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The ALLAWI
REGIME
U.S. Installed, Financed,
Armed and Controlled
Muktadr al-Sadr
Like Joan of Arc, hero in life, martyr if killed
Mid-East
Realities - MER - www.MiddleEast.Org - 18 August 2004:
Whatever now happens in these historic days in historic Najaf, and
indeed in the historic heart of the Arab and Muslim worlds now known as
the country of Iraq, the modern world will not be as it was before.
Major political, theological, and economic forces are now in
collission; all fighting through a combination of military,
ideological, religious, and monetary weapons.
Many Muslim establishment
groups and personalities around the world, including in the U.S. and
Canada, feel the U.S. and Israel are the real villain's in today's
Middle East, that Muqtada Al-Sadr is a courageous and sincere Iraqi and
Muslim struggling to free his country and region from American
occupation, that Iyad Allawi is a brute corrupt CIA-puppet or worse.
But you won't find such
persons interviewed on popular TV programs or appearing on the Op Ed
pages of major newspapers, even if they have been professional and
'establishment' people all their lives, even if they hold
representative offices.
It's not only that they are not 'politically correct' at the moment and
nearly totally pushed aside by the traditional corporate media that is
so closely intertwined with government and big business.
It's also that their ideas
and information are dangerous to those who hold power and are now so
intent on creating a 'New World Order' and a 'New Middle East'; and
thus such persons, such ideas, such information, must be repressed and
silenced as much as they can manage.
Here then are two such voices speaking out, crying out, at this
critical time. The first an American who was Director of The Islamic
Center in Washington, the very venue in fact President Bush choose to
visit soon after 9/11. The second is a Canadian who is President of
the Canadian Islamic Congress. -MER
Allawi
- 'A Traitor To Islam,
Iraq And The Arab
World'
He
Must Be Tried For War Crimes
By Dr. Sam Hamod
Director
of The Islamic Center of Washington, DC (retired)
"The Shrine of Ali in the Holy City of Najaf
to the Shi'a is
analogous to the Vatican
for the Catholics, the Wailing Wall to the
Jews and Mecca to Muslims in general.
This American assault, under the
call of
Allawi, is a sin of the first order..."
8-15-2004: The American puppet, the Vichy/Nazi style pseudo prime
minister of
Iraq, Iyad Allawi, is a traitor to Islam, to the Shi,a, to Iraq and to
the Arab and Muslim worlds.
There is no doubt that Mr. Allawi is a known criminal who is
known to have shot innocent prisoners recently in Iraq; this was seen
by many witnesses. His Nazi like behavior and his calling for an
assault on the Holy Site of Najaf, even on the Shrine of Ali, shows the
man is an animal, a non-Muslim, a munafik (a hypocrite who claims to be
a Muslim), and he is man who must be put on trial for war crimes and
for the deaths that occurred on the assault on Najaf.
As the former Director of The Islamic Center of Washington,
DC, the official voice of Muslims in America, and under the hand of the
Muslim Ambassadors assigned to Washington, DC, I call upon all Muslims
to denounce him and to ask for punishment of Mr. Allawi and those who
support him. If Mr. Negroponte, the present U.S. Ambassador in Iraq is
part of this scheme, then he too should be tried for war crimes and
punished. Perhaps Mr. Negroponte is already being punished because he
is trapped in his embassy in the Green Zone and shivers with thoughts
of even going out of this "safe area.
The Shrine of Ali in the Holy City of Najaf to the Shi'a is
analogous to the Vatican for the Catholics, the Wailing Wall to the
Jews and Mecca to Muslims in general. This American assault, under the
call of Allawi, is a sin of the first order and must be punished for
its brazen assault on Islam. For Allawi and his allies to even consider
this to be something that should be allowed, with his justification
that his own puppet appointed governor of Najaf and mayor of Najaf
allegedly calling for attacks on Najaf and the Shrine of Ali"the lies
and evil of Mr. Allawi and his allies is clear for the Muslim and for
even the Western World to see.
It is time for all the leaders in the Arab and the Muslim
world to put an end to Allawi and his puppet government in Iraq, even
if it means sending armies in to dethrone him.
