Free Iraq
The US's occupation of Iraq will see to it that the Lion of Babylon rises again .. سنـُبعـَث ُ من جَديد ، وإلى ضَـيـرِِهِـم
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| Unrevealed Milestones in the Iraqi National Nuclear Program: 1981-1991 | معالم وأحداث غير مكشوفة في البرنامج النووي الوطني العراقي 1981-1991 | 
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Sunday, May 31, 2009
The Iraqi Resistance, once again
"O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle - be Thou near them! With them - in spirit - we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it - for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen." Mark Twain
This [the above] is the slaughter and suffering that is being caused by the US occupation of Iraq. This is the death and suffering that is causing the Iraqi Resistance to once again form, gain strength, and prepare to resume full operations."
Dahr Jamail
The Return of the Resistance May 31, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Baghdaddy's, indeed!
Caption: Alas, Saddam Hussein did not make the list of gay icons.
Photo Credit: Special To The Washington Post
Article: For One Night, Baghdad Gets a Pink Zone, May 22, 2009
Being so culturally sensitive, are some of those that "they" have liberated inivited to the party?
"Grainy footage taken on a mobile phone and widely distributed around Baghdad shows a terrified young Iraqi boy cowering and whimpering as men with a stick force him to strip, revealing women's underwear beneath his dishdasha (Arab robe).
"Why are you dressed as a girl?" roars one of the men, brandishing his stick as the youth removes his brassiere. The sobbing boy, who appears to be about 12, tries to explain that his family made him do it to earn money, as they have no other source of income."
Iraqi gay men face 'lives of hell', April 18, 2009
"Iraq’s gay population is being targeted by militia groups in a wave of killings that has claimed the lives of up to 25 young men and boys in the past month.
"They know I am gay. I don’t know if I am going to be killed, this is up to God," said Moyad, a 38-year-old Baghdad resident who would not give his last name out of fear for his safety. Visibly frightened, he said that he has many friends who have been sadistically tortured, some even murdered. "They are sticking glue up their anuses; some hospitals refuse to treat them. Is it a war waged against homosexuals?" he asked."
‘They Kill People Like Us,’ Says Gay IRAQI, May 4, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
A sample of the mainstream Western press bias
From a friend's email:
"Here's a tiny snippet, emblematic of the larger issue of how pressure from the pro-Israel lobby constantly, and subtly, intimidates the mainstream Western press.
See the description of this recently deceased fanatic May 26, 2009
Yehoshua Zettler was one of the founding members of a violent pre-state Jewish movement and mastermind of the assassination of a top United Nations envoy in 1948.....
He was most known for planning the assassination of UN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte in Jerusalem in September 1948, who had angered Jewish radicals by suggesting that the boundaries of a 1947 UN partition plan be revised to put Jerusalem under UN control and hand Israel's Negev desert to Jordan".
Note how he is described as an "activist".
Let me ask you -- if for example, as in the tragic case of Mr. Sergio Vieria De Mello, with anyone else deliberately staging the assassination of a U.N. official in the Middle East, because that side in a regional conflict didn't like the position that they thought he had recommended to the United Nations; what, do you suppose, the Western mainstream newspapers would call him?
Let me give you some help : they'd call him a "te_ro_is_". (Fill in the blanks yourself.)
But I guess if he's a member of the Stern Gang and he murders U.N. officials, well, then, he's just an "activist"... right?"
Saturday, May 23, 2009
كسافات المالكي : "كتابات"ـ
تعرض موقع " كتابات " العراقي الذي يترأس تحريره أياد الزاملي ويحرره كُتّابه بكامل الحرية وبدون أي تدخل أو شطب أو تكليف أو تفضيل لأحد على أحد من قبل رئيس التحرير إلى هجمة باسم القانون العراقي بحملة شنتها حكومة رئيس الوزراء العراقي نوري المالكي رئيس حزب الدعوة الإسلامي، وقد بدأت الحملة أياها عبر دعوة قضائية قام برفعها السيد رئيس الوزراء مستنداً فيها على القانون 111 الصادر عام 1969."ـ
As a result of a lawsuit brought by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Baghdad court ordered the Iraqi news website Kitabat to pay 1 billion dinars (630,000 euros) in damages on 18 May.
Although based in Germany, Kitabat uses reports provided by many correspondents inside Iraq and the ruling threatens its ability to continuing operating."
Friday, May 15, 2009
إستراتيجية البرنامج النووي في العراق
This posting is on a new book "The Strategy of the Nuclear Program in Iraq" (in Arabic) by Humam AbdulKhaliq and AbdulHalim Al-Hajjaj. The verb tense is the past tense.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Same average Americans stand behind their President in covering up Abu Ghraib torture
From a friend's email (May 14, 2009):
"President Obama said on Wednesday (May 13, 2009) that he is seeking to block the release of photographs that depict American military personnel abusing captives in Iraq and Afghanistan, worrying that the images could “further inflame anti-American opinion.”
See below for proof of how the Average American supports his/her President, in trying to sweep America's dirty laundry under the carpet.
In fact, the world is already painfully (pun intended) aware of what America's track record of torture and oppression is. So Mr. Obama's trying to clumsily censor the latest set of torture photos is the proverbial "locking the barn door after the horse has left" situation.
None the less, you can see from the above poll, how seriously Americans take their often-proclaimed devotion to "freedom of the press", "transparency", etc. -- they're all in favor of showing the facts; that is, until the facts don't show their actions in a favourable light.
Try to imagine the Premier of China, refusing to release photographs of what's going on in Tibet, on the grounds that showing these to the world would "inflame anti-Chinese sentiment", "putting Chinese forces occupying Tibet, at additional risk".
A wounded child in Farah yesterday. Up to 120 people, including civilians, were reported to have been killed in a series of US airstrikes on two villages (Times Online)
Monday, May 11, 2009
In contrast ... "Where there is much light, the shadow is deep" Goethe
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Us(S) Torture? Nah...We are better at it than "them"
I received a passionate email from an old friend regarding a recently aired ABC video of a 2004 incident in which Sheikh Issa, the brother of the UAE Emir Sheikh Khalifa, is violently punishing an Afghan (CNN report - in Arabic) who swindled him out of a US$5,000 grain delivery deal. It was very shocking to my old friend who is now in Chicago.
This is my response to her:
"The video is indeed repugnant.
But is anybody in the email list that were addressed recalling the Americans' atrocities in Abu Ghraib prison (and the then pregnant smiley face (see below) who is now a mother) and their treatment of Guantanamo’s "guests”?
And, would anyone in your email list be still sympathizing with the US war criminal soldier (Steven Green) who is still bragging in court "'that was awesome'” about his raping and burning of the 14 years old Abeer Qassim al-Janabi in Mahmoudiya in 2006?
We posted earlier (on July 5, 2006) on this gruesome war crime. This is a more comprehensive coverage of that horrific incident.
Why, then, is there such a singled repugnance of the above mentioned Issa incident and no repugnance is expressed (as far as has come to my attention) in the case of Green?
Is it because that “it is OK if it is one of us" but "it is NOT OK if it is one of “them""?
Ponder, and please respond, if you would."
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PS: The video was released by a former Lebanese business associate of Issa, a Bassam Al-Nabulsi, who posted it in revenge after he fell out on a business deal with Issa. So much for business deals and a belated conscious awakening when money is concerned. Where is Madoff when we need him?
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