REPORTING THE "TRUTH" FROM BAGHDAD

Student Response Sheet

Human Rights
  1. How would you define Human Rights?
  2. How are Human Rights legally defined?
  3. Who gets to define these rights?
  4. What area of Human Rights most interests you? Why?
Freedom of the Press

Define the following terms:
  1. Primary source
  2. Bias
  3. Credible source
The History of Iraq
  1. What is the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley? Which civilizations inhabited this area?
  2. Who appointed Prince Faisal? What is the country's relationship with the United Kingdom? Who are the other royal rulers of Iraq? What happened to them?
  3. Describe the importance of oil in the country.
  4. Describe the country's relationship with the USSR.
  5. What is the Ba'ath party? What do they stand for? When did they come to power? Which country becomes their ally?
  6. When did Saddam Hussein come to power? How did he gain his power? What changes did he make in Iraq?
  7. In the 1980's, what country did Iraq fight against? How did this effect Iraq?
  8. Who are the Kurds, and what has their history been like?
  9. In 1990, which country did Iraq invade? What was the U.S. response? What was the outcome?
  10. What is the "oil-for-food" program?
  11. Why did the United Nations withdraw the weapons inspectors?
Segment 1
  1. What does the world propaganda mean?
  2. What are the accusations that the U.S makes against Iraq, and what are the accusations that Iraq makes against the U.S. and the U.N.?
  3. What country is the reporter in?
  4. Are people willing to speak to the reporter? Why or why not? How would you characterize the people who won't speak to him? Why do some people choose to speak to him?
Segment 2
  1. What does Kiley mean when he says "Human rights violations are at the heart of the propaganda war?"
  2. Who is this witness? Where did she live? What did she see there? Why did this happen to the women?
  3. Why didn't the witness say anything?
Segment 3
  1. Who is the exile who is willing to speak to Kiley? What is his background?
  2. What story does he convey to Kiley?
  3. Who are the Fedayeen Saddam? What does the exile accuse them of doing?
Segment 4
  1. What was Hassan Jummaa's former job? With whom did he work?
  2. What happended to Jummaa?
  3. What did he and his wife witness?
  4. What happened to the family after the interview?
Segment 5
  1. Why does Kiley have to be careful?
  2. Describe Kiley's hotel room.
  3. What organization controls the reporters? Who travels with them? What is his job?
  4. Why is Kiley not allowed to work with his independent translator?
Segment 6
  1. Where does Kiley go? What information does he hope to find there?
  2. What problems does he have?
Segment 7
  1. Why does Kiley interview the government officials?
  2. What is the Imam campaign?
  3. Who does he speak to? What government offices are they from? How do the officials answer Kiley's questions?
  4. What happened to Kiley's hotel room? What does this action mean?
  5. What does the motion-sensitive camera record?
Segment 8
  1. With whom does Kiley speak in Basra?
  2. What happened to this woman's sons?
  3. What does this woman say about the beheadings?
  4. When he goes to the coffee shop, what does he learn about the beheadings?
  5. Why is Kiley shocked?
Segment 9
  1. What does the Ministry of Information tell Kiley? What is their reason for this?
  2. Who does Kiley speak to about the beheadings at the juice shop? What does he tell Kiley?
  3. Describe the area of the juice shop.
Organization Profile
  1. Name of Organization:
  2. Location of Organization:
  3. History of Organization:
  4. How does this organization work? What do they do, and how do they do it?
  5. How can people become involved with this organization?









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