Raed in the Middle

i wrote something that u might like to read..

Islam for me, as a secular leftist, is more than a mere religion

it is short, but sweet
:*)

So yeah
Finally, we have a president and a prime minister
So “they” selected our president and prime minister in a small meeting,
But they couldn’t even announce the place of their meeting!!!
Haha!
What a great strong authority!
Hiding in a dark smelly shelter someplace in the “green zone”, and announcing fake governments…

People from the new Iraqi government don’t have the power to guarantee their personal safety!
How are they supposed to rule a country like IRAQ?

The huge disasters we, Iraqis, have after 15 months of the unjustified American war are very difficult to be solved. The stupid mistakes of the bush administration started more than one cancer in the exhausted body of Iraq, all of these right wing militias that grew over the last year need decades to be removed.

I was telling a French friend yesterday how miserable I feel, as a secular Muslim, when I see the current Iraqi political status. I find myself marginalized, as a leftist, by both the American administration and by the right wing mood of the local mainstream.

Bush is helping extremist fundamentalists hijack the flag of Islam from people like me and niki.

Ahhhh
Thank god
We just discovered who is responsible for the invasion of Iraq
Did anyone think it was the bush administration?
Naaaaaaahhh
It’s all because of Iran
Of course
Iran and Chalabi, they are the criminals that dragged the poor innocent American administration to this problem

Just tell me, how can Bush and the rest of his freaks in the axis of liars be more pathetic?
Please
For god’s sake
I mean
Falling from the bike is even less pathetic than this chalabi-Irani-conspiracy-theory

(and no, i'm not having this pro-Irani position because of Niki),

It was enough for the people in the region to hate Chalabi years and years ago when he stole ONE BILLION DOLLARS from the Petra bank in Jordan, and his position before and during the war was more than enough for everyone to discard him totally, but it seems that people from the Bush administration needed more years and crises to figure out that chalabi is not their winning card

When the American army attacked Baghdad, on that sad day 13 months ago, chalabi and his militias occupied the most fancy parts of the city, they took Al Mansour club as their militia's base (the FIF), and Al-Saydd Club (the hunting club) as their political wing center (the INC), they had check points all around Al-Mansour district using their Hum-Vee cars and American weapons. Chalabi was at his peak at that time, but now… the pentagon decided to burn him and get a warm day in the Abu-Grieb-scandal freezing storm…

In Arabic we say: “when the camel falls, number of knives increase”,
I’m sure it gives the western orientalists a great pleasure for having me speaking about camels, but whatever..
When the TCIA (Tribe of the CIA) and the TMFA (tribe of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) started an alliance against the TP (Tribe of the Pentagon), rummy decided to sacrifice his pet, burn one of his cards…

The other card that is going to be burned soon is Sanchez, he was selected as a sacrificial goat
may god bless his innocent soul, I’m sure he’ll have Iraqi prisoners watching him being tortured in hell
:*)

ok…
stop…
breath
take another sip from my vodka-tequila mix
change topic
load
fire

Today was the Jordanian Independence day
:*)
hahaha
*some old boring national songs*
hehehhehehe
In fact I didn’t know about that, until I woke up and took a look from the balcony to discover that no one is in the streets!
Hmmm… a curfew? Another fake Qaida attack? What what?? what’s happening?
And the answer was… Another holiday
So yeah.. it IS the Independence day
So here comes the Quiz of the Day
Q: just give one small proof that Jordan is an Independent country: socially, economically, politically or military.
Hint: none

So yeah, I know that I am speaking so much today, but I can’t stop myself

Kimmitt had another new historical statement
God, that dude is a monument, really, they should let him stand there instead of the poor lady of the statue of liberty, I’m sure she is already tired (plus she is French, we should change her after changing the name of the evil French fries)
Back to topic, so Kimmit is a valuable treasure for humanity…
He just entered history

Ladies and gentlemen…
Kimmitt the moron frog:

Someone: so what is your response about the wedding movie that was broadcast today? Doesn’t that give another strong evidence that your information was not accurate before bombing the tent and killing dozens of civilians?
Frog: hum dum bum, no no no, not at all, we are still sure, and you must know that “even BAD people have parties”

Whhhhhhhhoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Hahahahahahahaha!!!!
Habeeebi!!!!!
It is time to take a vacation, a really long one without salary… take a torch and go stand in Manhattan
“bad” people!!!
BAD people!!!!!!!
Really?! Do they have parties too!
How interesting…
So, do they eat and breathe?
It seems that they can get married… (and bombed)
Do your BAD people have lives, or we can just sacrifice them for the sake of freedom and democracy?

I think the next Iraqi passports will have some new additional lines for personal information; after name, city of birth and date of birth, we will have gender (male/female), type (bad/ good) and political status (evil/nice)

I wonder what dead people like the Imam Ali in Najaf would be in the Kimmitt classification… “oh, bomb his shrine, he is evil”…

Gosh, I can’t shut my mouth up today
Ok.. the last story… I promise..

Did anyone miss the nice-sunrise-shining-bright-bushy-speech of yesterday?
Didn’t anyone tell him that we know all of these points? We know them and we heard them for the last 15 months… doesn’t he really realize that the time for general empty speeches is over? Or did he lose his memory after the bike accident?

Ok, I’m done
Shoot me now
*bang*

joke of the day

How many members of the Bush Administration are needed to replace a
lightbulb?
The Answer is SEVEN:
1. one to deny that a lightbulb needs to be replaced
2. one to attack and question the patriotism of anyone who has questions about the lightbulb,
3. one to blame the previous administration for the need of a new lightbulb,
4. one to arrange the invasion of a country rumored to have a secret stockpile of lightbulbs,
5. one to get together with Vice President Cheney and figure out how to pay
Halliburton Industries one million dollars for a lightbulb,
6. one to arrange a photo-op session showing Bush changing the lightbulb while dressed in a flight suit and wrapped in an American flag,
7. and finally one to explain to Bush the difference between screwing a lightbulb and screwing the country.

go moore go
:*)
another nail in the coffin of bush, as we say...

did anyone miss what the chocho head of the day do?
gaddafi went to the silly stupid arab summit with a new airplane,
his new airplane had a big new name too :*)
The United States of Africa
hahahahaha
hahahahahahahaha

so, he just went to Tunisia for half an hour, made his point, and went back to Libya

why dont they commit the first presidents group suicide?
pleassssssseeeeeeeeeee
i beg

Loosers of the Week

ladies and gentlemen
it is my pleasure to announce the fall of two of my small enemies
:*)

The Barking dog

The Terrified ChoCho Chicken

congratulations everyone

Emotional me: tell them about her tell them about her
Rational me: Ahhhhhhh…. Shut UP!!! WAIT!!

It seems that I missed a lot of events last week.

Some of my friends were emailing me asking about what I think about the beheading of an American hostage… and about how ugly and primitive was that…

What can I say…
As Faiza said once… why do they have names and faces for each one of their dead people, and our people appear in abstract numbers and figures all the time.

I mean… no one can say that what happened was pleasant or enjoyable, but taking this incident and putting it outside the context is like fishing in muddy water.

Maybe the most interesting thing that I heard was about the parents of the American beheaded young man saying that Bush is responsible for what happened…

I agree

In the messy chaotic war of actions and reactions, I can’t see anyone else to blame rather that the Bush administration…
I mean…
They started the mess, and they must be responsible to receive the sequences.

Tell you the truth, I’ve seen worse images about Iraqis killed, hundreds of them, without anyone mentioning that.

Maybe the other important thing happened that the Iraqi president was assassinated, I really don’t what was his name…
But what do we say in such occasions…
mmmm…
May his soul rest in peace…
Or something like that…

I think the bush administration will hand over the authorities to the housekeeper of the governing council (in case he wasn’t killed too)

Emotional me: tell them tell them please please please
Rational me: oh my god! You are soooo pushy…

but the most important thing that happened to me was meeting Niki

Emotional me: YES YES YES
Rational me: ahhhhhhhhhhh….

she is an Irani living in the states
lost in the middle like me

emotional me: how sweeeettt
rational me: grow up habeebi…

I feel that our relationship is re-identifying my personality in a way or another…
I mean…
I really feel that some of my values are being modified a bit,,,
My social image about the eastern woman…
My image about the East…

Emotional me: say something nice here… something poetic… pleaaassseeee

Her deep dark eyes give me more faith in our world

When she speaks, I tell myself: I told you you’ll find her some day
I told you she was out there…
:*)

emotional me: How sweet is love… it’s changing his perception of the world
political me: ahhhmmm,
rational me: I think he is just having a testosterone-over-doze
emotional me: back off dude…

so yeah…
Jordan looked like a battle field last week
Streets were full of soldiers and Hum-Vees, hundreds of them everywhere…
I felt shy I bit while explaining what is happening

“well… ummm… sweetie…”

rational me: ahhhhhh… please don’t go romantic again
emotional me: no no .. I’m just telling the story, can u shut up
political me: SHUT UP… BOTH OF YOU

“do you see all of these police men and soldiers?”
“this is the real purpose of why does the Jordanian government exist”
“protecting western interests”
“protecting the World Economical Forum”

I was thinking about the same topic today, while I was coming back home from the University’s library. Today was the Students’ Board elections in the Jordanian University, and I didn’t take a part of that because the post-graduate elections are next week.

