Out of Control By Cliff Kindy March 25, 2005 Recently world media carried the story about the U.S. shooting of an Italian kidnap victim and her security guard....
CPT Iraq Update March 16 – 27, 2005 Wednesday, March 16 At 7:00am a car bomb exploded at the office of an English language newspaper, 3 blocks east of the...
Kerbala's Pilgrims by Sheila Provencher April 1, 2005 I write to the sound of chanting pilgrims. When CPT came to Kerbala to follow-up with the developing...
"Yes, Iraq! No, Occupation!" by Sheila Provencher April 9, 2005 BAGHDAD, IRAQ -- Two years after U.S. soldiers carefully staged the tearing-down of Saddam...
CPT Iraq Update, March 29 – April 2, 2005 Monday, March 28, 2005 Matthew Chandler and Sheila Provencher attended a meeting at Women's Will, an organization...
CPT Iraq Update 3-6 April 2005 Sunday 3 April 2005 Several Iraqi Muslim friends and colleagues called to offer condolences on the death of Pope John Paul II. ...
"Stuff" by Tom Fox April 16, 2005 With instructions from the airline to check in four hours prior to departure I had ample opportunity to explore the various...
Conditions of Medical Care 14 April, 2005 by Kathleen O'Malley We walked through the crowded Basrah markets stepping over garbage and trying to avoid pools of...
Dear Friends, We want to call your attention to the CPT Iraq photo albums, which are newly updated. Some of the photos you can now view include: 1. The Muslim...
CPT Iraq Update 7-11 April 2005 Thursday, 7 April 2005 The team split in two for five days, sending Justin Alexander and Kathleen O'Malley to Basrah, while...
CPT Iraq Update: 12-19 April 2005 Tuesday, 12 April 2005 The team had several internal meetings to debrief the trip to Basrah and to finalize short-term goals....
The Perspective of Love by Sheila Provencher 26 April 2005 Lately I feel so tired. There's always a part of me that wants to just sleep; sleep and make all of...
CPT Iraq Update: 20-25 April 2005 Wednesday, 20 April 2005 Justin Alexander received a call from a credible source regarding a security threat to him. At a...
April 25, 2005 Today the team was visited by a young Iraqi man whose family raised more than twenty thousand dollars from contributors worldwide to pay for...
Friends, Although the publicity surrounding the detainee abuse scandal is one year in the past, the suffering of detainees and their families continues. Close...
Tuesday, 26 April 2005 Sami Rasouli, the president of the Muslim Peacemaker Team (MPT), arrived for a stay at the CPT apartment. CPT members discussed with ...
Shi'a Muslims Join Sunni in Fallujah Cleanup FALLUJAH, IRAQ - On May 6, 2005 a group of Shi'a Muslims called Muslim Peacemaker Team (MPT) traveled to the...
4 May 2005 A Wednesday morning: It's called Al-Kahhal Street, but it's more of a highway—at least it's supposed to be. Tom Fox and I were on our way to meet...
letter written to his support group before heading to Iraq. Facing Fear By Joe Carr 6 May, 2004 If you cling to your life, you will lose it, if you give up...
CPT Iraq Update 1 May- 5 May 2005 Sunday, 1 May 2005 BAGHDAD: Tom Fox and Doug Pritchard traveled to Kerbala, arriving safely after passing through several...
Is This Freedom? By Sheila Provencher May 12, 2005 The air was heavy today. Cloudy, oppressive, humid, weather rare for Baghdad. I feel the heaviness added...
May 10th 2004 My First Car Bomb By Joe Carr At about 9:45am, we heard a loud explosion that shook our windows and echoed through our halls. We immediately...
Throwing Open the Book by Tom Fox It was the 20th of April, the birthday of the prophet Mohammed. We had guests from Najaf and Kerbala visiting us for dinner...
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Occupation By Joe Carr 16 May, 2005 This morning, a man who told us about his brother who's been detained, without charges, by...
Friday, 6 May 2005 Chandler stayed in Baghdad as backup person while Pritchard, Provencher, and Fox traveled to Fallujah with members of MPT. Team traveled to...
CPT Updates May 11—16 2005 Wednesday 11 May Multiple car bombs killed 71 people throughout Iraq. Doug Pritchard departed Iraq and arrived safely in Amman,...
It was a Fairly Quiet Day in Baghdad by Tom Fox 17 May 2005. In Baghdad today, four clerics (three Sunni and one Shi'a) were assassinated. The bodies of two...
Bored in Baghdad By Joe Carr May 21, 2005 In coming to the "Baghdad war-zone", I expected a host of emotions; fear, sadness, anger, indignation, stress. But I...
CPT Iraq Update, May 17—21, 2005 Tuesday 17 May Joe Carr and Greg Rollins went to Scania Military Base (AKA FOB Falcon) south of Baghdad to enquire about...
The Resistance By Joe Carr date withheld for security reasons Today, I met a man who told me he was a resistance fighter. I was surprised that he would trust...