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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-supply/" rel="tag">water supply</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-treatment/" rel="tag">water treatment</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/zaidan/" rel="tag">Zaidan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/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/20130124142131/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/20130124142131/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/20130124142131/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/20130124142131/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-13273"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/05/05/iraqiran-handover-of-remains-brings-hope-to-families-of-the-missing/#respond" title="Comment on Iraq/Iran: handover of remains brings hope to families of the missing">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 5th, 2011 by Ali Ibn Hussayn</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/05/05/iraqiran-handover-of-remains-brings-hope-to-families-of-the-missing/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Iraq/Iran: handover of remains brings hope to families of the missing">Iraq/Iran: handover of remains brings hope to families of the missing</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/basra/" rel="tag">Basra</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iran-iraq-war/" rel="tag">Iran-Iraq War</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/red-crescentred-cross/" rel="tag">Red Crescent/Red Cross</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div style="text-align: left; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr"> <blockquote> <p>On 4 April 2011, at the Shalamjah border crossing near Basra that separates Iraq from Iran, representatives of the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights handed over to their Iranian counterparts the remains of 17 Iranian soldiers killed during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. Thousands of soldiers went missing on both sides during those eight years of intense battle.</p> <p>Under the auspices of the ICRC, representatives of the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights officially handed over the remains of the deceased soldiers to the Search and Recovery Committee of the Iranian Armed Forces. This handover brought to 307 the number of people whose remains have been repatriated since 2008 on both sides of the border. </p> </blockquote></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/05/05/iraqiran-handover-of-remains-brings-hope-to-families-of-the-missing/#more-13273" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12918"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/04/01/iraq-women-struggle-to-make-ends-meet/#respond" title="Comment on Iraq: women struggle to make ends meet">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 1st, 2011 by Harith</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/04/01/iraq-women-struggle-to-make-ends-meet/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Iraq: women struggle to make ends meet">Iraq: women 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/women-and-war/" rel="tag">women and war</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/womens-rights/" rel="tag">Women's Rights</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%ac%d9%85%d8%b9%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%a8-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%87%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%ad%d9%85%d8%b1/" rel="tag">جمعية الصليب والهلال الاحمر</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>Iraqi women have repeatedly been victims of armed conflict in recent decades. Today, as their dependence on a crumbling social structure grows, many find themselves struggling to make ends meet. The ICRC is helping them get back on their feet.</p> <p>A great many women in Iraq are facing challenges in the task of caring for their families, earning income and taking part in community and professional life. Since widespread violence erupted in 2003, they have been increasingly caught in the crossfire, killed, wounded or driven from their homes. As their menfolk have been killed or taken away in large numbers, the entire burden of running the household has been suddenly thrust upon them.</p> <p>"Regardless of the circumstance of loss, the mere fact that there is no traditional breadwinner directly affects the family’s financial situation," said Caroline Douilliez, head of the ICRC’s Women and War programme in Iraq. "The ICRC’s observations across Iraq have led us to the distressing conclusion that the lack of regular and sufficient income over the years has cast a huge number of families into severe poverty."