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2.Iraqi Resistance Report:

Updated News Reports Compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr , from the Editorial Board of the Free Arab Voice.

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Iraqi Resistance Report for Thursday, 15 January 2004 through

Saturday, 17 January 2004. Translated and\/or compiled by Muhammad

Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.

Thursday, 15 January 2004.

The Anglo-American occupation of Iraq was not able to hide the major

attacks launched on Thursday by the Iraqi Resistance against them,

but they were able, as usual, due to their control of the main

sources of information on the ground to hide the results of those

operations in an effort to make light of them, pretending that they

were failed or fruitless attacks.

On Thursday, Iraqi Resistance fighters directly attacked a base of

the American military occupation in Kirkuk with Katyusha rockets.

Two Katyushas landed with thunderous explosions inside the base, in

an assault that was heard over a large area. Afterward, occupation

forces raced about going on an elevated state of alert, deploying

tanks and military vehicles around all major buildings in the area.

The extent of material and human losses caused by the rocket attack,

however, was not disclosed. Turhan Yusuf, puppet police commander in

Kirkuk, said that on Thursday morning two Katyusha rockets struck the

main headquarters of the American occupation forces in the city. At

precisely 6:10am local time, the two Katyushas hit Kirkuk airport,

5km west of the city itself. The US occupation forces have turned

the occupied airport into their local headquarters.

Yusuf said that he had no information as to whether the rockets had

caused any damage or casualties among the American invaders. The

Agence France Presse (AFP) on the scene said that tighter security

was imposed in the city after the attack and that sirens wailed in

the early morning hours.

In the southern Iraqi city of Karbala', the Iraqi Resistance attacked

a security center with rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) causing

direct damage during the night of Wednesday to Thursday. Yet a

spokesman for the Iraqi puppet police that was hired by the American

occupation forces denied that there were any casualties. Rahman

Mashawi, the press officer for the puppet regime in the province of

Karbala', spoke to the AFP and said that two RPGs struck the police

station of Nahiyat al-Harr, 5km north of Karbala' at about 10:00pm

local time on Wednesday, but denied that there were any casualties.

He said that the first rocket hit the outer wall surrounding the

building and the second fell in the garden of a residence next to the

station but that neither caused any human losses. Mashawi said that

puppet police patrols tried in vain to arrest the Resistance fighters

who attacked them, but the fighters eluded their grasp, having left

behind a car which the puppet police confiscated.

Thursday, a plane carrying Georgian Defense Minister David Tevzadze

came under fire as it took off from Baghdad's occupied airport to

return to Georgia. No one was reported injured.

Tevzadze spent two days in Iraq with the former Soviet republic's 70-

member peacekeeping contingent that is serving the United States as

cannon fodder. The new government that recently forced its way to

power – with US backing – in the Caucasian republic of Georgia is

more subservient to Washington even than was the previous regime of

Eduard Shevardnadze.

The head of the Georgian National Guard, Koba Kobaladze, who was

aboard the target aircraft, said that American occupation helicopters

returned fire at the sources of the rockets. He said that Tevzadze

was sleeping at the time of the attack and was unaware that anything

had happened.

US occupation forces committed more war crimes on Thursday, killing

eight Iraqis in the area of Tikrit and Baaqubah. A military

occupation spokesman said that the invader forces were responding to

attacks against them and in the process killed eight attackers in

various locations.

In Tikrit the occupation army announced on Thursday that they had

killed seven Iraqis in three separate incidents in the area.

Sergeant Robert Cargie said in Tikrit that six of those Iraqis were

killed near the city of Baaqubah, 60km north of Baghdad. A seventh

died south of Tikrit. Cargie said that American soldiers of the 3rd

Battalion of the 67th Armored Brigade on Wednesday were attacked by

the Iraqi Resistance in Abu Khurma, 15km east of Baaqubah. He said

that the US aggressor forces killed four of the Resistance fighters

and wounded a fifth. Cargie said further that the battle occurred as

the US invaders were pursuing members of Saddam's Fedayeen. He

claimed that the occupation forces captured 31 individuals among them

eight who were being investigated. He said that the aggressors

confiscated 19 AK-47 Kalashnikov Assault Rifles and other automatic

weapons as well as ammunition and three hand made bombs.

