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الاحزاب الاسلامية الشيعية منها والسنية واللبرالية وهي جميعا تمتلك قوى مسلحة(( مليشيات)) من اجل حماية قادتها وتصفية الحسابات مع اركان النظام السابق ومنتسبي حزب البعث والقوى الاخرى التي ترى انها تشكل خطرا عليها او منافسا لها على الساحة السياسية. وفي مايلي هذه التنظيمات والمليشيات التابعة لها.</p> <p>اولا.. المجلس الاسلامي الاعلى الذي كان يطلق على نفسه المجلس الاعلى للثورة الاسلامية. وجناحه العسكري(( فيلق بدر)). لقد تأسس فيلق بدر في ايران عام 1983على ايدي محمد باقر الحكيم رئيس المجلس الاعلى وكان يعاونه في الاشراف على الفيلق اخيه عبد العزيز الحكيم وبعد مقتل محمد باقر الحكيم بانفجار سيارة في مدينة النجف عام 2003 الت قيادة فيلق بدر الى عبد العزيز الحكيم واوجهته(( هادي العامري)) واخيه(( حسن العامري)) وقد تحول الفيلق الى تسمية جديدة هي(( منظمة بدر)) وانيطت بها مهام اجتماعية وثقافيه. لقد قام فيلق بدر بتصفيات عديدة لقيادات مختلفة في حزب البعث واغتيال الضباط من الجيش السابق والمخابرات وخاصة الطيارين الذين شاركوا في الحرب العراقية الايرانية وهو ينسق مع فيلق القدس الايراني بزعامة الجنرال قاسم سليماني الذي بات لاعبا رئيسيا في الساحة الامنية العراقية. وينسق الفيلق مع مليشيات احزاب شيعية في المهام الكبيرة كحملات التصفيات ضد الخصوم. يذكر ان الفيلق لم يكن له نشاطا كبيرا في فترة النظام السابق سوى عملية واحدة او اثنين وكان نتائج احداها اعدام اربعة من عناصرة في سيارة ملغومة دخلوا بها للعراق وتم القاء القبض عليهم وفجرت السيارة بهم من قبل السلطات العراقية بعد ربطهم بالسيارة وهي ملغمة. ومازال الفيلق يحسب له الحساب في اية عمليات مقبلة نظرا لتسليحه بشكل جيد جدا واتساع اعداده التي باتت تقترب من ال(( 100)) الف وله اذرع في جميع المحافظات ماعدا محافظات اقليم كردستان.</p> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/11/17/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d8%b1%d9%83%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%ad%d8%b2%d8%a7%d8%a8-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%b4%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%84%d8%ad%d8%a9/#more-13908" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" 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rel="tag">Syria</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/syrian-unrest-and-protests/" rel="tag">Syrian unrest and protests</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/turkey/" rel="tag">Turkey</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div style="text-align: left; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr"> <blockquote> <p>BAGHDAD, Sept 27 (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/analysis-iraqi-shiites-fear-fallout-of-syria-turbulence" target="_blank" class="external">Reuters</a>) – Iraqi Shi’ites, like their allies in Iran, fret that unrest in Syria could oust President Bashar al-Assad and bring to power hardline Sunnis eager to put their weight behind fellow-Sunnis in Iraq who have lost out since Saddam Hussein’s fall. </p> <p>They fear the turmoil next door could spill into Iraq, reignite sectarian violence and intensify a proxy battle between Iran and Saudi Arabia, which sees itself as the bastion of Sunni Islam and has never come to terms with Shi’ite rule in Baghdad. </p> <p>"If Syria falls, Iraq will work with Iran to influence events in Syria," said a senior Iraqi Shi’ite politician, who asked not to be named. </p> <p>"Change in Syria will cause major problems for Iraq. They (Sunnis) will incite the western (Sunni) part of Iraq." </p> <p>Iraqi Shi’ite militias are unlikely to fight for Assad’s survival, but might respond if Sunnis in Iraq’s western Anbar province were emboldened by the rise of Sunni power in Syria. </p> </blockquote></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/09/28/analysis-iraqi-shiites-fear-fallout-of-syria-turbulence-alertnet/#more-13747" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13699"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/09/18/iraqi-youth-orchestra-combats-terror-with-beethoven-monsters-and-critics/#respond" title="Comment on Iraqi youth orchestra combats terror with Beethoven – Monsters and Critics">No Comments</a></span> Posted on September 18th, 2011 by Harith</div> <h3><a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/state-symphony-orchestra/" rel="tag">State Symphony Orchestra</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div style="text-align: left; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr"> <p>Erbil, Iraq – Can an Iraqi youth orchestra, bringing together different ethnic groups and religions, help to unite a divided country living in the shadow of violence and terror? </p> <p>The orchestra – created on the lines of Argentine-Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim’s Arab-Jewish West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, and comprising Kurds, Arabs, Shiites, Sunnis and Christians – is ready to try. </p> <p>Car bombs, persecution of Christians and corruption are part of everyday life in Iraq, but the new orchestra wants to make a musical contribution toward forging a different kind of future. </p> <p>The orchestra, which will give its first guest performance at a Beethoven festival in the German city of Bonn on October 1, is to unite young musicians from different and usually divided ethnic and religious backgrounds. </p> <p>The founding members of the orchestra, created with British support by a young Iraqi pianist in 2009, include Tuka Saad Dschafar. </p> </p></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/09/18/iraqi-youth-orchestra-combats-terror-with-beethoven-monsters-and-critics/#more-13699" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13618"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/07/04/xinhua-iraqi-public-differ-over-planned-u-s-pullout/#respond" title="Comment on Xinhua: Iraqi public differ over planned U.S. pullout">No Comments</a></span> Posted on July 4th, 2011 by Haleema Al-Azzawi</div> <h3><a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/xinhua-reports/" rel="tag">xinhua reports</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div style="text-align: left; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr"> <p>Little less than six months away from a scheduled U.S. troops’ withdrawal, Iraqi public cannot wait to see the occupiers leave and their national sovereignty restored. Yet unwillingly they expect a continued U.S. presence as few believe the Americans will leave such a deeply-invested and strategically-important place. </p> <p>For Iraqis, the debate on U.S. troops’ departure is intertwined with national dignity, security uncertainty and wariness of its coveting neighbors. Some doubt Iraqi security forces have the capability to curb insurgents and defend the country on their own while others fear a residual American force could sanction continued violence by militias. </p> <p>Quite a few worry neighboring countries will swoop in and exploit the vacuum left by the U.S. whereas a considerable number think the U.S. will manipulate the fragile government behind scenes even if they draw down their troops. </p> <h3>"DON’T EVER THINK U.S. WILL LEAVE EASILY" </h3> </p></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/07/04/xinhua-iraqi-public-differ-over-planned-u-s-pullout/#more-13618" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13374"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/05/16/shiite-groups-behind-iraq-killings-officials-say-reuters/#respond" title="Comment on Shi’ite groups behind Iraq killings, officials say | Reuters">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 16th, 2011 by Burhan Aydin</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/05/16/shiite-groups-behind-iraq-killings-officials-say-reuters/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Shi’ite groups behind Iraq killings, officials say | Reuters">Shi’ite groups behind Iraq killings, officials say | Reuters</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/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/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-qaeda/" rel="tag">Al Qaeda</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/assassination-campaigns/" rel="tag">Assassination campaigns</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/assassinations/" rel="tag">Assassinations</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baath/" rel="tag">Ba'ath</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baath-party/" rel="tag">baath party</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baathists/" rel="tag">baathists</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baghdad/" rel="tag">Baghdad</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/bombs/" rel="tag">bombs</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/death-squads/" rel="tag">Death Squads</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/defense-ministry/" rel="tag">Defense Ministry</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/interior-ministry/" rel="tag">Interior Ministry</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/militia/" rel="tag">Militia</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/militias/" rel="tag">Militias</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/political-violence/" rel="tag">political violence</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/reuters/" rel="tag">Reuters</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/security-operations/" rel="tag">Security operations</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div style="text-align: left; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr"> <p>Shi’ite militias rather than Sunni Islamist al Qaeda are behind a recent wave of assassinations of Iraqi government, police and military officials in Baghdad, security officials said.</p> <p>Militants have used silenced guns and bombs stuck to their targets to kill more than 38 officials in the last five months, according to Baghdad security operations. Interior Ministry sources have reported at least 51 such killings to Reuters in the same period.</p> <p>"This issue is the biggest concern for the security apparatus currently," said Major-General Hassan al-Baidhani, chief of staff for Baghdad’s security operations command.</p> </p></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/05/16/shiite-groups-behind-iraq-killings-officials-say-reuters/#more-13374" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13321"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/05/11/%d8%a7%d8%ad%d8%b2%d8%a7%d8%a8-%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a8%d8%af%d8%a3%d8%aa-%d8%a8%d8%aa%d8%b4%d9%83%d9%8a%d9%84-%d9%82%d9%88%d8%a9-%d8%b9%d8%b3%d9%83%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%ae%d8%a7/#respond" title="Comment on احزاب مسيحية بدأت بتشكيل قوة عسكرية خاصة">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 11th, 2011 by Hussein Al-Bayati</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/05/11/%d8%a7%d8%ad%d8%b2%d8%a7%d8%a8-%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a8%d8%af%d8%a3%d8%aa-%d8%a8%d8%aa%d8%b4%d9%83%d9%8a%d9%84-%d9%82%d9%88%d8%a9-%d8%b9%d8%b3%d9%83%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%ae%d8%a7/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to احزاب مسيحية بدأت بتشكيل قوة عسكرية خاصة">احزاب مسيحية بدأت بتشكيل قوة عسكرية خاصة</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christians/" rel="tag">Christians</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christians-persecution-of/" rel="tag">Christians - persecution of</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christians-right-to-protection/" rel="tag">christians - right to protection</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/gzg-failure-to-protect-christians/" rel="tag">GZG failure to protect Christians</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/militias/" rel="tag">Militias</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%8a%d9%8a%d9%86/" rel="tag">بالمسيحيين</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%aa%d8%b4%d9%83%d9%8a%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%82%d9%88%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%b3%d9%83%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ae%d8%a7%d8%b5%d8%a9-%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%8a/" rel="tag">تشكيل القوة العسكرية الخاصة بالمسيحيين</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div style="text-align: right; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: rtl"> <p>عد رئيس كتلة الرافدين في البرلمان يونادم كنا تشكيل أية قوة عسكرية او ميليشيا ذات طابع ديني او قومي مخالفا للدستور مؤكدا ان حماية الاماكن المقدسة هو من مسؤولية الدولة في وقت بدأت أحزاب وجهات مسيحية بتشكيل قوة عسكرية خاصة لحماية الكنائس والأماكن المقدسة التابعة للمكون المسيحي، بعد استحصال الموافقات الرسمية لتسجيل القوة.