Free Iraq

Dear Imad

I am sorry to say it seems to me that you are being misled. I am not saying that you are forging documents. But the letter purporting to be from Nouri Al-Maliki to the Iranian Ambassador could not be genuine. I give three reasons for such a conclusion:

1. Nobody in a minor official position, let alone that of a PM, would put such matters on paper. Matters of this nature are dealt with otherwise than in official communications that could be easily intercepted as clearly you confirm was done.

2. The language is too basic and flawed Aarbic for Nouri Al-Maliki being a graduate of Arabic.

3. But more importantly, I beg to differ on where he stands. I believe that he has gone completely to the American side and chose to sever his old links to Iran. He was given the opportunity by the US to make the choice and he did. Thus I do not believe that he would be acting for Iran in the way the letter portrayed him doing.

This is how I say things, but I may be wrong.

Salam
 

Assalamo alaykom.

I hope that you are fine and doing well.

see, all thse documents you send, are just too good ot be true. if they were true how come they are on your mailing list, that wiht all respect nobody in the world knows, instead of being on CNN + BBC + every possible media in the world taking all the media attention 24/7?

That just doesnt make sense.
 

Wa alaikum Al-Salaam

The 'venerated' mainstream media slightly mentioned, three weeks later, the first posting of January 26, 2007 referred to above.

Go figure.

The above two documents are from the same source.

I am rather surprised that you still have that much faith in CNN, BBC (hopefully not so much in FOX any more).

Have you heard of Scooter Libby?

Have you heard of Rupert Murdoch admitting that his media empire helped in preparing audience minds for Bush's occupation on Iraq?

I would recommend that you would wait a few weeks and watch the news.

Finally, I would think it about time that you might blow out some candles under the icons of CNN and BBC.

All the best
 

لمالكي يحارب العرب في البرلمان العرافي PDF طباعة أرسل لصديق
07 / 03 / 2007
إن من بين الأسماء التي سوف يشملها إصدار مذكرات التوقيف أو مذكرات التحقيق، النائب عن جبهة الحوار الوطني محمد الدايني،...
هيئة العلماء تحذر البرلمان من اقرار «قانون النفط» الجديد
بغداد-أ ف ب - قدس برس :
حذرت هيئة علماء المسلمين السنية اكبر مرجعية دينية للمسلمين السنة في العراق، في بيان أمس الثلاثاء مجلس النواب العراقي (البرلمان) من اقرار قانون النفط والغاز الذي ايده مجلس الوزراء العراقي. وجاء في البيان "ننبه أعضاء البرلمان إلى أنهم أمام مسؤولية تاريخية سيكونون فيها بين خيارين إما الانحياز للشعب في المحافظة على حقه وحق أجياله القادمة من الهدر والاستغلال وبين الانحياز للمحتل ومؤامراته للاستيلاء على هذه الثروة الوطنية الكبيرة". وأضاف ان "التذرع بملاحظات لتقويم مضمون القانون وبنوده لن يكون السبيل الأمثل للعلاج ولن يعفي القائمين بهذه الملاحظات من المسؤولية الشرعية والوطنية والقانونية". وأكد البيان ان القانون "يصب في محصلته في خانة الموافقة وتقديم تنازلات على حساب تضحيات شعبنا في سبيل الإفادة من هذه الثروة لصالح بلدهم وأبنائه".
وكانت الحكومة العراقية قد اقرت في 26 فبراير الماضي في جلسة استثنائية مشروع قانون النفط الجديد الذي ينص على توزيع العائدات على الاقاليم وفقا للنسب السكانية، حسب ما اعلن رئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي.

كما اعلنت الهيئة رفضها "تمرير التشريعات الخطيرة في ظروف استثنائية كالتي يمر بها البلاد" واضافت ان "القانون يأتي في وقت شهد فيه العراق أسوأ أحوال أمنية وسياسية فاي منطلق يسوق به تمرير قانون كهذا في مثل هذه الظروف". ودعت الهيئة "الشعب العراقي للعمل بكل ما أوتى من قوة وعزم للحفاظ على المكتسب الذي ضحى بالكثير من أجل تحريره من قبضة الشركات الاحتكارية" واعتبرت ان القانون سيؤدي إلى "هدر حقوق الاجيال".

