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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100922123839/http://gorillasguides.com/author/abdus-samad/" title="Posts by Abdus-Samad">Abdus-Samad</a> </div> <div class="entry"> <p>I was wondering what smear would be used against Sardasht Osman to help explain away his murder after he wrote these words:</p> <blockquote><p>All my friends said Saro, let it go and give it up for otherwise you will get yourself killed. The family of Mulla Mustafa Barzani [Massoud Barzani's father] can kill anyone they want, and they surely will.</p> <p>I told them I did not commit blasphemy and I swear to the dagger of [Massoud's late brother] Mustafa Idris Barzani that my father had spent 3 nights with him on the same mountain [during the fight against Saddam] and so why not say those things? Massoud Barzani claimed himself that he is a president, www.ekurd.netand I would ask him how may time has he visited Erbil and Sulaimaniyah in the last 18 years?</p> <p>My problem is this man, Massoud Barzani, is so tribal that so arrogant that he does not recognize anybody from even the other side of Sari Rash. With a few clicks, I can out more about any leaders’ wives in the world but I have no idea who my mother-in-law would be and what she looks like.</p> <p>I have no idea who I should take with me to ask Massoud Barzani to give me his blessing to marry his daughter. From the beginning, I thought I should take with me few religious figures, some respectful old men and some old peshmerga, but one of my journalist friends told me that I should find some Saddam collaborators and those who participated in the Anfal operation [ethnic cleansing in the late 1980s] with Saddam because they are all around Massoud now and he likes them.</p> </blockquote> <p>You can read the rest of "<em>I am in love with Massoud Barzani’s daughter, a poem that kills</em>". By Sardasht Osman <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100922123839/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/13/i-am-in-love-with-massoud-barzanis-daughter-a-poem-that-kills-by-sardasht-osman/">at this posting</a>.</p> <p>Well now I know which smear is going to be used to shrug off Sardasht Osman’s murder. They are trying to make people believe that it was a punishment murder by Ansar al-Islam!</p> <p>I had not realised they would try something so crude. </p> <p>According to the committee of Barzani loyalists appointed by Barzani to investigate the murder of the journalism student who repeatedly exposed corruption, favouritism, and nepotism, in the KRG. The kidnapping was done by one Hesham Mahmoud Islamil acting on behalf of the terrorist group Ansar al-Islam. This is so unlikely as to be completely unbelievable. Here is part of how the independent news agency Aswat al-iraq have reported the claim:</p> <div style="border-right: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: lightgrey 1px solid; width: 306px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: lightgrey 1px solid"> <p><a title="Hesham_Mahmoud_Islamil_300x244 by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100922123839/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4993694971/" class="external" target="_blank"><img height="244" alt="Hesham_Mahmoud_Islamil_300x244" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20100922123839im_/http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4107/4993694971_269e11b8f2_o.jpg" width="300"/></a> </p> <p>Hesham Mahmoud Islamil is accused of being a member of Ansar al-Islam and of kidnapping Sardasht Osman for the terrorist group.</p> </p></div> <blockquote><p>“Asayesh forces arrested Hesham Mahmoud Islamil, a Kurd, from Baiji city, north of Tikrit, with the participation of security forces,” a source from the committee told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.</p> <p>He confessed to taking part in the assassination of Othman as he refused to cooperate with the group.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100922123839/http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=136835" class="external" target="_blank">Ansar al-Islam group kills Sardasht Othman – committee : Aswat Al Iraq</a></p> <p>AFP give a few more details of his alleged connection to Ansar al-Islam.</p> <blockquote><p>"Sardasht Osman was killed by terrorists because he had promised to work with them and then decided not to," the committee said, without giving details on what work he had allegedly pledged to carry out.</p> <p>It said it had arrested the man who kidnapped Osman, 28-year-old Hisham Mahmud Ismail, saying he was a member of Ansar al-Islam. The committee said Ismail snatched Osman and then handed him over to other members of the armed group, who eventually killed him.