Taliban Could the Taliban, under the cover of an unacknowledged civil war, get their hands on Pakistani nuclear weapons? Since the fundamentalists occupied the Buner district, less than 100 kilometers from the capital of Islamabad, that's been the Americans' obsession. Every two or three months, the Pentagon and the State Department engage in a simulation. How to react should a terrorist group succeed in grabbing one of that country's 100 atomic bombs? The results of these role plays are classified defense secrets: Pakistan must not discover what the United States knows and does not know about the situation of its arsenal. |
| Inde |
Who Are the Bombay Terrorists? "We are going to see a bloodbath." According to Pakistani journalist and Taliban specialist Ahmed Rashid,[1] Islamists linked to al-Qaeda and to Kashmir's jihadi movements are the ones who organized and executed the Bombay operation. |
| Pakistan |
Pakistan: "Al-Qaeda is in the process of succeeding beyond its dreams ..." At Washington's request, the Pakistani army has grudgingly undertaken to reestablish its authority in the tribal regions where Afghan Taliban and bin Laden's fighters move around freely. But the multiple blunders of American bombing are not helping Islamabad to fight against jihadists' growing influence ... |
| Pakistan |
Pakistan: Meeting With the Uzbin Taliban "We finished off the French wounded." Our special envoy Sara Daniel met up with the Taliban leaders responsible for the ambush two months ago in which the French soldiers fell not in Kunar's rough mountains, but in their comfortable residences in a great Pakistani city. Their remarks show that the "students of religion" have entered the era of global communication and their freedom of movement confirms the spread of their belligerent Islam all the way into the heart of the Pakistani administration. |
| Liban |
Lebanon: The Nightmare of Civil War "We would never have imagined that Hezbollah would dare." After the Shiite party's violent coup, who can still keep the Land of Cedars from a new descent into hell? Lebanese politicians tear each other apart; the army threatens to implode; the Arab states and international community are more divided than ever. By Sara Daniel Le Nouvel Observateur, Thursday 15 May 2008 |
| Iraq |
Why the Pentagon Failed Sara Daniel Interviews Pierre-Jean Luizard Le Nouvel Observateur (in english, Thursday 20 March 2008) March 20, 2003, the war began.... Five years after the outset of the Iraq war, the country is still prey to chaos. Even the 30,000 additional men in 2007 have not sufficed to put an end to it. Sara Daniel interviews CNRS sociology of religions researcher and Iraq specialist Pierre-Jean Luizard, author of "Laccitas autoritaires en terres d'islam" ["Authoritarian Secularism in Islamic Countries"] (Fayard, 2008) and "La Question irakienne" [The Iraqi Question] (Fayard, 2004). |
| Iraq |
Investigation of a Disaster Iraq: embedded in the 101 ° airborne By Sara Daniel , november 2003 (Lang.: English) “We are sacrificing ourselves for a mission we don’t understand. Our only hope is to think that our leaders know what they’re doing”: our special envoy Sara Daniel spent a few days with the soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division |
| Iraq |
IRAQ: The Falluja Trap -- The guerilla craze feeds everywhere on the images of the dead and wounded of the day before. In spite of the relentless battles, the Marines have not finished off a guerilla action in which Islamists, Saddam partisans, and foreign fighters rub shoulders with one another. (Week of 15 April 2004) (Lang.: English) |
| Iraq |
Voyage to the Country of Hate ... From the entry of coalition troops into Iraq on March 20, 2003, to the fall of Baghdad on April 9, Oum Qasr, Fao, Basra, Al-Qurnah, Nasiriya, Nadjaf punctuated the advance of American and British assault troops. One year after Operation Iraqi Freedom, reporter Sara Daniel and the photographer Stanley Greene retrace the route taken by these soldiers and discover that democracy has still not taken root in a country in full chaos. In Nadjaf and Sadr City religious extremists and their militias hold the real power as the "occupiers" fall almost every day to guerilla bullets. April 15, 2004 (Lang.: english) |
| Iraq |
They remain haunted by what they've seen and done. They are Roger, Allen, Ed, and Ivan. They were officers, a simple soldier, a chaplain. Our special envoy in Iraq, Sara Daniel, met them several months ago in Falluja, Ramadi, Baghdad, and Sadr City. She went to see them again in the United States, where, in spite of their return to civilian life, they remain haunted by their terrors and nightmares and also, sometimes by the suffering they inflicted on Iraqis. Captain Roger Elliott, 35 years old, 490th Battalion, Sadr City "This man who dragged his child's body around..." June 2004 (Lang.: English) |