من جهة أخرى، كشف مصدر رفيع المستوى في الحكومة العراقية، عن استعدادات تقوم بها السلطات العراقية، لإصدار "مذكرة توقيف" في حق عدد من النواب والسياسيين وشخصيات دينية، بسبب تهم تقول إنها متعلقة بـ "دعم الإرهاب والتحريض على العنف".

وقال المصدر، في تصريحات خاصة لمراسل "قدس برس"، إن من بين الأسماء التي سوف يشملها إصدار مذكرات التوقيف أو مذكرات التحقيق، النائب عن جبهة الحوار الوطني محمد الدايني، والنائب عن جبهة التوافق العراقية عبد الناصر الجنابي، بالإضافة إلى مذكرة التحقيق الصادرة في حق أمين عام هيئة علماء المسلمين في العراق، الشيخ حارث الضاري.

وأضاف المصدر "إن الشخصيات التي سوف يصدر بحقها أمر توقيف لا تتجاوز العشرة أشخاص، وتسعى الحكومة العراقية إلى تأخير الإعلان عن هذه المذكرات، لإتاحة الفرصة أمام الخطة الأمنية لتحقيق مزيد من النجاحات"، على حد قول المصدر. مؤكدا أن المذكرات التي ستصدر بحق برلمانيين، سوف تحتاج أولا إلى رفع الحصانة عن النائب المتهم بالعنف.

وأشار المصدر، إلى أن هناك ضغوطا تمارس على رئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي، من اجل إلغاء تلك المذكرات، كونها قد تسبب حرجا للحكومة ولبقية الأطراف المشاركة في العملية السياسية، خاصة وان المذكرات ستستهدف شخصيات أغلبها "سنية ".
http://www.almughtarib.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5057&Itemid=50
 

تحذير لكل العراقيين في الخارج وخاصة في سوريا والأردن- منظمة مشبوهه تجمع معلومات خطر
http://www.almughtarib.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5008&Itemid=50
 

no no, not that i have faith in them, absolutly not. I tried them myself and saw how my work gets edited. absolutly horrible, definalty not FOX, i dont even wana work with them.

what i am saying, give me s tory, give me a way of authintication to these documents, whats your source? give me a story, and i will put it on news.
 

Khalid J

It is not that simple that I name my source to anybody.

Let me give you an example from an email that reached me yesterday:

"dear imad,
selam
i am trying to log in my blog using the right username and password but it did not work..

i tried the 'help" of the site; yet no success..

i am using the old version.

my blog is
XXXXXXX.blogspot.com
no body knows this is my blog for my security.

Do not forget, i am still in iraq
could you help?

if not plz do not tell the others about my name
all the best"

And you want what????

