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trafficking</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sexual-abuse/" rel="tag">sexual abuse</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sexual-slavery/" rel="tag">sexual slavery</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sons-of-iraq/" rel="tag">Sons of Iraq</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/statistics/" rel="tag">statistics</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/torture/" rel="tag">Torture</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/unemployment/" rel="tag">unemployment</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/unemployment-levels/" rel="tag">unemployment levels</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/unhcr/" rel="tag">UNHCR</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/unicef/" rel="tag">UNICEF</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/war-crimes/" rel="tag">War Crimes</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/widows/" rel="tag">Widows</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/wikileaks/" rel="tag">Wikileaks</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/womens/" rel="tag">women's</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/womens-rights/" rel="tag">Women's Rights</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>More than seven years after the US- and UK-led invasion of their country, Iraqis continue to endure an occupation that has systematically violated their rights to life, dignity, self-determination and economic development. The occupation has been and continues to be so destructive and so violent that one in four Iraqis are estimated to be dead or displaced. One in five Iraqis has been made a refugee or an internally displaced person (IDP). </p> <div style="border-right: black 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: black 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: black 1px solid; width: 300px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: black 1px solid"> <p>Serene Assir, <i>The Electronic Intifada,</i> 10 January 2011 </p> <p><em>Serene Assir is a Lebanese independent writer and journalist based in Spain.</em></p> <p>Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11723.shtml" class="external" target="_blank">ei: Occupation of Iraq destroys women’s lives</a></p> </p></div> <p>In particular, the role and situation of women and girls has declined precipitously compared to prior to the invasion. From torture to rape to assassination, from forced separation for mixed couples to women and their children enduring the death of their husbands and fathers, from a loss of educational rights to expulsion from the workplace and public life, and from sexual slavery to forced flight or enforced disappearance, for the past seven years Iraqi women and girls have endured the most terrifying of fates. They are living at the mercy of an occupation that both seeks to terrorize them into submission, and to use them as objects for the terrorization of the whole of Iraqi society. </p> <h3>No security </h3> <p>Dr. Souad al-Azzawi, who authored a study on Iraqi women entitled "Deterioration of Iraq women’s rights and living conditions under occupation," published in January 2008, told The Electronic Intifada: "The most significant loss that Iraqi women have suffered is a complete and total loss of security." She explained that the loss of security entails both the loss of physical security and "the economic, social and civil securities Iraqi women were so accustomed to prior to the occupation." </p> <p>In fact, it appears that the loss of physical and other aspects of security have a Catch-22 effect on the lives of women. The lack of legal and institutional support for women by an Iraqi puppet government which is at best ineffective has meant that in the vast majority of cases the criminals, mafias, militias, death squads, US occupation forces and Iraqi police and army forces committing crimes against women are not held accountable for their actions. This has in turn encouraged the development of a situation characterized by lawlessness and criminality, in which women are prime targets. As such, many women have been forced to leave their jobs and quit their education, for fear that they may be the next victim of rape or assassination. </p> <p>According to al-Azzawi, Iraqi women have had to resort to "the relative security of their homes," often taking their children out of school too if they were the only parent able to accompany them there and back. </p> <p>Echoing al-Azzawi’s words, an Iraqi refugee speaking on condition of anonymity said that she was forced to leave Iraq precisely because of death threats issued against her by militias who had found out she was actively working as a journalist seeking to expose the injustices taking place against women. Had she stayed in Iraq, the threats likely would have been fulfilled. </p> <p>"Not only was I being targeted, but I was also without protection, given that Iraq has no government to speak of," she explained. She added that "I could have been killed at any moment, and no one would have been held accountable for it. It was for one reason alone that I fled: because I had no choice." </p> <h3>Criminal levels of poverty </h3> <p>The figures speak for themselves. According to a dossier on Iraqi women published by the BRussells Tribunal, prior to the invasion 72 percent of working women were government employees. The dismantlement of state institutions immediately after the invasion meant that these women became unemployed. Instability and ineffective institutions in Iraq render it impossible to pinpoint the total rate of unemployment today, but estimates range from 15 percent to 70 percent. The few stable jobs that exist, according to the dossier, are usually given to men, though a growing number of female-headed households means that many women need to take extraordinary risks in order to try and cater for their children ("<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://www.brussellstribunal.org/pdf/Women.pdf" class="external" target="_blank">Iraqi Women Under Occupation</a>" [PDF]). </p> <p>The same economic insecurity affects