Cargie said that a patrol mounted by the American 1st Battalion of

the 67th Armored Brigade killed two Iraqis in a separate operation in

al-Khalis. He claimed that the two Iraqis had tried to flee from the

aggressors. Two other men who had been with the deceased managed to

elude the invaders' bullets and escaped. Cargie said: \"It is unclear

whether they were trying to plant an explosive device or not.\"

Cargie said that on Wednesday an American occupation patrol was

attacked south of Jalula', near Tikrit. He said that one of the

Resistance fighters attacking the invaders was killed and another

injured. Another Resistance fighter escaped, but was found later,

wounded, in his vehicle, according to Cargie.

The American occupation claimed that three civilians were killed and

two others wounded on Thursday when a bus on which they were riding

struck a land mine near Tikrit. Sergeant Steve Russell of the 1-22

Brigade, a part of the 4th Infantry Division, said that the bus

probably drove over a mine.

In an-Nasiriyah there were demonstrations by Iraqi soldiers demanding

their pay and demanding to be allowed to work and begin to live their

lives after the disbanding, shortly after the US invasion, of the

Army of the Republic of Iraq. Some 300 unemployed people, most of

them former soldiers, rallied peacefully to call for jobs outside the

headquarters of the occupation forces in the city. Sattar Kazem, a

former soldier in the Iraqi Army said, \"I haven't received any pay

for four months.\" Unemployment in the city hypertrophied after the

American aggressor forces announced the dissolution of the Iraqi Army

in May 2003. There have been repeated promises that pay for the

veterans would be provided. Kazem said that the monthly pay, which

he is supposed to receive, is 75,000 occupation Dinars or US$75. He

said \"that's not enough to feed my family of seven.\"

'Aziz 'Abed ash-Shahid said, \"I'm disabled and I've tried to get work

everywhere or to get assistance but nobody cares about my case.\"

'Adel Turki said, \"I went to the [puppet] oil protection services to

look for work, but they asked for a bribe of 200,000 occupation

Dinars (US$200).\"

A representative of the demonstrators read a declaration in which he

demanded that government employees be allowed back to their jobs,

that promised stipends be paid to veterans, and that jobs be provided

for all Iraqis.

In recent days similar demonstrations of the unemployed in the other

southern Iraqi cities of al-'Amarah and al-Kut have ended in violent

clashes and the deaths of several demonstrators from occupation troop

and puppet police gunfire.

In the south of occupied Iraq, tens of thousands of Shiite Iraqis

came out in large demonstrations in al-Basrah in support of demands

of AyatAllah 'Ali as-Sistani for the holding of elections before a

planned transfer of power, and for the appointment of a temporary

electoral committee. The demonstrators chanted their support for the

Shiite \"Hawzah\" or committee of Shiite clerics and for its chief

cleric as-Sistani, and carried signs in English saying \"We want a

constitution.\"

Among the political parties that took part in the Shiite clerical

demonstrations were the collaborationist so-called Supreme Council

for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and the Da'wah Party,

whose representatives sit on the puppet so-called Interim Governing

Council run by American proconsul L. Paul Bremer. Although as-

Sistani does not participate in the so-called governing council, he

does not oppose the American presence in the country, but has begun

recently to call for a transfer of power to Iraqis. As-Sistani has

rejected all claims that holding elections under the present

situation in occupied Iraq would be impossible, insisting instead on

the election rather than appointment of members of the Transition

Group provided for in official US documents regarding the \"transition

of power\" planned by Washington for May 2004.

No secular parties took part in the marches.

Sources: al-Arab al-Yawm daily newspaper, Amman, Jordan, Friday, 16

January 2004.

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Friday, 16 January 2004.

A US aggressor soldier died from what US occupation sources said was

a non-hostile gunshot wound south of Baghdad on Friday evening near

ad-Diwaniyah south of Baghdad, the military occupation command said

in a statement made on Saturday. No further details were released

The Iraqi Resistance carried out an attack in the northern city of

Mosul on Friday seriously injuring two puppet policemen, according to

an officer in the local puppet police, 'Abd al-Ghani al-Mulla

Ghannun. The two puppet policemen were in a vehicle in front of the

residence of the police commander in one of the neighborhoods of

Mosul, 370km north of Baghdad. Ghannun said that Resistance fighters

in a white car with no license plates drove past the puppet police

car and opened fire on them with AK-47 Kalashnikov Assault Rifles,

and then escaped. Dr. Ghassan Hamed 'Abdallah of Mosul Hospital said

that the two men were in serious condition.

