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<h1><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/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/20130124105754/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-13625"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/07/05/international-committee-of-the-red-cross-iraq-activities-update/#comments" title="Comment on International Committee Of The Red Cross: Iraq Activities Update">1 Comment</a></span> Posted on July 5th, 2011 by Burhan Aydin</div> <h3><a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water/" rel="tag">Water</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-purification/" rel="tag">water purification</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-supply/" rel="tag">water supply</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-treatment/" rel="tag">water treatment</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/zaidan/" rel="tag">Zaidan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/zubair/" rel="tag">Zubair</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div style="text-align: left; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr"> <p>Three decades of conflict have left hundreds of thousands of families struggling to find out what happened to their missing loved ones. Abandoning the search is not an option. Since 1980, the ICRC has spared no effort to put an end to their anguish. Operational update, March-May 2011. </p> <p>"Iraq is currently one of the countries with the highest number of missing persons and, as a result, with the highest number of families seeking information on their missing relatives," said ‘Dika Dulic’, the ICRC delegate in charge of issues relating to missing persons in Iraq. A lack of clear statistics, however, makes it difficult to accurately establish the true size of the problem.</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"> <h3>How do I report my relative as a missing person?</h3> <p>The Ministry of Human Rights is responsible for collecting information about any person reported missing in connection with armed conflict or internal violence. The ministry has offices in each Iraqi governorate. In northern Iraq, the Ministry of Anfal is in charge of this issue.</p> <p>The Department for missing persons, prisoners of war and human remains has two hotline numbers: <br/>+964 781 375 7020 <br/>+964 781 375 7021 <br/>and can also be contacted by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/mailto:d.mom-mhr@humanrights.gov.iq">e-mail</a></p> <p>Information provided by Basra’s Al-Zubair Centre on soldiers exhumed or otherwise known to be dead can be found on the Ministry of Human Rights website: <br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://www.humanrights.gov.iq /">www.humanrights.gov.iq</a>  You can also contact Al Zubair Centre directly.</p> <p>If you believe that one of your relatives has been killed, you can contact Baghdad’s Medico-Legal Institute by telephone: <br/>+964 78 137 57 655 or by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/mailto:mli_bag41@yahoo.com">e-mail</a></p> <p>In an effort to alleviate the agony of those still waiting for news, the ICRC, in its role as a neutral intermediary, facilitates dialogue between the parties involved in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War and in the 1990-1991 Gulf War, who have an obligation under international humanitarian law to account for those who went missing.Baghdad resident Hayat has led a sad life since her husband disappeared on 8 April 2003. "I lost hope," she said. "In the past nine years I have searched every prison. I ended up convincing myself that my husband Abdallah must have died."</p> <p>In an effort to alleviate the agony of those still waiting for news, the ICRC, in its role as a neutral intermediary, facilitates dialogue between the parties involved in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War and in the 1990-1991 Gulf War, who have an obligation under international humanitarian law to account for those who went missing.</p> </p></div> <p>Baghdad resident Hayat has led a sad life since her husband disappeared on 8 April 2003. "I lost hope," she said. "In the past nine years I have searched every prison. I ended up convincing myself that my husband Abdallah must have died."</p> <p>In April, the remains of 17 Iranian soldiers killed in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War were handed over from the Iraqi to the Iranian authorities under ICRC auspices at the Shalamja border crossing, near Basra.</p> <p>As a neutral intermediary, the ICRC facilitates the dialogue between the parties who were involved in the Iran-Iraq war and the Gulf war and who carry the responsibility to clarify the fate of persons still unaccounted for. This includes: <br/>supporting authorities in the collection of information <br/>facilitating transmission of information between the parties chairing meetings <br/>facilitating joint missions in the field and the handover of human remains</p> <p>The ICRC continues to provide training and other support for the Ministry of Human Rights, Basra’s Al-Zubair Centre of Iraq and Baghdad’s Medical-Legal Institute.</p> <h4>Bringing aid to people facing hardship</h4> <p>Many people in Iraq are still struggling to earn a living and support their families. Between March and May, the ICRC:</p> <p>Distributed over 8 million Iraqi Dinars through cash-for-work scheme, to 450 vulnerable displaced people and residents of Deralok in Dohuk governorate; <br/>Awarded 108 grants to disabled people and women-headed households in Ninawa, Kirkuk, Basra, Missan, Erbil, Baghdad and Sulaimaniya, enabling them to start small businesses and regain economic self-sufficiency. <br/>Distributed individual food and hygiene parcels, including essential household items, to 2475 internally displaced households, benefiting some 14850 people, in the group settlements of Ninawa, Kirkuk and Wasit;</p> <p>Following heavy rainfalls and consequential flooding in Ninawa, Erbil and Salah Al-Din governorates in April, the ICRC assisted affected/displaced households, distributing: 4984 blankets, 634 towels, 1340 hygiene parcels, 1315 tarpaulins, 317 kitchen sets, <br/>763 food parcels, and 11.1 metric tons of rice. The ICRC assistance also reached families affected by the floods in Rabea and Baaj districts.