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An Iraqi intifada
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1190050,00.html
Now the war is being fought in the open, by people defending their
homes
Naomi Klein in Baghdad
Monday April 12, 2004
The Guardian
April 9, 2003 was the day Baghdad fell to US forces. One year later,
it is rising up against them.
Donald Rumsfeld claims that the resistance is just a few "thugs, gangs
and terrorists". This is dangerous wishful thinking. The war against
the occupation is now being fought out in the open, by regular people
defending their homes and neighbourhoods - an Iraqi intifada.
Naomi Klein
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| User: "MzBeauti21" |
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| Title: Re: OT: An Iraqi intifada |
12 Apr 2004 03:37:02 PM |
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: OT: An Iraqi intifada |
12 Apr 2004 07:09:46 PM |
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On 12 Apr 2004 02:55:25 -0700, (maff), Message ID:
<18510aff.0404120155.6cc1dce@posting.google.com> wrote in alt.atheism;
An Iraqi intifada
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1190050,00.html
Comment
An Iraqi intifada
Now the war is being fought in the open, by people defending their homes
Naomi Klein in Baghdad
Monday April 12, 2004
The Guardian
April 9, 2003 was the day Baghdad fell to US forces. One year later, it
is rising up against them.
Donald Rumsfeld claims that the resistance is just a few "thugs, gangs
and terrorists". This is dangerous wishful thinking. The war against the
occupation is now being fought out in the open, by regular people
defending their homes and neighbourhoods - an Iraqi intifada.
"They stole our playground," an eight-year-old boy in Sadr City told me
this week, pointing at six tanks parked in a soccer field, next to a
rusty jungle gym. The field is a precious bit of green in an area of
Baghdad that is otherwise a swamp of raw sewage and uncollected rubbish.
Sadr City has seen little of Iraq's multibillion-dollar
"reconstruction", which is partly why Moqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi army
have so much support here. Before the US occupation chief, Paul Bremer,
provoked Sadr into an armed conflict by shutting down his newspaper and
arresting and killing his deputies, the Mahdi army was not fighting
coalition forces, it was doing their job for them.
After all, in the year it has controlled Baghdad, the Coalition
Provisional Authority still hasn't managed to get the traffic lights
working or to provide the most basic security for civilians. So in Sadr
City, Sadr's so-called "outlaw militia" can be seen engaged in such
subversive activities as directing traffic and guarding factories from
looters. In a way, the Mahdi army is as much Bremer's creation as it
Sadr's: it was Bremer who created Iraq's security vacuum - Sadr simply
filled it.
But as the June 30 "hand-over" to Iraqi control approaches, Bremer now
sees Sadr and the Mahdi as a threat that must be taken out - along with
the communities that have grown to depend on them. Which is why stolen
playgrounds were only the start of what I saw in Sadr City this week.
In al-Thawra hospital, I met Raad Daier, a 36-year-old ambulance driver
with a bullet in his lower abdomen, one of 12 shots fired at his
ambulance from a US Humvee. According to hospital officials, at the time
of the attack, he was carrying six people injured by US forces,
including a pregnant woman who had been shot in the stomach and lost her
child.
I saw charred cars that dozens of eye-witnesses said had been hit by US
missiles, and local hospitals confirmed that their drivers had been
burned alive. I also visited Block 37 of Sadr City's Chuadir district, a
row of houses where every door was riddled with holes. Residents said US
tanks rolled down their street firing into their homes. Five people were
killed, including Murtada Muhammad, aged four.
And I saw something that I feared more than any of this: a copy of the
Koran with a bullet hole through it. It was lying in the ruins of what
was Sadr's headquarters in Sadr City. On April 8, according to
witnesses, two US tanks broke down the walls of the centre while two
guided missiles pierced its roof, leaving giant craters in the floor and
missile debris behind.
The worst damage, however, was done by hand. The clerics at the Sadr
office say that US soldiers entered the building and crudely shredded
photographs of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the top Shia cleric in
Iraq. When I arrived at the destroyed centre, the floor was covered in
torn religious texts, including several copies of the Koran that been
ripped and shot through with bullets. And it did not escape the notice
of the Shias here that hours earlier, US soldiers had bombed a Sunni
mosque in Falluja.
For months the White House has been making ominous predictions of a
civil war breaking out between the majority Shias, who believe it's
their turn to rule Iraq, and the minority Sunnis, who want to hold on to
the privileges they amassed under Saddam Hussein's regime. But this week
the opposite appears to have taken place. Both Sunni and Shia have seen
their neighbourhoods attacked and their religious sites desecrated. Up
against a shared enemy, they are beginning to bury ancient rivalries and
join forces against the occupation. Instead of a civil war, they are on
the verge of building a common front.
You could see it at the mosques in Sadr City on Thursday: thousands of
Shias lined up to donate blood, destined for Sunnis hurt in the attacks
in Falluja. "We should thank Paul Bremer," Salih Ali told me. "He has
finally united Iraq. Against him."
© Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004
Stoney
"Designated Rascal and Rapscallion
and
SCAMPERMEISTER!"
When in doubt, SCAMPER about!
When things are fair, SCAMPER everywhere!
When things are rough, can't SCAMPER enough!
/end humour alert
alt.atheism military veteran #11
{so much for the 'no atheists in foxholes' rubbish}
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