Free Iraq

Further to the dedication of this site, Who is this site for? March 22, 2006, this is a recent article of mine on education in Iraq:

"It is a well established fact that Iraq's ancient civilisations have significantly contributed to the development of human culture since the dawn of history.

From the first codified laws of Babylon's King Hammurabi (now on display in the Louvre Museum in Paris) to the first inscribed proof of Pythagoras Theorem etched on a baked clay tablet that predates Pythagoras by many centuries, Iraq has played a key role in education with Baghdad evolving as a centre of learning well before the Middle Ages.

It was in Iraq that the first university in the world -- Al-Mustansiriyah School -- was established in 1227. Its building was intact and well preserved, until the US-led invasion; it suffered -- as the rest of Iraq's historical and cultural sites -- destruction and negligence.

Thousands of students in science, literature and religious studies had graduated from Al-Mustansiriyah School. The school led the valuable translation campaign of the Greek and Roman scientific and philosophical achievements that spurred the Western revival.

The scourge of the Mongol invasion in 1258 destroyed Baghdad's canal network (American aerial bombardments in 1991 and 2003 similarly destroyed Iraq's industrial and health infrastructure) and sacked and burned its schools and libraries. Ink spilled from destroyed books turned the Tigris River's water into blue colour.

The Mongols slaughtered 80,000 men, women and children -- a scenario that has been unfolding in Iraq since 2003. Illiteracy and cultural darkness befell Baghdad and other cities of Iraq under Ottoman occupation for the next several centuries.

Hence, at the turn of the last century (1900), Iraqi professionals were a rare breed. Save for the learned religious elders and their schools near the holy shrines and mosques, there were no Iraqi doctors, pharmacists, engineers, science teachers and other professionals. There were only a few elementary schools, run by members of the Iraqi Jewish and Christian communities, a few linguistic and historic scholars and a few newspapers.

During the Turkish-Ottoman rule, some Iraqi officers were sent to Turkey for further studies in order to join the Ottoman army. The officers began to trickle back to Baghdad during WWI and especially after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, which was member of the axis. Those officers formed the backbone of the Iraqi state that began to take shape during the 1920s under the auspices of the British colonial rule.
Education quickly became a prime objective to the emerging state, as the nascent government's organisations were keen to assign Iraqis civil positions. A programme was implemented to send Iraqi students on government scholarships to the UK and the US.

The first PhD holders returned from the UK in the early 1930s. Coinciding with that, many well-to-do Iraqi families also sent their sons and daughters to the American University of Beirut to obtain their professional BSc degrees.

In the ensuing few decades, thousands of government scholarships were granted to the students who achieved high scores in the state-wide high school Baccalaureate examination which was administered uniformly all over Iraq, including all major and minor cities.

Notably, the selection of the qualified students was based on academic achievement and was decidedly non-sectarian. The tempo of sending Iraqi students abroad for graduate studies gained momentum in the 1950s and into the 1970s, especially after the nationalising of Iraq's oil in 1971. The momentum faltered as a result of the financial difficulties resulting from the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s and was further disfigured by giving undue weight to Baath Party nominees, despite their relatively poor academic achievement, such as the case of ex-prime minister Iyad Allawi.

Iraq's education system took into consideration the necessity to diversify the sources of knowledge and academic experience. The higher education scholarships were not any more restricted to the US and the UK. Qualified students were sent to educational institutions to other centres of learning such as in the Soviet Union, France, and Eastern Europe.

The government scholarship programme provided Iraq with thousands of professionals who returned to Iraq from abroad and formed the cornerstone of Iraq's relatively high-quality educational system, which attracted many Arab students from neighbouring Arab states to finish their university studies in Iraq. It is worth mentioning, since the revolution of 1958 which abolished the monarchy in Iraq; education in Iraq has been free for Iraqis and non-Iraqi Arabs, up to and including university level.

Those scientists and engineers, backed by political resolve, also spearheaded the strident advances in Iraq's scientific and technical achievements. By the end of the 1970s, and as a result of a concerted political determination, the literacy rate, for both men and woman, reached more than 90 per cent.