The commander of the puppet police in Kirkuk reported that a road

block manned by the puppet police near the city came under an armed

Resistance attack in which one of the attackers was seriously

wounded, he said.

The Iraqi puppet police and hospital sources report that a 15-year

old youth was killed and five other persons wounded when a bomb

exploded in a neighborhood in the center of Baghdad as US occupation

soldiers and puppet police were trying to disarm it.

The Iraqi puppet police reported that one Iraqi had been killed and

two others wounded when a land mine belonging to the \"former\" Iraqi

Army exploded.

Two bombs found in the puppet so-called \"Defense Ministry\" were also

being defused by US occupation troops Friday, Lieutenant Robert

Cornetius said. Patients were evacuated from part of a hospital

facing the ministry, said the hospital's deputy manager, 'Imad Tareq.

Hundreds of Iraqis marched on Friday to protest the American

occupation's arrest of Khamis Sirhan Muhammad a member of the

Regional Leadership of the Arab Baath Socialist Party whom the

Americans listed as number 54 of their list of \"most wanted\" persons

in occupied Iraq. Demonstrators carried signs and Iraqi flags as

well as pictures of Khamis Sirhan. One sign read \"All the tribes of

al-Fallujah demand that the invaders release Mr. Khamis Sirhan!\"

Another read: \"The masses of al-Fallujah demand that the occupiers

release Khamis Sirhan!\"

Muhammad Kamel, a nephew of Khamis Sirhan Muhammad said, \"my uncle is

innocent and did not commit any crime against the people of Iraq.

He's one of the beloved and respected local people of al-Fallujah.

He enjoys everybody's respect and he behaves according to tribal

traditions, not political ones.\"

Officials in Iraq's puppet police force said that they have taken

intensified security measures around two mosques in the city of

Baaqubah in anticipation of possible attacks. Haydar 'Abbas, a

puppet police officer, explained that they had received information

that an explosives-laden truck driven by someone in a police uniform

had entered the city and was expected to strike a target before or

after Friday congregational prayers.

Meanwhile the Shiite cleric Ayat Allah 'Ali as-Sistani, who still

does not advocate resistance to the invaders and occupiers of his

country, threatened to issue a legal opinion (fatwa) calling

for \"opposition\" to the American occupation if his demand for an

election under the conditions of occupation are not met. The threat

came as American Proconsul Paul Bremer was in Washington consulting

with his bosses on how to handle the public relations show that they

call a \"transition of power\" set for May this year when the puppet so-

called Interim governing council is to be replaced by another puppet

body while the military occupation remains in place as it has been.

American occupation forces are fearful of the outcome of any kind of

election, even one under conditions of occupation where the largest

political party in the country has been made illegal and where

enemies of the occupation are arrested and sent to concentration

prison camps. American suggestions have provided for a transitional

body to be selected by regional caucuses, but as-Sistani and a group

of Shiite clerics close to members of the collaborationist so-called

Interim Governing Council are demanding elections to chose the new

puppet authority.

An aide to as-Sistani, Ayat Allah Muhammad Baqer al-Mihri, on Friday

conveyed as-Sistani's threat and explained that if as-Sistani issues

the legal opinion (fatwa) for Shiites to oppose the occupation, the

Shiite population of Iraq \"will come out in protest marches and

demonstrations against the occupation forces.\" Al-Mihri urged

Proconsul Bremer to take as-Sistani's threat seriously if he wants to

avoid \"problems.\" Al-Mihri said that it was the Shiite clergy who

had prevented a \"confrontation\" between Iraq's Shiites and the

occupation forces.