All the best
 

عزيزي عماد
تحية طيبة

أن براءة العالم و نزاهته تبرر تصديقك لما يصلك من المصدر الذي تثق به و الذي على ما اعتقد ينتهز حقيقه كونك قد تركت العراق منذ فترة طويلة ولم تعد اليه الا في زياراتك القصيرة بعد الاحتلال. أن فبركة وثائق عن المالكي او غير المالكي ( و هنا ليس القصد الدفاع عنه او عن غيره ) هي مسألة سهلة و سريعة خصوصا باستخدام التقنيات التي توفرها البرامج الجديدة . أن اسلوب البعث باستخدام جميع الوسائل على اساس ان الغاية تبرر الوسيلة واضح في ما يرسلة لك المصدر . فأذا كان المالكي يتصرف بهذة الطريقة الساذجة في التراسل و تبادل المعلومات مع السفارة الايرانية فأين الهاشمي و الزوبعي و الدليمي من هذا هذا كلّه وهل تصلك الوثائق و لا تصل الى زبائن المنطقة الخضراء و مريديها المتناحرين بينهم من اجل كسب رضى خليل زادة . و هل أن الامريكان المتواجدون ( بجلالة قدرهم ) لا يعلمون بهذة الرسائل علما بانهم يشكلون كامل فوج حماية المالكي ليل نهار فهو لا يتحرك حتى داخل المنطقة الخضراء بدونهم بل ان الحماية الامريكية و هي الحماية الوحيدة التي ترافقة تمنع موظفي رئاسة الوزراء من الحركة بين طوابق بناية مجلس الوزراء اثناء تواجده . فكيف يتسنى للمصدر الفذ ان يتفوق على الجميع و يحصل على الوثيقة ولا يبيعها مثلا للجزيرة التي تدفع كامل المبلغ على وثائق و قضايا أبسط و أتفه . ثم انه و بعد كل اجتماع لرئاسة الوزراء يوجد اجتماع للمالكي مع السفير الامريكي لايجازة حول القضايا الامنية و القرارات التي اتخذها المجلس . فهل تعتقد ان زادة مغفل الى هذة الدرجة , أو هل تفترض مثلا ان المالكي لديه حرية التصرف و القرار بحيث انه بستطيع فرض رأية و علاقاته على الامريكان .

عيوني عماد أنت بعيد شوية و يمكن الجماعة مستغلين مركزك و علاقاتك و ثقة الاخرين بيك كعالم و كمثقف و كأبن عائلة خدوري العريقة و المعروفة . ء
 

اصدار مذكرة اعتقال بحق برلماني عراقي


اصدر مجلس القضاء الاعلى مذكرة اعتقال بحق احد اعضاء مجلس النواب العراقي .

وقال مصدرمخول في مجلس القضاء رفض الكشف عن نفسه ان المجلس اصدر مذكرة اعتقال بحق النائب عبد الناصر الجنابي عضو في الجبهة العراقية للحوار الوطني الذي يتزعمها صالح المطلك .

واوضح المصدر ذاته في تصريح خص به (اصوات ) ان مذكرة الاعتقال هذه هي الاولى في قائمة المطلوبين التي قالت الحكومة انها تضم شخصيات سياسية، يشتبه بانها تغذي العنف في العراق،. مشيرا الى ان قبيل اصدار هذه المذكرة تم اصدار مذكرة بسحب الحصانة عن النائب المذكور بهدف التحقيق معه بالتهم المنسوبة اليه .

من جانب اخر اكدت مصادر حكومية مطلعة ل(اصوات ) ان النائب المذكور قد ترك العراق قبل ايام في جولة رسمية مع نائب رئيس الجمهورية طارق الهاشمي .
 

Alexander Cockburn, A Federal Witchhunt; The Persecution of Sami Al-Arian: One of the first big show trials here in the post-9/11 homeland was of a Muslim professor from Florida, now 49, Sami al-Arian. Pro-Israel hawks had resented this computer professor at the University of South Florida long before Atta and the hijackers flew their planes into the Trade towers, because they saw al-Arian, a Palestinian born in Kuwait of parents kicked out of their Homeland in 1948, as an effective agitator here for the Palestinian cause. As John Sugg, a fine journalist, then based in Tampa, who's followed al-Arian's tribulations for years, wrote in the spring of 2006 on this website:

"When was al-Arian important? More than a decade ago, when Israel's Likudniks in the United States, such as [Steven] Emerson, were working feverishly to undermine the Oslo peace process. No Arab voice could be tolerated, and al-Arian was vigorously trying to communicate with our government and its leaders. He was being successful, making speeches to intelligence and military commanders at MacDill AFB's Central Command, inviting the FBI and other officials to attend meetings of his groups. People were beginning to listen and to wonder why only one side of the Middle East debate was heard here. That was the reason for Al-Arian's political prosecution."

[See article for Al-Arian's descent into 'legal' hell.]

