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<h1><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/">Gorilla’s Guides</a></h1> <h2>“The only thing these sand niggers understand is force and I’m about to introduce them to it.”</h2> <div id="search"><form method="get" id="searchform" action="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/"> <div><input type="text" value="" name="s" id="s"/> <input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Search"/> </div> </form> </div> </div> <hr/> <div id="content" class="span-13 append-1"> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-14083"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/2012/04/08/%d8%b9%d8%b2%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%af%d9%88%d8%b1%d9%8a-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%88%d9%84-%d8%af%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%84-%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a6%d9%8a-%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%89-%d8%a8%d9%82%d8%a7%d8%a6%d9%87-%d8%b9%d9%84/#respond" title="Comment on عزة الدوري في اول دليل مرئي على بقائه على قيد الحياة ويهدد بتغيير النظام">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 8th, 2012 by Mohammed Al-Hamadani</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/2012/04/08/%d8%b9%d8%b2%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%af%d9%88%d8%b1%d9%8a-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%88%d9%84-%d8%af%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%84-%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a6%d9%8a-%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%89-%d8%a8%d9%82%d8%a7%d8%a6%d9%87-%d8%b9%d9%84/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to عزة الدوري في اول دليل مرئي على بقائه على قيد الحياة ويهدد بتغيير النظام">عزة الدوري في اول دليل مرئي على بقائه على قيد الحياة ويهدد بتغيير النظام</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baath/" rel="tag">Ba'ath</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baath-return-of/" rel="tag">Ba'ath - return of</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/izzat-al-douri/" rel="tag">Izzat al-Douri</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>اكد الأمين العام لحزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي نائب رئيس مجلس قيادة الثورة المنحل عزة الدوري السبت في اول دليل مرئي على بقائه على قيد الحياة منذ العام 2003 أن البعث اليوم في العراق يفجر الثورة التي ارادتها الامة ويؤججها ودعا المقاومة والمعارضة إلى مواجهة المشروع الفارسي في البلاد فيما مجد بمبادئ حزب البعث ورسالته مشددا على انه النموذج والمثل والقيادة.وقال الدوري في تسجيل تلفزيوني نشر على عدد مواقع الانترنيت إن بعثنا في عيد الخامس والستين خاصة في عراق العروبة والاسلام كان وما يزال وسيبقى إلى الأبد يمثل روح الشعب العظيم وروح والامة المجيدة والنموذج والمثل والريادة والقيادة.وأضاف الدوري متوجها إلى "جماهير الأمة" وقال بعثنا اليوم يقود في العراق ما ارادته الامة ويفجر ثورتها الكبرى ويؤجهها ويحمل مبادئها الاساسية واعتبر البعث في العراق حاليا في "منازلة تاريخية كبرى.واكد الدوري البعث ما زال ثائرا ومناضلا وهدد بمواصلة المقاومة لتغيير النظام السياسي واعتبر أن الحكومة الحالية حولت العراق إلى لقمة سائغة بيد الصفويين وأضاف حتى باتت المواجهة معهم وجها لوجه.وحذر الدوري من انه إذا سقط العراق بيد الصفويين فإن لا اميركا ولا غيرها قادر على الوقوف بوجد المد الصفوي وسيجتاح الأمة العربية من أقصاها إلى اقصاها ودعا المقاومة والمعارضة في العراق إلى العمل المشترك من اجل مواجهة المشروع الفارسي في العراق".ووصف الدوري المرحلة منذ تغيير النظام في العراق بانها تسع سنوات من القتل والتخريب والتهجير.وتعد كلمة الدوري المتلفزة اول ظهور له منذ عام 2003 اول دليل حسي على بقائه على قيد الحياة بعد اختفائه منذ ذلك الوقت وانتشار شائعات عن وفاته نتيجة اصابته بسرطان الدم الذي يعاني منه منذ فترة طويلة. وعلى الرغم من ظهور تسجيلات صوتيه للدوري خلال السنوات الماضية فإن مراقبين دائما ما كانوا يشككون بها خصوصا مع اعتقال اغلب مسؤولي النظام السابق وعلى رأسهم صدام حسين الذي اعدم نهاية عام 2006.كما يعد ظهور الدوري المطلوب للسلطات العراقية بتهمة قيادة العمليات المسلحة بزي عسكري وبرتبه المهيب الركن التي كان الرئيس العراقي السابق صدام حسين الوحيد الذي منح هذه الرتبه العسكرية له بصفته القائد العام للقوات المسلحة العراقية والامين العام لقيادة قطر البعث العراقي اشارة الى ان الدوري يعتبر نفسه الزعيم الفعلي لحزب البعث العراقي في الوقت الحالي.وتأتي كلمة الدوري بمناسبة الذكرة الخامسة والستين لتأسيس حزب البعث في السابع من نيسان في العام 1947 متزامنة مع الذكرى التاسعة لسقوط بغداد في التاسع من نيسان عام 2003 .</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13845"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/10/26/%d9%88%d8%b2%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%ae%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%82%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%a4%d9%83%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%ad%d9%85%d9%84%d8%a9-%d8%a7/#respond" title="Comment on وزارة الداخلية العراقية تؤكد ان حملة اعتقال البعثيين تتصلُ بمؤامرة ٍللاستيلاء على السلطة">No Comments</a></span> Posted on October 26th, 2011 by Nabil</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/10/26/%d9%88%d8%b2%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%ae%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%82%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%a4%d9%83%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%ad%d9%85%d9%84%d8%a9-%d8%a7/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to وزارة الداخلية العراقية تؤكد ان حملة اعتقال البعثيين تتصلُ بمؤامرة ٍللاستيلاء على السلطة">وزارة الداخلية العراقية تؤكد ان حملة اعتقال البعثيين تتصلُ بمؤامرة ٍللاستيلاء على السلطة</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baath/" rel="tag">Ba'ath</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>كشف نائب وزير الداخلية لشؤون الاستخبارات اللواء حسين كمال عن اعتقال ما لا يقل عن مئتين واربعين شخصية سابقة من حزب البعث المحظور وضباط عسكريين سابقين في ما يتصل بمؤامرة للاستيلاء على السلطة. وأبلغ اللواء كمال وكالة رويترز ان هذه المجموعة كانت تخطط لاطلاق اعمال تخريب وتمرد للاطاحة بالعملية السياسية في البلاد بعد انسحاب القوات الاميركية من البلاد. وقال كمال ان تقارير للمخابرات تشير الى ان أكثر من ثلاثمئة مشتبه به يتنمون لمجموعة كانت تنشط في مختلف ارجاء البلاد بما في ذلك محافظات بغداد والنجف والناصرية وواسط ونينوي وديالى وكركوك والانبار، ممتنعا عن تقديم اي تفاصيل عن المؤامرة. بدوره مصدر قريب من رئيس الحكومة نوري المالكي اكد لوكالة رويترز، ان تقارير المخابرات الاخيرة كشفت عن مؤامرة خطط لها مجموعة من الاعضاء السابقين بالبعث للاستيلاء على السلطة بعد انسحاب القوات الاميركية. </p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13374"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/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/20130206052331/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/20130206052331/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/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-qaeda/" rel="tag">Al Qaeda</a>, <a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/defense-ministry/" rel="tag">Defense Ministry</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/interior-ministry/" rel="tag">Interior Ministry</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/militia/" rel="tag">Militia</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/militias/" rel="tag">Militias</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/political-violence/" rel="tag">political violence</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/reuters/" rel="tag">Reuters</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/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/20130206052331/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-12892"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/29/syrian-unrest-background-notes/#comments" title="Comment on Syrian Unrest: Background Notes">3 Comments</a></span> Posted on March 29th, 2011 by markfromireland</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/29/syrian-unrest-background-notes/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Syrian Unrest: Background Notes">Syrian Unrest: Background Notes</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/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/20130206052331/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/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baath/" rel="tag">Ba'ath</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/syria/" rel="tag">Syria</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/syrian-unrest-and-protests/" rel="tag">Syrian unrest and protests</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>This was the one that lots of people said couldn’t happen. Pardon me a moment whilst I indulge in a spot of self-indulgence: </p> <p style="margin-left: 1.5em"><font color="#ff0000"><snort><br/> <br/></font><span style="margin-left: 3.5em"><font color="#f79646"><giggle></font></span></p> <blockquote> <p>It’ll never happen in Syria. The regime is too entrenched. And anyway Bashar’s popular. </p> </blockquote> <p style="margin-left: 3.5em"><font color="#f79646"></giggle></font> </p> <p><span style="margin-left: -2.5em"><font color="#ff0000"></snort></font></span></p> <p>It’s not surprising that the Syrian government has been unable to avoid the wave of Arabic unrest triggered by Mohamed Bouazizi’s self-immolation, what’s surprising is that Syria is the latest rather than the first country to be affected.</p> <p>Syria is ruled by the Ba’ath, who seized power in the <em>coup of 8 March</em>. The current Ba’athist <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">*Father of the current President, Bashar al-Assad. Bashar al-Assad wasn’t his father’s original choice of successor, that role was played by his brother Bassel al-Assad whose liking for fast women was exceeded only by his liking for fast cars.and who died in a car crash in 1994. It remains to be seen whether Bashar al-Assad is <strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hama_massacre" class="external" target="_blank">as ruthless as his father</a></strong> was.<br/> I suspect the answer is that even if he is he has less room for manoeuvre than his father did. I also suspect that he’s a bit more tactically flexibly than his father. But both of those are hunches and should be taken with several grains of salt. – mfi</span> government is the successor to the hard-liner faction who, led by Hafez al-Assad,<strong>*</strong>  successfully launched the 1970 "<em>Syrian Corrective Revolution</em>". Under the constitution promulgated in 1973 the country is  nominally a parliamentary democracy (which happens to allow only the Ba’ath Party to rule). If, having read that, the analogy that springs to your mind is the Soviet Union of the 1980s, then you’re right in more ways than one. Like the Soviet Union the economy is dominated by the Ba’ath who nationalised everything in sight and is now in a disastrous state: The party itself long since shed even the remnants of its ideology and has become nothing more than a vehicle for clientilist politicking by which members of a <em>nomenklatura</em> dispense patronage. Additionally the country is governed under a state-of-emergency law that harks back to 1963. Under the provisions of this law the various arms of the security services can (and do) treat the citizenry as they wish with little or no fear of retribution. </p> <p>The protesters demands so far seem to be:</p> <ul> <li>End the state-of-emergency. </li> <li>Free all political prisoners. </li> <li>Allow the return of political exiles. </li> <li>Eliminate corruption. </li> </ul> <p>As far as I know there haven’t, thus far, been widespread calls for President Assad to step down/be overthrown but it’s early days. </p> <p>What’s significant is where the protests started. I invite you