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class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/category/analysis-briefings-commentary/" title="View all posts in Analysis Briefings Commentary" rel="category tag">Analysis Briefings Commentary</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/arab-summit/" rel="tag">Arab summit</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/saddam-hussein/" rel="tag">Saddam Hussein</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>كما كان متوقعا فان القمة العربية التي ستنطلق غدا الخميس ستعقد في قصر الفاو بالرضوانية المجاور لمطار بغداد وليس في القصر الجمهوري وسط العاصمة كما كان رائجا. وابلغ مصدر امني عراقي لشبكة اخبار العراق ان اختيار قصر الفاو لعقد القمة العربية جاء لاسباب امنية وتفاديا لاي استهداف لمكان القمة من اي جهة كانت وقصر الفاو امر بتشييده الرئيس العراقي الراحل صدام حسين وسط بحيرة على بعد خمسة كيلومتر من مطار بغداد الدولي، وقد سمي بقصر الفاو تيمناً بجزيرة الفاو التي استعادها العراق أواخر الحرب العراقية الإيرانية (1980-1988) من القوات الإيرانية، وبعد احتلال العراق استخدمته لقوات الامريكية واصبح ،عام 2004 المقر العام للقوة المتعددة الجنسيات في العراق وقصر الفاو قامت السلطات العراقية بتحوير قاعته الرئيسية لتكون مكانا لعقد القمة حيث ازالت نسر كبير كان يتوسط القاعة الرئيسية اطلق عليه صقر قريش يتوسطه كرسي كبير كان مخصصا لصدام خلال اجتماعاته مع المسؤوليين العراقيين وشهد قصر الفاو اجتماعات قادة مجلس التعاون العربي الذي كان يضم مصر واليمن والاردن والعراق والمفارقة ان زعماء المجلس غيبهم الموت باستثناء الرئيس اليمني السايق علي عبد الله صالح وزارت فرق التفتيش الدولية التي كانت تبحث عن الاسلحة المحظورة في العراق قصر الفاو قبيل الحرب وبرفقة عشرات الصحفيين العرب والاجانب وفي اطار تحسباتها الامنية لتامين القمة العربية شهدت منطقة الرضوانية مؤخرا اعتقال العشرات من المشتبه بهم. التي تعتقد سلطات الامن انهم يشكلون خطرا على امن مكان القمة وتشهد العاصمة العراقية بغداد إجراءات أمنية مشددة وغير مسبوقة بمناسبة عقد القمة العربية، تتمثل بانتشار أمني كثيف ونصب نقاط تفتيش في شوارع العاصمة، فضلاً عن التفتيش الدقيق للمركبات والمواطنين، مما تسبب بشل حركة السير وزخم مروري خانق كما فرضت القوات الأمنية سيطرتها على مخارج ومداخل بغداد.</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13869"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/11/04/iraqs-stolen-memory/#comments" title="Comment on Iraq’s stolen memory">2 Comments</a></span> Posted on November 4th, 2011 by Saba Ali</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/11/04/iraqs-stolen-memory/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Iraq’s stolen memory">Iraq’s stolen memory</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/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/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/american-looting-of-irak/" rel="tag">American looting of Irak</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baath-party/" rel="tag">baath party</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/invasion/" rel="tag">invasion</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iraqi-state/" rel="tag">iraqi state</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/national-archive/" rel="tag">National Archive</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/national-archives/" rel="tag">National Archives</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/national-library/" rel="tag">National Library</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/saddam-hussein/" rel="tag">Saddam Hussein</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/war-crimes/" rel="tag">War Crimes</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div style="text-align: left; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr"> <p>Detailed records of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein’s private deliberations with his inner circle released by the Pentagon last week are raising serious questions about the right of the United States to seize Iraqi state documents and keep them under its control even after ending its eight years of occupation next month. For Iraqis, the documents and transcripts which were part of a massive state archive that American forces captured after they invaded Iraq in 2003 are considered a treasure and part of Iraq’s national heritage which should be returned to Iraq.</p> <p> <div style="border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; padding-left: 5px; width: 48%; padding-right: 5px; float: right; border-top: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; padding-top: 5px"> <p>All the archive of Saddam’s era were taken to the US after the invasion and Iraqis want them back, writes Salah Nasrawi</p> </p></div> <p> A very small portion of the documents, which include notes and recorded meetings, were made available to a few American and British media outlets and researchers last week, raising eyebrows among many Iraqis about the morality, legal responsibility and academic honesty of keeping and re-examining foreign documents seized during occupation. What makes the matter worse is that Iraqis have had no access to these documents and no single Iraqi expert participated at the discussions co-sponsored by the National Defence University and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, though they were supposed to provide new perspectives on Iraq under Saddam.</p> <p>Among the documents released were some which give a highly unusual look into Saddam’s most intimate thoughts and his calculations and perceptions of foreign affairs, such as American policy, Iran, Turkey, and relations with his Arab neighbours. The records of conversations of Saddam and his government which can give historians a window into Iraq’s former regime far surpass with their political and historic significance that of WikiLeaks documents which are merely diplomatic cables.