'America is not a charitable organisation - they came to steal from
Iraq'
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/07/1689476.php
By Robert Fisk in Najaf
21 July 2004
Outside on Sayed Ayatollah Ahmed Hassani al-Baghdadi's little lawn,
the temperature is touching 60C. But inside his spacious library with
its shelves of leather-bound volumes of Islamic science and law, the
political heat soars between 3,000 degrees and minus 20. The Shia
marja [leading Shia scholars] are known for their outspokenness but
Sayed Baghdadi more than speaks his mind. The Americans occupied Iraq
as part of a Zionist project, he announces. They will not leave Iraq
because they intend to steal Iraq's oil. The new US-appointed Iraqi
government are "collaborators". And Sayed Baghdadi, remember, is a
highly respected and very influential marja whose lectures draw
students from all over Iraq.
Robert Fisk
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