Red Flags: Memoir of an Iraqi Conscript Trapped Between Enemy Lines in the 2003 Invasion of Iraq

by Amer Faris

Overview

"I was a prisoner before the war; I am no freer now after the war."

This memoir of an Iraqi soldier writing under a pseudonym uses "red flags" as a metaphor for military targets during his country's invasion by the United States in 2003. He recounts his involvement in Saddam Hussein's army under threat of execution, and says danger came as much from the suspicious Iraqi government as from American invaders. Even the fall of Baghdad and the Hussein government has not led to a better life for his people, whom he says are still divided by war.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786442621
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	07/15/2009
Pages:	201
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.41(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

After leaving the Iraqi army, Amer Faris helped form an organization to address human rights violations in Iraq, then worked with an American company to train Iraqi forces and came to the United States.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword by Ibrahim El-Misri     
Preface     

PART I: A STORY OFWAR
1. Mazin and Ahmed     
2. 111th Battalion, Air Defense Division     
3. The Lambs of the Reeds     
4. The Executed Man’s Brother     
5. Radio Sawa     
6. Red Flags     
7. Top Secret     
8. Radio Communication Set     
9. Children Under Fire     
10. It Is All Over     
11. You Are Our Leader, Amer     
12. The Escape     
13. Homecoming     
14. A Door Ajar     

PART II: A DIARY OF OCCUPATION
15. Life in the Aftermath: April–May 2003     
16. The Struggle for a New Iraq: May 2003–February 2005     
17. Love, Chaos and a New Life: February 2005–April 2006     

Index