America must also be made to understand that all Arab and
Muslim countries will not tolerate this offensive for another day. Bush
must be awakened, as well as Kerry. If not, then Muslim and Arab
countries must break their alliances with America and let it be known
that America cannot insult and attack Muslims and their Holy Sites in
the world.
Yes, I am an American citizen, but I am also a human being
who wants justice in the world. This type of American barbarism, aiding
and abetting a devil like Allawi and his minions, must stop. If not,
then this sinfulness will be on the head of America and those puppets
like Allawi in this world and the next.
_____
Dr. Sam Hamod writes on world affairs,
especially the Middle East
and Islam; he is a former advisor to the State Department; editor of
3rd World News; Director of The Islamic Center
Like Joan of Arc, Al-Sadr is a soldier and a saint
by Mohamed Elmasry*
"The Al-Sadr militia does not pose any
threat to the U.S. forces.
But Al-Sadr
made it clear that the Americans have
to leave soon. His
supporters are also
becoming more popular, providing needed
social
services in the Shi'a cities of Najaf,
Kufa and Karbala in the south
and at the
Al-Sadr city, a suburb of Baghdad."
8-17-2004: Last Saturday (Aug 14) negotiations to end the fighting in the
Iraqi city of Najaf broke down, threatening to spark a resurgence of
the fierce clashes between the followers of the Shi'a religious leader
Moqtada Al-Sadr and a combined U.S.-Iraqi force that has plagued this
holy city for more than a week.
The collapse of talks will likely negatively impact Iraq's National
Conference, which started Sunday (Aug 15), gathering some 1,300
delegates from all over Iraq.
Al-Sadr along with Sunni religious leaders refused to attend the
Conference, saying that any political gathering of the type while Iraq
is an occupied country does not represent the free will of Iraqis, and
thus it is null and void.
Moreover in an extraordinary show of unity, religious leaders of
both Sunni and Shi'a issued a religious ruling (fatwa) to say that it
is treason, both religiously and nationally, for any Iraqi to
collaborate with the occupiers.
Thus the Iraqi resistance, both politically and militarily is
taking a new dimension, causing serious headaches to the Bush
administration.
And on the ground in a show of unity the Sunni city of Falluja,
under siege itself by the Americans in central Iraq, is supplying the
Shi'a city of Najaf in the south with needed food and water.
But who is this young religious leader who is challenging the
occupation forces of the most powerful military in the world? Who is
this man, who was offered a leading government Minister job by the
Americans, but turned it down?
To Iraqis, the young man, in his thirties is a hero in life and a martyr if killed or assassinated.
The young Al-Sadr is the fourth son of Mohammed Sadeq Al-Sadr, a
pre-eminent Iraqi religious scholar. The young Al-Sadr, at age 25, saw
his two elder brothers assassinated by the Iraqi regime along with his
father in 1999.
Earlier in 1980 the young Al-Sadr as a child saw his father taking
delivery of the corpses of his cousins, Imam Al-Sayyid Baqir Al-Sadr
and his sister, after they had been executed by Saddam Hussein.
The young Al-Sadr found himself responsible for a family of widows
and orphans -- his mother, his brothers' wives, his sister whose
husband was also assassinated, and a large number of nieces and
nephews.
This gave the young Al-Sadr a sense of power to change what came
out of Iraq, and he pledged to speak out against oppression,
aggression, and injustices committed either by fellow Iraqis like
Saddam Hussein or later by the occupation forces.
He became a father, not only for his devastated family but for the
people of Iraq who have been orphaned – first by Saddam Hussein, then
by brutal years of sanctions and finally by aggressive invasion and
oppressive occupation.
Although the young Al-Sadr has not attained the position of a
Marja' (spiritual leader) among the Iraqi Shia religious hierarchy,
following the American occupation he has found himself the spiritual
leader of thousands of young Iraqis who resist the occupation.
The young Al-Sadr was and still is critical of religious leaders
who do not speak out against injustice. Since 1997 Ayatollah Ali
Al-Sistani, who remained secluded in his home until he went to London
last week for surgery, was most criticized by the young cleric.