But what do the elections mean here?
Nothing!
What can the students’ association do?
Nothing…
What can the Parliament of Jordan do?
Nothing…

Democracy here is about the elections themselves… it’s not about the authorities that elected people are going to have…

This is the exact proto-type of democracy that the Bush Administration is going to build in Iraq.

A very nice, clean country, full of western restaurants and hotels, and with people lost in the details of their life, their mobile phones, their internet connections, their shopping, brands, malls, whatever,,,

But everyone know exactly were his red line is: P-O-L-I-T-I-C-S

Emotional me: can you add something about her… in the end
Rational me: I can’t take it anymore
*bang*
political me: may his soul rest in peace

end

I’m still alive
I couldn’t write anything last week because I was busy.

Niki was here.

I’ll need some days to start posting again…
I really miss her

"Iraqis knew how to wash their hands before the Americans came. Some of them even knew how to do brain surgery, which requires extensive hand-washing."

I received the following email for a dozen of times, it is signed by a guy called Ray Reynolds
well... what can i say...
just read and smile

>> As I head off to Baghdad for the final weeks of my stay in Iraq,
>>> I wanted to say thanks to all of you who did not believe the
>> media. They have
>> >done a very poor job of covering everything that has happened. I'm
>> sorry that I
>> > have not been able
>> > >to visit all of you during my two week leave back home. And just
>> > so you can rest
>> > >at night knowing something is happening in Iraq that is
>> > noteworthy, I thought I'd
>> > >pass this on to you. This is the list of things that has
>> > happened in Iraq recently:
>> > >(Please share it with your friends and compare it to the version
>> > that your paper is
>> > >producing)

ok... let the party start,


>> > >-Over 4.5 million people have clean drinking water for the first
>> > time ever in Iraq.

oh yeah, i used to drink with my cow from the river

>> > >-Over 400,000 kids have up to date immunizations.

how did that???
i can say i'm 100% sure no one had any kind of immunization after the war, we used to have special teams going around neighbourhoods for this purpose before the war

>> > >-Over 1500 schools have been renovated and ridded of the weapons
>> > that were
>> > > stored there so education can occur.

Please... please!!! the schools that were "renovated" are the biggest scandal for bechtel, and no one used schools to store weapons! i mean... the ones that occupied the school in my neighbourhood were soldiers from the American army,,, that was right after the fall of Baghdad...

>> > >-The port of Uhm Qasar was renovated so grain can be off loaded
>> > from ships faster.

to steal more oil.

>> > >-School attendance is up 80% from levels before the war.

liar liar!! i know sooooo many people that stop sending their children to school after the war, and we used to have firm laws and rules before the war that let all the children go to school

>> > >-The country had it's first 2 billion barrel export of oil in
>> > August.

iraq used to export more than 3.5 million a day before the war, and even if we exported 2 million now, where is the money going?

>> > >-The country now receives 2 times the electrical power it did
>> > before the war

oh yeah... thats why u had electricity all the time before the war, and six hours a day now

>> > >-100% of the hospitals are open and fully staffed compared to 35%
>> > before the war.

did he count the destroyed hospital at nasryya? and the closed hospital of najaf?
hospitals were functioning in a very good way before the war, the situation is tragic now

>> > >-Elections are taking place in every major city and city councils
>> > are in place.

haha! :*)
and who won in your elections?
AsSadr?

>> > >-Sewer and water lines are installed in every major city.

god!
i never saw a single project for water after the war


>> > >-Over 60,000 police are patrolling the streets.
>> > >-Over 100,000 Iraqi civil defence police are securing the country.
>> > >-Over 80,000 Iraqi soldiers are patrolling the streets side by
>> > side with US soldiers.

thats why we have the best security in the world

>> > >-Over 400,000 people have telephones for the first time ever.

hahahahahahahaha!!!
people who have their phones working are very lucky

>> > >-Students are taught field sanitation and hand washing techniques
>> > to prevent the spread
>> > > of germs.

god damn it!!!!!
hand washing!!!!!!!
habeebi!!!
hand washing... TECHNIQUES!!!!
i mean!!! this is a victory for the bush administration! god! iraqi children are well educated now with extremely special techniques... whooaaa!!
thanx Mr. bushygiene... but i'm sure we had a soap in our house before the war
:*)

>> > >-An interim constitution has been signed.

which is written in the most pathetic and weak arabic language ever, and which i didnt meet a single iraqi that didnt curse it, as much as every one curses the brand new flag.

>> > >-Girls are allowed to attend school for the first time ever in
>> > Iraq.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
i'm cracking up here
hahahaha
god!
:*)
iraqi women are the most educated women in the middle east, the most educated in the arab world. i was taught by iraqi great female teachers in school and university, my mother is an engineer, my aunts are doctors and engineers, my cousins are all holding a post graduate degree
i NEVER met an iraqi girl that didnt have the chance to complete her university studies, because universities and education is historically free in iraq, for men and women.

>> > >-Text books that don't mention Saddam are in the schools for the
>> > first time in 30 years.>> > >

liar, text books are still having the picture of saddam, and even if they didnt, i'm sure they'll have the picture of chalabi :*)
haha

>> > >Don't believe for one second that these people do not want us
>> > there. I have met many,
>> > >many people from Iraq that want us there and in a bad way.

were they begging? with RPGs?

>> > They say they will never
>> > >see the freedoms we talk about but they hope their children
>> > will.

i hope too

>> >We are doing a good
>> > >job in Iraq and I challenge anyone, anywhere to dispute me on
>> > these facts. So If you
>> > >happen to run into John Kerry, be sure to give him my email
>> > address and send him to
>> > >Denison, Iowa. This soldier will set him straight. If you are
>> > like me and very disgusted
>> > >with how this period of rebuilding has been portrayed, email this
>> > to a friend and let them
>> > >know there are good things happening.
>> > >
>> > >Ray Reynolds, SFC
>> > >Iowa Army National Guard
>> > >234th Signal Battalion
>>

please...
i mean...
if iraq was THAT great
why dont all of Americans come and live here?
:*)
really ... u r welcomed...

I received the following email for dozens of time now, it is signed by a guy called Ray Reynolds
well... what can i say...
just read and smile

>> As I head off to Baghdad for the final weeks of my stay in Iraq,
>>> I wanted to say thanks to all of you who did not believe the
>> media. They have
>> >done a very poor job of covering everything that has happened. I'm
>> sorry that I
>> > have not been able
>> > >to visit all of you during my two week leave back home. And just
>> > so you can rest
>> > >at night knowing something is happening in Iraq that is
>> > noteworthy, I thought I'd
>> > >pass this on to you. This is the list of things that has
>> > happened in Iraq recently:
>> > >(Please share it with your friends and compare it to the version
>> > that your paper is
>> > >producing)

ok... let the party start,


>> > >-Over 4.5 million people have clean drinking water for the first
>> > time ever in Iraq.

oh yeah, i used to drink with my cow from the river

>> > >-Over 400,000 kids have up to date immunizations.

how did that???
i can say i'm 100% sure no one had any kind of immunization after the war, we used to have special teams going around neighbourhoods for this purpose before the war

>> > >-Over 1500 schools have been renovated and ridded of the weapons
>> > that were
>> > > stored there so education can occur.

Please... please!!! the schools that were "renovated" are the biggest scandal for bechtel, and no one used schools to store weapons! i mean... the ones that occupied the school in my neighbourhood were soldiers from the American army,,, that was right after the fall of Baghdad...

>> > >-The port of Uhm Qasar was renovated so grain can be off loaded
>> > from ships faster.

to steal more oil.

