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New Paths to Power Emerge in Iraq

In Articles, Journalism, Pulitzer Entries 2010, Pulitzer Prize

Cleric’s Ascent to Local Strongman Illustrates Shift Underway

THULUYAH, Iraq — Nadhim Khalil wears the clothes of the cleric he is. He bears the scars of the insurgent he was. And in a country where business these days is power, he talks the speech of the merchant he has become, plying his trade in a [...]

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In Iraq, the Day After

In Articles, Journalism, Pulitzer Entries 2010, Pulitzer Prize
The War, in a Sense, Is Over. But a New Struggle Begins As Citizens Ask the Inevitable Question: What Next?
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In New Iraq, Sunnis Fear a Grim Future

In Articles, Journalism, Pulitzer Entries 2004, Pulitzer Prize

BAGHDAD, Dec. 21 — The Bridge of the Imams draws together two Baghdads and divides two Iraqs.

Arching over the Tigris River, the overpass ends in Kadhimiya, a Shiite Muslim neighborhood built around the gold-domed shrine of a descendant of the prophet Muhammad. On Friday, the neighborhood pulses with promise. Pilgrims crowd its intersections, sidewalks [...]

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In Revival Of Najaf, Lessons for A New Iraq

In Articles, Journalism, Pulitzer Entries 2004, Pulitzer Prize

Staring down on the crowds of Najaf are portraits of men killed during 35 years of Baath Party rule. They were clergy, their families and followers who were assassinated or executed, often tortured first. Along the street’s colonnade are leaflets celebrating the community’s new freedoms. Signs announce the anniversary of the death of Shiite Islam’s [...]

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For an Iraqi Family, ‘No Other Choice’

In Articles, Journalism, Pulitzer Entries 2004
Father and Brother Are Forced by Villagers to Execute Suspected U.S. Informant

THULUYA, Iraq — Two hours before the dawn call to prayer, in a village still shrouded in silence, Sabah Kerbul’s executioners arrived. His father carried an AK-47 assault rifle, as did his brother. And with barely a word spoken, they led the man [...]

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Attackers United By Piety in Plot To Strike Troops

In Articles, Journalism, Pulitzer Entries 2004, Pulitzer Prize

KHALDIYA, Iraq — In an austere room with concrete floors and walls adorned with two renderings of Islam’s holiest shrine in Mecca, two brothers of Adnan Fahdawi pulled out a creased and torn green folder stuffed with the memorabilia of martyrdom.

There was a tag from the black body bag in which the 31-year-old Fahdawi’s [...]

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Shiite Clerics Face a Time Of Opportunity and Risks

In Articles, Journalism, Pulitzer Entries 2004, Pulitzer Prize

NAJAF, Iraq — By the standards of Iraq and its Shiite Muslim majority, Sayyid Muqtada Sadr is a blue blood.

He wears a black turban, signifying his privileged descent from the prophet Muhammad. For a century, his family has given Iraq its most revered clergy, men whose very word, blessed by God, goes unquestioned by [...]

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Hussein’s Baghdad Falls

In Articles, Journalism, Pulitzer Entries 2004, Pulitzer Prize

BAGHDAD, April 9 — Swept aside by U.S. troops who drove through the streets of Baghdad, President Saddam Hussein’s government collapsed today, ending three decades of ruthless Baath Party rule that sought to make Iraq the champion of a modern Arab world but left a legacy of fear, poverty and bitterness.

As U.S. Army troops [...]

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A Boy Who Was ‘Like a Flower’

In Articles, Journalism, Pulitzer Entries 2004

BAGHDAD, March 30 — On a cold, concrete slab, a mosque caretaker washed the body of 14-year-old Arkan Daif for the last time.

With a cotton swab dipped in water, he ran his hand across Daif’s olive corpse, dead for three hours but still glowing with life. He blotted the rose-red shrapnel wounds on the [...]

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Enduring Life, and Now War

In Journalism, Pulitzer Entries 2004, Pulitzer Prize

Mother Struggling to Survive Weeps as She Sends Son to Fight.

BAGHDAD, March 27 — The bombs crashed that morning on Baghdad, declaring war. At nightfall, Karima, a mother of eight, took her eldest son to the bus station, sending him off to fight in the north.

Their farewell was infused with the deeply religious [...]

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  • Pulitzer Entries

    • In Thuluyah, reverberations of a U.S. raid
    • ‘People woke up, and they were gone’
    • In Anbar, U.S.-Allied Tribal Chiefs Feel Deep Sense of Abandonment
    • Worries About Kurdish-Arab Conflict Move to Fore in Iraq
    • In the City of Cement
    • A Quite but Undeniable Cultural Legacy
    • A Journey Into the Iraq of Recollection
    • No One Values the Victims Anymore
    • New Paths to Power Emerge in Iraq
    • In Iraq, the Day After