The Associated Press reported on Friday that despite a Pentagon

investigation into alleged overcharging for fuel delivered to Iraq,

the US army had nevertheless awarded US Vice President Dick

Cheney's \"former\" company Halliburton a contract to rebuild Iraq's

oil industry, an industry devastated by the 30-nation aggression of

1990-1991 when Cheney was US imperialist Secretary of Defense, and by

the 13-year embargo on Iraq imposed when Cheney was Secretary of

Defense, and by the invasion of Iraq in 2003 when Cheney was Vice

President. According to the AP, the investigation into overcharging

will concern government officials, not Halliburton executives.

According to a statement issued by the US Army Corps of Engineers,

Halliburton won a competitive bid to rebuild the oil industry in

southern Iraq, a contract worth up to US$1.2 billion over two years.

The US Army gave Halliburton's subsidiary Kellog, Brown & Root (KBR)

a no-bid contract to rebuild the oil infrastructure in Iraq shortly

after the US occupation of the country last March. Then, after

controversy among moneyed interests, the US army opened that contract

for competitive bids last fall and split it into one for northern

Iraq and one for southern Iraq, perhaps in keeping with plans by some

Washington strategists eventually to split Iraq into separate

statelets. However that may be, the northern Iraq contract, worth up

to US$800 million went to a joint venture of California-based Parsons

Corporation and the Australian company Worley Group Ltd.

The commander of US occupation forces in Iraq has ordered a criminal

investigation into reports of abuse of prisoners at an occupation

detention center. A military statement Friday gave no indication

about the scope of the alleged abuse, saying simply that Lieutenant

General Ricardo Sanchez ordered a probe \"into reported incidents of

detainee abuse at a 'coalition forces' detention facility.\" The

statement did not specify the facility.

The release of specific information concerning the incidents could

hinder the investigation, which is in its early stages,\" the

statement said, thereby further hiding the beatings and torture

reportedly used by the aggressor forces against captives held in the

occupation's many concentration camps.

In Washington, Lawrence Di Rita, spokesman for Defense Secretary

Donald H. Rumsfeld, said it is a criminal investigation and that the

reports of abuse were deemed \"very serious and credible.\" Di Rita

declined to provide details other than to say the alleged abuse

happened at detention centers in Baghdad. The Associated Press

observed that \"the announcement followed allegations by Amnesty

International and former prisoners of harsh treatment of detainees\"

captured by US occupation forces after their occupation of the

country began last March.

Some 60 Iraqi prisoners were set free by the occupation on 8

January. That release was supposed to be the first batch of a whole

series of prisoner releases, but so far there have been no further

reports of other groups of captives being set free. Many of those

who came out of the Abu Ghurayb prison on that day complained of

torture and extensive imprisonment of individuals for no apparent

reason. They also reported that prisoners were shot in the course of

an uprising during the summer. See the Iraqi Resistance Report for

Thursday, 8 January 2004.

According to the AP, the occupation is believed to be holding about

12,800 prisoners in its various concentration camps. Earlier this

month, three US occupation army reservists were discharged for abuse

of prisoners at the so-called Camp Bucca detention center in southern

Iraq.



Sources: al-Arab al-Yawm daily newspaper, Amman, Jordan, Saturday, 17

January 2004.

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Saturday, 17 January 2004.

The Iraqi Resistance inflicted direct casualties on the American

occupation forces on Saturday in northern Iraq. In addition, a

number of positions of the puppet police that collaborates with the

occupation were hit.

A roadside bomb in the agricultural community of al-Mushahadah, 30km

from Baghdad, three American occupation soldiers and two Iraqi puppet

so-called civil defense force members were killed in a roadside bomb

blast. Those killed and wounded had been part of US occupation

patrol looking for roadside bombs on which the American aggressors

brought along puppet forces to serve them. MacDonald claimed that

three men who were leaving the scene of the attack in a white truck

were detained, and aggressor soldiers claimed they found bomb-making

material in the vehicle, he added.

Two American invaders also were wounded when a Bradley Fighting

Vehicle hit the explosive device and caught fire on a road near Taji,

about 20 miles north of the Iraq capital, said Lieutenant Colonel

Bill MacDonald, a spokesman for the 4th Infantry Division. MacDonald

said the remote-controlled bomb, planted on an access road, was made

up of two 155 mm artillery rounds and other explosives. 'Abed 'Ali,

who lives nearby, told AP that he rushed to the scene after hearing

the loud explosion and saw the Bradley burning. The explosion left a

large crater. Young Iraqi men could be seen picking through the

wreckage of the destroyed vehicle.