>> > >-School attendance is up 80% from levels before the war.

liar liar!! i know sooooo many people that stop sending their children to school after the war, and we used to have firm laws and rules before the war that let all the children go to school

>> > >-The country had it's first 2 billion barrel export of oil in
>> > August.

iraq used to export more than 3.5 million a day before the war, and even if we exported 2 million now, where is the money going?

>> > >-The country now receives 2 times the electrical power it did
>> > before the war

oh yeah... thats why u had electricity all the time before the war, and six hours a day now

>> > >-100% of the hospitals are open and fully staffed compared to 35%
>> > before the war.

did he count the destroyed hospital at nasryya? and the closed hospital of najaf?
hospitals were functioning in a very good way before the war, the situation is tragic now

>> > >-Elections are taking place in every major city and city councils
>> > are in place.

haha! :*)
and who won in your elections?
AsSadr?

>> > >-Sewer and water lines are installed in every major city.

god!
i never saw a single project for water after the war


>> > >-Over 60,000 police are patrolling the streets.
>> > >-Over 100,000 Iraqi civil defence police are securing the country.
>> > >-Over 80,000 Iraqi soldiers are patrolling the streets side by
>> > side with US soldiers.

thats why we have the best security in the world

>> > >-Over 400,000 people have telephones for the first time ever.

hahahahahahahaha!!!
people who have their phones working are very lucky

>> > >-Students are taught field sanitation and hand washing techniques
>> > to prevent the spread
>> > > of germs.

god damn it!!!!!
hand washing!!!!!!!
habeebi!!!
hand washing... TECHNIQUES!!!!
i mean!!! this is a victory for the bush administration! god! iraqi children are well educated now with extremely special techniques... whooaaa!!
thanx Mr. bushygiene
:*)

>> > >-An interim constitution has been signed.

which is written in the most pathetic and weak arabic language ever, and which i didnt meet a single iraqi that didnt curse it, as much as every one curses the brand new flag.

>> > >-Girls are allowed to attend school for the first time ever in
>> > Iraq.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
i'm cracking up here
hahahaha
god!
:*)
iraqi women are the most educated women in the middle east, the most educated in the arab world. i was taught by iraqi great female teachers in school and university, my mother is an engineer, my aunts are doctors and engineers, my cousins are all holding a post graduate degree
i NEVER met an iraqi girl that didnt have the chance to complete her university studies, because universities and education is historically free in iraq, for men and women.

>> > >-Text books that don't mention Saddam are in the schools for the
>> > first time in 30 years.>> > >

liar, text books are still having the picture of saddam, and even if they didnt, i'm sure they'll have the picture of chalabi :*)
haha

>> > >Don't believe for one second that these people do not want us
>> > there. I have met many,
>> > >many people from Iraq that want us there and in a bad way.

were they begging? with RPGs?

>> > They say they will never
>> > >see the freedoms we talk about but they hope their children
>> > will.

i hope too

>> >We are doing a good
>> > >job in Iraq and I challenge anyone, anywhere to dispute me on
>> > these facts. So If you
>> > >happen to run into John Kerry, be sure to give him my email
>> > address and send him to
>> > >Denison, Iowa. This soldier will set him straight. If you are
>> > like me and very disgusted
>> > >with how this period of rebuilding has been portrayed, email this
>> > to a friend and let them
>> > >know there are good things happening.
>> > >
>> > >Ray Reynolds, SFC
>> > >Iowa Army National Guard
>> > >234th Signal Battalion
>>

please...
i mean...
if iraq was THAT great
why dont all of Americans come and live here?
:*)
really ... u r welcomed...

The Donald Rumsfeld Should Resign Petition

Questions


1) is bush going to give us another speech after the new pictures were released? maybe with an apology this time?
2) dont u like these innocent smiles?
3) isnt rummy going to act like a responsible minister, and resign? i mean... what else can happen to let a minister resign? this is really as bas as it gets...
4) dont u think that small shrub should have acted - just once - in a responsible way, and admit the "evil" systematic abuse in the iraqi prisons instead of blaming some "bad" soldiers?

mmmm,,, and the last (Bowling for Columbine) question..
5) mmm.... what did he used to say? what was that word? yeah yeah .. democracy :*)

hmmm..

whooaa
I gave a small speech in New Zealand yesterday
:*)

French TV screens images 'of US helicopter crew killing Iraqis'

"Wait, some movement by the truck," says the shooter. "He's wounded."

"Hit him. Hit the truck and him. Go forward," answers the officer.

GOD GOD GOD

this is really ... really bad...
please read the following report...
and tell me how can all of these "mistakes" happen

(S) I find that the intentional abuse of detainees by military police personnel included the following acts:

a. (S) Punching, slapping, and kicking detainees; jumping on their naked feet;

b. (S) Videotaping and photographing naked male and female detainees;

c. (S) Forcibly arranging detainees in various sexually explicit positions for photographing;

d. (S) Forcing detainees to remove their clothing and keeping them naked for several days at a time;

e. (S) Forcing naked male detainees to wear women’s underwear;

f. (S) Forcing groups of male detainees to masturbate themselves while being photographed and videotaped;

g. (S) Arranging naked male detainees in a pile and then jumping on them;

h. (S) Positioning a naked detainee on a MRE Box, with a sandbag on his head, and attaching wires to his fingers, toes, and penis to simulate electric torture;

i. (S) Writing “I am a Rapest” (sic) on the leg of a detainee alleged to have forcibly raped a 15-year old fellow detainee, and then photographing him naked;

j. (S) Placing a dog chain or strap around a naked detainee’s neck and having a female Soldier pose for a picture;

k. (S) A male MP guard having sex with a female detainee;

l. (S) Using military working dogs (without muzzles) to intimidate and frighten detainees, and in at least one case biting and severely injuring a detainee;

m. (S) Taking photographs of dead Iraqi detainees.

..

During my work as a country director of CIVIC (the only door-to-door civilians war casualties survey), I was given a passport of a Jordanian citizen who was killed during the war, he was a fighter in the Arab militias in the south.

Today, my father came from Baghdad to Amman and brought some documents about my work there that I need to use in my Masters thesis, and I found that passport with the documents.

The guy was born in 1978, and his name is Khalid Ahmad AbuDyyh. I called the phone directory service and took his family’s phone number, and called them.

Assalamo Alaykom,
A female voice answered… Alaykom Assalam
My name is Raed Jarrar, can I speak to Mr. Ahmad
He’s not here
mmm… can I speak to any other man?
Well.. sorry, I am alone here with my mother, how can I help you?
mmm… I wanted to ask about… mmm…

God, at that moment I wasn’t sure whether they knew Khalid is dead or not

mmm… about Khalid…
what about him?
Where is he?
In heaven.

Ok, at least they know he is dead.

Well,,, I used to live in Iraq, and I have his passport with me
Oh god! Really?
Yes, can I come to your house?
Sure sure, I’ll let dad call you when he comes back.

The father called me in the evening, and I went to meet him. We had some tea while he was telling me the story

Today is the fist birthday of Khalid’s son, Dirar. Khalid went to fight and die in Iraq, he left us in the 17th of March, just some days before the war started. He left his wife pregnant and didn’t tell anyone were he was going.

I noticed this picture on the wall, for the dead father, and another small picture for the small son that didn’t have the chance to meet his father.

He asked us to call his son Dirar, because his friend Dirar was killed by Israelis some years ago during a battle.

Khalid didn’t want Iraqis to see what we, Palestinians, went through.
The father started to cry.
I am happy that Khalid died without seeing the pictures of the naked Iraqi prisoners.

I shake hands with the father, kissed the grandson, and left.

Why do hundreds like khalid decide to sacrifice their lives?
I mean… I was really thinking of that for hours…
Why in the hell would I leave my work, my wife, my unborn son, my father, my mother, brothers, sisters… and go to fight and die?

Khalid wanted to go and die in Iraq, not because he is a looser, not because he wants to have a 72 virgins (I don’t know where did this virgins story come from), and not because he wanted to achieve personal benefits,,,

Khalid like other hundreds before him , and thousands after him , wanted to say NO, he wanted to change his/our world, and it is our fault that we didn’t give him other means to express this protest.