</p> </p></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/05/11/%d8%a7%d8%ad%d8%b2%d8%a7%d8%a8-%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a8%d8%af%d8%a3%d8%aa-%d8%a8%d8%aa%d8%b4%d9%83%d9%8a%d9%84-%d9%82%d9%88%d8%a9-%d8%b9%d8%b3%d9%83%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%ae%d8%a7/#more-13321" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12758"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/17/ready-for-an-ouster/#respond" title="Comment on Ready for an ouster?">No Comments</a></span> Posted on March 17th, 2011 by Maryam</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/17/ready-for-an-ouster/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Ready for an ouster?">Ready for an ouster?</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/category/analysis-briefings-commentary/" title="View all posts in Analysis Briefings Commentary" rel="category tag">Analysis Briefings Commentary</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/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/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/constitution/" rel="tag">Constitution</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/corrupt-nation/" rel="tag">corrupt nation</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/corruption/" rel="tag">Corruption</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/corruption-perceptions-index/" rel="tag">corruption perceptions index</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/cronies/" rel="tag">cronies</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/development-fund-for-iraq/" rel="tag">Development Fund For Iraq</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/educational-certificates/" rel="tag">educational certificates</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/english-language-articles/" rel="tag">English Language Articles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/fake-diplomas/" rel="tag">fake diplomas</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/government-employees/" rel="tag">government employees</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/integrity/" rel="tag">Integrity</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/interior-ministry/" rel="tag">Interior Ministry</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/jalal-talabani/" rel="tag">Jalal Talabani</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/militias/" rel="tag">Militias</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/nuri-al-maliki/" rel="tag">Nuri Al-Maliki</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/oil-exports/" rel="tag">oil exports</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/police-brutality/" rel="tag">police brutality</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/president-jalal-talabani/" rel="tag">president jalal talabani</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/reconstruction/" rel="tag">Reconstruction</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sabah-al-saedi/" rel="tag">Sabah al-Saedi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/transparency-international/" rel="tag">Transparency International</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/unemployment/" rel="tag">unemployment</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/unemployment-rates/" rel="tag">unemployment rates</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p style="padding-right: 5px; border-top: #000 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; font-size: 0.8em; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 12px; width: 250px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: #000 2px solid; background-color: #eeeeee">Recent protests in Iraq have put the endemic corruption in the country under the spotlight, writes Salah Hemeid</p> <p>While Iraq’s Jasmine Revolution might not have blossomed because of the crackdown ordered by the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki, which imposed a strict curfew and used police brutality to suppress the protests, the short-lived uprising did draw greater attention to the government’s shortcomings, among them its failure to fight endemic corruption in the country.</p> <p>Protesters in Iraq have made corruption a particular target of their demands, and it has been a major problem in the country at least since the 2003 US-led invasion. Iraq is ranked as the world’s fifth most corrupt nation in the NGO Transparency International’s 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index after Somalia, Afghanistan, Myanmar and Sudan.</p> <p>Iraq’s parliament has announced that it wants to fight corruption in the country, though many Iraqis, frustrated with shoddy government services, graft and high rates of unemployment, doubt that their scandal-besmirched House of Representatives will be able to solve the growing problem. </p> <p>On Sunday, the Iraqi parliament ordered an investigation into reports claiming that thousands of government employees, including top officials who are either members of the governing coalition or its cronies, had forged educational certificates to make their way into the state bureaucracy.