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<div id="header"> <h1><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/">Gorilla’s Guides</a></h1> <h2>“The only thing these sand niggers understand is force and I’m about to introduce them to it.”</h2> <div id="search"><form method="get" id="searchform" action="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/"> <div><input type="text" value="" name="s" id="s"/> <input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Search"/> </div> </form> </div> </div> <hr/> <div id="content" class="span-13 append-1"> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13495"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/06/10/iraqi-human-rights-activists-protesting-for-democracy-are-sexually-assaulted-and-beaten/#respond" title="Comment on Iraqi Human Rights Activists Protesting for Democracy Are Sexually Assaulted and Beaten">No Comments</a></span> Posted on June 10th, 2011 by Nur Hussein 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align="right"> <div style="text-align: left; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr"> <blockquote> <p>MADRE learned that pro-democracy activists who gathered in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square were brutally attacked by un-uniformed forces. MADRE’s Iraqi partner group, the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), states that activists who gathered in the square to continue their weeks of protests for democracy, jobs and an end to corruption were beaten by armed men who were unleashed to disperse the protests.</p> <p>OWFI also reports that women were specifically targeted for sexual attacks. Four young women OWFI activists were violently groped and sexually assaulted, and one 19-year-old woman was attacked by a group of men who attempted to forcibly strip off her clothes. One woman lost a tooth in the attack. Another OWFI activist, a young man, tried to intervene and was severely beaten.</p> </blockquote></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/06/10/iraqi-human-rights-activists-protesting-for-democracy-are-sexually-assaulted-and-beaten/#more-13495" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13449"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/06/02/iraq-protest-organizers-beaten-detained-human-rights-watch/#respond" title="Comment on Iraq: Protest Organizers Beaten, Detained | Human Rights Watch">No Comments</a></span> Posted on June 2nd, 2011 by Burhan Aydin</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/06/02/iraq-protest-organizers-beaten-detained-human-rights-watch/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Iraq: 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rel="tag">Tahrir Square</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/tahrir-square-protestor-arrests/" rel="tag">Tahrir Square protestor arrests</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/tahrir-square-protests/" rel="tag">Tahrir Square Protests</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/team-members/" rel="tag">Team Members</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%ad%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%b1%e2%80%8e/" rel="tag">ميدان التحرير‎</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/violence/" rel="tag">violence</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div style="text-align: left; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr"> <p>Iraqi authorities have detained, interrogated, and beaten several protest organizers in Baghdad in recent days, Human Rights Watch said today. Iraqi authorities should stop the attacks and charge or release those being held, Human Rights Watch said.</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><strong>Background</strong></p> <p>Iraqi authorities have taken several steps to eliminate protests in the capital from public view. On April 13, officials <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/04/21/iraq-widening-crackdown-protests" class="external" target="_blank">issued new regulations</a> barring street protests and allowing them only at three soccer stadiums.</p> <p>In late February, Iraqi police <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/02/17/iraq-investigate-protester-deaths" class="external" target="_blank">allowed dozens of assailants</a> to beat and stab peaceful protesters in Baghdad. In the early hours of February 21, dozens of men, some wielding knives and clubs, attacked about 50 protesters who had set up two tents in Tahrir Square. During nationwide February 25 protests, security forces killed at least 12 protesters across the country and injured more than 100. On that day, Human Rights Watch observed Baghdad security forces beating unarmed journalists and protesters, smashing cameras, and confiscating memory cards.</p> <p>Security forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and its ruling parties have used repressive measures against<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/05/24/iraqi-kurdistan-growing-effort-silence-media" class="external" target="_blank"> journalists</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/04/21/iraq-widening-crackdown-protests" class="external" target="_blank">demonstrators</a> since the start of the daily protests in Sulaimaniya on February 17 seeking an end to widespread corruption and greater civil and political rights. On March 6, masked men <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/03/07/iraqi-kurdistan-prevent-attacks-protesters" class="external" target="_blank">attacked demonstrators</a> and set their tents on fire in Sulaimaniya. On April 18, security forces seized control of Sara Square, the center of Sulaimaniya’s protests, and have prevented further demonstrations.</p> <p>On April 27, the KRG issued a 19-page report of its investigation into the violence during the previous 60 days of demonstrations. It concluded that violence was committed by both security forces and protesters, and that "the police and security forces were poorly trained in handling it appropriately."</p> <p>Iraq’s constitution guarantees "freedom of assembly and peaceful demonstration." As a state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Iraq is obligated to protect the right to life and security of the person, and the right to freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly.</p> </p></div> <p>In Iraqi Kurdistan, a protest organizer, Isma’il Abdullah, was abducted, stabbed, and beaten on May 27, 2011. The Kurdistan government should make sure its promised investigation of the episode is thorough, fair, and transparent, and leads to the prosecution of those responsible, Human Rights Watch said.</p> <p>"Authorities in Baghdad and in Iraqi-Kurdistan are keeping their citizens from demonstrating peacefully," said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "Iraq needs to make sure that security forces and pro-government gangs stop targeting protest organizers, activists, and journalists."</p> <p>Several activists in the capital told Human Rights Watch that they believed that the increased security at Baghdad’s Tahrir Square and the recent arrests were an attempt to head off reinvigoration of public protests, amid efforts by various small protest groups to work together. They said that neighborhood officials had warned them that security forces had made increased inquiries into the activists’ whereabouts and activities over the past two weeks.</p> <h3>Baghdad Arrests</h3> <p>On May 28, soldiers in four Humvees and two other unmarked vehicles approached the offices of the human rights group Where Are My Rights in Baghdad’s Bab al Mu’adham neighborhood, as members met with fellow protest organizers from the February 25 Group. Members of both groups told Human Rights Watch that soldiers raided the building with guns drawn, took away 13 activists in handcuffs and blindfolds, and confiscated mobile phones, computers and documents.</p> <p>One detained activist who was released on May 29 told Human Rights Watch that during the raid a commanding officer introduced himself as "from Brigade 43"of the army’s 11<sup>th</sup> Division and said another officer was "from Baghdad Operation Command."</p> <p>"They did not show any arrest warrants and did not tell us why we were being arrested," this activist said:</p> <p>A female activist complained and asked to see warrants, and they told her to "shut up and get in the car." They blindfolded and handcuffed us, and while they were doing this, they asked, "Why are you having these meetings? Do you really think you can bring down the government?" And they asked who was supporting us.</p> </p></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/06/02/iraq-protest-organizers-beaten-detained-human-rights-watch/#more-13449" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13094"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/04/22/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ac%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%a9-22-%d8%a3%d8%a8%d8%b1%d9%8a%d9%84-2011/#respond" title="Comment on الجمعة, 22 أبريل 2011">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 22nd, 2011 by Editors</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/04/22/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ac%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%a9-22-%d8%a3%d8%a8%d8%b1%d9%8a%d9%84-2011/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to الجمعة, 22 أبريل 2011">الجمعة, 22 أبريل 2011</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a 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border-top: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; padding-top: 5px"> <p><b>المئات يتظاهرون في ساحة التحرير وسط بغداد للمطالبة باطلاق المعتقلين وخروج القوات الامريكية</b></p> <p>تظاهر المئات،اليوم الجمعة، في ساحة التحرير وسط بغداد للمطالبة بإطلاق سراح المعتقلين وتوفير مفردات البطاقة التموينية ورفض التمديد لبقاء الجيش الامريكي في العراق بعد نهاية العام الحالي. <br/>وقال مراسل راديو دجلة " إن المئات من المتظاهرين خرجوا، صباح اليوم، في تظاهرة سلمية في ساحة التحرير، وسط بغداد، للمطالبة بإطلاق سراح المعتقلين وتوفير مفردات البطاقة التموينية ورفض الوجود الامريكي". <br/>وأضاف "أن القوات الأمنية انتشرت في محيط ساحة التحرير تحسباً لحدوث أي خروقات أمنية"، مشيرا إلى "أن المتظاهرين رددوا شعارات تطالب بتحسين القطاع الاقتصادي والصناعات المحلية وإطلاق سراح المعتقلين". <br/>وطالب المشاركون في تظاهرة اليوم الجمعة بالاسراع في بناء قدرات الجيش العراقي وتأهيله ليكون اكثر قدرة على حماية حدود العراق. <br/>كما طالب المتظاهرون بوضع حد لحالات الفساد المالي والاداري المستشري في في الدولة واحالة الذين يقفون وراء الصفقات المشبوهة التي كشف النقاب عنها مؤخرا الى القضاء .</p> <p><b>برغم من حظر التجوال في نينوى.. مواطنون يصرون على التظاهر ويشتبكون مع القوات الأمنية</b></p> <p>أصر العشرات من أبناء محافظة نينوى ،اليوم الجمعة،على التظاهر بالرغم من حظر التجوال المفروض على المدينة، فيما اشتبكوا بالأيدي مع القوات الأمنية التي منعتهم من التوجه إلى ساحة الأحرار وسط الموصل. <br/>وقال مصدر مطلع " إن العشرات من أبناء المحافظة اشتبكوا، صباح اليوم، بالأيدي مع القوت الأمنية أثناء توجههم إلى ساحة الأحرار وسط الموصل"، مبيناً" أن المواطنين أصروا على الوصول إلى الساحة على الرغم من حظر التجوال المفروض على المدينة". <br/>وأضاف المصدر" أن المتظاهرين طالبوا برحيل القوات الأميركية من العراق فضلا عن إطلاق سراح المعتقلين".</p> <p><strong>برهم صالح يصدر قرارا للاجهزة الامنية بشأن الاوضاع في السليمانية </strong></p> <p>أصدر رئيس حكومة إقليم كردستان برهم صالح قراراً تضمن مجموعة من أوامر وتوصيات إلى الأجهزة الأمنية حول الأوضاع في مدينة السليمانية وأطرافها. <br/>وذكر بيان رئاسي أوضح فيه الخميس أنه ينبغي أن تتخذ الإجراءات الأصولية إزاء الأحداث المستجدة أو التي حدثت سابقاً وأن تكون الإجراءات قانونية بالكامل وكذلك لايجوز التعسف والمبالغة من قبل قوات الأمن الداخلي في التعامل مع المواطنين، ومن يتجاوز الحدود في ذلك يتحمل المسؤولية. <br/>وأضاف أنه لايجوز إبقاء أي شخص في المعتقلات بدون الأوراق التحقيقية ويجب تسليم الأوراق إلى قاضي التحقيق في المدة القانونية ليحدد القاضي مصير المعتقلين وفق القوانين المعمول بها. <br/>وشدد على أن يتابع الادعاء العام بجدية أوضاع المعتقلات وجميع الذين لديهم شكاوي أو وجهت لهم تهم، لضمان تنفيذ القانون وعدم إنتهاك حق أحد، مبينا ان يقوم محافظ السليمانية بتعيين هيئة من المحامين المتطوعين لتقديم الدعم القانوني عند الضرورة.