Most of the terror that we see in Iraq today came with the US invasion.

Cheney have said war on terror will be a long war.

The US have for over 100 years made a lot of nation’s people angry for its meddling and crimes against them. So it has its huge share of enemies.

The US administration have made it clear they will fight their war in Iraq in order to save US people from going thru what Iraqis are going thru today.

That is why I want an Iraqi government who is strong in the meaning that it will tell ANY US administration take your war of terror elsewhere. We are NOT willing to scarify Iraqis for you any longer.

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: How many? (asking about how many terrorists are there in Iraq?)

AMBASSADOR L. PAUL BREMER: I think for the American people to understand ·· well, probably several hundred, probably several hundred. And I think most Americans understand that it's better for us to fight and win this war here than to have to fight it on the streets of the United States.

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: You know, you've said that before. And I want to now play something that you've said, and also President Bush and General Sanchez, along those same lines and get you to respond. Let me put it up right now.

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH (From video): There are some who feel like the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring them on. We've got the force necessary to deal with the security situation.

GENERAL JOHN ABIZAID (From video): This is what I would call a terrorist magnet where American being present here in Iraq creates a target of opportunity, if you will, but this is exactly where we want to fight them. We want to fight them here, we're prepared for them, and this will prevent the American people from having to go through other attacks back in the United States.

AMBASSADOR L. PAUL BREMER: It's the kind of thing that we've seen before in so many places, and it's something that we have to beat, and I must say, I think we must now defeat it here in Iraq, better to fight it here than to fight it somewhere else like the United States.

Ruthless occupiers

Loach triumphs at Cannes with Irish movie echoing Iraq occupation

British director Ken Loach with his film “The Wind That Shakes The Barley" won the festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or.

A movie that show the brutality of 1920s occupied Ireland which the director said was equally applicable to today's Iraq.

It tells the tale of Ireland's struggle for independence from Britain through the experiences of a young doctor who joins a rag-tag band of guerrillas fighting the ruthless British occupiers. Mr. Loach said:

"Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, maybe we tell the truth about the present"

Death Squads

This is from Alrabita Aliraqia/ Iraqi League site

Two Iraqi guys who witnessed the killing of Ayad Al-Munthari in Baghadad followed carefully the car of the killers. It went towards Abu Graib and they saw the car being allowed to enter the gates of it.

So who are these killers?

A bunch of Iraqi prisoners the US let out on permission? I find that hard to believe.

From this story they seem to be US paid assassins and terrorists.
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May Ayad and his brother Muhsen Al-Munthari rest in peace.


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Update: This story is in Arabic, go to http://iraqirabita.org/ look for the same photo as the above, that's where the story is.

To Bush, Blair and the so called Iraqi government

Iraqis don't need any more of US and UK "mistakes" or "thousands of tactical errors" in Iraq. Its time for the US, UK and their allies to leave Iraq.

Jawad al Maliki and the Iraqis in government what are you doing about it, are you in charge? Or will you allow scarifying Iraqis a couple of more years?

Update:

In Haditha, Memories of a Massacre

Iraqi Townspeople Describe Slaying of 24 Civilians by Marines
By Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, May 27, 2006; Page A01

BAGHDAD, May 26 -- Witnesses to the slaying of 24 Iraqi civilians by U.S. Marines in the western town of Haditha say the Americans shot men, women and children at close range in retaliation for the death of a Marine lance corporal in a roadside bombing.

Aws Fahmi, a Haditha resident who said he watched and listened from his home as Marines went from house to house killing members of three families, recalled hearing his neighbor across the street, Younis Salim Khafif, plead in English for his life and the lives of his family members. "I heard Younis speaking to the Americans, saying: 'I am a friend. I am good,' " Fahmi said. "But they killed him, and his wife and daughters."

The 24 Iraqi civilians killed on Nov. 19 included children and the women who were trying to shield them, witnesses told a Washington Post special correspondent in Haditha this week and U.S. investigators said in Washington. The girls killed inside Khafif's house were ages 14, 10, 5, 3 and 1, according to death certificates.