</p> <div style="border-right: black 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: black 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: black 1px solid; width: 300px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: black 1px solid"> <p>30-03-2011 Operational Update </p> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/2011/iraq-update-01-02-2011-icrc-eng.pdf" target="_blank" class="external"><strong>Download full document: "Iraq: women struggle to make ends meet"</strong></a> PDF 368 KB </li> </ul></div> <p>According to ICRC estimates, between one and two million households in Iraq today are headed by women. This figure includes women whose husbands are either dead, missing (some since as far back as 1980) or detained. Divorced women are also taken into account. All these women were wives at one time, and today remain mothers to their children and daughters to their parents, and sometimes ultimately breadwinners and caregivers for all these people. Without a male relative, they lack economic, physical and social protection and support. Often they struggle with harrowing memories of the circumstance of death or disappearance of their husband. Displaced women face the added challenge of coping with the loss of a home that they had to leave because of threats to their safety, or for lack of income.</p> <p>"With no job opportunities, with no help from relatives themselves too poor to provide it, and with no assistance from the State social-security system, these women’s daily struggle revolves around putting food on the table and paying for shelter, schooling and medical care," said Ms Douilliez. "Sometimes their only option is to take their young boys out of school and send them out to earn a few dinars for the family. As a result, future generations pay the price of today’s difficult times. Without a proper education, today’s youth will not be equipped to face their own challenges once they have families of their own."</p> <p>In response to this emergency, the ICRC has launched programmes aimed specifically to assist women heading households alone. Since 2008, the organization has focused on finding ways to help women attain self-sufficiency.</p> <p>At the same time, the ICRC closely monitors the effects of efforts made by the State to improve social-welfare benefits for women facing particular hardship. The ICRC can attest to the struggle required to increase budgetary allocations and other resources for this vulnerable group. Ms Douilliez stresses the scale of the problem and the need for a comprehensive approach by the Iraqi government.</p> <p>The ICRC is engaged in dialogue with parliamentarians and other central and provincial policy-makers to ensure that the social-welfare system for vulnerable women receives the resources it needs.</p> <p><b>Assistance:</b> Between 2009 and 2010 the ICRC assisted around 4,000 women heading households who have been displaced from their homes. Food parcels and hygiene items were distributed to women in Baghdad, Diyala and Ninawa governorates.</p> <p><b>Micro-economic initiatives:</b> The ICRC provides in-kind grants to help finance income-generating projects. The grants are extended to women who are willing and able to run such projects, which are often home-based businesses such as small shops, trade projects or food production. The projects, which have been initiated in Najaf, Basra, Missan and Baghdad since 2009, are conducted in partnership with local NGOs and monitored for several months to ensure sustainability.</p> <p><b>Social welfare benefits:</b> The ICRC, working in partnership with local NGOs, helps women handle the formalities associated with applying for social-welfare benefits. As the cost of travel to gather documents is high, especially for women who have very limited resources, it reimburses the travel expenses incurred by women in Baghdad, Anbar, Basra and Missan who have not previously applied for the allowance. In addition, the ICRC has provided the agency in charge of administering the benefit with technical support.</p> <h4>Bringing aid to people facing hardship</h4> <p>The ICRC has maintained its support for people struggling to earn a living, such as women heading households, people with disabilities and the displaced. During the months of January and February, the ICRC:</p> <ul> <li>provided emergency winter assistance for more than 44,000 displaced people in Ninawa, Kirkuk, Diyala, Baghdad, Wassit, Babil, Anbar, Salah Al-Din, Dohuk and Sulaimaniya; </li> <li>awarded 82 grants to disabled people and women heading households in Baghdad, Kirkuk, Ninawa, Sulaimaniya and Erbil to enable them to start small businesses and regain economic self-sufficiency. Around 900 households headed by women and the disabled have received such assistance since 2008. The grants have benefited over 5,000 people. </li> </ul> <h4>Assisting hospitals and physical rehabilitation centres</h4> <p>Because health-care services in some rural and conflict-prone areas 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. To help disabled people reintegrate into the community, the ICRC also continues to provide limb-fitting and physical rehabilitation services. In January and February:</p> <ul> <li>192 new patients were fitted with prostheses and 1,010 with orthoses at 10 ICRC-supported centres throughout Iraq; </li> <li>17 doctors and 44 nurses took part in a course on emergency services given in Sulaimaniya and Najaf for medical personnel from Koya, Erbil, Dohuk, Khanaqin, Sulaimaniya, Kirkuk, Babil, Muthanna, Diwaniya, Kerbala and Najaf. </li> </ul> <p>In 2010 the ICRC began providing on-site support for eight primary health-care centres in Diyala, Ninawa, Kirkuk, Babil and Diwaniya. By agreement with the local authorities, the ICRC visits the centres on a regular basis to maintain and, where necessary, upgrade water supply networks. The ICRC also provides advice for emergency stabilization and referral services. In addition, it helps local health administrations to ensure that stocks of medicines and vaccines are adequate and that these items are always readily available.