Newsletter_AL_BA'ATH_AL_IRAQI_-_N°34
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AL BA'ATH AL IRAQI
RESURRECTION IRAQUIENNE
IRAQI RESURRECTION
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Newsletter of the “Iraq Committees” in support of the Iraqi Resistance -
Lettre d’information des « Comités Irak de Base » en soutien de la Résistance irakienne
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N° 34 (20 mai 2004) – Issue 34 (May 20, 2004)
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In this issue : articles only in English
- THE SITUATION IN IRAQ : THE AGGENDA OF THE IRAQI BA’ATH PARTY AND OF THE BA’ATHIST RESISTANCE
- STATEMENT FROM THE IRAQI BA’ATH PARTY OVER THE SITUATION IN IRAQ : THE RESISTANT BA’ATH CONFRONTS THE OCCUPATION AND ITS PLANS IN OCCUPIED IRAQ
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1) SITUATION IN IRAQ :
THE AGGENDA OF THE IRAQI BA'ATH PARTY
AND OF THE BA'ATHIST RESISTANCE
A new stage for the Resistance.
The Iraqi Ba’ath Party more and more stronger.
Why the secret attempts by US to contact Arab Ba’ath Socialist Party of Iraq.
What are the background and reasons for the latest American initiative vis-à-vis the Ba’ath Party?
Several days ago press leaks began to come out concerning an American effort to return Ba’ath Party members to their government and official positions in state agencies in Iraq. The rationale given for this was that this move could help stabilize the situation in Iraq and help achieve “national reconciliation”. American spokesmen gave to understand that their effort to uproot the Ba’ath had been a mistake. The entire matter culminated in statements by US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher and by US proconsul L. Paul Bremer, who disclosed a plan to bring back thousands of Ba’athists to their jobs in the state.
Arab and foreign news media reported the move as an unexpected “surprise” that would lead to fundamental changes in the American approach to Iraq and the entire Arab region. Meanwhile the other party to the American “initiative” – the Arab Ba’ath Socialist Party – remained silent, until it issued a STATEMENT, on April 23, on the matter.
Yet the Ba’ath Party is one of the two principle sides in the matter, and it was not “surprised” at the statements by the Americans or at the news media reports.
There are important facts that have been unreported until now – at the exception of the pro Ba’athist media like the Arabian “Al Moraher” or the newsletter “Al Ba’ath Al Iraqi” published by the “IRAQ COMMITTEES” - many if not most of which the Ba’ath Party is familiar with. These facts are such that it behooves Iraqi and Arab opinion generally to be appraised of them. These facts must be made known to the Arab people, to history, and must be assessed in the light of moral principles.
Since the fall of Baghdad on 9 April 2003, western and Arab news media have been so full of stories based on influential news media “sources” that there has been no room for facts to emerge, particularly given the weight and power of the vast American media apparatus and its many stooges who obediently follow its lead, be they the Zionist or the official Arab media.
But we are not going to deal with the facts about the fall of Baghdad here. That is something which, as the legitimate Iraqi Minister of Information, Muhammad Sa'id as-Sahhaf has said, requires sufficient time for a history to be written that can take all the facts into account. Suffice it to say that much of what has been said and reported has no relationship whatsoever to what really happened.
Informed Ba’athist sources say that the news about the new American approach to the Ba’ath and the announcements made in the last few days have come several months late in fact. The Americans took the initiative to contact the Ba’ath Party several months ago under the increased pressure of righteous attacks by the Resistance, whose backbone is made up of fighters for the Ba’ath Party. The American initiative was launched after the US had come to understand that it had not and would never be able to uproot the Ba’ath Party from the depths of Arab and Iraqi soil.
Knowledgeable sources say that the first American moves toward the Ba’ath Party began at the end of 2003. By that time, the Resistance had grown stronger; the Ba’ath Party had been able to re-form its organization throughout all the regions of Iraq, from the north to the south and from the east to the west ; and the Americans had realized once and for all that the mercenaries and stooges whom they had attracted to their side had no base of support in the country. At that point, the Americans understood that they were in a real predicament, despite the awesome military machine at their command, despite their material, political, and propaganda strengths. The US therefore cast about for a solution. After studying the situation, American councilors could come up with no alternative but to give the following terse yet resonant advice : “find a way to reach an understanding with the Ba’ath Party”.