</p> </p></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/11/04/iraqs-stolen-memory/#more-13869" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13747"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/09/28/analysis-iraqi-shiites-fear-fallout-of-syria-turbulence-alertnet/#respond" title="Comment on ANALYSIS-Iraqi Shi’ites fear fallout of Syria turbulence – AlertNet">No Comments</a></span> Posted on September 28th, 2011 by Ali Ibn Hussayn</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/09/28/analysis-iraqi-shiites-fear-fallout-of-syria-turbulence-alertnet/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to ANALYSIS-Iraqi Shi’ites fear fallout of Syria turbulence – AlertNet">ANALYSIS-Iraqi Shi’ites fear fallout of Syria turbulence – AlertNet</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/category/analysis-briefings-commentary/" title="View all posts in Analysis Briefings Commentary" rel="category tag">Analysis Briefings Commentary</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/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/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/analysis/" rel="tag">Analysis</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/anbar/" rel="tag">Anbar</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/armed-groups/" rel="tag">Armed groups</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/badr-organisation/" rel="tag">Badr Organisation</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/bahrain/" rel="tag">Bahrain</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/damascus/" rel="tag">Damascus</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/hizballah/" rel="tag">hizballah</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iran/" rel="tag">Iran</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/israel/" rel="tag">Israel</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/jordan/" rel="tag">Jordan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/lebanon/" rel="tag">Lebanon</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/middle-east/" rel="tag">Middle East</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/militia/" rel="tag">Militia</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/militias/" rel="tag">Militias</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/nuri-al-maliki/" rel="tag">Nuri Al-Maliki</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/reuters/" rel="tag">Reuters</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/saddam-hussein/" rel="tag">Saddam Hussein</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/saudi-arabia/" rel="tag">Saudi Arabia</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sectarian-violence/" rel="tag">sectarian violence</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/security-situation/" rel="tag">security situation</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/situation-in-iraq/" rel="tag">situation in iraq</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/syria/" rel="tag">Syria</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/syrian-unrest-and-protests/" rel="tag">Syrian unrest and protests</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/turkey/" rel="tag">Turkey</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div style="text-align: left; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr"> <blockquote> <p>BAGHDAD, Sept 27 (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/analysis-iraqi-shiites-fear-fallout-of-syria-turbulence" target="_blank" class="external">Reuters</a>) – Iraqi Shi’ites, like their allies in Iran, fret that unrest in Syria could oust President Bashar al-Assad and bring to power hardline Sunnis eager to put their weight behind fellow-Sunnis in Iraq who have lost out since Saddam Hussein’s fall. </p> <p>They fear the turmoil next door could spill into Iraq, reignite sectarian violence and intensify a proxy battle between Iran and Saudi Arabia, which sees itself as the bastion of Sunni Islam and has never come to terms with Shi’ite rule in Baghdad. </p> <p>"If Syria falls, Iraq will work with Iran to influence events in Syria," said a senior Iraqi Shi’ite politician, who asked not to be named. </p> <p>"Change in Syria will cause major problems for Iraq. They (Sunnis) will incite the western (Sunni) part of Iraq." </p> <p>Iraqi Shi’ite militias are unlikely to fight for Assad’s survival, but might respond if Sunnis in Iraq’s western Anbar province were emboldened by the rise of Sunni power in Syria. </p> </blockquote></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/09/28/analysis-iraqi-shiites-fear-fallout-of-syria-turbulence-alertnet/#more-13747" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12671"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/07/you-only-need-a-few-fanatics-and-it-all-falls-to-pieces/#respond" title="Comment on You Only Need A Few Fanatics And It All Falls To Pieces">No Comments</a></span> Posted on March 7th, 2011 by Burhan Aydin</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/07/you-only-need-a-few-fanatics-and-it-all-falls-to-pieces/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to You Only Need A Few Fanatics And It All Falls To Pieces">You Only Need A Few Fanatics And It All Falls To Pieces</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/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/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/andrew-white/" rel="tag">andrew white</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/canon-andrew-white/" rel="tag">Canon Andrew White</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christian-minority/" rel="tag">christian minority</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christianity/" rel="tag">Christianity</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christians/" rel="tag">Christians</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christians-persecution-of/" rel="tag">Christians - 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Jerome Taylor meets him:</font></p> <p> <a title="20100307_canon_andrew_white_in_baghdad by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://www.flickr.com/photos/gorillasguides/5506077910/" class="external" target="_blank"><font size="3"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto 5px" height="381" alt="20100307_canon_andrew_white_in_baghdad" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707im_/http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5252/5506077910_55e027241d_o.jpg" width="280"/></font> </a> </div> <p>Canon Andrew White leans over his desk and – with a mischievous glint in his eye – prepares to deliver what I now suspect is a signature move when greeting new guests. Handing over a copy of one of his books, his face breaks into a wide grin as he asks: "Would you like me to sign that for you? I tell you what, I’ll use this pen. It was the same one used to sign Saddam Hussein’s death sentence." </p> <p>Such a macabre piece of historical memorabilia might appear an unusual keepsake for an Anglican priest but then Canon White – the so-called Vicar of Baghdad – is no ordinary clergyman. As pastor to St George’s, the only Anglican church in Iraq, Canon White has been on the front line of the most violent and barbaric persecution of a Christian minority in living memory. </p> <p>Cut off from the streets of Baghdad by blast-proof barriers, razor wire and round-the-clock security, St George’s