Local people delighted in the attack rushing in to brandish parts of

the destroyed Bradley vehicle in celebration of the Resistance

victory, as they chanted slogans in favor of the Resistance and

against the occupation.

Iraqi Resistance fighters attacked the General Headquarters of the

occupation forces that covers the five provinces supervised by the so-

called multinational forces under Polish command. Occupation sources

would not disclose information about possible losses in the attack

which took place in the town of al-Hillah. They did announce,

however that one Iraqi had been killed and others injured in the

Resistance assault.

In al-Huwayjah, the comander of the puppet so-called civil defense

force that collaborates with the occupation said that four of its

members were wounded in a Resistance attack, two of them seriously.

Major General Anwar Muhammad Amin commander of the puppet so-called

civil defense forces in Kirkuk said that the four Iraqis were

guarding a checkpoint at the entrance to al-Huwayjah when explosives

were thrown at them.

A spokesman for the occupation forces announced that two Iraqis were

killed and six others captured in an attack that targeted an border

outpost in the province of al-Anbar. No aggressor losses were

reported for the attack.

In Karbala' a spokesman for the puppet police said that the body of a

puppet policeman who had been abducted nine days ago had been

found. 'Ali Isma'il Habib left his home heading for work nine days

ago, an occupation spokesman said, indicating that he was abducted

and killed yesterday. His body was then thrown into the street, the

spokesman said.

US occupation forces found and disarmed a bomb that had been put

together out of four surface-to-air missile warheads (SAM-3s) which

were connected to 20kg of explosives. The bomb had been planted near

al-Fallujah.

The Iraqi puppet police announced that the occupation forces in

Baaqubah had said that they had arrested three persons who, they

said, had been smuggling and cooperating with the Resistance. The

sources said that the puppet police and puppet civil defense forces

had strengthened their presence in checkpoints on the 60-kilometer

long highway be Baghdad and Baaqubah where many Resistance attacks

take place.

In Washington sources have been saying that US President George Bush

might alter the occupation plan for the sham \"transfer of power\"

scheduled for later this year in light of criticism by Shiite

clerical leaders who have been cooperating with the occupation.

In Paris it was announced that France, which has not strongly

supported the American aggression against Iraq, said it wants to help

to train Iraq's next generation of puppet police officers - once

power is transferred to a sovereign Iraqi government. But Foreign

Minister Dominique de Villepin said Friday that the question of

sending in French troops is \"not a current topic.\" American

occupation talk about a \"transfer of power to Iraqis\" has all been

very clear about the fact that the so-called transfer of power would

not affect the American occupation of the country which is slated to

continue into the indefinite future. \"Transfer of power\" is

therefore clearly a convenient cover whereby western imperialist

states can save face as they swing behind the US occupation of Iraq

and give it a more \"international\" veneer, relieving pressure on the

United States and seeking to benefit from the colonial plunder of the

Iraqi people.



Sources: al-Arab al-Yawm daily newspaper, Amman, Jordan, Sunday, 18

January 2004.

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3.Communique-Ahmed Sadaat, General Secratary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Statement by the General Secretary of the PFLP and his comrades

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Two years have passed on the imprisonment of my comrades and myself. Such imprisonment represents a Palestinian Authority submission to the Israeli and American illegitimate demands. It also neglects the Palestinian law and Palestinian national values. It also holds no regard to all Palestinian national bodies including the Palestine National Council (PNC) and the Palestine Central Council (PCC). Such imprisonment also neglects the legitimacy of our resistance to the Israeli Occupation.

The attempt of “Internationalizing” the “Jericho Agreement” between the PA, US, Britain & Israel to detain us, has lead the PA to offer more free concession to the American-Israeli security demands. This agreement did not only represent a great danger to the internal Palestinian affairs, but also represent the worse model for “international monitoring”. Such monitoring should be placed to protect the Palestinian people from the daily massacres carried by the Sharon government.

