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

"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 and the government's Baathist principles, which he followed 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. Table of Contents......Page 6 Foreword by Ibrahim El-Misri......Page 8 Preface......Page 12 1. Mazin and Ahmed......Page 16 2. 111th Battalion, Air Defense Division......Page 27 3. The Lambs of the Reeds......Page 38 4. The Executed Man’s Brother......Page 47 5. Radio Sawa......Page 58 6. Red Flags......Page 67 7. Top Secret......Page 73 8. Radio Communication Set......Page 81 9. Children Under Fire......Page 89 10. It Is All Over......Page 97 11. You Are Our Leader, Amer......Page 104 12. The Escape......Page 110 13. Homecoming......Page 119 14. A Door Ajar......Page 127 15. Life in the Aftermath......Page 130 16. The Struggle for a New Iraq......Page 141 17. Love, Chaos and a New Life......Page 181 Index......Page 200

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

This memoir of an Iraqi soldier writing under1a 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.

"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 and the government's Baathist principles"--Provided by publisher.