This is what in fact happened at the beginning of the current year in a European capital, thanks to the good offices of a third party that carries international weight. This party told the Ba’athists : “the Americans want to reach any kind of appropriate solution that will result in reducing the casualties that the American army is sustaining”. The Ba’ath Party replied : “The Americans' losses are only just beginning. The only things we are in a hurry about are the liberation of Iraq and the departure of the invader forces. If the Americans are still so arrogant now, just give them a few months and you will find that they will be working hard to come up with an understanding that will be able to free them from the Arab quicksand. The Resistance in Iraq aims to counter the American program not only within Iraq, but on the level of the entire region”.
The knowledgeable source continued: the delegate of the third party explained the American point of view and moved on to discuss the orientation of the United Nations. He said: the United Nations wants to return to Iraq to play a neutral and positive role in the struggle between the American forces and the Resistance in Iraq.
The UN affirmed the following :
The invasion of Iraq is illegal and illegitimate.
Major and scandalous violations of human rights have been committed in Iraq at the hands of the invading armies.
The UN condemns collective arrests.
The UN rejects the “uprooting” of any political party, including the Ba’ath.
The existing reality must be dealt with in order to arrive at a way out of the current impasse.
National reconciliation between all segments of the Iraqi people is a necessity.
Kofi Annan and the American Administration regard Mr. al-Akhdar al-Ibrahimi as the most appropriate person to be UN representative in Iraq.
What is the extent of the role that the Ba’ath Party can play in influencing the Resistance in Iraq to adhere to any agreement ?
According to the knowledgeable sources, the Ba’athist representative, after being presented these issues, asked to be allowed 24 hours to respond so that he could take up the points raised with the Ba’ath Party leadership and obtain the necessary directives.
The next day the representative of the Ba’ath gave a response that centered on the following points :
The Ba’ath Party does not object to the return of the United Nations to Iraq on the condition that it carry out its basic and legal role and protect international legitimacy. This requires that the United Nations, in accordance with its own rules and international legal codes :
To condemn the Anglo-American invasion, because it was carried out as an act of aggression with no international cover whatsoever,
To affirm the need for the aggressor forces to leave all the Iraqi territories out of which Iraq is made up according to its constitution and laws,
To find a speedy solution to the issue of Iraqi prisoners in American prison camps, including the imprisoned leaders of the country,
National reconciliation must take place between all Iraqi national forces, including the Ba’ath.
The Ba’ath Party rejects even the idea of dialogue with traitor and stooge forces and with sectarian and chauvinist groups who put forward slogans, such as federalism or confederalism, that aim at splitting up the country, whether such splits be along religious or ethnic lines.
The Ba’ath believes that the body which goes by the name of the so-called local governing council is nothing but a bunch of stooges, traitors, thieves, and convicted criminals that was formed on a loathsome religious sectarian and ethnic chauvinist basis, and that it constitutes a dangerous precedent in united, free Iraq – a precedent that must be totally eliminated.
Mr. al-Ibrahimi or any other person will be dealt with according to supreme Iraqi and Arab national interests. All representatives of the United Nations will be respected when they rise to their legitimate role.
The Resistance in Iraq is one whole, which cannot be split apart, and the Ba’ath forms its backbone. All constituent parts of the Resistance are committed to the national interests of Iraq and its Arab context, for the cause of Iraq, of Palestine, and to counter the “greater Middle East” plans.
The Resistance will not stop during negotiations, but only after a final settlement or the departure of the invader forces.
The source added that the negotiations were adjourned so that both sides could study the presentations and views of the other side, and that the next meeting would be held after the Ba’ath Party's replies to the United Nations and Americans could be studied. The source explained that secondary contacts were made later, prior to the arrival of the United Nations delegation in Iraq. The Ba’ath Party and the Resistance in Iraq affirmed that it would not propose any initiative, since it was the party against whom the aggression was committed, so long as the UN delegation does not live up to its legitimate role.
So long as that is true, the Ba’ath, (as the statement issued by the Party's Information Bureau said at the time) will regard the United Nations as constituting a cover for American aggression and deal with it on the basis that it is a byproduct of the aggression.
United Nations sources say that the UN delegation during its first visit to Iraq had differences with Paul Bremer about a number of problems – such as the prisoners, violations of human rights, the use of excessive force, and the dissolution of Iraqi state agencies under the pretxt of the 'uprooting' of the Ba’ath – and demanded that the American governor allow a delegation from the Red Cross to visit Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and to appraise itself of his condition. This was, in fact, later done.