</p> </p></div> <p><font color="#800000"><strong>أخبار عالمية</strong></font></p> <p><b>المالكي يقيل رئيس المحكمة الجنائية لتورطه بالفساد ويعين محسن ريسان بدلا عنه</b></p> <p>أكد مصدر مسؤول في المحكمة الجنائية العليا، أن رئيس الوزراء قرر تعيين محسن ريسان رئيساً للمحكمة بدلاً عن رئيسها السابق ناظم فرمان العبودي الذي أقيل بأمر من المالكي. <br/>واكد المصدر في تصريح صحفي"أن هناك خلافات عديدة بين رئيس المحكمة الجنائية العليا السابق وبين عدد من الموظفين في المحكمة لأسباب مختلفة"، مؤكدا "أن تلك الخلافات بدأت وتيرتها تتصاعد خلال الفترة الأخيرة". <br/>وكان مصدر في المحكمة الجنائية العليا قد كشف، امس الخميس، أن المالكي أمر بطرد رئيس المحكمة الجنائية العليا وإحالته إلى التحقيق، على خلفية شرائه 50 سيارة من نوع لاند كروز بأسعار مضاعفة.</p> <h3><font color="#800000">الاخبار السياسية</font></h3> <p><strong>خالد الملا يعتبر المفسدين من أعدى اعداء العراق ويصفهم بالوباء </strong></p> <p>دعا رئيس جماعة علماء العراق في الجنوب خالد الملا البرلمان ولجنة النزاهة إلى كشف ملفات المفسدين وإحالتهم إلى القضاء. <br/>واوردت وكالة الصحافة المستقلة الجمعة عن بيان لمكتب الملا تأكيده إن الفاسدين أعدى علينا من عدونا لأنهم منا وهم وباء علينا وسبة لنا وعلينا أن نتصدى لهم بكل الوسائل المتاحة والمشروعة حتى لا يتمادوا في غيهم وفسادهم. <br/>واضاف أن بعض المسؤولين هم من أساء التصرف في هذا النظام الديمقراطي أو استخدمه لأجل مصالحه الخاصة. <br/>واشار الملا الى دور الحكومة باعتبار ان لها دور تنفيذي ولا ينبغي أن يكون دورها التستر على الفاسدين إن كانوا وزراء أو دون ذلك أو أعلى من ذلك لان هذه السرقات هي التي تجعل اقتصادنا منهار.</p> <p><b>حسين الشامي يهاجم بهاء الاعرجي وينفي وجود فساد في صفقة شراء جامعة البكر</b> </p> <p>رد رئيس مجلس إدارة جامعة الامام الصادق حسين بركة الشامي على تصريحات رئيس لجنة النزاهة البرلمانية النائب بهاء الأعرجي، دون ذكر اسمه، والتي اتهمه فيها بعملية فساد واسعة تتعلق بشراء جامعة البكر بقيمة مليار و300 مليون دينار فقط. <br/>وكشف الشامي في بيان صحفي الخلفيات القانونية والرسمية لإنشاء الجامعة، مؤكداً أنها ليست ربحية، وليست مشروعاً شخصياً بل هي مسجلة لجهة خيرية ولها مجلس أمناء وهي بمثابة الوقف الشرعي. <br/>وتساءل السيد الشامي في بيانه، عن مصير الدعوات التي اطلقها الأعرجي حول كشف ملفات فساد كبيرة، ثم تراجع عنها، منوهاً الى وجود تسويات خاصة في هذا المجال مع المتورطين الحقيقين في الفساد. <br/>وكان رئيس لجنة النزاهة في مجلس النواب بهاء الاعرجي قد كشف عن صدور 11 امر قبض بحق عدد من كبار الشخصيات من بينها وزير ووكلاء وزارات ومحافظين وضباط كبار ومديرون عامون علي خلفية قضايا فساد. <br/>واوضح الاعرجي "ان ابرز ملف للفساد تم الكشف عنه يتعلق باقدام وزارة الدفاع علي بيع جامعة البكر سابقا الي جامعة الامام جعفر الصادق بقيمة مليار و300 مليون دينار فقط ، منوها الي ان الجامعة تقع في منطقة الوزيرية وسط بغداد وتبلغ مساحتها 13 الف متر مربع" . <br/>واضاف "لقد ابطلنا البيع واحلنا القضية الى التحقيق والادلة الي القضاء حيث توجد لدينا اضبارة كاملة وواسعة لكل الاطراف المشاركة في هذه القضية ومن ثم سيحال المتورطون الي النزاهة". </p> <h3><font color="#800000">الاخبار الاقتصادية</font></h3> <p><b>خبير اقتصادي : نسبة الفقراء بين سكان العراق تصل الى 29 %</b></p> <p>كشف الخبير الاقتصادي قصي الجابري، ان نسبة الفقراء بين سكان العراق تصل الى حوالي 29 % في الوقت الحالي. <br/>وقال الجابري في تصريح صحفي اليوم الجمعة " ان نسبة الفقراء في المجتمع العراقي تصل الى نحو 29 %، داعيا الدولة الى ضرورة وضع حلول للقضاء على هذه الظاهرة في المجتمع العراقي". <br/>واضاف "ان موضوع الفقر يعد من احد اهم التحديات التي رافقت المسيرة التنموية في العراق خلال العقود الثلاث الاخيرة ، وبات يضرب عمق البنى التحتية وتهدد النسيج الاجتماعي واليات تماسكه".</p> <p><b>لجنة الاقتصاد النيابية تدعو الى انشاء معامل للاستفادة من النفايات</b></p> <p>دعت لجنة الاقتصاد والاستثمار البرلمانية الى وضع خطط استراتيجية في مجال البيئة وانشاء معامل للاستفادة من النفايات. <br/>وقال عضو لجنة الاقتصاد والاستثمار البرلمانية عبد الحسين عبطان في تصريح صحفي اليوم الجمعة "ان اغلب دول العالم تستفيد من النفايات من خلال المعامل المتطورة والخاصه بها في موارد متعددة من اهمها الاسمدة الزراعية"، داعيا الى " وضع خطط استراتيجية في مجال البيئة وانشاء معامل للاستفادة من النفايات بدلاً من التخلص منها". <br/>واوضح عبطان" يفترض ان تكون هناك خطة استراتيجة للبلاد في كافه المجالات ومنها مجال البيئة الذي يتحسن من خلال انشاء معامل عملاقة تقضي على كثير من النفايات الموجودة في انحاء العراق". <br/>واشار عبطان الى" ان الدول الاوربية تستخدم هذه النفايات لتوليد الطاقة الكهربائية كما موجود في السويد، وهناك بعض الدول تقوم بأستخراج المواد التي تساعد في تبليط الشوارع".</p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 1.5em"><font color="#800000">الاخبار الامنية </font></span></strong></p> <p><strong>مسلحون يختطفون صبياً وسط كركوك </strong></p> <p>أفاد مصدر امني الجمعة بأن مسلحين مجهولين اختطفوا صبيا قرب منزله وسط كركوك. وقال المصدر إن مسلحين مجهولين يستقلون سيارة حديثة تمكنوا صباح اليوم من اختطاف صبي بالقرب من , </p> <p>منزله في منطقة طريق بغداد وسط كركوك.وأضاف المصدر أن المسلحين اقتادوا المختطف إلى جهة مجهولة مشيرا إلى أن قوة أمنية فتحت تحقيقا لمعرفة ملابسات الحادث والجهة التي تقف وراءه.</p> <p><b>اعتقال تسعة أشخاص بينهم أربعة مطلوبين بتهمة "الإرهاب" في ديالى</b></p> <p>أعلن مصدر في شرطة محافظة ديالى ،اليوم الجمعة، أن الأجهزة الأمنية اعتقلت تسعة أشخاص بينهم أربعة مطلوبين بتهمة "الإرهاب" خلال عمليات دهم وتفتيش في مناطق متفرقة من المحافظة. <br/>وقال المصدر" إن قوات من الشرطة شنت ظهر اليوم، عمليات دهم وتفتيش في مناطق بعقوبة وأطراف قضاء المقدادية شمال شرق بعقوبة وناحية بني سعد جنوب غرب بعقوبة، أسفرت عن إلقاء القبض على تسعة أشخاص بينهم أربعة مطلوبين للقضاء العراقي بتهمة الإرهاب". <br/>وأضاف المصدر" أن الأجهزة الأمنية اقتادت المعتقلين إلى مراكز الاحتجاز الأمني لإجراء التحقيقات معهم".</p> <p><strong>اللواء الركن مهدي صبيح هاشم قائدا جديدا لشرطة نينوى</strong> </p> <p>اعلن مصدر في شرطة نينوى ان امرا صدر بتعيين اللواء الركن مهدي صبيح هاشم قائدا جديدا لشرطة نينوى خلفا للواء الركن احمد حسن عطية . <br/>وقال المصدر "ان اللواء هاشم ، وهو من اهالي مدينة الكوت ، باشر دوامه الرسمي في شرطة نينوى مساء امس ". <br/>يذكر ان اللواء الركن مهدي صبيح هاشم هو اول قائد لشرطة نينوى من خارج المحافظة منذ العام 2003. </p> <p><strong>نقيب يقتل عنصراً في الصحوة جنوب غرب كركوك </strong></p> <p>افاد مصدر امني الجمعة بأن عنصراً في الصحوة قتل بنيران نقيب إثر مشاجرة بينهما جنوب غرب كركوك.وقال المصدر إن ضابطاً برتبة نقيب في الصحوة أطلق النار في ساعة متقدمة من ليل أمس، </p> <p>على أحد عناصر الصحوة إثر مشاجرة وقعت بينهما في قرية الحمراء التابعة لناحية الرياض ( 55 كم جنوب غرب كركوك) مما أسفر عن مقتله في الحال مبيناً أن النقيب فر إلى جهة مجهولة.وأضاف المصدر أن قوة أمنية فرضت طوقا امنيا على مكان الحادث ونقلت جثة القتيل إلى دائرة الطب العدلي فيما نفذت عملية دهم وتفتيش للبحث عن النقيب الفار.</p> <p><strong>مسلحون يطلقون النار على إذاعة في السليمانية </strong></p> <p>افادت محطة اذاعية محلية في السليمانية بأن مبناها تعرض إلى أضرار بعد إطلاق النار عليه من قبل مسلحين مجهولين ادى الى اصابة واجهة المبنى باطلاقات دون ان يسفر عن خسائر بالارواح، </p> <p>في وقت كانت السليمانية شهدت قيام مجهولين بحرق السيارة الشخصية لمسؤول بالحزب ذاته.وقال مصدر صحفي إن مسلحين مجهولين اطلقوا النار على مبنى الاذاعة الواقع شمال مدينة السليمانية وفروا الى جهة غير معروفة.</p> <p><strong>انفجار عبوة ناسفة وسط الرمادي </strong></p> <p>أفاد مصدر امني الجمعة بأن ستة من عناصر الشرطة سقطوا بين شهيد جريح بانفجار عبوة ناسفة وسط مدينة الرمادي مركز المحافظة. وقال المصدر إن عبوة ناسفة انفجرت فجر اليوم في شارع المستودع , </p> <p>وسط الرماي مركز محافظة الأنبار مستهدفة دورية للشرطة الحكومية ما أسفر عن استشهاد ثلاثة من عناصرها وإصابة ثلاثة آخرين وتدمير إحدى عجلاتها.وأضاف المصدر أن قوة أمنية طوقت منطقة الحادث وفرضت إجراءات مشددة فيما نقلت المصابين إلى المستشفى القريب والشهداء إلى دائرة الطب العدلي.</p> <h3><font color="#800000">اخبار متفرقة من العراق</font></h3> <p><b>غرق طفلين في بركة خلفتها مياه الأمطار جنوبي كركوك</b></p> <p>أعلن مصدر امني، اليوم الجمعة، أن طفلين غرقا في بركة خلفتها مياه الأمطار جنوبي كركوك. <br/>وقال المصدر "إن طفلين من منطقة دور الفيلق جنوبي كركوك غرقا، صباح اليوم، أثناء اللعب في بركة خلفتها مياه الأمطار". <br/>وتشهد اغلب المدن العراقية منذ يومين موجة امطار عزيرة وعواصف شديدة ادت الى غرق الشوارع والازقة وانهيار بعض المنازل وسقوط ابراج الطاقة.</p> <p><strong>"الثور المجنح" و"الشمس السومرية" علامة فارقة في قمة الزهور ببغداد </strong></p> <p>بغداد – 22 – 4 (كونا) — يمتد "الثور المجنح" رمز الحضارة الاشورية في بلاد الرافدين على مساحة مئة متر مربع في حديقة الزوراء بالعاصمة بغداد ولكن هذه المرة يتشكل من زهور مختلفة الانواع في تشكيلة تختزل الوان الطيف العراقي. <br/>وغير بعيد عنه تنتصب منارة جامع الخلفاء وقبته في تشكيل من الورد والآس ونبات السايكس لاستعادة تراث عباسي وثمة زهور مختلفة الالوان والاجناس تمتد على الارض في اشعة دائرية مشكلة شمس تموز السومرية. <br/>هذا ما يمكن ان تشاهده في مهرجان الزهور الثالث في حديقة الزوراء بالعاصمة العراقية والذي كان متنفسا للعائلة البغدادية طوال اسبوع كامل حيث تم تحويل مساحة 50 ألف متر مربع الى ساحة كبيرة من الزهور والورود ذات الألوان الزاهية. <br/>وقد حمل المهرجان شعار (بغداد الق وزهور) بحسب ما قاله مدير اعلام امانة بغداد حكيم عبد الزهرة لوكالة الانباء الكويتية (كونا).</p> <p><strong>المصدر : </strong>(إقرأ المزيد)<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2161616&Language=ar" class="external" target="_blank">كونا : "الثور المجنح" و"الشمس السومرية" علامة فارقة في قمة الزهور ببغداد – عام – 22/04/2011</a></p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12558"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/01/iraq-authorities-using-violence-and-bribes-to-curb-dissent/#comments" 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/protests/" rel="tag">protests</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/security-forces/" rel="tag">security forces</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/the-nation/" rel="tag">The Nation</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>Authorities in Iraq are using a mixture of strong-arm tactics and financial persuasion to prevent anti-government protests gaining momentum.</p> <p>The political stakes escalated significantly when thousands of people took to the streets of Baghdad and other major cities last week to demand reforms, improved services and an end to the corruption associated with Iraq’s new political elite.</p> <p>Those demonstrations, the largest yet in Iraq, were met by force, as riot police opened fire on protesters with live ammunition. At least 29 people were killed, including a 14-year-old boy.</p> <p>Since then, army and police units have beaten, arrested or threatened scores of political activists and journalists, their colleagues say. Meanwhile, government security and intelligence agencies are trying to root out the organisers of the protests, especially those who are using the internet in an attempt to organise another mass protest.</p> <p>Hussein Abdul Hadi, a blogger who helped to arrange the "Day of Rage" march in Baghdad, said: "The intelligence services are collecting information about activists and after the demonstrations they have been making arrests and detaining people."</p> <p>According to Mr Hadi and other activists, the number detained in the past three days runs into the dozens. Abul Razzq Nouri, a blogger from Anbar province who helped to organise last week’s demonstration, said protest organisers and demonstrators were being "hunted down". The security services deny any systemic effort to silence demonstrators and have promised to carry out a wide-ranging probe into allegations of abuse.</p> <p>Qassim Attar, spokesman at the Baghdad Operations Command centre, which oversees security of the Iraqi capital, said he believed some soldiers had "overreacted" and behaved "stupidly" during the protest. "We have opened an investigation into the claims of damage against journalists and protesters and if we find evidence that laws have been broken by members of the security services, they will be punished," he said.</p> <p>With more demonstrations contemplated, Mr Nouri said Iraq was entering a "dangerous time", with the prime minister, Nouri al Maliki, apparently insistent on quashing dissent on the streets.</p> <p>"Al Maliki doesn’t want any future demonstrations and he is doing all he can to stop us, he is coming after us," he said.</p> <p>Even before the Friday protests, the prime minister had moved to defuse them, imposing a curfew and a vehicle ban.