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beyond baghdad
Watch the Full Program Starting SaturdayA journey across Iraq ‚ from the Kurdish north, through the Sunni Triangle, into the Shiite south ‚ and a hard look at the prospects for democracy.
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a long road (dispatches from postwar iraq)introduction
map

An interactive map of Iraq's ethnic, religious, and political landscape.

Producers Martin Smith and Marcela Gaviria tell the personal and at times harrowing story of their journey across Iraq.

iraqis and americans

Can the U.S. deliver on its promise of democracy? Can Iraq hold together? What challenges must Iraqis and Americans overcome?

interviews

U.S. commanders in Mosul, Kirkuk, and Tikrit; Kurdish, Sunni, and Shiite leaders; The New Yorker's Jon Lee Anderson; and more.

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interviews + links & readings + watch the full program
tapes & transcripts + press reaction + producer's chat + credits + privacy policy
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Beyond Baghdad

As Washington continues to celebrate the capture of Saddam Hussein, FRONTLINE takes viewers on a journey across Iraq to reveal just what it will take to stabilize the volatile nation and accelerate the transfer of power to the Iraqi people. In "Beyond Baghdad," FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith travels the length and breadth of Iraq for five weeks, interviewing everyone from tribal sheiks and ayatollahs to politicians and U.S. military commanders. Smith's reporting reveals a seriously fractured Iraq, where modest successes in nation-building have been offset by widespread inter-ethnic and sectarian rivalry, frustration, and violence.

posted february 12, 2004

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