to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/syria_rel90.jpg" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>take a look at a map of Syria</strong></a> before reading further. Locate Damascus and then trace south and little west. Just before you get to the Jordanian border you’ll see Daraa. </p> <p>Daraa’s a God-awful dump it has a couple of caves and some very boring ruins. That’s it. It’s the capital of Daraa governorate whose only industry is agriculture  The governorate is in a bad way as a result of the drought which so far has lasted for 4 years and shows no sign of remitting. The town’s population has been greatly swollen by peasant farmers and their families who’ve been driven off the land by the drought. Like the rest of the south it’s more like Jordan than Syria and that includes religiously. Daraa’s population tends to Salafism and a fair proportion of its young men have fought in Irak against the American invaders. Many of these have recently been rounded up and hauled off to prison in Damascus where they’ve been joined by any teenager unfortunate enough to have been caught spraying anti-government graffiti on the walls (most of these according to a contact resident in Daraa town were below 16 years of age). The same contact tells us by email that with a few exceptions both groups of prisoner have been released to their parents. Many of them in a state close to collapse and all them bearing the marks of having been subjected to torture. Their parents, family, extended families, and neighbours are understandably less than pleased at the way their loved ones have been treated. Then there’s the fact that in the region of sixty demonstrators have been shot in the town these tactics seem to have backfired. Far from being cowed the many of the town’s inhabitants are enraged and keen to make their displeasure felt.</p> <p>What happens next? I don’t know and neither does anyone else. If the business elite, the military elite, the Alawite minority and the Christian minority hang together then Assad has a pretty good chance of keeping his grip. I’m not sure they will hang together however in which case he and his government are toast.</p> <p>markfromireland</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12646"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/05/%d8%b9%d8%b2%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%af%d9%88%d8%b1%d9%8a-%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%8a%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%82%d8%b0%d8%a7%d9%81%d9%8a-%d9%88%d9%8a%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%86-%d8%aa%d8%b7%d9%88%d8%b9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8/#respond" title="Comment on عزت الدوري يحيي القذافي ويعلن تطوع البعثيين للقتال الى جانب دكتاتور ليبيا">No Comments</a></span> Posted on March 5th, 2011 by Hussein Al-Bayati</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/05/%d8%b9%d8%b2%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%af%d9%88%d8%b1%d9%8a-%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%8a%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%82%d8%b0%d8%a7%d9%81%d9%8a-%d9%88%d9%8a%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%86-%d8%aa%d8%b7%d9%88%d8%b9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8/" 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Posted on January 1st, 2011 by Um Thalit</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/01/01/%d8%b1%d8%af%d9%88%d8%af-%d9%81%d8%b9%d9%84-%d9%85%d8%ae%d8%aa%d9%84%d9%81%d8%a9-%d8%ad%d9%88%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%b9%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%b9%d8%ab%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ac/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to ردود فعل مختلفة حول الاعلان البعثي الجديد">ردود فعل مختلفة حول الاعلان البعثي الجديد</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baath/" rel="tag">Ba'ath</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p dir="rtl" align="right">أثار إعلان التيار البعثي الجديد، عن رغبته في المصالحة والحوار مع الحكومة العراقية الجديدة، ردود فعل متناقضة بين الأطراف السياسية في العراق. النائب عن التحالف الوطني بهاء الأعرجي قال في حديث الى"<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://www.alsumarianews.com/" class="external" target="_blank">السومرية نيوز</a>"، إن ملف البعثيين يتطلب الرجوع إلى أمرين مهمين، الأول الدستور العراقي الذي حرم حزب البعث المنحل من العمل السياسي تحت أي تسمية كانت، والثاني الجراحات والمظلومية التي سببها الحزب للعراقيين والتي ما زالت موجودة. في المقابل، وصف المتحدث باسم القائمة العراقية حيدر الملا استعداد البعثيين للحوار مع الحكومة الجديدة بـالحالة الإيجابية، داعياً إلى التعامل بإيجابية مع هذه الدعوة بشرط أن تتم وفق أسس المصالحة الوطنية والدستور والقانون. من جانبه، شدد عضو التحالف الكردستاني محسن السعدون على أهمية فتح أبواب الحوار أمام الجميع وتفعيل المصالحة الوطنية، شرط الا تشمل من ارتكب جرائم بحق الشعب العراقي. </p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11259"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baath/" rel="tag">Ba'ath</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p dir="rtl" align="right">عاد جناحا حزب البعث المحظور في العراق الى التراشق الكلامي وتبادل الاتهامات بشكل سينسف آخر محاولة للوحدة بينهم ويهدد بكشف اسرار عن مسيرة الحزب وخلافاته بعد سقوط النظام السابق في العراق عام 2003. <br/>جاء ذلك بعد اسبوع واحد من اعلان عزة الدوري والذي يقود احد جناحي الحزب المحظور والمتواري عن الانظار هربا من ملاحقة القوات الاميركية والعراقية على التوحد مع الجناح الثاني للحزب بقيادة محمد يونس الاحمد المقيم في سوريا حتى الان. <br/>وعبر جناح الاحمد في بيان له عن استغرابه من تصريحات لممثل الدوري ينفي فيها الاتفاق المعلن على التوحد جملة وتفصيلا.