</p> <p>Another success for the government in tamping down the protests has been its management of the media. In the months running up to the demonstrations, the government has given Iraqi journalists gifts including plots of land, low-interest loans for car purchases and cash handouts, all of them officially sanctioned and distributed under the auspices of the journalists’ union.</p> <p>Sabah Khadim Hamza, office director at the journalist’s syndicate, was adamant the land allocations and car loans were not bribes, but instead perks the union had struggled to get for its members. "Many government employees in the ministries enjoy such benefits and we wanted to win them for hard-working journalists," he said. "It does not mean reporters will stop being independent."</p> <p>But critics were not so sure. "Most of the domestic media didn’t cover the protests in detail and really downplayed them. They didn’t interview protesters or ask them why they were marching," said one journalist for a leading Iraqi television channel.</p> <p>"Basically, al Maliki has found out how to control journalists. He’s given them money and land, and on Friday they paid him back by not covering the protests. Only the reporters working for outside media did their jobs properly that day," he said.</p> <p>The government repression, plus payments to journalists to spin public opinion in the government’s favour, have so far been effective in limiting the size and frequency of protests in Iraq.</p> <p>"The government has bribed and beaten journalists to stop them covering the demonstrations," said Nasir al Shalal, a leading human rights activist. "The police and army in Baghdad, Mosul and Anbar were targeting reporters who were trying to film the protests or cover them properly."</p> <p>Mr al Maliki’s office has said it would investigate allegations of improper use of force. But it insists that any abuses were an overreaction by a handful of security personnel, not a matter of policy.</p> <p>Officials have also long brushed off allegations that Iraqi journalists receive government bribes. They say gifts of land and cheap loans are designed to support poorly paid reporters who would otherwise have to find another profession, not to buy their silence or complicity.</p> <p>Mr Shalal dismissed such assurances. "It was not an accident. It was all quite deliberate. A decision was taken at the highest level about how to handle this."</p> <p>In Mosul, a traditional centre of opposition to the central authority, protesters have accused the government of sending out hit squads, armed with silenced pistols, to sow chaos among the demonstrators.</p> <p>Omar Majid, a blogger from Mosul, said: "The emergency security forces arrested and beat tens of activists, and gangs working for the government, dressed in civilian clothes, shot and injured people here during the Friday protest, to spread fear. Now these gangs are after us and anyone connected with the movement. They are trying to stop us."</p> <p>Shaker Kitab, an MP from Iraqiyya, said there were indications the government was acting illegally to suppress demonstrations.</p> <p>"It was a very modern and peaceful protest, in accordance with people’s constitutional rights, I don’t understand why some of the security forces were violent in their response. This must stop. People are allowed to campaign peacefully for their rights."</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middle-east/iraq-authorities-using-violence-and-bribes-to-curb-dissent?pageCount=0" class="external" target="_blank">Full: Iraq authorities ‘using violence and bribes’ to curb dissent – The National</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12330"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/02/08/torture-of-prisoners-common-in-irak/#respond" title="Comment on Torture Of Prisoners Common In Irak">No Comments</a></span> Posted on February 8th, 2011 by Haleema Al-Azzawi</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/02/08/torture-of-prisoners-common-in-irak/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Torture Of Prisoners Common In Irak">Torture Of Prisoners Common In 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In response, some investigators slap them or kick them or order them hung up (by the arms)," he said, asking for anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.</p> <p>Iraq’s Supreme Judiciary Council received more than 400 complaints last year from detainees or their families, accusing Iraqi military interrogators of torture or abuse. In only 90 cases did a court take up the allegations and launch a probe.</p> <p>Iraq’s Human Rights Ministry, responding to the information obtained by Reuters, said inspection teams still record abuse cases during prison visits but the number is falling.</p> <p>"Cases of violations and irregularities … are not a phenomenon … not systemic, but a very limited number of individual cases," ministry spokesman Kamil Amine said.</p> <p>Torture was widespread under the late dictator Saddam Hussein, ousted in the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Disclosures in 2004 that U.S. jailers had abused and sexually humiliated Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison outraged many Iraqis and may have fueled the insurgency.</p> <p>Iraq’s elected authorities last year promised to crack down on continuing abuse of prisoners in Iraq, where human rights groups have warned torture of detainees by security forces has been systematic as they fight a waning insurgency.</p> <p>Terrorism suspects often are held at the Camp Cropper prison near Baghdad airport, or Camp Honor, inside the Iraqi capital’s heavily fortified Green Zone.</p> <p>U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said in a February 1 report that security forces torture inmates at Camp Honor, citing interviews with former detainees.</p> <p>In a new report on prisoner abuse in Iraq issued Tuesday, Amnesty International said urgent action was needed to end a "pattern of abuse" in Iraqi detention centers.</p> <h3>THE FOURTH AREA</h3> <p>Many preliminary terrorism interrogations take place at Camp Cropper, a former U.S. detention center turned over to the Iraqis last year and renamed Camp al-Karkh, in a little-known place called the "Fourth Area," Iraqi security officials said.</p> <p>"It is a place for the detention of prisoners in accordance with article 4 of the terrorism (law), so it is named after that," a senior officer from Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism Squad said. "The interrogations in this area are brutal, more brutal than the interrogations in Camp Honor."</p> <p>Cropper was the last U.S. prison in Iraq and its handover ended a difficult chapter of the U.S. invasion in which thousands of people were held without charge.</p> <p>In the most common methods of abuse, suspects are kicked, beaten with pieces of electric cable, hung by the arms, or burned with cigarettes, and hot metal or given electrical shocks, security officials and lawyers said.</p> <p>"Some detainees have died as a result of torture. The last death occurred four or five months ago in this place (Cropper) as a result of severe beatings that led to kidney malfunction," the officer from the Counter-Terrorism Squad said.</p> <p>Lawyers say proving torture in court can be difficult.</p> <p>"Some of those conducting the interrogations are artists in the field of torture, and hide the evidence and facts from the judges," said a lawyer who declined to be named.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/08/us-iraq-torture-idUSTRE7172WZ20110208?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20reuters/worldNews%20%28News%20/%20US%20/%20International%29" class="external" target="_blank">Torture common for Iraq prisoners: security sources | Reuters</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12078"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a 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dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>Even with a new government finally in place in Iraq, the country is still on the brink of disaster, writes <b><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/1029/re6.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Salah Hemeid</a></b></p> <p>Ordinary Iraqis expressed their relief last week at the fact that a new government was finally in place after nine months of gridlock, hoping that this will now be a step towards peace and stability in the beleaguered nation.</p> <p>However, while the breakthrough may have ended the governmental impasse, the crisis has only highlighted the fragility of Iraqi state-building more than seven and a half years after the US-led invasion of the country.</p> <p>The year 2010 did not start off well for Iraq as violence persisted and politicians’ bickering raised concerns about the country’s ability to get back onto its feet after the US withdrawal next year. </p> <p>Thousands were killed, including civilian bystanders, army and security officers and government officials, and thousands others wounded in a string of suicide bombings and attacks in Iraq throughout the year.</p> <p>The violence proved that the Iraqi security forces are not yet able to protect civilians in terms of numbers, equipment and training, while insurgents tied to Al-Qaeda continue to launch attacks, spreading an air of danger in many Iraqi cities.</p> <p>Critics maintain that the newly trained Iraqi armed forces are incompetent and sharply divided along ethnic and sectarian lines and that they cannot be expected to succeed in ending the violence, raising questions about whether the remaining US troops in Iraq will be able to exit the country as many Iraqis desire. </p> <p>The United States has reiterated that it will stick to plans to withdraw all its troops from Iraq by December next year, but Washington might have second thoughts if the new government fails to restore stability and insurgents continue their campaign to bring it down. </p> <p>In addition to the security problems, the newly formed government has to end the chaos in Iraq and deal with multiple political, social and economic setbacks.</p> <p>One of the biggest problems is the deep schism facing the country, which needs to be bridged by national reconciliation. Reconciliation of Iraq’s ethno-religious communities is seen as a necessary precursor to stemming the country’s sectarian violence.</p> <p>There are dangers that the country is descending into a situation in which it is becoming less tolerant in terms of religious freedoms and human rights, as the government fails to deal with increasing fundamentalism.</p> <p>An intensifying campaign is putting more pressure on the government to go after religious fundamentalists, operating in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities, who seek to impose their strict interpretation of Islam.</p> <p>There have been widespread reports that these groups have ordered social clubs, bars and alcohol shops to close down and that they are intimidating people who do not follow their version of Islamic values. </p> <p>The crackdown has included shutting music and drama departments in arts institutes, banning arts festivals and circuses, and imposing strict codes of behaviour.</p> <p>The moves have heightened concerns among academics and intellectuals that Iraq, now emerging from foreign occupation and war, is displaying all the tendencies of a Taliban-like Islamic state.</p> <p>The year 2010 was also among the worst for the country’s Christians, with thousands fleeing their homes and more leaving the country during 2010 than at any time since the US-led invasion. </p> <p>The latest exodus follows a massacre led by Al-Qaeda at a Christian Catholic Church in central Baghdad on 31 October, which left some 60 people dead, almost 100 maimed and an already apprehensive community terrified.</p> <p>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 in the northern cities of Mosul and Kirkuk, Christmas services have been cancelled for fear of further violence. </p> <p>After more than seven years of war, the Iraqi economy is in tatters, with the country depending largely on imports for nearly everything from cars to tomatoes. Unemployment is among the highest in any country worldwide.