</p> <p>Over 280,000 people, including internally displaced people, now have better access to basic health-care and emergency services in the eight primary health-care centres. By mid-2010, the ICRC was providing the centres with enhanced support for various services. Local health authorities appointed additional female doctors to work in some facilities and provided additional ambulances and beds.</p> <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 January and February, these activities included:</p> <h5>Emergency assistance:</h5> <p>The ICRC delivered water by truck:</p> <ul> <li>to al-Sadr City (sectors 52 and 53), Husseinia and Ma’amil area in Baghdad governorate to over 4,840 internally displaced people; </li> <li>to al-Zeidan primary health-care centre in Abu Ghraib, Baghdad governorate. </li> </ul> <h5>Support for health-care facilities:</h5> <p>The ICRC completed the following works:</p> <ul> <li>upgrading the water storage capacity in al-Shirqat General Hospital (100-bed capacity) in Salah al-Din governorate; </li> <li>renovation of the sanitary facilities in three buildings (Zainab, al Kindy and al Razi) in al- Rashad Psychiatric Hospital Phase 2 Stage 2 (1,300-bed capacity) in Baghdad governorate; </li> <li>renovation of a primary health-care centre in al-Sadr City (300 patients per day) in Baghdad governorate. The area served by the centre has a population of 50,000; </li> <li>installation of specialized equipment in al-Sadr Teaching Hospital (200 bed capacity), Najaf governorate. </li> </ul> <h5>Drinking-water supply:</h5> <p>The ICRC completed 10 main projects benefiting over 612,250 people throughout the country:</p> <ul> <li>renovation of Qaim water treatment plant in Anbar governorate, serving about 170,000 people; </li> <li>renovation of a compact unit in Za’faraniya, Baghdad governorate, serving about 200,000 people; </li> <li>transfer and reinstallation of a compact unit from al-Quds to al-Rasheed in Baghdad governorate, serving about 15,000 people; </li> <li>upgrade of five compact units in Abu Ghraib district, Baghdad governorate, serving about 74,000 people; </li> <li>renovation of a compact unit in al-Shirqat, Salah al-Din governorate, serving about 20,000 people; </li> <li>renovation of a compact unit in Diyala governorate serving about 40,000 people; </li> <li>supply of a generator for Mendili and Qaratapa water treatment plants in Diyala governorate, serving about 42,000 people; </li> <li>upgrade of water supply system in Qosh villages, in Ninawa, serving about 45,000 people; </li> <li>upgrade of water supply system in Khanaqin, Diyala governorate, serving about 6,000 people; </li> <li>renovation of a compact unit in Missan governorate serving about 250 people. </li> </ul> <h5>Renovation of infrastructure in places of detention:</h5> <p>● electro-mechanical works completed in Kadhimiya maximum security prison in Baghdad governorate; <br/>● improvement of the women’s yard in Hilla Prison (No. 2), Babil governorate, serving about 50 detainees.</p> <h4>Visiting detainees</h4> <p>In January and February, ICRC delegates visited detainees held by the Iraqi Correctional Service under the authority of the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of the Interior, various branches of the Kurdish Regional Government and the United States government in 27 places of detention in 14 governorates. The delegates monitored the conditions in which detainees were being held and the treatment they received.</p> <p>The ICRC shared its observations and recommendations with the detaining authorities with a view to bringing about improvements where needed.</p> <p>In some of the places 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 people held in detention facilities and their loved ones. In January and February over 350 Red Cross messages were exchanged between detainees and their families in Iraq and abroad. The ICRC also responded to over 750 enquiries from families seeking information on detained relatives or requesting other types of information, for instance on missing relatives. In addition, in Iraq, Iran and Kuwait, the ICRC issued close to 1,000 certificates of detention to former detainees and prisoners of war from previous international armed conflicts. The voluntary repatriation of two released detainees took place under the auspices of the ICRC. The organization also issued travel documents to 13 persons, mainly refugees, to enable them to resettle abroad. In February, the ICRC made arrangements for a three-day visit for seven Iraqi families (19 persons) to visit their loved ones detained in Kuwait Central Prison.</p> <h4>Clarifying the fate of missing people</h4> <p>During the months of January and February, the ICRC, in its role as a neutral intermediary, chaired a meeting between Iraq and Iran during which joint field work undertaken with a view to recovering the remains of soldiers killed during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War was discussed. It also chaired one meeting of the Technical Sub-Committee dealing with missing persons from the 1990-1991 Gulf War, and participated in technical meetings with the parties concerned with a view to preparing joint field exhumations.