November 15, 2007
New Iraq’s Puppet President Jalal Talabani and Nobel Peace Prize, Israel’s President and war criminal Shimon Peres have a lot in common. "The best way to solve the internal problems of Iraq is through federalism. For that to take place, it would be best for Iraq to be partitioned in the three independent federal regions", Peres said in an interview with the Turkish language CNN Turk television news network. Talabani described Peres’ statements as "realistic" and said that Peres was "welcome in Iraqi Kurdistan". [See also Question 6 in Iraq is still the issue - Part 2: Amerika’s New Iraq - The Quiz]
In Baghdad, the puppet, sectarian Green Zone’s government has shut down the Iraqi Association of Muslim Scholars’ headquarters. The Associated Press reported:
Iraqi authorities seized the headquarters of the country's most influential Sunni clerical group Wednesday, sealing off its west Baghdad compound and accusing the organization of supporting al-Qaida in Iraq. The group, the Association of Muslim Scholars, has long opposed the U.S. military presence in Iraq and has often taken public positions in support of Sunni insurgent goals. The association spearheaded the Sunni boycott of the January 2005 elections and has frequently been at odds with the Shiite-dominated government. The timing of the move suggests that the government is more confident it can take action against the hardline Sunni clerics without risking a backlash within the Sunni community and reprisal attacks by al-Qaida and other insurgent groups. (…) The raid on the clerical group began about 9 a.m. Iraqi security forces dispatched by the Sunni Endowment, a government agency that cares for Sunni mosques and shrines, surrounded the association's headquarters at the Um al-Qura mosque and demanded the staff leave by noon, the association said in a statement posted on its Web site. A few days ago an Iraqi "reconciliation meeting" was held in a Dead Sea resort in Jordan:
Iraqi leaders gathered for a reconciliation conference in neighboring Jordan this week to try to overcome the sectarian and ethnic strife tearing their country apart, attendants said Saturday. Some 40 Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish delegates discussed what form of government would best fit Iraq's future, said Nassar al-Rubaie, a member of the anti-American Sadrist bloc led by firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. "We agreed on the principle of federalism as a part of the ruling system, but on the condition that it won't be based on sectarianism," al-Rubaie said in a phone interview after returning to Baghdad. (…) The four-day meeting, which began Monday in a Dead Sea resort, was held under the auspices of an Italian non-governmental organization and was attended by Richard W. Murphy, a former U.S. Ambassador to Syria, local news reports said. More details on this "reconciliation meeting" here
Of course any plan for Iraq’s future would presuppose at least the existence of Iraq but it’s this very existence that Amerika and its open and hidden allies have been aiming at with the Long War started almost two decades ago. Today Iraq is no more [Can you think about it? This is more than genocide. A whole country, member of the United Nations, has definitely gone] and the word "reconciliation" has a macabre sound in the midst of a dance of death performed by the many Iraqi puppets, draculas and zombies co-responsible for this apocalypse whose crimes and atrocities are difficult to describe and certainly impossible to understand for a Western public opinion propagandized until apathy levels.
Nuri al-Maliki, one of the many Iran’s men in Baghdad, started to bark against his Amerikan masters who appointed him as the Green Zone’s Puppet. As some "on the left" and in what is known as "the anti-war movement" in the West, this Iraqi Dracula always looks for fresh blood. Floating on a genocidal bloodbath he’s co-responsible for, the vampire is now thirsty for the blood of three more Ba'ath party officials: Ali Hassan al-Majid, Sultan Hashem al-Tai and Hussein Rashid al-Tikriti. "We insist on implementing the verdict against all the defendants and they should be delivered so the decision against them can be implemented".
After closing definitely the door of his sectarian puppet government to the Sunni block, Maliki issued a ruling under which 18,000 members of Shiite militias are to merge with the country’s army, police and security forces. The new militia recruits belong to the Dawaa party which Maliki leads and the Badr corps, the militia faction led by the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, Maliki’s main Shiite ally in the government.