</p> <p>The country also still lacks basic services. Electricity is in short supply, medicines are available mainly through the black market, and there are long lines for fuel in a country that has the third largest oil reserves in the world.</p> <p>Another serious problem is corruption, which is spectacular even by world standards. Iraq is ranked fifth from the bottom of the pressure group Transparency International’s list of 180 nations.</p> <p>Bribery and outright theft surround virtually every Iraqi government department, with some of the kickbacks being used by rival politicians to cement their power bases in order to perpetuate their hegemony in the country.</p> <p>Some two million Iraqi refugees are either abroad or displaced inside Iraq after being forced to flee their homes to safe havens because of violence and sectarian threats.</p> <p>Today, most of Baghdad’s neighbourhoods are shielded by high concrete walls from the rubble-strewn streets and are cordoned off by the security forces as residents are trapped in fear of a renewal of sectarian conflict. </p> <p>However, the good news in 2010 was that Iraq increased its oil exports. New Petroleum Minister Abdel-Karim Luaibi said on Wednesday that Iraq’s crude oil production had increased by 100,000 barrels a day to 2.5 million barrels. </p> <p>The ministry had announced earlier that sales from Iraqi crude oil exports during the first 11 months of 2010 had reached $46.9 billion. Last year, Iraq’s oil revenues reached $41.3 billion, compared with $60 billion in 2008.</p> <p>Iraq might have made other small advances in 2010, especially in avoiding civil war, but the country still has a long way to go. At the end of a long and exhausting year, it is hard to see a clear end in sight.</p> <p>Strengthening the Iraqi state will be hard, especially after the March elections that produced a government many Iraqis consider to be weak, fragmented and incompetent.</p> <p>According to some scenarios for post-2010 Iraq, next year will be crucial as it will see the withdrawal of the remaining US troops. The pullout will mean that the US will no longer have a large foothold in Iraq, leaving the country to local forces and interests as it absorbs the after- effects of the American-led invasion.</p> <p>One scenario is that the national partnership government will succeed in holding the country together and that a strong central government will emerge. This will be able to prevent violence escalating and erupting into all-out civil war.</p> <p>A second scenario would be that the instability in Iraq continues, with the growing confrontation between the country’s Sunnis and Shias over power and resources leading the country into chaos.</p> <p>Neighbouring countries will be fearful of the risk of contagion and will try to keep the chaos contained within Iraq’s borders. A proxy war could be the result, along the lines of what is happening in Somalia.</p> <p>Another scenario would be the collapse of the government because of sectarian fighting and the country descending into outright civil war. This would most likely lead to Iraq’s disintegration with instability spreading to the entire region.</p> <p>The year 2011 will be pivotal for Iraq’s future, and that future will be more than anything else determined by the fortunes of the new government. </p> <p>It is to be hoped that Iraq’s politicians will not repeat their previous mistakes and that they will stand together to end the people’s misery and start rebuilding the devastated country.</p> <p><strong>Source: </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/1029/re6.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Al-Ahram Weekly | Region | A pivotal year for Iraqis</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12043"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/12/30/iraqs-parliament-speaker-reiterates-support-for-iraqi-christians/#respond" title="Comment on Iraq’s Parliament Speaker reiterates support for Iraqi Christians">No Comments</a></span> Posted on December 30th, 2010 by Haleema Al-Azzawi</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/12/30/iraqs-parliament-speaker-reiterates-support-for-iraqi-christians/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Iraq’s Parliament Speaker reiterates support for Iraqi Christians">Iraq’s Parliament Speaker reiterates support for Iraqi Christians</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/category/human-rights/" title="View all posts in Human Rights" rel="category tag">Human Rights</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/category/religion/" title="View all posts in Religion" rel="category tag">Religion</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-nujaifi-osama/" rel="tag">al-Nujaifi - Osama</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/aswat-al-iraq/" rel="tag">Aswat Al Iraq</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christians/" rel="tag">Christians</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iraqi-christians/" rel="tag">iraqi christians</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iraqi-kurdistan/" rel="tag">Iraqi kurdistan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iraqi-parliament/" rel="tag">iraqi parliament</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/ninewa/" rel="tag">Ninewa</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/osama-nujaifi/" rel="tag">Osama Nujaifi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/security-forces/" rel="tag">security forces</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/solidarity/" rel="tag">Solidarity</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/speaker/" rel="tag">Speaker</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sulaimaniya/" rel="tag">Sulaimaniya</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%8a%d9%8a%d9%86/" rel="tag">بالمسيحيين</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <blockquote><p>NINEWA / <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=140199" class="external" target="_blank">Aswat al-Iraq</a>: The Iraqi Parliament’s Speaker, Usama al-Nujeifi, in a reception of the Chairman of the Christian Chaldian Sect in Mosul, Rev. Emil Shamoun Nona, on Thursday has reiterated “necessity to support Iraqi Christians,” according to a Media Spokesman of his office.</p> <p>The spokesman told Aswat al-Iraq news agency that Nujeify and his accompanying delegation had conferred early on Thursday with Rev. Shamoun, during which he said that “the people of Iraq supports their Christian Brothren,” adding that “his visit has taken place to express support and solidarity with the Christians.”</p> <p>“The Iraqi people are determined to fight terrorism and they are keen to fight extremism,” Nujeifi stressed, saying: “We shall not allow any attempt to undermine the cohesion of the Iraqi people, and Christians are a basic component of our people, and their sufferings are similar to the sufferings of all Iraqi people.”</p> <p>Noteworthy is that a group of armed men had broken through Baghdad’s “My Lady of Salvation” Church on 31/10/2010, took dozens of worshippers hostage, before a counter attack by the Iraqi security forces, that caused the killing of 58 persons, among them 5 of the attackers, 7 security men, whilst the others have been hostages..The attack had wounded 75 persons, among them 15 Army and police men. Al-Qaeda Organization had announced responsibility for the attack, threatening Iraqi Christians with other attacks.</p> <p>The attack was followed by several terrorists raids against areas inhabited by Iraqi Christians, including Baghdad and Ninewa, killing and wounding a number of Christians, that was followed with the immigration of Christians to Iraqi Kurdistan’s Arbil and Sulaimaniya Provinces, where Kurdistan President, Massoud Barzani, expressed his Region’s readiness to receive and protect them.</p> <p>Rev. Nona, on his part, told Nujeifi and his accompanying delegation: “Your visit represents a strong support for Iraqi Christians and reflects the Iraqi people’s cohesion,” adding: “we are following the steps, taken by the Parliament and the government, which we see as encouraging for stability and helping to achieve decent life for us, especially after your reception of the Parliament, which became strong after your chairmanship.”</p> <p>Parliament Speaker Nujeifi is leading a 35-member delegation, comprising the Ministers of Education, Transport and Agriculture, along with several other officials and Legislatures, who held an administrative, economic and service conference in Ninewa, to boost means of communication between the provinces and the Central Government in Baghdad.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=140199" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq’s Parliament Speaker reiterates support for Iraqi Christians: : 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U.S. policymakers have never taken the plight of Christians seriously, whether in Iraq or in Lebanon. There may be protests of specific violations, but not in those areas where the U.S. or Israelis have other strategic interests. For all the communication with U.S. government over the past 20 years, I have seen no serious action from any administration to improve protection for Christians. Religious freedom is basically a reporting matter and no more.”<img style="display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto 5px" height="286" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643im_/http://gorillasguides.com/images/UNHCRstartstohelphundredsofIraqiChristia_33C/20081024_christian_refugee_child_syria.jpg" width="359"/></p> <p>"Iraqi Christians represent only 3 percent of the population, they account for 20 percent of the Iraqis who have emigrated abroad."</p> <p>"That’s largely because they have the connections to Western churches and family members who are already abroad in places like Detroit, Toronto, Los Angeles and elsewhere and therefore have a better chance of getting out."</p> </p></div> <p>WASHINGTON — A steady exodus of Christians from the Middle East and — most dramatically — from Iraq since the October slaughter of 57 churchgoers in Baghdad, has a long and layered history.</p> <p>The diminishing Christian presence in the land where the faith began some 2,000 years ago is an issue about which anyone — of any faith, or of no faith — who is concerned about the future of the Middle East, should care deeply.</p> <p>But when it comes out of a simple, emotional response by a Christian West wanting to defend a Christian minority in the East during Christmas time, it leads down a dangerous road in history. It’s a perilous path that sets out from the Crusades, when England and France marched off to save the Holy Land and its Christians from Muslim conquest, and one littered with moral hazards and potential for even greater violence.</p> <p>The whole message of the New Testament would be to care about all who are suffering in war-torn Iraq, not just Christians. And there are lots of people suffering in Iraq.</p> <p>So the starting point to understanding the lessons of the recent Iraqi Christian exodus is to not allow the religious extremists — neither Muslim nor Christian nor any other faith — to exploit the attacks and present them out of context as a “clash of civilizations,” that self-fulfilling prophecy coined by the late Harvard University historian, Samuel Huntington.</p> <p>A glimpse of the writing on the wall can be seen along the back alleys in the Iraqi Christian neighborhoods of Baghdad and Mosul. That’s where a militant fringe has for years been scribbling anti-Christian hatred in the form of graffiti.</p> <p>A particularly ominous anti-Christian bit of graffiti, which I first saw spray-painted on walls at least 12 years ago in Egypt when Islamic fundamentalists were targeting Coptic Christians, has reportedly resurfaced in Iraq in recent months. The translation from the Arabic slogan is this: “First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people.”