Iraqi Shia collaborators assist US

[Ya Aba 3abdillah]

(bismillah)

(salam)

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Iraq: A Criminal Process

Carpet bombing, cluster bombs and napalm against Iraqi civilians

by Ghali Hassan

November 27, 2005

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Just before the U.S. forces attacked Qaim last 29 August, a thriving town of 150,000 people in western Iraq, they cordoned it off, cut electricity, water and food supplies. Then they indiscriminately and disproportionately blanketed the town, from the ground and from the air, with artillery shells, cluster bombs and napalm bombs with the full knowledge that civilians, particularly women and children, would be killed.

When it was all over, the U.S. Marines entered the city to fight (with air cover) those who were still alive. Humanitarian aides and medical supplies were prevented from entering the town, in gross violations of international law and the Geneva Conventions. This cycle of criminal process to legitimise the colonisation of Iraq is depicted by the Bush-Blair axis as the "political process" towards "democracy."

In preparation for the so-called "referendum" on the U.S.-crafted Iraqi constitution, U.S. forces besieged and attacked -- with conventional and chemical weapons -- the city of Tel Afar, an ethnically mixed ancient metropolis in western Iraq. For more than a month, U.S. forces and their collaborators terrorised the city of 300,000 people. The deliberate and indiscriminate attacks, which began just before the attacks on the town of Qaim, have destroyed Tel Afar old centre (the Sarai) and killed hundreds of innocent people. Iraqi news reports revealed, "'scores of casualties' due to indiscriminate bombing" by U.S. forces. Paralleling the atrocities committed in other towns and cities, all of which savagely attacked and destroyed the entire population of Tel Afar are now 'ethnically cleansed' refugees.

The result of the "referendum" -- like the January 2005 fraudulent legislative elections -- was a forgone conclusion rightly described by Mr. Hussein al-Falluji, a prominent Iraqi politician, as "a fraud conducted by an electoral commission that is not independent. It is controlled by the occupying Americans and it should step down before elections in December," the stage for which a criminal process is already in full swing.

As I am writing these lines, the cycle of violence continues. U.S. forces began their attacks against the city of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, about 80km west of Baghdad. Consistent with the U.S. strategy, the attacks are part of the December elections campaign to force U.S. ideology on the Iraqi people by means of war and violence. Families continue to flee the city, swelling the large number of 'ethnically cleansed' refugees. In October, two days of U.S. bombings of the city caused heavy civilian casualties, including 18 children in one air strike, according to Dr. Ahmed al-Kubaissy, a senior doctor at Ramadi hospital. The grisly act was revenge for the rejection of the U.S.-crafted constitution by the people of Ramadi. Each attack is a reminder of the grisly crimes against the people of Fallujah, the province's second largest city.

This November marks the one-year anniversary of the fascist destruction of the vibrant city of Fallujah, where more than 6,000 innocent men, women and children were deliberately massacred by U.S. forces. The city, where some 50,000 civilians stayed in their homes, including men aged 15 to 55 years (prevented from leaving before the attack), was savagely attacked with chemical bombs, fire bombs (fuel-air bombs), napalm and other non-conventional weapons (WMD). Fallujah was a war crime committed in gross violation of the Geneva Conventions and international law. However, because of disinformation propagated by "embedded" journalists and filtered through the U.S. and British mainstream media, we still don't know the exact number of Iraqis killed and buried in the mass graves around the city. The 'spin' of the media has always favoured the U.S.-Britain war crimes.

The mainstream media described these mass murders of innocent Iraqi men, women and children as "caught up in air strikes" designed as "necessary measures" for "spreading democracy." However, U.S. soldiers seem to differ from the British propaganda. Jeremy Hinzman, a former U.S. soldier seeking refugee status in Canada, accurately described the crimes against the Iraqi people. He said: "the atrocious acts that are taking place in Iraq are not anomalies or isolated incidents but part of a plan of attack." Hinzman rightly added: "I didn't want to be implicit in a criminal enterprise and hence a war criminal . . . [it is] soldiers who pay the price for the policies that come from on high. The U.S. policy is to use destructive violence against defenceless people as an example of bullying other nations into submission.

While the killing of Iraqi children by U.S. forces continues, the extreme bias and racially-based double standard of the West is evident here in Australia. The Australian media have become obsessed with the story of an 87-year-old Hungarian-born man fighting extradition to Hungry to stand trial for allegedly shooting a (Jewish) teenager more than 50 years ago. Justice must be served, read the Australian media headlines. How many hundreds of thousands of Iraqi boys and girls were slaughtered in a premeditated criminal act of aggression passed without a single word in the Anti-Muslims and racist Australian media? Will the war criminals stand trial for the murder of Iraqi children?

