- Iraqi Resistance forces fired a rocket barrage at the
US Abu Ghurayb prison camp west of Baghdad. A correspondent for Mafkarat
al-Islam in Baghdad said that the attack took place at 1am Friday and that
a variety of rockets, including the powerful Ababil and the Grad were used
in barrage that lasted more than 15 minutes.
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- The correspondent reported that the barrage left four
Iraqis dead, as well as the Iraqi woman prisoner known as Fatimah whose
letter, smuggled out of the prison two weeks earlier, disclosed outrages
such as gang rapes that the US forces regularly perpetrate against the
prisoners in the ill-reputed facility. (See below for Fatimah's letter,
reprinted here from the Iraqi Resistance Report of, 18 December 2004.)
Friday's barrage also severely wounded one 22-year old Iraqi woman.
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- An Iraqi who works inside the Abu Ghurayb prison camp
told Mafkarat al-Islam that more than 68 US troops were killed in the bombardment
as that the rockets specifically struck their barracks. But just one night
before the attack, the Americans had moved more than 500 Iraqi prisoners
to the east side of the prison, resulting in the death of many of them.
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- Iraqi puppet police brought the body of Fatimah to her
home in the adh-Dhahab al-Abyad village in the Abu Ghurayb area, 45km east
of al-Fallujah. The correspondent wrote that because of the family's psychological
condition at the time, he was unable to interview them. Their neighbor,
however, spoke to the reporter. "Praise be to God, Fatimah's elder
brother, who is one of the mujahideen whom the occupation forces are searching
for, spoke in the mosque at the nighttime prayer Thursday with tears in
his eyes. Everyone in the mosque heard him say, 'Oh God take her soul!
Oh God this is a shame so please cleanse it! You are the All-Powerful!
You are the All-Powerful! You are the All-Powerful!' Then after the prayer,
one of the worshippers came up to him and remonstrated with him for saying,
'Oh God this is a shame so please cleanse it!' The man told him, 'Say rather,
this is an honor, so raise it up and honor it. It is we about whom the
word shame should be used, not Fatimah. She is the most honorable, purest,
and cleanest of girls. I ask you for her hand in marriage after she gets
out of prison, God willing.'"
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- The neighbor went on, saying, "Fatimah's brother
and his fighting detachment carried out more than 50 rocket attacks on
the prison before and after her letter came out. Every day they would hunt
down a car or two belonging to the occupation forces. His name became famous
among them in this area, as famous as that of az-Zarqawi."
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- The neighbor's wife told the correspondent, "a month
before her arrest Fatimah distributed candy and 'brides' fingers' an famous
Iraqi folk delicacy to the people on her street because she finished memorizing
13 of the 30 sections of the Qur'an. She told the women, 'after memorizing
Surat al-Baqarah, the rest of the Qur'an is easy to memorize. Give me three
more months and you'll see who's better, me or Shaykh Khalid.'" (Shaykh
Khalid is the imam of the mosque in the neighborhood where Fatimah lives.)
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- The neighbor lady says of Fatimah: "she used to
be shy about everything. I remember once she was with the women at a wedding
party for one of the local young people, and the other girls all asked
her to take off her veil because there weren't any men around, but she
refused to, because she was so shy."
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- Fatimah's funeral took place at 1pm today, Friday, the
Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported, to the sound of exultant cries
of Allahu akbar! God is greatest! and the Muslim creed "there is no
god but God!" Fatimah's brothers and father were not there for the
funeral, however, because they are all wanted by the occupation forces,
and the Americans surrounded the whole area of funeral - from Fatimah's
home to the cemetery - and kept everyone under close surveillance.
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- The medical report on Fatimah says that she was struck
fatally in the head during the bombardment, killing her instantly.
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- At the time the correspondent sent his report (posted
at 8:30pm Friday, Mecca time) white flags - the sign of a martyr - were
flying over the Fatimah's house. Local people stayed in the house to receive
condolences from mourners on behalf of the family. It was as if Fatimah
were saying from her grave to all the mourners:
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- How can you find sweetness when life is bitter?
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- How can you find pleasure when humanity is enraged?
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- If your desire is true then everything else is insignificant,
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- And everything on the dust is but dust.
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- Fatimah lies in the al-Karakh Islamic cemetery west of
Baghdad. The mourners put a date palm frond on her grave so that she might
remain in people's memory even as the hot daytime sun dries up the palm
leaves.
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- On Saturday, 18 December 2004, the Iraqi Resistance Report
carried the following story:
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- Fatima's letter, a hand-written document, was recently
smuggled out of Abu Ghurayb. Fatimah is the sister of one of the famous
Iraqi Resistance fighters in the Abu Ghurayb area. US aggressor troops
raided his house some time back but failed to find him, so they took his
sister prisoner in an attempt to force him to give himself up. Their family
is known for its piety and uprightness. Mafkarat al-Islam obtained a copy
of the letter.
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- Fatima's Letter.
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- In the name of God, the Merciful, the Mercy-giving. "Say
He is God the One; God the Source of everything; Not has He fathered, nor
has He been fathered; nor is anything comparable to Him." Qur'an,
Surat 112 "al-Ikhlas"
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- I chose this noble Surah from the Book of God because
it has the greatest impact on me and on all of you and it strikes a particular
kind of awe in the hearts of Believers.
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- My brother Mujahideen in the path of God! What can I
say to you? I say to you: our wombs have been filled with the children
of fornication by those sons of apes and pigs who raped us. Or I could
tell you that they have defaced our bodies, spit in our faces, and tore
up the little copies of the Qur'an that hung around our necks? God is greatest!
Can you not comprehend our situation? Is it true that you do not know what
is happening to us? We are your sisters. God will be calling you to account
about this tomorrow.
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- By God, we have not passed one night since we have been
in prison without one of the apes and pigs jumping down upon us to rip
our bodies apart with his overweening lust. And we are the ones who had
guarded our virginity out of fear of God. Fear God! Kill us along with
them! Destroy us along with them! Don't leave us here to let them get pleasure
from raping us! It will be an act to ennoble the Throne of Almighty God.
Fear God regarding us! Leave their tanks and aircraft outside. Come at
us here in the prison of Abu Ghurayb.
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- I am your sister in God (Fatimah). They raped me on one
day more than nine times. Can you comprehend? Imagine one of your sisters
being raped. Why can't you all imagine it, as I am your sister. With me
are 13 girls, all unmarried. All have been raped before the eyes and ears
of everyone.
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- They won't let us pray. They took our clothes and won't
let us get dressed. As I write this letter one of the girls has committed
suicide. She was savagely raped. A soldier hit her on her chest and thigh
after raping her. He subjected her to unbelievable torture. She beat her
head against the wall of the cell until she died, for she couldn't take
any more, even though suicide is forbidden in Islam. But I excuse that
girl. I have hope that God will forgive her, because He is the Most Merciful
of all.
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- Brothers, I tell you again, fear God! Kill us with them
so that we might be at peace. Help! Help! Help! WaMu'tasimah!.
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- This letter is ended, but the sufferings of the one who
wrote it and the sufferings of her sisters along with her have not ended!!
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