The Legal aspects of our imprisonments started with a total exclusion to the frame of law and the same can be said about the “trial” that ruled against our four comrades, which lacked not only the legal justification but also the legal process based on the rule of law.

The “Jericho Agreement” proved later and yet again that it lacked legitimacy, especially after the Palestinian Higher Court of Justice ruled against our imprisonment and considered it to be illegal and demanded our immediate release. However, the PA did not honor the rule of the Court, and disregarded its own constitution which guarantees the independence of the Legislative Authority and the respect for its rules and decisions. Not only that, but the PA has not released Comrade Ahed Abu Ghulma (member of the Central Committee of the PFLP) despite the end of his 1 year sentence!. Another example is not permitting appeals from our comrades against the initial “Trial” ruling, despite the fact that such appeal is a guaranteed and legitimate right according to the Palestinian law.

We would like to reaffirm the following:

1- Our struggle to end this illegitimate imprisonment and to end the shameful “Jericho Agreement” with what it represents in terms of precedence, is driven by the need to protect our people and their rights before anything else.

2- The PA has been attempting to justify its violations to the Palestinian law under the false auspices of “protecting us”. We would like to reaffirm that we did not ask for protection from any PA political or security agency. The need for protection must be voluntary and when it is otherwise, it becomes worse than the decision of imprisonment.

3- It is legitimate to say that the continuation of our imprisonment represents the PA commitment to the American Israeli demands and not necessarily for our protection, especially when we are not convinced with the PA justifications. Is it sensible that we remain hostages for the PA political and security commitments? Does this fall in harmony with our national unity, the necessity to respect the rule of Law and the independence of the Palestinian Legislative body? How is it possible to continue our imprisonment without any legal basis?

4- Regardless of stated intentions for the PA, the place of imprisonment (Jericho Prison) is not supervised by the PA, politically or legally, but rather by American and British officers. The continuation of such arrangement means that our destiny is practically in “Israel” hands.

On these bases we call for the end of this situation which harms the Palestinian National cause, politically, legally and nationally.

Finally, we would like to salute our Palestinian people, the national and Islamic forces, and all the Arab and International Solidarity organizations that stood beside us in rejecting the continuation of our imprisonment and demanded its end.

Jericho Prison

January 15, 2004



BACKGROUND INFORMATION: (Addameer.org)

On 25 April, 2002, four Palestinians were tried in a kangaroo-court by the Palestinian Authority and sentenced to between 1 to 18 years in prison. The four were accused of involvement in the assassination of the Israeli Tourism Minister, Rehavam Ze'evi, on October 17, 2001.

The four were tried in an impromptu Palestinian military court that violated all established principles of international law guaranteeing a fair trial with proper legal representation.

These violations include:

The four defendants were tried in front of a military court despite the fact they are civilians. This is in direct violation of Palestinian law.

The trial was presided over by Brigadier-General Ribhi Arafat who has no legal qualifications and no authority to act as a judge.

The detainees were not provided with proper legal defence, rather, a soldier with no legal training was appointed to act in their defence.

The trial took only 2 hours and a written charge sheet was not presented to the defendants or before the court.

The four were found guilty despite the fact there was no written evidence or confessions from them presented to the court.The only material presented before the court were notes written by unidentified people from discussions held with the four defendants while they were imprisoned in Ramallah before the siege. There were no signatures or written verification of the veracity of these notes from the four defendants. These notes were presented as affidavits yet they were not prepared during formal interrogation or by any authorized personnel.

The trial took place in the Presidential Compound in Ramallah while it was surrounded by Israeli tanks and heavily armed soldiers. It was held behind closed doors and was not open to the public.

The four detainees have no right to appeal their sentences.

Following sentencing the four political prisoners were transferred to a Jericho Prison under the control of US and British supervisors. In addition to the four, two other Palestinian detainees, Ahmed Sa'adat and Fuad Shubeiki, were also transferred to Jericho Prison. The latter have not faced trial or been found guilty of any offense yet they remain incarcerated in Jericho.

The trial of the four and imprisonment of the six are a severe violation of international and Palestinian law. They are being kept in draconian conditions under the supervision of the US and Britain. According to press reports, the person in charge of this \"supervision\" is the former head of the notorious Maze Detention Center in Northern Ireland.