The Madhi Army, the militia of what used to be described as "the most powerful man in Iraq", Moqtada al-Sadr, has been excluded by the puppet’s decision. We’ll see how the notorious drill boys will react to this other insult coming from their close ally and if they will be happy to be converted in "cultural agents".
Stratfor reported:
IraqSlogger, an online news service, reported Nov. 14 that the Mehdi Army -- the armed wing of the radical Iraqi Shiite movement led by Muqtada al-Sadr -- is in the process of being revamped into a mainstream organization. A key element in this process is the institution of an entrance exam testing potential members' Islamic knowledge. The tests will be administered by senior Mehdi Army officials in the Shiite city of An Najaf. The report adds that the al-Sadrite bloc's high command has ordered Mehdi Army militiamen to refrain from interfering in public affairs, leaving the issue of law and order to police. (…) The approach to streamline the Mehdi Army follows the model of the Badr Organization (formerly the Badr Corps or Badr Brigades), the military wing of the most powerful Iraqi Shiite movement, the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC). The SIIC, led by Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, was integrated into the Iraqi security forces and converted into a youth wing of sorts during the days of the interim Iraqi government. On the "entrance exam" Stratfor commented:
This is where the process of testing potential members' ideological knowledge could come in handy for al-Sadr. The process is designed to sustain membership in the Mehdi Army. A real test gauging a potential member's secular faculties could lead to a significant decline in membership, as al-Sadr's constituents come from lower classes, where illiteracy is a problem. Maybe Stratfor has a classist, racist attitude for there is no doubt that the Mahdi Boys would get full marks if the test were on kidnapping, torturing and slaughtering, the new majors in New Iraq teaching system.
The International Crisis Group, a long-time supporter of Moqtada al Sadr and his Mahdi Army, "urged the United States to adopt a more evenhanded approach to the majority Shi'ite community, saying in a report that Shi'ite rivalries are likely to have more influence on Iraq's future than the sectarian conflict between Shi'ites and Sunnis", Reuters reported.
"The U.S. has fully backed [Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC)] in this rivalry. This is a risky gambit," the Belgium-based think tank said. It warned that U.S. reliance on fighters from SIIC's Badr Organization as a counterweight to Sadr's Mehdi Army militia is "bound to backfire, polarizing the Shi'ite community and creating the foundations for endemic intra-Shi'ite strife. While Washington is intent on stabilizing Iraq, for example, (SIIC) is bent on ruling it," the report said. (…) "SIIC's empowerment through U.S. protection and support may open the door to greater Iranian involvement, especially once U.S. forces begin to withdraw," it said. About "the most powerful man in Iraq", it seems he’s gone "underground" to study even though someone seems to be skeptical. "His mentality does not allow him to reach higher levels of study," says one high-ranking scholar of the Shiite howza, the clerical elite that surrounds Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. Anyway, if he’s studying in Iraq or in Motherland Iran nobody knows. Newsweek reported:
Since declaring a ceasefire for his Mahdi Army militia last August, Sadr has effectively disappeared from public life, designating five trusted aides to speak on his behalf. NEWSWEEK has learned that some of those deputies have been secretly meeting with Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, to discuss cooperation on improving security, according to two sources who declined to be identified because of the subject's sensitivity. The general's spokesman, Col. Steven Boylan, qualified that assertion, explaining that while Petraeus has not met with Sadr, "the command has indeed had direct engagements with some of his people within the [Sadr] organization … to assist with reconciliation efforts." And what about improvements and optimism? The state-corporate media have been selling us for some time many "Iraq is getting better" fairy tales. "The statistics say so, across the board", recently BBC’s Jim Muir told us.