</p> <p>The phrase is an overt threat intended to say that Muslims, who worship on Friday, have already pushed many Jews, who worship on Saturday, out of the Middle East and that now they will do the same to the Christians.</p> <p>Long before Sept. 11 and the “War on Terror,” it often felt like Selma, Ala. circa 1960 in many Christian minority communities of the Middle East.</p> <p>This climate of threat and intimidation and sometimes violence has been boiling to the surface in places around the world where the Muslim majority collides with a Christian minority, such as Egypt, Pakistan, Sudan, Iran, Nigeria and elsewhere.</p> <p>But nowhere is a palpable sense of fear and a Christian exodus from the Middle East more dramatic right now than Iraq, where analysts estimate that fully half of the country’s Christians have left since 2003.</p> <p>It was Oct. 31, a Sunday, at the Syrian Catholic Church of Our Lady of Salvation in Baghdad that the climate of fear was made horrifyingly real and where it became clear that Al Qaeda-inspired elements were going to go right to the third rail of the Western influence in the Middle East by targeting indigenous Christians — trying to break the 2,000-year continuum of a living Christian presence in Iraq.</p> <p>It was at the very end of an All Saints Day mass, when eight heavily armed men, purportedly inspired by Al Qaeda, invaded the church in the heart of Baghdad just as Wassim Sabih, the priest, was about to conclude the service with the words, “The Mass has ended, go in peace.”</p> <p>According to published reports based on eyewitness accounts, Sabih never got the words out as the militants opened fire. They pointed their weapons at him and silenced him as he began pleading for the release of his parishioners.</p> <p>They took the parishioners hostage and demanded the release of two Muslim women who were supposedly held by Egyptian Coptic Christians. Iraqi Security Forces responded and in the wild gun battle that ensued, grenades were thrown by the militants, and in the end of that Sunday’s mass, 57 people were dead, including two priests.</p> <p>A group calling itself The Islamic State of Iraq claimed responsibility for the attack. Believed to be an offshoot of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the group issued a bulletin, saying, “All Christian centers, organizations and institutions, leaders and followers are legitimate targets.” And that they will kill Christians “wherever they can reach them.”</p> <p>In the historical comparison of Selma, the Ku Klux Klan, which in this context would be Al Qaeda, has always been menacing, but now it is on the rise and openly attacking churches.</p> <p>It is attempting to stoke the emotional fury of a Christian West to defend the indigenous Christians, and draw it deeper into a fight, to draw us into an understanding that this is indeed a “clash of civilizations.”</p> <p>That is precisely how Al Qaeda sees this historical moment. And it is precisely why it’s wise for the United States and the West to avoid seeing it that way. Al Qaeda is a tiny criminal, terrorist organization with a warped, 12th-century ideology.</p> <p>It is not a civilization.</p> <p>Drew Christiansen, editor of "America," a national Catholic weekly magazine published by Jesuits, said that too often there is an overreaction or selective reaction to these attacks, and too little done by U.S. policymakers.</p> <p>“What is often unnoticed in the Middle East is the devastating effect of U.S. policy on Christians in the region,” he said. “U.S. policymakers have never taken the plight of Christians seriously, whether in Iraq or in Lebanon. There may be protests of specific violations, but not in those areas where the U.S. or Israelis have other strategic interests. For all the communication with U.S. government over the past 20 years, I have seen no serious action from any administration to improve protection for Christians. Religious freedom is basically a reporting matter and no more.”</p> <p>Predictably, there are often shrill responses to these kinds of attacks on churches, particularly from the Christian right and at times from right-wing Jewish groups that see peril in the whole message of Islam and are quick to see these attacks as evidence of that.</p> <p>Here’s an example. I recently sat with John Eibner, head of something called Christian Solidarity International, which is a Washington-based advocacy group focusing on the persecution of Christians around the world, said on the Christians in Iraq, "Only the U.S. can save them and if we don’t, the U.S. will be responsible for what amounts to genocide."</p> <p>"The human rights community doesn’t want to touch this because it is not politically correct," he said.</p> <p>There’s a kernal of truth in that and no reason to doubt Eibner is well intentioned, but overreacting to events in the Middle East can often conflate the problems and calling the violence and intimidation a "genocide" is ridiculous.</p> <p>Prince Turki Al Faisal, the longtime head of Saudi intelligence and the former ambassador to Washington, was in the United States in November and participated in an interfaith dialogue with Christian groups. In an interview with GlobalPost, he referred to the attacks in Iraq, saying, “It’s Al Qaeda being Al Qaeda. They are making a concerted strategy knowing it would cause a reaction and an overreaction in the West. They absolutely know what they are doing … We have to be careful not to let them succeed by overreacting.”</p> <p>The truth is just about everyone lives in fear in Iraq, and just about everyone has suffered violence. Many religious and ethnic groups have been targeted in much larger numbers in the violence and chaos that followed the 2003 invasion.</p> <p>Just two days after the church attack, a spate of bombs in Sunni and Shia neighborhoods killed 68 people and wounded hundreds. An article in Monday’s editions of<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/world/middleeast/13iraq.html?_r=1&ref=middleeast" class="external" target="_blank"> The New York Times</a> [2] provides an important piece of context to focus on: While Iraqi Christians represent only 3 percent of the population, they account for 20 percent of the Iraqis who have emigrated abroad.</p> <p>That’s largely because they have the connections to Western churches and family members who are already abroad in places like Detroit, Toronto, Los Angeles and elsewhere and therefore have a better chance of getting out.</p> <p>More than half of the Iraqi Christian community, estimated to be 800,000 prior to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, have left, according to the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute.</p> <p>But the threat to Christians and the violence they are suffering is just as bad as the threat to Shia or Sunni Muslims, who are also trying to be part of a new Iraq — one where violence is beginning to subside and where the governing crisis is finally settling down. Those Iraqis care about their Christian neighbors and friends and know the important role they play in Iraq moving forward. Those are the Iraqis who don’t want the Christians to flee.</p> <p>In 2006, I had a chance to actually ask Samuel Huntington about his 1996 book, "The Clash of Civilizations," and about whether it’s central premise might actually be self-fulfilling, particularly in the wake of Sept. 11. He often felt that his scholarship was taken out of context, he said, and he confided that he wished he had titled it differently, perhaps “Clashes of Civilizations” or something not to allow people to so easily misinterpret his work.</p> <p>Huntington passed away, but we have a chance to not allow people to misinterpret history or the events unfolding around us, and that’s how best to ponder the suffering of Christians — and everyone else — in Iraq.</p> <blockquote></blockquote> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/iraq/101213/iraq-christians-al-qaeda?page=0,0" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq | Christianity | Al Qaeda</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11830"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a 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They share a cell at the Juveniles’ prison in Baghdad, away from their families that live in Dawrah, south of the capital. Both boys joined armed groups and participated in bloody acts of violence in 2006. What distinguishes them is that they are members in opposing groups that kill based on identity.</p> <p>Prison may be the best destiny for the two boys. Hundreds of their peers were killed in battles or were blown to pieces in suicide bombings for which they were recruited by armed organizations.</p> <p>Asa’ad Husam Eddin prefers to stay in jail so that he does not become subject to a tribal judgment that condemns him to death for participating in four members of one family. During his childhood, Asa’ad was known by the name “Al-‘Allas”, a term in Iraqi dialect describing children recruited as informers for armed groups. Among his duties was to select a target and monitors its movements so that the armed group could abduct and execute him.</p> <p>According to his confessions, Asa’ad was active in monitoring people in his neighborhood, and informing Al-Qa’eda elements about their moves, in return for $200 per person.</p> <p>Omran Abbas has a similar record, except that he used to work for the opposing group. He is spending a sentence of 15 years in jail after being convicted of committing acts of violence in Abu Dsheir area, one street from Al-Daourah. Residents of the two areas belong to two different confessions. Abbas was fourteen when he joined armed groups opposing Al-Qa’eda. He participated in acts of violence during the peak of confessional violence in 2006. Shortly before that, his father was kidnapped by Al-Qa’eda, and was later found beheaded in the ‘no-man’s-land” separating the two “fighting” areas.</p> <p>As an act of revenge for a lost relative, or to follow in someone’s footsteps, many boys whom we met at the Juvenile Prison, such as Nathem Jabbar, Mahdi Hassan and Sa’doun, and hundreds of others, fell victim to the phenomenon of recruiting children by armed groups that emerged after the battles of the spring and summer of 2004 in Al-Fallujah and Al-Najaf.</p> <p>A number of armed groups emerged in Iraq after those brutal battles, and spread between Sunni and Shi’ite affiliations. Most of these organizations, however, participated in battles over time, but the major part ended after the spring of 2008. <br/>The most dangerous organization, which continued practicing violence with a steady methodology, was Al-Qa’eda that concentrated its operations after 2003 in Al-Anbar region. It then managed to control a number of cities and governorates such as Salaheddin, Ninewa, South Kirkuk, South Baghdad and North Babel.</p> <p>The phenomenon of recruiting children by Al-Qa’eda developed form training them in monitoring, collection of information and transferring messages among combatants, to planting explosive devices and participating in killings, to carrying out suicide bombings, in the peak of sectarian violence between 2006 and 2007.</p> <h3>Suicide, Revenge and Kidnap</h3> <p>Before that, recruiting children in suicide bombings was rare and rather erratic. The first operation was carried out by a child of ten years in the fall of 2005, targeting the chief of Kirkuk police (250 kilometers north of Baghdad). After about two months, two children carried out two suicide bombings against the American forces in Al-Fallujah, Al-Anbar province (110 kilometers northwest of the capital, and Al-Huwijeh of the Kirkuk governorate. In the summer of 2008, a child of ten years, disguised as a peddler, followed one of the most prominent leaders of Al-Sahwah in Tarmiyyeh area, Sheikh Emad Jassem, for three consecutive days, after which he succeeded in detonating himself near the Sheikh, whose leg was amputated as a result of the explosion. In the same year, a girl of thirteen carried out a suicide bombing in Ba’quba, the central city of Deyala governorate (57 kilometers east of Baghdad) resulting in the death of a number of Al-Sahwah followers.