is one of the few churches still able to operate weekly services for the Iraqi capital’s rapidly diminishing Christian congregation. Scores of his worshippers have been kidnapped or murdered, and militants have routinely tried to storm the complex which lies outside the comparative safety of the Green Zone. </p> <p>Canon White, 47, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, has been shot at and kidnapped but still he returns, making sure to spend at least three weeks of every month with an embattled congregation that refer to him as their abouna (father). </p> <p>The 6ft 2in, bowtie-loving priest spoke on a brief visit back to his picturesque home in a quiet Hampshire village which he shares with his wife and two boys (for security reasons he asks us not to give their names or location). The stopover was part publicity tour for his new book Faith Under Fire, part a chance to catch up with the family. </p> <p>The Hampshire house is a pretty, single-storey family home in a quiet curving cul-de-sac, containing a theologian’s study filled with books and crucifixes from across the world. Work is a war zone 3,000 miles away, where Canon White is protected by 30 security guards. A place of sandbags and terror, particularly for Iraqi Christians, whose population has plummeted in the past 20 years from 1.4 million to just 300,000. </p> <p>The fountain pen, which Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki borrowed for a couple of days and used to sign Saddam’s death warrant, is a way of breaking the ice before talking about a subject that will inevitably be gruesome. We meet just days after Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan’s only Christian cabinet member, was gunned down in Islamabad and it is inevitable that the conversation quickly turns to violent persecution of Christians. "All over the world there are increasing threats against Christians," Canon White says. "Bhatti’s death is deeply disturbing. But when you’re living in the midst of the fire like in Baghdad, it’s really what happens there that concerns you. We have had 123 people killed in Baghdad since November." </p> <p>Last year in fact was a particularly brutal year for Iraq’s Christians and 2011 looked like it was going to be no different. But in the past few weeks the killings have stopped. </p> <p>As head of the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East, Canon White has built unparalleled relationships with Iraq’s senior Sunni and Shia clerics. In late January he gathered them in Copenhagen to issue a joint fatwa (religious edict) condemning any attacks on minority communities. "Until then Christians were being killed every day," he says. "After the fatwa the killings stopped. It’s crucial to remember that the vast majority of Muslims we work with, they are our friends. We can only do what we do with their help." </p> <p>When he is not administering to his flock, it is these kinds of delicate negotiations between Iraq’s religious power players that occupy much of Canon White’s time in Baghdad. He has been a key negotiator in kidnappings including that of the IT worker Peter Moore, who was released, and Ken Bigley, who was killed. He has himself been taken hostage, held in a room where freshly severed fingers and toes littered the floor, and has negotiated for the release of countless Iraqis. The violence he has seen is harrowing. Does he ever lose his faith? "Never," he says. "If anything, my faith has got stronger." It’s a reply you often hear from religious people in conflict zones – but how can religion be a force for good when it does so much harm in these situations? </p> <p>"I remind myself that if religion is a force for bad it is also a force for good," he says. "If religion is the cause of this horrific violence then it is also the cure. The only way you will be able to stop this violence is engage with Iraq’s religions in a religious way. The best thing we can do is work with the Islamic leaders as most of them are not terrorists." </p> <p>Canon White places the blame for the violence against his congregants squarely at the feet of al-Qa’ida in Iraq, the primarily foreign militant network inspired by Osama bin Laden. "Those who instigate violence are mainly from outside," he says. "There are certain people you simply can’t work with and the al-Qa’ida people fall into that category." </p> <p>But he is equally infuriated by Christian bigots and publicity seekers – such as the American pastor Terry Jones, who threatened to burn the Koran. "Pastor Terry Jones is directly responsible for the murder of some of our people," Canon White says. "They have no idea how terrible it was. Throughout the time he threatened to burn the holy Koran, they were warning us that our people would be attacked. Four of my guards were killed throughout that time. He can try and say from the safety of Florida he was trying to make an important point. But it was an important point that killed our people." </p> <p>Canon White was himself a supporter of the American-led invasion of Iraq, but after all the killing, the mutilations, the kidnappings and the mass exodus of Iraq’s Christians – does he still think it was worth it? </p> <p>It’s the first time he seems unsure of himself. "I had one day in the whole of my life when I thought to myself, why did we do this," he says. "But I remember what it was like in Iraq before the war, the fear people lived under." Yet he adds: "But at least you could walk down the street." </p> <p>I press again, was it really worth it, so much violence, so many deaths? </p> <p>"I had seen the terror of the Saddam regime and I knew there was absolutely nothing the Iraqis could do to remove that terror," he replies. "It’s been hell. So many people killed. I still say the regime had to be removed but we should have done things differently afterwards." </p> <p>Regrets are a luxury Canon White cannot afford. He has a flock in Iraq to attend to. While a semblance of peace has returned for Baghdad’s Christians thanks to the joint fatwa, Canon White knows it is temporary. "From my years and years in Palestine, Israel and Baghdad I know that the majority of people can live together," he says. "But you only need a few fanatics and it all falls to pieces." </p> <p><b>Christianity under fire</b></p> <p>IRAQ In the past 20 years, the flight of Christians has reduced the community’s population from 1.4 million to 300,000. </p> <p>EGYPT On New Year’s Day, 21 Copts were killed in a bomb in Alexandria. </p> <p>PAKISTAN Shahbaz Bhatti, the country’s only Christian cabinet member, was assassinated last