March 28, 2005


Once again the propaganda media have begun to spew stupid accusations against al-Basrah, the true aim of which is to smother the voice of Iraqi people and silence one of the few sources of information on the unprecedented massacres that are taking place inside occupied Iraq in the name of "international law."

The American MSNBC network has accused al-Basrah of propagandizing the terrorism of az-Zarqawi and preaching anti-Semitism and hate towards the west. The goal behind this slander is to close down the albasrah.net website.

For our part, we reject this erroneous claim for one simple reason: the al-Basrah Network is not taken in by the fairy tale pushed by the American and British invaders that the phantom that they call az-Zarqawi hovers over every part of Iraq and that it is he who resists the invaders. They promote such nonsense to justify the attacks that they launch everywhere in Iraq, committing massacre after massacre from al-Fallujah to Samarra’ and back to ar-Ramadi, claiming that this phantasm az-Zarqawi has moved from here to there to somewhere else. Some people might be fooled by these absurdities, but, thanks be to God, the Iraqi people are not fools.

The albasrah.net website has not published any reports about az-Zarqawi because we, like all Iraqis, do not believe this mythological figure exists on the pure soil of Iraq. Iraq is fighting Anglo-American terrorism in its own, native Iraqi Resistance movement, which offers itself as a sacrifice for the liberation of the country, determined to continue fighting until the last inch of Iraqi soil is freed from today’s barbarian hordes.

To claim that we "hate the west" is a pitifully lame argument. Iraqis highly esteem their friends in the west who rejected American terrorism and who took to the streets in their millions to protest and to obstruct US aggression. Many in the west continue to contribute reports and provide hard evidence of the atrocities being committed by the invaders as they continue to trample the human rights of the Iraqi people.



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