</p> <p>The military leader who investigated that operation, as well as a number of child suicide bombings in Deyala, points out that most operations carried out by children are “revengeful” in nature and mostly take place in areas where Al-Qa’eda influence has subsided in favor of Al-Sahwah.</p> <p>The Media official in Al-Anbar police headquarters, however, sees that “some suicide bombings were not vengeful in nature. The last of these operations were carried out by two children, one of whom had been sedated and the other was mentally unstable.”  The two children were fit with explosive belts and sent to checkpoints. However, a mistake in the timing of the explosive belts enabled the security forces to dismantle them, according to the media official. He further explains that “fitting explosive belts around children’s bodies is a tactic used by Al-Qa’eda over the past years.”  Another method used was to send closed explosive packages by hand with children, and to detonate them from a distance the minute the children are in close proximity to security forces or when they board civilian cars or arrive in markets.”</p> <p>The father of the mentally deranged suicide bomber child says that his son Ghazi was kidnapped from in front of the family house in Al-Khaldiyyah area of Al-Anbar, a former stronghold of Al-Qa’eda. His fate was unknown until he was found near the checkpoint with an explosive belt around his waist. Ghazi’s father is now very worried because his younger son was also kidnapped at the beginning of last October, and might be used in the same manner unless he pays the ransom the kidnappers demand.</p> <p>Dirgham, a mongoloid child was booby-trapped by elements from Al-Qa’eda after he was tempted to buy sweets from a shop near a security center where elements from the police force shop during their break. The child was killed, and with him a number of policemen and shoppers. Despite this, the child’s father refuses to criticize Al-Qa’eda in fear that they might return one day.</p> <h3>Fathers Fear Children</h3> <p>Fear from Al-Qa’eda’s revenge is not restricted to Dirgham’s father, but extends to many people with whom this report-writer talked. They refrained from telling their experiences with the process their children were recruited.</p> <p>A high-ranking officer from Al-Anbar says that sleeping Al-Qa’eda cells become active during certain periods, then go back to sleep, which indicates that risking the exposure of details may not be liked by the organization, and may mean paying with lives. This officer tells the story of three children who burnt their father to death.  The father was a moderate religious man. They placed him between old rubber tires and set them on fire, simply because he criticized Al-Qa’eda.</p> <p>We asked one of the fathers if he had made any effort to prevent his children from joining Al-Qa’eda. He answered: “I lived for years hesitating to take any step such as this, afraid that they may kill me if I went too far.”Although the son left Iraq to a neighboring country after the defeats Al-Qa’eda received, the father continues to be careful that the son may one day return.</p> <p>Faris Al-Obeidi summarizes children’s motives in joining armed groups in two words: “poverty” and “revenge.”</p> <p>An official in research at the Juveniles’ Prison, however, believes that “unemployment and family disintegration” are the main reasons, in addition to some sort of “ideological thought” that prevails at home, as the first incubator that attracts children to the circle of violence. Iraq is “eligible for its children to pursue violence, because it lived for decades in a state of conflict and continuous wars.”</p> <p>Fawwaz Ibrahim, the social researcher relates this phenomenon to the period preceding 2003; the date of the American invasion of Baghdad. Years before that date, “children, named ‘Saddam’s Cubs’ participated in operations of killing and cutting hands and tongues in many areas. Militarization of children was part of the militarization of society which the last century witnessed.”  At that time, “Al-Tala’e organization, which was part of the Ba’ath party used to recruit children in groups affiliated with the authority, to monitor the neighbor, street, the school and even the home, reporting periodically about anybody suspected of opposing the regime.”</p> <p>The researcher connects between the practices of the followers of Al-Tala’e and the specialty of most recruited children in reporting to armed organizations about all details going on in their vicinity.</p> <p>He is joined in this rhetoric the researcher Al-Obaidi: “For a person to be a hero in an ideological army is something like a dream that children have when living in a society dominated by violence.”  Hence, Al-Obaidi sees that “recruitment will not be difficult in a society where children boast about flaunting their power, that starts with carrying plastic toy weapons and forming groups to launch imaginary attacks from one street to another, declaring allegiance to armed groups that have a strong grip on areas, attending their events and military parades.”</p> <h3>Going Along with the Party in Power</h3> <p>Ali Al-Massoudi, the activist specializing in armed groups’ thought has documented a number of the features of children joining armed groups. He sees that recruitment depends basically on “the recruited child’s environment”. In most cases, the child gets carried away with the prevailing beliefs prevailing in his home, street and neighborhood where he lives. Al-Massoudi divides this phenomenon into four levels: Information collection or monitoring (less than ten years), carrying firearms, participating in guard duties and checkpoints (13 – 18 years) and getting involved in violent operations such as kidnapping, killing and participating in street fights (15 – 18 years). The more dangerous level, according to Al-Massoudi, is carrying out suicide operations, normally connected to Al-Qa’eda organization.</p> <p>The first level prevails in “areas that are closed ideologically, especially during the period of confessional violence when armed groups enjoyed the sympathy of the area residents.”  Children grouping t crossroads were active in informing armed men about the arrival of American troops, preparing to detonate explosives near them.</p> <p>One specialist at the Ministry of Interior says that recruiting children is not restricted to one armed group and not the other, “despite variation in the level of their concentration.”  This specialist saw for himself large numbers of children carrying arms at the “Jund El-Sama’a (Soldiers of Heaven) camp in the Zarka area, 13 kilometers north east of the holy city of Al-Najaf, holy to Shi’ite Muslims (160 kilometers south of Baghdad), during confrontations that took place between them and Iraqi forces in early 2007. But he believes that the more dangerous organization for children is Al-Qa’eda, which established organizations specializing in enticing children under soft names like “birds of heaven, youth of heaven and cubs of heaven.”</p> <p>The expert mentioned that the “Birds of Heaven” organization, which was active in Al-Anbar and Deyala when Al-Qa’eda controlled them was for the “children of the leadership and elements of Al-Qa’eda in Iraq.”  The Cubs and Children of heaven organizations were used to “lure children with certain specifications that qualify them to indulge in battles and carry out suicide bombings.”</p> <h3>Camps for Brainwashing</h3> <p>After a raid in November of 2006 on a ‘hideout’ for Al-Qa’eda north of Baghdad, the American forces discovered an electronic storage device that had information on children’s sleeping cells, in addition to details regarding recruiting them and training them for armed operations.</p> <p>The Director of Operations at the Ministry of Interior Colonel Abdul Kareem Khalaf asserts that Al-Qa’eda organization is “the major party that depended on child recruitment from poor families, and those who were subjected to intellectual changes towards extremism through religious training courses organized in mosques without censorship.”</p> <p>The most important areas where Al-Qa’eda trained children on armed operations is Al-Mukhaiseh remote area, which falls within the Humrain hills band in Deyala governorate, according to Colonel Khalaf. “Hundreds of children from both genders were exposed to brainwashing and continuous training under the supervision of experts from Al-Qa’eda, some of whom arrived from outside Iraq for this purpose.”</p> <p>According to Colonel Khalaf, recruitment did not target poor families and those transformed to extremism only. There were remnants from those who were known as Saddam’s Cubs. These form a large group that entered continuous training camps until 2003.</p> <p>The most dangerous children who were involved in armed operations and the most vicious were the children and brothers of activists in Al-Qa’eda. All these, according to Colonel Khalaf, were trained in areas with winding roads and orchards with thick trees and vegetation that are difficult to access, in addition to the remote areas extending deep into the desert.</p> <p>Child training camps spread in areas under the control of Al-Qa’eda for years. There are camps in Deyala, Al-Anbar and Al-Mada’en south of Baghdad, in addition to border areas adjacent to Syria in the west and Iran in the east.</p> <h3>A New Generation of Al-Qa’eda</h3> <p>One of the former Al-Qa’eda theorists told the report writer at a detention center run by the Ministry of Interior that recruiting children “is carried out</p> <p>A New Generation of Al-Qa’eda</p> <p>One of Al-Qa’eda’s former theoreticians tells the report writer from his Interior Ministry prison cell that the recruitment of children is “done under the direct supervision of Al-Qa’eda leaderships.”  The first step begins by “encouraging the children to take Quran memorization classes,” especially those who have specific characteristics, such a good build and excessive obedience.  Hikmat adds:  “We take into consideration the family they belong to, whether it is known for radicalism or not.  Then we join them to groups older of age to nourish them intellectually in preparation for giving them assignments, like moving cash and publications for the organization’s members.”  After that, “they are assigned to transport explosive devices and sometimes planting them in certain areas, then we put them in armed operations that sometimes require them to engage in direct confrontations.”</p> <p>One of the dissents of Al-Qa’eda gives an expanded description of the stages of building the children’s networks by specialists in Al-Qa’eda who succeeded in brainwashing the brains of a large number of children whose fathers or brothers had been killed.  Abul Waleed is a nickname that a man in his late forties gave himself who previously worked with Al-Qa’eda, then moved to Al-Sahwah forces before he ultimately abandoned both and secluded himself in a house he rented in a area on the outreaches of southern Baghdad.  Abul Waleed says:  “The first cells specializing in child recruitment launched after the battles of 2004 south of the capital city and included nearly 100 children who were carefully selected to ensure that they fulfill dangerous duties, foremost suicide bombings.”</p> <p>Abul Waleed summarizes Al-Qa’eda’s strategy for recruiting this youth by saying that children are registered in religious classes that focus on “Quranic verses and sayings by the Prophet that encourage fighting the enemies, the infidels and the renegades.”  After that, says Abul Waleed, they are shown videos of suicide operations previously executed by the organization’s members in Iraq and Afghanistan against foreign forces.  Experts seek to convince the youth that they can do this to preserve the faith and that they will be heroes of Islam and remembered by future generations.  