US Terrorize The World – 13 Dhul-Hijjah 1427 H (3.1.07)
Posted by musliminsuffer on January 3, 2007
bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
Christmas and New Years Celebrations Eclipse Eid in Muslim Countries
AS THE New Year, Christmas and Eid al-Adha fall during the same period this year, some Qatar residents are of the opinion that the Eid has been overshadowed by non-Muslim festivals.
According to a report in a local Arabic daily, these people blamed the department stores in Doha for what they called “total neglect” of Eid al-Adha and its related festivities.
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=125280&version=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions
We speak with John Perkins, a former respected member of the international banking community. In his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man he describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S. cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then take over their economies.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8171.htm
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Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America’s Rape Of Iraq – At Least 655,000 + +
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’s Rape Of Iraq 3,003
http://icasualties.org/oif/
The Rape of Iraq Costs $355,073,645,122 – See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
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Breaking News: Muqtada among hooded men who hanged Saddam
Breaking News:
US media and columnists reported that the men who hanged Saddam Hussein were portly. Some were chubby, fat. News has emerged from Iraq mere hours ago that one of those men wearing a balaclava was the criminal Muqtada Sadr, leader of the murderous Mehdi band of rogue rapists and torturers.
Sadr, who the US once wanted dead or alive. Sadr, the man behind all the death squads, all the raping, all the torture, all the death squads.
http://truth-about-iraqis2.blogspot.com/2007/01/breaking-news-muqtada-among-hooded-men.html
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Hijacking Eid and Hanging Saddam – Timing and Hostile Repartee Creates Further Division
Saddam Hussein became the first modern Arab dictator to die violently since Egypt’s Anwar Sadat in 1981. Saddam’s hanging at the hands of chubby Iraqi men wearing ski masks is likely to be perceived by many as an American execution and as part of a trend of American missteps contributing to sectarian tensions in Iraq and the region. The trial of Saddam was viewed by detractors as an event stage-managed by the Americans. According to Human Rights Watch, the Iraqi judges and lawyers involved in prosecuting Saddam were ill prepared and relied on their American advisers. American minders shut off the microphones and ordered the translators to halt whenever they disapproved of what was being said by the defendants.
The important Muslim holiday of Eid al Adha was due to begin over the weekend. For Sunnis it began on Saturday the 30th of December. For Shias it begins on Sunday the 31st. According to tradition in Mecca, battles are suspended during the Hajj period so that pilgrims can safely march to Mecca. This practice even predated Islam and Muslims preserved this tradition, calling this period ‘Al Ashur al Hurm,’ or the months of truce. By hanging Saddam on the Sunni Eid the Americans and the Iraqi government were in effect saying that only the Shia Eid had legitimacy. Sunnis were irate that Shia traditions were given primacy (as they are more and more in Iraq these days) and that Shias disrespected the tradition and killed Saddam on this day. Because the Iraqi constitution itself prohibits executions from being carried out on Eid, the Iraqi government had to officially declare that Eid did not begin until Sunday the 31st. It was a striking decision, virtually declaring that Iraq is now a Shia state. Eid al Adha is the festival of the sacrifice of the sheep. Some may perceive it as the day Saddam was sacrificed.
http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/452/Hijacking_Eid_and_Hanging_Saddam
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The Consequences of Killing Saddam
Since the US invasion of Iraq, by one widely reported estimate, as many as 655,000 Iraqis have been killed, in air strikes, by bombs, in death-squad executions and generalized civil strife. Now, add one by hanging: the kangaroo-court trial and execution of Saddam Hussein. In life, even in prison, he inspired many loyalists to fight for his legacy; but his death is certain to spark even fiercer violence, not just from his remaining lieutenants and senior Baath party officials but throughout the broader Sunni Arab community in Iraq. It pushes any hope of Sunni-Shiite reconciliation farther away, inflames passions on both sides and solidifies the image of the United States in Iraq as a bloodthirsty occupier.