Iraqi refugee families. Aseer al-Madaien, the Protection Officer for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) – Syria, says that out of 139,000 registered Iraqis in Syria, 28 percent are households headed by women. In total, estimates for the total number of displaced Iraqis, including both refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), range up to almost five million, according to the international organization Medecins Sans Frontieres, which believes that there are 2.5 million Iraqi IDPs and 2.3 million refugees. </p> <p>IDPs suffer both extreme vulnerability and insecurity, as they seek refuge in the homes of relatives and friends, said Hana Al Bayaty, member of the Executive Committee of the BRussells Tribunal. Many of them are the victims of ethnic cleansing, whereby a country once free of sectarianism is increasingly witnessing the targeting of persons on the basis of their religion or ethnicity. Mixed marriages in these conditions are all too often broken up by force, according to a report published by the UN-affiliated IRIN humanitarian news agency ("<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=26268" class="external" target="_blank">Mixed Marriages confront Sectarian Violence</a>," 6 April 2006). </p> <p>The majority of Iraqi refugees have headed to neighboring countries Syria and Jordan, where they are not allowed to work, as they are legally considered "guests." In 2007, the UNHCR reported that an estimated 40 percent of Iraq’s middle class had fled the country. Not only have almost half of those with the qualifications and experience to help rebuild Iraq left the country, but they are also suffering from the most extreme form of disempowerment, according to Al Bayaty. </p> <p>Al-Azzawi explained that "For the educated middle class, this situation is shattering as everything we have worked so hard to earn and build up over decades of war and sanctions is being brought down by military force before our very eyes." </p> <p>Unable to work legally, it is often refugee women who take upon themselves the burden and the risk of working as they are less likely to be asked for documentation on the streets of Amman, Damascus and beyond, and they thereby hope to be less likely to be deported. </p> <p>Unemployment levels in Syria and Jordan, however, mean that even illegal work is hard to come by. It is because of this that the phenomenon of forced prostitution is becoming increasingly rife. The growing problem of sex trafficking is partly caused by poverty. </p> <p>According to al-Azzawi, the lack of work permits, qualifications and opportunities "leads some women to prostitution in order to feed their children and their families." In other cases, the sheer lack of protection faced by some women push them into prostitution. Problems in such cases include threats of kidnapping issued against women should they not accept to prostitute themselves. These threats are issued especially against women whose husbands are dead or missing. "The women of Iraq live in a very fragile situation as a result of the American occupation’s crimes," al-Azzawi said. </p> <h3>Death, torture and enforced disappearance </h3> <p>No statistical reference can adequately convey the sheer suffering experienced by the people of Iraq, as a whole, from the genocidal sanctions period through the invasion and ensuing occupation. Current estimates place the number of dead at anywhere between 1.5 million and 2.5 million. </p> <p>According to Iraqi human rights analyst and advocate Asma al-Haidari, "Up to one million Iraqis have been forcibly disappeared." Behind the enforced disappearances are the US army, Iraqi government forces including the army and police, and al-Qaeda and other militias that operate freely across the country, according to a presentation given by Dirk Adriaensens, member of the BRussells Tribunal Executive Committee, at a London conference organized by the International Committee Against Disappearances on 9-12 December 2010. According to calculations by Adriaensens, based on UNHCR statistics, 20 percent of internally displaced Iraqi families have reported cases of missing children ("<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://www.brussellstribunal.org/pdf/Disappearances_missing_persons_in_Iraq.pdf" class="external" target="_blank">Enforced Disappearance. The Missing Persons of Iraq</a>" [PDF]). </p> <p>It is also understood that, given that there is a very real and justified fear of retaliation against families who report the disappearances of their loved ones, many others suffer in silence. Thousands of detainees, some of them in secret, illegal prisons, according to al-Azzawi, are women. Estimates published in 2008 by the Iraqi Parliamentary Women’s Committee and the Iraqi Ministry of Women’s Affairs indicate that between one and two million Iraqi women are widows. </p> <p>Inside Iraq’s jails, legal or not, cases of torture and sexual abuse have been widely reported. Revelations by WikiLeaks published on 22 October 2010 were described by Iraqi activists such as Sabah al-Mukhtar, president of the Arab Lawyers’ Union, as just "the tip of the iceberg," as he said on an Al-Jazeera English interview on 24 October. According to al-Azzawi, women are usually jailed on trumped-up charges of terrorism, where there is no proof and while there is no adequate legal system to ensure their right to a fair trial. "Many are awaiting execution," al-Azzawi added. </p> <p>Further, when it is the man who disappears, whether he is dead or missing, women and their families have to fend for themselves in a hellish situation. Out of this horror comes forth one of the more obtuse trends, inexistent in Iraq up until 2003, of families giving their daughters away in early marriage for fear of being unable to adequately support them. </p> <p>One immediate effect of this phenomenon is the fact that girls aged 13, 14 and 15 sold into early marriage lose their right to education. As figures currently stand, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report published on 1 September 2010, for every 100 boys in school, there are only 89 girls ("<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MCOI-89RD6Y?OpenDocument" class="external" target="_blank">Girls