This thought in particular “was the obsession that the experts use to influence the thoughts of most of the youth and ensures that the spirit of bravery and courage is raised within them.”</p> <p>The majority of those selected for the child recruitment cells, Abul Waleed discloses, are the offspring of Al-Qa’eda members or who known for their hard-line tendencies at an early age.  Some “begin the recruitment stage with enthusiasm but soon try to backtrack, and therefore Al-Qa’eda is forced to make them continue by threatening to tell their parents or the authorities about their participation in the training or threaten to kill them or liquidate their families if they change their minds.”</p> <p>The most dangerous, says Abul Waleed, are “those that have lost their parents at the hands of the American or Iraqi forces or even as a result of internal strife.”  These “do not need much effort to be encouraged to execute combat and even suicide operations.  It is enough to concentrate on the idea that they will be avenging their murdered family if they execute suicide operations.”</p> <p>Child recruitment serves four purposes: </p> <ul> <li>Ensuring that there are new combatant generation that expand the presence of the organization, increase its power and assault and make up for the deficit of combatants, which the organization suffered from after losing the areas near Syria to Al-Sahwah forces and the security forces. </li> <li>Taking advantage of children’s easy movement and that the security authorities do not pay attention to them or doubt them when they cross check points. </li> <li>Maintaining the momentum of suicide operations that kill more people and give the organization attention in the media, thus increasing the terror it spreads. </li> <li>Bring in more combatants by promoting the idea that children are braver than men who failed to join Al-Qa’eda to fight for the sake of God.</li> </ul> <p>Abul Waleed states here that the leader of Al-Qa’eda in Iraq, Abu Mos’ab Al-Zarqawi, who was killed in American air raid in mid 2006, addressed an audio message chastising the men who did not join the organization after a woman executed a suicide operation in Deyala (see link 2).</p> <h3>The Young Instead of the Old</h3> <p>A high level security source in Al-Anbar province adds a fifth reason that he says he had seen up close and personal.  The majority of children’s suicide attacks were directed at Al-Sahwah men, which means that Al-Qa’eda wanted to terrorize the Al-Sahwah men and tell them they are “killed at the hands of their children.”</p> <p>Researcher Faris Al-Obeidi confirms what Abul Waleed says and adds that Al-Qa’eda did not keep the recruitment of children secret, but rather promoted them and featured trainings on websites and YouTube.</p> <p>Al-Obeidi refers to a videotape of children between 10-12 years of age wearing black clothes and covering their faces with masks as Al-Qa’eda members do, and training on weapons, make-belief kidnapping, breaking into a house after climbing its walls.  The videotape was shown extensively (see link 3) after Al-Qa’eda lost much of its popularity in its home environment, believes Al-Obeidi, and after the process of recruiting local combatants became difficult and bringing in foreign combatants even more difficult because of the control of the Iraqi forces on most of the border line with Syria.</p> <p>The sheikh and speaker of one of the mosques in the city of Ramadi in the center of Al-Anbar province pointed to a “jurisprudence dispute about the dividing line between childhood and manhood”, and believed that “this dispute helped Al-Qa’eda penetrate into the minds of targeted people and facilitated the consideration of children’s recruitment as a legitimate matter.”</p> <p>The sheikh, who is considered one of the leading moderate men of religion in Al-Ramadi city, reminded that Islam “banned the use of children and women in the execution of any acts that anger God and their recruitment for the purpose of executing suicide actions that lead to the killing of innocent people, whether civilians or even policemen, and it is prohibited.”</p> <p>While religious scholars agree that Jihad is a duty of every Muslim, but it is “within conditions specified in the Islamic Sharia Law, most important of which that it must be based on wrong jurisprudence, such as rendering another an apostate or deciding that he has violated religion because he disagreed on jurisprudence issues, as Al-Qa’eda does and which has rendered everyone an apostate, including the followers of the Sunni sects that do not support it.”</p> <p>The sheikh expresses regret that hard-line ideas calling for killing are spreading mostly in the rigid tribal communities, where the level of education is low and the culture of violence is prolific, unlike the moderate environment that is considered strongholds for moderate men of religion who cannot guarantee the security of their lives if they propose their ideas outside of this environment.</p> <p>The word “Jihad” captivated the young boy, Yaser Thanoun, and encouraged him to work with Al-Qa’eda.  His elder brother was killed in Al-Fallujah battles in 2004.  Yaser completely believes that resisting the occupation is a duty for every Muslim, and says:  “I did not join Al-Qa’eda in search of money, as some of my friends have.”  He settled for an income of 70,000 to 100,000 Dinars (around $80) to cover his expenses after blowing up every explosive or carrying out a combat operation against the government forces.  After the death of his combatant brother, Yaser had to join the organization on a full time basis and left his work as a smith that was providing for his family.  “The money was not my objective, but rather the Jihad against the occupiers,” says Yaser, who was captured after he engaged in battle against Iraqi police personnel in Fallujah in 2008.</p> <p>The situation is different for Nuseir.  His belief in the necessity of Jihad was not the thing that pushed him to join the armed groups.  His friends were the ones that convinced him to take part in the armed operations with them under the command of Al-Qa’eda.</p> <p>Nuseir’s father spoke proudly with a tone of sadness of his son.  After Nuseir trained to use weapons and launch rockets, his father says, “he participated in the bombing of American forces in Al-Mazra’a area in the east of Fallujah, then the joint check point at the city’s entrance.”  After that, Nuseir joined the armed factions in battle in the city, and was arrested in 2007 and was transported to Boca prison.  He remained in prison for one year and a half until he was released under the general pardon.  He was soon killed by an unknown group when he was walking in the city.</p> <p>The bereaved father refuses to talk about his son’s movements after he got out of prison.  Yet he confirms that “he received threats from groups that the opponents of the group he belonged to,” in an indication that he was back with his initial group.</p> <p>The mourning father criticizes “the government for releasing so many of the prisoners before they were able to reform them and convince them to abandon the violence.”  He demands the government to monitor “the mosques which have become in their majority lairs that attract the youth.”</p> <h3>The responsibility of the family</h3> <p>Senior Secretary General of the Interior Ministry, Adnan Al-Asadi, however, accuses the children’s families of being the first to bring harm to them because they left them unobserved.</p> <p>Al-Asadi says:  “The boys who got involved in armed groups found the easy money and social influence an earning worth the risk by working with Al-Qa’eda members.”  Al-Asadi however believes, and according to the results of investigations with a large number of the “Birds of Heaven” children and “the boys of heaven”, that the number of suicide operations executed by children is “small” compared to other types of operations such as “monitoring and logistical support for the militants.”</p> <p>The idea of killing, believes Al-Asadi, “is no longer receiving response from the children, especially after the decline of the influence of Al-Qa’eda’s and the armed groups that have lost their strongholds in Al-Anbar, Deyala, Salaheddin, Ninawa and areas south of Baghdad.”</p> <p>Researcher Faris Al-Obeidi believes that rehabilitating hundreds of children who engaged in militant work requires “a great deal of social and government effort and this is difficult to achieve in view of the economic, security and political instability in Iraq.”</p> <p>In the final outcome, these are part of a mobile social system, and if they do not have a sound environment to help them integrate in their societies, “they will definitely go back to the armed groups that had provided them with a sense of belonging.”</p> <p>Juvenile rehabilitation plans currently adopted are not convincing to the prison director, who complains that the building cannot accommodate “the large number of juveniles, given that the current building is a temporary alternative for the original prison that was overtaken by refugees refusing so far to leave it despite all official attempts.”</p> <p>The juvenile prison building is similar to an elementary school.  It is nothing more than a yard surrounded by four prison cells and a few small rooms for the guards, as well as a caravan for the prison director to do his job.</p> <p>The research unit chief in prison that the lack of entertainment facilities and training workshops have not helped the prison staff to lower the number of medical cases that usually accompany imprisonment, such as the depression that many prisoners suffer from because they feel neglected by their own families.</p> <p>The research chief believes that terrorism prisoners are inherently “good” people, but have been exploited and taken advantage of because of their difficult life conditions.</p> <p>A field study by a researcher in the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs indicates that family disintegration is responsible for half of the reasons that lead children’s integration in registered organizations.</p> <h3>Field study shows the reasons behind children joining armed groups.</h3> <p>“Family disintegration was the cause that led to the recruitment of 47% of child prisoners into armed groups.”  The researcher attributes this to their residing outside the family home with relatives or friends or in workplaces.  The study found that 63% of those convicted of terrorism have engaged in armed work under influence of friends.</p> <p>The study, which was based on a sample of 80 prisoners convicted of terrorism according to Article 4, indicates that murder represents 56% of the types of crimes committed by children, while 18% of the sample planted and exploded explosive devices, and 15% executed kidnappings.</p> <p>The low educational level was prevalent among the sample.  Half of them did not pass elementary education, and 55% of the sample justified their engagement in armed operation with their belief in the resistance.  Meanwhile, political convictions and affiliations were the cause of 28% joining the armed groups.</p> <p>More than half of the children convicted of terrorism according to Article 4 and are imprisoned in the juvenile prison were sentence to more than ten years.  These are “major” sentences, believes the researcher who criticizes the fact the judges rely on Law number 111 for 1996, which places terrorism crimes under the definition of crimes, stipulating sentences to be five or more years.</p> <p>Indications however show that the rate of children’s engagement in armed groups receded a great deal in the past two years because of improving security conditions in many areas that were previously considered “hot zones.”</p> <p>This improvement, according to researcher Faris Al-Obeidi, “led to economic movement in the country, which in turn contributed to the movement of the majority of youth towards profitable professions and abandoning armed organizations where the work has become dangerous with the increase of the power of security forces.  