Free Iraq

Hi there,

I think your blog is interesting. I would like to invite you to join our new online community at polzoo.com. We are a user generated political editorial and social network. We also choose from amongst our own bloggers to be featured on the front page. I think your voice would be a great addition to our site.

Polzoo
 

given Rosen’s extensive first-hand experience in the country.

Dear Imad,

First don’t take my words as I am an Iranians hater. I hope to see Iranian friendly and loving for their brothers in Islamic countries also respects their affairs and dignity.
If some Parisians hate the Mullah with all their behaviours is not due to Islam and religion as such but for their personal necessities to be in power.

While reading bloging and commenting through the internet reading Iranians writing and commenting about Iraq and Arabs for the last five years, I can not found no a single Iranian have some respect for Iraq and Iraqi as a people and as country.

This includes Rosen who is Iranian Jew. Read what his close friend write about him when he was a teenage guy and his dreams which come true with “War On Terror” and Iraq war was the keystone for his achievement and recognitions as independent freelance journalist)( which very doubtable and rises many questions what he hid inside him)

Back in junior high, Nir Rosen was a scrawny kid who could draw just about anything if you have him a pen and paper. He bought overpriced designer jeans and paid for them by installment.

Nir never had much respect for authority and once got suspended for a having a haircut that was more cut than hair. Girls liked him. He left our school after 9th grade and I didn't see him more than once or twice in the next seven years.

In the fall of 1999, I was crossing N Street near Dupont Circle when a heavily-muscled man with short hair and a very attractive woman on his arm called out my name. It was Nir. As we caught up over the next few months I found out that he wanted to be an investigative journalist.

Like the kids who made their by driving down to Central America in the 1980s, Nir figured the best way to get things done was to go where the action was and write about it. When I saw first saw him, he was saving up for a trip to Bosnia and Yugoslavia.

In the meantime, he was trying to get through college and making ends meet by working assorted jobs. He had been a bouncer in Georgetown bar for a while, but discovered that it wasn't an enjoyable job unless you really liked hurting people. Most of his colleagues did.

After the invasion of Iraq, Nir shipped out for Baghdad without hesitating. Early on, he got an article published in Time Magazine. Since then, he has freelanced for newspapers including the Pittsburght Post-Gazette and the Asia Times.

But now Nir has hit the big time. He has the lead essay in this week's New Yorker, entitled "Home Rule". Congratulations are in order, since writing about Falluja from the inside takes a lot of courage, in addition to the literary talent expected of all contributors to the New Yorker. A lot of older correspondents won't risk going into the heart of the Sunni Triangle, but I'm guessing that only made it more attractive for Nir.

The story Nir has found is a fascinating one. In the absence of American soldiers, Falluja has reverted to a sort of clerical rule embodied in the person of Sheikh Dhafer al-Obeidi. In spite of having his authority granted by Falluja's most senior Sunni cleric, Dhafer struggles to reign in the foreign jihadis in town while also collaborating with the nominal mayor and the former general appointed by the United States to maintain local security.

The individuals and events that Nir describes demonsrate just how accomplished he has become at integrating himself into foreign cultures. Still, there are important questions that Nir seems to have left unasked. While consulting an impressive cross-section of local authority figures, Nir doesn't give us much sense of what the broader mass of Falluja residents wants for themselves. Does their resistance to the American occupation stem from an ideological commitment to Ba'athism, a religious commitment to Islam or an attachment to the extensive material benefits that Saddam once bestowed on his favorite subjects?

http://oxblog.blogspot.com/2004/06/our-first-look-inside-falluja-back-in.html
http://jarrarsupariver.blogspot.com/2006/11/education-of-nir-rosen.html
 

I absoultely agree with the anonymous above. Sincerely, I don't care too much if Rosesn is - or is not - an Iranian jew, even if I must say that I too reading iranian writers and comments never found a single Iranian to have some respect for Iraq. In any case, Rosen indeed looks down on Iraq and Iraqis.