However, two decades of wars followed by 13-year severe economic sanctions (1990-2003) left Iraq's education system in disrepair, enrolment dropped, and literacy levels stagnated. Iraq's adult literacy rate is now one of the lowest in all Arab countries.

The dilapidating impact of the sanctions on the education and research capabilities in Iraq can best be exemplified by the UN banning Iraq from importing scientific or technical text books, periodicals and journals. Iraqi academics and professionals were intentionally isolated from scientific development for 13 years, by an international organisation.

The rate of deterioration and fragmentation of the Iraqi education system was compounded by two major insidious outcomes in the aftermath of the American-led occupation that resulted in the looting and destruction of 84 per cent of Iraqi universities; the liquidation of university professors and the implementation of sectarian attitudes and practices among students. (added emphasis)

As early as mid-April, 2003, one month after the 2003 invasion, a number of Iraqi scientists and university professors sent an SOS e-mail to the international community warning that the American occupation forces were threatening their lives.

Later that month, a retired French general told the French TV Channel 5 on April 18 that some 150 Israeli commandoes are currently inside Iraq on a mission to assassinate 500 Iraqi scientists.

A year later, in October 2004, in a seminar held in Cairo, it was reported that more than 310 Iraqi scientists are thought to have perished at the hands of Israeli secret agents in Iraq since the fall of Baghdad to US troops in April 2003. The experts said they had detected an organised campaign aimed at "liquidating Iraqi scientists" in the past 18 months and most of them pointed the finger at the Israeli secret police service, the Mossad.

Recent concerted effort to document these killings by the Brussels Tribunal has managed, so far, to state: "Even according to conservative estimates, over 250 educators have been assassinated, and many hundreds more have disappeared." An incomplete list details 168 of them. Nobody has yet been apprehended for any of these killings.

Among the students, sectarianism has further cast a pall on university campuses.

"Deans and university officials usually turn a blind eye to sectarian rallies and banners raised by students, and allow students to hold religious ceremonies on campuses, which entrench sectarianism,' said Ahmed Al-Hamawi, a member of the self-styled League of Youths and Students.

"Are you a Sunni or a Shia?" has become a basic question Iraqi students ask each other nowadays. "When my son tries to make friends with classmates, they first ask him whether he is a Sunni or a Shia. We never experienced such sectarianism before the US-led occupation," fumed the father of a student at Basra University.

Many Iraqi students who have recently graduated from universities are flocking to immigrate instead of expending their talents and efforts in Iraq as unemployment soars.

School in obliterated Fallujah

The haemorrhage of the educational system in Iraq is severe, and no American band-aid would suffice. The most apparent contribution of the American "educational consultants' that were attached to the Education Ministry that resulted in contracts awarded to American institutions to revamp the educational textbooks was to eradicate any mention of Saddam Hussein and the Baath Party, remove references to Iraqi soldiers defending Iraq, replace the word Zionists by Jews and reduce the mention of Palestine and its occupation.

Just as the returning of Iraqi officers from defeated Turkey during World War I, so there are now many Iraqi professionals abroad who would be ready to seed the second revitalisation of Iraq's educational system for the coming generations.

But this has become impossible under an American occupation concerned more for its own security in Iraq than the legitimate interests of the Iraqi people."
Teaching tyranny 30 March-5 April 2006

ـ4 - " الحقيقة الغائبة" لفرج فودة الذي أغتيل في مصر عام 1992

وفي هذه الكتب تقرأ العجب العجاب موثـّقة بالمراجع والآيات أيضاً، ولكن تم حجبها عن الناس.ـ

أما وفاء، فإن منطلقها سياسي و تبشيري مما يوجب التنبيه اليه مع شـرح مراميه، وذلك لخطورة أبعاده حضارياً وسياسياً، وهذا ما أشرنا إليه في عنوان النشرة الأصلية "الهجوم على الدين الإسلامي ..... المـُبطـّن بخنجر سياسي مسموم".ـ