Moreover, the ideas on which the armed groups were based “receded in a major way and do not have a standing except with religious hard-liners.”</p> <p>Interior Minister Jawad Al-Bolani confirms that Al-Qa’eda’s influence in Iraq was “broken and it has lost control over its old strongholds, which put it in a critical situation that prevents from continuing to recruit children in the manner it has been doing in past years.”  The stage of recruiting children, Al-Bolani says, “is over now, and although there are a few sleeper cells, the intelligence efforts will continue to pursue them and eliminate them in the end, sooner or later.”</p> <p>Researchers Al-Obeidi, Fawwaz Ibrahim, and Al-Massoudi, along with the research chief at the juvenile prison and the researcher in the Labor Ministry, believe that the receding phenomenon of child recruitment is not the end of the story, and that intelligence efforts, no matter how strong it is, will not be able to eliminate this phenomenon completely.  There is always a chance for it to come back if rehabilitation plans that can fortify children and protect them against extremist thinking, which continues to look for an opportunity to prevail once again in Iraq, are not implemented.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=139409" class="external" target="_blank">Children indulging in Iraqi violence to the level of suicide : Aswat Al Iraq</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11826"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/11/30/iraq-civilians-still-suffering-undue-hardship/#respond" title="Comment on Iraq: civilians still suffering undue hardship">No Comments</a></span> Posted on November 30th, 2010 by Abdus-Samad</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/11/30/iraq-civilians-still-suffering-undue-hardship/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Iraq: civilians still suffering undue hardship">Iraq: civilians still suffering undue 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The ICRC is doing its utmost to help meet the most pressing needs. This is an update on these and other <span 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"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/home!Open" target="_blank" class="external">ICRC</a> 30-11-2010 <a title="Operational Update" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125172643/http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/update/2010/irak-update-2010-11-30.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Operational Update</a></strong> </span>ICRC activities carried out in Iraq in September and October.</p> <p>Despite improvements in the security situation achieved over the years in many parts of Iraq, ongoing violence continues to claim the lives of hundreds of men, women and children every month, and to have a serious impact on the lives of many more.</p> <p>Over the past year, the lives of many Iraqi civilians have not changed for the better. Civilians continue to carry the heaviest burden amid the widespread violence. They are still the main victims of the indiscriminate attacks and mass explosions that have taken place in cities such as Baghdad, Ninewa, Diyala, Anbar, Najaf, Kerbala and Basra, and that have left, on average, hundreds of people wounded or dead each month this year.</p> <p>"Indiscriminate attacks against civilians inflict tremendous suffering. They are clearly unacceptable. They are contrary to international humanitarian law and to the most basic principles of humanity," said Magne Barth, head of the ICRC delegation in Iraq. "Civilians must be protected against violence, as must be medical personnel and facilities".</p> <p>The humanitarian situation in Iraq remains serious. Iraqis are filled with anxiety and uncertainty about what the future holds. Vulnerable people, such as women heading households, disabled people and detainees, continue to depend to some extent on outside help to meet basic needs.</p> <p>The persistent lack of security and wanton violence have had a considerable effect on the feasibility of providing essential services for the population. The ICRC is doing its utmost to help meet the most pressing needs, especially in rural areas and in the places hardest hit by the conflict and other violence. ICRC activities aim primarily at ensuring that people have access to adequate health, water and sanitation services, and at helping the destitute and other needy people.</p> <p>Visits to detainees held under Iraqi, Kurdistan Regional Government and USF-I authority remain a priority for the ICRC. "Ensuring that detainees are treated humanely and are held in conditions that respect their dignity has been our constant concern since we started working in Iraq 30 years ago," said Mr Barth.</p> <p>The ICRC continues to speak out about the plight of conflict victims in Iraq. It does so in dialogue with as many parties as possible that can influence the situation on the ground. Its aim is to bring about greater respect for civilians and detainees, and to ensure that unimpeded access is granted for humanitarian action to help the people in greatest need throughout the country.</p> <p>"The role of the ICRC, as an impartial humanitarian organization, is crucial to efforts to protect civilians from harm and to ensure that detainees are properly treated and held in decent conditions," said Mr Barth.</p> <p>In September and October 2010, in response to the unstable and often changing security environment, the ICRC made further adjustments to its working procedures so that it could continue to provide services to those who need them most.</p> <h4><b>Bringing aid to vulnerable people</b></h4> <p>The ICRC has maintained its support for people facing special difficulties earning a living and supporting their families, such as women heading households and people with disabilities. In September and October:</p> <ul> <li>hygiene kits and food parcels were provided for more than 5,600 people in the governorate of Mosul; </li> <li>emergency aid was provided for more than 170 displaced people in Sulaimaniya governorate; </li> <li>95 grants were made in Kirkuk, Ninewa, Dohuk, Sulaimaniya and Erbil governorates to enable disabled people to start small businesses and regain economic self-sufficiency. Around 700 disabled people have received such aid since 2008; </li> <li>the livestock of 731 needy farmers in the Kifri district of Diyala governorate were vaccinated; </li> <li>around 950 metric tonnes of wheat seed were delivered to some 3,800 farmers in the governorates of Diyala, Anbar, Salahadin, Baghdad and Babil to help them restore their food production; </li> <li>50 kilometres of irrigation canals serving over 7,000 people were cleaned and renovated in the Khalis and Kifri districts of Diyala governorate; </li> <li>600 sheep and 38 metric tonnes of fodder were distributed to 200 farmers in the Baaj district of Ninewa governorate. </li> </ul> <h4>Assisting hospitals and physical rehabilitation centres</h4> <p>In some rural and conflict-prone areas, health-care services are still struggling to meet the needs of the civilian population. The ICRC continues to help renovate the premises of health-care facilities and train staff. Limb-fitting and physical rehabilitation services are provided by the ICRC to help disabled people reintegrate into the community. In September and October:</p> <ul> <li>10 doctors and 28 nurses successfully took part in a course intended to strengthen emergency services given in Al Sadr Teaching Hospital in Najaf; </li> <li>273 new patients were fitted with prostheses and 1,148 new patients with orthoses at 10 ICRC-supported centres throughout Iraq. </li> </ul> <h4>Providing clean water and sanitation</h4> <p>Access to clean water remains difficult in much of Iraq. ICRC engineers continue to repair and upgrade water, electrical and sanitary facilities, especially in places where violence remains a concern and in rural areas, to improve the quality of services provided in communities and health-care facilities. In September and October, these activities included:</p> <h5>Emergency assistance:</h5> <p>The ICRC delivered water by truck:</p> <p>● in Zharawa district, Sadr City, Husseinia and Maamal to 6,384 internally displaced people; <br/>● to the 385-bed Al Imam Ali General Hospital; <br/>● to the 400-bed Al Kindy General Hospital in Baghdad, which was struggling to cope with summer water shortages.</p> <h5>Support for health-care facilities:</h5> <p>The ICRC completed work upgrading: <br/>● Tarmiyah General Hospital, which serves between 250 and 300 outpatients daily, in Baghdad governorate; <br/>● Tamour primary health-care centre, which serves 50 patients per day, in Kirkuk governorate.</p> <h5>Water supply in hospitals:</h5> <ul> <li>The ICRC completed the installation of drinking-water purification units in Baquba General Hospital, Muqdadiya General Hospital, Baladrooz General Hospital and Al Zahraa Maternity Hospital, with an overall capacity of 600 beds, in Diyala governorate. </li> </ul> <h5>Drinking-water supply:</h5> <ul> <li>Five main projects benefiting around 725,000 people were completed throughout the country. </li> </ul> <h4><b>Visiting detainees</b></h4> <p>ICRC delegates visit detainees in order to monitor the conditions in which they are being held and the treatment they receive. In all cases, the ICRC shares its findings and recommendations confidentially with the detaining authorities, with the aim of obtaining improvements where necessary.</p> <p>In September and October, the ICRC visited detainees held by the correctional service of the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Defence and various Kurdish Regional Government authorities in places of detention in Basra, Thi Qar/Nasiriya, Baghdad, Babil, Kirkuk, Erbil, Dohuk and Sulaimaniya governorates.</p> <p>In some of these places, to help the detaining authority improve conditions of detention, the ICRC gave detainees mattresses, blankets and recreational items such as books and games.</p> <p>The ICRC makes a special effort to restore and maintain ties between detainees and their families. In September and October, over 1,000 Red Cross messages were exchanged between detainees and their families in Iraq and abroad. The ICRC also responded to around 800 enquiries from families seeking information on detained relatives. In addition, it issued 249 certificates of detention to former detainees. The ICRC facilitated the voluntary repatriation of two released detainees, and issued two travel documents to refugees to enable them to resettle abroad.</p> <h4><b>Clarifying what happened to missing people</b></h4> <p>In its role as a neutral intermediary, the ICRC continues to chair the mechanisms set up to address the cases of people who went missing in connection with the 1990-1991 Gulf War. At the 67th session of the Technical Sub-Committee of the Tripartite Commission, held on 28 September in Kuwait, the members of the sub-committee reaffirmed their commitment to accounting for people who went missing in connection with the war. At the sub-committee’s next meeting, which will take place in Kuwait in November, preparations will be made for a joint field mission to the south of Iraq to check on suspected burial sites.</p> <p>On 27 and 28 October, representatives of Iran and Iraq held a high-level meeting in Geneva under ICRC auspices with the aim of determining what happened to people missing in connection with the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War. The meeting was the first of its kind following the signature in October 2008 of a memorandum of understanding between Iran, Iraq and the ICRC aimed at expediting the search for information on people previously registered as, or presumed to be, prisoners of war and on others who have gone missing, and at identifying mortal remains.</p> <p>Relieving the suffering of the families of missing persons by clarifying what happened to their loved ones is one of the ICRC’s priorities. 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