Hitting Too Close To Home
Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is still stalling on the "security agreement" the White House is pushing. The agreement will result in American forces' remaining indefinitely in Iraq and will extend total immunity to those forces and to those in support positions. Now Mr. al-Maliki has another reason to stand back from the agreement, according to this op-ed piece in Iraq's Kitabat.
At dawn on Friday, a force of the American occupation of approximately sixty fighters with four large Apache helicopters attacked the village of Jnajah in the rural province of Karbala.
After the attack, Aqeel Khaz’al, one of the members of the Dawa Party and who serves as a governor of Karbala and who is connected to the United States operations, condemned the U.S. operation, which he described as a breach of the security agreement to hand over the security operations to the Iraqis in Karbala, and that the American criminals must be prosecuted by the Iraqi justice system. ...
After further investigations, it was confirmed that the American attack was aimed at a rural region inhabited by the tribe of Malik, from the Euphrates region and not the south, and that one of the attack’s victims, Ali abd al-Hussein al-Maliki, was directly related to Nouri al-Maliki.
In other words, the Iraqi Prime Minister was awakened and realized that America does not respect anyone in Iraq, including the cousins of Beni Malik in Karbala, even though he always condoned the crimes of the American forces throughout the years of his control, including the crimes of the American occupation in Sadr City in which the American occupation killed more than one thousand Iraqi martyrs and devastated the city, all without comments from the leaders in the Green Zone. And let’s not forget about the crimes in Sahat al-Nosour (Western Baghdad), and Hayaniya Square and Tanouma in Basra. [Emphasis added]
That's right. The US attack on Karbala, the one the Iraqis say killed 20 civilians, resulted in the death of a member of the Prime Minister's own family. Under the proposed agreement, that state of affairs will continue, a fact that the author of the article, Muhamed Haji Hassan, understandably is appalled by.
...You have seen that they kill and arrest without respect for Iraqi Sovereignty or the presence of the governor of Karbala. And what they did is a message to everyone that they will continue their approach after the agreement on security:
-Killing Iraqis without fear of Iraqi justice
-Detaining Iraqis in American prisons in Iraq
-Unilateral attacks on Iraqi cities without notifying the Iraqi government
-Unimpeded entry and exit of Iraqi cities where no one has a right to stop them.
-Free movement of any military equipment across the Iraqi border, including nuclear wastes which may be buried in Iraqi soil.
What President Bush is demanding is unlimited license for an unending occupation, one that could, as Sen. McCain has suggested with some unseemly glee, last a hundred years. It's unlikely that Iraqis will look kindly upon a Prime Minister who caves in to such a demand.
197 days.
At dawn on Friday, a force of the American occupation of approximately sixty fighters with four large Apache helicopters attacked the village of Jnajah in the rural province of Karbala.
After the attack, Aqeel Khaz’al, one of the members of the Dawa Party and who serves as a governor of Karbala and who is connected to the United States operations, condemned the U.S. operation, which he described as a breach of the security agreement to hand over the security operations to the Iraqis in Karbala, and that the American criminals must be prosecuted by the Iraqi justice system. ...
After further investigations, it was confirmed that the American attack was aimed at a rural region inhabited by the tribe of Malik, from the Euphrates region and not the south, and that one of the attack’s victims, Ali abd al-Hussein al-Maliki, was directly related to Nouri al-Maliki.
In other words, the Iraqi Prime Minister was awakened and realized that America does not respect anyone in Iraq, including the cousins of Beni Malik in Karbala, even though he always condoned the crimes of the American forces throughout the years of his control, including the crimes of the American occupation in Sadr City in which the American occupation killed more than one thousand Iraqi martyrs and devastated the city, all without comments from the leaders in the Green Zone. And let’s not forget about the crimes in Sahat al-Nosour (Western Baghdad), and Hayaniya Square and Tanouma in Basra. [Emphasis added]
That's right. The US attack on Karbala, the one the Iraqis say killed 20 civilians, resulted in the death of a member of the Prime Minister's own family. Under the proposed agreement, that state of affairs will continue, a fact that the author of the article, Muhamed Haji Hassan, understandably is appalled by.
...You have seen that they kill and arrest without respect for Iraqi Sovereignty or the presence of the governor of Karbala. And what they did is a message to everyone that they will continue their approach after the agreement on security:
-Killing Iraqis without fear of Iraqi justice
-Detaining Iraqis in American prisons in Iraq
-Unilateral attacks on Iraqi cities without notifying the Iraqi government
-Unimpeded entry and exit of Iraqi cities where no one has a right to stop them.
-Free movement of any military equipment across the Iraqi border, including nuclear wastes which may be buried in Iraqi soil.
What President Bush is demanding is unlimited license for an unending occupation, one that could, as Sen. McCain has suggested with some unseemly glee, last a hundred years. It's unlikely that Iraqis will look kindly upon a Prime Minister who caves in to such a demand.
197 days.
Labels: Iraq, Iraq Casualties
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