ربما، وبعد أن تبيـّن ما كان المخفي عليه بعد تلك النشرة الأولى، وكما ورد في النشرة المـُلحقة المذكورة أعلاه، كان من المفروض أن يكون عنوان تلك النشرة " الهجوم على الدين الإسلامي ..... المـُبطـّن بخنجر سياسي- تبشيري مسموم".ـ

ومن هنا نرى أهمية الكشف عن ما تـُضمِره في نفسـها، عسى أن تـُكشـَف لكي تـُخذَل.ـ

إذ أن في الحالة هذه، فإنها ليست مُناظرة دينية ... إنها ناب ينفث سموم اليمين المحافظ الأمريكي، الجديد منه، و بالذات الديني المـُتعصـّب منه، والذي يتعاظم شأنه الآن بصورة مـُطـّردة في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية، وجنوحه الحاد نحو تمجيد ودعم إسرائيل والصهيونية.ـ

ولكي لا ينبهر المشدوهون، لا بدّ من تسليط الضوء الساطع على ورقة تينـِها.ـ

"In a dilapidated maternity and paediatric hospital in Diwaniyah, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Zahara and Abbas, premature twins just two days old, lie desperately ill. The hospital has neither the equipment nor the drugs that could save their lives. On the other side of the world, in a federal courthouse in Virginia, US, two men - one a former CIA agent and Republican candidate for Congress, the other a former army ranger - are found guilty of fraudulently obtaining $3m (£1.7m) intended for the reconstruction of Iraq. These two events have no direct link, but they are none the less products of the same thing: a financial scandal that in terms of sheer scale must rank as one of the greatest in history.
At the start of the Iraq war, around $23bn-worth of Iraqi money was placed in the trusteeship of the US-led coalition by the UN. The money, known as the Development Fund for Iraq and consisting of the proceeds of oil sales, frozen Iraqi bank accounts and seized Iraqi assets, was to be used in a "transparent manner", specified the UN, for "purposes benefiting the people of Iraq".
For the past few months we have been working on a Guardian Films investigation into what happened to that money. "
'Iraq was awash in cash. We played football with bricks of $100 bills' March 20, 2006

See the above mentioned Film: Iraq's Missing Billions

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Update: An eye witness report to the previous posting "Precise Collateral Damage .... المحتلون الأمريكان يـَفنون عائلة كاملة مع أطفالهم" on March 15, 2006

"THE villagers of Abu Sifa near the Iraqi town of Balad had become used to the sound of explosions at night as American forces searched the area for suspected insurgents. But one night two weeks ago Issa Harat Khalaf heard a different sound that chilled him to the bone.
Khalaf, a 33-year-old security officer guarding oil pipelines, saw a US helicopter land near his home. American soldiers stormed out of the Chinook and advanced on a house owned by Khalaf’s brother Fayez, firing as they went.
Khalaf ran from his own house and hid in a nearby grove of trees. He saw the soldiers enter his brother’s home and then heard the sound of women and children screaming.
“Then there was a lot of machinegun fire,” he said last week. After that there was the most frightening sound of all — silence, followed by explosions as the soldiers left the house.
Once the troops were gone, Khalaf and his fellow villagers began a frantic search through the ruins of his brother’s home. Abu Sifa was about to join a lengthening list of Iraqi communities claiming to have suffered from American atrocities.
According to Iraqi police, 11 bodies were pulled from the wreckage of the house, among them four women and five children aged between six months and five years. An official police report obtained by a US reporter for Knight Ridder newspapers said: “The American forces gathered the family members in one room and executed 11 people.”
Iraqis killed by US troops ‘on rampage’ March 26, 2006
Flash Presentaion : CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM: DEATH IN THE DESERT: What happened in the village of Is-haqi, north of Baghdad, on the Ides of March? (5 minutes, 8MB download)

