Dean's World

Welcome to the Carnival of the Liberated, a sampler of some of the best posts of the week from Iraqi and Afghan bloggers. This week we have videos, forced migration, a deconstruction of the insurgency, and much more.

24 Steps to Liberty posts his prescription for Iraq. It's sensible, fact-based, and a complete political non-starter both in U. S. and in Iraq.

Resuming posting after a three month hiatus, Abu Khaleel of A Glimpse of Iraq re-surfaces to post about the varied groups clumped together as “the insurgency”.

Iraqi Konfused Kid posts a video tribute to his four friends who were killed by a roadside bomb earlier this year.

Hammorabi posts on what he refers to as the “siege of Sadr City”.

I linked to it here earlier this week and I'm linking to it again: read Omar of Iraq the Model's analysis of what's at stake in the battle for Iraq.

neurotic iraqi wife posts on life in the Green Zone here and here.

Miriam of Pearls of Iraq posts a number of videos of Kurdistan.

Sooni posts about the situation in Iraq. Here's a snippet that tallies with my opinion:

Iraq is now on the edge of all-out civil war, the American troops act now like a safety valve and it is definite that Iraq will explode if those forces leave now.

Alaa of The Mesopotamian posts on “flirting with Sayed Ali”.

Fatima of Thoughts from Baghdad tells a story of forced migration, “the changing landscape of Baghdad”.

Dave Schuler posts regularly to his own weblog, The Glittering Eye. The Carnival was originally conceived by Ryan Boots.