</p> <p>According to the allegations, tens of thousands of government employees have faked the certificates in order to obtain jobs or promotion. The country’s parliament warned that anyone convicted of this type of fraud risked prison, but said that those who had been paid for jobs that they had obtained fraudulently would not be required to return paycheques if they admitted their offences. </p> <p>According to some reports, the fake diplomas and educational certificates have been trading at anywhere between $1,500 and $7,000, with officials at Iraq’s ministry of higher education being singled out for blame, the ministry having also licensed a string of shadowy universities over recent years.</p> <p>While the statements made by the Iraqi parliament might seem to indicate that the parliament is trying to push the government into taking more effective action to halt the endemic scams that exist in the country, in fact many lawmakers also face various charges of corruption, including faking certificates to get into parliament, according to the Iraqi media.</p> <p>On Sunday, Sabah Al-Saedi, a member of the parliament’s integrity committee, accused other members of trying to hamper the committee’s work and block attempts to introduce bills to fight corruption. Few Iraqis believe that the country’s parliament can be trusted to lead the campaign against corruption, since lawmakers are blamed for some of the worst corruption and thievery in the country.</p> <p>Lawmakers are accused of enriching themselves through extortion and of giving themselves large salaries and extensive privileges while the rest of the population continues to see standards of living deteriorate and corruption reach feverish levels.</p> <p>Iraqis have been complaining that they are in the dark about lawmakers’ salaries, even though under the country’s constitution the salaries and privileges of senior government officials and members of parliament are supposed to be published in the <i>Official Gazette</i>, something which has never happened.</p> <p>According to various sources, including the lawmakers themselves, an Iraqi member of parliament earns $129,800 a year. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani earns about $700,000 a year in salary, excluding benefits, according to the <i>Aswat Al-Iraq</i> website, while Prime Minister Al-Maliki’s pay is reported to be around $30,000 per month. </p> <p>However, these and other senior officials are also believed to receive further "social allowances" totalling millions of dollars a year that are not subject to scrutiny or auditing. Such figures have contributed to the stretched state of the country’s finances over the past eight years, and they are more than 100 times higher than the current average monthly income in Iraq, which is about $600 a month.</p> <p>Some of the money paid in official salaries could undoubtedly have been used for reconstruction or to create jobs for the country’s unemployed young people. The Iraqi government estimates unemployment rates to stand at 23 per cent of the adult population, although some NGOs say the figures are nearly triple what the government claims. </p> <p>In response to recent simmering public revolt, Iraqi lawmakers agreed on Saturday to cut their monthly pay in half, also agreeing to reduce the salaries of the nation’s top leaders. </p> <p>However, even if implemented, the plan would leave some $20,000 a month in housing and security allowances untouched, as well as additional $90,000 annual stipends.</p> <p>Corruption in Iraq has become endemic, with many Iraqis believing that the government and parliament are so full of compromised members that they can do little to stop it, even if they wanted to. </p> <p>In addition to its effects on reconstruction and economic life, corruption among police officers also has far-reaching consequences on security in a country that is still struggling with violence.</p> <p>Brigadier General Jihad Al-Jabiri, head of the Iraqi Interior Ministry’s explosives department, is currently under investigation for his role in buying useless "bomb detectors" to be used by police at checkpoints. The devices have proven to be useless and can only detect perfumes and detergents. </p> <p>Investigations by London police have indicated that hundreds of deaths have occurred in Iraq over the last few years because of these detectors, known as Alpha 6 and produced by four British companies. </p> <p>Aqeel Al-Turaihi, the interior ministry’s chief of inspections, told the London-based <i>Al-Hayat</i> newspaper on Saturday that the false detectors, consisting of a radio aerial attached to a plastic handle, are usually sold for $18 each, but that they had been billed to Iraq at a cost of 15,000 GBP each. </p> <p>Al-Turaihi accused unnamed officials of blocking investigations into the scam, believed to have cost Iraq some $50 million. Iraqi media reports have indicated that two officials belonging to Al-Maliki’s Daawa Party were embroiled in the deals.</p> <p>Two other Ministry of Interior officials are also under investigation on charges of corruption, with brigadier general Numan Dakhil, commander of Iraq’s rapid response force, being arrested after a set-up in which he was filmed taking a $50,000 bribe.</p> <p>The results of such corruption can be devastating in terms of both casualties and money. Last week, Iraqi security forces foiled a plot to bomb the Baiji oil refinery just days after militants attacked it killing four workers and detonating bombs that sparked a raging fire and shut down the plant for two days. </p> <p>A further bomb on Tuesday evening also shut down the Iraq- Turkey pipeline, which carries a quarter of Iraq’s crude oil exports. The police have been blamed in both incidents for not providing enough security to protect oil facilities that have long been receiving threats from local gangs and militias.</p> <p>Senior police officers and others are also believed to be collaborating with smugglers who steal oil from state-owned installations and then ship it to neighbouring countries such as Iran and Turkey.