Update on "Resistance snipers assist in Rumsfeld's expectaion" March 25, 2006 which included the showing of a video of the blowing up of an Abrams tank:
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"Across the plains of Kansas, destroyed, radioactive Abrams tanks (weighing 70 tons, or 140,000 pounds each), perched on railroad flatcars, rolled towards an uncertain future. Only one thing was certain. They would be radioactive forever. This would be their everlasting death mask. The Pentagon deceptively calls it "depleted uranium."
Radioactive Tank No. 9 comes limping home March 22, 2006

ـ من كتابات وفاء سلطان: " أروّج للمسيحيّة؟ نعم! كتعاليم سمحة سمت بإنسانها وارتقت به ووضعته في مقدّمة البشر. أنا لا أدين بالمسيحيّة ولا بأيّ دين وعندما أقرر أن أتبنى ديناً، أقولها علناً وبلا وجل أو خوف، ستكون المسيحية على قمة جدول خياراتي!

ــ ... المسيحيّة كلغة أثبتت صلاحيّتها لخلق انسان مهذّب، خلوق، منتج، مبدع ومسالم. كيف سيخرج إلى الحياة طفل تتلو على مسامعه: "من سألك فاعطه ومن أراد أن يقترض منك فلا تمنعه".. قد سمعتم أنه قيل أحبب قريبك وابغض عدوّك أما أنا فأقول لكم:" أحبوا أعداءكم واحسنوا إلى من يبغضكم وصلـّوا لأجل من يعنتكم ويضطهدكم.. إن احببتم من يحبكم فأي أجر لكم.. وإن سلّمتم على أخوانكم فقط فأي فضل لكم.." ـ

أما الإسلام كلغة، فقد أثبت عجزه عن خلق هذا النمط من البشر!! لقد اعتمد هذا الدين، بصورة عامة، لغة صحراويّة قاحلة غير مهذبة، جلفة، تدعو إلى العنف وتكاد تخلو من أيّ معنى انساني! والأمثلة في كتب التراث الإسلامي، بالجملة والمفرق، لمن يريد أن ينهل ويستنير. عرّجت في الأمس على بعض الأحاديث النبويّة في تحريم الربا، اقشعرّ بدني وأنا أقرأها وحمدت الله، لأول مرّة في حياتي، لأنّ أولادي لا يجيدون القراءة باللغة العربيّة!" ـ

نحن نعتقد جازمين ان العشرات من الكتاب العرب سيراسلون الكنيسة المعمدانية الجنوبية لعرض تنصيرهم، فمبروك لنا ومبروك عليهم."ـ

"Rumsfeld says he still expects a reduction in U.S. troops this year ...."
while Rumsfeld refuses to speculate on timeframe for U.S. troop withdrawal March 23, 2006
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In Samarra last week .... بعض ما حدث حول و في سامراء خلال الأسبوع الماضي
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Jaish Mujahideen sniper reduces number of American occupation soldiers in Samarra
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Jaish Mujahideen sniper again reduces the number of American occupation soldiers in Samarra
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Jaish Islami reduces number of Abrams tanks in Samarra 22-3-2006

By the way,

"Across the plains of Kansas, destroyed, radioactive Abrams tanks (weighing 70 tons, or 140,000 pounds each), perched on railroad flatcars, rolled towards an uncertain future. Only one thing was certain. They would be radioactive forever. This would be their everlasting death mask. The Pentagon deceptively calls it "depleted uranium."
Radioactive Tank No. 9 comes limping home March 22, 2006

"RADIOACTIVE" is stenciled on Abrams tanks (on left) in these pictures taken Oct. 13, 2005, in Topeka, Kansas. This radioactive tank (centre), sitting exposed on a flatbed railroad car in Topeka, Kansas, should have been "encapsulated," according to U.S. Army Regulation 700-48, which has the force of law. (Photos: Chris Bayruh ). Abrams tank totalled in Baghdad (on right) (Photo: Iraqi resistance) None of the tens of destroyed Abrams tanks in Iraq are 'encapsulated', either.

