Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Iraq Presentation In New Haven

A fellow New Havener has also been covering the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Daniel Smith has gone over a few times and is planning another trip to Iraq. Before he goes, he’s holding a fundraiser here in New Haven – “Images of Iraq” on May 31.
Smith will speak about his “un-embedded experiences” in the war-torn country in a visual presentation.-accompanied by violinist Netta Hadari, playing music of J.S.Bach. Free food and wine. Proceeds support charities for the people of Iraq, including Daniel's efforts to bring medical equipment/funds.


8:00 PM Thursday, May 31st United Church on the Green
323 Temple Street (corner of Elm St) New Haven
For more information, call (203)901-7558 or visit
danielwsmith.com

It seems like it might be worth checking out – if you live in the area. I will be there, not like I really need to see more images of Iraq – Lord knows I see them inside my skull each night with a much different soundtrack than Bach!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good to understand the enemy. I'm curious.. when you spoke to the Defense Intel guy, what was his rely as to which was the greater threat --Israel or the House of Saud??
a friend from Bagram days...

hoochBP12 said...

First of all, the Defense Intel guy was struck with surprise - so the discussion turned to how I understood about al-saud and Wahhabis. Then, he told me as a Sunni Iraqi - who grew up in America, he saw the problem from outside his normal culture and religion - that his perspective was that people clearly see the Israel-Palestinian conflict as the obvious root of conflict in the Middle east - the Wahhabi/al-saud conflict was just as dangerous - yet unknown to most. There are few Western reporters allowed to cover anything in Saudi Arabia - let alone the rival insurgent movement. So again, we are forced to know only what we can through limited open source infromation - because the Saudis also understand the importance of controlling messages. Perhaps the DIA guy had covert sources to analyze on Wahhabi terrorists- but the general public does not.