The 655,000 US victims in Iraq do not include the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, mostly children, who died during a twelve-year era of US-imposed sanctions on Iraq from 1991 to 2003, but those deaths, at least, were obscured by a fig leaf of legality, since the sanctions had been approved by the UN Security Council. Bush’s Iraq War had no such cover: It was deemed “illegal” by Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary general.
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0102-56.htm
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2007 unhappy year for the invaders: From Omar Mukhtar to Saddam Hussein…The resistance continues
Win or die. The occupiers have to fight the next generation and each generations, my life will be longer than the life of my will be longer than the life of the executioners………(Omar Mukhtar)
I never been one of Saddam supporters, I was against Saddam’s policy but honesty required to say the truth
http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2006/12/31/2007-unhappy-year-for-the-invaders-from-omar-al-mukhtar-to-saddam-hussein%e2%80%a6the-resistance-continues/
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Two Thousand Years Later, the Story of Issa Renewed
Your Excellency we have known you for long time in the battlefield of Jihad and struggle. You are our guiding light and the force that motivates us to carry the banner of our nation. We assure you that we will never let it fall. It will stay as high as your spirit.
Two thousand years ago, our compatriot, Issa Al Massih, Jesus Christ, whose ancestors came from Iraq to Palestine, was assassinated, like you, for his principles that he stood for, the Romans and their allies in the area sacrificed him in the Day of Sacrifice.
http://www.al-moharer.net/
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30 December 2006 – a day of infamy
30 December 2006 will be remembered as a day of infamy. In violation of international law and human decency, the quisling government of occupied Iraq, a puppet, sectarian regime installed by the American occupation and supported by Iran, assassinated the legitimate President of the Republic of Iraq, Saddam Hussein.
It’s been reported that after his execution the assassins shouted: “Long live Muqtada, Long live Muqtada” [Moqtada Al-Sadr]
It’s also been reported that Saddam Hussein was tortured before his execution and his body was mutilated afterwards. Another source tells us: “The video shows no blood on Saddam’s face and body, TV aired video of the body showed blood, cuts and bruises on the face.”
http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2006/12/30-december-2006-day-of-infamy.htm
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The Barbaric Lynching of President Saddam Hussein
On the Holy day of Eid, the world watched in horror at the barbaric lynching of President Saddam Hussein of Iraq, allegedly for crimes against humanity. This public murder was sanctioned by the War Criminals, President Bush and Prime Minister Blair.
This sadistic act broadcasted to the whole world is a travesty of justice, and was meant to demonstrate the imperial power of the United States and serves as a warning to peace loving peoples that we must either bow to the dictates of the Bush regime or face the consequences of a public lynching.
The lynching was also an insult to all Muslims, as it occurred on the Holy Day of Eid, whereby Muslims devote themselves to prayer and forgiveness. It is all too clear that the war criminal Bush has no sensitivities whatsoever for Muslims on their pilgrimage to Mecca. This barbaric act is a sacrilege!
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m29462&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Saddam Hussein, The Martyr of the Arab people
What a sad day , and what a humiliation to our Arab people and Arab masses when the enemy of our people, The American occupier and its puppets and collaborators execute the legitimate president of Iraq on the day of Eid.
Let me set one thing straight, I have never been a fan of Saddam Hussein nor of his regime and I always hoped that the Iraqi people would be able of ousting him and bringing him to justice like I wish he same for all dictators and war criminals around the world including Bush, Olmert and Blair. Nevertheless, not one hair on my head would envisage accepting foreign occupation and the ousting of an Arab leader by the enemy of our nation, no matter how bloodthirsty , oppressive or corrupted that leader can be.
http://www.arabeuropean.org/article.php?ID=129&PHPSESSID=71b6a271b11e258d966b67cf0ed740c1
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (formerly Jawad al-Maliki) broke the Iraqi law when he ordered killing of Saddam without Iraqi President’s signature
It was a sad day. Americans delivered Saddam to the ’so called Irqi authorities’. A vedeo footage from a cell phone exposed the real nature of the Iraqi Government. The killing of Saddam was nothing but a clear manifestation of revenge.