Al-Sadr called Sistani's Hawza (seminary) "the silent seminary"
while he advocated a different type of seminary, Al-Hawza Al-Natiqa
"the vocal seminary" which speaks for the people of Iraq, the orphaned.
The Al-Sadr militia does not pose any threat to the U.S. forces.
But Al-Sadr made it clear that the Americans have to leave soon. His
supporters are also becoming more popular, providing needed social
services in the Shi'a cities of Najaf, Kufa and Karbala in the south
and at the Al-Sadr city, a suburb of Baghdad.
And this goes against the Bush Administration's desire for total domination in Iraq.
Listening to the young religious leader speak to his supporters or
to the press, you cannot help but believe that this young man is
telling the truth – liberation, peace and justice for his people are
his deepest aspiration.
Like Joan of Arc, Al-Sadr is a soldier and a saint.
* Mohamed Elmasry is a professor of electrical and computer
engineering at the University of Waterloo and national president of the
Canadian Islamic Congress.
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August 2004
MER Exclusive - Listen to Douglas Feith about Israel and the Middle East
(August 30, 2004)
MER EXCLUSIVE - Listen to Douglas Feith while Bill Clinton was still President and a year before 9/11 even happened. For some time in Washington Feith himself has been a prominent member of the extended Israeli-Jewish lobby speaking at times as harshly and unrelentingly as any Israeli propagandist. Persons in the media should contact MER for more extensive information and additional audio and video comments by Feith - 202 362-5266 and press@MiddleEast.Org
Pointing the fingers at Douglas Feith
(August 29, 2004)
Feith has been mentioned in most of the major media stories this weekend in Washington -- but not nearly with the emphasis he should have been. For Feith has played a central role in just about every scandal that has beset the Bush Administration -- from the faulty 'intelligence', to the mistaken 'assumptions', to the prison torture scandals, and now the latest Israeli/Jewish lobby spy scandal right in his own office.
Sharon's Wars, Israel's Future
(August 28, 2004)
This major New York Times feature about Ariel Sharon could have, and should have, been far more harsh. But Ariel Sharon is at the top of his game now. And though the future he may have molded more than any other may be bleak and potentially catastrophic, now is his time and few in the Jewish world -- and in an oblique way that includes not only the New York Times but much of the contemporary American media -- dare to take him on directly.
Israeli Spy Scandal Erupting in Washington
(August 28, 2004)
Many, most no doubt, of these kinds of things relating to Israel never get out into the public domain; they are buried and sucked up into official Washington where so many have so many reasons for always wanting to hush such things up. But there should be no doubt that the Israelis have infiltrated at many levels and greatly influenced in many ways U.S. policies in the Middle East, especially of late the decision to invade and occupy Iraq.
The following quick list of past Israeli spy scandals all of which were covered up or sucked in one way or another include:
* Israeli Attack on U.S.S. Liberty - 1967
* Steve Bryent Israeli Spying Scandal - 1982
* Jonathan Pollard Arrested outside Israeli Embassy - 1985
* AIPAC infiltration scandal, President forced to resign - 1991
* Mossad bugging of Clinton and Monica - 1997
* Martin Indyk's Security Clearances 'temporarily' suspended - 2000
America's 'Iraqi Police' and the now impending Iraqi Elections
(August 27, 2004)
And it's clear that if it's a competiton between Negroponte and Allawi, against al-Sistani and al-Sadr, the Americans and their regime are in big trouble. Just how the U.S. occupation is going to attempt to either further delay the election or not-too-blantantly manipulate and control it now looms ahead -- just as soon as the American election is behind us all.
(August 26, 2004)
U.S. and Regime Bombing and Killing throughout Iraq
(August 26, 2004)
Chaos, confusion, death, and destruction -- that's the description of American occupied Iraq as the country virtually rebels and explodes. Even as Ayatollah al-Sistani heads back to Najaf protected by British occupation troops American occupation troops are ferociously attacking Najaf, Fallujah, Sadr City as never before and American armed and paid Iraqi mercenary troops are massacreing their own.