Under Article 23 of The Hague Regulations, public and private property must be respected. Public and private property must not be destroyed. The same principles were adopted in the Charter of the International Military Tribunal. The indictment presented to the Tribunal sitting in Berlin on 18 October 1945, in the trial of major Nazi war criminals, charged the defendants with having committed war crimes in their wanton destruction of cities, towns and villages not justified by military necessity.

It stated: "The defendants wantonly destroyed cities, towns and villages and committed other acts of devastation without military justification or necessity. These acts violated Articles 46 and 50 of The Hague Regulations, 1907, the laws and customs of war, the general principles of criminal law as derived from the criminal laws of all civilized nations, the internal penal laws of the countries in which such crimes were committed and Article 6 ( B ) of the Charter."

Since March 2003, U.S. and British forces have savagely attacked and obliterated countless Iraqi towns and cities, leaving hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis, mostly women and children buried in mass graves. The UN and members of the "international community" have failed to oppose and condemn U.S. war crimes in Iraq. To the contrary, the UN and many of its member states are complicit in the war crimes against the Iraqi people, and the destruction of Iraq.

The UN role in U.S. imperialism is accurately described by American sociologist James Petras. Petras writes: "[T]he [uN] has aided and abetted U.S. aggression against Afghanistan, provided a legal cover for U.S. colonial occupation of Iraq by recognizing the puppet regime, and refused to condemn Washington's systematic use of torture and illegal and indefinite detention of Iraqi [detainees and POWs]."

The UN certified fraudulent January's elections didn't end the Occupation, but produced a puppet government, a collection of Kurdish warlords and U.S./Iranian-trained thugs, totally subservient to the U.S. agenda. After several months of infighting, the band of discredited quislings has not accomplished any tangible improvement in Iraq living conditions. Their main service is to provide an "Iraqi face" and justification for the ongoing Occupation of the country.

A recent report by an Iraqi human rights group, Monitoring Net of Human Rights in Iraq noted that: "Iraqi police sources revealed that till the end of March 2004 more than 1,000 Iraqi scientists were shot. A report, which was previously published by the U.S. State Department, confirmed the killing of 350 scientists specialized in nuclear sciences, and 200 professors. The Network for Human Rights and Democracy in Iraq, had previously accused the Israeli Secret Services [the Mossad] of the assassination of tens of Iraqi Scientists."

This week reports from Iraq revealed that two professors in the School of Sciences and the head of the Biology Department at Baghdad University were murdered. In addition, another prominent Iraqi leader, Sheikh Kadhim Sarhid al-Hemaiyem, and his four sons were murdered in cold-blood in Baghdad last Wednesday.

Taking order from the White House and the Iranians, the thugs have adopted Gestapo-like tactics in terrorising the Iraqi people on behalf of their masters. The death squads -- created, trained and nurtured by the U.S. and Iran -- are torturing and murdering not only innocent members of the former regime, but also prominent Iraqi opposition leaders, Iraqi academics and professionals. Even Iraqis who participated in the 1980s war to defend Iraq against the Iranian hordes are targeted. The thugs are eliminating anyone who looks like opposition. Iraq is in a criminal process of total destruction and the U.S. Occupation is the catalyst.

Furthermore, to secure the next fraudulent elections in December and on order from the Bush administration, the Talabani and Jaafari-Chalabi thugs are excluding Iraqis from public jobs on ethnic and sectarian grounds and replacing them with their own loyalists. In addition, to increase the level of corruption and crimes, the U.S. and its loyal thugs are negotiating the "merger of different death squads into the Iraqi Army and police without considering the necessity of forming the army from independent individuals who will only follow the orders of the government and not the directions of their parties or who are affected by their parties' policies," adds the MHRI report.

As long as the Occupation of Iraq continues, elections are illegitimate. The U.S. does not have any right to force elections on the Iraqi people. Iraq's sovereignty still resides in the hands of the Iraqi people and in the state known as the Republic of Iraq, where it has always been, writes Professor Francis Boyle, an internationally recognized expert in international law at the University of Illinois. The Iraqi state will continue to exist as long as the U.S. remains the belligerent occupant of Iraq. Only when the U.S. Occupation of Iraq is ended can the Iraqi people have the opportunity to exercise their international legal right of sovereignty by means of free, fair, and democratic elections.