قائلا "اننا بهذا التصريح أصبحت لدينا قناعات بالدلائل والوثائق بأن الدوري مغيب عن كثير من الأمور وان رسالته إلى التنظيم التي وافق بموجبها على التوحيد هناك من يحاول إجهاضها والالتفاف عليها. <br/>واعطى جناح الاحمد مدة لغاية السابع عشر من الشهر الحالي وبعدها سينشرون كل ما يتوفر لديهم من الممنوع وغيره،حسب البيان. <br/>وكان خضير المرشدي الممثل الرسمي لجناح الدوري قد قال ان" مابثته بعض وسائل الاعلام من اخبار عن وحدة البعث هي اخبار عارية عن الصحة تأتي لاغراض واهداف معروفة غايتها التشويش والايحاء أن هناك انشقاقات في هذا الحزب والاشارة أن هناك اكثر من حزب للبعث".</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10918"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/06/06/selected-english-coverage-why-i-think-al-jazeeras-got-their-coverage-of-the-al-jubouri-assassination-wrong/#comments" title="Comment on Selected English Coverage: Why I Think Al Jazeera got their coverage of the al-Jubouri Assassination Wrong">1 Comment</a></span> Posted on June 6th, 2010 by Omar Khdhayyir</div> <h3><a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/violation-of-human-rights/" rel="tag">violation of human rights</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>Al Jazeera have a report on the assassination of Faris Jassim al-Jubouri entitled "<a title="Iraq politician shot dead in Mosul" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/06/201065112649147845.html" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq politician shot dead in Mosul</a>" their report is below, from this report and other local reports several things are known:</p> <ul> <li>The murder was committed by men in army uniform (not in police uniforms as al Jazeera’s report says the difference is important for reasons I’ll explain below). </li> <li>The death squad went from house to house in the village claiming to be searching for mortars. </li> <li>Several residents said that the men in uniform sounded "strange" – this is a codeword for saying that they spoke Arabic with a non-Arabic accent. </li> <li>The account given by the family is different from al Jazeera’s — the family say that the death squad dragged him out of the house and shot him down there. </li> </ul> <p>Al Jazeera’s account makes much of the fact that the victim was a replacement candidate for the Iraqiya list headed by Iyad Allawi, and the claim by two Iraqiya politicians Intisar Allawi and  Maysoun Damlouji  that this is part of an ongoing campaign of murder and intimidation against the Iraqiya list, for reasons I explain below I think al-Jazeera have got their coverage of this murder of a relatively unknown politician wrong: </p> <div style="width: 98%;"> <div class="container"> <div class="shadow"> <div class="frame"> <h3>Iraq politician shot dead in Mosul </h3> <blockquote><p>An Iraqi politician from the Iraqiya bloc has been shot dead by armed men in the northern city of Mosul, officials say. <br/>Police say unknown assailants shot Faris Jassim al-Jubouri early on Saturday in his home in Mosul about 350km north of Baghdad.</p> <p>No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.</p> <p>The Iraqiya bloc of former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi narrowly won elections in March, beating the coalition led by Nouri Maliki, the incumbent prime minister. <br/>Al-ubouri was a candidate on Iraqiya’s list for parliament but did not win a seat in the 325-seat assembly.</p> <p>Al-Jubouri was the third candidate from the party to be killed in the past two weeks.</p> <h4>Killing ‘political’ </h4> <p>A police source, who asked not to be named, said al-Jubouri was shot dead by gunmen in police uniform.</p> <p>He said the men searched several homes in al-Jubouri’s village saying they were looking for mortars. <br/>On entering his home, "they tied up his brother and when he came downstairs they opened fire and killed him," he told the Reuters news agency. <br/>The Iraqiya party says al-Jubouri was killed for political reasons. <br/>Maysoun Damlouji, the spokeswoman for Iraqiya described the attack as one in a string of killings "clearly targeting the Iraqiya list."</p> <p>Two other Iraqiya candidates were gunned down in February and May. <br/>"Iraqiya was targeted before the election, and the attacks are continuing," Intisar Allawi, a senior Iraqiya official, told Reuters.</p> <p>"We don’t know who we will lose next. We call on the government to provide protection for winning candidates."</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/06/201065112649147845.html" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq politician shot dead in Mosul – Middle East – Al Jazeera English</a></p> <p> </div> </p></div> </p></div> </p></div> <p style="margin-top: 12px; padding-top: 10px;">Based on the evidence available to me there is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that Iraqiya list politicians and organisers were targeted prior to the election and that the campaign of murder and intimidation to which they have been subjected is continuing. I do not however believe that the murder of  Faris al-Jubouri was part of that campaign:</p> <ul> <li>The murder was committed by "men in army uniform" not as al-Jazeera’s report has it by men police uniform. The difference is important. It is relatively easy to get army uniforms and relatively difficult to get hold of police uniforms. The army in Mosul consists either of Peshmerga units or of Arab units known to be heavily infiltrated by persons loyal to the Badr brigade and its political sponsors. By contrast the police in that part of Mosul are widely trusted by the populace because they believed to neutral in the performance of their duties. Put plainly that means that they are not politically infiltrated by Kurdish nationalists or by sectarian political parties such as Badr. </p> <p>Moreover the identities of the police are known to the local populace a group of men masquerading as police would be quickly unmasked and attacked. </li> <li>Most importantly of all there is also the matter of al-Jubouri’s past: <p><em><strong> Faris Jassim al-Jubouri had been an airforce pilot under the Ba’athist government overthrown by the American invaders. <br/></strong></em> <br/>Since the American invasion there has been a long-running death-squad campaign against former armed forces commanders and officers. </li> <li>This death squad campaign has in particular targetted former Airforce pilots, especially those who like al-Jubouri flew sorties against the Iranians.