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RE: COWARDS and SCUM! - 6/29/2007 4:12:06 AM
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azinorum
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The whole freedom process is getting more ridiculous by the day. Every time the Americans make an arrest ie. one of Sadr's aids, the Iraqi government undermines them by demanding their release. Here is an example of the the other side of the coin. The Iraqi government issues an arrest for a minister (their own minister) and the Americans protect him? Its all misinformation to confuse and divide. 
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RE: COWARDS and SCUM! - 6/30/2007 1:35:44 AM
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Lion of Babylon
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Bros and sisters. Report on Baghdads neighborhoods and how safe or unsafe they are. Pic attached.
The Baghdad Death Map
Iraqis Offer Their Own Security Assessment of Baghdad Neighborhoods
In their distinctive style of morbid humor, resourceful Baghdadis are circulating emails presenting their own personal assessment of the security situation in the capital. The detailed lists of what neighborhoods and areas are safe and what to avoid completely, because of Mahdi Army or Al-Qaeda activity or the random car bomb, are quite different from those found in Iraqi government or U.S. military statements. As many parts of the capital have become no-go zones for members of either the Sunni or Shia sect – or sometimes for both, it is a challenge for Baghdadis to identify areas where they are able to move freely and areas where they should better stay out. The following is a translation of one such email making the rounds among residents of Baghdad and on Iraqi Web forums. The sarcastic email, which was written in Iraqi slang, attempts to classify the districts of Baghdad based on their level of danger. According to the author, the safest neighborhoods are the ones where the odds of staying alive are 50%:
The situation in different areas of Baghdad in regard to takfiri gangs of the new age: Al-Qaeda, the Mahdi Army, and their spiritual leaders – the forces of liberation. fall into four different categories: safe, relatively safe, dangerous, and relatively dangerous. They are classified as follows:
- A safe area: where the probability of you staying alive is 50%.
- A relatively safe: where the probability of you staying alive is 40%.
- A relatively dangerous area: where the probability of you staying alive is 30%.
- A dangerous area: where the probability of you staying alive is 20 to 10%.
Here we go:
- The Bayya’ garage, the periphery of Bayya’: No one can ever reach them because the Mahdi Army is randomly abducting people and killing them for what they say is in retaliation for the husseiniya bombing a week ago.
- Shu’la: No one can reach it.
- Thawra (Sadr City): No one can reach it.
- Sha’ab: No one can reach it.
- Amil: No one can reach it.
- Jami’a and Khadhraa’: No one can reach them because Al-Qaeda fled Amiriya and Yarmouk and took refuge there.
- Mishahda north of Baghdad: No one can reach it because of the presence of gangs that collectively burn people alive.
- Jadiriya is relatively safe.
- Karrada is relatively safe.
- Mansour is relatively safe.
- Harthiya is safe (because of the presence of Kurdish militias).
- Yarmouk is relatively safe.
- Amiriya is dangerous.
- Adhamiya is relatively dangerous (in some parts of it) but there are constant clashes.
- Kadhimiya is safe.
- Grai’at is relatively dangerous.
- Utaifiya is safe.
- Haifa Street is relatively dangerous.
- The highway that connects Amiriya with the Baghdad gate is relatively dangerous.
- Ghazaliya is relatively dangerous because of clashes.
- Iskan is safe.
- Alawi is relatively dangerous.
- The Suq Al-Arabi area is relatively safe.
- Dora is not under the authority of the Republic of Iraq. It is currently an Islamic emirate complete with its own Islamic departments and ministers. Islamic CDs have been distributed to residents to explain the laws of the emirate.
- Saidiya is dangerous.
- Camp is relatively safe.
- Baladiyyat is safe.
- Jisr Diyala is dangerous.
- Arasat is safe.
- Masbah is safe.
- Baghdad Al-Jedida is relatively safe.
- Jezirat Baghdad is dangerous.
- Abu Ghraib is relatively dangerous.
- Mashtal is relatively safe.
- Qadisiya is safe.
- Hurriya is dangerous.
- Dola’i is dangerous.
- Adil is dangerous.
- Zayouna is safe.
- Washash is relatively dangerous.
- Bab Al-Sharji is relatively dangerous.
- Sa’doun Street is relatively dangerous.
- Waziriya is relatively safe.
