CRISIS IN IRAQ: POLITICS, OIL, AND REFUGEES

Raed Jarrar is an Iraqi political analyst and consultant to American Friends Service Committee.  After the start of the war in 2003, he directed the only door-to-door casualty survery group in post-war Iraq and established a grassroots organization that provided humanitarian and political aid to Iraqi internally displaced persons.  Since moving to the United States in 2005 he has contributed to several Iraq-relatedprojects. He writes Foreign Policy in Focus and AlterNet as well as maintaining Raed in the Middle, a web-log with analysis of current Iraqi political conditions.