Haifa Zangana Interview

Haifa Zangana Interview
05/25/06 Dateline SBS

Haifa Zangana is an Iraqi, she is also a writer and an activist for women's rights in her savagely battered homeland. She was an opponent of Saddam Hussein and his regime; indeed, she was imprisoned and tortured by the dictator.

HAIFA ZANGANA: To start with, we have to make it clear that the withdrawal that Tony Blair's talking about, or Bush, is different about the withdrawal we're talking about. I am talking about the complete withdrawal of troops. That doesn't mean they go around and build bases, American bases in Iraq which they are doing at the moment. There are more than 14 bases building. And there is the biggest embassy in the world. And no signing of long-term binding agreements, not on behalf of Iraqi people but on behalf of these interim governments or the puppet governments at the moment. This is second.

Third - there should be a compensation for all the crimes being committed against Iraqi people, whether in life or the destruction of the country. So we're talking about a different kind of withdrawal. They said the country is going to descend into civil war. But we it have already. Those occupation forces there, they are encouraging it because they are emphasising the force of one militia against the other, even supplying weapons to certain militias against the other. So who is encouraging civil war?

There is no civil war among Iraqi people themselves. There are the militias fighting. And there is another kind of war which no-one is talking about. This is really the fighting of Iraqi resistance against the occupation forces.

Click here to see the video interview (8 minutes).

Click here for the link to find the transcript.

What did the US do in Fallujah?

Iraq doctor brings evidence of US napalm at Fallujah

EVIDENCE to support controversial claims that napalm has been used by US forces in Iraq has been brought to Australia by an Iraqi doctor.

Dr Salam Ismael, of the Baghdad-based group Doctors for Iraq, said the evidence pointed to the use of napalm on civilians during the second siege of Fallujah in November 2004.

So the new Iraqi government what is your view about this war crime and what will YOU do about it? Will you use maximum force and demand US troops to leave Iraq?

Confessions Of An Iraqi War Veteran

Confessions Of An Iraqi War Veteran

Jessie Macbeth - Former Army Ranger and Iraq War Veteran, tell it like it is; how US soldiers are killing innocent Iraqis. This is a 20 minutes interview.

"We are terrorising that nation and we are getting away with it”

So the new Iraqi government what will you do about this terror? Will you use maximum force to kick out US troops?

US must withdraw from Iraq now

Just visited TAI and he had a very important update. Thank you TAI.

More on the atrocity committed by US troops against innocent Iraqi women and children.

Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa held a news conference on Wednesday in which he outlined what a military investigation into last November's incident in which 23 Iraqis were killed in the town of Haditha, Iraq.

The following are some of his statements:

"There was no firefight. There was no IED (improvised explosive device) that killed those innocent people."

"Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them. And they (US troops) killed innocent civilians in cold blood. That is what the report is going to tell."

"I understand the investigation shows that in fact there was no firefight, there was no explosion that killed the civilians on a bus."

"There was no bus. There was no shrapnel. There was only bullet holes inside the house where the Marines had gone in. So it's a very serious incident, unfortunately. It shows the tremendous pressure these guys are under every day when they're out in combat and the stress and consequences."

"One man was killed with an IED. And after that, they actually went into the houses and killed women and children."

Remember when this first came out? Iraqis were called liars.

I am not interested in words anymore. I want to see actions that US and its allies troops are leaving Iraq now.

The US needs to quit interfering in Iraq. The majority of the Iraqi people have said it clearly in polls they want the US occupation to end. Iraqis want to reclaim sovereignty and independence, free from outside interference! The US army in Iraq is a very important reason for the problems there.

And as the Bush administration put demands on Syria in Lebanon lets demand the same. Not only must US occupation troops withdraw, the occupation ministry advisers, the mercenaries and secret service must go as well.

Iraq must be permitted to run its own political affairs. And as I said before it will not be raining peace on Iraqis just because occupation troops withdraw. But this is a step forward to fulfilling the wishes of the Iraqi people. That is a huge step forward and lets take it from there.