</p> <p>However, all this is just the tip of the iceberg, since last month Iraqi officials said that they were not able to account for nearly $40 billion that was missing from the Development Fund for Iraq, more than half of the country’s total 2010 budget of $72.4 billion. </p> <p>Development Fund money is collected primarily through state oil sales, and it is intended to aid in the rebuilding of Iraq’s infrastructure and to enhance security and alleviate hardship.</p> <p>Iraqi demonstrators have not so far called for the overthrow of their rulers, unlike in other Arab countries where protesters have demanded the ouster of long-ruling autocrats, explained by an assumption that disgruntled Iraqis are only concerned to rail against the shortcomings of a freely elected government.</p> <p>However, the reason Iraqis may have held off on demands for regime change may have more to do with more pressing concerns of corruption, rising unemployment, high food prices, lack of basic services and inadequate policing that have all stalled reconstruction efforts in this war-devastated nation. </p> <p>In the Iraqi case, the country’s corrupt and inefficient politicians are the despots, having little legitimacy even if elected and being ready for ousting. 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://www.hrw.org/node/95608" class="external" target="_blank">عند مفترق الطرق: حقوق الإنسان في العراق بعد ثماني سنوات من الغزو بقيادة الولايات المتحدة</a>" الذي جاء في 102 صفحة يدعو الحكومة إلى حماية حقوق الجماعات والفئات المستضعفة وإلى تعديل قانون العقوبات وجميع القوانين الأخرى التي تميز ضد النساء وتخرق الحق في حرية التعبير. ويدعو التقرير أيضاً بغداد إلى فتح تحقيقات نزيهة ومستقلة في جميع مزاعم الإساءات بحق المحتجزين والأقليات والصحفيين.</p> <p>وقال جو ستورك، نائب المدير التنفيذي لقسم الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا في هيومن رايتس ووتش: "بعد ثماني سنوات من الغزو الأمريكي، فالحياة في العراق تتدهور بالنسبة للنساء والأقليات، بينما الصحفيون والمحتجزون يواجهون انتهاكات حقوقية جسيمة. اليوم يقف العراق على مفترق الطرق – إما أن يتبنى مبادئ إجراءات التقاضي السليمة وحقوق الإنسان، وإلا فهو في خطر التحول إلى دولة بوليسية".</p> <p>الغزو في عام 2003 وما تلاه من فوضى أدى لتكبد المدنيين العراقيين خسائر فادحة. تدهور الوضع الأمني أدى لعودة بعض ممارسات العدالة التقليدية والتطرف السياسي المدفوع بتوجهات دينية، مما كان له أثر سلبي على حقوق النساء، داخل البيت وخارجه، كما تبينت هيومن رايتس ووتش.</p> <p>روجت الميليشيات لأفكار كراهية المرأة واستهدفت النساء والفتيات بالاغتيالات والترهيب لإبعادهن عن المشاركة في الحياة العامة. وبشكل متزايد تتعرض النساء والفتيات للوقوع ضحايا في بيوتهن نفسها، بسبب جملة من التعديات المتصورة للمرأة على شرف الأسرة أو المجتمع. وتنتشر ظاهرة الإتجار بالنساء والفتيات داخل وخارج العراق لأغراض الاستغلال الجنسي.</p> <p>وقال جو ستورك: "تحملت النساء والفتيات العراقيات أكبر الأعباء في هذا النزاع وما تلاه من انعدام للأمان". وتابع: "بالنسبة للنساء العراقيات المتمعات ببعض أعلى مستويات تدابير الحماية الحقوقية والمشاركة الاجتماعية في المنطقة قبل عام 1991، كان ما حدث غصة مريرة في الحلق يصعب تحملها".</p> <p>رغم التحسن الذي طرأ على الحالة الأمنية منذ عام 2008 مما أدى لانخفاض معدلات قتل العاملين بالإعلام، إلا أن الصحافة مهنة خطيرة في العراق، على حد قول هيومن رايتس ووتش. قام متطرفون ومعتدون مجهولون بقتل صحفيين وتفجير مقارهم ومكاتبهم. وتزايد تعرض الصحفيين للمضايقات والترهيب والتهديد والاحتجاز والاعتداءات البنية من قبل قوات الأمن التابعة للمؤسسات الحكومية والأحزاب السياسية. كما يسارع المسؤولون الحكوميون بمقاضاة الصحفيين ومطبوعاتهم إذا كتبوا عنهم موضوعات انتقادية.</p> <p>وقال جو ستورك: "مع مشاهدة ما حدث في شوارع مصر وتونس، على الحكومة العراقية أن تتخذ خطوات ملموسة من أجل حماية حرية التعبير".</p> <p>كما انتهت هيومن رايتس ووتش إلى أن المحققين العراقيين لجأوا بشكل ممنهج إلى الإساءة للمحتجزين، بغض النظر عن طائفتهم، وفي العادة يسيئون إليهم لانتزاع الاعترافات. ورغم معرفة وجود خطر التعذيب الواضح، فإن السلطات الأمريكية أحالت آلاف المحتجزين العراقيين إلى الحبس طرف السلطات العراقية، التي استمرت في ممارسة التعذيب القائم منذ عصر صدام حسين وقوات التحالف من بعده.</p> <p>بينما أصدرت الحكومة قوانين لحماية بعض جماعاتها المُهمشة، وفي بعض الحالات بادرت بفتح برامج مساعدات هامة، فإنها ما زالت تخفق في حماية بعض أضعف الفئات من المواطنين العراقيين، على حد قول هيومن رايتس ووتش. الأشخاص النازحون داخلياً والأقليات وأصحاب الإعاقات من بين الأكثر عرضة للخطر. الكثير من المساعدات الحكومية وبرامج الحماية لا تعمل بكامل طاقتها أو غير كافية لبلوغ أكثر من يحتاجون إليها.</p> <p>وقالت هيومن رايتس ووتش إن هناك أكثر من 1.5 مليون عراقي فروا من أحيائهم السكنية مع تمزيق العنف الطائفي لتجمعاتهم السكنية في عامي 2006 و2007. الآلاف من النازحين داخلياً يعيشون حالياً في بنايات مهجورة استوطنوها، دون توفر الضروريات الأساسية لديهم، مثل المياه النظيفة والكهرباء والصرف الصحي، على حد قول هيومن رايتس ووتش.</p> <p>أما الجماعات المسلحة التي تتبنى الأفكار المتطرفة فقامت بتنفيذ هجمات على الأقليات، أدت إلى ضرر بالغ لحق بجماعات من السكان الأصليين في العراق، وأجبرت الآلاف على الفرار إلى خارج البلاد دون نية للعودة. أخفقت الحكومة أيضاً في وقف الهجمات التي استهدفت الصابئة المندائيين والمسيحيين والأزديين، بالإضافة إلى جماعات أخرى.</p> <p>واكتشفت هيومن رايتس ووتش أن الآلاف ممن بُترت أطرافهم والجرحى خلال سنوات النزاع المسلح وجدوا أنفسهم وقد تحولوا إلى هامش المجتمع، غير قادرين على العثور على عمل، أو الحصول على رعاية طبية ملائمة، أو حتى الحصول على أطراف صناعية جديدة ومقاعد 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Human Rights Watch conducted research in seven cities across Iraq during 2010 and found that, beyond the country’s continuing violence and crimes, human rights abuses are commonplace.</p> <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><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2011/02/02/crossroads" class="external" target="_blank">Read the Report</a> <br/>ISBN: 1-56432-736-1</p> <p><strong><font size="3">Get the Report</font></strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/iraq0211W.pdf" class="external" target="_blank">Download this report</a> (PDF, 708.78 KB)</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://www.kintera.org/site/apps/ka/ec/product.asp?c=dhLOK6PGLoF&b=3444291&en=jkLOI1PLKjKTL6OQJ9KMKbMULnKZI8ONJbKVKgP0JuLbG&ProductID=903595" class="external" target="_blank">Purchase this report in print</a></li> </ul></div> <p> The 102-page report, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://www.hrw.org/node/95606" class="external" target="_blank">At a Crossroads: Human Rights in Iraq Eight Years After the US-led Invasion</a>," calls on the government to protect the rights of vulnerable groups and to amend its penal code and all other laws that discriminate against women and violate freedom of speech. The report also urges Baghdad to open independent and impartial investigations into all allegations of abuse against detainees, minorities, and journalists.