</p> <h4>Assisting health-care facilities</h4> </p></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/07/05/international-committee-of-the-red-cross-iraq-activities-update/#more-13625" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12660"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/06/%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%b4%d9%87%d8%a7%d8%af-%d9%88%d8%a5%d8%b5%d8%a7%d8%a8%d8%a9-18-%d8%b4%d8%ae%d8%b5%d8%a7-%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%81%d8%ac%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%b9%d8%a8%d9%88%d8%a9-%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%b3%d9%81/#respond" title="Comment on استشهاد وإصابة 18 شخصا بانفجار عبوة ناسفة بالبصرة">No Comments</a></span> Posted on March 6th, 2011 by Suleiman Aydin</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/06/%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%b4%d9%87%d8%a7%d8%af-%d9%88%d8%a5%d8%b5%d8%a7%d8%a8%d8%a9-18-%d8%b4%d8%ae%d8%b5%d8%a7-%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%81%d8%ac%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%b9%d8%a8%d9%88%d8%a9-%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%b3%d9%81/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to استشهاد وإصابة 18 شخصا بانفجار عبوة ناسفة بالبصرة">استشهاد وإصابة 18 شخصا بانفجار عبوة ناسفة بالبصرة</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/basrah/" rel="tag">Basrah</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/bombings/" rel="tag">Bombings</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/civilian-casualties/" rel="tag">Civilian casualties</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/civilians/" rel="tag">Civilians</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>قال مصدر امني الأحد أن 18 شخصا سقطوا بين شهيد وجريح بانفجار عبوة ناسفة استهدفت حافلة صغيرة كانت تقلهم شمال البصرة.وقال المصدر إن عبوة ناسفة انفجرت قبل ظهر اليوم، <br/>مستهدفة حافلة صغيرة لنقل الركاب نوع (كيا) في منطقة المعقل( 6كم شمال البصرة) ما أسفر عن استشهاد ستة مدنيين وإصابة 12 آخرين بجروح خطرة كانوا داخلة الحافلة وإلحاق أضرار مادية كبيرة فيها وأضاف ان سيارات الإسعاف هرعت إلى منطقة الحادث ونقلت الشهداء والجرحى إلى مستشفى قريب لتلقي العلاج.</p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12137"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/01/06/who-assassinated-iraqi-academics/#respond" title="Comment on Who Assassinated Iraqi Academics?">No Comments</a></span> Posted on January 6th, 2011 by Nabil</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/01/06/who-assassinated-iraqi-academics/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Who Assassinated Iraqi Academics?">Who Assassinated Iraqi Academics?</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/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/20130124105754/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/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/category/war-crimes/" title="View all posts in War Crimes" rel="category tag">War Crimes</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/academics/" rel="tag">academics</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/adil-e-shamoo/" rel="tag">Adil E. 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=191084&sectioncode=26" class="external" target="_blank">250 academics had been killed</a>. Award-winning British journalist Robert Fisk <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=2042" class="external" target="_blank">had warned</a> early that year of the assassinations of Iraqi academics, but few U.S. newspapers picked up on the story.  By the end of 2006, according to<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/iraqs-universities-are-in-meltdown-427316.html" class="external" target="_blank"> <em>The Independent</em></a>, over 470 academics had been killed. Another British paper, <em>The Guardian</em>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2006/dec/12/internationaleducationnews.highereducation" class="external" target="_blank">reported</a> that about 500 academics were killed just from the Universities of Baghdad and Basra alone.</p> <p>Based on multiple sources, the B<em>Russell</em>s Tribunal sifted through such reports and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://www.brusselstribunal.org/Academics.htm" class="external" target="_blank">published on its website</a> the names of over 400 murdered academics and when they were killed. Although the exact total number of assassinated academics is not really known, the indefatigable advocate for human rights Dirk Adriaensens gives a detailed analysis of the data available so far in his contribution to the book <em><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://us.macmillan.com/culturalcleansinginiraq" class="external" target="_blank">Cultural Cleansing in Iraq</a></em>. According to Adriaensens, most of those killed were from the Universities of Bagdad (57 percent) and Basra (14 percent). In addition, 35 percent died in detention after being arrested/kidnapped by some security forces. The modus operandi for the killings was a professional, well-organized assassination. Fifty-four percent of the deaths occurred as a targeted killing, at point-blank range with hand guns or automatic weapons. The killing of academics did not follow any sectarian agenda since the murdered were Sunni and Shia. No one has taken responsibility for the killings, and no one has been arrested.</p> <p>The reports of these murdered Iraqi academics have been around for a few years, mostly in the foreign press and on websites. I admit to an initial skepticism about their veracity. I was even more concerned about who was responsible for these heinous crimes and why. Iraqis living in Iraq knew of these murders first-hand, but did not know the culprits. Their suspicions fell naturally on the occupying power.</p> <p>Along with these tragic deaths was the concomitant wave of death threats and intimidation against other Iraqi academics, which resulted in tens of thousands of Iraqi academics literally running abroad for their life. <em>The Washington Post </em>recently described the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/23/AR2010112306747.html" class="external" target="_blank">plight of one Iraqi family</a> living in the United States after the husband, a professor, was assassinated and the wife, a physician, survived but gravely wounded. For some, the escape abroad was only temporary. A<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://iraqiacademicsunderattack.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/two-iraqi-academics-killed-after-their-returning-to-iraq-english-arabic-castellano/" class="external" target="_blank"> professor and a dean</a> who left and returned in the past six months to Iraq were professionally assassinated.  Iraq has suffered the decapitation of its intellectual class on a staggering scale, which has thrown the country back to the dark ages.</p> <p>According to the new revelations of Wikileaks, in some cases the United States, through the military, contractors, and others, killed innocent Iraqi civilians including women and children. As a matter of policy we handed over Iraqi detainees to Iraqi security forces with full knowledge that they would be subjected to torture, rape, and murder. Moreover, when our military received the reports of torture, rape, and murder it chose to ignore them. Such a policy is contrary to international law, U.S. laws, and American values.</p> <p>It’s not clear whether the U.S. government or the U.S. military knows who assassinated the Iraqi academics. We don’t know if U.S. officials or military commanders looked the other way when local security forces committed those crimes. But the Wikileaks documents raise many disturbing questions about a possible U.S. role in these assassinations. Even the Gulf Cooperation Council, and its half-dozen U.S.