- The continued illegal and immoral violence against Muslims
in Najaf is a terrible mark against America and its puppet government in
Iraq. In truth, there is no legal government in Iraq at this time because
it is made up entirely of exiles whom the American appointed to the Iraqi
Governing Council, which then morphed into what the American government
(which some still consider to be illegal because of the way the Bush administration
took the election through Katherine Harris' machinations in Florida and
then the Republican Supreme Court then approved of the illegal machinations)
now calls, "the Iraqi government". Of course, the docile American
media continues using the Bush team's leads, so they too call it, "the
Iraqi government."
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- Add to these lies that it is supposedly "Iraqi troops"
who are aiding the Americans, and you have the complete lie because there
are over 10,000 mercenaries now operating in Iraq that are known to Arab
observers, but many more who have donned Arab clothing and are also part
of this group attacking Najaf--because no Muslim would dare attack the
Najaf Holy City or its revered Shrine of Ali Mosque. Yet, the attack goes
on, with the puppet government saying, "We have told the troops not
to fire on the Ali Shrine or to go close to it." Yet, the Americans
and the mercenaries are firing on the shrine and on the Muslims who are
protecting their holy sites.
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- Just imagine the outcry in America if someone attacked
the Vatican, or attacked the Jewish Wailing Wall. America would be the
first to be up in arms. But, in this case, it is America who is behind
this sacrilege.
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- All the Arab and Muslim countries in the world have warned
the U.S. and its allies, and have pleaded with the U.S. to desist--as have
most of the nations of the UN. But, to no avail.
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- The killing of Muslims goes on in the name of "freedom
and democracy". What hypocrisy! What criminal behavior!
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- Because of what America is now doing in Iraq, in Najaf
especially, and in Iraq as a whole, there is no alternative but to have
the world to charge George W. Bush with war crimes and take him before
the International Court at the Hague, along with his puppet PM in Iraq,
Iyad Allawi.
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- Further, I recommend that all Muslim and Arab countries
should call their ambassadors back from Washington, DC in protest and break
off trade with the U.S. This also means that they should stop shipping
oil to America. Yes, even though America is my country, I openly declare
that this administration does not represent the American people. If they
knew only half of the terrorism that the American troops and their mercenary
allies are inflicting on the Iraqi population, they would rise up and throw
Bush out of office with an instant recall petition because the Senate and
the Congress don't have the guts to do it.
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- No, I am not advocating violence, only that somehow,
the Arab and Muslim nations now have a responsibility to stop this American
aggression in Najaf and in Iraq; if they don't then they will be seen as
an impotent group that calls into question their inability to represent
themselves as Muslims and as Arabs. Of course, leading Arab and Muslim
intellectuals have long said this--but, I for one, am still hopeful that
they can pull themselves together to stop this massacre, this destruction
of Iraq that is taking place before their very eyes.
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- They must also do this very soon because the puppet regime
under Allawi, being directed by U.S. Ambassador, Negroponte, have forbidden
independent journalists from coming into Najaf--only allowing "embedded
journalists" those rights--but at this time, the only embedded journalists
are those who are the lackeys of the U.S. military or of the puppet Iraqi
thugs.
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- What this means is that there will be atrocities against
the Muslims who are defending Najaf and the Ali Shrine--but because there
will be no independent journalists there, it will not be told or shown
to the world. Already, Al Jazeera has been closed down in Iraq because
they told the TRUTH.
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- As I pointed out in an article yesterday, we have been
shown the terrible disaster in Florida in detail, but there is a much bigger
disaster in Iraq and it is not being shown to us, all we see are the F16s,
Apaches, the tanks and the Humvees rolling along, shelling, dropping bombs
and plumes of smoke and fire--but no details, no twisted wreckage, twisted
and torn bodies and the destruction of a country, a people.
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- It is time for all good men to stand up, and this means
in the Muslim world, the Arab world and in America to say, "No more,
No more, No more--and let it be heard in the UN, in the Congress
and in the Senate of the U.S. If not, then these black days will go down
in history against the American government of GW Bush and our government,
Republican and Democrat and will show the impotence and lack of resolve
in the Arab and Muslim government of the world.
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- Dr. Sam Hamod is the Director of The National Islamic
Center in Washington, DC (retired), former editor of 3rd World News,
former advisor to the State Department, an expert on the
Middle East and Islam; he may be reached at shamod@cox.net
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- From Jim Oberg
- 8-17-4
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- Dear Dr. Hamod:
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- "Just imagine the outcry in America if someone attacked
the Vatican, or attacked the Jewish Wailing Wall. America would be the
first to be up in arms. But, in this case, it is America who is behind
this sacrilege."
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- Did I only imagine armed Moslems seizing the Church of
the Nativity in Bethlehem, fortifying it with their armaments, engaging
in gun battles, using convenient paper for toilet paper, and -- tell me
again, how would Christians respond to such sacrilege?
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- Genuinely curious,
- jim o
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Alton Raines
8-17-4
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- Maybe when we see Islamic moderates and even fundamentalists
standing up and crying "No More! No More!" to the terrorists
and psychotics who, in the name of their God and religion and people, behead
innocent people and destroy and defile holy places with unholy acts which
almost always place innocent muslims in the position of being human shields
against their will, more people here and the world over will stand up in
agreement. I'm tired of radical workers of violence being painted as poor,
oppressed muslims. It's just nonsense!
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