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"President Bush was beyond pathetic on the issue of Iraq during his press conference this week.
... Bush has lost the American public on the war, and why he deserved to lose it was illustrated in spades by the press conference. He was confused and confusing; he made blatant misstatements of fact; he used phony arguments against critics of the war; he offered a false picture of progress in Iraq, then blamed the media for not telling that story. We will succeed in Iraq ultimately, he said, because he "believes" it. And, by the way, U.S. troops will be there at least until 2009.
Bush apparently would like you to forget, and you shouldn't, all those breezy predictions from administration officials before the war that Iraq would be a breeze for U.S. troops. They would easily crush armed resistance, be welcomed with open arms and flowers, seize Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, stabilize the country with minimal troops, quickly get Iraq on its feet and able to rebuild itself with oil revenues, then leave. No one mentioned being in Iraq in 2005, let alone 2009.
But there were no WMDs; troops are constantly in danger; Iraq is still unstable, unreconstructed, full of sectarian violence and inching toward civil war.
The administration frequently has changed its story on why we went to war, but the strangest yet came in Bush's answer to Helen Thomas, the octogenarian journalist who has more courage in her toe than is evident in the entire White House press corps combined. Bush invaded Iraq because the Taliban in Afghanistan provided safe haven for Al-Qaida. Following Sept. 11, Bush said, part of his job was to "make sure that we didn't allow people to provide safe haven to an enemy. And that's why I went into Iraq. ... The Taliban provided safe haven for Al-Qaida."
Bush went on to say that the invasion ultimately occurred because Saddam "chose to deny [U.N. weapons] inspectors, chose not to disclose." Actually, Saddam allowed the inspectors entry, and they were doing their job -- though finding nothing. They asked for a few more months to finish, and Bush declined, the strong suspicion being that a clean WMD bill for Iraq would remove all legitimacy for an American invasion."
Bush Flopped Big-Time in his Defense of Iraq March 24, 2006

See Bush stumble all over himself in front of Helen Thomas (whose microphone was silenced after the initial question).

Who is the terrorist?

عندما أنشأت هذا الموقع لشلش العراقي في أوائل كانون الأول 2005 ، لم أدرِ ، ولا زلت لا أدرِ ، من هو العراقي شلش الذي يكتب من مدينة الثورة. بعد إسبوع من تهيئة الموقع بصيغته النهائية، أرسلت له الرسالة التالية:ـ

ـ" الاستاذ العزيز

تحية عراقية خالصة
اي شرف اطمح له اكثر من يهتم بكتاباتي شخص بمكانتك العلمية الرفيعة
واشكر اهتمامك بوضعي لكني احب ان اطمئنك ايها العراقي النبيل الا ان وضعي المالي جيد وقد عرضت على جهات سياسية كبيرة المساعدة فرفضت
اريد ان ابقى صديقا للفقراء وقريبا منهم وانا اكتب عنهم
لا اريد ان اقبض دينارا واحدا في حياتي من كتاباتي لان هذا واجبي الوطني وهو أقل ما يـُمكن أمام الدماء التي تسيل يومياً أمامنا
سابعث لك مقالاً للاستاذ عزيز الحاج كتبه قبل يومين عني وأشاد بكتاباتي غير المقال الاول أرجو وضعه في الصفحة
اشكرك من كل قلبي وقد وصلني الكتاب وسوف اقرأه
ارجو ان تطمئن مرة اخرى على اموري المالية ولا تقلق بشأنها
لذلك نريد للصفحات التي صممتها يدك الكريمة لي ان تبقى نظيفة ولا يتهـِمـُنا الاخرون باننا نعمل من أجل الاموال
لقد تعلمت منكم علماء العراق ان المعرفة لا تباع
مودتي الاخوية لك