Education in Iraq 2010</a>" [PDF]). </p> <p>"Lots of those little girls are very bright and are willing to finish their education if they are allowed to," said al-Azzawi. </p> <p>Worse still is the flourishing of what are known as "pleasure marriages." These are short-term marriages conducted out of court, whereby separation is also very simple. It is a practice that Iraqi women’s rights advocates describe as linked to prostitution, because of the wrongful abuse of the practice by men in power, often blackmailing fathers into giving their daughters away in a "pleasure marriage," and also because once a girl or a woman has married in this way and has received alimony for her short-term commitment, she will find it very difficult to reintegrate back into her family. </p> <p>"Many girls are forced into prostitution and ultimately sex trafficking this way," al-Azzawi added. </p> <h3>Forced Islamization of society </h3> <p>It is deeply telling that Iraqi society is becoming forcibly Islamized by militias tied to the Iraqi puppet government, which is dependent upon the United States for its survival. Meanwhile, Washington claims to be fighting a war on Islamic terrorism. The reality, as is frequently the case, is the precise opposite. Previously a secular state, Iraqi society is becoming forcibly transformed into a theocracy. In such systems, women and girls inevitably lose. </p> <p>The results of the proliferation of fundamentalist militias are varied. While reports of Christian women veiling in order to avoid attacks are troubling in the Iraqi context, what is potentially much worse is that the notion of an Iraqi state for all its citizens is fast disappearing. Not only does this mean that Iraqi girls are no longer safe on the streets; it also means that if the occupation fulfills its goals, Iraqi "career women" may be a thing of the past. </p> <p>Al-Azzawi notes that "Economically the country has lost a huge, skilled working force, which is exactly what the occupation planned to do, and the lives of millions of working women and families were shattered." </p> <p>Considering that there is not a single right enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that the US occupation has not violated — as the International Initiative to Prosecute US Genocide in Iraq team found when working in 2009 to bring a legal case for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide against four US presidents and four UK prime ministers — it is amazing yet encouraging that the US occupation’s goals have failed. </p> <p>Not only is the US administration under President Barack Obama still battling to maintain control over a country whose people resist in the name of their dignity and their love for Iraq, but many of the most outspoken and brilliant advocates for Iraqis’ rights in general are in fact women. </p> <p>"I have much hope for Iraq," said human rights advocate Asma al-Haidari, "Nothing will make me lose hope." </p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11715"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/10/26/%d9%85%d8%ad%d9%83%d9%85%d8%a9-%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%82%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%b5%d8%af%d8%b1-%d8%ad%d9%83%d9%85%d8%a7-%d8%a8%d8%a5%d8%b9%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%85-%d8%b7%d8%a7%d8%b1%d9%82-%d8%b9%d8%b2%d9%8a/#respond" title="Comment on محكمة (عراقية) تصدر حكما بإعدام طارق عزيز">No Comments</a></span> Posted on October 26th, 2010 by Ali Ibn Hussayn</div> <h3><a 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align="right"> <div style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; width: 300px; padding-top: 0px"> <div class="container"> <div class="shadow"> <div class="frame"><strong><font color="#800000">الإعدام شنقا بحق طارق عزيز وعبد حمود وسعدون شاكر في قضية تصفية الأحزاب الدينية</font></strong> <p><a title="tariq_aziz by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/5117906517/" class="external" target="_blank"><img height="417" alt="tariq_aziz" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458im_/http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1158/5117906517_6c07c35c3f_o.jpg" width="275"/></a></p> <p>أصدرت المحكمة الجنائية العليا حكما بالإعدام شنقا حتى الموت بحق ثلاثة من أركان النظام السابق في قضية تصفية الأحزاب الدينية. <br/>وشمل القرار الذي صدر قبل قليل كلا من وزير خارجية النظام السابق طارق عزيز والسكرتير الأول لرئيس النظام السابق عبد حمود ورئيس جهاز المخابرات سعدون شاكر.</p> </p></div> </p></div> </p></div> </p></div> <p>اصدرت المحكمة الجنائية التي انشأها بريمر احكاما بالاعدام  على المسؤولين العراقيين السابقين الثلاثة طارق عزيز وسعدون شاكر وعبد حميد حمود بعد ادانتهم في قضية "تصفية احزاب دينية". <br/>وقال المكتب الاعلامي التابع للمحكمة إن المحكمة أصدرت حكما باعدام طارق عزيز أحد أبرز مساعدي الرئيس العراقي الراحل صدام حسين. <br/>والحكم بالاعدام هو الأول الذي يصدر ضد عزيز. <br/>وكان الجيش الأمريكي قد سلم إلى حكومة بغداد، في شهر يوليو الماضي 26 مسؤولاً عراقيا سابقاً كان يعتقلهم، بينهم نائب رئيس الوزراء السابق طارق عزيز. <br/>وصرح حينها محامي طارق عزيز، بديع عارف، أن "حياة موكله الآن في خطر". <br/>واعتبر تسليمه "انتهاكاً لميثاق الصليب الأحمر الذي لا يجيز تسليم موكلي الى خصومه".</p> <p>يعتبر طارق عزيز، نائب رئيس الوزراء العراقي السابق، ووزير الخارجية الأسبق واحداً من اشهر مسؤولي حكومة صدام حسين على الصعيد الخارجي. </p> <p>وبزر على الساحة الدولية بعد توليه وزارة الخارجية إبان حرب الخليج الثانية عام 1991، وكان المتحدث باسم الحكومة</p> <p>بدأت علاقة طارق عزيز بصدام حسين في أواخر الخمسينيات من القرن الماضي من خلال عضويتهما بحزب البعث الذي كان محظوراً في ذلك الوقت، وكان يمارس العمل السياسي السري بهدف الإطاحة بالنظام الملكي المدعوم من قبل بريطانيا. </p> <p>العمل الصحفي </p> <p>وقد ولد طارق عزيز، اسمه الحقيقي ميخائيل يوحنا، عام 1936 قرب مدينة الموصل في شمال العراق في اسرة متواضعة كلدانية كاثوليكية</p> <p>درس الأدب الإنجليزي في جامعة بغداد ثم مدرسا وبعد ذلك صحفيا </p> <p>وأهله العمل في مجال الصحافة لتولي أول منصب وزاري في حياته السياسية، إذ عين عام 1970 كوزير للإعلام. </p> <p>وفي عام 1977 انضم لمجلس قيادة الثورة، وهي اللجنة التي كانت تضم كبار مسؤولي حزب البعث الذين كانوا يحكمون العراق فعليا. </p> <p>وفي عام 1983 عينه صدام حسين وزيرا للخارجية. </p> <p>ونجح عزيز خلال