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Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq, has been assassinated.
BBC News
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging at an unspecified location, reports say. Iraqi TV said the execution took place just before 0600 local time (0300GMT). It was witnessed by a doctor, lawyer and officials. It was also filmed. US troops and Iraqi security forces are on high alert for any violent backlash…
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SADDAM MADE IRAQ WORTH FIGHTING FOR
Malcom Lagauche
For the past hour, I have been fidgeting and going from website-to-website to see when the inevitable words would appear on the screen. About five minutes ago, they did. Aljazeera News had a moving banner at the top of its site that read: Unconfirmed reports say that Saddam Hussein has been hanged in Baghdad. At least the anxiety of those who admired Saddam is over. Soon, headlines will herald the violence that emanates from his hanging. Vilified by western analysts, politicians, and journalists for years, it is nothing short of miraculous that Saddam lasted as long as he did. Many of the left are just as responsible for his demise as are the neocons they lambaste…
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Saddams Execution : The western anti war movement – the left boot of imperialism?
Kola, Media Lens Message Board
The silence of the western antiwar movement on the lynching of Saddam Hussein is deafening and is increasingly beginning to prove what a lot of discerning people have suspected all along – that the mainstream anti-war movement (including large parts of its left wing) in the west is the well concealed left boot of western imperialism, the conscience of the conqueror. The main reason given by western radicals – including many on this board for ignoring the assassination of the deposed Iraqi president is the crimes against humanity he has allegedly committed. How many of these ‘left’ activists then would welcome a Chinese invasion of the British Isles, the sacking of British cities, the incarceration and torture of tens of thousands of English youths in concentration camps scattered along the Yorkshire Dales, the murder of a million British citizens (the equivalent of the Iraq dead) if the reason Beijing gave for the invasion was to arrest, try and execute Tony Blair for the limitless war crimes he has directly and indirectly carried out in Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine over the last three years – killing in Iraq alone (in 3 years) more than Saddam killed in 35…
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To Saddam Hussein by Layla Anwar
Gabriele Zamparini, The cat’s dream
Dear friends, I want to dedicate the piece below written by Layla Anwar, an Iraqi woman, to the grotesque Western antiwar movement and its influential intellectuals, whose shameful silence on the lynching of Saddam Hussein will be remembered as one of the most disgraceful pages of infamy’s history…
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Saddam Hussein’s Final Letter
President Saddam Hussein
Here, I offer my soul to God as a sacrifice, and if He wants, He will send it to heaven with the martyrs, or, He will postpone that… so let us be patient and depend on Him against the unjust nations. In spite of all the difficulties and the storms which we and Iraq had to face, before and after the revolution, God the Almighty did not want death for Saddam Hussein. But if He wants it this time, it (Saddam’s life) is His creation. He created it and He protected it until now. Thus, by its martyrdom, He will be bringing glory to a faithful soul, for there were souls that were younger than Saddam Hussein that had departed and had taken this path before him. If He wants it martyred, we thank Him and offer Him gratitude, before and after. The enemies of your country, the invaders and the Persians, found that your unity stands as a barrier between them and your enslavement…
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Saddam was tortured before his execution and his body was mutilated afterwards
Truth About Iraqis
And this is the new Iraq? There are those who say Saddam received more justice than his victims. How so? In Islam, it is forbidden to execute anyone on such holy days. Of course, those who killed him are not Muslim. In Islam, it is wrong to desecrate the deceased. But of course, those who killed him are not Muslim. Sadrists, Badrists, Malikis, Talabanis, Roubaeis, Barazanis. Not Muslim. This is about humiliation. Of Sunnis. Of Shias. Of Muslims. Of Arabs. Nothing else. Iraqi authorities are refusing to hand over his body because they fear that the signs of torture will be visible and enrage Iraqis…
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Who is this man they call Saddam?