</p> <p>"Eight years after the US invasion, life in Iraq is actually getting worse for women and minorities, while journalists and detainees face significant rights violations," said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "Today, Iraq is at a crossroads – either it embraces due process and human rights or it risks reverting to a police state."</p> <p>The 2003 invasion and its resulting chaos have exacted an enormous toll on Iraq’s citizens. The deterioration of security has promoted a return to some traditional justice practices and religiously inflected political extremism, which have had a deleterious effect on women’s rights, both inside and outside the home, Human Rights Watch found.</p> <p>Militias promoting misogynist ideologies have targeted women and girls for assassination, and intimidated them to keep them from participating in public life. Increasingly, women and girls are victimized in their own homes for a variety of perceived transgressions against family or community honor. Trafficking in women and girls in and out of the country for sexual exploitation is widespread.</p> <p>"The women and girls of Iraq have borne the biggest brunt of this conflict and resulting insecurity," Stork said. "For Iraqi women, who enjoyed some of the highest levels of rights protection and social participation in the region before 1991, this has been an enormously bitter pill to swallow."</p> <p>Although improvements in security since 2008 have reduced the murder rate of media workers, journalism is a hazardous occupation in Iraq, Human Rights Watch said. Extremists and unidentified assailants kill journalists and bomb their offices. Increasingly, journalists find themselves harassed, intimidated, threatened, detained, and physically assaulted by security forces attached to government institutions or political parties. Senior politicians are quick to sue journalists and their publications for unflattering articles.</p> <p>"Watching what’s happened in the streets of Egypt and Tunisia, the Iraqi government should take meaningful steps to protect freedom of speech," said Stork.</p> <p>Human Rights Watch also found that Iraqi interrogators routinely abuse detainees, regardless of sect, usually to coerce confessions. Despite knowing there was a clear risk of torture, US authorities transferred thousands of Iraqi detainees to Iraqi custodians, who have continued a tradition of torture that was also the case under Saddam Hussein and coalition forces.</p> <p>While the government has passed laws to protect some of its marginalized communities, and in some cases has instituted significant assistance programs, it is still failing some of its most vulnerable citizens, Human Rights Watch said. Internally displaced persons, minorities, and persons with disabilities are among those at risk. Many of the government’s assistance or protection programs are sub-operational or are insufficient to reach those who need it most.</p> <p>More than 1.5 million Iraqis fled their neighborhoods as sectarian violence tore up their communities in 2006 and 2007. Thousands of internally displaced persons now live in squatter settlements without access to basic necessities such as clean water, electricity, and sanitation, Human Rights Watch said.</p> <p>Armed groups proclaiming intolerant ideologies carry out assaults on minority communities, causing grave harm to Iraq’s indigenous populations and forcing thousands to flee abroad with no plans to return. The government has failed to stop attacks targeting Sabian Mandaeans, Christians, and Yazidis, among other groups.</p> <p>And the thousands of amputees wounded during years of armed conflict find themselves relegated to the margins of society, unable to find work, access adequate medical care, or even to obtain new prostheses and wheelchairs, Human Rights Watch found.</p> <p>"Iraq’s future as a democratic society based on respect for fundamental human rights will in large part depend on whether Iraqi authorities will adequately defend those rights," Stork said. 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The occupation has been and continues to be so destructive and so violent that one in four Iraqis are estimated to be dead or displaced. One in five Iraqis has been made a refugee or an internally displaced person (IDP). </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>Serene Assir, <i>The Electronic Intifada,</i> 10 January 2011 </p> <p><em>Serene Assir is a Lebanese independent writer and journalist based in Spain.</em></p> <p>Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11723.shtml" class="external" target="_blank">ei: Occupation of Iraq destroys women’s lives</a></p> </p></div> <p>In particular, the role and situation of women and girls has declined precipitously compared to prior to the invasion. From torture to rape to assassination, from forced separation for mixed couples to women and their children enduring the death of their husbands and fathers, from a loss of educational rights to expulsion from the workplace and public life, and from sexual slavery to forced flight or enforced disappearance, for the past seven years Iraqi women and girls have endured the most terrifying of fates. They are living at the mercy of an occupation that both seeks to terrorize them into submission, and to use them as objects for the terrorization of the whole of Iraqi society. </p> <h3>No security </h3> <p>Dr. Souad al-Azzawi, who authored a study on Iraqi women entitled "Deterioration of Iraq