فترة قصيرة في اعادة العلاقات الدبلوماسية مع الولايات المتحدة بعد اجتماعه مع الرئيس الامريكي حينذاك رونالد ريغان في الابيت الابيض عام 1984 بعد قطيعة دامت اكثر من 17 عاما. </p> <p>كما تمكن من تأمين دعم الولايات المتحدة لبغداد أثناء حرب الخليج الأولى مع ايران في الثمانينيات بعد اقناع الرئيس ريغان وموفده الخاص دونالد رامسفيلد بأن العراق يمثل حاجزا اساسيا في وجه ايران. </p> <p>واستطاع بحنكته الدبلوماسية إقامة علاقات اقتصادية قوية مع الاتحاد السوفييتي السابق. </p> <p>وبرز اسم طارق عزيز في وسائل الإعلام العالمية بعد انتشار الجيش العراقي في الكويت في أغسطس/ آب من عام 1990، والحرب التي أعقبته حيث كان يقود المفاوضات مع الامم المتحدة والولايات المتحدة قبيل بد حرب الخليج الثانية </p> <p>وعشية حرب الخليج الثانية، اتخذ طارق عزيز موقفاً كان له أصداء واسعة برفضه قبول رسالة تحذر من حتمية الحرب وجهها الرئيس الأمريكي جورج بوش الأب لصدام حسين، خلال اجتماعه في جنيف مع وزير الخارجية الامريكي الاسبق جيمس بيكر. </p> <p>كما عاد عزيز الى واجهة الاحداث عام 2003 قبل غزو العراق من قبل الولايات المتحدة وحلفائها معلنا ان العراق لا يمثل مصدر تهديد عسكري، لكنه كان متأكدا من حتمية وقوع الحرب التي كانت حسب رأيه بسبب النفط والعامل الاسرائيلي. </p> <p>بعد الغزو الامريكي للعراق </p> <p>سلم عزيز نفسه للقوات الامريكية بعد شهر من احتلال العراق. </p> <p>وقد نشرت صحيفة الاوبزرفر البريطانية عام 2005 رسالة لعزيز شرح فيها ظروف اعتقاله قائلا "اننا منقطعون عن العالم الخارجي ولا يمكننا الاتصال بأسرنا ونرغب بالحصول على محاكمة عادلة ومعاملة حسنة". </p> <p>ونجح طارق عزيز في الحفاظ على رضا الرئيس العراقي عنه، كما نجا من محاولة اغتيال عام 1980. </p> <p>ويقول المقربون من طارق عزيز عنه إنه إنسان هادئ ودمث الخلق، ويتمتع بالقدرة على الحديث بطلاقة. </p> <p>لكن هذه الصورة الوديعة تخفي وراءها سياسيا محنكا ذا شخصية صلبة، تمكن من البروز وتقلد أعلى المناصب في عهد الرئيس العراقي صدام حسين.</p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11705"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/10/26/tariq-aziz-sentenced-to-death/#respond" title="Comment on Tariq Aziz, Saadoun Shaker, and Abed Hamid Hmoud sentenced to death">No Comments</a></span> Posted on October 26th, 2010 by Ali</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/10/26/tariq-aziz-sentenced-to-death/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Tariq Aziz, Saadoun Shaker, and Abed Hamid Hmoud sentenced to death">Tariq Aziz, Saadoun Shaker, and Abed Hamid Hmoud sentenced to death</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/abed-hamid-hmoud/" rel="tag">Abed Hamid Hmoud</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/aswat-al-iraq/" rel="tag">Aswat Al Iraq</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/death-penalty/" rel="tag">Death Penalty</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/occupation-of-iraq/" rel="tag">occupation of iraq</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/revolutionary-command-council/" rel="tag">revolutionary command council</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/saadoun-shaker/" rel="tag">Saadoun Shaker</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/saddam-hussein/" rel="tag">Saddam Hussein</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/tariq-aziz/" rel="tag">Tariq Aziz</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <blockquote> <p>The Supreme Criminal Court has issued a decision on Tuesday for the execution of three of Iraq’s former high-ranking officials during former President Saddam Hussein’s regime, including former Deputy Prime Minister, Tareq Aziz, according to the semi-official Iraqiya TV Channel.</p> <p>“The Supreme Criminal Court has issued a decision to execute three leading members of the former (Iraqi) regime, charged with the elimination of the religious parties, including former Deputy Prime Minister, Tareq Aziz,” the Iraqiya TV Channel said, adding that the two other former officials were former Interior Minister, Saadoun Shaker and Saddam Hussein’s Office Chief, Abed Hamid Hmoud.</p> <p>Tareq Aziz, 74, was the only Christian member in Saddam Hussein’s leadership, who handed himself up to the U.S. troops after their occupation of Iraq in April, 2003, and had been among very few membersof Saddam’s regime who escaped death till this date.</p> <p>Tareq Aziz is looked upon by the world at large as having been the leading spokesman in the name of Saddam Hussein’s dictatorial regime, as he held the post of deputy prime minister in 1991, after holding the foreign minister’s post for a long time.</p> <p>Aziz had charged U.S. President, Barrak Obama, with “having left Iraq for the wolves,” when Obama issued his decision to pull out the U.S. combat troops, despite the escalation of terrorism in Iraq recently.</p> <p>He had also been sentenced for 15 years under charges of having contributed in the execution of 15 Iraqi merchants, during the previous regime, along with another 7-year sentence for his role in forcing large numbers of Iraqi Kurds to leave their home towns in northern Iraq</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=138329" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq’s former Deputy Prime Minister, Tareq Aziz, sentenced to death : Aswat Al Iraq</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11654"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/10/21/death-and-body-bags/#comments" title="Comment on Death and body bags">1 Comment</a></span> Posted on October 21st, 2010 by Umm Fatima</div> <h3><a 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solid; width: 289px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: black 1px solid"> <p><img style="display: block; float: none; margin: 5px auto" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458im_/http://gorillasguides.com/wp-content//20061018_boy_holding_the_feet_of_his_dead_father_hospital_morgue_baquba_october_18_2006.jpg"/></p> <p>Boy Holding The Feet Of His Father Baquba Hospital Morgue October 18 2006. </p> </p></div> <p>The aphorism came to mind again last week when US media reported that the United States had finally released its first official compilation of data on Iraqi casualties, more than seven years after its invasion of the country.</p> <p>The report, posted on the US Central Command website in July, drew little notice until last Thursday, when media outlets published details showing that 63,185 civilians and 13,754 members of the Iraqi security forces had been killed from early 2004 to August 2008.