It is the responsibility of me – as a leftist secular Muslim- and of my other cousins in the international secular tribe to give the right-winged narrow minded fellows civilized means to express their anger and objection… it is our responsibility to teach the neoconservatives how to think and act, to tell the radical suicide bombers to stop exploding themselves in Iraq and Palestine killing women and children, and to tell the neoconservatives in the white house to stop bombing countries and humiliating people.

AlJazeera met some of the famous naked prisoners today, Haidar and Hashem. I really wanted everyone living in the other side of the wall (i.e. the west) to see the anger in their eyes. I really wanted everyone to hear them speaking about the systematic way of torture and humiliation, and to compare that to what has been happening the Israeli prisons in the last 50 years.

mmm… two interesting emails:

The main hospital at Najaf is closed, because some resistance people used it to attack the coalition forces base. The main hospital is a real big one with around 600 beds, the total number of beds in all other hospitals at Najaf doesn’t reach to 350, My friend Dr. Haider sent the following email from Najaf, maybe someone can help them before the American attack takes place…

I asked about the needs of our hospital & the manager Dr.talib said that one of the most important things we are in need is the ECG monitor with DC conversion electrodes this instrument is very vital & the only 6 that we had are now in the main occupied hospital so we cant reach them so it is important to provide at least one monitor for our hospital or for Al najaf general hospital as quick as possible.
this is the important thing that we r really in need now because it can serve the lives of tens of cardiac sick people.

Tom from England sent me an email, that reminded me of the classical middle eastern policy: HE HIT ME FIRST.

Hi Raed, i recently wrote an email to you expressing how i thought you were strong in the face of adversity. I still believe you are, but your blog is now so totally one sided that it is becoming a bore to read. I saw those pictures of Iraquis being 'tortured', and i was shocked, it should not happen.
What you have to put into context is the fact that this is happening on BOTH sides. I have seen on a radical website, pictures of the 4 American CIVILIANS being beaten, burned, hung from a bridge and dragged around the streets by hordes of apparently 'innocent' Iraqui civilians. The people who did this to those American civilians were outright animals, but will THEY be brought to any justice. You have a lot of hate, and have a right to, but you are so one sided it is untrue. You have American 'friends', but you hate the American army. How do you think the families of those American civilians hate the Iraqui people because of their loved ones disgusting deaths. I for one, would let sddam hussein go free and install him back as 'Leader' of the new 'FREE' Iraq and see how you and your people wil like that.

mmm..
www.RaedintheMiddle.com
haha?

more pictures for the iraqi prisoners abuse
and i noticed these hard core pictures for three men raping a woman, which the tunisian site claims they are for three american soldiers raping an iraqi woman. I dont believe that very much, (in fact i dont want to believe that)... but i can't tell what would the general iraqi reaction for those would be. it is no longer about truth and lies, it is about adding more reasons to increase the explosion. many people would try to invest the current situation as much as they can, and the american administration just gave them the chance to. i'm quite sure most of these pictures are going to be printed out and distributed all over iraq within days.
the other problem is that iraqis and arabs have heard so many stories about similar abuses and rapes happening in the israeli prisons.
did i already mention that the 1920 revolution against brits started after a british soldier tried to hold the hand of an iraqi woman... he was shot in the middle in the market, and the revolution witnessed the murder of thousands of iraqis (and 500 brits) before the withdrawal of britain from iraq.
does that sound familiar?

I really respected Ted Copple when we met in Baghdad some months ago, and i respected him more today.

The thing no one said about the incident of Yanbu that the dead naked bodies of killed foreigners were dragged over the small town for over an hour, the same way they were dragged around Falluja one month ago, (and maybe as a reaction for the pictures of the naked Iraqi men at Abu Greib prison yesterday).

the four attackers were brothers.

I heard that from two differen individuals from Saudi Arabia, one of them was on SAWA (the voice of america in arabic)

Bush: Kimmitt…
Frog: YES! SIR
Bush: take your soldiers, kill some hundreds of Saudis, arrest some thousands and piss on them, Blair is really creative.
frog: PISS! SIR

the daily average of american soldiers killed in iraq reached to around 5 soldiers per day in april.

What is happening at Falluja?

I will tell you what…
A huge defeat for bush and his administration, a huge political and military defeat.
And Celebrations!
Celebrations of the Iraqi military victory.
:*)
Funny and unexpected, right?
Who thought that some hundreds of Iraqi fighters with primitive weapons could achieve such a military triumph?
Who imagined that the Abrams and Apaches would run away after weeks of fighting with some small groups of Iraqi Men that are ready to die to defend their national pride, dignity and honor?

After weeks of bombing and killing, the American Army withdrew today from Falluja, gave the local people what they want, and gave them their “Baathist” “Saddamist” “former-regime” leader: Major General Jassim Mohammed Saleh

The town will be controled by a new Iraqi force, led by one of Saddam Hussein's former generals, to be their military leader.
:*)

God!
I am cracking up, thinking how STUPID is the American Foreign Policy, how brainless is the Bush administration. I never advocate for violence and military answers… right?
But look who is advocating and supporting the Iraqi resistance now…
I would be happy to introduce… Mr…. Small Shrub!

I never expected to see this thing happening at Falluja, and I never thought the military resistance would be effective there, but Bush has just announced the new and only way his administration can hear the Iraqi Voice…
mmm… EXPOLSIONS!

Bush is the only person that really supports the Iraqi military resistance as an methodology of dealing with the American presence, and the Military and Political defeat of Falluja (after killing hundreds of Iraqis who are buried in the Bush Mass Grave in the town) will give hundreds of thousands of Iraqis the answer to solve their problems!
Fight… kill more American soldiers, and they will withdraw the next day.

How wise!
How smart!
What can I say… don’t tell anyone to go to hell, unless u can send him there

Do you want to know why Iraqis are fighting at Falluja?
Does anyone really think they are “Saddamists”

I will tell you why…
Just please join me, and enjoy the next documentary taken at the Abu Ghreib Prison, were thousands of Iraqis are being kept, tortured and sexually abused by American Army female soldiers. Please take a look on THESE pictures.

Those pictures are enough to start an Iraqi revolution.

How smart is bush!
How wise is he!

GO Bush
GO GO GO

Export more freedom for Iraqi prisoners

Road Map?
What the hell
Attack Najaf Habeebi
And Let’s rock’n roll

Start the new war, and send us more Bushmericana...
More Democracy
More Whisky
And more sexy!!

HEIL! operation: Hit and Run
Whooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

mmm…
there is this American friend of mine, that doesn’t seem to be very happy today

Ladies and Gentlemen:
Please excuse the language of Michelle
:*)

can you believe? when Wolfowitz (aka. Lethal Nerd Boy) was asked how many u.s. troops died in iraq so far he said 500 total, 350 from combat!!!! what, hmm,,um .. sorry ****** your a couple hundred short!!!!! ******!!

QUIZ OF THE DAY
And if asked how many iraqis died so far he'd answer:

A) i dunno, we don't keep a tally of collateral damage.

B) two, maybe three. i can't get you official numbers because we keep a tally of collateral damage.

C) none. our smart bombs are super smart. and anyways we don't keep count of that sort of "stuff".

D) i'm a HUGE ******

E) ALL THE ABOVE

wow... that was really tough...
ahhh...

bad taste joke of the day

Today is the 28th of April, the birthday of Saddam.

Jeffrey, a semi friend (I just half like him), is one of the few anti-Iraqi and anti-Arab that I know. He wrote an email describing what Saddam was doing in the day Baghdad fell. The thing that annoys me that, whether we liked that or not, Saddam was a symbol of Iraq. I really think he should have put an end to his life at the 9th of April. Hitler did that some decades ago.

It is funny, but mean.
:*)

Brave Saladin! Arab Warrior! Big Man of the Islamic Umma! (Hey, didja see he put Allah Akbar on the Iraqi Flag! Must be a real religious man!)
Slumped down, peeking over the edge of the backseat door, the crow's feet in the corners of his eyes getting suddenly longer by the minute.
Brave Saladin! Arab Warrior!
Spiderhole.
Brave Saladin! King of the Arab Peoples!
Spiderhole. Not a shot fired.
Brave Saladin! The Epic of Gilgamesh Returned!
Underwear and rotting food and candy bars strewn about the hut next to the spiderhole.

Saddam should have just killed himself.
He should have killed himself…

God!
powell spent another 15 minutes attacking Al Jazeera
And AlJazeera spent a couple of minutes making jokes on that :*)
powell spent another 15 minutes giving us a new theory about the handover of authorities to the Iraqi "Government"(?)…
Ok… let me understand this… the CPA will not handover ALL the authorities for the next Iraqi Government! The American Administration is planning to keep “some” authorities for its self.
Am I supposed to laugh or cry here?
I mean… was he joking? drunk? high?