</p> <p>The mortal remains of 38 persons, presumed to be Iraqi soldiers killed during the Iran-Iraq War, were handed over by the Iranian to the Iraqi authorities under ICRC auspices.</p> <p>The ICRC continued 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. In January, the ICRC provided training in forensic anthropology for 27 members of the Medico-Legal Institute.</p> <h4>Promoting compliance with international humanitarian law</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 spread knowledge of international humanitarian law by organizing presentations for various audiences, including military personnel, prison staff, students and professors.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/update/2011/iraq-update-2011-03-30.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq: women struggle to make ends meet</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12863"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/27/way-of-life-in-danger-as-iraq-fisherman-quit-sea/#respond" title="Comment on Way of life in danger as Iraq fisherman quit sea">No Comments</a></span> Posted on March 27th, 2011 by Suheila Jamil</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/27/way-of-life-in-danger-as-iraq-fisherman-quit-sea/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Way of life in danger as Iraq fisherman quit sea">Way of life in danger as Iraq fisherman quit sea</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/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/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/category/features/" title="View all posts in Features" rel="category tag">Features</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/fao/" rel="tag">Fao</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/faw/" rel="tag">Faw</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/features/" rel="tag">Features</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/fishermen/" rel="tag">fishermen</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/fishing-industry/" rel="tag">fishing industry</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/fishing-industry-decline-of/" rel="tag">fishing industry -decline of</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iraki-kuwaiti-relations/" rel="tag">Iraki / Kuwaiti relations</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iran-iraq-war/" rel="tag">Iran-Iraq War</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/kuwait/" rel="tag">kuwait</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/qurnah/" rel="tag">Qurnah</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/reuters/" rel="tag">Reuters</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/shat-al-arab/" rel="tag">Shat al-Arab</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/war-with-kuwait/" rel="tag">War with Kuwait</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <blockquote><p>Since time immemorial, villagers on Iraq’s Faw peninsula have fished the waters where the Tigris and Euphrates reach the Gulf. But today, they say violent sea border disputes are forcing them off their boats.</p> <p>The town of Faw near Iraq’s coast has around 40,000 inhabitants, most of them fishermen and their families. Town officials say hundreds of families have left in search of other work, leaving the port in danger of becoming a ghost town.</p> <p>Fishermen complain of rises in the cost of fuel and oil shortages. But mostly they worry about confrontation with Iranian and Kuwaiti coast guards.</p> <p>"They jabbed one of our guys with a knife and bound him with ropes and dunked him in and out of the water like torture. His only crime was that he was a fisherman," said Issa Abdul-Wahid, 43, describing a recent incident with a Kuwaiti patrol.</p> <p>"They tell us ‘You do not have waters. Your borders are the mud.’ But these are our waters," he said.</p> <p>Once the owner of his own boat, Abdul-Wahid said Kuwaitis confiscated his vessel and held it for six months before returning it stripped of equipment. Too poor to refurbish it, he has been reduced to working as a labourer on other men’s boats.</p> <p>"We have no other livelihood but fishing, but our suffering is huge… I have a family to feed. What have we done to deserve this, a government that can’t protect us?"</p> <p>Ali Al-Kanaani, head of the Faw city council, said there were once 2,000 fishing boats operating from the town, but now there are just 400-500. Each boat has a pilot and 10 crew. With each fisherman usually supporting a large family, 100 people could depend for their livelihoods on a single boat.</p> <p>Iraq has only narrowest access to the sea. Its Faw peninsula is surrounded by a 50km stretch of sea coast facing Kuwait on one side, and by the wide Shatt al-Arab waterway overlooking the marshes of southern Iran on the other.</p> <p>The Shatt al-Arab is formed where the Tigris and the Euphrates merge at Qurna, a town some believe to be the site of the biblical Garden of Eden. It runs 184km to the Gulf. An invisible line down much of its length serves as the border between Iran and Iraq.