| Iraq |
"Yo lo decapité" El asesino del norteamericano Nicolas Berg habló. August 2004 (Lang.: Espanol) El sangriento asesinato de Nicolas Berg le dio la vuelta a un mundo sobrecogido de horror. Desde la terminación del sitio de Faluya, el 29 de abril, y la retirada del ejército norteamericano, el cual fue reemplazado por el 'nuevo' ejército iraquí, esta ciudad que forma parte del incontrolable triángulo sunita se convirtió en el cuartel general de la lucha contra el "invasor norteamericano". (...) Este 'emirato wahabita', bastión del yijad iraquí, tiene un amo, Abu Rashid, uno de los responsables del movimiento Unificación y Guerra Santa. Este hombre que reivindica la decapitación de varios secuestrados recibió a nuestra enviada especial Sara Daniel. |
| Iraq |
The Hostage Killers Speak. Since the end of the siege of Fallujah on April 29 and the retreat of the American army and its replacement by the "new" Iraqi army, this city in the uncontrollable Sunni Triangle has become the general headquarters of the struggle against the "American Invader." It's here that kidnappings and attacks are imagined, organized, and coordinated. Some of the hostages are held here. Some of their throats have been cut here. It's also in Fallujah and the surrounding area that the suicide operations are prepared that spread death, terror, and destruction in Iraqi cities. This "Wahabite Emirate", bastion of the Iraqi jihad, has a master, Abu Rashid (1), one of the leaders of the Unification and Holy War movement. This man, who has demanded the beheading of several hostages, received our special envoy, Sara Daniel. august 2004 |
| Iraq |
"We're nothing but human shields." Trained, equipped, and controlled by the Americans, the new Iraqi army brings together former Saddam soldiers, tribal chiefs' proteges, and mostly many poor men simply in search of a salary. For a completely relative effectiveness ... august 2004 (Lang.: English) |
| Iraq |
The Explosives Depot of Al Qa-Qaa was Looted a Year Ago Some passages from this article are taken verbatim from Sara Daniel's original November 13, 2003 reporting With the Anti-American Guerilla. This issue was reported long ago and never addressed. (Original article written in nov. 2003) (lang.: english) |
| Iraq |
Surviving in Baquba... "Aren't you going to do anything to stop the civil war, sir?" July 28, 2005 (Lang.: English) North of Baghdad, in the area around Baquba where ambushes and bloody skirmishes are the daily lot of Iraqis, our special envoys Sara Daniel and photographer Stanley Greene accompanied American soldiers and witnessed their exchanges with local notables. |
| Iraq |
The Pentagon Has No More Plan B oct.2006 (Lang: English) |
| Iraq |
How to Escape a Nightmare Since March 2003, close to 3,000 Americans have died in combat. Americans are in agreement over one thing: their Army's intervention in Iraq is a terrible failure. Even Kissinger admits today that "a military victory is no longer possible." Sara Daniel lays out the six scenarios that have been proposed to extricate the US from the quagmire. Thursday 07 December 2006 (Lang: English) |
| Iraq |
The Blackwater scandal in Iraq. A New Halliburton-Style Scandal? S. Halifa Interviews Sara Daniel Le Nouvel Observateur / www.nouvelobs.com Friday 12 October 2007 (Lang: English) |
| Afghanistan |
Terrorism: The Return of the Taliban In Iraq, they learn the secrets of technological jihad. Thursday 03 November 2005 (Lang: english) |
| Afghanistan |
An Innocent Man in the Hell of Guantánamo He's forgotten nothing of the pain, the humiliation, the solitude. American investigators took a year to clear him. And another year to free him. Beyond the revolting injustice to which he was victim, former journalist Bader Zaman denounces the arbitrariness of American detention centers. 24 November 2005 (Lang: English) |
| Afghanistan |
Resist the Taliban? What For? As NATO takes over command of the international military operations in southern Afghanistan from the United States, the "students of religion" are becoming ever more active in a country still gnawed by corruption, drug trafficking and rivalries between warlords.... 10 August 2006 (Lang: English) By Sara Daniel and Sami Yousafzay |
| Pakistan |
Pakistan: The Rule of the Taliban "The government has bombs. We have our bodies." 07 June 2007 (Lang: English) Out of weakness in the face of Allah's madmen who control a growing number of mosques and Koranic schools, but also out of short-term political calculation, Pakistani President-General Pervez Musharraf, unable to undertake the promised democratization of institutions, has left his country prey to the wave of fundamentalism. |
| Iran |