Paragraph 353 of the U.S. Army Field Manual 27-10 (1956) stated clearly that: "Belligerent occupation in a foreign war, being based upon the possession of enemy territory, necessarily implies that the sovereignty of the occupied territory is not vested in the occupying power. Occupation is essentially provisional" and subject to removal by the occupied people.

Finally, the U.S. and its Western allies have run out of pretexts to justify the Occupation of Iraq. They are misleading the world to serve their aim of permanent imperialist war. Iraq is not a "heaven for terrorists," and Iraqis are not the U.S.'s enemies; the U.S. is the enemy of itself. The Iraqi people are defending their country against a Zionist-imperialist project designed to colonise Iraq and dominate the world.

The Iraqi people have My strongly rejected the Occupation, and their Resistance against the occupying forces is a legitimate right of all peoples, and within international laws granting peoples the rights to self-defence against criminal wars of aggression. Under the Nuremberg principle, it is a war crime. The Iraqi Resistance arose as a reaction to a war of aggression committed by the U.S. and Britain in gross violations of international law and humanity. U.S. forces and their mercenaries have no rights to be in Iraq. The sooner the Occupation ends, the better for the peoples of Iraq and the U.S.

The only moral and legitimate "political process" available to the U.S. and Britain is to put an immediate end to the Occupation. This will remove the cause of violence and allow Iraq to progress toward full sovereignty and self-determination.

Global Research Contributing Editor Ghali Hassan lives in Perth, Western Australia

[ahmadlazio]

whats wrong with you this govt leaded by al Jaafri is the best govt iraq has had just giv them abit more time Iraq will be great his govt is full of good people unlike Alawai's or the other one running 555 will win and you dont liv in Iraq to see the rule story

[Ya Aba 3abdillah]

^ you really think the knesset wants a stable shia government in Iraq who threatens the existence of Israel, impowers the shia and allows the shia to have a strong say about the world's oil industry seeing that Iraq is floating on a sea of oil ???

wake up bro.

[ahmadlazio]

no am saying we can use this elections for us to hav the power then tell america to leave then if they dont we wil repeat to what we did in the 1920's

[ahmadlazio]

if the iraqi shia think like this abroad then ur lost iraq is not like any other country we will trik amierica this time no other country can take over Iraq and dont say USA cause no one wanted to fight for saddam but if they didnt go out and the marja3i said for them to leave then they will be forced out by force or any other means

[Qizilbash]

Bring back Saddam already...

Ya Aba, what do you think of Saddam's Anti-American rhetoric during his trial? You love it rite? :dry:

[Guest DjibrilCisse]

The point isn't Saddam here. The point is America.

The first step to achieving ANYTHING, is to clear Iraq of invaders.

You can cross the rest of the bridge when it comes, but as long as the US is around, you're just going to have theory and no practice.

[Anti-Wahhabi]

The point isn't Saddam here. The point is America.

The first step to achieving ANYTHING, is to clear Iraq of invaders.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

That includes Wahhabis as well, right?

[Ya Aba 3abdillah]

(bismillah)

(salam)

That includes Wahhabis as well, right?

Yes.

Saddam was made in USA like the taliban were. The former was made and financed against the Iranians, the latter made and financed against the soviets.

What ever they put their hands on in the M.E., it turns into a future disaster.

[abu-lulua]

(salam)

Even if america left, the Bakris will accuse the Shia of being IRANIAN agents.

They despise Iran as much as the US.

The americans going to leave, regardless, the nasibi plague will stay.

(salam)

[Sayed AaliShan]

The point isn't Saddam here. The point is America.

The first step to achieving ANYTHING, is to clear Iraq of invaders.

You can cross the rest of the bridge when it comes, but as long as the US is around, you're just going to have theory and no practice.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

True, but is diplomatic process better or rising up against americans better?

Remeber how Jinnah and Gandhi struggled politically to end the english rule in subcontinent, was that wise or not?

Same is the case with Iraq, americans will have to leave, otherwise they will implode under internal pressure and external pressure.

[Ya Aba 3abdillah]

(bismillah)

(salam)

Even if america left, the Bakris will accuse the Shia of being IRANIAN agents.

They despise Iran as much as the US.

The americans going to leave, regardless, the nasibi plague will stay.

Knesset + Bakrism in Iraq is worse than Bakrism on its own.