Ali al-Fadhily, who works in close collaboration with Dahr Jamail, recently reported for IPS:
"I would like to agree with the idea that violence in Iraq has decreased and that everything is fine," retired general Waleed al-Ubaidy told IPS in Baghdad. "But the truth is far more bitter. All that has happened is a dramatic change in the demographic map of Iraq." And as with Baquba and other violence-hit areas of Iraq, he says a part of the story in Baghdad is that there is nobody left to tell it. "Most of the honest journalists have left." "Baghdad has been torn into two cities and many towns and neighbourhoods," Ahmad Ali, chief engineer from one of Baghdad's municipalities told IPS. "There is now the Shia Baghdad and the Sunni Baghdad to start with. Then, each is divided into little town-like pieces of the hundreds of thousands who had to leave their homes." Pebe Escobar recently commented:
The Pentagon - via Major General Joseph Fil, commander of US forces in Baghdad - is relentlessly spinning there's now less violence in the capital, a "sustainable" trend. This is rubbish. Fil cannot even admit to the basic fact that Baghdad has been reduced to a collection of blast-walled, isolated ghettos in search of a city. Baghdad, from being 65% Sunni, is now at least 75% Shi'ite, and counting. Sunni and Shi'ite residents alike confirm sectarian violence has died down because there are virtually no more neighborhoods to be ethnically cleansed. Another Surge Success Story here
A good reportage from the Guardian, Meet Abu Abed: the US's new ally against al-Qaida, gives another shivering picture of Amerikan old strategy of divide and rule:
Abu Abed, a member of the insurgent Islamic Army, has recently become the commander of the US-sponsored "Ameriya Knights". He is one of the new breed of Sunni warlords who are being paid by the US to fight al-Qaida in Iraq. The Americans call their new allies Concerned Citizens. (…) A former intelligence officer and a pious Sunni, Hajji Abu Abed has the aura of a mafia don. And for Abu Abed, like a don, connections are everything. His office is decorated with pictures of him hugging US officers, including the senior commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, and a Captain Cosper. (…) After we had settled again in his office, Abu Abed told me of his grand dreams. "Ameriya is just the beginning. After we finish with al-Qaida here, we will turn toward our main enemy, the Shia militias. I will liberate Jihad [a Sunni area next to Ameriya taken over by the Mahdi army] then Saidiya and the whole of west Baghdad." Some comments on this on Imad Khadduri's blog
Think Progress tells us of another Amerika’s Neo-Nazi nut:
Roll Call executive editor and Fox News contributor Mort Kondracke writes today that if President Bush’s escalation policy doesn’t work, his Plan B should be "winning dirty," which involves "accepting rule by Shiites and Kurds, allowing them to violently suppress Sunni resistance and making sure that Shiites friendly to the United States emerge victorious." Mort Kondracke writes: "Winning will be dirty because it will allow the Shiite-dominated Iraqi military and some Shiite militias to decimate the Sunni insurgency. There likely will be ethnic cleansing, atrocities against civilians and massive refugee flows."
Helloooooo?!?!? Where have you been living in the last four years Mr. Mort? You’d better come out with a more original Plan B.
This is Amerika’s New Iraq, a monstrosity born from the supreme international crime, the war of aggression whose illegality under international law still persists. The notorious political process, with its imperialist constitution drafted in Washington and its Quisling gangs of warlords, psychopaths and cruel terrorists co-responsible for the Iraqi genocide and the annihilation of the country, far from representing "Iraq's nascent democracy (which needs all the legitimacy it can get)" - as too much propaganda is still trying to sell to the Western public - has been instead the epitaph on the tomb of the last Arab country that dared to defy Western imperialism and colonialism.
We are assisting at the showdown where the many puppets, draculas and zombies are positioning themselves, waiting for the sectarian partition of what used to be Iraq. The Amerikan orchestrated "political process" has been the ballad of this dance of death.
P.S. Disposable Democracy
A poll conducted in five European countries and the U.S. found very low support for the use of military strikes against Iran and an overwhelming support for withdrawal of U.S. and other coalition troops from Iraq.
The poll, conducted by Harris Interactive Survey for France 24 television and the Paris-based International Herald Tribune newspaper, found that using force against Iran is backed by just 8 percent in France, 7 percent in Germany, 8 percent in Italy, 8 percent in Spain, 11 percent in the U.K. and 21 percent in the U.S. while 90 percent of French nationals support an Iraq pullout, as do 75 percent of Germans, 82 percent of Italians, 84 percent of Spaniards, 82 percent of U.K. nationals and 67 percent of Americans.
And now?
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