</p> <p>Control of the waterway was one of the main reasons for the costly and bitter war between Iran and Iraq that lasted through most of the 1980s. The boundary dispute is still not settled.</p> <p>Kuwait and Iraq have also yet to define a sea border in settlement talks since Iraq’s 1990 invasion. Many at the docks say Iraqis are viewed with hostility by Iranians and Kuwaitis still bitter over Iraq’s wars against them.</p> <p>In January, a Kuwaiti coastguard was killed and five Iraqi fishermen were wounded in a shootout with Iraqi sailors. Kuwait says the clash erupted when an Iraqi boat entered Kuwaiti waters and refused orders from a coast guard patrol to stop.</p> <p>Faw’s mayor said the incident took place in Iraqi waters.</p> <p>In December 2010, Iranian coast guards detained 12 Iraqi fishermen who they say illegally entered Iran’s waters. Three of them were later freed.</p> <p>Like his father and grandfather before him, Khalef Yousif became a fisherman in his teens, learning the old techniques of casting a net from an metal-hulled boat, hauling in catches of silver pomfret, grouper and shrimp.</p> <p>After nearly two decades at sea, he abandoned the life a year and a half ago and moved with his wife and three children from the port of Faw to a small plot 90km north.</p> <p>He has become a farmer, planting cucumbers and tomatoes on land he was able to buy for a pittance because so many other families are moving out of the area, even further north.</p> <p>"The fishing business is not good anymore. Kuwaitis were harassing us wherever we go," he said, sitting near his shack.</p> <p>Waleed al-Sharifi, Faw’s mayor, said the entire fishing industry may soon vanish altogether. Once, fishermen were protected by Iraq’s navy, but the force has yet to be fully rebuilt since the US invasion in 2003.</p> <p>"Unfortunately the Iraqi officials always put the blame on the Iraqi fishermen," he said. "The fishing career is threatened with extinction for many reasons. I would say if the situation stays as it is, the career will become extinct and without it, Faw will be empty of people." </p> </blockquote> <p>Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://www.arabianbusiness.com/way-of-life-in-danger-as-iraq-fisherman-quit-sea-390077.html" class="external" target="_blank">Way of life in danger as Iraq fisherman quit sea – Culture & Society – ArabianBusiness.com</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/20130124142131/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/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/11/30/iraq-civilians-still-suffering-undue-hardship/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent 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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/20130124142131/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/20130124142131/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/20130124142131/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-11731"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/10/28/iraniraq-speeding-up-efforts-to-account-for-1980-1988-war-missing-international-committee-of-the-red-cross/#respond" title="Comment on Iran/Iraq: speeding up efforts to account for 1980-1988 war missing : International Committee of the Red Cross">No Comments</a></span> Posted on October 28th, 2010 by Mohammed Al-Hamadani</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/10/28/iraniraq-speeding-up-efforts-to-account-for-1980-1988-war-missing-international-committee-of-the-red-cross/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Iran/Iraq: speeding up efforts to account for 1980-1988 war missing : International Committee of the Red Cross">Iran/Iraq: speeding up efforts to account for 1980-1988 war missing : International Committee of the Red Cross</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/icrc/" rel="tag">ICRC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/international-committee-of-the-red-cross/" rel="tag">international committee of the red cross</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iran-iraq-war/" rel="tag">Iran-Iraq War</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/missing-persons/" rel="tag">missing persons</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/prisoners-of-war/" rel="tag">prisoners of war</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/red-crescentred-cross/" rel="tag">Red Crescent/Red Cross</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%ac%d9%85%d8%b9%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%a8-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%87%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%ad%d9%85%d8%b1/" rel="tag">جمعية الصليب والهلال الاحمر</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <blockquote><p>Geneva/Tehran/Baghdad (<a title="ICRC" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/iran-iraq-news-2010-10-28" class="external" target="_blank">ICRC</a>) – Representatives of Iran and Iraq today concluded a high-level meeting held in Geneva under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), marking further progress in determining what happened to people missing in connection with the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War.