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On the occasion of three years of occupation:
".... The thing most worrisome about the situation now, is that discrimination based on sect has become so commonplace.
.... And what role are the occupiers playing in all of this? It’s very convenient for them, I believe. It’s all very good if Iraqis are abducting and killing each other- then they can be the neutral foreign party trying to promote peace and understanding between people who, up until the occupation, were very peaceful and understanding.
Three years after the war, and we’ve managed to move backwards in a visible way, and in a not so visible way.
In the last weeks alone, thousands have died in senseless violence and the American and Iraqi army bomb Samarra as I write this. The sad thing isn’t the air raid, which is one of hundreds of air raids we’ve seen in three years - it’s the resignation in the people. They sit in their homes in Samarra because there’s no where to go. Before, we’d get refugees in Baghdad and surrounding areas… Now, Baghdadis themselves are looking for ways out of the city… out of the country. The typical Iraqi dream has become to find some safe haven abroad."
Three Years... March 18, 2006
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“Why We Fight” (click to see video -1 hour and 40 minutes documentary) should be required viewing for anyone who still believes that the U.S. presence in Iraq has anything to do with freedom. A masterpiece.
Exposing the war machine

Broadcast on March 23, 2005 BBC

Update:
" In his provocative documentary "Why We Fight", director Eugene Jarecki asks whether Washington's foreign policy is overly preoccupied with the idea of military supremacy, and if the military has become too important in U.S. life."
Is War the Real National Pastime? March 22, 2006

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"Outside the Rafidian Bank branch building, security was tight one recent morning on the usually busy downtown street.
About 50 rifle-toting Iraqi soldiers had sealed off the entire block. An Iraqi sniper team on the ledge of a four-story rooftop kept watch. And an inner perimeter of U.S. troops stood guard outside the bank’s large, brick edifice.
Inside, U.S. Marine Maj. Scott Madziar- czyk was trying to conduct business.
“Open the vault,” Madziarczyk demanded, wearing full body armor and waving a dull black semiautomatic shotgun.
Madziarczyk was not trying to rob the bank, he was simply trying to cash a check — an Iraqi Ministry of Defense check for 1.1 billion Iraqi dinars, or about $800,000.
The U.S. troops planned to walk out with the money stuffed in five large sacks, providing a much-needed infusion of money to pay a brigade of about 2,000 Iraqi army soldiers fighting insurgents in Anbar province.
It was a routine errand for the troops from the Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq, which oversees the transfer of power to Iraqi troops and retains many administrative duties, including aspects of the payroll process.
But the transaction failed when a diminutive Iraqi banker in a navy suit unlocked the large metal door and revealed an empty cement-walled room, completely devoid of cash.“See, no money,” the banker said."
Erratic banking system in Iraq frustrates U.S. forces March 10, 2006

"Two Army veterans and their company cheated the U.S. government on a contract to furnish Iraq with a new currency in 2003 and should pay more than $10 million in assorted damages, a federal jury in Alexandria ruled yesterday.
... Under the federal False Claims Act, citizens can sue on behalf of the government and the Justice Department can then decide whether to join the suit, which it did not in the Custer Battles case. (emphasis added)
... The trial has been complicated by the murky legal status of the CPA and the various sources of money it used to try to rebuild the country. U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III told the jury that they could only consider fraud charges on the first $3 million spent on the Custer Battles currency contract -- out of a total of about $20 million -- because that clearly came from the U.S. Treasury."
Contractor Bilked U.S. on Iraq Work, Federal Jury Rules March 10, 2006

Earlier last year, stealing Iraqi funds, during the viceroy rule, was declared legal in the U.S.:

"Judge Ellis rejected the argument, made by the whistle-blowers and by the Justice Department in a brief filed in April, that fraud damages could be pursued when bills were paid using Iraqi oil money. The Justice Department argued that because the oil funds were controlled and spent by American officials, the False Claims Act should apply.
... The reasoning the judge used was perfectly logical," Steven L. Schooner, a procurement expert at George Washington University, said in an interview. "But I'm disappointed by the message this decision sends - that our legal system is interested in how the U.S. takes care of its own money but is not willing to take responsibility for American stewardship of other people's money."
Judge Limits Statute's Ability to Curb Iraq Contractor Fraud July 12, 2005