women’s rights and living conditions under occupation," published in January 2008, told The Electronic Intifada: "The most significant loss that Iraqi women have suffered is a complete and total loss of security." She explained that the loss of security entails both the loss of physical security and "the economic, social and civil securities Iraqi women were so accustomed to prior to the occupation." </p> <p>In fact, it appears that the loss of physical and other aspects of security have a Catch-22 effect on the lives of women. The lack of legal and institutional support for women by an Iraqi puppet government which is at best ineffective has meant that in the vast majority of cases the criminals, mafias, militias, death squads, US occupation forces and Iraqi police and army forces committing crimes against women are not held accountable for their actions. This has in turn encouraged the development of a situation characterized by lawlessness and criminality, in which women are prime targets. As such, many women have been forced to leave their jobs and quit their education, for fear that they may be the next victim of rape or assassination. </p> <p>According to al-Azzawi, Iraqi women have had to resort to "the relative security of their homes," often taking their children out of school too if they were the only parent able to accompany them there and back. </p> <p>Echoing al-Azzawi’s words, an Iraqi refugee speaking on condition of anonymity said that she was forced to leave Iraq precisely because of death threats issued against her by militias who had found out she was actively working as a journalist seeking to expose the injustices taking place against women. Had she stayed in Iraq, the threats likely would have been fulfilled. </p> <p>"Not only was I being targeted, but I was also without protection, given that Iraq has no government to speak of," she explained. She added that "I could have been killed at any moment, and no one would have been held accountable for it. It was for one reason alone that I fled: because I had no choice." </p> <h3>Criminal levels of poverty </h3> <p>The figures speak for themselves. According to a dossier on Iraqi women published by the BRussells Tribunal, prior to the invasion 72 percent of working women were government employees. The dismantlement of state institutions immediately after the invasion meant that these women became unemployed. Instability and ineffective institutions in Iraq render it impossible to pinpoint the total rate of unemployment today, but estimates range from 15 percent to 70 percent. The few stable jobs that exist, according to the dossier, are usually given to men, though a growing number of female-headed households means that many women need to take extraordinary risks in order to try and cater for their children ("<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://www.brussellstribunal.org/pdf/Women.pdf" class="external" target="_blank">Iraqi Women Under Occupation</a>" [PDF]). </p> <p>The same economic insecurity affects Iraqi refugee families. Aseer al-Madaien, the Protection Officer for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) – Syria, says that out of 139,000 registered Iraqis in Syria, 28 percent are households headed by women. In total, estimates for the total number of displaced Iraqis, including both refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), range up to almost five million, according to the international organization Medecins Sans Frontieres, which believes that there are 2.5 million Iraqi IDPs and 2.3 million refugees. </p> <p>IDPs suffer both extreme vulnerability and insecurity, as they seek refuge in the homes of relatives and friends, said Hana Al Bayaty, member of the Executive Committee of the BRussells Tribunal. Many of them are the victims of ethnic cleansing, whereby a country once free of sectarianism is increasingly witnessing the targeting of persons on the basis of their religion or ethnicity. Mixed marriages in these conditions are all too often broken up by force, according to a report published by the UN-affiliated IRIN humanitarian news agency ("<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=26268" class="external" target="_blank">Mixed Marriages confront Sectarian Violence</a>," 6 April 2006). </p> <p>The majority of Iraqi refugees have headed to neighboring countries Syria and Jordan, where they are not allowed to work, as they are legally considered "guests." In 2007, the UNHCR reported that an estimated 40 percent of Iraq’s middle class had fled the country. Not only have almost half of those with the qualifications and experience to help rebuild Iraq left the country, but they are also suffering from the most extreme form of disempowerment, according to Al Bayaty. </p> <p>Al-Azzawi explained that "For the educated middle class, this situation is shattering as everything we have worked so hard to earn and build up over decades of war and sanctions is being brought down by military force before our very eyes." </p> <p>Unable to work legally, it is often refugee women who take upon themselves the burden and the risk of working as they are less likely to be asked for documentation on the streets of Amman, Damascus and beyond, and they thereby hope to be less likely to be deported. </p> <p>Unemployment levels in Syria and Jordan, however, mean that even illegal work is hard to come by. It is because of this that the phenomenon of forced prostitution is becoming increasingly rife. The growing problem of sex trafficking is partly caused by poverty. </p> <p>According to al-Azzawi, the lack of work permits, qualifications and opportunities "leads some women to prostitution in order to feed their children and their families." In other cases, the sheer lack of protection faced by some women push them into prostitution. Problems in such cases include threats of kidnapping issued against women should they not accept to prostitute themselves. These threats are issued especially against women whose husbands are dead or missing. "The