-friendly Arab members, has <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hiUt15hxCn1JG0tU8iLw_Oj6yb8A?docId=CNG.1c29e0b64ef02ac621d8a8911f61ba89.191" class="external" target="_blank">called on</a> the Obama administration to "open a serious and transparent investigation" into possible "crimes against humanity."</p> <p>The evidence so far is sufficient to warrant a thorough investigation by an independent body. Iraqis, Americans, and the world need to know the truth.</p> <div style="border-right: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 15px; margin: 15px auto 5px; border-left: lightgrey 1px solid; width: 95%; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: lightgrey 1px solid"> <p><em>Adil E. Shamoo, is a senior analyst for Foreign Policy In Focus, and writes on ethics and public policy. He is a Professor at </em><em>University</em><em> of </em><em>Maryland School</em><em> of Medicine. He can be reached at </em><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/mailto:ashamoo@umaryland.edu"><em>ashamoo@umaryland.edu</em></a><em>.</em></p> </p></div> <div></div> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://www.fpif.org/articles/who_assassinated_iraqi_academics?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FPIF+%28Foreign+Policy+In+Focus+%28All+News%29%29" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Source: </strong>Foreign Policy In Focus | Who Assassinated Iraqi Academics?</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12078"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/01/03/a-pivotal-year-for-iraqis/#respond" title="Comment on A pivotal year for Iraqis">No Comments</a></span> Posted on January 3rd, 2011 by Khaled</div> <h3><a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/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/20130124105754/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-12057"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/12/31/research-links-rise-in-falluja-birth-defects-and-cancers-to-us-assault/#respond" title="Comment on Research links rise in 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%a8%d8%ba%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%af/" rel="tag">بغداد</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <ul> <li>Defects in newborns 11 times higher than normal </li> <li>‘War contaminants’ from 2004 attack could be cause </li> </ul> <p><a title="male_child_scaly_skin_syndrome by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://www.flickr.com/photos/gorillasguides/2995563269/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: inline; float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px" height="240" alt="male_child_scaly_skin_syndrome" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754im_/http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3147/2995563269_fd8fec4a7b_o.jpg" width="300" align="right"/></a>A study examining the causes of a dramatic spike in birth defects in the Iraqi city of Falluja has for the first time concluded that genetic damage could have been caused by weaponry used in US assaults that took place six years ago.</p> <p>The research, which will be published next week, confirms earlier <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/13/falluja-cancer-children-birth-defects" class="external" target="_blank">estimates revealed by the Guardian of a major, unexplained rise in cancers and chronic neural-tube, cardiac and skeletal defects in newborns</a>. The authors found that malformations are close to 11 times higher than normal rates, and rose to unprecedented levels in the first half of this year – a period that had not been surveyed in earlier reports.</p> <p>The findings, which will be published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, come prior to a much-anticipated World Health Organisation study of Falluja’s genetic health. They follow two alarming earlier studies, one of which found a distortion in the sex ratio of newborns since the invasion of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/iraq" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq</a> in 2003 – a 15% drop in births of boys.</p> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/12/31/research-links-rise-in-falluja-birth-defects-and-cancers-to-us-assault/#more-12057" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11830"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/12/01/children-indulging-in-iraqi-violence-to-the-level-of-suicide-aswat-al-iraq/#respond" title="Comment on Children indulging in Iraqi violence to the level of suicide : Aswat Al Iraq">No Comments</a></span> Posted on December 1st, 2010 by Hussein 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align="right"> <div style="border-right: black 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: black 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: black 1px solid; width: 300px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: black 1px solid"> <p>Armed groups brainwash them, exploiting their poverty, inclination for revenge and family disintegration.</p> <p>By: Milad Al-Jabbouri</p> </p></div> <p>BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Assa’ad and Omran are almost the same age of eighteen. 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/20130124105754/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/20130124105754/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/20130124105754/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/20130124105754/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/20130124105754/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. The ICRC continues to provide the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights and Baghdad’s Medical-Legal Institute with the technical support they require to exchange information and build up their capacity in the area of forensics.</p> <h4><b>Promoting international humanitarian law</b></h4> <p>Reminding parties to a conflict of their obligation to protect civilians is a fundamental part of the ICRC’s work. The organization also endeavours to promote international humanitarian law within civil society. In this framework, it organizes presentations for various audiences, which include military personnel, prison staff, students and professors.</p> <p>In September and October, information sessions on international humanitarian law were organized for members of the Iraqi Army, the Peshmerga forces and Assayesh security forces. In October, a "train-the-trainers" course was organized for 14 members of the Iraqi Centre for Military Values and Professional Leadership Development. One member of the Iraqi armed forces attended an advanced course on international humanitarian law at the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in San Remo, Italy, and another attended a workshop on rules of engagement, also held in Italy.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/update/2010/irak-update-2010-11-30.