Daily Articles Summary - 25 August 2004
(August 25, 2004)
Daily Articles Summary - 25 August 2004
MER Articles
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Sistani Returns and March on Najaf Looms
(August 25, 2004)
Now on this very day in history there is another Ayatollah in and at the heart of the Middle East at a crucial moment in time. The very term 'Ayatollah' was hardly known in the West before the Iranian revolution just 25 years ago now. But in the immediate days ahead it now appears Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani is to have his and maybe modern on-its-knees Iraq's 'rendevous with history'. And then what this is really all about now is the future rather than the past, especially with Iraqi 'elections' supposed to take place just 5 months from now. What will the American Empire with its arsenal of planes, tanks, and shock troops now do to deter, deflect, or stop him? What will the U.S.-installed and protected Allawi regime in Baghdad now do to attempt to co-opt or twist him?
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani Returns to 'Save the Burning Holy City'
(August 25, 2004)
The Mahdi Army defeated the British Empire in Sudan in 1885. Now a Mahdi Army battles the American Empire in Iraq in 2004. Today the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani returns to Najaf to "Save the Burning Holy City".
IRAQ, IRAN and ISRAEL Stories -- 24 August 2004
(August 24, 2004)
Crusades II - Iraqi Cities Bombed and Tanked
(August 24, 2004)
Bush's views and ongoing rhetoric -- and then came top Pentagon General Boykin telling the world that 'my god is bigger than their god' -- may come to define this period in 'modern' history.
Imperial America
(August 23, 2004)
Provocative thinking and writing from one of Great Britain's most prolific, most outspoken, most humanistic, and most insightful 'activist' journalists writing this cover article in the current issue of the New Statesman. It's too hard and probably wrong in fact to agree that 'Bush may be the lesser evil'. But it is very important to understand how and why John Pilger is speaking out in this way.
Palestinian Struggle Fully Justified
(August 22, 2004)
Because of the huge propaganda war in which the U.S. and Israel also have overwhelming firepower at their disposal, what leading Professors like Charles Black and now Ted Honderich have to say is in fact of critical importance.
Weekend Reading: Iran, the U.S., and Israel
(August 21, 2004)
These four articles from the past few days, especially the first commentary by UPI Senior Analyst Martin Sieff, help put things in perspective and set the stage for what is now to come. Unpleasant and frightening weekend reading, we know...but necessary.
What the Americans have Really Done in and to Iraq
(August 20, 2004)
This is a brief but very important outline of what the Americans have really done in recent years in and to Iraq. All this has little to do with 'freedom' and 'democracy' -- those are the simplistic and deceptive front-words. What's really involved is an increasingly desperate and ruthless master plan to turn Iraq -- a country at the center of both the Arab and the Muslim worlds -- into an appendage of the American military, political, and economic machine trying to more totally control the Middle East region and continue to drain it of its wealth, resources, and heritage. It's the imperialism of old considerably reconstituted for the brave new world of worldwide television, the internet, and high-tech 'Star Wars' weaponry.
Iran Warns of Preemptive Strike Against U.S. and Israel
(August 19, 2004)
"We will consider any strike against our nuclear installations as an attack on Iran as a whole, and we will retaliate with all our strength. Where Israel is concerned, we have no doubt that it
is an evil entity, and it will not be able to launch any military operation without an American green light. You cannot separate the two."
Iranian Defense Minister
The World on Fire
(August 19, 2004)
Now in 2004 as a result of what the Bush/Cheney/Israeli regime insisted on doing the world is dangerously on fire -- passions, hatreds, and fears all now enraged and engaged in an escalating "clash of civilizations" full of crusading rhetoric essentially pitting the U.S., U.K., and Israel against Arab and Muslim countries and peoples everywhere.
U.S. Allawi Regime Should Go
(August 18, 2004)
here's a bottom line here and at a time of such major historic developments it should be said clearly. The American-installed, financed, armed, and protected Allawi regime has already totally disgraced and discredited itself. It cannot succeed in authoritatively and democratically governing Iraq. It should be ended immediately before it does even more historic harm to Iraq, to the Middle East, to the Arab and Muslims worlds, and to the whole fabric of international justice and order.