women of Iraq live in a very fragile situation as a result of the American occupation’s crimes," al-Azzawi said. </p> <h3>Death, torture and enforced disappearance </h3> <p>No statistical reference can adequately convey the sheer suffering experienced by the people of Iraq, as a whole, from the genocidal sanctions period through the invasion and ensuing occupation. Current estimates place the number of dead at anywhere between 1.5 million and 2.5 million. </p> <p>According to Iraqi human rights analyst and advocate Asma al-Haidari, "Up to one million Iraqis have been forcibly disappeared." Behind the enforced disappearances are the US army, Iraqi government forces including the army and police, and al-Qaeda and other militias that operate freely across the country, according to a presentation given by Dirk Adriaensens, member of the BRussells Tribunal Executive Committee, at a London conference organized by the International Committee Against Disappearances on 9-12 December 2010. According to calculations by Adriaensens, based on UNHCR statistics, 20 percent of internally displaced Iraqi families have reported cases of missing children ("<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://www.brussellstribunal.org/pdf/Disappearances_missing_persons_in_Iraq.pdf" class="external" target="_blank">Enforced Disappearance. The Missing Persons of Iraq</a>" [PDF]). </p> <p>It is also understood that, given that there is a very real and justified fear of retaliation against families who report the disappearances of their loved ones, many others suffer in silence. Thousands of detainees, some of them in secret, illegal prisons, according to al-Azzawi, are women. Estimates published in 2008 by the Iraqi Parliamentary Women’s Committee and the Iraqi Ministry of Women’s Affairs indicate that between one and two million Iraqi women are widows. </p> <p>Inside Iraq’s jails, legal or not, cases of torture and sexual abuse have been widely reported. Revelations by WikiLeaks published on 22 October 2010 were described by Iraqi activists such as Sabah al-Mukhtar, president of the Arab Lawyers’ Union, as just "the tip of the iceberg," as he said on an Al-Jazeera English interview on 24 October. According to al-Azzawi, women are usually jailed on trumped-up charges of terrorism, where there is no proof and while there is no adequate legal system to ensure their right to a fair trial. "Many are awaiting execution," al-Azzawi added. </p> <p>Further, when it is the man who disappears, whether he is dead or missing, women and their families have to fend for themselves in a hellish situation. Out of this horror comes forth one of the more obtuse trends, inexistent in Iraq up until 2003, of families giving their daughters away in early marriage for fear of being unable to adequately support them. </p> <p>One immediate effect of this phenomenon is the fact that girls aged 13, 14 and 15 sold into early marriage lose their right to education. As figures currently stand, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report published on 1 September 2010, for every 100 boys in school, there are only 89 girls ("<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042705/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MCOI-89RD6Y?OpenDocument" class="external" target="_blank">Girls Education in Iraq 2010</a>" [PDF]). </p> <p>"Lots of those little girls are very bright and are willing to finish their education if they are allowed to," said al-Azzawi. </p> <p>Worse still is the flourishing of what are known as "pleasure marriages." These are short-term marriages conducted out of court, whereby separation is also very simple. It is a practice that Iraqi women’s rights advocates describe as linked to prostitution, because of the wrongful abuse of the practice by men in power, often blackmailing fathers into giving their daughters away in a "pleasure marriage," and also because once a girl or a woman has married in this way and has received alimony for her short-term commitment, she will find it very difficult to reintegrate back into her family. </p> <p>"Many girls are forced into prostitution and ultimately sex trafficking this way," al-Azzawi added. </p> <h3>Forced Islamization of society </h3> <p>It is deeply telling that Iraqi society is becoming forcibly Islamized by militias tied to the Iraqi puppet government, which is dependent upon the United States for its survival. Meanwhile, Washington claims to be fighting a war on Islamic terrorism. The reality, as is frequently the case, is the precise opposite. Previously a secular state, Iraqi society is becoming forcibly transformed into a theocracy. In such systems, women and girls inevitably lose. </p> <p>The results of the proliferation of fundamentalist militias are varied. While reports of Christian women veiling in order to avoid attacks are troubling in the Iraqi context, what is potentially much worse is that the notion of an Iraqi state for all its citizens is fast disappearing. Not only does this mean that Iraqi girls are no longer safe on the streets; it also means that if the occupation fulfills its goals, Iraqi "career women" may be a thing of the past. </p> <p>Al-Azzawi notes that "Economically the country has lost a huge, skilled working force, which is exactly what the occupation planned to do, and the lives of millions of working women and families were shattered." </p> <p>Considering that there is not a single right enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that the US occupation has not violated — as the International Initiative to Prosecute US Genocide in Iraq team found when working in 2009 to bring a legal case for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide against four US presidents and four UK prime ministers — it is amazing yet encouraging that the US occupation’s goals have failed. </p> <p>Not only is the US administration under President Barack Obama still battling to maintain control over a country whose people resist in 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