</p> <p>It is not clear why the figures did not include casualties from the immediate aftermath of the US-led invasion in 2003, or from the period after August 2008. It is not clear either how the data were compiled and using what methodology.</p> <p>The figures seem to represent a "policy engineered" anti-climax as the Obama administration, facing a mid- term election challenge, tries to bring an end to America’s misadventure in Iraq.</p> <p>The number of Iraqis killed during the US-led invasion and its aftermath has long been hotly debated, estimates ranging from fewer than 100,000 to more than a million.</p> <p>Knowing how these latest US figures were arrived at would speak volumes about how the United States is faring as it prepares to exit from Iraq.</p> <p>The casualty figures released by Washington are lower than those from Iraqi government sources. Last year, the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights reported that 85,694 Iraqis, including military and police personnel, had been killed from the beginning of 2004 through to October 2008.</p> <p>In January 2008, the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated that 151,000 deaths had taken place in the country due to the violence, with a 95 per cent confidence estimate of between 104,000 and 223,000 from March 2003 through to June 2006. The figures were based on the results of an Iraq family health survey published in the <i>New England Journal of Medicine</i>, a respected US journal. </p> <p>Another estimate from the Iraq Body Count, a non- governmental organisation based in Britain that uses media accounts, has put the number of civilian dead in Iraq at 47,668 during the same period as the WHO study. The group’s latest figures for civilian deaths from violence in the country until September 19 2010 stood at between 98,252 and 107,235.</p> <p>A 2006 survey in <i>The Lancet</i>, a British medical journal, estimated that more than 600,000 Iraqis had died as a result of the war, a figure more than 10 times higher than other estimates at the time. </p> <p>Iraq has not officially reacted to any of the studies, though many Iraqis have rejected the new US figures on the number of civilian deaths in the conflict, saying that they are well below the actual numbers who have died. </p> <p>The numbers are misleading, critics say, because they are not based on a well- defined methodology dealing with all violence-related deaths, including assassinations and in operations conducted by the US military.</p> <p>Estimates of casualty figures during the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq have been controversial because of the high political stakes involved and the possibility of manipulation aimed at swaying public opinion. The recent report was prompted by a Freedom of Information Act request from the National Security Archive at George Washington University. </p> <p>Scepticism has arisen about these latest figures not only because of possible discrepancies and the mysterious standards used to establish the magnitude of the casualties, but also because the parties involved have been reluctant to tell the truth about this human tragedy.</p> <p>A fundamental question is why the US military, which bears primary responsibility for the conflict, failed to address the issue start from the start and why it did not keep accurate records on the victims of the invasion and occupation.</p> <p>The military’s apparent incapacity to provide statistics about the causalities of US air bombardments and other related operations is a real and pressing concern.</p> <p>Another question of concern is why the US media, omnipresent in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, has not capitalised on its high standards of professionalism to gather accurate data about the human tragedy in Iraq.</p> <p>The Associated Press kept a record for the period from 28 April 2005 to 30 September 2010 listing some 49,416 deaths.</p> <p>Yet, even more disturbing than these US failures has been the failure by successive Iraqi governments to establish an efficient process of data collection to register the deaths of Iraqi citizens and to compensate their families.</p> <p>Failure to collect data and dodgy statistics are not the only problems. There is also the problem of how to count deaths that are directly related to the war and occupation, separating them from deaths as a result of violence in the country.</p> <p>Absent from the debate is any explanation of the humanitarian crisis that has struck Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion, including increasing poverty, unemployment, the deterioration of health services and the destruction of the country’s ecological system.</p> <p>Statistics such as those released by the US military have also largely ignored Iraqi fatalities caused by a lack of clean drinking water and a breakdown in utilities.</p> <p>Humanitarian agencies like the International Committee of the Red Cross have warned that the country’s healthcare facilities face grave shortages of staff and supplies, with the water, sewage and electricity infrastructure being in critical condition.</p> <p>Rates of cancer, leukemia and brain tumours, widely believed to have been caused by US weaponry, have been on the rise, some research suggesting that they rival those reported among survivors of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.</p> <p>The US military’s report on the death toll in Iraq comes at a time when US President Barack Obama has reached his lowest ratings in US opinion polls ahead of crucial mid-term elections next month.</p> <p>The release of the statistics while Obama embarks on a campaign to drum up support for Democratic Party candidates cannot be a coincidence.</p> <p>By publishing a limited number of casualties in Iraq, the Obama administration may be hoping that it can go ahead with its policy of "turning the page" in Iraq, ending the US military presence in the country by the end of next year.