Hussein Al-alak, The Iraq Solidarity Campaign
But for what reason should we mourn the former president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein? Roads to Iraq, one of the countries prolific writers pointed out the following in an article on the 27/12/2006. When he was deputy, Saddam helped to nationalize Iraqi oil fields, which caused a lot damage to foreign oil companies. Through the revenues brought in by the oil, Saddam helped the country launch a campaign against illiteracy with illiteracy levels dropping to less than 10%. The Iraqi “Ba’athist” government also issued a law which made education available and compulsory to all children and more importantly, this was provided for free. This allowed Iraqi children the chance to read and write, instead of selling cigarettes in the streets. As Felicity Arbuthnot stated at the 1998 Fire Brigade Union conference, “UNESCO said that Iraq was one of the only countries in the world where, even if you were born in absolute poverty, with illiterate parents you could come out of the education system either a brain surgeon, archaeologist or whatever you wished to become.”…
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SADDAM MADE IRAQ WORTH FIGHTING FOR
Malcom Lagauche
For the past hour, I have been fidgeting and going from website-to-website to see when the inevitable words would appear on the screen. About five minutes ago, they did. Aljazeera News had a moving banner at the top of its site that read: Unconfirmed reports say that Saddam Hussein has been hanged in Baghdad. At least the anxiety of those who admired Saddam is over. Soon, headlines will herald the violence that emanates from his hanging. Vilified by western analysts, politicians, and journalists for years, it is nothing short of miraculous that Saddam lasted as long as he did. Many of the left are just as responsible for his demise as are the neocons they lambaste…
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Hanging Saddam
Mike Whitney
The execution of Saddam Hussein is another grim chapter in the catalogue of war crimes perpetrated against the Iraqi people. It is a gratuitous act of barbarism devoid of justice. What right does Bush have to kill Saddam? What right does the author of Abu Ghraib, Falluja, Haditha and countless other atrocities have to pass judgment on the former leader of a nation which posed no threat to the United States? Bush believes that killing Saddam will achieve the “closure” which has eluded him through 4 years of occupation. But he is mistaken. Saddam’s death will only eliminate any opportunity for a political solution. Reconciliation will be impossible and Saddam will die as a hero…
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End of Another Year…
Riverbend, Bagdad burning
…Basically, with this execution, what the Americans are saying is “Look- Sunni Arabs- this is your man, we all know this. We’re hanging him- he symbolizes you.” And make no mistake about it, this trial and verdict and execution are 100% American. Some of the actors were Iraqi enough, but the production, direction and montage was pure Hollywood (though low-budget, if you ask me). That is, of course, why Talbani doesn’t want to sign his death penalty- not because the mob man suddenly grew a conscience, but because he doesn’t want to be the one who does the hanging- he won’t be able to travel far away enough if he does that. Maliki’s government couldn’t contain their glee. They announced the ratification of the execution order before the actual court did. A few nights ago, some American news program interviewed Maliki’s bureau chief, Basim Al-Hassani who was speaking in accented American English about the upcoming execution like it was a carnival he’d be attending. He sat, looking sleazy and not a little bit ridiculous, his dialogue interspersed with ‘gonna’, ‘gotta’ and ‘wanna’… Which happens, I suppose, when the only people you mix with are American soldiers. My only conclusion is that the Americans want to withdraw from Iraq, but would like to leave behind a full-fledged civil war because it wouldn’t look good if they withdraw and things actually begin to improve, would it?…
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The execution of the President
Statement by Abdul Ilah Albayaty, Ian Douglas, Hana Albayaty, Dirk Adriaensens, Inge Van De Merlen
President Saddam Hussein is a prisoner of war with protected status under international law.i Further, he is the lawful president of the Republic of Iraq. He cannot be executed legally by the US occupation. Under the Interim Constitution of Iraq of 1990 — which remains in force despite the illegal imposition of a permanent Iraqi constitution written by the United States — President Saddam Hussein, like heads of state worldwide, including in the US and Europe, is afforded sovereign immunity to prosecution. That the US invaded Iraq illegally and established an illegal political process and a quisling Iraqi government only exacerbates the violation of President Saddam Hussein’s personal and sovereign rights and the affront to the whole of Iraq. His imminent execution is an attempt to establish, de facto, a global state of exception to law. Force cannot make just what law denies.
