Incident in New Baghdad [SEP] director
Incident in New Baghdad
Incident in New Baghdad is a 2011 short documentary film about the July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike, directed by James Spione.
The film features a first-person account from Ethan McCord, one of the first soldiers to arrive at the scene of the airstrike that killed between 12 to "over 18" people and wounded 2 children in New Baghdad during the Iraq War.
The film premiered theatrically at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the prize for Best Short Documentary.
the American occupation of the country.
After the fall of Baghdad in 2003, Jarrar worked as the country director of CIVIC Worldwide, the only door-to-door civilian casualties survey in Iraq since 2003. He also founded Emaar, an NGO that carried out humanitarian and reconstruction work in Baghdad and southern Iraq.
JetBlue incident.
Jarrar later gained attention after an incident on August 12, 2006 at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Raed had attempted to board a JetBlue flight from New York City to Oakland