week. </p> <p>NORTH KOREA Christianity is vehemently prosecuted in North Korea, where any expression of religion in the totalitarian state is viewed as open insurrection against the Communist regime. </p> <p>NIGERIA Sectarian conflict between Muslims and Christians in central Nigeria has broken out with horrendous violence over the past two years in and around the city of Jos. </p> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/andrew-white-the-vast-majority-of-muslims-are-our-friends-2234252.html" class="external" target="_blank">Andrew White: ‘The vast majority of muslims are our friends’ – Profiles, People – The Independent</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12103"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/01/04/%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b0%d8%a7-%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d9%84%d9%82%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d8%b5%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%85-%d9%80-%d8%ba%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%a8%d9%8a-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%82/#respond" title="Comment on ماذا دار في لقاء صدام ـ غلاسبي في العراق عشية حرب الخليج">No Comments</a></span> Posted on January 4th, 2011 by Saba Ali</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/01/04/%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b0%d8%a7-%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d9%84%d9%82%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d8%b5%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%85-%d9%80-%d8%ba%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%a8%d9%8a-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%82/" 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الاميركي حينها جورج بوش الأب، فيما ردّ صدام على هذه الرسالة بمثلها، لكنه أبدى قلقه من الدعم الاميركي لـ"أنانية" الكويت والإمارات، مشدداً على أن العراق لا يريد الدخول في حرب إلا أنه سيقوم بذلك، إذا تعرض للإهانة العلنية، مهما كان الخيار غير منطقي ومدمّراً. وتفيد البرقية الاميركية العائدة إلى 25 تموز 1990 التي اعدتها غلاسبي، بأن الرئيس العراقي السابق صدام حسين استدعاها، والتقاها بحضور وزير الخارجية العراقي حينها طارق عزيز، ومدير مكتب صدام، ومدونين، ومترجم عراقي. وأكدت غلاسبي ان صدام "كان مضيافاً وعقلانياً، بل حتى حميماً خلال اللقاء الذي دام ساعتين". وبدأ صدام حديثه بالقول إنه يريد توجيه رسالة إلى بوش، ثم أعاد سرد "تاريخ القرارات العراقية في إعادة العلاقات الدبلوماسية (مع أميركا)، وتأجيلها عند ابتداء الحرب (مع ايران)، كي لا ينظر إلى العراق على أنه ضعيف ومحتاج". وتابع صدام واصفاً "الانتكاسات" التي شهدتها العلاقات الثنائية منذ عام 1984، "وأبرزها فضيحة ‘ايران غايت’". كما أكد الرئيس العراقي السابق، أنه "بعد انتصار الفاو، ازدادت الشكوك العراقية حول النوايا الأميركية، وبأن أميركا لم تكن راضية عن رؤية الحرب تنتهي". وفيما أشارت غلاسبي إلى أن صدام اختار كلماته "بحذر"، قال الأخير إن هناك "بعض الدوائر" في الحكومة الأميركية، بما يشمل وكالة الاستخبارات المركزية (سي آي ايه) ووزارة الخارجية، التي تتصرف بسلبية ازاء العلاقات العراقية – الاميركية. وأضاف صدام "بعض الدوائر (الاميركية) تجمع المعلومات عمن قد يخلف صدام حسين، وتواصل تحذير الجهات الخليجية من العراق، وتعمل على ضمان الا تقدم أية مساعدة للعراق". وشدد صدام على أن العراق يواجه مشاكل مالية جدية، بدين يبلغ 40 مليار دولار أميركي، موضحاً أن "العراق الذي أحدث انتصاره في الحرب ضد ايران، فارقاً تاريخياً بالنسبة للعالم العربي والغرب، يحتاج إلى خطة مارشال"، ومستطرداً "لكنكم تريدون أسعاراً منخفضة للنفط"، فيما اعتبرته غلاسبي "اتهاماً" للأميركيين، بحسب الوثيقة. لكن صدام اكد أنه بالرغم من هذه الانتكاسات، "التي أزعجتنا فعلاً، نأمل في أن نتمكن من تطوير علاقة جيدة"، وأضاف "لكن هؤلاء الذي يفرضون انخفاض أسعار النفط، يشنون علينا حرباً اقتصادية، ولا يمكن للعراق أن يقبل تعدّياً كهذا على كرامته وازدهاره". وأوضح صدام ان "رأسي الحربة هما الكويت والإمارات"، مردفاً "بحذر"، أن "العراق لن يهدد الآخرين، لكنه لن يقبل أي تهديد له. نأمل في ألا تسيء الحكومة الأميركية الفهم". وقال الرئيس العراقي السابق، إن "العراق يقبل بأن لكل دولة الحرية في اختيار اصدقائها، لكن الحكومة الاميركية تعرف أن العراق، لا أميركا، هو من حمى أصدقاء اميركا خلال الحرب (مع ايران)، وهذا متوقع بما أن الرأي العام الاميركي، ناهيك بالجغرافيا، كان ليجعل من المستحيل قبول أميركا بسقوط 10 آلاف من جنودها في معركة واحدة، كما فعل العراق". وتساءل صدام "ماذا يعني ان تعلن الحكومة الاميركية التزامها بالدفاع عن أصدقائها، فردياً وجماعياً؟"، قبل أن يجيب بنفسه: "بالنسبة للعراق، يشكل ذلك انحيازاً فادحاً ضد الحكومة العراقية". وفي "التطرق إلى إحدى نقاطه الأساسية" بحسب غلاسبي، قال صدام إن المناورات الأميركية مع الإمارات والكويت، "شجعتهما في سياستهما البخيلة"، مشدداً على أن "حقوق العراق ستسترجع، واحدا تلو الآخر، حتى لو تطلب ذلك شهراً أو أكثر من عام بكثير"، معرباً عن امله في أن "تكون الحكومة الأميركية متناغمة مع كل أطراف هذا الخلاف". وأوضح صدام أنه "يفهم ان الحكومة الاميركية مصممة على تواصل تدفق النفط، والمحافظة على صداقاتها في الخليج"، لكن ما لا يفهمه هو "لماذا يشجع الأميركيون هؤلاء الذين يضرون بالعراق؟"، في إشارة منه إلى المناورات الاميركية في الخليج. وأعرب صدام عن "اعتقاده التام" بأن الحكومة الأميركية تريد السلام، لكنه توجه إلى غلاسبي قائلا "لا تستخدموا الأساليب التي تقولون إنكم لا تحبونها، كليّ الذراع". و"استفاض" صدام بحسب غلاسبي في الحديث عن "عزّة العراقيين" الذين يؤمنون بـ"الحرية أو الموت"، قبل ان يؤكد أن العراق سيضطر إلى الرد إذا استخدمت أميركا هذه الأساليب. وقال صدام إن العراق "يعلم أن باستطاعة اميركا إرسال الطائرات والصواريخ وإنزال الأذى العميق بالعراق"، لكنه أضاف متمنياً ألا "تدفع اميركا العراق إلى نقطة الإهانة، التي سيتم عندها التغاضي عن المنطق. العراق لا يعتبر أميركا عدوة، وقد حاول أن يبني صداقة"، وتابع قائلا إن "العراقيين يعرفون معنى الحرب ولا يريدون المزيد منها. لا تدفعونا إليها، لا تجعلوها الخيار الوحيد المتبقي للدفاع عن كرامتنا". وأكد الرئيس العراقي، الذي أطيح عن السلطة إبان الاحتلال الأميركي للعراق عام 2003، إنه لا يطلب أي دور اميركي في الخلافات العربية – العربية، لأن "الحلول يجب ان تأتي من خلال الدبلوماسية العربية والثنائية". واعتبر أن بوش (الأب) لم يقم بأي خطأ استثنائي ازاء العرب، لكن قراره حول الحوار مع منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية كان "مخطئاً، فقد اتخذ تحت الضغط الصهيوني". وبعدما طالب صدام أميركا بأن تنظر إلى حقوق "200 مليون عربي، بالطريقة نفسها التي تنظر فيها إلى حقوق الإسرائيليين"، خلص إلى القول بـ"إننا لن نتضرع إلى أميركا للحصول على صداقتها، لكننا (إذا حصلنا عليها) سنفي من جانبنا بها". ونقلت غلاسبي عن صدام استرجاعه حادثة كمثل عما قاله، مفادها أنه أبلغ زعيم الأكراد العراقيين عام 1974، بأنه "كان مستعداً لتقديم نصف شطّ العرب إلى ايران، للحصول على ازدهار لكل العراق، فراهن الكردي على أن صدام لن يقوم بذلك، وكان الكردي مخطئا. وحتى اليوم، فإن المشكلة الحقيقية الوحيدة مع ايران هي شطّ العرب، وإذا كان إعطاء نصف الممر المائي هو العائق الوحيد بين الواقع الحالي وازدهار العراق، فيؤكد صدام انه سيتخذ قراراً متماشياً مع ما قاله عام 1974". من جهتها، قالت غلاسبي لصدّام إن الرئيس الأميركي طلب منها "توسيع وتعميق العلاقات مع العراق"، معتبرة أن تعرض "بعض الدوائر" الاميركية في السياسة والإعلام سلباً للحكومة العراقية، لا يقع تحت سيطرة الحكومة الاميركية. واعتبرت غلاسبي أن معارضة بوش لقانون العقوبات على العراق كانت بادرة حسن نية منه لتأكيد الصداقة مع بغداد، فـ"قاطعها صدام ضاحكا"، وقال "لا شيء يمكننا شراؤه في اميركا، كل شيء ممنوع ما عدا القمح، ولا أشك في ان ذلك سيعلن مادة ذات استخدامات مزدوجة قريبا"، لكنه أضاف انه قرّر عدم إثارة هذه القضية، والتركيز بدلاً عن ذلك، على "قضايا أكثر أهمية بكثير". وسألت غلاسبي صدام "أليس منطقياً أن نكون قلقين عندما يقوم الرئيس العراقي ووزير خارجيته بالقول علنا إن خطوات الكويت تساوي اعتداءً عسكريا؟ ومن ثم نعلم أن وحدات عديدة من الحرس الجمهوري أرسلت إلى الحدود؟ أليس منطقياً أن نسأل بروح الصداقة لا المواجهة: ما هي نواياكم؟". فأجاب صدام بأنه سؤال منطقي وأن "من واجب أميركا القلق على السلام الإقليمي كقوة كبرى"، ثم استطرد: "لكن كيف يمكننا أن نجعل الكويت والإمارات تفهمان عمق معاناتنا؟"، موضحاً أن الوضع المالي وصل إلى درجة من الصعوبة ستضطر عندها الحكومة العراقية إلى قطع المساعدات عن يتامى الشهداء وأراملهم، قبل أن "ينهار المترجم وأحد المدونين مجهشين في البكاء"، بحسب غلاسبي. وروى صدام عند هذه النقطة محاولات تواصله مع دول الخليج، قائلا "صدقيني لقد حاولت أن أقوم بكل ما في استطاعتي: أرسلنا مبعوثين، وكتبنا رسائل، وطلبنا من الملك فهد (السعودي)، تنظيم قمة رباعية (العراق، السعودية، الإمارات والكويت). اقترح فهد قمة لوزراء النفط عوضاً عن ذلك، ووافقنا على اتفاق جدة على رغم أنه كان ادنى من مستوى توقعاتنا بكثير. وبعد يومين أعلن وزير النفط الكويتي أنه سيريد إلغاء الاتفاق خلال شهرين".وأضاف صدام "أما بالنسبة للإمارات، فقد ترجيت الشيخ زايد بأن يتفهم مشاكلنا، عندما ذهبنا إلى الموصل للترفيه بعد قمة بغداد. وقال الشيخ زايد: انتظر حتى أعود إلى ابو ظبي. لكن عند عودته ادلى وزير النفط بتصريحات سيئة للغاية". ثم خرج صدام من اللقاء ليتلقى مكالمة من رئيس الجمهورية المصري حسني مبارك، طلبت منه غلاسبي ان يخبرها بتفاصيلها. وقال صدام إن مبارك نقل له خبر موافقة الكويتيين على التفاوض، وأن "رئيس الوزراء الكويتي سيلتقي في الرياض مع الرجل الثاني في الحكومة العراقية عزت ابراهيم الدوري، ثم سيأتي الكويتيون إلى بغداد قبل الإثنين 30 تموز 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Now <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/iraq" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq</a>’s Christians face two further unthinkable realities: that Christmas this year is all but cancelled, and that few among them will stay around to celebrate future holy days.</p> <p>It has been the worst of years for the country’s Christians, with thousands fleeing in the past month and more leaving the country during 2010 than at any time since the invasion nearly eight years ago. Christian leaders say there have been few more defining years in their 2,000-year history in central Arabia.</p> <p> <a title="20102412_captioned_memorial_murdered_christians by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://www.flickr.com/photos/gorillasguides/5287899085/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto 5px" height="276" alt="20102412_captioned_memorial_murdered_christians" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707im_/http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5245/5287899085_689e1097d8_o.jpg" width="460"/></a> <p>The latest exodus follows a massacre led by al-Qaida at a Chaldean Catholic church in central Baghdad on 31 October, which left about 60 people dead, almost 100 maimed and an already apprehensive community terrified. Since then, the terrorist group has targeted Christians in their homes, including family members of those who survived the attack.</p> <p>In Baghdad, as well as the northern cities of Mosul and Kirkuk, Christmas services have been cancelled for fear of further violence. Church leaders said they would not put up Christmas decorations or celebrate midnight mass. They told families not to decorate their homes, for fear of attack after al-Qaida reiterated its threat to target Christians earlier this week.</p> <p>"Now more than 80% of Christians are not going to the churches," said the head of Iraq’s Christian Endowment group, Abdullah al-Noufali. "There is no more sunday school, no school for teaching Christianity. Yesterday we had a discussion about what we would do for Christmas. We took a decision just to do one mass. In years before we had many masses."</p> <p>Noufali’s church was closed and barricaded in 2005 when violence was consuming Baghdad. Many others had stayed open since then. Until now. In the wake of the attack on the Our Lady of Salvation church, at least 10 churches are believed to have been closed. At others, congregations are down to a handful.</p> <p>Iraq’s Christian population has halved since the ousting of Saddam Hussein. But in the past two months, the rate of departure has soared. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees is reporting high numbers of registrations by Christians in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. And in Iraq’s Kurdish north, the number of refugees is overwhelming.</p> <p>Christians have been arriving since the president of the Kurdish regional government, Massoud Barazani, offered them protection and refuge days after the massacre.</p> <p>Kurdish officials say at least 1,000 families have taken up the offer. Noufali believes the number is far higher. He says the Kurds have been warm and welcoming, but fears that moving there does not offer his community a long-term solution.</p> <p>"We have seen in Kurdistan that they have no ability to accept the Kurdish students in the universities," he said. "There are not enough chairs in the university for them. They must have opportunity to learn and work. The problem is not just security."</p> <p>In Lebanon, the plight of Iraq’s Christians is being carefully scrutinised. Father Yusef Muwaness, of the Council of Catholic Churches in the Middle East, said: "We understand the shock [the Iraqis] are enduring. We want them to know that they won’t be left alone.</p> <p>"There are ancient issues at work. These people [al-Qaida] are killing because of a fatwa. There has not been a mufti who has stood up and said this is wrong."</p> <p>Lebanon’s Christians once held a demographic majority. Emigration and a brutal civil war has whittled numbers away. Amin Gemayel, a former Lebanese president and now patriarch of many of the country’s remaining Christians, believes far more could be done by Muslim leaders to ensure that the exodus is not total.