According to CNN, Iraqi law requires that Kurd President of Iraq (Talabani) must sign the order of execution of Saddam. He refused to sign when he learnt “Sadr Killers” will be killing Saddam. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (formerly Jawad al-Maliki) a disciple of Iranian Shiite Moqtada Al-Sadr found a new method to get Saddam killed by ‘Sadr killers’. He decided to break the Iraqi law. The decision was made that no signature of the President will be needed.
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/14980.asp
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‘Illegal’ Execution Enrages Arabs
Saddam Hussein was hanged on what is held to be a day of mercy and feasting in the Islamic world. It is usually celebrated with the slaughter of a lamb, which represents the innocent blood of Ishmael, who was sacrificed by his father, the prophet Abraham, to honour God.
http://tinyurl.com/tehea
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Angry Muslims slam Iraq, US for Saddam death
Muslims in their thousands, both inside and outside war-torn Iraq, have lashed out at the country’s Shiite leaders as well as the United States for executing Saddam Hussein during one of Islam’s holiest periods.
http://tinyurl.com/y6pz2w
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Muslims criticize timing of execution
Muslim leaders around the world espressed dismay Saturday that Saddam Hussein was executed at the time of Id al-Adha, an important holiday considered a time of forgiveness and compassion.
Muslim countries often pardon criminals to mark the occasion, and prisoners are rarely executed at that time.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/30/news/web.1230feast.php
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Iraqis pour into Saddam hometown to pay homage
Thousands of Sunni walk through Tikrit streets after ease of security ban chanting Saddam’s name.
Occupied Tikrit ,January 2, 2006 – Mourning Sunni Arabs poured into Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit in their thousands on Tuesday to pay homage to the former president three days after he was hanged in Baghdad.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/iraq/?id=19008
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Saddam’s execution was a sectarian reprisal, local media
London (KurdishMedia.com) 02 January 2007: A number of media outlets have noticed that the execution of Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi president, was a result of a sectarian revenge which carried out by Muqtada al-Sadir group.
The full video of the execution which was released on the internet and which appears to be recorded on a mobile phone reveals some important points which are contrary to the Iraqi officials’ claims.
The video reveals that Saddam Hussein was not a broken man and he was smiling while waiting for his death. This was also noticed by the Kurdish online media outlet Hawlati, which stated that Saddam’s execution video proved contrary to the Iraqi official claims.
http://www.kurdmedia.com/news.asp?id=13833
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In the end, Saddam wins, Iraq loses
Saddam Hussein, assassinated President of the Republic of Iraq, wins in the end.
Defiant, unlike his hooded assassins who could be nothing but the epitome of cowardice, he died almost instantaneously.
As if God wanted to spare him suffering. The suffering Iraqis both during his rule and after endured.
The suffering that has turned Iraq’s tragedy into self-deprecating humor.
But the Sadrist Shia and Badrist Iranian curs wanted their revenge, so they stomped on him, beat him, with bruises appearing on his face.
In the end, after all the bloodshed, Saddam proved that he was right and everyone who had cheered the invasion of our country was wrong.
In the end, Saddam proved that what is to come in his aftermath is far worse than what existed during his time.
Who released the mobile phone video and why? Was it an attempt to denigrate and humiliate all Sunnis and Arabs?
Was it to cheer Iran’s final victory over Iraq and the Arabs?
Is that what the video achieved?