A few months ago many "alternative news" websites published a disgusting interview with Nir Rosen by Mike Whitney:
http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney12012007.html

Rosen pins the blame for the iraqi genocide on the iraqi people: "The violence in Iraq was not senseless or crazy, it was logical and teleological. Shiite militias were trying to remove Sunnis from Baghdad and other parts of the country, while Sunni militias were trying to remove Shiites, Kurds and Christians from their areas. [N.B: according to Rosen's narrative, the shia death squads removed only the sunnis, whilst the sunnis attacked not only the shiites, but also kurds and christians. So he can blame the iraqi christians' genocide on the sunnis only , whilst it is well known that the christians were and are murdered both by the sunni al-Qaeda and by the shia militias] This has been a great success. So you have millions of refugees and millions more internally displaced, not to mention hundreds of thousands dead. There are just less people to kill".

And again:
"Question: Hundreds of Iraqi scientists, professors, intellectuals and other professionals have been killed during the war. Also, there seems to have been a plan to target Iraq’s cultural icons—museums, monuments, mosques, palaces etc. Do you think that there was a deliberate effort to destroy the symbols of Iraqi identity–to wipe the slate clean–so that the society could be rebuilt according to a neoliberal, “free market”model? Nir Rosen: There certainly was no plan on the part of the occupying forces. In fact, that’s the main reason that things have gone so horribly wrong in Iraq; there was no plan for anything; good or bad. The looting was not “deliberate” American policy. It was simply incompetence. The destruction of Iraq’s cultural icons was incompetence, also—as well as stupidity, ignorance and criminal neglect. I don’t believe that there was really any deliberate malice in the American policy; regardless of the malice with which it may have been implemented by the troops on the ground. The destruction of much of Iraq was the result of Islamic and sectarian militias–both Sunni and Shiite–seeking to wipe out hated symbols. The Americans didn’t know enough about Iraq to intentionally execute such a plan even if it did exist. And, I don’t think it did."

For centuries, Iraqis have lived together. According to Nir Rosen, they suddenly start to kill each other in "logical and teleological" way: if i understand rightly, he claims that the US were nice guys, but a bit incompetent and above all they were too naive to understand that the iraqis are a bunch of sectarian criminals.

Rosen has even the nerve to claim that it was all Fallujans' fault if there is a civil war in Iraq.

"In late 2004, the Americans completely destroyed Falluja forcing tens of thousands of Sunnis to seek refuge in western Baghdad. This is when the sectarian clashes between the Sunnis and Shiite actually began. The hostilities between the two groups escalated into civil war."
Of course, Nir Rosen well knows that the only "sunni militias" (al-sahwa) were created by the US last years , but he has to lie, lie, and lie in order to defend the occupiers (both the occupiers: US and Iran) and to criminalize the iraqis (above all, the iraqi sunnis, of course) .

He adds that since the iraqis are a bunch of sectarian criminals, now the iraqi refugees are exporting their criminal sectarianism in the hosting countries. So he criminalizes even the refugees:
"They'll probably form into militias and either try go home or attempt to overthrow the regimes in the region. "
I never read something more revolting. ( Solution: kill the refugees too, i suppose ! ) By the way, since the far greatest part of the refugees is sunni and christian (Rosen himself wrote it many times), he is claiming that soon there will be sunni and christian militias in the hosting countries, isn't he? .

And Rosen's agenda surely isn't so hidden: The best thing we can say about the American occupation is that it may soften the transition for the ultimate break up of Iraq into smaller fragments. PARTITION!!! . But, of course, according to Rosen, it wasn't the US plan for iraq since the very first moment. Oh no. It is only a result of the US failed policy and above all of iraqi criminal sectarianism! Actually, the plan for Iraq is and always has been partition. The plan was, is and always will be to destroy Iraq. But in order to split Iraq, the occupiers and their tools must say that partition is only the alternative plane for iraqi quagmire, and that we have to divide Iraq because the iraqis killed each other and now coexistence is impossible. Rosen and his masters should explain why before the occupation the iraqis always lived together without the slightest problem and without any sectarianism. And since there wasn't any sectarian concflict under Saddam, we must believe that Saddam was a wizard, wasn't he?

In the rest of the interview Rosen lives in a black-and-white world, where only Iran and her allies are without any faults and the others are monsters.
 

ألقت السلطات الكندية القبض على المدعو سمير صولاغ شقيق وزير المالية بيان جبر صولاغ بتهمة ممارسة غسيل الأموال داخل الاراضي الكندية .



وتأتي هذه الحادثة متزامنة مع تحقيقات هيئة النزاهة مع بيان جبر صولاغ بنفس تهمة ممارسة غسيل الاموال واستغلال غير مشروع لمنصب وزير المالية .

http://www.kitabat.com/i37537.htm