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100922123839/http://www.france24.com/en/20100915-kurdish-reporter-killed-islamic-militants-investigators" class="external" target="_blank">France24 – Kurdish reporter killed by Islamic militants: investigators</a></p> <div style="border-right: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: lightgrey 1px solid; width: 306px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: lightgrey 1px solid"> <p>Sardasht Osman (picture below) was the 23 years old student of English and Journalsim who wrote many scathing reports and satires about the corruption in the KRG which the Barzani and the Talabani clans run as their personal property.</p> <p><a title="sardasht_osman" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100922123839/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4591951505/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" height="325" alt="sardasht_osman" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20100922123839im_/http://static.flickr.com/4029/4591951505_1af41a2d5f.jpg" width="300" border="0"/></a></p> <p>He knew he was probably going to be killed and wrote letters and articles about the threats made to him and how his university and the police refused to do anything. He was kidnapped in broad daylight driven through many Peshmerga and Asayish checkpoints to Mosul where he was murdered.</p> <p>Abdus Samad</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100922123839/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/13/i-am-in-love-with-massoud-barzanis-daughter-a-poem-that-kills-by-sardasht-osman/">I am in love with Massoud Barzani’s daughter, a poem that kills. By Sardasht Osman | Gorilla’s Guides</a></p> </p></div> <p>How very convenient that they didn’t have to give details. So what have we so far?</p> <ol> <li>Sardasht Osman who was well known as a journalist and satirist had made himself unpopular with the Barzanis by writing extensively about the corrupt way in which they and the Talabanis run the KRG. </li> <li>Shortly before he was kidnapped and murdered he wrote a devastating poem which highlighted the corruption and pointed out that Barzani and his most senior henchmen actively cooperated with the Ba’athist genocide of the Kurds. </li> <li>He then wrote about how the (Barzani controlled) police and the (Barzani controlled) university authorities refused to do anything about the death threats he had received. </li> <li>He was as I wrote at the time (see sidebox) kidnapped in broad daylight driven through many Peshmerga and Asayish checkpoints to Mosul and then murdered. </li> <li>Barazani threatened to "cut off the black hands" of those who protested the murder (see: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100922123839/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/20/barzani-says-he-will-chop-off-the-black-hands-of-iraqi-kurds-protesting-murder-of-journalist/">Barzani says he will “chop off the black hands” of Iraqi Kurds protesting murder of journalist | Gorilla’s Guides</a>), and set up his investigation committee in an attempt to defuse intense criticism. </li> </ol> <p>Now this comittee of Barzani loyalists want us to believe the following:</p> <ol> <li>Despite the fact that eyewitness reports to the kidnapping say that it was carried out by a group of men who forced Sardasht into a white Hyundai van that only one person, Hesham Mahmoud Islamil, has been arrested and confessed. </li> <li>That a group of Ansar al-Islam fighters managed to come down from their mountain hideouts close to the Iranian border to Arbril where they have never had a presence. </li> <li>That this group kidnapped Sardsht Osman and then drove him through multiple Peshmerga and Asayish checkpoints to Mosul (where they have been wiped out). </li> <li>Once they had him in Mosul they tortured and then shot him leaving his handcuffed and mutilated body in a part of Mosul controlled by the Peshmerga. </li> <li>That they did this because he refused to perform (unspecified) work for them. </li> </ol> <p>Sardasht Osman knew very well that Barzani hates to be reminded of the time when he was loyal to Saddam. He knew that Barzani hates to be reminded that many of his most senior henchmen actively took part in Saddam’s genocidal <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100922123839/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4877364.stm" class="external" target="_blank">Anfal</a> campaign. (See also: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100922123839/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Anfal_Campaign" class="external" target="_blank">Al-Anfal Campaign – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a>). He knew that he was a marked man and that he was going to be killed.</p> <p>I cannot think of anyone less likely to be approached by Ansar al-Islam than Sardasht. 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