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq: civilians still suffering undue hardship</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11680"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/10/24/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b3%d8%a8%d8%aa-23-%d8%a3%d9%83%d8%aa%d9%88%d8%a8%d8%b1-2010/#respond" title="Comment on السبت, 23 أكتوبر 2010">No Comments</a></span> Posted on October 24th, 2010 by Ali Ibn Hussayn</div> <h3><a 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وتقوله وتفعله". </p> <p>وتشير الملفات التى نشرت "إلى مقتل حوالى 109 آلاف شخص خلال سنوات مقابل عشرين ألفا فى أفغانستان، كما كشفت الوثائق التى نشرها الموقع من قبل. </p> <p>وأضاف اسانج" أن عدد القتلى أكبر بخمس مرات فى العراق ويمثل حمام الدم الاكبر بالمقارنة مع أفغانستان". </p> <p>وتابع اسانج" أن الوثائق لا تقدم مجرد فرضيات مثل قتل كثيرين فى الفلوجة بل تتحدث عن كل وفاة مع إحداثيات جغرافية محددة والظروف التى قتل فيها الأشخاص". </p> <p>وأكد اسانج" أن الأمر الجديد بالنسبة لنا هو أن هؤلاء الموتى الذين كانوا مجهولين لم يعودوا كذلك". </p> <p>وأضاف اسانج "أعتقد أن رسالة هذه الملفات أقوى وفهمها ربما أسهل من الوضع المعقد فى أفغانستان".</p> <p>وجاءت تصريحات اسانج هذه بعد ساعات من نشر موقع ويكيليكس حوالى 400 ألف وثيقة سرية للجيش الأمريكى حول حرب العراق. </p> <p>ويعد كشف هذه الكمية من الوثائق "أكبر عملية تسريب لوثائق عسكرية سرية فى التاريخ".</p> </p></div> <h3><font color="#800000">بالصور .. ويكليكس … يكشف المستور : المالكي بطل الفيلم</font></h3> <p>كشفت وثائق سرية نشرها موقع "ويكيليكس" تورط المالكي والحرس الثور الإيراني في عمليات قتل وتعذيب ممنهجة ضد السنة كما أشارت إلى تستر قوات الاحتلال الأمريكي عن تلك الجرائم.</p> <p>وأشارت إلى أن قوة عسكرية تابعة للمالكي شنت عملية اعتقال ضد خصومه السياسيين، ولفتت إلى أن حكومة المالكي تميزت بالطابع الطائفي، وكانت تهدف إلى تصفية خصومه السياسيين التابعين للحلف السني.</p> <p>كما قام المالكي في عام 2009 بالقبض على خمسة من القيادات السنية التي رأى فيها تهديدا لنفوذه.</p> <p>وأثبتت الوثائق تورط المالكي في قتل عدد من خصومه السياسيين البارزين وعلى رأسهم محافظ نينوي بسبب مشاكله مع الأكراد، حيث تلقى المحافظ تحذيرا بعدم السماح له بتخطي نقطة تفتيش بعينها وإلا سيقابل بإطلاق النار عليه. </p> <p>وأصدر المالكي تعليمات لرجال الشرطة "في محاولة لاستعراض القوة" بعدم مساندة المحافظ في معركته مع الأكراد، وتركه وحيدا لتصفيته خاصة وانه كان سنيا. </p> <h3><font color="#800000">مليشيات إيران الدموية</font></h3> <p>كما أفادت الوثائق أن إيران كان لها ميلشيات تأتمر بأمرها، وخاصة في محافظة البصرة، مشيرة إلى أن أكثر الجهات تورطا هي الحرس الثوري الإيراني حيث تورط الحرس الثوري بشكل مكثف في عمليات تهريب الأسلحة وخاصة لفيلق "القدس". </p> <p>وتؤكد الوثائق أن الشريط الحدودي الجنوبي العراقي والمحاذي لإيران استغل في عمليات تهريب أسلحة متعددة كان من ضمنها قذائف موجهة للطيران ومدافع "ار بي جي" وصواريخ ومواد شديدة الانفجار. </p> <p>وأشارت الوثائق إلى أن هناك محاولات عديدة لاغتيال عدد من القيادات السنية، وكان من أبرز هذه المحاولات دخول سيارة مفخخة تابعة لإيران من شمال العراق لقتل إياد علاوي رئيس الوزراء العراقي الأسبق عام 2006، وهو ما أدى إلى الإطاحة بحكم علاوي والمجيء بحكم المالكي. </p> <p>وتبرز الوثائق أن هذه العملية تمت على يد ميلشيات شيعية حصلت على دعم من الحرس الثوري الإيراني، حيث دخل أحد الشخصيات وكان يبرز جواز سفر يزعم انه أبكم وذلك لعدم كشف لهجته الفارسية وكشف يما بعد أنه العقل المدبر لعميلة اغتيال علاوي.</p> <p>ولفتت الوثائق السرية التي سربت عن طريق "ويكيليكس إلى" خطورة الدور الإيراني في تصفية بعض العراقيين من السنة، بالإضافة إلى دور إيران في المواجهات بين الميليشيات الشيعية والقوات الأمريكية بالعراق. </p> <p>وأشارت إلى أن المسئولين الأمريكيين كانوا على علم بما يحدث فى السجون العراقية إلا أنهم كانوا يأمرون جنودهم بغض الطرف. رغم الانتهاكات الجسيمة فى مراكز الجيش والشرطة العراقية. </p> <p>كما كشفت الوثائق عن 1000 عملية إجرامية قام بها عناصر الشرطة والجيش العراقي وذلك في مراكز التعذيب. </p> <p>حيث تم استخدام عمليات التعذيب وأبرز هذه العمليات التعذيب بالكهرباء وعلى الأعضاء التناسلية وعلى الصدر والأقدام والوجه. وقى في شهر واحد 142 شخصا مصرعهم جراء عمليات التعذيب في السجون العراقية. </p> <p>وأثبتت الوثائق أن عمليات التعذيب تمت كلها بمعرفة الشرطة والجيش العراقي، مشيرة إلى أن الولايات المتحدة طالبت جنودها بغض الطرف عن عمليات التعذيب التي يقوم بها العراقيين ضد العراقيين. </p> <p>ورأى دونالد رامسفيلد وزير الدفاع السابق في عهد الرئيس الأمريكي السابق جورج دابليو بوش، بضرورة الصمت والإبلاغ فقط الجهات العراقية المختصة. </p> <p>وأثبتت الوثائق أن هناك مليشيات استخدمت سجون خاصة بها لصالحها لارتكاب عمليات التعذيب ضد السنة من العراقيين. </p> <p>وفي أكبر عملية تحقيق أمريكية حول حقيقة السجون السرية في العراق تقدم الجنود الأمريكيون ببلاغات لرؤسائهم تكشف 145عن عمليات تعذيب تعرض لها مدنيين عراقيون على يد الشرطة العراقية. </p> <p>وأشارت إلى أن الشرطة العراقية قامت باعتقال أحد العراقيين وتعذيبه بالضرب والكهرباء، حتى الموت، ثم تسجل الحادثة على أن الضحية وقع من دراجة نارية اثناء سيره بها، بالإضافة إلى مقتل معتقل عراقي آخر جراء التعذيب وتظهر صور معاناته إلا أن واشنطن لم تحرك ساكنا . </p> <p>ولفتت الوثائق إلى أن أمرا أمريكيا صدر في عام 2005 يطلب من العسكريين الإبلاغ عن تجاوزات الشرطيين العراقيين في حق بني جلدتهم، إلا أن ذلك لك يكن له أي صدى. </p> <p>وكان جنرال أمريكي طلب التحرك لإيقاف التعذيب، لكن رامسفيلد رأى الاكتفاء بالتبليغ دون التدخل.</p> <p>وكشفت إحدى الوثائق أن قائد في فرق الموت بجيش المهدي قال انه كلف فى عام 2006 بقتل رئيس الوزراء العراقي نورى المالكي. </p> <h3><font color="#800000">جرائم "بلاك وتر"</font></h3> <p>وكشفت الوثائق السرية الأمريكية أن شركة "بلاك واتر" كان لها نصيب الأسد في عدد الضحايا العراقيين الذين لقوا مصرعهم في ظل الاحتلال الأمريكي. </p> <p>وقالت الوثائق إن شركة "بلاك وتر" تمتعت بأفضل عقد يحميها من المساءلة القانونية، ويجلب لها أكبر قدر من الأموال.</p> <p>وأثبتت الوثائق أن موظفي "بلاك وتر" قتلوا 15 شخصا في عام 2004، بالإضافة إلى مقتل 4 آخرين داخل سيارتهم، ومع ذلك كانت تتقاضى "بلاك ووتر" أكثر من 100 مليون دولار في العام. </p> <p>وأشارت الوثائق إلى وقوع أكثر من 14 حادثة في عام 2005، لقى خلالها عشر أشخاص مصرعهم وأصيب 270 آخرين. </p> <p>وفي عام 2005 قامت شركة "بلاك وتر" خلال إحدى العمليات بقتل عائلة كاملة، كما قامت عام 2006 بقتل سائق سيارة إسعاف بالإضافة إلى الضحايا الذين كانوا بالسيارة. </p> <p>وفي عام 2007 طلبت الحكومة العراقية برحيل "بلاك وتر" إلا أن الولايات المتحدة جددت العقد في عام 2008. </p> <p>من ناحية أخرى، نشر موقع "ويكيليكس" انه تلقى إفادة من وزارة الدفاع الأمريكية "بنتاجون" أن تسريب هذه المعلومات يخضع لقانون التجسس، في إشارة إلى إمكانية ملاحقة المنظمة بتهمة التجسس. </p> <p>وطالب البنتاجون من "ويكيليكس" ضرورة وقف هذه الوثائق، حيث أن نشرها يشكل خطرا على الأمن القومي الأمريكي، حيث أكد قيادي رفيع المستوى في البنتاجون أن نشر هذه الوثائق يشكل خطرا على الجنود الأمريكيين في العراق وأفغانستان ويرفع من كراهية الشعوب العربية والإسلامية ضد الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية . </p> <p>وزعمت أن معظم هذه الوثائق ملفقة وتنطوي على وقائع كثيرة غير حقيقية وأن هذه الوثائق ضخمت من هذه المعلومات لإحداث ضجة إعلامية بأوساط الرأي العام الأمريكي والعالمي.</p> <h3><span style="color: #ff0000"><font color="#800000">"ويكيليكس" تفضح بالأرقام مجازر الاحتلال في العراق</font></span></h3> <p>كشفت الوثائق السرية التي سربها موقع "ويكيليكس" وبثتها قناة "الجزيرة" الجمعة عن أن عدد القتلى المدنيين العراقيين أعلى بكثير عما أعلنته الإدارة الأمريكية.