Al-Sadr and Allawi - The Struggle for the Middle East
(August 18, 2004)
Here then are two such voices speaking out, crying out, at this critical time. The first an American who was Director of The Islamic Center in Washington, the very venue in fact President Bush choose to visit soon after 9/11. The second is a Canadian who is President of the Canadian Islamic Congress. -MER
Sharon the 'Bulldozer', Sharon the 'Butcher'
(August 17, 2004)
These BBC and Guardian articles today look at how the Israelis are even now continuing to expand settlements in the occupied territories, as well as at the current situation in and around Gaza -- realities 'on the ground' that Ariel Sharon is more responsible for than any other single individual on any side of the barricades. MiddleEast.org
"They are cheating us, laughing at us" - MER FlashBack 7 Years
(August 17, 2004)
"In the end, so long as the U.S. continues to back Israeli occupation with ever greater amounts of money, guns, and political protection, little will change and the "peace process" will remain a grand deception breeding resistance, hatred, and yes, more terrorism."
U.S. Iraqi Troops Fire on Reporters
(August 16, 2004)
History is being made in these bitter bleeding days, in these very hours, and the world will have to live with the aftermath for some time to come. This report just published by the Daily Telegraph in the U.K. is the best so far to outline how the Americans are attempting to blind the world and mute the protests by threatening the few courageous journalists still in and able to report from Najaf. As for pictures of what is happening, cameras are now illegal and being confiscated by the Americans and their agents.
Iraq Exploding! The historic confrontation at the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf
(August 16, 2004)
Unless the Americans can find some way to get Muqtada Sadr and his forces out of the historic Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf without a firefight and without a massacre they themselves could become the victims of their own killing machine if the extraordinary rage and hatred in Iraq, Iran, and the Arab and Muslim worlds overall should erupt still further against them.
Americans Order Journalists, Cameras From Najaf
(August 15, 2004)
This is what police-states do; this is what dictators do; this is what the Israelis sometimes do; and now this is what the American 'democracy' does in the extraordinarily duplicitous name of 'freedom and democracy for Iraq.
Israel 'On The Eve of Destruction'?
(August 15, 2004)
His father long headed the National Religious Party. He himself has been the head of the world Zionist movement as well as the Speaker of the Knesset. And yet -- even as the Israelis appear to be victorious with the Palestinians everywhere surrounded, subjugated, dispossessed and controlled -- Avraham Burg dares to speak out loudly about how perverted Zionism has become and that all the militarism, racism, and arrogance could in reality have put Israel 'on the eve of destruction'.
Please tell friends and family about MER
(August 14, 2004)
Mid-East Realties (MER) commentary and analysis is exclusive, hard-hitting, and always directly to the point. The consistent incisiveness, expertise, and depth of coverage is not to be found anywhere else -- as these comments from readers around the world attest. Below is a summary with quick links to recent exclusive MER articles and FlashBacks. Please forward this summary complete to your friends and relatives encouraging them to also get MER just as you do. It's never been easier to subscribe to MER; and it's never been more timely and important to do so.
Occupied Iraq - Threats, resignations, killings, chaos all escalating
(August 13, 2004)
Reports from Iraq this morning indicate that Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr may have been injured today while meeting with supporters, and what's to happen next has everyone on edge as rarely before. Other reports from Iraq are of a wave of protest resignations against the American occupation and puppet government, with increased threats against the U.S. and its regime now coming in public even from other Iraqi officials approved by the Americans.
Nader vs. Israel
(August 12, 2004)
"The days when the chief Israeli puppeteer comes to the United States and meets with the puppet in the White House and then proceeds to Capitol Hill, where he meets with hundreds of other puppets, should be replaced."
Najaf 2004
(August 12, 2004)
"From Iran's perspective, there is little question what happens in Najaf is its business. Any damage there cannot leave a single Iranian ruler the option of remaining neutral, regardless of whether they are among moderates or hard-liners. The Shiite religious heritage is a shared one between Iraq and Iran."
Hidden History of the "Peace Process"
(August 11, 2004)
"It's not inordinate Chinese money and influence in American politics the Congress should be investigating, it's how Israel manipulates American politics with the help of some key Americans (most of them Jewish), who are in fact, however distasteful it is to say it, 'dually loyal'."