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They Who Save One Life…
The Iraq Solidarity Campaign
If you want to help stop further bloodshed in Iraq, oppose the planned murder of Saddam Hussain. The “execution” will not bring justice to the Iraqi people, only national unity, welfare, employment, education and food can provide the stability that is so greatly needed. Make you voice loud and clear and contact the Iraqi Ambassador in London today!…
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In Gaza: Democracy and Its Discontents
Ramzy Baroud
It’s all too convenient for the BBC website to describe the ongoing bloodshed between Hamas and Fatah supporters in the Gaza Strip as “inter-factional rivalry”, and it’s equally fitting for the Washington Post to narrate the same unfortunate events – which have left many Palestinians dead and wounded – as if they are entirely detached from their adjoining regional and international milieus. Also puzzling are calls made by “leading moderate Arab leaders” to fighting Palestinian factions to convene in this Arab capital or that to settle their differences and to achieve an increasingly elusive ceasefire, as if they, the Arabs – who cowed to US pressure to ensure the success of the debilitating sanctions imposed against the democratic Palestinian governments – haven’t contributed, actively and knowingly to the unfolding crisis in Palestine…
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The crucifixtion of ‘angel’ Gabriele by the ‘left’ legions of Imperialism
Kola Odetola, Media Lens Message Board
Gabriel is being crucified on the board for daring to expose the hypocrisy of the ‘left imperialists’ airy fairy liberal humanitarians who are united with the right in seeing dark skinned people in the third world as being child like and helpless thus needing western tutelage. The only difference of course being that the left wing international child minders don’t believe in spanking. They seek to hide behind the idea that justice has been done to Saddam First on Saddam’s guilt (…) Left wing imperialism is an increasingly powerful tool of control by the west in its endless struggle to enslave and dominate the rest of the world. It is backed by a multibillion dollar NGO industry and thousands of adherents in many ways more skilled, more determined and just as mendacious and duplicitous as the most powerful western armies…
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2006
Today in Iraq
KHALIS – A suicide bomber killed 10 people and wounded 11 near a Shi’ite mosque in the town of Khalis, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. RAMADI – The U.S. military said gunmen shot a policeman and a woman and wounded three others, including two children, when they attacked their home in Ramadi on Wednesday. A U.S. statement said Iraqi police later arrested 13 suspects. BAGHDAD – U.S. forces killed two suspected insurgents and wounded two civilians in a raid on an al Qaeda target in Baghdad on Friday, the U.S. military said. A U.S. statement said its forces “regret the injuries the local nationals sustained”…
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SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
Desert Peace
This weekend the most important feast on the Muslim calendar will begin, Eid al Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice). In reality, it is the Palestinian people that are still being sacrificed today, every day… and no one seems to care. The west is silent, the Arab world is silent, Palestine stands alone… Below is a report from the Palestinian Centre on Human Rights… can you honestly remain silent after reading this?…Keep in mind… these incidents are from this week alone…
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Iran’s influence grows, thanks to America
As’ad Abdul Rahman, Special to Gulf News
At the time when the US is wading in the heavy mud of the Iraqi quagmire, Iran is stealthily assuming the role of a major player in the region. That is why the Iraq Study Group recommended that the US should start negotiations with Tehran to bring about regional stability. Now it is well-known that ever since the American invasion of Iraq and the many mistakes committed by the US, Iranian influence in the Middle East has been growing and surpassing that of the US. This fact was emphasised by the UK’s Royal Institute of International Affairs. For in its “war on terror”, the US has strengthened the Iranian role by toppling two of its enemies (the Taliban in Afghanis-tan and Saddam Hussain in Iraq) without laying out proper political structures in their places…
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Immediate Action is IMPERATIVE in BAGHDAD
Wafaa’ Al-Natheema
Please read this detailed report on the condition of Iraqi hospitals in the following correspondence between Iraqis in three continents, and see if you can help in any way. Thank you. If you can help or have contacts to help deliver medicine to hospitals in Iraq, kindly email me at aboutfromiraq@yahoo.com…
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Ramsey Clark denounces planned execution of Saddam Hussein
Sunil Freeman, Socialism and Liberation
…Noting the biased nature of the trial, which was roundly condemned by human rights groups, foreign offices of several countries, U.N. observers and others, Clark questioned the speed with which the court is moving to execute the defendants. “Prime Minister Maliki has repeatedly said the execution should take place this year,” Clark said. “Iraqi law seems to provide that the sentence of death is to be carried out mandatorily within fifteen days of the final judgment.” In addition to Saddam, the court also imposed death sentences on Awad Hamed al-Bandar and Barzan al-Tikriti. The pretext for the recent show trial grew out of an assassination attempt against Hussein and other high ranking Iraqi officials during the Iraq-Iran war. Approximately 148 men were arrested, tried and convicted in the plot. Executions were carried out in Iraq three years after the failed assassination attempt…