The US administration is NOT an honest broker in Iraq and they have over 120 000 troops that make them able to commit their war crimes against the Iraqi people. ENOUGH.

The joined Independence/Esteklal petition from Code Pink, please send it out to as many people you know. Ask them to sing it in support of ending this brutal US occupation of Iraq.

Whether it is controlling Iraqi oil, whether it is Israel’s security, whether it is corporations who want access to new markets, whether it is democracy thru bombs and killing innocent Iraqis, whether it is a policy to divide up Iraq for what ever reasons, whether it is people who hate Arabs and Islam, whether it is personal revenge for what ever reason, whether it is people who think they are cool running around Iraq as if they were in a Hollywood war movie, whether it is pure greed or lust for power or whether it is a policy to fulfil the Armageddon and the return of Messiah, Jesus Christ… I don’t care.

Get out of Iraq. Give Iraq back to Iraqis.

All foreign troops and foreign fighters MUST withdraw from Iraq now. No more sacrificing Iraqis and Iraq.

Esteklal/Independence

CODEPINK and Global Exchange Advertisement in Iraqi Newspaper

Click here to view the advertisement which is being placed in Iraqi newspapers with the help from Raed, calling on both nations -- Iraqi and US -- to join together to demand an end of the US occupation of Iraq.

Please sign the Petition here

Esteklal
We, the people of the United States, Iraq and people worldwide, have had enough of the senseless war in Iraq. We've buried too many of our loved ones. We've seen too many lives crippled forever by physical and mental wounds. We've watched in horror as our precious resources are poured into war while our families' basic needs of food, shelter, education and healthcare go unmet. We've had enough of living in constant fear of violence and seeing the growing plague of hatred and intolerance seep into our homes and communities.

We have seen how the foreign occupation of Iraq has fueled an armed movement against it, perpetuating an endless cycle of violence. We join together—across borders—to demand

• the withdrawal of all foreign troops and foreign fighters from Iraq;

• no permanent foreign bases in Iraq;

• Iraqi control of its oil and other resources;

• and a massive reconstruction effort that prioritizes Iraqi contractors, and is financed by the countries responsible for the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

United in diversity

On the 9th of May it was Europe Day. The motto of the European Union is

"United in diversity"

So how did the EU start and why?

“For centuries, Europe was the scene of frequent and bloody wars. In the period 1870 to 1945, France and Germany fought each other three times, with terrible loss of life. A number of European leaders became convinced that the only way to secure a lasting peace between their countries was to unite them economically and politically.”

This got me thinking about Iraq and the Arab world. Europeans were and still are convinced that securing lasting peace is by uniting. They have proven it to be true!

When Bush discuss Iraq as a model for peace he chose Iraqis and non Iraqis who think that Iraq should be broken up in three parts, relieved of its Islamic identity and become non-Arab. He clearly seems to lack the understanding the founders of EU had.

"United in diversity"
this is what should be promoted in Iraq!

Slowing down the democratization process

One of the most dangerous things for Israel could be a free democratic Arab world. There would be such a clear policy from the neighbouring countries that the occupation of Palestine must end. So what is the solution?

Have Arabs under dictatorships, well then that has been done the last 60 years with the admitting of Rice herself last year and it seems they will continue to do it but rap it up in words of war on terror restricts your freedoms this time.

A couple of months ago I hade a debate don’t remember were right now but it was on the net, and it was because I had read on the Middle Eastern Forum the following about their mission (slowing down the democratization process) referring the ME democratisation of course. My thoughts were how can they achieve that? How do you slow down such a process? Look at Egypt today “President Hosni Mubarak to extend the country's 25-year old emergency laws another two years, effectively ending a recent cycle of reform in which much more was promised than delivered.” Isn’t that mission accomplished indeed?!

By the way today when I went back to Middle Easter Forum to check it out once again (slowing down the democratization process) had interestingly been changed to (better managing the democratization process). Say hi to Orwell!