On January 22, when Al-Arian appeared before Judge Lee on the charge of contempt, he had this to say about his recent treatment:

"In the past three weeks, I have been to four prisons. I spent fourteen days in the Atlanta penitentiary under 23-hour lockdown, in a roach and rat infested environment. On two occasions, rats shared my diabetic snack. When I was transported from Atlanta to Petersburg (Virginia) and from Petersburg to Alexandria, they allowed me only to wear a t-shirt in subfreezing weather during long walks. In the early morning, the Atlanta guard took my thermal undershirt which I purchased from the prison and threw it in the garbage and when I complained, he threatened to use a lockbox on my handcuffs which would make them extremely uncomfortable. In Petersburg, the guard asked me to take off my clean t-shirt and boxers and gave me dirty and worn out ones. When I complained, he told me to 'shut the f up.' And when I asked why he was treating me like that, he said 'because you're a terrorist.' When I further complained to the lieutenant in charge, he shrugged it off and said if I don't like it, I should write a grievance to the Bureau of Prisons. When I said he had the authority to give me clean clothes, he refused and said if I don't like it I should write a grievance to the Bureau of Prisons. During one of the airlifts, an air marshal further tightened my already tightened handcuffs, and asked me 'Why do you hate us?' I told him, 'I don't hate you.' He said, 'I know who you are, I've read your s-h-i-t.' These are examples of the government's harassment campaign against me that's been taking place for years because of my political beliefs."

Measured against José Padilla, a man driven insane on Rumsfeld's orders, I guess al-Arian is lucky. He's alive, and still sane, though getting weaker by the day. He needs all the support we can muster. Across the globe, where al-Arian's case has aroused much outrage, respect for the US commitment to Constitutional freedoms sinks lower still.

For information on the case, go to www.freesamialarian.com.
 

Kurt Nimmo, Fast Tracking the Global Slave Plantation


Kurt Nimmo, As AIPAC Strolls into Town, Politicos Line Up to Kiss the Pinky Ring: “The Democratic-controlled Congress is moving to outflank both the Bush administration and the United Nations with the toughest set of sanctions against Iran that have ever been proposed,” reports the New York Sun. Democrats in control of the corporate and “special interest” whorehouse on the Potomac have introduced “legislation to sanction foreign companies that do business with Iran and to re-impose the import restrictions,” just in time for the convergence of AIPAC, the Bwana of “special interests,” that is to say hijacking government policy and siphoning off billions of dollars to the outlaw state of Israel.

“Yesterday, Aipac spokesman Josh Block said the lobbying push this year has three priorities. To start, the group will try support ‘continued U.S. aid to Israel that helps strengthen American interest in the region by ensuring that our ally Israel remain strong and secure in it’s tough neighborhood.’ That priority is important because the ten-year agreement signed between President Clinton and Prime Minister Netanyahu that phased out the economic assistance element of the $2.4 billion in annual aid Israel receives as a condition of its peace accord with Egypt is set to expire. Today Israeli and American diplomats are negotiating new terms of how the American assistance will be spent.”

Of course, U.S. aid to Israel does anything but “strengthen American interest in the region,” in fact it does quite the opposite. As for Israel’s “tough” neighbors, we can assume this is primarily a reference to Hezbollah, an organization that would not exist if Israel had not invaded Lebanon on numerous occasions. As any resident of southern Lebanon will tell you, for every action there is a reaction, and Hezbollah was a reaction to Israeli brutality.

“Mr. Block also said organization’s activists will be urging lawmakers to withhold aid from ‘going to support or legitimize a Palestinian Authority dominated by a terrorist group, Hamas, which refuses to recognize Israel, renounce violence or abide by previous agreements with the Jewish State.’ That issue is particularly tricky for the Bush administration today because the Palestinian Arab president, Mahmoud Abbas, is currently in negotiations with Hamas, a State Department designated foreign terrorist organization.”