Is this what is meant by \"reform\" of the Palestinian Authority, \"democracy\" or \"respect for the rule of law\"? Apparently this is the case for the US, British, Israeli and Palestinian governments.

www.addameer.org: A section of the Addameer website contains information about the six Palestinian political prisoners, the conduct of the trial and their conditions of detention. Help us win their freedom.

4. *** An Islamic Voice Stands With President Hussein\/ Condemns Sexist Pigs in Iraqi Zionist Proxy Government**

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As-Salaamu' Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatu

Here is another evidence of the fact that Iraq was better under Saddam. Indeed under Saddam women enjoyed protections that NONE of the other Muslim nations give to women. Under Saddam women were educated and had jobs in government and civilian jobs. In fact, Saddam had a top woman scientist. Now the devil encarnate's illegally appointed Zionist Iraqi Governing Council has wiped out the protections and left the women without any rights at all. The Iraqi Governing Council does NOT have the knowledge and\/or authority to implement Sharia law, so what they are going to do is simply just strip the women of everything by enforcing an anti-Islamic psuedo-Sharia.

DEATH TO THE OCCUPIERS AND THE ZIONIST IRAQI GOVERNING COUNCIL !!!

DEATH TO ANY IRAQI WHO IS SEEN DANCING IN THE STREET AND SUPPORTING THE OCCUPATION !!!

Fi AmmanALLAH

from the servant of ALLAH

Shayhka Maulani Aeisha Muhammad



----- Original Message -----

From: Fu's Fume

Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 4:16 AM

Subject: Iraq to curb women's rights

Women in Iraq Decry Decision To Curb Rights

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For the past four decades, Iraqi women have enjoyed some

of the most modern legal protections in the Muslim world,

under a civil code that prohibits marriage below the age of

18, arbitrary divorce and male favoritism in child custody

and property inheritance disputes.

The U.S.-backed Iraqi Governing Council has voted to wipe

them out, ordering in late December that family laws shall

be \"canceled\" and such issues placed under the jurisdiction

of strict Islamic legal doctrine known as Sharia.

Welcome Iraq to Bush's new democracy.

5. ***\"You Must Know\"- Excellant Essay By Ibrahim Ebeid Co-Editor of Al-Moharer Calling for Progressives To Support Iraqi Resistance***

http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/iraqiresistancesolidarity\/youmustknow.html<\/a>

You Must Know

Ibrahim Ebeid

co-editor@al-moharer.net<\/a>

Iraq, the easternmost region of the Arab world, was the central seat

of the Arab Abbasid Moslem State that stretched from the borders of

France to the borders of China. It was the home of the first world

civilization. Under the Caliphate of Baghdad, Iraq again became the

center of learning and progress that contributed to the advancement

of science, mathematics, medicine, philosophy and literature.

Under the leadership of the Arab Baath Socialist Party Iraq started

to take its place on the world stage. The economy flourished, science

and modern technology were advancing and Iraq became the most

flourished county in the entire Arab World. The hope of the Arab

people for Unity, Liberation and Independence was restored to them.

Baghdad became the Mecca of hope and aspiration.

Western Imperialism was always hostile to any progress or to any

unity among the Arab people. Arab Unity in one single state was not

acceptable. Soon after the fall of the Ottoman Empire the Arab World

fell under Western occupation, then later on new mini states were

created and the West appointed new rulers.

Several portions of the Arab land were cut of and given to

neighboring countries. Palestine was usurped and given to the

Zionists and a new entity replaced Palestine The Palestinians were

evicted and became refugees. The saga of wars and terror continued

against the Palestinians and the neighboring Arab countries.

The aggression that started on January 1991 was intended not to evict

Iraq from its territory, Kuwait, which was usurped from Iraq by

Colonel Wilcox by a stroke of a red pen, but to kill any hope and

aspiration for unity and liberation. It was prelude for invasion and

occupation, which was fulfilled on April 9, 2003.

The Arab rulers who rallied behind the Anglo-American aggression in

1991 are the same rulers who facilitated the invasion of Iraq in

2003. The price of this invasion was very heavy. Iraq was ruined, its

institutions were destroyed, its people are starving and its children

are dying. They brought misery and disaster to the entire region.