- The Mohammed Al-Qassim highway is relatively safe.
- Bab Al-Mu’adham is dangerous.
- Fadhl is dangerous.
- The Baghdad International Airport highway is relatively safe.
- Hutteen or Qudhat is relatively safe.
- Ma’moun is relatively safe.
- The Dora intersection is dangerous.
- Abu Nuwas Street is safe.
- The Baghdad-Ba’quba road is bloody dangerous.
- The Green Zone is safe, and sometimes it is dangerous.
I apologize if I left out any areas of our beloved Baghdad but I’m writing and racing with electricity at the same time.
As to Iraqi governorates:
- The north of Iraq is safe, except the Ninewa governorate, which is dangerous.
- The northern center governorates are relatively dangerous.
- The southern center governorates are relatively dangerous.
- The governorates of the south are safe, except for Diwaniya and Basrah, which are relatively dangerous.
- The west is relatively safe, except for the western highway , which is dangerous sometimes.
- The governorates of the east are all dangerous.
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RE: COWARDS and SCUM! - 6/30/2007 1:39:06 AM
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Handwritten letter from Saddam to the American people. 7 July 2006.
In the name of God, the Merciful, the Mercy-giving.
"And among the Believers are men who are true to that which they pledged to God. Some of them have fulfilled their pledge by death and some of them still are waiting and they have not altered in the least. That God may reward the true men for their truth and punish the hypocrites if He will, or relent towards them, for God is forgiving, merciful. And God repulsed the infidels for their wrath. They gained no good. God averted their attack from the Believers. God is strong, mighty." [Qur’an 33:23-25].
To the American people:
Peace upon those who believe in peace and desire it, and the mercy of God and His blessings.
I address you in this letter from the place of my confinement, as my attempt on the basis of my moral, human, and constitutional responsibility so that no one among you might say that no one came to us with a message of peace after the war began, refuting the arguments for it and desiring peace for you and for our upright, loyal, heroic people. And as I say this, I do no know whether my brothers and comrades who are leading the Resistance outside the prison have come to you with a letter before or not. That is because the "democracy" of your leaders has prevented me since my arrest and until now from getting newspapers and magazines or hearing radio and television and has isolated me from the world and has isolated the world from me so that I might not hear or see anything from outside my place of confinement.
Is this the true face of democracy and human rights that they advocate outside America!? Or have your rulers lied about it? This includes the killing of people in prisons and jails, some of them by means of the pistols of the American investigators. Or has all of this along with other details that would turn an attentive person’s hair white been concealed from you by your officials such that you do not know the truth!?
Anyway, I address you with this letter of mine in the hope that it will reach you and that you will hear it or read it. And on the basis of my responsibility to bring the facts before people, whatever their color or nationality, for that is our duty to them, just as they have a duty to us not to accept evil.
I address you today as my attorney the eminent lawyer and Professor Ramsey Clark has asked that I write this letter of mine to you. Professor Ramsey has presented an excellent example of a humanitarian in his person and in his colleague Professor Curtis Dobler, both of whom left a positive personal impression on me. On this occasion I wish to salute their courage as they have volunteered for the task although they know the dangers that surround them in carrying out their duty, in particular after criminals have killed four of the defense attorneys.
People of America, it still seems to me that the officials in your government are still lying to you and are not giving you true explanations of the reasons that led them to embark on their aggression against Iraq. In what they have said about the reasons they have deceived, from the starting point, not only the international community, and in particular the European Community but also the peoples of America themselves, knowing beforehand that the facts were contrary to what they were declaring. Untrue is what they said, after their lies were exposed, about having been deceived by their intelligence agencies and by the stooges that they brought along to serve as their puppets in Iraq, just as old imperialism and the old empires of the 19th and 20th centuries used to do. What we are saying is based on many facts, the major ones being as follows:
1. The inspection teams – that came to Iraq in the name of the United Nations and carried out searches even of some private houses as well as government departments, presidential palaces and government documents – those teams knew that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction because most of the leading members in those teams were Americans and British and in addition they had spies and volunteers of other nationalities. Those teams searched Iraq piece by piece from one end to the other and never found any information contrary to what they and others were told by Iraqi government representatives. The inspections lasted for more than seven years. And in addition to the teams that traveled by car and on foot, they used spy planes, helicopters, and satellites in space. The American and English officials thought that this was their historic chance to strike Iraq and destroy its legitimate aspirations and the lofty cultural and scientific achievements made in the course of 35 years, making use of the information gathered by their spies in the inspection teams and making use of the so-called war on terror after the 11 September incident that struck America. They shuffled the cards to bring up the goals that they had already decided upon earlier, and these were not the goals that they publicly announced at the starting line.