Let them accuse the shia of being Iranian agents, and let the Iraq shia reply, "YES WE'RE IRANIAN AGENTS". Iran is a Shia republic.

[Guest Muslim00]

It doesnt matter if they leave, The puppet goverment will still be pumping the American with Oil.

Why do we need a puppet goverment, which America brought along, can't we think for are selfs?

[abu-lulua]

Global Research Contributing Editor Ghali Hassan lives in Perth, Western Australia

that explains it. ;)

lets see wat this fool writes!

"Taking order from the White House and the Iranians, the thugs have adopted Gestapo-like tactics in terrorising the Iraqi people on behalf of their masters."

naa they take orders from the mugabe-zionist-iranian-kuala lumpur alliance!

Edited December 3, 2005 by abu-lulua

[abu-lulua]

GESTAPO!!!!!! looooooooooool, omg! :!!!:

the only nazi around, is the fascist , is ahlul nawasib!

[Ya Aba 3abdillah]

(bismillah)

(salam)

Remeber how Jinnah and Gandhi struggled politically to end the english rule in subcontinent, was that wise or not?

Yes, Ghandi told the british occupiers to tick off. All Indian support of the british occupation had ended, the brits had no friends in India, so they had to leave.

Iraqis aren't telling the americans to tick off. They're saying indirectly "we iraqis are incompetent to govern ourselves, we need you here".

Iraqis are more than competent enough to govern themselves, they don't need the knesset there to help them get themselves in order. Babylon made civilization, they don't need bani Isra'eel to teach them how to govern themselves.

[Sayed AaliShan]

That is what their President or Prime Minister is doing. But people of Iraq are against american occupation.

Now Iraqis should find someone like Jinnah to lead them out of this occupation. Isn't Ayatollah Sistani the one?

[Guest DjibrilCisse]

^Forget Jinnah. That guy isn't an example. A Seestani-Jinnah comparison is the worst comparison I've seen to date.

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Ya Aba put it perfectly: Knesset+Bakrism is worse than Bakrism alone.

The fewer enemies you have, the fewer problems you have, and the more you can concentrate your efforts on the problems on hand.

America has to leave, there's no other way for Iraqis.

It's about time they stopped acting like they need to be spoonfed and tell the invaders clearly that they are unwanted.

[Kurt]

(bismillah)

(salam)

Yes.

Saddam was made in USA like the taliban were. The former was made and financed against the Iranians, the latter made and financed against the soviets.

What ever they put their hands on in the M.E., it turns into a future disaster.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

ROFL

America didn't even exist when you guys had your shiite-sunni split or persian vs arab tiff.

The Iran Iraq war was never an extension of the cold war. Saddam weapons were all russian and french. Its doesn't matter that the US was funding kurdish insurgents in the 70s as a favor to the shah of Iran or Israel and the US were selling weapons to the mullahs in Iran or Saddam was shooting at oil tankers in the gulf.

Saddam was made in america ????RoFL, thats just a lie. Whats next, Bush wrote the Quran.

[Syrian Sister]

Solidarity with the Hero's of Al Qaim.

True victory is always theirs.

[The Canuck]

(salam)

Bro ya Aba Abdullah: The author of the article Ghali Hassan sounds like a Ba'athi.

Taking order from the White House and the Iranians, the thugs have adopted Gestapo-like tactics in terrorising the Iraqi people on behalf of their masters. The death squads -- created, trained and nurtured by the U.S. and Iran -- are torturing and murdering not only innocent members of the former regime, but also prominent Iraqi opposition leaders, Iraqi academics and professionals. Even Iraqis who participated in the 1980s war to defend Iraq against the Iranian hordes are targeted. The thugs are eliminating anyone who looks like opposition. Iraq is in a criminal process of total destruction and the U.S. Occupation is the catalyst.

The Ba'athi's are murdering people as well, bombing innocent civilians and cutting people's heads off. I'm sorry but where is this guy's comments when that happens?

Where's this guys comments when these same people dropped Chemical bombs on the Kurds?

ws

[The Canuck]

America didn't even exist when you guys had your shiite-sunni split or persian vs arab tiff.

The Iran Iraq war was never an extension of the cold war. Saddam weapons were all russian and french. Its doesn't matter that the US was funding kurdish insurgents in the 70s as a favor to the shah of Iran or Israel and the US were selling weapons to the mullahs in Iran or Saddam was shooting at oil tankers in the gulf.