Hardly. If anything, the world community is shocked by the barbarity of the new Iraq. The new Iraq, bastion of freedom and democracy.
http://truth-about-iraqis2.blogspot.com/2007/01/in-end-saddam-wins-iraq-loses.html
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Saddam Hussein Hanged for the Wrong Reason
It was not the Iraqi government but its American masters that chose to execute Saddam Hussein in a great rush as soon as the first sentence was confirmed, thus canceling all the other trials on far graver charges that awaited him. The current Iraqi government had nothing to hide if those trials went ahead; the United States government did.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=90555
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Britain’s Two Faces on the Death Penalty
LONDON (IPS) – The British government has found a simple way of welcoming the death penalty for Saddam Hussein while saying it opposes the death penalty.
After former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was hanged, the government simply said both things, with no clear indication that the government cannot quite welcome what it opposes. We advocate an end to the death penalty worldwide, regardless of the individual or the crime. We have made our position very clear to the Iraqi authorities, but we respect their decision as that of a sovereign nation.
http://electroniciraq.net/news/2783.shtml
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Saddam’s execution: Questions
According to the official reports, the execution was witnessed by 14 members of Iraqi government. This means that the voices, we hear in the video, belong either to the three executioners, or to Saddam Hussein, or to the members of the Iraqi government. If this is true, then:
1. Who and why shouted, “Long live Muhamad Baqir al Sadr!”, and then, “Muqtada, Muqtada, Muqtada”? Why would members of Iraqi government want to do this? This does not make any sense. If they didn’t, who did? Was the execution contracted out to the Mahdi Army? Who contracted it out, Americans or the Iraqi government? Why?
2. Why the chanting, we hear in the video, sounds like a bunch of young guys from the street, rather than “distinguished” members of the government? One would expect members of the government to behave in a more professional way.
3. Why the three executioners look, dress, and act like civilian guerrilla fighters rather than professional officers that would be expected to carry out a sentence of such historical and political importance in front of the members of the government?
4. Who recorded the cell phone video and published it on internet fully knowing that this would provoke a long lasting violence between Sunni and Shia Muslims in Iraq. The video seems to clearly “prove” that Shia government and Mahdi Army executed Saddam. Who wants and needs a bloody, full scale civil war i Iraq? The timing of the execution, that was carried out on the morning of the Eid al-Adha, can only be explained by a desire to upset both radical and moderate Muslims and therefore to increase the size and scope of the expected conflict.
http://canadawatch.org/articles2/saddams-execution.htm
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Bethlehem declares three-days of mourning for Saddam Hussein, Images of Saddam Hussain in Palestinian homes
Palestinian National and Islamic parties in the West Bank’s Bethlehem District have declared a three-day period of mourning for the death of Saddam Hussain. The announcement was made following a meeting of party and factional representatives.
They had assembled to discuss “the assassination of President Saddam Hussein,” as described by the Factional Coordinating Committee Chairperson and Fateh representative, Hassan Abed Rabbo.
http://www.aljazeerah.info/News%20archives/2007%20News%20Archives/January/2%20n/Bethlehem%20declares%20three-days%20of%20mourning%20for%20Saddam%20Hussein,%20Images%20of%20Saddam%20Hussain%20in%20Palestinian%20homes.htm
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Former Saddam judge says execution violates Iraqi law
The first chief judge who presided over Saddam Hussein’s trial for crimes against humanity said on Monday that the late dictator’s execution by the Iraqi government was illegal.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1885354,00050004.htm
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Conveniently forgotten – Saddam committed most of his crimes when he was an ally of those who now occupy his country
It was symbolic that 2006 ended with a colonial hanging – most of it shown on state television in occupied Iraq. It has been that sort of year in the Arab world. The trial was so blatantly rigged that even Human Rights Watch had to condemn it as a travesty. Judges were changed on Washington’s orders, defence lawyers were killed and the whole procedure resembled a well orchestrated lynch mob. Where Nuremberg was a relatively dignified application of victor’s justice, Saddam Hussein’s trial was the crudest and most grotesque to date.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1980775,00.html
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Conflicting accounts of CIA and Saddam, 1959-1963
My posting last Saturday, For Whom the Bell Tolls: Top Ten Ways the US Enabled Saddam Hussein has elicited a very interesting account by a US government insider contesting the allegations about CIA-Saddam connections early in his life, specifically 1959-1963, and which denies CIA complicity in the first Baath coup of 1963 or the use of the Baath to destroy the Iraqi Communist Party.