Iran: The Keys to the Nuclear Crisis Is the prospect of an Iranian atomic bomb inevitable? How soon? What would the consequences be for the Middle East? And what can the international community still do? Thursday 16 March 2006 (Lang: English) |
| Iran |
Iran, Living in the Mullahs' Shadow Who really holds power in the Islamic republic? Can a young woman rally-driver smoke from a hookah if she's not accompanied by a man? How did Iranian Jews celebrate Rosh Hashanah? What must one avoid if one makes movies in Tehran? Why was the "Sharg" newspaper closed? How to explain that after twenty-seven years of the mullahs being in power, most young people are secular? To these and many other questions, Sara Daniel supplies sometimes surprising answers ... Thursday 19 October 2006 (Lang: English) |
| Iran |
The President's Challenge Is Ahmadinejad a new Hitler? The soapbox he has just offered all the planet's revisionists during his "Holocaust Conference" makes the task of those researchers and intellectuals who care about exactitude and about calming things down, who create a distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, ever more difficult. Only Bruno Tertrais, of the Fondation pour la Recherche stratégique [Foundation for Strategic Research] still gives it a shot, when he deems this conference "a rather clever strategy to delegitimize Israel's existence - one that claims to be radically anti-Zionist, but does not want to be stamped as viscerally anti-Semitic." |
| Iran |
"Bush Wants War; We Don't ..." "We're working to endow ourselves with nuclear energy capability," admits [Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister] Manouchehr Mottaki. But we have no intention of producing atomic weapons. And the Americans know it ..." Thursday 08 November 2007 (Lang:English) |
| Iran |
Iran: The Permanent Coup d'Etat A secret battle is engaged between the cliques squabbling over power. But no Iranian representative thinks that strikes against the Guardians of the Revolution in this climate could destabilize the regime. They would, on the contrary, risk uniting the country against a foreign enemy ... Thursday 08 November 2007 (Lang: English) |
| Iran |
Iran: The Revolution of the Kepis The reformers are the big losers. Most critically for Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei, this Friday's election should allow him to complete the transfer of power from the mullahs to the Pasdaran. Thursday 13 March 2008- (lang. English) |
| Darfour |
Chad and Sudan Indulge in a Vicarious War Through Rebels An Interview of Le Nouvel Observateur Reporter Sara Daniel (lang. English) By Simon Piel |
| Iraq |
Humanitarian Aid in Danger By Sara Daniel Le Nouvel Observateur Hebdomadaire Week of 23 December 2004 Their neutrality, their independence, the assistance they bring to victims of all the planet's conflicts no longer suffice to protect them. Assassinated or taken hostage by armed groups, suspected of espionage, they are also sometimes used by governments or caught in the trap of confusion between military and humanitarian action. Sara Daniel explains why NGO volunteers have rarely worked in conditions as dangerous as those obtaining today. |
| Iraq |
Iraq, the New Army's Malaise "We're nothing but human shields." Trained, equipped, and controlled by the Americans, the new Iraqi army brings together former Saddam soldiers, tribal chiefs' proteges, and mostly many poor men simply in search of a salary. For a completely relative effectiveness ... By Sara Daniel Le Nouvel Observateur August 2004 |
| USA |
The Pentagon Has No More Plan B Less than two weeks away from the American legislative elections, and while a State Department diplomat just declared on al-Jazeera that the United States demonstrated "arrogance" and "stupidity" in Iraq before withdrawing his statements, George Bush is finally studying a new strategy for American troops. |
| Iraq |
Great Heart Wednesday 15 November 2006 I was given a biography of Nellie Bly when I was in grade school. Ever since, I have been entranced by the life stories and the reporting of the likes of Nellie Bly, Martha Gellhorn, and Margaret Bourke-White. Sara Daniel's new book, Voyage to a Stricken Land, Four Years on the Ground Reporting from Iraq: A Woman's Inside Story, (Arcade Publishing, New York) is a must-read for any who are also moved by the romance of courageous women reporters. Truthout readers will already be familiar with Ms. Daniel's extraordinary reports from Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and the US, which originally appeared in the Nouvel Observateur and have been translated and re-published at Truthout. |
| USA |
The Blackwater scandal in Iraq. A New Halliburton-Style Scandal? S. Halifa Interviews Sara Daniel Le Nouvel Observateur / www.nouvelobs.com Friday 12 October 2007 |
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