Saddam was made in america ????RoFL, thats just a lie. Whats next, Bush wrote the Quran.

Actually there is a relation with the cold war and Iran/Iraq war. Prior to that, the US gov. and USSR were fighting for influence in this region, in Iraq and Iran. There was a lot of political cold war to say the least. The US was after communist and Russian influence in Iraq and Iran, even helping Ba'ath members eliminate communist opponents.

ws

[Gypsy]

(salam)

US dont control Iraq. They may try..but it will be very hard to control Iraq or the Iraqis.

Iraq is in utter chaos and everyone has an agenda. The solution is with the people.

The article here just point out all the negative thing about USA while closing the eyes to the bad thing caused by the wahhabis jihadis & Sunnis.

The question here is ..who do Iraqi (Shias) consider the biggest enemy?

US who is trying to steal the oil

Or the wahhabis who is trying to blow you up?

Or Sunnis who is trying again to be majority?

- It's not a good idea to join any of the above

Edited December 4, 2005 by Zareen

[ahmadlazio]

The question here is ..who do Iraqi (Shias) consider the biggest enemy?

US who is trying to steal the oil

Or the wahhabis who is trying to blow you up?

Or Sunnis who is trying again to be majority?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

(bismillah)

all are our enemies specially the wahabi's

[Suprah]

They could have used Moqtada Sadr's example for a unified Iraqi militia, but that became unpopular when al-Sadr's supporters took over the holy places in Najaf as their bases.

[sayedzeeshan]

Its the time of a political war. You cannot win on battle front because you donot have that much resources.

[Kermani]

I think Iraq will lead to civil war, America stays or not, mossad and cia will prompt a shia-vs-sunni war (already using wahabis to kill shias) and arab vs kurd war.

Iraq will rotten before you know it, all thanx to zionist and american terrorists.

It too bad that majority of iraqis are ill educated. and sunnis are all into pan-arab ba'thist ideology. One of these days these groups will realize their only hope is to unite. and also be friends with Iran. stop with the stupid anti-persian and anti-shia propagandas. Look what they have gotten them into. fighitng , as it seems, all alone in iraq. and in afghanistan, arabs are just plainly hated.

Zionists, american, and western imperialists try to divide us, we should unite and accept one another for who we are. then and only then, just like how salahedin did it, we can defeat our enemies.

[Hasnain]

Saddam weapons were all russian and french.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

My Canadian buddy, dont make a fool out of yourself. His weapons were American.

[Gypsy]

(bismillah)

The question here is ..who do Iraqi (Shias) consider the biggest enemy?

US who is trying to steal the oil

Or the wahhabis who is trying to blow you up?

Or Sunnis who is trying again to be majority?

- It's not a good idea to join any of the above

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

all are our enemies specially the wahabi's

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

If all of them are our enemies then it is not a good idea to make any of them stronger or weaker. :!!!:

The best would be to let each of them get each other while we Shias train ourselves for the FinalSmackDown ala WWF :angel:

Edited December 4, 2005 by Zareen

[MajiC]

With all due respect Br. Ya Aba but your posts are beggining to resemble the rants of the blind takfiri's who are killing Iraqi women, children and security forces. Although there are bad apples amongst the Iraqi officials your campaign to tarnish the general Iraq leadership makes no distinction between those wo are really "collaborators" and those who are our genuine and endorsed leaders. You obviousely know very little about the situation from where you are and the personalities endoresed by the Iraqi people and religious authorities, being a non-Iraqi and situated thousands of miles away from what you claim absolute knowledge about. I would therefore appreciate that you keep your judgement to yourself for now.

What matters for now is that the Iraqis have had enough of bloodshed and are not ready nor willing to engage needlessly in a bloody armed conflict with Takfiris as well as imperialists when there exist alternative routes to struggle against he occupation. Iraq's majority have no reason to risk their gains through a pointless uprise. The vigilance and unity of Iraqis through the political channels will ultimately earn Iraq its sovereignty and independence slowly but surely. Only when all hope is lost the Iraqi's have reason to rise in force.

Edited December 4, 2005 by MajiC

[Syrian Sister]

The Ba'athi's are murdering people as well, bombing innocent civilians and cutting people's heads off.

ERrrr...... correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't the ba'ath secular and not religious.

Doesn't that mean, they wouldn't blow themselves up, and they would more likely shoot people than cut their heads off?

I mean the US media says these thing are more like "crazy muslim things" correct me if i'm wrong.