</p> <p>Exiting from Iraq would benefit the Democratic Party, whose president vowed to end the legacy of the Republican Party and its president in Iraq. </p> <p>If all goes to plan, Iraq will no longer be front-page news in America, as US soldiers pack up to leave in order to help Democrats achieve some sort of hoped-for victory in next month’s elections.</p> <p>However, the very day this article was sent to print, a spate of bomb attacks across Iraq killed and wounded many people, serving as proof that the threat of death remains a part of daily life in the country.</p> <p>If Albright’s idea that the price paid by Iraqi civilians for US policy "is worth it" can serve as any sort of reminder in this sad chapter of Iraq’s history, then it should be that the US-led invasion has turned into a humanitarian tragedy, as well as an American national predicament.</p> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/1020/re3.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Al-Ahram Weekly | Region | Death and body bags</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11646"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a 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then occupation of Iraq brought a sharp setback to the rights of women in that country, UNFPA head Thoraya Obaid tells IPS in an interview.</b> </p> <p>The view that Muslim societies are necessarily backward on the position of women arises from stereotyping, she says. And she speaks of herself as a Muslim woman who does not fit the stereotype. </p> <p>Obaid spoke to IPS Wednesday at the launch of the annual UNFPA report, focused this year on the role of women in peace building. Excerpts from the interview: </p> <p><strong>Q: Is there any evidence that women are better than men at peace building and rebuilding? </strong></p> <p>A: There is evidence that not only in peace building and rebuilding but in other areas as with migrant workers, the priorities for women are usually different. As a result women invest in the family, and during conditions where there is war or natural disaster, you will find that women can even cross borders to be able to keep the family together, and are able to negotiate the safety of their families. So in that context we see that women should be a part of any peace building negotiations. </p> <p><strong>Q: Women can play that role when they have an opportunity, but is there any sign that women are getting more such opportunities? </strong></p> <p>A: Sadly, no. Opportunities are still limited because the recognition that women can play that role is still limited. We are saying that if we invest enough in women, in their education, in empowering them to have a voice, to raise their voice, and if we recognise their voices and find space for them to play a role in peace building, then they will do a good job. </p> <p>Liberia is a very good example of that. It’s women who walk the streets saying we want peace. But society still does not recognise the real value of women, and that is a real problem. </p> <p><strong>Q: There is a widespread perception that the position of women in Islamic societies is low. But in Iraq women had many rights, that vanished after the Americans came along. </strong></p> <p>A: I worked in Iraq for eight years until the invasion of Kuwait. We were there as a part of the Economic Commission for Western Asia, and we worked with women’s groups there at that time, and certainly, by the time we left the Federation of Iraqi Women had put together the best family laws you can get from all the different sects, and also labour laws. But then the invasion came and the whole thing went apart. </p> <p>When the U.S. came in, they went back to the family laws of 1958. That tells you how far they have gone back. What they did was to cancel everything that was previous. And that is not really a good judgment for women. It was quite a bit of difference. </p> <p><strong>Q: How does this square with the perception that left to themselves, Muslim societies are backward, and that the U.S is the progressive one? </strong></p> <p>A: That is a political question in many ways. There are stereotypes of Muslim countries, and Muslim women. I’m a Muslim woman, and I don’t fit that stereotype. There are many like me. I come from Saudi Arabia, and see where I am right now. This is the stereotyping of a people and also of a religion, and as a result assumptions are based on such perceptions. In many ways it is perceptions that hinder Muslim women in many places. </p> <p><strong>Q: Is the U.N. making a difference, or does it just produce reports? </strong></p> <p>A: Look at the report we are putting out on Security Council resolution 1325. This has brought the issue of women as peace makers and peace builders into a higher level of political awareness. As a result, at least 19 countries are putting into place their own plans on how to bring women to end violence against women in wars, conflict and natural disasters, in camps and so on. These studies are important because they mobilise political leaders and I think that is a very important role for the United Nations. </p> <p><strong>Q: What does this report say that is significant and new? </strong></p> <p>A: The new trend we are trying to bring into the discussion about women is the three R’s – Resilience, Renewal, and Redefining roles. Women are always seen as victims. We are saying women are not victims. Women have the resilience, they keep the families together. And with renewal, when we are rebuilding after a crisis, we should not rebuild society as it was before, with all the inequalities and inequities in it, but on a new human rights paradigm that will bring equality. </p> <p><strong>Q: How can the MDGs targets be met in relation to conflicts? </strong></p> <p>A: A part of conflicts is poverty, and poverty brings conflict. So MDG 1 on poverty cannot be achieved if there is no peace and security. Each of the MDGs requires peace and security. </p> <p>And with MDG5 on maternal health, for a long time actors in the humanitarian field did not recognise that women have special needs. In war and natural disasters, they do deliver babies, they do have biological functions that require special attention. There is a need to take care of their integrity and their dignity. So we are looking at MDG 5 because we want women to deliver babies in a clean state, and that they are safe. </p> <p>More importantly [is] that they are protected from violence – when violence takes place, that they are provided with the services that support them but also that perpetrators of violence are brought to justice. Violence against women is part of the MDG5 target on universal access to reproductive health. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=53232" class="external" target="_blank">Q&A: What the U.S. Undid for Women in Iraq – IPS ipsnews.net</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11010"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/06/10/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d8%af%d8%b1%d9%8a-%d9%8a%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%b6-%d8%ad%d8%b6%d9%88%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b3%d9%81%d9%8a%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%85%d8%b1%d9%8a/#respond" title="Comment on التيار الصدري يرفض حضور السفير الأمريكي جلسة البرلمان الأولى">No Comments</a></span> Posted on June 10th, 2010 by Fatima Jameel</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/06/10/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d8%af%d8%b1%d9%8a-%d9%8a%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%b6-%d8%ad%d8%b6%d9%88%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b3%d9%81%d9%8a%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%85%d8%b1%d9%8a/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to التيار الصدري يرفض حضور السفير الأمريكي جلسة البرلمان الأولى">التيار الصدري يرفض حضور السفير الأمريكي جلسة البرلمان الأولى</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/hill-christopher/" rel="tag">Hill - Christopher</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/occupation-of-iraq/" rel="tag">occupation of iraq</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sadrist-bloc/" rel="tag">Sadrist Bloc</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sadrist-protest-campaigns/" rel="tag">Sadrist Protest Campaigns</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%ad%d8%b1%d9%83%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d8%af%d8%b1/" rel="tag">حركة الصدر</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p dir="rtl" align="right">أعلن التيار الصدري أنه يرفض حضور السفير الأمريكي لدى بغداد كريستوفر هيل جلسة البرلمان الأولى، مشددا على ان ذلك يمثل خرقاً للسيادة العراقية. <br/>وقال رئيس الهيئة الاعلامية في مكتب الصدر بالنجف فؤاد الفحام ان "التيار الصدري مصر على طلبه لان البرلمان يمثل الشعب والشعب العراقي يرفض الاحتلال على حد قوله. <br/>مشيرا نحن متأكدون من ان رئيس الجمهورية الذي دعى الى انعقاد الجلسة الاولى للبرلمان سيتفهم موقفنا ولا يدعو السفير الامريكي" . <br/>ومن المقرر ان يعقد مجلس النواب اولى جلساته يوم الاثنين المقبل بعد دعوة الرئيس جلال طالباني الكتل السياسية الفائزة بالانتخابات الى انعقاد الجلسة الاولى للبرلمان للتصويت على تشكيل الحكومة المقبلة.</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10214"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/01/%d8%b2%d9%8a%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b1%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%b9%d8%af-%d8%b9%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a8-%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%b3-%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%b2%d9%85%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b7%d8%a7%d8%a6/#respond" title="Comment on زيباري: البعد عن العرب مسيس وازمة الطائرة سببها الحدود وامريكا ترد حلوا مشاكلكم">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 1st, 2010 by Ali</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/01/%d8%b2%d9%8a%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b1%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%b9%d8%af-%d8%b9%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a8-%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%b3-%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%b2%d9%85%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b7%d8%a7%d8%a6/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to زيباري: البعد عن العرب مسيس وازمة الطائرة سببها الحدود وامريكا ترد حلوا مشاكلكم">زيباري: البعد عن العرب مسيس وازمة الطائرة سببها الحدود وامريكا ترد حلوا مشاكلكم</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/diplomatic-relations/" rel="tag">Diplomatic relations</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/embassys-crisis/" rel="tag">Embassys crisis</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/hoshyar-zebari/" rel="tag">Hoshyar Zebari</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/occupation-of-iraq/" rel="tag">occupation of iraq</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/troop-withdrawals/" rel="tag">troop withdrawals</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/zebari-hoshyar/" rel="tag">Zebari - Hoshyar</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p dir="rtl" align="right">وصف وزير الخارجية هوشيار زيباري تأخير بعض الدول العربية عن افتتاح سفاراتها في بغداد بالموضوع المبالغ فيه، موضحا ان الحديث عن بعد العراق عن محيطيه العربي والإسلامي خاطئ ويسيس من قبل بعض الأطراف السياسية لخدمة مصالح الجهات الذي ينتمون لها. <br/>وقال زيباري في تصريح صحفي لصحيفة الشرق الأوسط نحن نتسامح في أن يلتقي سياسيون عراقيون قادة عرب خارج الإطار الحكومي، الا ان لو عندنا حكومة قوية لا ما سمحت بهذه اللقاءات حيث يفترض أن لا تحدث ، مستذكرا بالوقت نفسه "حادثة لقاء رئيس حزب المحافظين البريطاني حين التقى احد رؤساء الولايات المتحدة في واشنطن، فقامت هنا القيامة في لندن ولم تقعد لأنهم اعتبروه تحديا"، حسب تعبيره. <br/>وافاد وزير الخارجية ان رئيس الحكومة نوري المالكي غير مسؤول عن سوء العلاقات مع بعض الدول العربية، في اشارة الى السعودية وسوريا ، مشددا على ضرورة ان نكون واقعيين فإذا كانت هناك دول أو جهة تريد إيذاء العراق فلا يجوز أن تقبل يده، حسب قوله. <br/>مشيرا الى ان الحكومة العراقية كثيرا ما خاطبة سوريا بشأن احد المطلوبيين للحكومة وذلك لأرتباطه بجرائم نفذها بحق الشعب العراقي ابان الحكم البائد وهو القيادي في حزب البعث المنحل محمد يونس الأحمد، الا انها كانت نكرو وجوده على اراضيهم وها هو اليوم ببرنامجه و أهدافه الأرهابية بصورة علنية. <br/>وعن موضوع ألأزمة الأخيرة التي اسفرت عن احتجاز مدير الخطوط الجوية العراقية على اثر دعوى رفعت من قبل الجانب الكويتي اوضح زيباري هناك مشكلات عالقة بين الكويت والعراق ولا