</li> </ul> <p>I can understand why Iraqiya list politicians such Intisar Allawi and Maysoun Damlouji, would see al-Jubouri’s murder as part of a campaign against their party. There is no doubt that al-Iraqiya politicians and organisers are being subjected to a campaign of murder and intimidation. Nor is there any doubt in my mind that the current government, which is led by their political enemies, has deliberately ignored their pleas that they be given police protection.</p> <p>But I do not believe that this particular murder is linked to the political standoff between Dawa and Iraqiya, it is I think, further evidence that the death squad campaign against former army and air force officers has been reignited.</p> <p>Omar Khdhayyir </p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10604"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/19/qa-iraq-had-elections-so-why-isnt-there-a-new-government-mcclatchy/#respond" title="Comment on Q&A: Iraq had elections, so why isn’t there a new government? | McClatchy">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 19th, 2010 by Nur Hussein Ghazali</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/19/qa-iraq-had-elections-so-why-isnt-there-a-new-government-mcclatchy/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Q&A: Iraq had elections, so why isn’t there a new government? | McClatchy">Q&A: Iraq had elections, so why isn’t there a new government? | McClatchy</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/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/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/ahmad-chalabi/" rel="tag">Ahmad Chalabi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-sadr/" rel="tag">al sadr</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/allawi/" rel="tag">Allawi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/arabs/" rel="tag">Arabs</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baath/" rel="tag">Ba'ath</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baath-party/" rel="tag">baath party</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baathists/" rel="tag">baathists</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/bombings/" rel="tag">Bombings</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/caretaker-government/" rel="tag">caretaker government</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/chalabi-ahmed/" rel="tag">Chalabi - 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The margin was so close, however, that political maneuvering to change the results has delayed the seating of a new government.</p> <p>Here’s a look at where the election results stand, what happens next and when a new government might take shape in Baghdad.</p> <p>Q: Have the major players changed since election day?</p> <p>A: Not much. The main blocs are still Allawi’s Iraqiya, a mixed-sect ticket with broad Sunni support; Maliki’s State of Law, mostly from his conservative Shiite Dawa Party; the Iraqi National Alliance, the main religious Shiite grouping of Iranian-backed parties, including politicians loyal to militant cleric Muqtada al Sadr.</p> <p>The two main Kurdish parties ran on a single ticket as the Kurdistan Alliance. An upstart Kurdish opposition party, Gorran, won some seats, as well.</p> <p>Q: One of the first snags was an attempt to disqualify some winning candidates by accusing them of ties to the late dictator Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party. Did they lose their seats?</p> <p>A: There were several rounds of de-Baathification, the controversial process of rooting out former Baathists and barring them from public service. Former exile and Bush administration ally Ahmad Chalabi and his deputy Ali al Lami, who both ran in the elections, oversaw the purges.</p> <p>Hundreds of candidates were eliminated, but an Iraqi court Monday ruled in favor of nine victorious candidates whose cases were in dispute. Those candidates are expected to take their seats in the next parliament.</p> <p>Q: Maliki rejected the election commission’s results and demanded a partial recount. Did the recount uncover fraud or change the results?</p> <p>A: At Maliki’s insistence, a court ruled that the election commission should conduct a recount, but only in Baghdad province. The recount uncovered no major fraud and didn’t alter Allawi’s Iraqiya bloc’s slight lead.</p> <p>Q: OK, so now the recount is over and the de-Baathification efforts have been suspended. What’s next?</p> <p>A: The next step is for Iraq’s top court to certify the final election results, which would start the clock on forming a government in accordance with the Iraqi constitution. The chief delay now is the intense, behind-the-scenes haggling over who’ll get the prime minister’s post and other key positions. With no group winning an outright majority, alliances are starting to take shape.</p> <p>For now, it looks as if Maliki’s State of Law and the Shiite-dominated Iraqi National Alliance are pairing up to challenge Allawi’s group for a majority in parliament. However, the Sadrists, a backbone of the Alliance, have long opposed Maliki as premier, which jeopardizes cooperation between the two groups.</p> <p>Also, there’s growing concern that cutting out Allawi, whose bloc was the nation’s top vote-getter, would be unacceptable to millions of Iraqis who voted for him, especially the Sunni minority.</p> <p>Q. What do ordinary Iraqis think?</p> <p>A. The word on the street is similar to the criticism from political quarters: The leadership is too busy guarding its own interests to pay attention to the security and other needs of ordinary citizens.