</p> <p>وعرضت "الجزيرة" 400 ألف وثيقة عن الحرب في العراق بالتعاون مع موقع "ويكيليكس"، مشيرة إلى أن هذه الوثائق التي بحوزتها تورط المالكي في عملية القتل العمد مع سبق الإصرار والترصد. </p> <p>وأوضحت الجزيرة أن هناك 284 ألف ضحية منهم 190 ألف ضحية لقوا مصرعهم على يد ميليشيات مسلحة، لافتة إلى أن ثلثي هذا العدد قتل أغلبه عام 2005، وأن أكثر من أربعة ألاف ضحية قتلوا خلال شهر يناير /كانون الثاني من هذا العام. </p> <p>وأشارت الوثائق إلى أن العدد الحقيقي للقتلى في العراق ابتداء من الغزو الأمريكي عليها عام 2003 وحتى الآن يتجاوز 150 ألف ضحية إلى جانب 15 ألف آخرين غير مستدل عليهم ولا يوجد عنهم أي معلومات، بالإضافة إلى ثلاثة ألاف مدني لقوا مصرعهم ولا يعرف هويتهم أيضا. </p> <p>وأوضحت الوثائق أن الولايات المتحدة تسترت على كل هذه الجرائم، لافتة إلى أنها كانت تضلل الرأي العالم العالمي وتعلن عن أعداد للضحايا أقل بكثير عما هو في الحقيقة. </p> <p>وتقدر الملفات التي عرضتها الوثائق السرية بأن 160 ألف شخص تعرضوا إلى عمليات تعذيب في السجون من المدنيين. </p> <p>كما كشفت "ويكيليكس" عن 190 ألف وثيقة تضم الآلاف من الرموز السرية، بالإضافة إلى 391 ألف نموذج سري يحتوى على 38 مليون كلمة تحمل معلومات سرية عن الأعداد الحقيقية للضحايا المدنيين خلال الحرب الأمريكية على العراق. </p> <p>وكشفت الوثائق أن هناك الآلاف من المدنيين لقوا مصرعهم في عمليات القصف الجوي الأمريكي على الأراضي العراقية . </p> <p>ولفتت إلى أحد الانتهاكات الأمريكية في الحرب على العراق كان في المفلوجة بعدما ألقت القوات الأمريكية قنبلتين من طائرة اف 15 ، وروجت الإدارة الأمريكية إلى أن ضحايا هذه التفجيرات كانوا من اعضاء في تنظيم "القاعدة" في العراق، وهو ما ثبت خلافه بعد أن ثبت أن الضحايا هم 8 مدنيين بينهم 4 أطفال وامرأتين واعترفت به الولايات المتحدة بعد ذلك على استحياء. </p> <p>وأثبتت الوثائق أن أكثر من 600 مدني من السكان السنة في بعض المدن العراقية في عام 2005 قد لقوا مصرعهم بسبب القصف الأمريكي. </p> <p>كما لقي أيضا 25 مدنيا مصرعهم في عام 2005 خلال قصف أمريكي منهم 12 طفلا و10 نساء و3 رجال إلى جانب المصابين الذين لم ترصدهم الوثائق الأمريكية. </p> <p>وفي عام 2006 كانت الطائرات الأمريكية قد ألقت 4 قنابل على المدن العراقية بحجة أنها تستهدف عناصر "القاعدة" ولكن كان معظم الضحايا من المدنيين . </p> <p>كما كشفت إحدى الوثائق أن هناك 1400 حادثة إطلاق نار على مدنيين عراقيين أثناء مرورهم عبر الحواجز الأمريكية في المدن العراقية. </p> <p>وأشارت إلى أن أكثر من 600 شخص لقوا مصرعهم رميا بالرصاص خلال مرورهم على نقاط التفتيش، كما رصدت في تل الأعفر صور لدورية أمريكية تفتح النار على سيارة مدنية ولسوء حظ الضحايا أن الرصاصة أصابت إطار السيارة فأنهت حياة الأب والأم وأصيب 6 أطفال لهم، لافتة إلى أن هناك 17 ألف عملية مماثلة تمت في العراق على هذا النهج. </p> <p>وأوضحت الوثائق أن ما يزيد على 681 مدنيا قد قتلوا في 125 حادث في نواحي العراق. </p> <p>وتصاعد القتل في العراق في عام 2004 حيث لقى 22 شخصا مصرعهم في عمليات قتل مدنيين بالإضافة إلى مقتل 400 شخص اخرين من المدنيين في مدينة كركوك، وأشارت الوثائق أن هؤلاء الضحايا من الذين تم توثيق موتهم.</p> <p>وكان أندرس فوج راسموسن، الأمين العام للحلف الأطلسي، حذر الجمعة في برلين من تسريبات جديدة لموقع ويكيليكس الإلكتروني الذي أشارت الصحف إلى أنه يعتزم نشر آلاف المستندات العسكرية السرية قريبا.</p> <p>ورد راسموسن لدى سؤاله خلال مؤتمر صحافي مشترك مع المستشارة الألمانية أنجيلا ميركل: "هذه التسريبات مؤسفة للغاية، ويمكن أن تكون لها عواقب سلبية جدا لجهة سلامة الأشخاص المعنيين".</p> <h3><font color="#800000">الصحة</font></h3> <p>شهدت العاصمة بغداد وعدد من المحافظات اليوم السبت 23 /10/2010 احداثا أمنية عديدة راح ضحيتها عدد من الشهداء والجرحى من المدنيين والعسكريين،كما شهدت عدة عمليات عسكرية شنتها القوات الأمنية العراقية مستهدفة أوكار الإرهابيين والخارجين عن القانون ومخازن الاعتدة والاسلحة والذخائر والعبوات الناسفة في مناطق متفرقة من العراق. ففي العاصمة بغداد هاجم مسلحون مجهولون اليوم "السبت" نقاط التفتيش التابعة للشرطة والجيش القريبة من منطقة خرنابات في ابي غريب غرب العاصمة بغداد وان مسلحين مجهولين قاموا باطلاق النار على القوات الامنية المتواجدة في نقاط التفتيش المذكورة , مبينا, استمرار الاشتباكات بين المسلحين وافرا د الشرطة والجيش, مشيرا , الى اصابة 3 بجروح مختلفة, فيما لم يشر المصدر اي حصيلة اخرى ومن جانب اخر تمكنت مفارزتا من النجدة والمرور مساء اليوم من ضبط سيارتين مسروقتين في منطقتي ابو دشير والغزالية جنوب وغرب العاصمة بغداد و ان مفارز النجدة ضبط السيارة المسروقة الاولى وهي نوع ( تيوتا) في منطقة الدورة ساحة ابو دتشير ,في حين تمكنت مفرزة مرورية من ضبط السيارة الثانية وهي نوع (كيا بريجو) في شارع البدالة بمنطقة الغزالية واضاف ان القوات الامنية اعتقلت ايضا حائزي هاتين السيارتين المسروقتين وتم اتخاذ الاجراءات القانونية والقضائية بحقهم ,مؤكدا ان السيارتين صادر بحقهما اومر ايقاف ومعممة اوصافها على نقاط التفتيش داخل وخارج العاصمة بغداد ومن جهة اخرى عثرت قوة امنية مشتركة من الجيش والشرطة مساء اليوم على مخبأ للاعتدة والاسلحة في منطقة حي الرشاد شرق العاصمة بغداد وان القوات الامنية عثرت على مخبأ كبير للاسلحة والاعتدة بناء على معلومات استخباراتية افادت بوجوده داخل متنزه مقابل لسجن النساء في المنطقة المذكورة واضاف ان هذا المخبأ كان يضم عددا من الاسلحة من بينها قاذفة (ار بي جي) وبنادق وعتاد ,مؤكدا انه تم تسليمها الى الجهات المسؤولة لاجراء اللازم وفي الموصل اصيب مدنيان اثنان بجروح مختلفة مساء اليوم اثر هجوم مسلح استهدف دورية للشرطة العراقية غرب مدينة الموصل مركز محافظة نينوى وإن مسلحا مجهولا يستقل سيارة حديثة خالية من لوحات التسجيل ألقى قنبلة يدوية على دورية للشرطة في شارع اليرموك غرب المدينة مما أسفر عن إصابة مدنيين اثنين تزامن وجودهما مع وقوع الهجوم قبل ان يتمكن المسلح من الفرار الى جهة مجهولة واضاف ان القوات الامنية نقلت المصابين الى المستشفى القريب وفرضت طوقا امنيا حول مكان الحادث ومن جانب اخر أصيبت طفلة بجروح مختلفة اليوم بأنفجار عبوة ناسفة كانت موضوعة على أحد الشوارع الرئيسة داخل ناحية بادوش التي تبعد 40 كم شمال الموصل مركز محافظة نينوى وان أًنفجار العبوة أسفر عن اصابة طفلة بجروح والحاق اضرار مادية بالمحال التجارية القريبة للحادث واضاف, انه تم نقل الطفلة المصابة الى أحد المستشفيات القريبة لتلقى العلاج , مشيرا الى ان القوات الامنية طوقت مكان الحادث تحسبا من وجود عبوات أخرى معدّة للتفجير وفي ذي قار أعدّت المديرية العامة لشرطة ذي قار خطة أمنية لتوفير الحماية لقوافل الحجاج المتوجهين الى محافظة البصرة من محافظة ذي قار والمحافظات العراقية الاخرى و بان الخطة يساهم بتنفيذها مديريات الاقسام بافواج طوارىء الشرطة ، اضافة الى مديرية مرور المحافظة ، والدفاع المدني ، ومشاركة قوات من الجيش العراقي من لواء المشاة الاربعين ، فضلا عن دوائر الصحة ، وشركة توزيع المنتجات النفطية بالمحافظة ، منوها بانه سيتم تأمين الحماية لهذه القوافل ضمن قاطع المسؤولية بالحافظة المتضمنه حماية مناطق تجمع الحجاج ، وتوفير كافة الوسائل التي من شأنها تأمين الحماية والراحة لهم خلال رحلتهم لاداء الشعائر المقدسة في بيت الله الحرام اما في تكريت القت قوة من الشرطة العراقية مساء اليوم القبض على 4 من المشتبه بأنتمائهم الى تنظيم القاعدة الارهابي في منطقة الثرثار بالقرب من ناحية الاسحاقي جنوب تكريت مركز محافظة صلاح الدين وان عملية القاء القبض على الارهابيين تمت بعد ورود معلومات استخباراتية ادلى بها احد العناصر السرية الى السلطات الامنية افادت بوجودهم في احدى المزارع في المنطقة المذكورة و ان القوات الامنية اتخذت الاجراءات القضائية والقانونية بحقهم واحالتهم للتحقيق لتدوين افاداتهم.</p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11654"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/10/21/death-and-body-bags/#comments" title="Comment on Death and body bags">1 Comment</a></span> Posted on October 21st, 2010 by Umm Fatima</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/10/21/death-and-body-bags/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Death and body bags">Death and body bags</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a 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class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>A new US estimate of the number of Iraqis killed seven years after the US-led invasion serves as a reminder that civilians are dying on a daily basis in Iraq, writes <b>Salah Hemeid</b></p> <p>Former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright’s famous quotation apparently justifying the deaths of half a million Iraqi children as a result of the Washington- backed and UN-imposed sanctions against Iraq in the 1990s has often been remembered as a cold-blooded assertion of US policy objectives.