Ahhhhhhhh...
:*)

anyway...
do u want to hear other jokes?

The explosions of Syria and Jordan were the other two jokes of the week. I am not a member in the Club of Conspiracy Theory, but people didn’t buy the official stories. I really think it’s nothing more than a political game. The Jordanian government showed us some pathetic interviews with a bunch of losers, the official Jordanian TV tried to convince its self that the “evil” gang wanted to attack the American Embassy and the Intelligence Center using Chemical Weapons!!! And that 80,000 persons would have been killed. For those who don’t know the American Embassy in Amman, it is something like… hmmm… a neighbourhood… surrounded by walls, fences, tanks and dozens of soldiers and police men. It needs an Army to attach it. Those bunch of losers didn’t look to be capable of putting a plan for stealing a car. The only interesting thing was when the “Leader” of terrorists told us the big secret… he came from... Syria!
Ahha! Got ya!
The Jordanian Government, unexpectedly, found a couple of bombed cars two weeks ago, that were exported from... Syria too!
Whoaa!
but no one seemed to be interested in that story, so the new story had chemical bombs and more action.
The Jordanian-Syrian relationship isn’t very good, since the time of the fathers of the king and the president, and I saw the story of explosions nothing more than a cheap attempt to please the Bush administration, and give them another reason to convince the world how BAD and EVIL is the Syrian regime…
oh! Please… bomb them… they are exporting terrorism and WMD
but the Syrian answer didn’t take more than a couple of days… it was like:
Hmmm… well… we are being attacked by terrorists too… gosh… we are affected by those bad terrorist as much as everyone is.
Smart... haa?
The explosion of Syria happened in front of an empty building, used to be a UN office long time ago. If anyone wanted to attack the UN or any embassy it would have been a piece of cake...

The Underground Rumor of the Day

An explosion happened while US soldiers accompanied with WMD inspectors were trying to break into a chemical store.

WMD inspectors?!
freedom democracy freedom democracy WMD whooaaaaaaaaaa

Did everyone enjoy the new super achievement of our great governing council?
We have a pale new flag!
Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
And guess what... the new flag has an interesting collage too: a sign for Muslims, a sign for Kurds, a sign for the two rivers and a sign for me smiling :*)

The GC is doing its best now (in cooperation with the CPA) to announce new plans for building the next Iraqi government (the post June 30th one) before the UN announces any clear plan. It seems that the Bush adminstration are not very happy with what the UN may say, they unleashed their puppy today…

Anyway…
Back to Syasa (politics)…

The situation of Falluja and Najaf isn’t getting any better, but I still believe that the real crisis is the Najaf one; Falluja is a smaller conflict for sure.

The deep disagreement between AsSadr and the SCIRI is kind of historical, the older generation of both Sadr and Hakim were not the best friends ever, Mohammad Mohammad Sadiq AsSadr (the one assassinated in the late 90s, the father of Muqtada) used to criticize the general policy of SCIRI at his time, and some underground rumors accuses the Ayato Allah AlHakim (the one assassinated last year, the brother of the Current GC member AlHakim) of helping in a way or another in killing the old Sadr. When the American administration approved the return of Badr Militias (The SCIRI militias) from Iran after the end of this war, small conflicts started in the Shia areas that maybe was one of the reasons for the establishment of the Mahdi Armi (AsSadr militias). At that time the only militias in Iraq were Badr and the FIF (Chalabi’s militias), and both were approved and backed up by the American Army…

AsSadr and SCIRI are the two main Shia parties controlling the southern region of Iraq now, but the party and militias of AsSadr are much more popular, I can say that the real center of AsSadr is Amara (northern to Basra) where no one can notice a single evidence that SCIRI has any activities there, they have a real isolated small office and a mosque that they prey in, but when we speak about the main center of SCIRI we are speaking about Najaf, Najaf is the Holy-City of Shia, The Imam Ali is buried there, (Karbala is the second holy-city where AlHusien and AlAbbas are buried), AsSadr took AlKufa (which is a small town attached to AnNajaf) as his center, the main mosque of AlKufa was the one his father used to give his last Friday Prayer speech before his murder, it is an important Islamic symbol too. The thing I’m trying to say is that AsSadr is active and powerful even in the central city of the SCIRI.

The last Friday prayed speech (which is the most important political indication) witnessed the first in-public criticism of the policy of AsSadr, the SCIRI spokesman indirectly announced the beginning of the new Shia-Shia conflict. From the SCIRI position, I think they find themselves committed to criticizing any anti-occupation movement, because they are the main player in the GC.

There is something that I used to say one year ago, and I’m still repeating it… The “real” war in Iraq didn’t happen yet. I still think the American administration is underestimating what can a person like AsSadr do, and starting a Shia-Shia conflict will only increase the size of explosion.

Ok, back to my road map.
:*)

The Iraqi Road Map: Part Three: The National Reconstruction Campaign

The 1991 war was much more destructive to the Iraqi infra-structure than this one, electricity plants were destroyed, bridges and main roads, and many other important sectors, but the Iraqi national reconstruction campaign was really successful in rebuilding the entire country in no time (some months), in spite of the embargo and economical challenges. That reconstruction campaign gave the Iraqi governmental sector establishments a great experience, and enhanced the Iraqi engineers and technicians capabilities in discovering appropriate methodologies in the reconstruction work.

Iraq doesn’t need any foreigner companies to come and take a part of this post-war reconstruction. American companies must be pulled out of Iraq as soon as possible and the Iraqi people must take back their right in rebuilding their country by themselves depending on their ministries and national government, that will create hundreds of thousands of vacancies for unemployed Iraqis (maybe fighting against the occupation now), and will reduce the costs of the reconstruction to less that 25% of the current expenses; the Iraqi labor market is very cheap comparing to any foreign one, and the Iraqi reconstruction methodologies are based on local materials and practice.

The national reconstruction campaign (that should have started one year ago) must include more items than mere physical buildings construction and services reconstruction; it must reach to rebuilding the Iraqi community… the civil society its self, that can start by activating the participation of the local communities in rebuilding their neighborhoods through micro-projects programs, activating civil society institutes. I used to be the director of an Iraqi grassroots organization working in the south; we implemented over 150 projects in three months depending on the local communities and people were eager to help each other and work in their neighborhoods.

Fixing the pubic services (like electricity… that was supposed to be fixed in the first couple of weeks after the war stopped) is really important to give people a stable pattern for their life, it will give Iraqis the feeling there is an authority that controls their country.

The Iraqi crisis strikes again, in Denmark this time.
At the mean while, Bremer changed his policy for the Fifth time, but his greyhound is still barking. I think changing the policy of the CPA is not a bad thing at all; it is better to change the policy than to go ahead and make further mistakes.

Well… changing the main policy for five times in public in less than a year isn’t very great though.

The Friday prayer at Najaf was very interesting and important today, the speeches of AsSadr and the Supreme council for the Islamic revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) had a dramatic evolution, AsSadr threatens to start a Suiside Bombers War if Najaf was attacked, and I believe he can do a real REALY massive scale war using his militias of human bombs, and the SCIRI’s spokesman had a strong speech which can considered as an articulation in the Sadr-Hakim relationship, the speech criticized AsSadr and his Anti-American policy in a very strong way, it claimed that the Sadr acts are harmful for Shia: economically and personally; it is killing them and reducing the number of people coming to weekly pilgrimage (i.e. reducing the income of the city). This would would make the conflict between the two major Shia Parties come to the surface.

(it seems that Sharon is changing his plans too)

ok ok…
About my theory of solving the Iraqi crisis.
I will be kind of "inductive" in declaring my individual (maybe anarchist) perspective for an Iraqi road map, by discussing details first, and reaching to the big picture in some days.

The Iraqi Road Map: Part one: Concept.

The main concept of this Iraqi Road Map is based on a pubic apology, it may sound utopian and kind of romantic, but that would be really important to stop the continues failure of the CPA.

Just Stop… Confess the previous mistakes… and Restart.