http://www.juancole.com/2007/01/apocalypse-ii-in-samarra-us-kills-6-at.html
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Thanks For The Memories
Short video explains the CIA’s role in Saddams rise to power
http://www.ericblumrich.com/thanks.html
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An all-consuming ‘war on terror’
The official mantra is that we fight in Iraq because it is the “central front in the War on Terror.” The exact opposite is the case.
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/baltsun09.html
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Iraqis who aided U.S. find closed doors
Even those who helped during the war are rarely allowed sanctuary
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/02/news/refugee.php
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Islamic Army calls for ’saving Baghdad from Iranian occupation’
“Iraq is under a double, US-Iranian occupation, the worst being the Iranian Safavid (Shiite Persian) occupation,” the IAI’s “emir” said in an audio message posted on a website used by Iraqi insurgent groups on Monday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070101/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestiranus
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16,273 Deaths Reported During U.S. Occupation of Iraq in 2006
Government officials reported that 16,273 Iraqi civilians, soldiers and police died violent deaths in 2006, a figure larger than an independent Associated Press count for the year by more than 2,500.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6317353,00.html
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Yet another milestone – 3000 : Truth About Iraqis
How many more young Americans are to be sacrificed so that Iran rules the Arab Gulf?
3000 dead. For nothing. Nothing at all.
But only death. Death of 650,000 Iraqis.
Death of the Iraqi state.
And the invasion of Iraq now means the US must either take on Iran or allow a World War to begin in a few months.
You reap what you sow.
Long live the noble Iraqi resistance.
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m29459&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 1 January 2007.
- Resistance blasts US helicopter out of the air with heat-seeking missile Monday night.
- Iraqis by the hundreds, Sunni and Shi‘i alike, flock to al-‘Awjah village to visit grave of Martyred President.
- Powerful Iraqi Resistance bomb rips US troop transport apart leaving 10 American troops reported dead in at-Tarimiyah Sunday.
- US soldier wounded as demonstrations denouncing the assassination of Saddam Husayn in Salah ad-Din Province escalate on third day.
- US soldier reported killed, mine sweeper heavily damaged in Resistance bombing in al-Ishaqi.
- Three US troops reported dead after Resistance bomb explodes south of al-Hillah Monday.
- US soldier reported killed by Resistance sharpshooter in al-Hawijah Sunday.
- Resistance bombards US headquarters in Abu Ghurayb with mortars Sunday morning.
- Resistance forces blast Jaysh al-Mahdi pro-Iranian gunmen with Katyusha rockets midday Sunday.
- Resistance bomb blasts US patrol in ad-Durah Monday morning.
- Resistance rockets blast US-occupied base in at-Taji Sunday evening.
- US base in at-Taji burns following Resistance rocket barrage Sunday night.
- Resistance mortars pound pro-Iranian Jaysh al-Mahdi headquarters in Balad.
- Resistance mounts ferocious attack on US base in as-Siniyah near Bayji Sunday night.
- Resistance bomb targets supply convoy for puppet “Interior Ministry Shock Troops” Sunday morning.
- Resistance fighters kill five pro-Iranian Jaysh al-Mahdi gunmen in al-Yusufiyah.
- Puppet police, US occupation troops arrest “security suspects” in al-Mawsil Sunday.
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Blundering Into Somalia Yet Again
Claims by Ethiopia that Somalia, a nation without any real military forces, threatened its border were as fanciful as assertions by Washington and Addis Ababa that the so-called “transitional government” they had installed in the town of Baidoa represented anything more than its own well-paid members.
http://tinyurl.com/spl9y
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-muslim voice-
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