</p> <div style="border-right: black 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: black 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: black 1px solid; width: 289px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: black 1px solid"> <p><img style="display: block; float: none; margin: 5px auto" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754im_/http://gorillasguides.com/wp-content//20061018_boy_holding_the_feet_of_his_dead_father_hospital_morgue_baquba_october_18_2006.jpg"/></p> <p>Boy Holding The Feet Of His Father Baquba Hospital Morgue October 18 2006. </p> </p></div> <p>The aphorism came to mind again last week when US media reported that the United States had finally released its first official compilation of data on Iraqi casualties, more than seven years after its invasion of the country.</p> <p>The report, posted on the US Central Command website in July, drew little notice until last Thursday, when media outlets published details showing that 63,185 civilians and 13,754 members of the Iraqi security forces had been killed from early 2004 to August 2008.</p> <p>It is not clear why the figures did not include casualties from the immediate aftermath of the US-led invasion in 2003, or from the period after August 2008. It is not clear either how the data were compiled and using what methodology.</p> <p>The figures seem to represent a "policy engineered" anti-climax as the Obama administration, facing a mid- term election challenge, tries to bring an end to America’s misadventure in Iraq.</p> <p>The number of Iraqis killed during the US-led invasion and its aftermath has long been hotly debated, estimates ranging from fewer than 100,000 to more than a million.</p> <p>Knowing how these latest US figures were arrived at would speak volumes about how the United States is faring as it prepares to exit from Iraq.</p> <p>The casualty figures released by Washington are lower than those from Iraqi government sources. Last year, the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights reported that 85,694 Iraqis, including military and police personnel, had been killed from the beginning of 2004 through to October 2008.</p> <p>In January 2008, the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated that 151,000 deaths had taken place in the country due to the violence, with a 95 per cent confidence estimate of between 104,000 and 223,000 from March 2003 through to June 2006. The figures were based on the results of an Iraq family health survey published in the <i>New England Journal of Medicine</i>, a respected US journal. </p> <p>Another estimate from the Iraq Body Count, a non- governmental organisation based in Britain that uses media accounts, has put the number of civilian dead in Iraq at 47,668 during the same period as the WHO study. The group’s latest figures for civilian deaths from violence in the country until September 19 2010 stood at between 98,252 and 107,235.</p> <p>A 2006 survey in <i>The Lancet</i>, a British medical journal, estimated that more than 600,000 Iraqis had died as a result of the war, a figure more than 10 times higher than other estimates at the time. </p> <p>Iraq has not officially reacted to any of the studies, though many Iraqis have rejected the new US figures on the number of civilian deaths in the conflict, saying that they are well below the actual numbers who have died. </p> <p>The numbers are misleading, critics say, because they are not based on a well- defined methodology dealing with all violence-related deaths, including assassinations and in operations conducted by the US military.</p> <p>Estimates of casualty figures during the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq have been controversial because of the high political stakes involved and the possibility of manipulation aimed at swaying public opinion. The recent report was prompted by a Freedom of Information Act request from the National Security Archive at George Washington University. </p> <p>Scepticism has arisen about these latest figures not only because of possible discrepancies and the mysterious standards used to establish the magnitude of the casualties, but also because the parties involved have been reluctant to tell the truth about this human tragedy.</p> <p>A fundamental question is why the US military, which bears primary responsibility for the conflict, failed to address the issue start from the start and why it did not keep accurate records on the victims of the invasion and occupation.</p> <p>The military’s apparent incapacity to provide statistics about the causalities of US air bombardments and other related operations is a real and pressing concern.</p> <p>Another question of concern is why the US media, omnipresent in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, has not capitalised on its high standards of professionalism to gather accurate data about the human tragedy in Iraq.</p> <p>The Associated Press kept a record for the period from 28 April 2005 to 30 September 2010 listing some 49,416 deaths.</p> <p>Yet, even more disturbing than these US failures has been the failure by successive Iraqi governments to establish an efficient process of data collection to register the deaths of Iraqi citizens and to compensate their families.</p> <p>Failure to collect data and dodgy statistics are not the only problems. There is also the problem of how to count deaths that are directly related to the war and occupation, separating them from deaths as a result of violence in the country.</p> <p>Absent from the debate is any explanation of the humanitarian crisis that has struck Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion, including increasing poverty, unemployment, the deterioration of health services and the destruction of the country’s ecological system.</p> <p>Statistics such as those released by the US military have also largely ignored Iraqi fatalities caused by a lack of clean drinking water and a breakdown in utilities.</p> <p>Humanitarian agencies like the International Committee of the Red Cross have warned that the country’s healthcare facilities face grave shortages of staff and supplies, with the water, sewage and electricity infrastructure being in critical condition.</p> <p>Rates of cancer, leukemia and brain tumours, widely believed to have been caused by US weaponry, have been on the rise, some research suggesting that they rival those reported among survivors of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.</p> <p>The US military’s report on the death toll in Iraq comes at a time when US President Barack Obama has reached his lowest ratings in US opinion polls ahead of crucial mid-term elections next month.