</p> <p>With so many government offices in limbo, Iraqis say, everyday aspects of life have slowed to a halt: obtaining passports, approving state jobs, road and utility repairs, awarding contracts, to name just a few.</p> <p>The longer and bloodier this transition becomes, the more Iraqis begin to question their participation in the democratic process.</p> <p>Q. So when can we expect to see a new government?</p> <p>A. It’s hard to say. Maliki has predicted that it won’t take longer than July. Foreign diplomats speculate it’ll be sometime this summer; religious authorities hope things will be resolved in time for the holy month of Ramadan, which begins in August; and other political observers fear that it could last into the fall.</p> <p>Q. What are some of the main points of negotiation among all these blocs?</p> <p>A. Each bloc holds some powerful cards. Allawi’s bloc is the top vote getter, has the most Sunni support and is looked upon favorably by both the Americans and Iraq’s Arab neighbors. Maliki also won a huge number of votes, is the incumbent and has branded himself with some success as a nationalist.</p> <p>The chief kingmakers are the Sadrists, who want hundreds of their prisoners released and some senior cabinet posts, and the Kurds, who are insisting on keeping the presidency, gaining control of oil-rich Kirkuk and other territories that Sunni Arabs also claim, and holding cabinet positions in numbers that are proportionate to the Kurdish population.</p> <p>Q. What’s the role of the Americans, the Iranians and other foreign powers with vested interests in the outcome of the Iraqi elections?</p> <p>A. Both the Americans and Iranians have played it cool publicly, while meeting privately with all the key players.</p> <p>The Americans prefer a government that includes Sunnis and other minorities and is diverse enough to act as a spoiler to outright Iranian control.</p> <p>The Iranians, who have numerous allies and agents in Iraq, would like to see a continuation of Tehran-friendly, Shiite-dominated government, though some Iranian officials have said that some of Allawi’s allies must be included in order to work toward a more stable Iraq.</p> <p>Q. Who’s in charge while all these negotiations are going on? Are there limitations on the caretaker government?</p> <p>A. Maliki’s administration is carrying on with business as usual, but absent a parliament, the government cannot enter into international treaties, declare war or make any other major decisions that normally would require parliamentary approval.</p> <p>Q. Are there constitutional mechanisms to ensure that the paralysis doesn’t last forever?</p> <p>A. Yes. However, the current government found loopholes after the last parliamentary elections in 2005. For example, the constitution calls for the naming of a speaker of parliament in the legislature’s first session. To get around this and buy more time, the last parliament simply called a session to order and didn’t adjourn it for several weeks.</p> <p>Strictly speaking, once the top court certifies the election results, the parliament must convene within 15 days. In the first session, the members are required to choose a speaker and two deputy speakers. After that, they’re supposed to name the Iraqi president, though the constitution doesn’t specify a timeline.</p> <p>Once a president is elected by parliament, the president has 15 days to ask the nominee of the largest bloc in parliament to form a government within a month. If that fails, the president can ask another candidate from any bloc to try.</p> <p>Q. Will the delay in forming a government affect security in Iraq?</p> <p>A. Many Iraqis, including members of the current parliament, argue that the delay already has chipped away at security.</p> <p>In the aftermath of a series of devastating bombings, including a day when attacks killed more than 100 people, some Iraqi politicians said that militants were taking advantage of the security void, which they blamed on the Iraqi leadership’s preoccupation with political negotiations.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/18/v-print/94397/qa-iraq-had-elections-so-why-isnt.html" class="external" target="_blank">Q&A: Iraq had elections, so why isn’t there a new government? | McClatchy</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10209"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/30/30-04-2010-selected-english-language-coverage/#respond" title="Comment on 30-04-2010 Selected English Language Coverage">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 30th, 2010 by Ali</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/30/30-04-2010-selected-english-language-coverage/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to 30-04-2010 Selected English Language Coverage">30-04-2010 Selected English Language Coverage</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/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/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baath/" rel="tag">Ba'ath</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baghdad-markets/" rel="tag">Baghdad Markets</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/bombing-campaigns/" rel="tag">Bombing campaigns</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/casualty-levels/" rel="tag">Casualty levels</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/djelloul-marbrook/" rel="tag">Djelloul Marbrook</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/human-rights-abuses/" rel="tag">human rights abuses</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/judaism/" rel="tag">Judaism</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/maliki-secret-prisons/" rel="tag">Maliki - "secret" prisons</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/maliki-military-office/" rel="tag">Maliki - military office</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/markets/" rel="tag">markets</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/security-situation/" rel="tag">security situation</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/shopping/" rel="tag">shopping</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/summaries/" rel="tag">Summaries</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <ul> <li><strong>Djelloul Marbrook citing </strong><strong>The Modernists of Al Andalus to refute the idea that Jews and Arabs are natural enemies </p> <p></strong>"Today pundits who speak all too knowingly of the ancient enmity between Arab and Jew conveniently or ignorantly overlook the Convivencia, during which Muslim, Jew and Christian lived in peace and startling creativity. Nothing is as it seems. Certainly both Sufis and the Qaballists would say so. Nothing is as it seems, especially history: another reason to celebrate the genius of King Juan Carlos." </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=38727" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></li> <li><strong>Nouri al-Maliki who returned from exile on the back of an American tank going for the 2010 stand up comdians prize in Karbala</strong> <p>"We will not allow any foreign interference in our internal affairs that will breach our sovereignty," </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/complete/la-fg-iraq-elections-20100501,0,5542976.story" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Source</strong></a><strong>: </strong></li> </ul> <h3><font color="#800000">Political Coverage:</font></h3> <p><strong>كونا : Iraq PM alarms about looming chaos – الشؤون السياسية – 30/04/2010</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki has ripped to shreds some Iraqi political blocs for sending envoys to the Arab League and some regional countries against the backdrop of recent election challenges.</p> <p>Addressing a rally in Karbala on Friday, Al-Maliki rejected those blocs’ calls for interference in the country’s domestic issues, and voiced surprise at the current uproar against Iraqi judiciary over the recent polls.</p> <p><strong>.</strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2079745&Language=en" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Iraq prime minister lashes out at political rival – latimes.com</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Iraq’s prime minister dismissed his rival’s call for international help to resolve the country’s post-election political crisis as the dispute over the country’s recent balloting threatens to inflame the country’s rifts and undermine American plans for withdrawal. <br/>Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, whose political bloc finished second behind former premier Iyad Allawi’s slate in the March 7 elections, alleged in his televised speech Friday that "regional, international" players were attempting at a coup d’etat against his government.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/complete/la-fg-iraq-elections-20100501,0,5542976.story" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong> </p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Iraq demands return of its Jewish archive</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>In the chaotic aftermath of the U.S.-led invasion of 2003, the thousands of sodden documents were spirited out of the country with an assist from then-Vice President Richard B. Cheney’s office and a vague promise of their return once they had been restored. With the materials still sitting in a College Park office building, stabilized but with mold on them, the Iraqi government is demanding that they be shipped back, saying they are the property of the Iraqi people.</p> <p>"They represent part of our history and part of our identity. There was a Jewish community in Iraq for 2,500 years," said Samir Sumaidaie, the Iraqi ambassador to the United States. "It is time for our property to be repatriated." </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/29/AR2010042904584.html?wprss=rss_world/mideast" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Iraq’s banned Baath holds public meeting in Syria</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>DAMASCUS – Iraq’s banned Baath party, booted out of power in the 2003 US-led invasion, held its first public meeting in the Syrian capital on Thursday.</p> <p>“We have launched negotiations to reunite the party,” Ghazwan Qubaissi, the number two in a wing led by Mohammed Yunes al-Ahmad, a former governor of Mosul under now executed dictator and Baath chief Saddam Hussein, told.</p> <p>“There is no difference between Baath party members here and those there (inside Iraq) … All are contributing to the liberation of the country,” he said at a meeting in a Damascus cultural centre attended by 300-500 people. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2010/April/middleeast_April505.xml&section=middleeast&col=" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Security Coverage:</font></h3> <p><strong>Friday: 8 Iraqis Killed, 13 Wounded — Margaret Griffis — Antiwar.com</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>At least eight Iraqis were killed and 13 more were wounded in the latest violence. Also, a U.S. soldier was wounded in a blast in Adhamiya yesterday. Meanwhile, the prime minister criticized the use of international help to end an impasse created by a near dead heat in last month’s parliamentary elections.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://original.antiwar.com/updates/2010/04/30/friday-6-iraqis-killed-13-wounded/" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>2 killed in market blast in western Iraq: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Two people were killed and nine wounded when a roadside bomb exploded in a market in western Iraq on Friday, a local police source said. <br/>The blast struck a popular market in Fallujah, some 65 km west of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-04/30/c_13273957.