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Neocons and Democrats Tussle over Long or Short “Surge” of Violence in Iraq
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire
It’s sort of like throwing more gasoline on a fire in an effort to put it out. “Incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Sunday he would support a temporary troop increase in Iraq only if it were part of a broader strategy to bring combat forces home by early 2008,” reports the Associated Press. Harry Reid and the Democrats, looking ahead at the 2008 selection and beyond, understand now is the time to cast about with diluted antiwar rhetoric, even as they nod in the direction of Bush’s “surge” in Iraq…
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Why there’s no meaningful debate about the “troop-surge”
Arablinks.blogspot.com
…In the last few days, Cole has somewhat relented, and now admits (now that it is US government policy) that the Sunnis have to be negotiated with, because they are what he calls “spoilers”. Here is his reasoning (Dec 27): “The guerrilla war is hotter now than at any time since the US invasion. It is more widely supported by more Sunni Arabs than ever before. It is producing more violent attacks than ever before. Since we cannot defeat them short of genocide, we have to negotiate with them.” Now he is making some “ecumenical speeches” of his own, educating his readers about the need for a “win-win situation”, even if it involves Sunnis. This is several years late, and his very influential sectarian approach has already done its damage. Gullible readers who have been exposed for years to this sort of thing are naturally going to be very hard-boiled about any concept of cross-sect Iraqi nationalism. So when I quoted Harith al-Dhari (Sunni head of the Muslim Scholars Association) in Istanbul recently on the subject of Sunni-Shiite cooperation, and a commenter expressed consternation, asking if it isn’t the case that the “Muslim Scholars have been blowing up Shiites in Sadr City”, the commenter then admitted she was a regular Juan Cole reader…
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SADDAM MADE IRAQ WORTH FIGHTING FOR
Malcom Lagauche
For the past hour, I have been fidgeting and going from website-to-website to see when the inevitable words would appear on the screen. About five minutes ago, they did. Aljazeera News had a moving banner at the top of its site that read: Unconfirmed reports say that Saddam Hussein has been hanged in Baghdad. At least the anxiety of those who admired Saddam is over. Soon, headlines will herald the violence that emanates from his hanging. Vilified by western analysts, politicians, and journalists for years, it is nothing short of miraculous that Saddam lasted as long as he did. Many of the left are just as responsible for his demise as are the neocons they lambaste…
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Sadrist Shia/Iranian forces executed Saddam
Truth About Iraqis
A new video has surfaced showing Saddam saying the shahada just as he was being hanged. Several men were chanting Muqtada Al-Sadr’s name and the name of his rotting filth of a father as well as that of Baqir Al Hakim. Justice for Iraq? Or justice for the Iranian Persian Shia horde of Muqtada Sadr and Badr. Let no Iraqi mistake the meaning of this video. There is no government of unity in Iraq. That Sadr’s men were the executors is evidence that it is they who have been behind all the killings, all the murders, all the attack on holy Shia and Sunni Shrines. Let no Iraqi mistake the meaning of this video. The Sunnis are marked. One by one they will all meet Saddam’s fate…
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Urgent..Full video of Saddam’s execution reveals more than Saddam’s death
Roads to Iraq
The scandalous video shows the puppets didn’t let Saddam complete his Shahada: “I testify that there is none worthy of worship except God and I testify that Muhammad is the Messenger of God” After his execution they shouted: Long live Muqtada, Long live Muqtada [Moqtada Al-Sadr] 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. Qudspress sources inside the Green Zone said: The body of President Saddam Hussein, subjected to beatings and torture by the guards who were in charge of transportation the body. …
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Live reports from Beirut
Roads to Iraq
…The invaders and their collaborators will notice that you are bigger than death, they will realize that martyr Saddam is not a less obstacle from Saddam the leader, nothing stop the march of the Iraqi people towards victory and liberation, the resistance continues and the Mujahideen continue to advance the liberalization. Your martyrdom Sir is a push to escalate the resistance and achieve victory. Sir we will celebrate your memory, in every new day’s sunshine in our hearts and our consciences and our words in spite of all the hate. Bless the people and the nation who gave birth to men like Saddam Hussein and his comrades…
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In the death of the Prophet Mohammed
Truth About Iraqis
I am getting many emails of sorrow from Iraqis all around the world. Sunnis and Shia, much to the dismay of AP, AFP, Reuters, CNN and all the North American media. Saddam’s execution needs to be seen in light of Iran’s involvement in Iraq. He who defies the Persian horde will meet this fate, the mullahs of Iran want the Arabs to know. In Tel Aviv, the sentiment is similar. He who dares to hit Israel will meet this fate. In the US, he who defies the US hegemony and bloodlust will meet this fate. The Palestinians today are in mourning because they realize that now there is no one left in the Arab world calling for the liberation of Palestine. Their back is broken…
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How many Iraqis died today?