</p> <p>"The Christians were very nationalistic," he said. "They are part of the foundations of this area. We can’t understand such extremity then passivity from the leaders. When the region is completely cleansed of other religions (apart from Islam) it will be a surrender to the fundamentalists."</p> <p>In the Chaldean archdiocese in Baabda, above Beirut, Father Hanna has been receiving Iraqi families fleeing their homeland. "I would go back there to give a service in front of one person, if I had to," he said. "But even that may not be possible now. Since 1 November, we have seen 450 families register here. Many more have gone to the UN."</p> <p>Among those who have stayed in Iraq and tried to build a new life in the north, there are mixed feelings. "Three days after the church attack I left my house (in Baghdad) and came to the KRG," said Georges Qudah, 30, a pharmacy assistant. "At the main checkpoint I said we are a Christian family, and they said we are welcome to stay as long as we want. I feel safe and comfortable here, but the problem is how to live. The council here has given us blankets and beds, but housing is very expensive."</p> <p>In Baghdad, there are few signs of the joy of Christmas.</p> <p>"There is no hope here anymore," says Noufali. "No one can believe they [the Christians] will stay. Christmas came with two messages, peace in the world and hope for the people and we need these two things for our life in Iraq. If there are no more Christians here, I am certain Iraq will become a more dangerous country."</p> <h3>Christianity in the Middle East</h3> <p> Freedom of worship for Christians varies greatly across the Middle East. <p>In Lebanon, where about half the population are Christian, believers are allowed to practise their faith without fear of persecution. The Maronite Church is the largest, most politically active and influential denomination, holding 34 of the 64 Christian seats in the Lebanese parliament.</p> <p>In Jordan, Christians are free to profess their faith, build churches, schools, hospitals and universities. They attend mass and there are public celebrations of religious festivals and ceremonies. They experience less discrimination and more freedom than fellow believers in Egypt and Iraq. There is a similar portrait of stability and freedom in Syria, where Christians comprise up to 10% of the population.</p> <p>Evangelising bvy Protestants in Jordan has prompted a crackdown on churches, visas and summer camps. Attempting to convert Muslims is illegal, but there is no law against proselytising to other Christians and some Catholic and Orthodox groups have complained of energetic wooing from Protestants. It is this evangelising that has offended authorities, keen to avoid religious zealotry of any sort.</p> <p>What Saudi Arabia lacks in violent persecution it makes up for in outright intolerance. There is no religious freedom in Saudi Arabia, which counts a million Catholics in its population. The country allows Christians to enter for work purposes but severely restricts the practise of their faith.</p> <p>Christians worship in private homes and there are bans on religious articles including Bibles, crucifixes, statues, carvings and items bearing religious symbols. The religious police bar the practice of any religion other than Islam. Conversion of a Muslim to another religion is considered apostasy and carries a death sentence if the accused does not recant. Still, Christians in Saudi Arabia are positively blessed compared with those of Iraq. <strong>Riazat Butt</strong></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/23/iraq-christian-exodus-christmas" class="external" target="_blank">Christian exodus from Iraq gathers pace</a> | by Martin Chulov in Baghdad |  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://www.guardian.co.uk/" target="_blank" class="external">The Guardian</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11715"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/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 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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/20130123204707/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/5117906517/" class="external" target="_blank"><img height="417" alt="tariq_aziz" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707im_/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/20130123204707/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/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/10/26/tariq-aziz-sentenced-to-death/" 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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/20130123204707/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-11577"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/10/09/association-with-occupying-powers-makes-christians-targets/#respond" title="Comment on Association with occupying powers makes Christians targets">No Comments</a></span> Posted on October 9th, 2010 by Mohammed Al-Hamadani</div> <h3><a 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rel="tag">بالمسيحيين</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p><a title="20101009_deutsche_welle_soldier_protecting_christian_church_caption_top_and_bottom by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/5065378540/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: inline; margin: 10px 0px 5px" height="359" alt="20101009_deutsche_welle_soldier_protecting_christian_church_caption_top_and_bottom" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707im_/http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4151/5065378540_0f27f45bce_o.jpg" width="300" align="right"/></a> <p>Their churches are burnt-out husks and heaps of rubble. Their businesses are targeted by extremists. Their leaders are kidnapped and assassinated. The Christian minority in Iraq, once a community left in peace to prosper, continues to be under threat from a campaign of persecution which has forced as many as 500,000 Christians to flee the country.</p> <p>During the reign of Saddam Hussein, the estimated 1.4 million Christians – many of them Chaldean-Assyrians and Armenians, with small numbers of Roman Catholics – were generally left alone if they didn’t oppose the government and they lived in relative peace with the country’s Sunnis and Shiites. </p> <p>Some, such as Tariq Aziz, Saddam’s foreign minister and deputy prime minister, rose to the highest levels of power.</p> <p>Things changed after the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq toppled Saddam’s regime. Christians became a target of violence when Islamist groups and ordinary Muslims angered by the military action began seeing them as the enemy, associating with them with the "crusaders" – the invading armies of the United States and Britain.