</p> <p>The meeting, which started on 27 October, 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 human remains. <br/>"We very much welcome the progress achieved, and the commitment and determination of the authorities on both sides," said Eric Marclay, the ICRC’s senior deputy head of operations for the Near and Middle East. <br/>Since 2008, as a result of the joint efforts of the Iranian and Iraqi authorities undertaken with ICRC support, the mortal remains of more than 250 persons have been repatriated between the two countries under ICRC auspices, and information has been obtained on the fate of more than 2,000 missing persons. In addition, the ICRC has helped to train forensic professionals in the identification and management of mortal remains, and has provided specialized equipment for forensic laboratories in both Iran and Iraq. <br/>"Over 20 years have passed since the war ended, and tens of thousands of Iranian and Iraqi families still do not have closure, as they still do not know what happened to their missing loved ones," said Mr Marclay. "While the primary responsibility for obtaining and providing information lies with the Iranian and Iraqi governments, the ICRC remains strongly committed to supporting them in their efforts to achieve this aim."</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/iran-iraq-news-2010-10-28" class="external" target="_blank">Iran/Iraq: speeding up efforts to account for 1980-1988 war missing</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11497"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/09/22/september-22nd-1980/#comments" title="Comment on September 22nd 1980">4 Comments</a></span> Posted on September 22nd, 2010 by markfromireland</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/09/22/september-22nd-1980/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to September 22nd 1980">September 22nd 1980</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iran-iraq-war/" rel="tag">Iran-Iraq War</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>Thirty years ago today on September 22<sup>nd</sup> 1980 Saddam Hussein’s forces launched their attack on revolutionary Iran. The scale of deaths and destruction are difficult to grasp, they are in many respects comparable to those of Wordl War I. Iranian casualties are conservatively estimated at one million, Irak’s at 250,000. There are still tens of thousands of people – soldiers and civilians alike missing presumed dead. Huge swathes of the border areas are mined and those mines continue to kill the unwary. </p> <p>Saddam’s defeat started the chain of events that led to his invasion of Kuwait. The uprisings. The years of sanctions. And ultimately to the American led invasion and occupation of Irak. </p> <p>September 22<sup>nd</sup> 1980 ranks as one of the most infamous and bloody, days in an infamous and bloody century.</p> <p>May God preserve us from days like it.</p> <p>markfromireland</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10869"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/06/03/%d8%b1%d8%b3%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d9%83%d8%b4%d9%81-%d8%aa%d9%88%d8%b1%d8%b7-%d8%b5%d8%af%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%af%d9%8a%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%82%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%86%d8%ac%d9%8a-%d9%88%d8%a8%d8%b9/#respond" title="Comment on رسالة تكشف تورط صدر الدين القبانجي وبعض العاملين في مكتب السيستاني بالقتل بالنجف">No Comments</a></span> Posted on June 3rd, 2010 by Khaled</div> <h3><a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/shoes/" rel="tag">Shoes</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/siic-sciri/" rel="tag">SIIC (SCIRI)</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div dir="rtl" align="right"> <blockquote> <p>عمان: وردت الى شبكة اخبار العراق رسالة من احد العراقيين كنى نفسه(( خضير طاهر)) سرد فيها اعترافات احد عناصر فرقة الموت بتورط ابن صدرالدين القبنجي وبعض العاملين في مكتب السيستاني بقتل ضباط عراقيين وفي مايلي نص الرسالة كما وردتنا ونترك للقراء الكرام الحكم…..   -توجد معلومات مؤكدة يتم الآن تداولها في مدينة النجف تتحدث عن إلقاء القبض على أحد عناصر فرق الموت التي يشرف عليها صدر الدين القبنجي أحد قيادات المجلس الأعلى </p> <p>، وان هذا العنصر تم تسجيل أعترافات  مصوره له أكد فيها على ارتكاب جرائم قتل لمجموعة من الضباط العراقيين كجزء من مخطط تصفية الضباط والعلماء العراقيين الذي نفذته إيران.المصدر المطلع الذي نقل لي هذه المعلومات ذكر ان ابن صدر الدين القبنجي المدعو صادق هو أحد المتورطين في هذه الجرائم بحسب أعترافات المعتقل  ، وكذلك أبناء شقيقة القبنجي وهما يعملان في مؤسسة العقائد التابعة للسيستاني . المثير في القضية هو ان رغم وجود اعترافات مصورة لأحد عناصر فرق الموت إلا ان القضاة يخافون أصدار أمر إلقاء القبض على ابن القبنجي وابني شقيقته بسبب سطوة القبنجي وبطشه المعروف وارتباط القضية بمكتب السيستاني ، بل توجد مخاوف حقيقية من حصول عملية اغتيال لهذا المعتقل داخل السجن من اجل طمس معالم الجريمة !وصدر الدين القبنجي يعرفه كل من عاش في إيران ، فهو إيراني مسفر من العراق ، واثناء الحرب العراقية الإيرانية تسلم مناصب عليا في أجهزة الأستخبارات الإيرانية ، وأشرف بنفسه على جزء من عمليات تعذيب الجنود العراقيين الأسرى  ، ويصفه البعض بأنه لايقل قساوة ووحشية عن مدير الأمن العام فاضل البراك و ناظم كزار اذ كان يتلذذ ويستمتع بتعذيب الجنود العراقيين وقتلهم ، ويعد أحد أكثر المخلصين لإيران والحريصين على مصالحها .