Eli Stephens, Left I on the News
…Does all this add up to 520 per day? I don’t know. But it sure adds up to a lot more than 80 (as even AP admits: “The AP count includes civilians, government officials and police and security forces, and is considered a minimum based on AP reporting. The actual number is likely higher, as many killings go unreported.”). Saddam Hussein was hanged today for the judicial killing of 148 people. Their trials may not have been fair, but they were tried, and for alleged involvement in a very real crime (an attempted assassination). What fate awaits George Bush & Co., responsible for the death of more than 148 people every day for more than three and a half years?…
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Dying for Our Sins
The sacrifice of the Iraqi President on the first day of Eid could make a prophet of Saddam Hussein.
Paul Wolf
Today is the first day of the Eid al adha, or Feast of Sacrifice. Celebrated by Muslims worldwide, it’s a major holiday like Christmas or Hanukkah, commemorating the willingness of the Prophet Abraham to sacrifice his son Ishmael to God. In Islam, God stopped Abraham just before he killed Ishmael by giving him a lamb to sacrifice instead of his son. Muslims who can afford to do so sacrifice domestic animals, usually sheep, as a symbol of Abraham’s sacrifice. Today, thousands of sacrifices will be made across the Muslim world to celebrate Eid. The Eid al ahda also marks the end of the Hajj – the pilgrimage to Mecca made by millions of Muslims each year. Every Muslim who can afford to do so is obligated to make the pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in their life. After several days of rituals in the towns of Mecca and Mina, and a visit to Mount Arafat, the Feast of Sacrifice arrives. Traditionally, the pilgrim killed the animal himself, or at least oversaw the killing. Today, an animal may be killed in the pilgrim’s name without the pilgrim being physically present. Today, all Muslims are thinking about the Feast of Sacrifice. Astonishingly, the first sacrificial lamb was none other than Saddam Hussein, the ousted President of Iraq…
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US Assassination of Sadaam Hussein!