</p> <p>Tensions over their religious ties with the West and their differing beliefs to the strict Islamic majority, which had been simmering for years, spilled over as the occupying forces dug in.</p> <p>"Iraqi Christians became caught up in the overlapping violence and multiple conflicts unleashed after 2003," Dr. Kristian Ulrichsen, an Iraq expert at the London School of Economics and Political Science, told Deutsche Welle. "They became exposed to the similar patterns of kidnappings, extortion, beheadings, rape and forced taxation that affected all other communities as the erosion of central government control left a security vacuum that was exploited by organised and opportunistic criminality and anti-occupation resistance groups." </p> <p>"In addition to this, Christians specifically were targeted by Church bombings and assassination attempts owing to a perceived association with the aims and intentions of the occupying forces."</p> <h3>Association with occupying powers makes Christians targets</h3> <p>In 2004, insurgents launched a coordinated bombing campaign targeted churches in Baghdad. In 2007, after Pope Benedict XVI made comments perceived to be anti-Islam, nationwide attacks on churches hit an all-time high and a priest in the northern city of Mosul was kidnapped and later found beheaded. In January 2009, 40 Iraqi Christians were killed and approximately 12,000 fled their homes.</p> <p>In February this year, at least 10 Iraqi Christians were killed by unknown gunmen in Mosul as the country was preparing for the March 7 elections. The escalating violence ahead of the ballot led to hundreds of Iraqi Christians taking to the streets in a number of protests, chanting slogans such as "Stop the killing of Christians."</p> <p>During the years since the invasion, life for the Christian minority has become beset by danger. The waves of violent attacks against churches, businesses and homes have forced more than half of the Christian population to flee for their lives, according to statistcs from the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). Those churches which remain standing are mostly empty, their congregations long gone or too afraid to attend.</p> <p>"The Christian minority in Iraq has been reduced to a shadow of its former self," said Ulrichsen. "Up to two-thirds of the pre-war community has been displaced or forced to flee the country. Although conditions in Iraq have improved somewhat since 2007, the security situation remains intensely fragile and prone to reversal, and the return of refugees and displaced persons to their homes has been very slow and halting."</p> <p>"There’s a real possibility that 2,000 years of settlement by Christian communities in Iraq is in danger of near-total extinction." </p> <h3>US withdrawal leave Christians’ fate in Iraqi hands</h3> <p>As the United States steps up its military withdrawal from Iraq, the Christian minority is forced to look at the Iraqi security structure for protection. However, the prospect of being protecetd by the Iraqi police and armed forces fails to instill any confidence in the Christian minority.</p> <p>"The greatest concern about a US pullout is that extremists will exploit any lapses in security and attack vulnerable groups, including Christians," Samer Muscati, an Iraq expert from the Middle East division at Human Rights Watch, told Deutsche Welle. </p> <p>"Although the Iraqi government publicly condemns violence against Christians and other minority groups, it has not taken measures to bolster security in areas where minorities are particularly vulnerable to attacks, and it has not thoroughly investigated attacks," he added. "Iraqi security forces rarely apprehend, prosecute and punish perpetrators of such attacks, which has created a climate of impunity."</p> <h3>Christians search for ways to protect themselves </h3> <p>One muted proposal to protect the Christian minority involves the creation of an autonomous province on a neglected area of land located to the north and west of Mosul, called Ninawah Plain, which would act as a sanctuary.</p> <p>While advocates of the idea say it wouldn’t stop the violence against Christians in the large, high-risk cities of Mosul, Baghdad, and Al-Basrah, it would give the Christians a place where their needs could be met, their beliefs supported and their security guaranteed.</p> <p>The proposals suggest that Ninaweh Plain would an autonomous administrative region in which the Christian minority could govern themselves and would be free to participate in the federalist system which is developing in Iraq.</p> <h3>Creation of autonomous region plagued by problems </h3> <p>However, the idea of an autonomous region for the Christian minority in reality looks unviable. </p> <p>"The image of a real autonomy is unrealistic," Nizar Hanna, director of the Assyrian Democratic Movement’s Baghdad office, told Deutsche Welle. "Up to now, there are no concrete plans which show how this would work. Even in the Kurdish constitution, they have the right to autonomy in the areas where they are the majority but nowhere is this the case. Besides, there are no areas in which only Christians live. Shabak, Yazidis, Kurds and Arabs also live there." </p> <p>"To an extent a safe haven for Christians exists in Iraqi Kurdistan," Kristian Ulrichsen said. "Thousands of internally displaced Iraqi Christians have moved there. Although viable on humanitarian grounds, the creation of a specific region for Christians would be a short-term measure that does not offer a longer-term solution to the reconstruction of Iraqi society and the reintegration of its communities."</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6052335,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-world-4025-rdf" class="external" target="_blank">Iraqi Christians fear escalating persecution as US forces withdraw | World | Deutsche Welle | 09.10.2010</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11314"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/07/09/paradise-found-water-and-life-return-to-iraqs-garden-of-eden/#respond" title="Comment on Paradise found: Water and life return to Iraq’s ‘Garden of Eden’">No Comments</a></span> Posted on July 9th, 2010 by Sagib</div> <h3><a 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align="right"> <p><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 42px; float: left; margin: 3px 1px 0px 0px; line-height: 36px; font-style: normal! important">O</span>ne of Saddam Hussein’s greatest acts of ecological destruction – the draining of the Mesopotamian marshes – has been reversed as birds and rivers return to the region</p> <p>Saddam Hussein’s draining of the Mesopotamian marshes of Iraq – recorded as the Garden of Eden in the Bible – was one of the most infamous outrages of his regime, leaving a vast area of once-teeming river delta a dry, salt-encrusted desert, emptied of insects, birds and the people who lived on them.