They offered the Arab wealth to the Imperialist powers and \"Arab Oil

for Arab People\" became \"Arab Oil for Bush, Dick Cheney and

Halliburton\". These rulers forgot Palestine and the Zionist entity

became stronger and its influence was strengthened by their barbaric

acts. They put the Arab World under Anglo-American-Zionist occupation

and domination.

The invasion went further beyond Iraq and its occupation. It engulfed

the entire region, its culture and religion. Islam and its teachings

are targeted and labeled as intolerant and terrorist. George W. Bush

became the \"grand mufti\" of the Arab rulers. His words

are \"legitimate\" and \"final\". Programs of schools are being

changed. History is being distorted. Changes and distortion are being

tailored to fit the Imperialist and Zionist aims.

The appointed Iraqi Council will fail like those puppets that ruled

Iraq under the British occupation. Its members were fashioned to meet

the needs of London, Tel-Aviv, and Washington. They were the driving

force behind the bloodshed in their country and they are responsible

for that catastrophe.

The hope of the Imperialist Bush to reap the spoils of his invasion

of Iraq will end in a devastated defeat for him and for his allies as

well. The death of innocent Iraqis and American soldiers will haunt

him for years to come. The American people will realize that the war

and occupation is not worth the death of their children in this

senseless blatant war.

The Iraqi National Resistance was able to inflict severe blows to the

occupation forces, to their allies and stooges. Halliburton is not

able to accomplish anything besides robbing the Iraqi people from

their wealth. The Iraqi people are behind the resistance and against

the occupation. The tanks, missiles and sophisticated choppers cannot

protect the aggressors from the rage of the Iraqi Freedom Fighters.

The Bush greed and the unwise decision to build an Imperialist Empire

are being shattered. His soldiers and the Bremmer Administration are

demoralized. The Iraqi resistance is forcing Bush to retreat and

refer to the United Nations, but the Iraqi Resistance made it very

clear that internationalizing the Iraqi occupation is unacceptable

and rejected by the Iraqi people.

The progressive and peace and justice organizations must fully

support the Iraqi National Resistance. Internationalizing the Iraqi

occupation is unacceptable and rejected. Let us call things as they

are, Aggression is aggression, occupation is occupation. Iraq is

occupied. Occupation must be immediately terminated. The Iraqi

prisoners of war must be freed. Negotiations and plans for

unconditional withdrawal must be discussed with the members of the

legitimate Iraqi leadership who are prisoners of war.



Al-Moharer 164

http:\/\/www.al-moharer.net\/<\/a>

6. ***President Hussein And The Geneva Convention***

http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/iraqiresistancesolidarity\/husseingeneva.html<\/a>

President Hussein And The Geneva Convention

Ali Al-Najafi

must be applied to the President of The Republic of Iraq.

The statement was released on January 12, 2004, in the names of the people of Iraq, the Armed National Resistance, the Arab Baath Socialist Party and the Arab Nation. It asserts that Saddam Hussein, the legitimate President of the Republic of Iraq and the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces is a prisoner of war with the American Occupying Forces. He was captured in the continuing confrontations against the occupying forces.

The agreement of the Geneva Convention concerning the Prisoners of wars must be applied to its fullest and President Saddam Hussein is no exception. If the Application was not taken to the spirit and letters of the Geneva Convention then his capturing would be considered as a political kidnapping and treated as such stated the press release.

The occupying forces and the United States Government would be liable for failing to adhere to the laws of the Geneva Agreement. They will be responsible for the consequences of such failure.

The statement said, \"The United States knows very well that the Armed National Resistance is able and capable of retaliating on time, anywhere and any time.

The statement considered that the occupation of Iraq and the capturing of Mr. Hussein are transient and temporary. The Resistance will continue until the occupation is defeated and Iraq is free and liberated.

The Occupying Forces have the choice for an alternative to war, a complete and unconditional withdrawal. Mr. Saddam Hussein, the President of Iraq and the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces is trusted and entitled to discuss the unconditional withdrawal of the occupying forces from Iraq. He has the right to speak in the name of the People of Iraq and in the name of the Resistance.\"

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