Elaine Antonio, Axis of Logic
Dear Axis of Logic, Please forward this to any people that whose names you know and haven’t included especially those who are planning to mark the 3000th death. I won’t be able to attend any observance as I’m going to FL for 2 months. I had intended to go to Vancouver, BC and now heartily regret that I did not carry through that plan as I wanted to try that city as a possible destination when I emigrate from our evil country. I do not agree at all with mourning the deaths of 3000 Americans when it has been documented that the US has killed 655,000 Iraqis and that is only the documented figure. It has probably been in the millions as the cruel sanctions that were in place before the “pre-emptive attack” were probably in the hundreds of thousands as I have been following this issue since the evil that we perpetrated on Iraq when we launched the “Gulf War”. And now we have literally assassinated Sadaam Hussein in a US sponsored Kangaroo Court…
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Why I do not celebrate Eid (or beware the calamities of 2007)
Firas Al-Atraqchi
It is customary for Muslims to greet one another with the celebratory salutations for Eid Al-Fitr and Al-Adha. “Eid Mubarak (Blessed Holy Day)” or “Kul ‘am wantum bi kheir (May you be in goodness every year)” are some of the things Muslims say around this time in the lunar calendar. I hear these greetings from co-workers, neighbors, taxi drivers, day laborers, store vendors – everywhere. I do return the greeting in kind … but with a small disclaimer attached. I begin by explaining that as a Muslim, I do not celebrate Eid because there is nothing worth celebrating in the ummah – the nations of Islam…
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Brother of former Palestinian ambassador to Iraq, Ahmed Abdul Rahman, found dead three days after being kidnapped by Al-Mahdi Army Militiamen
Ma’an News
Palestinian sources have said on Thursday that the body of Ahmed Abdul-Rahman, brother of the former Palestinian ambassador to Iraq, Najah Abdul-Rahman, was found dead at the Al-Amin neighborhood in eastern Baghdad. The deceased was abducted 3 days ago from his residence by Al-Mahdi Army militia, according to eyewitnesses. The Palestinian diplomat in Iraq, Najah Abdul-Rahman, had previously lost 2 other brothers, Ziad and Nizar at the hands of the same gang on 22 February 2006…
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Saddams Execution : The western anti war movement – the left boot of imperialism?
Kola Odetola with Introduction by Les Blough, Axis of Logic
…When a war like the so-called “war on terrorism” has been planned in Washington think-tanks for 25 years, you can bet that one of the pillars of that architecture was to prevent and destroy dissent in empire’s back yard. Some in “the movement” say the government “infiltrates” the anti-war movement. I say they don’t have to infiltrate it – large organizations and coalitions were already owned and operated by the empire before the war began. They are owned and managed because they come from imperial seed. They have been effective in sabotaging the efforts of solid organizations like Ramsey Clark’s International Action Center and the Troops Out Now coalition. They have been effective in sucking many well-meaning people into their treachery. Go to their websites now and you will see no mention of the lynching of Saddam Hussein – which serves as a litmus test for the authenticity of any movement against the U.S. war on the people of Iraq. Even now, these “imperial left-wingers” are praising and supporting the Democratic Party in the United States while the Democrats continue to fund the war on Iraq. But really, what do we expect of them? At bottom, they are capitalists…
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Declaration of CEOSI upon the execution of Saddam Hussein
CEOSI; Translation from Spanish by John Catalinotto (International Action Center, USA), Via Axis of Logic
With the execution of Saddam Hussein the occupiers and their internal sectarian allies are trying to eradicate the forces of non-sectarianism, integration and public management of Iraq’s resources that have characterized historical social process in the country for the last 50 years of the last century. But those same values remain present in the aspirations of the Iraqi people and its inspiration takes shape in the popular resistance struggle against the occupation and for the total sovereignty of Iraq…
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Palestinian militants and public condemn Saddam’ execution
Xinhua
Palestinians on Saturday condemned the execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who used to be a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause, and mourned his demise. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement on Saturday condemned the execution as a “political assassination.” “It is a crime of political assassination for every one supports the Palestinian cause,” the Brigades said in a statement faxed to reporters. “This crime was carried out according to American and Zionist agenda that eliminate everything stand by the Palestinian people,” the statement added. The Brigades have also called for three days of mourning…
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR SATURDAY, December 30, 2006
Today in Iraq
December became the deadliest month for U.S. troops in Iraq in two years after the U.S. military reported six more combat deaths, leaving the tally just two short of the emotive 3,000 mark. Three U.S. marines died on Thursday from wounds suffered in combat in Iraq’s western Anbar province. One soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in northwest Baghdad and another soldier was killed in Anbar on Friday, the military said on Saturday. Another statement announced the death of a U.S. soldier killed by a roadside bomb in southwest Baghdad on Friday. The latest deaths take the number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq since the invasion of March 2003 to 2,998, according to icasualties.org, a Web site that tracks U.S. deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan…