بد من حلها، وأبرزها مسألة الحدود التي رسمت وفق قرار مجلس الأمن 833، الذي فرض على العراق إثر غزو صدام للكويت. <br/>واوضح زيباري انها لا مسألة مفقودين ولا أسرى ولا الممتلكات هي العائق، وان المشكلة الحقيقية هي قضية "الحدود" التي ما زالت عالقة، ونحن حاولنا وبذلنا جهود كبيرة لحلها لكننا تأكدنا من أنها مسألة سياسية وليست فنية، والحكومة تركة الملف إلى الحكومة القادمة. <br/>الى ذلك افاد وزير الخارجية انه من الممكن رقميا تشكل تحالفات تتمكن من تشكيل الحكومة من غير الحاجة إلى التحالف الكردستاني، ويمكن إشراك بعض الأكراد من خارج التحالف في الحكومة المقبلة، لكن سياسيا وواقعيا لا أعتقد أن مثل هذا الاحتمال قد يتحقق وكل الكتل الأخرى متفقة على أهمية مشاركتنا في الحكومة. <br/>واضاف الوزير"للأسف الشديد أقول إن أميركا لا يهمها أي شيء الآن سوى ضمان انسحاب قواتها من العراق، وإذا لم تتشكل الحكومة الجديدة في شهر اب ، وفي ظل هذه الأوضاع الأمنية الصعبة، فإن انسحاب القوات الأميركية سيكون مبكرا جدا، جدا وانسحابا غير ناضج، حسب تعبيره. <br/>واشار الى "انه التقى السفير الأميركي في بغداد وهناك حوارات مع نائب الرئيس الأميركي جو بايدن، ومع وزيرة الخارجية هيلاري كلينتون وكذلك مع مساعديها وتحدثنا معهم عن خطورة المقف الا ان وجهة نظرهم حتى الآن هي ترك العراقيين يحلون مشكلاتهم بأنفسهم، ورسالتهم لنا حلوا مشكلاتكم بسرعة حتى نخرج نحن بسرعة".</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-9690"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/09/how-very-very-very-appropriate/#respond" title="Comment on How Very Very VERY appropriate">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 9th, 2010 by Mohammed Ibn Laith</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/09/how-very-very-very-appropriate/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to How Very Very VERY appropriate">How Very Very VERY appropriate</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/372nd-military-police-company/" rel="tag">372nd Military Police Company</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/abu-ghraib/" rel="tag">Abu Ghraib</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/american-war-crimes/" rel="tag">American War Crimes</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/invasion-of-irak/" rel="tag">Invasion of Irak</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/occupation-of-iraq/" rel="tag">occupation of iraq</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>Dear Readers,</p> <p>Today is the seventh anniversary of the fall of Baghdad to the American invaders. It marks the start of my people’s forced descent into hell in earth. The Americans and their allies brought with them famine, disease, starvation, civil war, looting, death squads, collective punishments of civilians, deliberate bombings of hospitals by American artillery, deliberate use of chemical weapons and incendiary weapons against civilians, forcing children to return to Fallujah so that they could be killed by the American soldiers who were about to use those illegal chemical and incendiary weapons against civilians. Deliberate targeting of ambulances. Use of starvation as a weapon against civilians. Deliberately destroying water purification plants and deliberately contaminating water knowing that so doing was exposing civilians to dangerous water-borne diseases such as cholera and typhoid. Killing so many civilians that there are now 5 million orphans in the country, to say nothing of deliberately fomenting civil war resulting in 2 million refugees fleeing the country and a further 2 million being internally displace. </p> <p>The story of how Americans have behaved here has been one of cynical viciousness from the outset and of war crime after war crime after war crime.</p> <p>The invaders brought with them the shameless racist American redneck barbarism for which the American armed forces are now renowned and which resulted in the revolting behaviour by the 372nd Military Police Company in Abu Ghraib.</p> <p>And so dear reader it is particularly appropriate that the Americans should choose today of all days to announce that the the 372nd Military Police Company is scheduled to be sent back to Irak.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/09/AR2010040903979.html" class="external" target="_blank">APNewsBreak: Abu Ghraib MP unit to return to Iraq</a>: </p> <blockquote><p>The U.S. Army says the reserve unit tarnished by what happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has been mobilized for its first deployment since the scandal broke six years ago.</p> <p>A spokesman said Friday that the 372nd Military Police Company of Cresaptown, Md., is scheduled to go to Iraq, but those plans could change.</p> <p>He says they will leave April 29 for one to three months of training at Fort Bliss, Texas, followed by deployment overseas.</p> <p>The 372nd became internationally known in 2004 when seven of its members were charged in connection with the mistreatment of detainees at the prison. All were convicted and six served prison time.</p> <p>The spokesman says the current unit includes few former members. He says the Army has 100 percent confidence in the 372nd. </p> </blockquote> <p>My grandchildren’s grandchildren will teach their grandchildren to hate and despise America and Americans for what they have done here in the last seven years. Today’s announcement is yet more proof that they will be right to do so.</p> <p>Mohammed Ibn Laith</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-9682"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/09/%d8%b9%d8%b4%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%81-%d9%85%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%86%d8%b5%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d8%af%d8%b1%d9%8a-%d9%8a%d8%b7/#respond" title="Comment on عشرات الالاف من انصار التيار الصدري يطالبون بخروج الاحتلال الاميركي">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 9th, 2010 by Haleema Al-Azzawi</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127021458/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/09/%d8%b9%d8%b4%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%81-%d9%85%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%86%d8%b5%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d8%af%d8%b1%d9%8a-%d9%8a%d8%b7/" rel="bookmark" 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