و يكشف لنا عمل بعض عناصر فرق الموت في مكتب السيستاني عن حقيقة تغلغل المخابرات الإيرانية في جميع المفاصل والمؤسسات والدوائر داخل العراق ، وحينما نتحدث عن ان مرجعية السيستاني هي مجرد فرع للمخابرات الإيرانية في النجف لانقول هذا الكلام جزافا ومن باب إلقاء التهم ، بل هو  واقع معروف لمن يدرك طبيعة الدهاء الفارسي وتكتيكات اللوبي الإيراني في العراق ، فإيران من عادتها تستخدمه عدة أوراق في وقت واحد من اجل أحكام قبضتها ، وقد أستخدمت السيستاني كورقة رابحة ونصبته بهدوء كحاكم لنظام ولاية الفقيه في العراق ووفرت له غطاءا اعلاميا هائلا يمجد به وينفخ صورته ويسوقه الى الناس لدرجة اصبح نقد السيستاني وتدخله في شؤون العراق والكلام عن التنظيم السري الذي يقوده ابنه محمد رضا السيستاني  يعتبرا كفرا ، بل اشد من الكفر بالله ، فبسبب الهالة الأعلامية التي أحيط بها السيستاني أصبح فوق النقد وشخصية مقدسة أكثر قدسية حتى من الله !أين دولة القانون التي يتشدق بها المالكي ، أين العدالة ، أين كرامة العراقيين التي سُحقت بأحذية ( العجم )  الإيرانيين واصبح الشعب العراقي في غالبيته مجرد خدم وعبيد لدى إيران التي تسرق ثرواته وتمزقه الى دويلات طائفية ، وتقتل أبنائه ، وتعين له رئيسا للوزراء واعضاء الحكومة … فهل يوجد أبشع من هذا الذل والهوان ؟ .. المشتكى الى الله وحده طالما ان الشعب العراقي ينام في مقبرة اللامبالاة والضياع والجبن !</p> </blockquote> <p>المصدر :   <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://www.aliraqnews.com/new/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14252:2010-06-03-12-54-36&catid=13:politics&Itemid=26" class="external" target="_blank">رسالة تكشف تورط صدر الدين القبانجي وبعض العاملين في مكتب السيستاني بالقتل بالنجف</a></p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10698"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/25/najaf-cemetery-witness-to-iraqs-tragic-history/#respond" title="Comment on Najaf cemetery witness to Iraq’s tragic history">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 25th, 2010 by Erdla</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/25/najaf-cemetery-witness-to-iraqs-tragic-history/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Najaf cemetery witness to Iraq’s tragic 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Rahim Jabr died in 1981, a foot soldier in the bloody eight year war with Iran, while Naeem was a casualty of the savage sectarian fighting that gripped Baghdad in 2006.</p> <p>They were reunited in the end, their tombstones placed side by side surrounded by a decorative metal cage in the vast Shiite graveyard of Najaf in southern Iraq.</p> <p>There is no holier place on earth for Shiites to be buried than this city of the dead, stretching to the horizon from the doorstep of the tomb of Imam Ali, the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad and Shiite Islam’s most sacred martyr. While Sunnis put their dead in local plots, Shiites for a 1,000 years have been burying their fallen here and everyone has at least one relative in the graveyard.</p> <p>That has made it a kind of map to Iraq’s history, at least that of its Shiite majority. Its natural disasters, wars and tragedies are etched across the tombstones densely packed into every square foot of the dusty, sun-blasted expanse.</p> <p>The violence that has overwhelmed Iraq since 2003, much of it directed against Shiites, fed a massive expansion of the graveyard, swelling it by 40 percent to about three square miles (7.5 square kilometers) – triple the size of the U.S.’s Arlington National Cemetery – according to Ihsan Hamid Sherif, the official in charge of receiving bodies.</p> <p>But in a measure of the country’s gradual return to stability, those working at the cemetery say in recent years the flood of bodies has slowed.</p> <p><a title="20100525_wadi_as_salaam_caption" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4638265163/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" height="394" alt="20100525_wadi_as_salaam_caption" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131im_/http://static.flickr.com/3024/4638265163_725936e72d.jpg" width="575" border="0"/></a>"We used to receive 200 to 250 bodies a day, now it’s less than a hundred," said Najah Abu Seiba, the patriarch of a family that have been gravediggers here for three centuries. "We used to work 24 hours a day."</p> <p>On a recent day this month, the cemetery was peaceful, the wind whipping colorful flags flying over the graves, with only the occasional three-wheeled transports buzzing by, taking relatives to graves.</p> <p>"My mother, father and brothers are buried here," said Mouayed Hamed al-Lami as he brought the wife of his uncle to be buried in the cemetery’s newer section. His relatives clambered out of the minibus hired to carry the body from Baghdad, a three hour drive away.</p> <p>"We are burying her here because it is the place of Imam Ali," he said, gesturing at the distant golden dome of the tomb shrine. "It is the closest place to heaven."</p> <p>The violence has not ended completely. That same day, 119 people died across Iraq in bombings that mostly targeted Shiites. So by evening, minibuses stacked with coffins of many of the victims began pouring into Najaf.</p> <p>But the slowing pace of the dead over the past year has workers hopeful that the era of chaos ushered in by the 2003 U.S. invasion and the fall of Saddam Hussein may be easing.