The current pattern of failures and policy changing will not lead to any real solutions, the American administration must admit that the last year was a total mess, that nothing positive will come out if the currant policy is going to continue, and that standing in a brave way and confessing this failure can give everyone a good restarting point. This apology must admit the exaggeration in the whole issue of the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and other reasons that justified the war, the Bush administration must apologize to the American and Iraqi people and compensate the thousands who were killed and injured in this unjustified war. The admission of guilt must also remember people from other countries that sent their children to be a part of the fake coalition, they must be sent back home and the U.S. government must be responsible, accountable and fix the mess it caused.

I know it is hard to confess that the last year was a disaster, and the war wasn’t justified, but this will be easier for the next administration if Bush wasn’t elected again.

The Iraqi Road Map: Part two: The Iraqi Government.

The radical extreme methodologies of destroying all the previous structures and establishments of the Iraqi Government was a wrong thing to do, people like me said that a year ago and stood against the ideas of Chalabi, and people like Bremer just found out today that most of these strategies and tactics are not valid.

The physical destruction of the Iraqi Ministries buildings, and the destruction of the Iraqi Ministries employees’ structure and hierarchy was one of the greatest mistakes. The American administration should have continued with the policy of distinguishing between Saddam and the Iraqi civilians, those Ministries were civilians, they were the best representatives and solutions for controlling the Iraqi society, they were functioning in a good way and they were built on secular basis. Those Ministries had the experience in running the country, and have great experience how to deal with a post war situation, and would have been a key player in the reconstruction campaign. Those ministries must be rebuilt.

The whole concept of De-Bathification was a great mistake, it gave the Baathists their dark corner to rebuild themselves, and excluded many professional and important people for the new Iraqi society. De-Baathification was a repetition for what Baathists used to do for non Baathists, that was a big moral mistake. When some volunteers in my NGO criticize their colleagues and ask me to kick them out because they were “Baathists”, I used to say that we must be better than Baathists, and let them feel how they destroyed our lives, but let them join the community because they are our people and our relatives too. When I used to say these things a year ago, people from the CPA called me a Baathist! Haha! :*)

The awful decision of splitting up the Iraqi army can be changed too, when we send more than 350,000 soldiers back home to die slowly, we must expect them to go and join militias, or to fight against the “New Iraq”… I mean… for god’s sake! It is their carrier! Fighting! How can we send them to feel desperate and hungry! The National Iraqi Army must be rebuilt again, it is well respected by the Iraqi people, and it can take the responsibility of the security problems inside the cities, and protect borders. It is a well trained army that is built upon secular basis, if soldiers were given something like $250 a month, no one will go and join militias! Rebuilding the Iraqi Army will give a chance to the American army to withdraw and reduce the daily contact with the Iraqi people, in a first step before the complete withdrawal of the American army, this idea of leaving permanent American bases is like starting a non-stop war. The “thing” called “New Iraqi Army” is nothing more than a bigger version of the militias of Chalabi, no one respect them, and they can’t do anything useful. Majid (my brohter) wrote an interesting artical about the militias of Chalabi some time ago.

The Iraqi civil society must be reactivated, to give the Iraqis the feeling that they are participating in rebuilding their country, and to change the currant theory of the American magic wand. Iraqi micro communities (as in neighborhoods) must take their responsibilities, and must have their chance and voice in rebuilding the new society all the way with their ministries, the ministries are The Government, the entity that can be trusted, and handed over the authorities in something more than the comedy show that will happen in the 30th of June. Handing over the authorities to no one and changing the name of the CPA to the “Embassy” with 3000 people, (or with 1700 as they say now), taking the presidential palace as a center is the worst thing that can happen… the worst.

Ok ok .. reached to my 1000 words limit :*)
I’ll continue tomorrow.

Explosions and explosions, Basra and Riyadh too.

The Dominican and Hondurans decided to pull their armies from Iraq, after the Spanish decision, others are planning to follow too.

But really…
What is this war on Al Jazeera all about?
Evil? Bad? Change the channel?!
I mean.. why?
Why do Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz waste their time cursing Al Jazeera?
Isn’t that very childish and funny? Having the Ministers of the only Super Power on earth whining all the day about a T.V. channel?
Let’s say that Al Jazeera and Al Arabia are pure evil channels, (unlike CNN and FOX), doesn’t the bush administration believe in democracy and in exporting freedom to the world?
I really wonder how far this irresponsible and impolite criticism will go… are they going to bomb the central offices of evil Jazeera like they bombed their branches in Kabul, Baghdad and Falluja?

Can’t a person like Wolfowitz respect himself a bit more and think of other reasons for the failure of his administration in Iraq?
“we cant change everything overnight” he said!
Habeeeebi!!! If u hadn't noticed… it has been a YEAR… not a night.
And attacking media channels (by bombs or by words) is only more proof of how the bush administration is bankrupt and lost.

Over a year, and no one can name a single success for the American administration in Iraq…
I mean… I really try to find something bright…

Public services? Electricity... water... telecommunication… hospitals… schools…
The only thing that has happened is “rehabilitating” some schools by Bechtel, and let me tell u more about it…
Bechtel charged around $75,000 per school, and gave the contracts to Iraqi sub-contractors, the Iraqi sub-contractors gave to other Iraqi sub-sub-contractors, and the sub-sub-contractors painted the schools, fixed the bathrooms, changed the broken windows and put some light bulbs, the thing that cannot cost more than $7,500 (around fifteen million Iraqi Dinars). Rehabilitation was poor and extremely costly; it was the first corruption story that destroyed the credibility of the plans of reconstruction. I’m sure I had already said many things about how bad the situation of hospitals, libraries (the ones that were not burned and looted), universities and gas stations are.

Infrastructure? Landmarks? Governmental buildings? Telephone exchanges?
Destroyed buildings and bridges are as they were one year ago, some buildings were brought down at Najaf and Basra (which is better than leaving them standing and adding more depression to the urban skyline), but the buildings in Baghdad were not even touched… they look sad and painful, downtown Baghdad looks like a battlefield, can you imagine all the buildings that you love… that you spent your life watching and using… being burned and partially destroyed? Can u imagine the feeling you would have if you went by the White House or the Capitol while it was burning and destroyed? Can you imagine what it would feel like to have the twin towers of the WTC standing for months burned and partially destroyed… the skyline of Baghdad reminds me of war and death, reminds me of explosions and destruction. Other smaller landmarks like status of people, pictures, small monuments and other things that were destroyed after the war, under the campaign of De-Baathification left Baghdad and the other Iraqi cities full of small destroyed icons, I mean… I don’t care about the Statue of Al-Baker (the former Iraqi president), and I don’t see his status as a sign of Evil and Baath, it is simply the landmark in front of my house!! We either put another one or remove this one completely! Leaving things partially destroyed is the worst thing to do.

Social changes? Democracy? De-Baathification? Gender issues?
The entire society is more protective and defensive. We had a real democratic couple of weeks after the war and everyone could do whatever he wanted… loot… sing in the street… start his own political party… and build some palaces on moving sand, but “democracy” became a cheap word that is used in jokes now… we have something like a dozen small Saddams trying to prove how powerful can they be now. De-Baathification (led by the corrupt figure, Chalabi) destroyed the hopes of rebuilding the community, it added more reasons for conflicts and gave Bathists a dark corner to hide and rebuild themselves slowly, instead of using their experiences in rebuilding the post war Iraq. When an Iraqi-Man-Professor-smart-Architect-educated-father-teacher like my supervisor and Director of the Architectural Department of Baghdad’s University is simply judged as a Baathist that must go and die slowly in his house… we are not doing the right thing. The GC discovered this some weeks ago when they started their First Conference of National Reconciliation but that was late as their other decisions. Gender-related problems increased, women can’t go outside without covering their hair, they can’t easily go to public markets, and maybe Riverbend can describe more details of what she face in her life as a girl in Baghdad. Iraqis –in general- are disappointed and losing/lost faith.

Security? Business? Average income?
Bad bad bad… and getting worse. Most people don’t go outside their homes.
But maybe the worst button that the Coalition forces pushed was humiliating Iraqi individuals. Pictures like this and this are not coming out of nothing.

But you know what…
I think everyone heard so much criticism, I know…
But still it is not enough.

The unjustified war on Iraq will be criticized for decades.

But I think the time of suggesting some answers came too.
I will discuss some ideas tomorrow,
I really think the time of the Iraqi Road Map is coming soon.

The Question of the Day

Why doesn’t anyone care when Mordechai Vanunu speaks about WMD?

The Woodward War Secrets that he shared with us today were interesting, but not for Bush and the Axis of Liars.

I mean… there is a spontaneous Shock and Awe attack on bush and his administration!
The poor guy.