Jewish Washington Neocons Responsible for War
(August 11, 2004)
As the Iraq war escalates and creates still more disgust and hatred around the world, it is also threatening to expand. And a month or two from now if the Bush/Cheney/neocon regime is lagging in the polls no telling what kinds of political or military 'surprises' might come from Washington sooner rather than later.
Stumbling, Bumbling 'Arabist' Ambassadors Play to the Cameras
(August 10, 2004)
After all these now wasted years, and after all this now-squandered money -- and even with all that has happened including 9/11, the Iraqi war, and the Palestinian Intifada -- the 'Arabist' Ambassadors in Washington are weaker and more incestuous, less influential and less credible, then when they started. Yet oh how they continue to pretend otherwise so tragically continuing to mislead so many well-meaning naive people who simply don't know better the real details of what has been and what is now the real situation in today's Washington.
Neocons All
(August 9, 2004)
He sure didn't write this way when he worked for the old gray Zionist lady the New York Times. With language like 'neo-con vampires' he sounds a bit this time like MER in its regular tell-it-like-it-really-is mode... Maybe for his next installment Mr. Ibrahim will have more to say ...about his old colleagues at the New York Times starting with Tom Friedman, et. al.
Both Israel and Saudis working to elect Bush/Cheney
(August 8, 2004)
Now of course neither is going to admit it in front of the cameras, and of course it's also politically confusing for many, but both the Israelis and the Saudis are working hard now to help the election of Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld and the right-wing neocons.
U.S. and puppet regime boot Aljazeera from Iraq
(August 7, 2004)
Oh yes, the headline..."U.S. boots Aljazeera..." Let's not get confused by all the technical details and propaganda tricks. The regime in Baghdad was selected by the Americans and empowered by the Americans. It is financed by the Americans and the American military and CIA keep it in power. What it does is what the Americans want it to do. And the responsibility for what it does is American as well.
Target Pakistan
(August 7, 2004)
As tensions and fighting in Iraq and Palestine continue, and with new sanctions and attacks on Syria, Iran, and Lebanon quite publicly threatened, the situation in the greater Middle East could become far more tense and the 'crucial countries' of both Pakistan and Saudi Arabia could indeed 'fall' from the American grip setting off even more dangerous and unpredictable political and military explosions.
Target IRAN con't
(August 6, 2004)
"Exploiting the November US presidential elections and the European concerns, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon could order a strike at Iran's nuclear facilities, similar to the ones Israelis executed in 1981 against Iraq's nuclear weapons program", the diplomats were quoted by the London-based newspaper Al Hayat on Wednesday, August 4.
'Revolution' in Iraq; No U.N. or Muslim Troops To Help Americans
(August 5, 2004)
Indeed, the Americans and the Israrelis have now created their own joint vicious geopolitical stew in the Middle East; and they are very much in danger of gradually boiling away in it regardless of all the tough talk and military onslaughts.
Kerry, Israel, Jews, and the Middle East
(August 4, 2004)
John Kerry's Middle East policies have already been heavily mortgaged, if not downright sold, to those who have the greatest interest and power in controlling what the U.S. does in the crucial Middle East region and in determining where American arms, monies, and covert actions flow in the future -- powerful American Jews closely associated with Israel.
10 YEARS and 1 MILLION+ DEAD and COUNTING - MER FlashBack
(August 3, 2004)
"Here we are in the middle of the millennium year and we are responsible for genocide in Iraq. All of us that live in the silent democracies are responsible for sustained genocide in Iraq."
Former Assistant Secretary General
of the United Nations Denis Haliday
'SECURITY' POLITICS - Para-military troops dressed to kill become props in political war
(August 3, 2004)
A large numbers of 'security forces' dressed to kill in paramilitary uniforms with big guns took to the streets in New York and Washington and are there to stay, say those in charge, 'as long as it takes'. Bush and his are in fact using all this fear, and all these images, as props in their own campaign to retain power.
America Vs America
(August 1, 2004)
"The Bush Administration cannot be trusted...
George W. Bush and his administration have taken normal mendacity to a startling new level far beyond lies of convenience... They traffic in big lies, indulge in any number of symptomatic
small lies, and ultimately, have come to embody dishonesty itself. They are a lie. And people, finally, have started catching on."
Ron Reagan
(August 1, 2004)
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