</p> <p>The release of the statistics while Obama embarks on a campaign to drum up support for Democratic Party candidates cannot be a coincidence.</p> <p>By publishing a limited number of casualties in Iraq, the Obama administration may be hoping that it can go ahead with its policy of "turning the page" in Iraq, ending the US military presence in the country by the end of next year.</p> <p>Exiting from Iraq would benefit the Democratic Party, whose president vowed to end the legacy of the Republican Party and its president in Iraq. </p> <p>If all goes to plan, Iraq will no longer be front-page news in America, as US soldiers pack up to leave in order to help Democrats achieve some sort of hoped-for victory in next month’s elections.</p> <p>However, the very day this article was sent to print, a spate of bomb attacks across Iraq killed and wounded many people, serving as proof that the threat of death remains a part of daily life in the country.</p> <p>If Albright’s idea that the price paid by Iraqi civilians for US policy "is worth it" can serve as any sort of reminder in this sad chapter of Iraq’s history, then it should be that the US-led invasion has turned into a humanitarian tragedy, as well as an American national predicament.</p> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/1020/re3.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Al-Ahram Weekly | Region | Death and body bags</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11540"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/10/03/death-squads-porn-hashish-and-killing-for-kicks-its-not-just-a-few-bad-apples/#respond" title="Comment on Death Squads, Porn, Hashish And Killing For Kicks … It’s Not Just A Few "Bad Apples"">No Comments</a></span> Posted on October 3rd, 2010 by dubhaltach</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/10/03/death-squads-porn-hashish-and-killing-for-kicks-its-not-just-a-few-bad-apples/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Death Squads, Porn, Hashish And Killing For Kicks … It’s Not Just A Few "Bad Apples"">Death Squads, Porn, Hashish And Killing For Kicks … It’s Not Just A Few "Bad Apples"</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/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/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/category/south-asia/" title="View all posts in South Asia" rel="category tag">South Asia</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/afghanistan/" rel="tag">Afghanistan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/american-attacks-on-civilians/" rel="tag">American attacks on civilians</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/civilians/" rel="tag">Civilians</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/death-squads/" rel="tag">Death Squads</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/el-salvador/" rel="tag">El Salvador</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/gen-james-mattis/" rel="tag">Gen. James Mattis</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/islamophobia/" rel="tag">Islamophobia</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/james-mattis/" rel="tag">James Mattis</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sand-niggers/" rel="tag">sand niggers</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/team-members/" rel="tag">Team Members</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/war-crimes/" rel="tag">War Crimes</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>Guess what? Having done the El Salvador option in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4209595.stm" target="_blank" class="external">El Salvador</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://www.brusselstribunal.org/BritishBombers.htm" target="_blank" class="external">in Irak</a> it seems that the death squad option is now being well and truly being exercised by some American troops in Afghanistan. Surely you’re not surprised?</p> <div style="border-right: black 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: black 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: black 1px solid; width: 350px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: black 1px solid"> <p align="left"><strong>On the tape, obtained by ABC News, Morlock admits helping murder three Afghans:</strong></p> <p align="left"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754oe_/http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,124,0" width="344" height="278" id="ABCESNWID"><param name="movie" value="http://abcnews.go.com/assets/player/walt2.6/flash/SFP_Walt.swf"/><param name="quality" value="high"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="allowNetworking" value="all"/><param name="flashvars" value="configUrl=http://abcnews.go.com/video/sfp/embedPlayerConfig&configId=406732&clipId=11733558&showId=11732681&gig_lt=1286105480650&gig_pt=1286105487414&gig_g=3"/><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/><embed src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754oe_/http://abcnews.go.com/assets/player/walt2.6/flash/SFP_Walt.swf" quality="high" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" allowfullscreen="true" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="344" height="278" flashvars="configUrl=http://abcnews.go.com/video/sfp/embedPlayerConfig&configId=406732&clipId=11733558&showId=11732681&gig_lt=1286105480650&gig_pt=1286105487414&gig_g=3" name="ABCESNWID"></embed></object>  </p> <p>Watch related videos from ABC News:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/soldiers-caught-tape-11741887" name="lpos=widget[Story_RoadBlock]&lid=view[Headline]" class="external" target="_blank">WATCH: Soldiers Caught on Tape</a> </li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/video/cover-ass-11741364" name="lpos=widget[Story_RoadBlock]&lid=view[Headline]" class="external" target="_blank">WATCH: ‘It Was to Cover Our Ass’</a> </li> </ul></div> <blockquote><p>Dressed in a t-shirt and Army shorts, a 22-year-old corporal from Wasilla, Alaska casually describes on a video tape made by military investigators how his unit’s "crazy" sergeant randomly chose three unarmed, innocent victims to be murdered in Afghanistan. </p> <p>Snip … … … </p> <p>On the tape, obtained by ABC News, Morlock admits his role in the deaths of three Afghans but claims the plan was organized by his unit’s sergeant, Calvin Gibbs, who is also charged with pre-meditated murder. </p> <p>Snip … … … </p> <p>"He pulled out one of his grenades, an American grenade, you know, popped it, throws it, tells me where to go to whack this guy, kill this guy, kill this guy," Morlock told the investigators. </p> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/us-soldier-describes-thrill-kill-innocent-civilians-afghanistan/story?id=11732681" class="external" target="_blank">US Soldier Describes Thrill Kill of Innocent Civilians in Afghanistan – ABC News</a></p> </blockquote> <p>In some ways there is no comment necessary on the video confessions obtained by ABC News why on earth would anybody be surprised that American troops in Afghanistan plant weapons on corpses to try to justify killing civilians? — They did it in Irak and when they