Kimmett said today that the withdrawal of the Spanish Army is NOT going to have any effect of the military situation, and I agree on that…
Most of the military presence for the “coalition forces” (except the US and Brits) is just symbolic, giving a fake political cover to the war of bush.

A funny image of AlMahdi Army soldiers going around Kufa today driving an American Hum-vee, the military Hummer was left behind after some clashes around the city. That happened after AsSadr announced that no more attacks on the Spanish army are going to happen, and that Shia are happy with the withdrawal thing. I don’t think things would be funny or happy next week though.

The official total number of American soldiers killed in Iraq reached to more than 700, I feel so bad when I think that other hundreds of Americans are going to be killed, and other thousands of Iraqis will lose their lives.

Go España GO
That man, Zapatero, rocks...
15 days! Whooaa :*)
I mean… as we say in Arabic… he added another nail to the coffin of the bush administration.

I am totally for the withdrawal of all the “coalition” forces from Iraq now; they are giving a fake cover for the Bush administration, but things would be different if this administration was kicked out of office in Nov, and if a real International/Arabic coalition was founded under the UN umbrella.

More than 10 American soldiers were killed today in different clashes all over Iraq, and the clashes are expected to have a dramatic increase in the next days, especially in Najaf and the south, (after the Anniversary of the death of Mohammad the prophet).

When Rumsfeld, the one with an Honor Membership in the Axis of Liars, announced some days ago that the number of AsSadr militias is between 1000-1600 men, didn't he feel embarrassed the next day when he announced that20,000 - 24,000 of the US soldiers are not going to come back as scheduled, and an additional 15,000 soldiers are going to be sent to Iraq?

When I discussed the topic of AsSadr militias some weeks ago, I mentioned that the number of his followers is more than 5 million, and now I can say that they increased, and when I say a follower, I mean someone that is ready to fight for AsSadr.

Why didn’t Rumsfeld mention anything about the Iraqi Army Scandal? Why didn’t he mention that thousands of soldiers in the troop 36 of the “New Iraqi Army” refused to go and fight in Falluja? And that some hundreds of them are arrested now?

Or is it because of the lack of criticism? Someone must tell him that he is lying...
I think the dictionary of the AOL (Axis of Liars) doesn’t have words like “credibility”.

When the two Bs (Bush and Bremer) attack Falluja – and today Al Qaim Town – and kill hundreds of Iraqis, they are pushing the Iraqi Collective Memory to recall national events like the revolution of 1920 against the British occupation, and regional events like the unpleasant memories of the Palestinian-Israeli crisis.

The two bees are going to find themselves alone, fighting the “majority” of the Iraqi people within few weeks.

Today, another leader was assassinated, another Sheikh Ahmad Yasin.
Rantisi was a political man, whether we liked him or not…
ArRantisi was another safety valve that the Bush and Sharon administrations destroyed.

I am ANGRY!!! VERY ANGRY!!!
I am a secular leftist! But I am angry!!!!
Can you imagine what do other millions of right winged religious people feel????
I can’t even concentrate and don't know if my words will make any sense!!

The hate and anger of the Arab people today is unbelievable!!!, Palestinians Iraqis Jordanians Egyptians Syrians … the hate against Bush and his administration is huge now… enormous … ENORMOUS!!!!!!
Everyone believes that Bush is giving the green light for Sharon to kill their leaders, and everyone thinks that Iraq, Falluja, Najaf and every other city would face the same Palestinian destiny if they didn’t fight Against the American army now …. They would be put under siege and assassinated one by one by the American helicopters!!!
Everyone thinks that it is better to start fighting from now!!!
Everyone is full of HATE!!!
EVEN ME!!!

When the Iraqi fighter kills more American soldiers now… he has the images of Ahmad Yasin and Ranteesi in his mind
Can you imagine a community that is boiling?! Like a volcano?!

Why?!
Why do we start this war? What do Americans gain when Sharon and his extremist government kill more Palestinians?
Increasing the Arabic hate against America?!
Why?! Why don’t we stop this now???
Murder can not become a policy!! never!!

Fight and kill… more blood and more explosions
More hate between the East and the West

How can anyone distinguish between the bush administration and the American people now?
How can anyone hear my ideas of (anti-bush) not (anti-American)??
How can we stop this bloody cycle of violence if the American people didn’t understand what is happening here and try to stop it?
Would it take another 11/9 to know how people in the Middle East are full of pain? Would it take so many other years and other thousands of Americans and Arabs to die before Americans and Arabs know what is happening?
Isn’t this the time for the American people to take their role in the democratic country they built and let their voice be heard?

Isn’t this the right time to stop the neo-cons who hijacked the American government??

It is the time!!
Please!

It is the time to understand that it is the duty of us… of the people.. to stop our governments.

It is the time to realize that there is no absolute “evil” and absolute “good”
That we must ALL live in peace… that OUR lives are important…
That no lives are cheaper than other lives!!!!

The damage that already happened is hard to fix… but still we must try .. destroying the political structures and killing leaders would make it worse.. I mean .. where is my government that I would stop? I don’t have anyone to negotiate with neither in Iraq or in Palestine … everyone was killed by Bush and Sharon… and every political structure was crushed too… the only voice is the noise of the extremists

It is different for Americans… you have a government that is built on democratic basis, you can do something .. you can make a difference… your job is easier than my job…

It is the responsibility of the American people to stop their administration from killing more people and giving the green light for Saron ... "the man of peace" as Bush called him!!
stop assassinating more leaders … didn't we see what happened after the assasination of Yasin??????
stop Bush!! … don’t make him make Arab and American people hate each other more.

Don’t let Bush build a new generation of extremists

I am losing faith that words can solve anything when Bush and Sharon are ruling the world, and I can feel that explosion that will destroy everything is coming; it will destroy us and destroy you.

The explosion is coming.
The volcano of the Middle East is not going to sleep forever.

my dear British friend and house mate, Jo Wilding, went to Falluja some days ago.
she has a reall REALLY long post about that on her blog, but it is very interesting.
I think Rumsfeld should read that.

you can enjoy reading Raed in the Japanese Language now
Arigatou (thank you) nofrills san
:*)

Whoooaa
Mr. President was really busy; I mean.., two press conferences in two days!
What the!!!

Please! Mercy… give us some time to blog…

Ok.. :*)
Go raed… go go go

Bob, an American friend, had an interesting comment: “When the little moron was trying to answer a question about what did he think was his biggest mistake since 9/11, he acted like he could not think of a single mistake. How about, "remaining in office"???????

Well, I tried my best not to change the channel… Bob..
:*)
“maybe he’ll say something today… who knows…” this was my idea.
And guess what… he actually said something!
Ok… let me quote the little moron trying to convince mihself that "it's not a popular uprising":

coalition forces face riots and attacks that are being incited by a radical cleric named al-Sadr. He has assembled some of his supporters into an illegal militia, and publicly supported the terrorist groups, Hamas and Hezbollah.

Habeebi! I was waiting for someone to say that…
Thank you!

Now excuse me for a moment… I must put on my blue flack jacket before releasing The Secret Theory of Raed:
Digdomdug tik tik psh sh sh sh dm dm puk.
:*) ok .. ready now…

Iraq and Palestine: Two Faces of One Coin

When the Sheikh Ahmad Yasin was assassinated by a missile in the last week of March, I felt very sad…

I feel sad, I know that all of this hate and anger because of the American position, and because of the Israeli irresponsible acts, is going to be translated in a way or another in a (Bin_Laden) like phenomenon...
(the 24th of March)

It wasn’t just about Yasin, everyone realized that such a brainless act wouldn’t solve anything, and it would just open more doors of violence. And when the Bush administration decided to backup the “Man of Peace” with a VITO… it was a real spark to explode the entire region.

Is there a time when the American administration (the one with bigger tanks, faster fighters and the most powerful weapons of mass destruction) will understand the real war they are starting?
(the 27th of March)

I don’t think Bush understood that yet.

When AsSadr joined the Arabic uprising, and announced that he is proud to be under the commands of Hamas, and that his militias are another part of the Palestinain militias, Bush and Bremer noticed him.