At the same time the intensity of Iraqi Resistance operations intensified, in March-April 2004, and a new stage began in the resistance to the invader forces and in the liquidation of stooges and collaborators with the occupation.
Written warnings were directed to members of the so-called governing council and letters of a different nature to foreign intelligence forces (the Mossad and Iranian intelligence) to the effect that the assassination of any Ba’athist, or scientist, or cadre of the Iraqi state would elicit an earthshaking response. (This is one reason for the expansion of the army of mercenaries under the name of “security guards”). Some of the responses have included the explosive demolition of the Jabal Lubnan Hotel and the liquidation of the Iranian Intelligence official in al-Karradah.
There have also been the unique operations that require logistical and military capabilities such as the campaigns in al-Fallujah, al-Qa'im, al-Husaybah, and – as the Americans themselves know – that which has not been disclosed is even greater. A testimony to this are the hundreds of mourned coffins (as Saddam Hussein put it in 1991) that have begun to arrive in Dover, in addition to the thousands of wounded who are permanently disabled. Preparations are underway for future qualitative operations, the catastrophic impact and results of which the American Administration realizes it will never be able to bear.
(*) Special Report from an Exclusive article for “al-Basrah.net” (26 April 2004), by an informed writer, with commentaries from PCN-NCP’s Press Office.
2) STATEMENT FROM THE IRAQI BA'ATH PARTY
OVER THE SITUATION IN IRAQ
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The Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party
One Arab Nation – with an enduring mission.
Unity. Freedom. Socialism.
THE RESISTANT BA’ATH CONFRONTS THE OCCUPATION
AND ITS PLANS IN OCCUPIED IRAQ.
Noble Iraqis!
Sons and Daughters of the glorious Arab Nation!
Ba’athist Comrades and Mujahideen Resistance Fighters!
On the basis of the principle of “Resistance and Liberation” and in accordance with the Political and Strategic Program for Armed Iraqi Resistance, the Arab Ba’ath Socialist Party is struggling in the Resistance in the occupied Arab region of Iraq. The Ba’ath Party characterized and predicted the predicament that the occupation would fall into, and the way that this predicament is growing deeper and accelerating, in the course of the Party's programmatic objective analysis which is being used by the armed Iraqi Resistance as political guidance.
On the basis of its general directives, operational and strategic goals are set, as Resistance efforts and fighting activity are brought into confrontation with the occupation forces and their stooges. The Resistance activity also functions in accordance with what the Party described, characterized, and explained in the Political Program of the Resistance issued on 9 September 2003.
The Ba’ath also outlined the constituent parts of the political map in occupied Iraq as the fighting confrontation between the illegal occupation and the legitimate armed Resistance. In accordance with that, the Ba’ath will be nothing but a Resistant and fighting force as long as the occupation continues and until the liberation of Iraq and the expulsion of the occupation are achieved. The Ba’ath dealt with and deals with the occupation, its reality and its byproducts, plans, projects, and stooges by fighting them. Armed struggle has been, is, and will remain the choice of the Ba’ath, and it will remain the irreversible choice of the Party until liberation. The choice of going in reverse, as we predicted in earlier documents, is now the option facing the occupation and its stooges.
The Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party presents this affirmation of its position in response to the statement made today, Friday, 23 April 2004, by the head of the crisis ridden “occupation authority” – Bremer, in a desperate attempt by him to get out of the political, military, security, administrative, and moral predicament in which he finds himself in Iraq due to the efforts of the heroic armed Resistance, which is gradually but continuously and at an accelerating rate, bringing down the imperialist American occupation plans, and breaking up their political, military and other components.
The Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party will never, ever be a part of the occupations plans or forces in Iraq or outside of Iraq. The Ba’ath, in ideology and policy, its organization, leadership, and fighters, has been and remains ineradicable, a firm resistance force against the occupation, and an armed leader of the Resistance, rooted in the earth and people of Iraq. It has pledged to the Arab Nation to march on its militant path, projecting and renewing its program for liberation and renaissance, standing by its commitments to itself and the Arab Nation and to humanity to work for the downfall of the American imperialist plans in Iraq, the region, and the world.
The political information and publication Bureau
Of the Arab Ba'ath Socialist Party Iraq
April 23th 2004
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