Oil is the life and death of this city, the wealth and the poverty, the currency that bought infrastructural investment and a high standard of living and the curse that brought down the gluttonous attention of the most powerful countries in the world.

Mosfa Daura isn’t just an oil refinery. It’s a whole community. It’s young women with names and dreams and brothers and sisters and it’s happy, playful kids and homes and all the rest of it. It’s wrong and it’s illegal, under the Fourth Geneva Convention on protection of civilians in time of war, to attack civilian populations notwithstanding the presence of a military target within that population.

Jo Wilding

For more eyewitness accounts of Iraq, today - including earlier pieces from Jo Wilding’s Diary - please visit:
http://www.bristolfoe.org.uk/wildfire/iraq/index.htm

Wildfire: Jo Wildings website:
http://www.bristolfoe.org.uk/wildfire