couldn’t get hold of a spare weapon they would plant a spade and pretend their victim was planting a bomb. </p> <p>Why would anybody be surprised that American soldiers in Afghanistan behaved like a death squad? — They <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/2007/10/22/the-targeted-individual-had-not-been-killed-or-captured-during-the-clashes/" target="_blank">targeted civilians so often</a> in Irak that it is <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/2007/05/01/happy-mission-accomplised-day-americans/" target="_blank">common for Irakis to refer to them</a> as a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://gorillasguides.com/2008/02/08/scenes-from-an-iraki-childhood-february-07-2008-the-red-dress/" target="_blank">death squad in uniform</a>. </p> <p>Why would anybody be surprised that having committed attrocities in Irak that a <strike>sergeant in the American army</strike> death squad member would boast to his comrades in Afghanistan about getting away with "stuff". Why would anybody be surprised that he went on to discuss <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/porn-hashish-and-killing-for-kicks-what-fuelled-a-gi-death-squad-in-afghanistan-1.1058941" class="external" target="_blank">possible “scenarios” for killing civilians in Afghanistan</a>? — He had every reason to suppose he was among like-minded people. He had every reason to suppose that his superiors would turn a blind eye just so long as he wasn’t too blatant:</p> <blockquote><p>The revelations have led to calls for a credible investigation to establish whether the command environment – which favours full-on engagement with the enemy – encouraged abuses, and what, if anything, senior officers knew about the killings and substance abuse on the base. There are also question marks over whether the army’s whistleblower system failed to act on reports of a death squad.</p> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/porn-hashish-and-killing-for-kicks-what-fuelled-a-gi-death-squad-in-afghanistan-1.1058941" class="external" target="_blank">Porn, hashish and killing for kicks … what fuelled a GI death squad in Afghanistan – Herald Scotland | News | World News</a></p> </blockquote> <p>Perhaps <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1315596/Five-US-troops-accused-killing-Afghan-civilians-fun.html" target="_blank" class="external"><strong>cutting up the bodies of Afghan civilians, photographing them, keeping their bones, skulls, and fingers as ‘trophies’ of war</strong></a> was <em>a little too blatant</em> though. </p> <p>Or maybe not.</p> <p>Not only did sergeant death squad leader have reason to suppose he had a sympathetic audience amongst his immedaite comrades. He also had good reason to suppose that at the highest levels of the American command structure that there is at least one general office who publicly relishes killing people as "fun". Remember this?</p> <h3>General: It’s ‘fun to shoot some people’ – CNN: </h3> <blockquote><p>Lt. Gen. James Mattis, who commanded Marine expeditions in Afghanistan and Iraq, made the comments Tuesday during a panel discussion in San Diego, California.</p> <p>"Actually it’s quite fun to fight them, you know. It’s a hell of a hoot," Mattis said, prompting laughter from some military members in the audience. "It’s fun to shoot some people. I’ll be right up there with you. I like brawling.</p> <p>"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil," Mattis said. "You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway. So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them."</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Read in full:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://articles.cnn.com/2005-02-03/us/general.shoot_1_mattis-commandant-michael-hagee?_s=PM:US" class="external" target="_blank">General: It’s ‘fun to shoot some people’ – CNN</a>: </p> <p>I’ve seen far too much of various forms of types of cowardly and vicious behaviour towards innocent and unarmed civilians in Irak to have been even remotely surprised when I saw it in Afghanistan. And, no, it’s not just "a few bad apples". </p> <p>"<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_apples_excuse" target="_blank" class="external">A few bad apples</a>" is a comforting lie that people like to tell themselves. I understand <em>why</em> some people might want to lie to themselves by saying that "it’s just a few bad apples" but that doesn’t take away from the fact that it is still a lie and that those telling it , even if it is only to themselves, are still liars. Nobody ever solved a problem by refusing to admit that there was a problem in the first place. It’s definitely not just "a few bad apples". From what I and other Gorilla’s Guides team members have seen day in day out for years I would have to contend that the organisational culture of the American armed forces make death squads and other warcrimes inevitable. To use another food related proverb "fish rot from the head down". </p> <p>For as long as Americans continue to believe that their country is "the shining city on the hill" that they are the "good guys" and are entitled to do "whatever it takes" this sort of barbarity will take place and Americans, <em>all of them</em> will   be associated with it in the minds of Muslims throughout the world. These attrocities are being committed by <em>American</em> troops, who come from <em>American</em> society, with <em>American</em> values and attitudes, amd who have been trained and indoctrinated <em>in America</em> by <em>other American soldiers.</em> The current wave of Islamophobia in America merely serves to underline to Muslims the world over that their suspicion that the soldier who actively demonstrates his hatred for "rag heads" and "muzzies" and "sand niggers" is just being a typical American is correct. That their suspicion that he is doing what other Americans would do if they had the chance is correct. And that the underlying attitude in America towards them is now and always has been that:</p> <blockquote><p>“The only thing these sand niggers understand is force and I’m about to introduce them to it.”</p> </blockquote> <p>Unfortunately they have good reason for their suspicion, and that suspicion is spreading. There’s a reason why America’s allies pulled out of Irak leaving it to fight there alone. There’s a reason America’s allies are pulling out of Afghanistan leaving it to fight there alone. And it’s the same reason in both cases, both wars are being lost by America and for the same reason as America lost in Vietnam:</p> <blockquote><p>"So it wasn’t the press that was the problem. The problem was that we were in the wrong place with the wrong tactics."</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124105754/http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/07/robert_mcnamara_vietnam_war_wr.html" class="external" target="_blank">Robert McNamara: Vietnam war ‘wrong’: The Swamp</a> </p> <p>Wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time against the wrong people and using deeply wrong tactics. 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