Never mind this “terrorist group,” initially funded and supported by the Israeli government, was elected by the Palestinians, and as such it is quite natural for Mahmoud Abbas to negotiate with them. Not that it matters, as it will be business as usual in the world’s largest open-air prison—staggering unemployment, malnutrition, and poverty will continue to grow exponentially, as planned. It is “tricky” because the United States still props up a crumbly facade, acting like they actually envision a Palestinian homeland, when in fact this “homeland” is such in the same way Bophuthatswana was a “homeland,” actually a contrived Bantustan. AIPAC and Israel would have the Bush administration do away with this fanciful fig leaf altogether and get down to the business of killing more Arabs.
 

Bush greeted by clashes in Brazil: In Sao Paulo, about 10,000 people spilled out along one of the city's broadest avenues, in the heart of the financial district, banging drums, waving red flags and carrying banners reading "Bush Go Home".
 

Video (17 min.), 9/11 Cartoon REMIX (starring Aaron Russo)
 

Steve Watson, Total Information Awareness is Back: The Pentagon's super snoop "Total Information Awareness" program is back in business, just as we predicted it would be.

Congress attempted to kill the ill-conceived DARPA program in 2003. But instead, the program, designed to somehow find terrorists from documenting everyone's credit card bills, car rental receipts and travel records, went underground and has now returned, bigger and stronger and worse than ever.

The National Journal reported that the program is now accessed by, among others: the NSA, the CIA, DIA, CENTCOM, the National Counterterorrism Center, the Guantanamo prison, and Special Operations Command (SOCOM).
 

Israel unveils new surveillance drone: Israel would not disclose whether the Heron could be used to carry out airstrikes, but Robin Hughes, the Middle East bureau chief for Jane's Defence Weekly, said it had the ability to carry a significant payload. Palestinians have said Israel has been using drones to fire missiles at Gaza, but the military has not confirmed it.
 

Italy tops global wiretap league (Putting Italy in line, surely, for some sort of "Wiretap Oscar"!)
 

Priests to Purify Site After Bush Visit: Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate "bad spirits" after President Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday.

(Bring the priests to Washington - PLEASE !)
 

Baghdad Students Thwart US Raid: Students at Baghdad's Mustansariya University frustrated a US raid on Thursday with a large protest, Aswat al-Iraq reports in Arabic.
 

B'Tselem: IDF used Palestinian girl as human shield in Nablus
 

Video (3 min.), Interview with child taken as human shield in Nablus
 

Aseel Kami & Ahmed Rasheed, Dreams of bombs, bad guys haunt Baghdad's children: Iraqi children are haunted by dreams of bad guys wielding knives or kidnapping relatives. For some, like 13-year-old Zaman, the nightmares become reality. She was abducted, beaten and threatened with rape.

"Zaman suffers from shaking, nervousness, a stutter and sleep disorder," said Haider Abdul-Muhsin, a psychiatrist at Baghdad's Ibn Rushd hospital who treats children suffering the consequences of war, four years after the U.S. invasion.

Abdul-Muhsin said Zaman was abducted in Baghdad last month on her way home from school. Zaman was not at the hospital when Reuters visited, but Abdul-Muhsin said few children he had treated recently had affected him as much.

"An elderly woman asked her to help her carry some plastic bags across the road to find a taxi. While she was taking her bags back from Zaman, she grabbed her and forced her into the taxi. She anesthetized Zaman and tied her up," he said.

The girl was held in a room with 15 other girls for seven hours before being released by police who raided the house.

"They beat her, they told her that they would send her to insurgents as a forced 'bride'," Abdul-Muhsin said.
 

Wayne Madsen, March 8, 2007 : ... German journalist Jürgen Cain Külbel wrote a book titled "Mordakte Hariri," a German-language book (also published in Arabic) that strongly suggests that the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was not carried out by Syria but by neo-con elements hoping to foment a Lebanese civil war to the benefit of the Israelis and their Lebanese Phalangist allies.

Planned English and French editions of the book were scuttled after it came under attack by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the neocon-funded U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon (USCFL), and various groups linked to the Israel Lobby in the United States, Britain, Israel, and Germany.