</p> <p>Abu Mohammed al-Sudani says he now even has the time to try to organize the section of the cemetery he manages, a corner called the "Garden of Martyrs," dedicated to the dead of the Mahdi Army militia loyal to anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. They lie in brightly decorated graves adorned with plastic flowers and large portraits of young men dressed in black and often swathed in bandoliers of ammunition.</p> <p>The section has grown every year since 2004, first with the clashes against American forces, then the sectarian wars of 2006-2007 when Shiites and Sunnis were killing each other at a murderous rate, and finally in the 2008 battles with the Iraqi army. In recent years, though, its growth has slowed.</p> <p>"It used to be clashes with the occupier, now those killed are from assassinations, explosions or they died in detention," said al-Sudani. He estimated over 4,000 were buried in his section.</p> <p>A mother dressed in black, accompanied by her son and daughter, weeps at one of the Mahdi Army graves from 2006. They leave behind a smoking stick of incense. Her son walks with a limp.</p> <p>Al-Sudani said that with more time on their hands, they are now looking to damp down the colorful riot of the tombs and standardize their look with uniform grave markers and martyrs’ pictures. "Back then, we didn’t have time to organize the graves," he said.</p> <p>Organization and uniformity of style, however, are totally absent from the rest of the graveyard where tombstones from many eras jostle for room.</p> <p>The graves get older closer to the Imam Ali shrine and the old city that surrounds it, with one section dominated by the fallen from the Iran-Iraq war – a titanic conflict that claimed an estimated million lives.</p> <p>At the time, the style was a three-foot-high (1-meter-high) brick grave marker with a black and white photo of the dead surrounded by a decorative cage. They are everywhere in this section, interspersed with later tombs from other family members. In one, three brothers share the same cage. They all died in 1981.</p> <p>The cemetery itself has twice been the scene of heavy fighting. Wide paths cut through the densely packed older sections, cut by Saddam’s army as it crushed a Shiite uprising after the 1991 Gulf War, when President George Bush called on Iraqis to revolt.</p> <p>The rebels took refuge in the narrow spaces among the crowded tombs and so the Iraqi army bulldozed its way through the graves of its fellow soldiers. To this day, piles of wrecked cages from the graves remain stacked on the roadsides.</p> <p>American Bradley tanks and Humvees would drive down the same paths 13 years later in 2004 battles with the Mahdi Army, who similarly hid among – and in – the graves and tombs.</p> <p>Among the tombstones are the room-size family crypts built by the wealthy, often topped by domes. Many now have splintered door and window frames after scavengers pulled off the metal doors to sell for scrap during the lean years of the U.N. sanctions in the 1990s.</p> <p>Inside the crypts, it smells of rose water, sprinkled by visiting family members and sold by the case along the cemetery’s main thoroughfares.</p> <p>Many of these crypts have underground burial chambers where militiamen used to hide in ambush for U.S. soldiers.</p> <p>Graves from the 1930s and 1940s have their own style, soaring up 10 feet (3 meters) with rounded tops so that people would see them over their neighbors. The inscriptions are often in stucco and the dates use the Islamic calendar.</p> <p>One dating back to 1914 has an epitaph in Persian, a relic of when Iranian Shiites would regularly come here to be buried – a phenomenon that is reviving once more with improved relations between the two countries and ebbing violence.</p> <p>The gravedigger, Abu Seiba, said it is impossible to guess how many bodies are buried here, perhaps tens of millions, as each grave is built on top of an older one.</p> <p>Despite the living through the sectarian war, Abu Seiba finds the Iran-Iraq war graves the most chilling.</p> <p>"Muslims fought Muslims and we killed each other because of the desires of one person, Saddam Hussein," he said. "Even after the fall of Saddam, the killings continued because this thing is part of the Iraqi people, but now, perhaps people are learning to become civilized."</p> <p>Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_IRAQ_HISTORYS_GRAVEYARD?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-05-25-02-06-35" class="external" target="_blank">Najaf cemetery witness to Iraq’s tragic history By PAUL SCHEMM APwriter</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10668"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124142131/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/23/%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%8a-%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%ac%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%8a-%d9%86%d8%ad%d9%86-%d9%86%d8%aa%d8%a7%d8%a8%d8%b9-%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%a3%d9%84%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%b9%d9%88%d9%8a%d8%b6%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a7/#respond" title="Comment on علي لاريجاني: نحن نتابع مسألة تعويضات الحرب ولايمكن نسيانها">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 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