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Shame and dishonor to those who undertook and executed the crime against the Imam Ali Al Hadi Holy Shrine!

Masses of our Great Iraqi People!

Once again the organized crime hands are spread to reach out to our sacrosanct shrines and to attack in a debased and degraded way the holy shrine of the Imam Ali al Hadi in Samarra in a treacherous new attempt to enflame a sectarian war which will rescue the Occupation from its killer trap and stop the series of its defeats and its routs the world all over started witnessing in the day light.  Those who undertook and executed this hideous crime are the Badr Brigades, the Iranian stooges, encouraged by the US forces. Yes indeed! Both have the mutual interests to modify the course of events in Iraq to rescue their threatened interests. The US which admitted its impotency to vanquish the Resistance, inspite of all the genocidal operations and the destruction undertaken against the cities and towns of the Revolution and after their failure to infiltrate the Resistance and sow rumors against the Party and its unity, the US appears certainly as the one which has the biggest fundamental benefit from exciting civil unrest.  Yes! Indeed! Ye masses of our great people, the cadres and the supporters of our combating Party, all these attempts were wrecked and the Party remained the vanguard of the Mujahideens and has strengthened its Jihadi position through widening and intensifying the scope of the armed operations, while the Resistance foiled the attempts to divide its unity or to steal its name. It has also routed and defeated the attempts to use some mercenaries from amongst the tribal leaders against the Resistance. This is why the Occupation found itself facing a greater and more dangerous trap of the one it was facing... and so it goes, using once and again the colonialist traditional debased and degraded means and ways sowing the seeds of civil war and excites sectarian strife.     

O ye heroic masses of Iraq!

It is the US and only the US which is the number one responsible of the crime against the Imam Ali Al Mahdi - Peace be upon him - holy shrine, not only because it is occupying Iraq and is responsible of whatever goes on in this country but also seen from the angle of planning the crime and the ones who have the greatest interest into undertaking it. As for Iran, it is the natural US partner in this crime as in all the previous ones, before the occupation and until now. Yes! Iran has uncovered its last criminal cards in its attempts to use our brothers and families in the south as a fire wood for its wars and a tool to find a solution to its differences with the US on the soil of Iraq. That is why we heard from some of those who consider Kahmenei and Kadhim Haeeri and others as their sectarian reference announce in absolute stupidity and idiotic behavior that if Iran was attacked their supporters will attack the US in Iraq! This kind of a homeland treason makes some of these shut up about the occupation of Iraq and its crimes while some others participates into supporting the Occupation, execute its crimes and destroy Iraq but announces at the same time that it will use force to defend Iran? Today all the cards which used to be denied and concealed from the Iraqi people in general and specially from our people in the south, have been uncovered.

Freedom lovers of Iraq!

The programmed escalation between the US and Iran has found in Iraq its fundamental arena for you can find there, massive numbers of stooges who are now holding a government through which it can exercise pressure on the US using Iraqi blood and their homeland future! Iran has set a plan to drown the US into Iraq quagmire to prevent it from affecting its nuclear project specially, when the US is about to arrange its withdrawal through signing oil and strategic long-term binding agreements, and which thinks that without the involvement of some (Sunni) parties in the government, these arrangements have no future. This is why limiting Iran agents influence has become one of the most important US arrangements. This requirement was lately and frankly announced by the US ruler Zalmay himself ordering that no sectarian will be in charge of the Defense and Interior ministries! Also the US started to leak information it was concealing and hiding, about the Badr Brigade’s crimes and the Ministry of Interior, the Iraqis call now (Solagh's drill Ministry) for these criminals use the electric drill just like their US masters to torture patriot Iraqis -  a translator note). That is why it was of Iran's interest to attack the Islamic holy Shiite shrine, now for the most required is to rally the people of the southern Iraq behind the Iranian position, and to defend Iran through intensifying the pressure on the US. This requirement however is rather difficult to obtain for the squashing majority of our people in southern Iraq has discovered Iran's plan to destroy Iraq, to dismember it and to annex its southern part in the name of the (Al Hakim) federation! For these reasons, there was a great need to gather the ranks of the people in southern Iraq to submit to Iran through undertaking an unprecedented crime, which is to attack a holy shrine in an area which is not Shia to accuse the Sunnis for such a crime and to push towards an immediate sectarian unrest which guarantees Iran a sufficient support to keep the US busy in Iraq and alleviate the US pressure from its back, thus achieving one of the most important and the oldest US objective which is to dislocate Iraq.

Dignified and intrepid sons and daughters of Iraq!

You do remember when Iran stooges and in particular the Jaafari government undertook in the past similar crimes to this new one. Yes! You remember the crimes of Al Mussayab Garage area, when their crimes targeted the Honorable Imams Bridge's killings thousands of Iraqi innocents, the Haydari, the Kadhimi and the Husseiny holy shrines, and tried to accuse others to unify their ranks which have started to tear away. Today they desperately need to undertake a more hideous and horrible crime to confront the US menace against their government in Iraq from one hand and from the other, to alleviate the pressure from their highest Marja'ya which is Iran.

Freedom loving religious scholars!

Our Party asserts that the attack and the crime against the Imam Ali Al Hadi Holy Shrine is the deed of the Iran agents backed by the US which wants to implicate forcibly (Sunni) parties into the political process and this objective can be achieved quickly to intensify pressure on known Sunni Parties through enflaming a limited sectarian unrest. That is why we call upon all the religious Marjay'at -centers to bear full religious and patriotic responsibility through asserting that those who executed such a crime the ones who have an interest into dislocating Iraq, and there is nobody else's biggest interest than US' and Iran's. For these reasons it is necessary to confront this plan with the highest resolution and responsibility, to expose it and make known those involved, in order to master emotional and hasty reactions.

Iraq advances steadily towards routing the Occupation, and this is a reality which imposes on us all to hold on to the wisdom, and to the highest patriotic awareness, to isolate all agents and support the Resistance for it is the only hope to safeguard the unity of Iraq and to liberate it from the Occupation.

Dishonor and shame to Iran criminal agents!

Dishonor and shame to US Zionism, the enemy of Iraq, the enemy of the Arabs and the enemy of the Muslims!

Glory to the Iraqi national Resistance the sole and only representative of the Iraqi people!

May the Crime against the Imam Ali Al Hadi be an added reason to strengthen the unity of Iraqis!

Foreign Relations Bureau

The Arab Baath Socialist Party

Iraq on the 22nd February 2006

* Translated by Abu Assur. Al Moharer.net