The neocon propaganda efforts against Western journalists are conducted by a number of on-line entities, including blogs. These include GIYUS (Give Israel Your United Support), a project funded by the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS). More importantly, however, a pro-Bush/Cheney and Likud network has been uncovered operating within the German mainstream media, including Der Spiegel, Die Welt, the NTV network (an news affiliate of CNN), and others. ...
 

Wayne Madsen, March 9-11, 2007 -- Individuals close to the government of the tiny Pacific island Republic of Nauru are taking another look at the mysterious death of its President, Bernard Dowiyogo, who died at George Washington Hospital in Washington, DC on March 10, 2003, while on an official trip to the United States. ...
 

Chris Floyd, Fishing Expedition: FBI Abuses and the Rotting Carp From Crawford: In the light of the unsurprising "revelations" that the FBI is grossly abusing its Patriot Act powers to issue "national security letters" -- highly intrusive, self-granted search warrants that need no judicial approval or oversight -- Glenn Greenwald details how, once again, this rank fish of tyranny rots from the head: George W. Bush.

The FBI's lawbreaking is tied directly to President Bush
 

Palestine Free Voice, World Split in Torture " Ethics " - Israelis Top 43 % Endorse Torture
 

Iraq, Defeated Occupation: Anti-War Statement by Hana Al Bayaty, Ian Douglas, Abdul Ilah Albayaty, Iman Al Saadoon, Dirk Adriaensens, Ayse Berktay, Matthias Chang, Arundhati Roy, Michel Chossudovsky and Eduardo Galeano (7 March 2007)

THIS DEFEATED OCCUPATION

We must preempt it

On 10 March 2007 in Baghdad a stillborn regional conference will convene in which the Iraqi people will again be absent, their resistance not represented. Instead, a defeated US occupation will continue attempting to write the fate of the Iraqi people, conspiring with an undemocratic Security Council, as well as neighbouring and regional states, supposedly invited by a puppet government.

What kind of government collaborates with foreign powers against its own people?

What kind of government invites foreign forces to kill its own population?

What kind of government substitutes militias for regular national armed forces?

What kind of government bequests the nation’s oil wealth to foreign powers?

And what kind of government goes begging to its neighbours to let its own citizens flee by millions into their countries?

What is a government that rewards rapists?

What is a government that rewards death squads?

What is a government that lacks so much legitimacy that it has to “surge” for the fourth time its own capital?

What is a government that kidnaps and imprisons and tortures the people?

What is a government that invents new extremes of martial law?

What is a government whose finances cannot be accounted for?

What is a government that shamelessly degrades civil infrastructure?

What is a government that cannot even provide basic services, like clean water and electricity?

And what is a government that is never in the country?

Such a government is the proof that occupation is the highest form of dictatorship.

All peoples in the world aspire to democracy as it is supposed to be the expression of their will. The will of the Iraqi people could not be subjugated to force for the fourth consecutive year. The Iraqi Resistance is democratic by definition, because it is an upsurge of popular will, and is progressive by definition, because it defends the interests of the people.

The only solution in Iraq is the sovereignty of the Iraqi people.

Only the national popular Iraqi Resistance is capable and empowered, both as an objective reality and under international law, to determine a path towards peace and stability in Iraq and end this illegal occupation.

We must pre-empt any new US attempt to impose a lackey government on the Iraqi population by recognizing its resistance as the sole representative of the will of the Iraqi people.

Retrieve recognition from this foreign-imposed backward government and recognize the Iraqi Resistance!
 

xymphora, The most honest man in the world
 

Bush administration loses some spin control in Washington (Never mind, George. You've still got a trick or two up your sleeve.)
 

Pentagon Deploys 2,200 More Troops to Baghdad
 

Libby set to win pardon and escape jail term (Consider it a done deal.)
 

Greg Palast, Bush’s New US Attorney a Criminal? ... Karl Rove’s assistant, the President’s pick as US Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas ... was the hidden hand behind a scheme to wipe out the voting rights of 70,000 citizens prior to the 2004 election.