</p> <div class="container"> <div class="shadow"> <div class="frame"> <p><a title="20100708_marshes_guardian_nature_iraq_captioned" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4777445917/" class="external" target="_blank"><img alt="20100708_marshes_guardian_nature_iraq_captioned" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707im_/http://static.flickr.com/4074/4777445917_ea65faecc3.jpg" border="0"/></a></p> </p></div> </p></div> </p></div> <p>  <div style="clear: both"> </div> <p>But nearly two decades later the area is buzzing and twittering with life again after local people and a new breed of Iraqi conservationists have restored much of what was once the world’s third largest wetland to some of its former glory.</p> <p>The story of this once almost impossible restoration is told in an exhibition of photographs that has opened in the UK. They show the huge expanses of reeds and open water – now at least half the size of the Florida Everglades – where plants, insects and fish have returned, creating a vast feeding area for migrating and breeding birds, including the majestic Sacred Ibis, the endemic Basrah Reed Warbler and the Iraq Babbler, along with most of the world’s population of Marbled Teal ducks, bee-eaters and many more.</p> <p>"We call them stop-over sites, refuelling sites," said Richard Porter, Middle East advisor for the conservation group Birdlife International, who has helped train biologists and other experts for the local Birdlife partner <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://natureiraq.org/English/" class="external" target="_blank">Nature Iraq</a>. "They are as important as the breeding and over-wintering grounds for species; if you have got to make a journey from central Africa to norther Europe and Asia, and you’ve got nothing to feed on, you’re stuffed."</p> <p>The Mesopotamian marshes originally made up an area more than three times the size of Norfolk, where the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://www.birdscapesgallery.co.uk/" class="external" target="_blank">exhibition is showing, in Holt</a>. It sprawled across thousands of square kilometres of floodplain where the Euphrates and Tigris rivers divided into a network of tributaries meandering and pulsating south to the Arabian sea. They were home to more than 80 bird species, otters and long-fingered bats, and hundreds of thousands of Marsh Arabs who grew rice and dates, raised water buffalo, fished and built boats and homes from reeds.</p> <p>In the early 1990s, this way of life came to an abrupt end when Hussein ordered the marshes to be drained to punish the local population for an uprising after his failed invasion of Kuwait, a problem exacerbated by the continued construction of dams upstream.</p> <p>He ordered the area to be hemmed in by constructing around 4,000km of earthen walls that towered up to 7m above the unbroken flat landscape. The wetlands retreated to as little as 5-10% of their original size, according to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/1000/1716/meso2.pdf" class="external" target="_blank">a 2001 United Nations Environment Agency report</a>.</p> <p>After Hussein was toppled by American forces in 2003, Azzam Alwash returned from his adopted home in the US to the area, where he had lived for part of his childhood, and learned to hunt ducks with his father while they inspected the irrigation ditches. Alwash found the local people who had stayed had already begun to break up the walls with shovels or earth diggers, and they have continued to do so. They have destroyed up to 98% of the embankments, he told the Guardian, "not because they are tree-huggers or bird-lovers, but because it’s a source of economic income to them, because they can harvest reeds and sell them. They can fish and feed a family or sell them to earn extra income."</p> <p>Alwash, a civil engineer, set up Nature Iraq and has organised training for graduates who help with monitoring work. "We take guards with us with Kalashnikovs, but the most difficult part is the road between [the capital] Baghdad to the marsh," said Alwash. "Once I’m inside the marshes it’s relatively safe."</p> <p>About half the original marshland has been restored – even more had been reinstated, but there was a setback last year because of a drought. Nature Iraq has now drawn up a plan to cope with the diminishing water flows from dams upstream in Turkey by channelling irrigation water back into the rivers and building a barrage to retain meltwater from the mountains and create a "mechanical flood" of water to replicate the important pulses of freshwater that wash through the marshlands every spring.</p> <p>Alwash and his team are also trying to tackle the problem of local poaching, although he has great sympathy with those who have few alternative sources of income, and hopes the opening of a new oil industry will help create jobs.</p> <p>"We have done some work in trying to educate the locals," he added. "We say: ‘Go out and hunt but take less; make $10 today – you don’t have to make $20, and make $10 tomorrow’. We just keep at it. You can’t give up."</p> <p>• The exhibition runs until July 25 at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://www.birdscapesgallery.co.uk/" class="external" target="_blank">Birdscapes Gallery in Glandford, Norfolk</a></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/09/iraq-marshes-reborn" class="external" target="_blank">Paradise found: Water and life return to Iraq’s ‘Garden of Eden’ | Environment | The Guardian</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="navigation"> <div class="alignleft"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123204707/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/saddam-hussein/page/2/">« Previous Entries</a></div> <div class="alignright"></div> </div> </div> <div id="sidebar" class="span-10 last"> <div class="span-10" id="tabs"> <ul> <li class="ui-tabs-nav-item"><a href="#featured-articles">Featured Articles</a></li> <li class="ui-tabs-nav-item"><a href="#latest-articles">Latest Articles</a></li> </ul> <div 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