The “smart” reaction was closing his newspaper (AlHawza).
*What happened next?
Hundreds of thousands of AsSadr supporters demonstrated against that…
*What happened next?
American forces killed some “bad people” demonstrating
*Did Bush and Bremer change their decision about the closed newspaper?
No.
*Why? Didn’t they come to bring freedom and democracy?
Well, they said the newspaper was inflaming passions

I mean!! Is that a crime?
Tell you what Mr. Bremer… there is a cute girly inflaming my passions daily!
Is she going to be arrested too?

ok.. back to the subject…
*So, what happened next?
Some clashes started, here and there…
*And next?
Yeah… next… well.. Bremer decided to arrest the assistant of AsSadr.
*Ahha… and…?
And clash started expanding, more and more… and more…
*Then?
Then the whole thing was out of control.
*What did Bush and Bremer do?
The invented a new crime for AsSadr… released by an Iraqi court.
*Did the Iraqi Minster of Justice conferm that?
Nop.. he denied…
*Then?
Clashes started to be more like a war
*Whooaa!
And cities started to go out of the control of the CPA, like Najaf and Karbala.
*So, did the two Bs kill AsSadr? Did they arrest him?
Well… not really… they started some negotiations with him
*And?
And they agreed to pull out their forces…
*Ahha!
And to change AsSadr militias to a political party
*WHAT?! Haha! That’s a joke right?
Not really… well… it is kind of funny… but this is what happened.
*So why did they start that from the first time?
mmm… I really can’t help you in that.
*I mean… what do you call all of what happened then?
Haa.. haaa… haaaaaaa.. BUSHIT….
*Bless you.

So, after the huge defeat and failure, Bush decided to make a move today… he announced the neo-Balfour Declaration, and gave the house of my grandfather as a gift to Sharon. Please! UN resolutions? Road map? anyone? hello?

I mean… where is the point? How can someone donate something that he doesn’t own? It’s like me announcing that I give the house of Bush as a gift to my father!

By the way, my father had a real bad accident today, he was going to work in the morning and a big explosion happened near his car, destroyed the glass of the car, and he can’t hear by his left ear now… I’m sure mom would announce all the details on her blog.

Ok… back to the subject, again.

So, bush thinks the only way to solve the Palestinian crisis is by killing more “bad” people, by giving the Sharon government the green light to keep the Israeli settlements, and by asking people like me to find another homeland.

Interesting :*)

Flyers distributed today by the Iraqi resistance asked the Iraqi people to stay home next week…
Let's see were is the end of this policy.

More than 40% of the American soldiers are affected by the radiations of the Depleted Uranium used by the American Forces during this war.

Well… I did check many sites personally, using a Geiger Counter, and found that the radiation level is like 2000% to 13000% more than the regular background reading. I saw hundreds of Iraqi tanks destroyed by DU bullets, in the middle of the residential areas… I mean… Saddam is a criminal, he put those tanks between civilian houses, but Bush is a criminal too… he used radio active weapons to destroy them.

Iraqis were cutting parts of the radio active tanks, and melting them to be re-used as steel I beams for constructing houses. I met dozens of Iraqis working in a huge area near the southern gate of Baghdad where the American forces collected some hundreds of destroyed Iraqi tanks… those Iraqis didn’t know the meaning or Uranium, or the meaning of radiation… they didn’t have other jobs and they had official papers from the CPA, as an approval for cutting and transferring the parts of the Iraqi weapons.

In some places like Nasryya, Basra, Amara and Kut, destroyed Iraqi tanks were not moved from their locations, I tried – in cooperation with dozens of other volunteers -to start some small awareness campaigns in those cities, I hope they reduced the number of children playing inside the tanks.

I noticed many holes in the ground near the destroyed tanks, which means that hundreds of bullets are contaminating the surface water of Iraq now, (the bullet can reach easily the dept of 75 cm under the ground, and the Iraqi surface water is around that level) I mean… I can easily identify the tank destroyed by a DU bullet now, if you search carefully you’ll find the hole of penetration, which is the point the bullet entered from. When the DU bullet (which is extremely solid and strong) hit an Iraqi tank, it penetrates the 8 – 10 cm of metal as if you are punching a can of Pepsi using a screw driver… it’s really nothing for the bullet. The thing is that during this penetration so much friction happens between the two metals (steel and DU) that makes the DU bullet burns like a mass of fire, it burns up everything in the tank (including the tank ammunition) causing a big explosion inside the tank, that’s why usually you can notice the turret thrown upside-down some meters away from the burned tank.

I think the Bush administration has just found the weapons of mass destruction!
Weapons of mass destruction, weapons of mass destruction, weapons of mass destruction, weapons of mass destruction, freedom democracy weapons of mass destruction.

The Question of the Day

Does Kerry read My blog?
:*)

I mean… we really share the same ideas in criticizing the policy of Bush in Iraq. He believes that military alone cannot win the peace in Iraq. “We need a political strategy that will work”.

Habeebi! Yes! Exactly…

Let me quote some of his critiques and suggestions about Iraq:


To be successful in Iraq, and in any war for that matter, our use of force must be tied to a political objective more complete than the ouster of a regime. To date, that has not happened in Iraq. It is time it did.

Yes! This is completely right… the use of force in Iraq was very well designed during the war, it destroyed the Iraqi Government in no time, but in the aftermath… ahhhh…


Over the past year the Bush administration has advanced several plans for a transition to democratic rule in Iraq. Each of those plans, after proving to be unworkable, was abandoned.

And I went through all of these changes, when it started first by the Garner Authority, meetings and meetings with Iraqis and NGOs, with no clear purpose. Then over a night the administration pushed the (next please) button, and changed the name of ORHA to the CPA, Bremer came and reduced the authorities of Chalabi and reduced the influence of the IFF (the militias of Chalabi that I will write more about in the near future). Then started the Governing council Muppet show, then the (S)elected Iraqi ministers.. mmm… and the handover of authorities (that no one can say where are these authorities or where is the Iraqi administration that is going to control the country).


The administration has set a date (June 30) for returning authority to an Iraqi entity to run the country, but there is no agreement with the Iraqis on how it will be constituted to make it representative enough to have popular legitimacy. Because of the way the White House has run the war, we are left with the United States bearing most of the costs and risks associated with every aspect of the Iraqi transition. We have lost lives, time, momentum and credibility.

Let me say that people like me didn’t lose faith yet, I try to believe that the current events are destroying the credibility of Bush, his administration and his foreign policy. I don't really think the "American" credibility has been lost, yet.


And we are seeing increasing numbers of Iraqis lashing out at the United States to express their frustration over what the Bush administration has and hasn't done.

The United Nations, not the United States, should be the primary civilian partner in working with Iraqi leaders to hold elections, restore government services, rebuild the economy, and re-create a sense of hope and optimism among the Iraqi people.

Yes… An international presence under the UN umbrella is the first step in sloving the Iraqi crisis.

Finally, we must level with our citizens. Increasingly, the American people are confused about our goals in Iraq, particularly why we are going it almost alone. The president must rally the country around a clear and credible goal. The challenges are significant and the costs are high. But the stakes are too great to lose the support of the American people.

*applaud*

thank you

The Axis of Liars

Kimmit the frog was answering another question from AlJazeera correspondent about some attacks happening at Al Falluja. The pictures of an American APC burning and some American soldiers walking in the streets of Falluja were in the background of the screen, two F16s were bombing the town, and everyone could hear the noise of the fighters and the explosions… a Marines spokesman was announcing the death of one American Soldier and the injury of other seven during some clashes at Falluja… and Kimmitt said: “duhm, no, there is nothing happening there, all what you say to your audience are mere lies”.

Ahhhhhhhh…..
That was the first and only time that I took his advice and changed the channel.

The Dangerous Gossip of the Week

In fact, I didn’t want to discuss that until I heard the “clarification” of the GC today, invalidating the rumor and saying it is not true at all.

The underground gossip says that Pashmerga (Kurds militias) took a part in the Falluja battles last week, (after the soldiers of the “New Iraqi Army” refused to obey the orders and go fight there).

The decreasing possibility of having a Sunni-Shia war increases the possibility of starting an Arab-Kurd one.

The Question of the Week

If Muqtada AsSadr is an “outlaw” that must be either killed or arrested, why is the CPA negotiating with him?
Is it going like “umm… excuse me Mr. AsSadr, can we please kill you?”

The Rhetoric Question of the Week

When Bremer decides to hand over the security authorities to the Iraqi Police at Najaf, doesn’t he really realize that Iraqi Police is COMPLETELY controlled by AsSadr there? Or it just about changing the black custom of AlMahdi Army?

and... The Advice of the Week

Change the Channel
:*)