Tonight at 7pm ET, Jürgen Todenhöfer, author of Why Do You Kill?: The Untold Story of the Iraqi Resistance, will be featured on Book TV (CSPAN 2). Siun hosted his FDL Book Salon back on May 30th.

Siun:

Why Do You Kill? is the most important book I’ve read on our occupation of Iraq. Written by Dr. Jürgen Todenhöfer, this book finally provides a voice to the people of Iraq, a voice we never hear in the Western media, a voice our government silences rather than engages.

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For more information on Dr. Todenhöfer, see www.whydoyoukillzaid.com. The segment re-airs on CSPAN 2 at 6am ET Monday morning.

From the website:

Jürgen Todenhöfer’s book is an attempt to shed light on the other side of the story. It reports on how Iraqi people talk about the war, when there are no heavily-armed GIs in the vicinity. When neither helicopters nor humvees have been "cleansing" and securing the area for hours beforehand, for politicians and press convoys. "Why do you kill, Zaid?" gives a voice to those whom Pentagon press officers never take their visitor delegations to see – members of the Iraqi resistance. The book attempts to explain why this resistance is not only fighting against American troops, but also against Al Qaeda terrorists and the foreign-backed private militias of Iraqi politicians. It aims to clarify the fundamental differences between resistance fighters and terrorists.

The author attempts to give a voice to those who are truly fighting for justice and freedom. The "damned of this earth", as Frantz Fanon once called them. And just as in Algeria in the 1960s, and in Afghanistan in the 1980s, these were and are – in Iraq in the year 2008 – >not the occupying troops, but the resistance fighters.