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Defense says Saddam ‘remained fearless, honest, and clear-minded’ in final moments
The Associated Press
…”The martyr remained fearless, honest and clear minded,” said the statement sent to The Associated Press. The deposed leader’s conviction was determined when Saddam “nationalized oil, built a state based on institutions, and abolished illiteracy.” Iraqi state television showed footage of guards in ski masks placing a noose around Saddam’s neck. Saddam appears calm as he stands on the metal framework of the gallows. The footage cuts off just before the execution. An adviser to the Iraqi prime minister said that Saddam refused to have his head covered with a hood and before noose was put around his neck the deposed leader shouted: “’God is great’ The nation will be victorious and Palestine is Arab.’”…
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Former Longtime Confidant Accuses Ariel Sharon of Assassinating Yasser Arafat
Stephen Lendman
Longtime and now recently deceased confidant to former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Uri Dan, published a book in France that may have been his 2006 one titled Ariel Sharon: An Intimate Portrait in which he accused the former prime minister of assassinating Palestinian Authority (PA) President Yasser Arafat by poisoning him. Dan claimed Sharon got approval from George Bush by phone early in 2004 to proceed with his plan after he told the US president he was no longer committed to “not” liquidating the Palestinian leader who then was under siege and practically incarcerated in what remained of his Ramallah compound, most of which had already been destroyed by the Israelis in a lawless act of retribution against him…
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 29 December 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice
In a dispatch posted at 2:25pm Makkah time Friday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US military patrol in al-Fallujah, 60km west of Baghdad, on Thursday evening. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a puppet police source as saying that a bomb that had been planted on ath-Tharthar street that separates the ad-Dubbat neighborhood from the al-Mu’allimin neighborhood went off by a passing American patrol. Eyewitnesses who live in the area nearby told Mafkarat al-Islam that the blast totally destroyed a Humvee. The witnesses said they thought it was likely that there were substantial casualties too, though they could not confirm their nature or extent, since the US troops sealed off the area completely in order to haul away the vehicle and evacuate casualties…
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Revenge and revenge for the father of all Arab and Muslim martyrs: Saddam Hussein
The Arab Baath Socialist Party
Today the new Safawide have obeyed the orders of the Criminal crusader George Bush through executing the symbol of your honor and your dignity, the leader of the believers in God and in the Arabity the father of the Arabs and the Muslims martyrs, in modern times: Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein who humiliated the US in Revolutionary Iraq and sealed the door in the face of the new pagan Persian fire worshippers Iranians who wanted to reign on the Arabs and Muslims under the leadership of criminal Khomeiny and his tail the other criminal Khamenei. Today Saddam Hussein has realized the dearest of his wishes whiches to join the Arabs’ and the Muslims’ martyrs eternal cortege and has become from the instant of his execution the supreme symbol for Islam and Muslim principles and the identity of the Arab carriers of the message of Islam…
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Saddam was tortured before his execution and his body was mutilated afterwards
Truth About Iraqis
And this is the new Iraq? There are those who say Saddam received more justice than his victims. How so? In Islam, it is forbidden to execute anyone on such holy days. Of course, those who killed him are not Muslim. In Islam, it is wrong to desecrate the deceased. But of course, those who killed him are not Muslim. Sadrists, Badrists, Malikis, Talabanis, Roubaeis, Barazanis. Not Muslim. This is about humiliation. Of Sunnis. Of Shias. Of Muslims. Of Arabs. Nothing else. Iraqi authorities are refusing to hand over his body because they fear that the signs of torture will be visible and enrage Iraqis…
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Who is this man they call Saddam?
Hussein Al-alak, The Iraq Solidarity Campaign
But for what reason should we mourn the former president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein? Roads to Iraq, one of the countries prolific writers pointed out the following in an article on the 27/12/2006. When he was deputy, Saddam helped to nationalize Iraqi oil fields, which caused a lot damage to foreign oil companies. Through the revenues brought in by the oil, Saddam helped the country launch a campaign against illiteracy with illiteracy levels dropping to less than 10%. The Iraqi “Ba’athist” government also issued a law which made education available and compulsory to all children and more importantly, this was provided for free. This allowed Iraqi children the chance to read and write, instead of selling cigarettes in the streets. As Felicity Arbuthnot stated at the 1998 Fire Brigade Union conference, “UNESCO said that Iraq was one of the only countries in the world where, even if you were born in absolute poverty, with illiterate parents you could come out of the education system either a brain surgeon, archaeologist or whatever you wished to become.”…
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