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Source : Xinhua</a></strong><strong> </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Iraq death toll in April almost same as last year</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>The number of Iraqis killed in violence in April fell slightly month on month but was almost unchanged from 12 months ago, the government said on Friday.</p> <p>Figures compiled by the health, interior and defence ministries showed that 328 people — 274 civilians, 39 police and 15 soldiers — died as a result of attacks in April, only slightly fewer than the 355 killed 12 months ago.</p> <p>April’s death toll, however, was down slightly on March, when 367 people were killed in unrest.</p> <p>A total of 917 people — 731 civilians, 133 police and 53 soldiers — were wounded last month, the ministries added, an increase on the 747 people who were injured in April 2009.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2010/May/middleeast_May3.xml&section=middleeast&col=" class="external" target="_blank">Source</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Economic Coverage:</font></h3> <p> <strong>KUNA : Baghdad malls changing Iraqis shopping habits – Population – 29/04/2010</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>The increasing popularity of large modern malls in Baghdad is seen changing the shopping habits of Iraqi families of late, as they save time and effort.</p> <p>Amid an improving economy, more and more Iraqi are flocking to the modern structures instead of time-honored traditional markets, such as Al-Shurjah, where the aromas of perfume and spice fills the nostrils. They now seek to do all their shopping at once, in one place, and stay away from typically scorching summer heat in the meanwhile</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2079464&Language=en" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Commentary and Analysis</font></h3> <p> <strong>The Modernists of Al Andalus | Djelloul Marbrook | Middle East Online</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Today pundits who speak all too knowingly of the ancient enmity between Arab and Jew conveniently or ignorantly overlook the Convivencia, during which Muslim, Jew and Christian lived in peace and startling creativity. Nothing is as it seems. Certainly both Sufis and the Qaballists would say so. Nothing is as it seems, especially history: another reason to celebrate the genius of King Juan Carlos.</p> <p>Jewish poetry in the medieval Arab world—remember, if you will, there was nothing medieval about it to the Arabs, who live by a different clock—exhibits the plain speech and grittiness of a tolerated people who are nevertheless not overlords. Like Arab poetry it assumes that language doesn’t need to be dressed up. This poetry shares a common ground with today’s rap in America, with the rai of North Africa and immigrant Europe and with Arab ideas of horticulture and architecture, but it has less in common with Arab decorative art.</p> <p>The Jewish poetry of Arab Spain, especially when it is not Qaballistic, is bold, in your face, sometimes raunchy, and determined to speak plainly, testifying not only testament to the tolerance of the times but also to the confidence of medieval Spanish Jewry in their ability to create a society to rival King David’s. They understood their times in a way the Christians did not. They understood they were living in the artistic and intellectual powerhouse of the era, but as a colonized people, they saw the clouds of the Reconquista gathering. They felt a darkness descending. They were to be expelled from a garden once more, a second Eden, this time along with their tolerant masters. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=38727" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Obama leaves Iraq teetering on the brink of the abyss</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>BARACK OBAMA is determined to withdraw all but 50,000 of his troops from Iraq in the coming months – despite rising diplomatic disquiet over a post-election power struggle and a possible return to the brutal sectarian chaos that seized the nation in the aftermath of the US-led invasion in 2003.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/obama-leaves-iraq-teetering-on-the-brink-of-the-abyss-20100430-tzc0.html" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Still mired in Hussein’s legacy – The Boston Globe</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>The horrors inflicted on some 300 of 430 inmates at the prison on an Iraqi air base replicated the inhumanity of Hussein’s regime. The victims were beaten with cables and burned with acid; had their toenails and fingernails pulled out; were raped and sodomized; and were forced to sign confessions they often could not read. All the while, they were denied legal counsel and visits from family members.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2010/04/30/still_mired_in_husseins_legacy/" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="navigation"> <div class="alignleft"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130206052331/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baath/page/2/">« Previous Entries</a></div> <div class="alignright"></div> </div> </div> <div id="sidebar" class="span-10 last"> <div class="span-10" id="tabs"> <ul> <li class="ui-tabs-nav-item"><a href="#featured-articles">Featured Articles</a></li> <li class="ui-tabs-nav-item"><a href="#latest-articles">Latest Articles</a></li> </ul> <div id="featured-articles" class="widget"> <ul> <li><a 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