"The government has not lifted a finger to get back the $50 million Custer Battles defrauded it of," says Alan Grayson, a lawyer for the two whistle-blowers" Newsweek April, 2005

Update: "There is also a connection between the scandal-plagued firm Custer Battles, which has been under investigation for fraud in Iraq security contracts, and Dubai. Custer Battles was formed in 2003 by Mike Battles, aged 33, a former U.S. Army and CIA officer and Scott Custer, also a former U.S. Army Ranger and employee of SAIC. Custer was Battles’s campaign assistant in a failed 2002 congressional race against Rhode Island Democratic Representative Patrick Kennedy. Custer Battles initial financing is sketchy but it is known that the company received $15 million in seed money from a Dubai venture capital firm. The venture capital firm hoped to raise an additional $100 million for Custer Battles ventures in Iraq. Battles refused to disclose the name of the Dubai firm. " Wayne Madsen Report March 1, 2006 -- Dubai --

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يدفع هولاء الانجيليون الملايين سنويا للتبشير بين العرب في بلدانهم فكيف بمن أتت اليهم بنفسها؟ احتفلوا بها وادمجوها في مجاميعهم فساعدوها من" البابوج الى الطربوش"، حتى شهادتها التي كانت غير مقبولة في اميركا عملوا جاهدين على معادلتها، ولكن (البورد)، اي اتحاد الاطباء، أصر على رفضها خوفاً على المرضى، وعليه تجاوبت الكنيسة مع اشتراطهم في ان تعيد وفاء دراسة العلوم النفسية من جديد، وهو ما فعلته وكلفها الامر حتى العام الماضي حتى سمح لها بالعمل. ـ

تعتقد الجماعة الانجيلية بأن من لا يحب اسرائيل هو عدو لله، ومن لا يساعد اسرائيل انما يساعد الشيطان، وان كل يهودي هو من ريحة الله، ولذا يجب التقرب منه والتحبب اليه، وعدوه هو عدو الانجيلي، وصديقه هو صديق الانجيلي. من هنا نفهم موقف المدام الفاضلة الانجيلية الصهيونية (وهي التسمية الرسمية التي يستعملونها لها، وهي ليست شتيمة عندهم بل فخر) من العرب والمسلمين ومن كل عدو لاسرائيل، حتى لو كان علمانياً، مثل شافيز وكاسترو او مثل العلامة الالسني نعوم تشومسكي .. ـ

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VIDEO: FOX NEWS - 9-11 : The Israeli Connection (about 20 minutes)
ALL LINKS TO CARL CAMERON'S FOX NEWS STORY ON THE ISRAELI SPY RING HAVE BEEN REMOVED AT THE EXPRESS REQUEST OF FOX NEWS. (Date unknown)

This is a powerful video with factual information, that will leave you with a lasting impression:
9-11 : Loose Change ( 1 hr 22 min - Feb 5, 2005 )

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"The number of U.S. troops in Iraq should not be so big that they appear to be an occupying force, despite recent spikes in sectarian violence, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday.
.... He said America needs to have enough military forces there to support the fledgling government and the development of a new political system, but not so many that it will feed the insurgency and make Iraqis think the U.S. is there only for oil.
"You don't want too many people there that you look like an occupying force, that the insurgents and the terrorists are able to lie to people and say you're only there for their oil, that you're there to occupy the country, that you intend to stay there permanently _ all of which is false," said Rumsfeld."
Rumsfeld Makes Cold War Comparison March 2, 2006
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Referring to the previous posting:
Who benefits from the Samarra attack? A short 'history', (February 16, 2006)

this is a video interview with Robert Fisk :
Somebody is trying to provoke a civil war in Iraq , March 2, 2006 .
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This is a short PowerPoint presentation of the Askari Mosque الجامع العسكري.
The first slide is looking at it from atop the Malwiya Minaret منارة الملوية (April 8, 2005), which was reoccupied again just recently as a sniper post by the Americans.

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