It was their assessment that the unjust embargo had not destroyed Iraq’s will nor halted its legitimate aspirations to develop economically, culturally, scientifically, and as a civilization in the conditions of a new independence. They believed that Iraq had come close at that time to breaking the economic embargo as the result of the cooperation of those who cooperated with Iraq on the basis of mutual benefit and fraternal national feelings as far as the Arabs were concerned. The officials in your country thought that this was their chance to impose their will on the world by means of their control of the Middle East’s oil and its production and marketing in new ways and for new goals – those about which we spoke in and before the year 2003 – in addition to attaining one of their Zionist goals and winning support in the election. Iran and its lackeys played a dirty role in making aggression appear attractive and in facilitating its implementation.
2. The American officials did not withdraw from Iraq after they became hard pressed, but declared that the facts were contrary to what they had claimed before the invasion that took place in March and April of the year 2003. If they had been truthful when they claimed that they had been deceived as a result of the information they had been given and which they used as the cover for their invasion, and which they declared at the time was sufficient justification for the invasion – declaring at the time that it involved things that they said affected the security of the United States – then they would have withdrawn from Iraq after discovering that that information had been false. They would have apologized to the heroic Iraqi people, to the American people and to the people of the world for what they had done.
None of the Americans asked their government before the war how Iraq, a country that had still not emerged from backwardness, could threaten the security of a country like America across the Atlantic. And for that matter why would Iraq want to threaten America, which at that time had not violated the territory of Iraq. If the American officials wanted to promote the claim that Iraq’s threat was precisely involved in the opposing stances taken by Iraq and America over the Zionist occupation of the land of Palestine and other Arab land, it could be said that Iraq is not the only state that takes an opposing stance to that of America in regards to the issue, whether that be Arab states or other states in the world. Furthermore, who has authorized America to make the countries of the world tailor their policies to America’s measurements, and if they don’t oblige, then war should be waged against them? How can one understand America’s call for democracy if it does not permit a difference of opinion even in issues of a regional character, to say nothing of international ones?
Another lie was the claim of American officials that Iraq had links to what they called terrorism, although British Prime Minister Blair declared that Iraq does not have any ties to so-called terrorism and had no internationally prohibited weapons, forcing Bush to declare the same thing. Despite that, none of the important American personalities asked President Bush on what sort of rational analysis or what sort of realistic information this claim rested. Do you know, esteemed ladies and gentlemen, why they didn’t ask? Because some of your prominent personalities are directed in what they do by hidden forces that distorted the image you received of Iraq’s positions. They had been laying the groundwork for years to facilitate aggression from the start. Therefore no one asked the American officials, for example, why no Iraqi took part in the events of 11 September!? And if the participation of individuals in the attack on American targets isn’t to be taken as proof of the involvement of any country in those events, then how do you accuse a state like Iraq, the features of whose political system are known, of so-called relations with terror? How can you consider this charge to be one of only two on the basis of which aggression was launched against the people of Iraq, destroying their property and achievements and bringing their lives under daily and direct threat?
Do you know, esteemed ladies and gentlemen, that I asked one of the American officials who talked with me perhaps two weeks after my arrest, just what was it that you based those false charges on? He said that as far as the weapons of mass destruction were concerned, "we didn’t have anything to confirm what you were saying." And as for the links to terrorism, he said, because you, Saddam Hussein, did not send a letter of condolence to President Bush after the incident [of 11 September].
I smiled bitterly and told him: as regards your claim that you didn’t have confirmation of our statements, it seems that your officials lie and imagine that officials in countries around the world do not tell the truth, or that many of those who have relations with you in fact do not tell you the truth, neither when they oppose your policies nor when they agree with them. This is a dangerous matter, not only for the countries of the world but because they then pose a danger for America as well, if nobody in the world will tell America: 'this is a mistake’ and 'this is unacceptable’! And at that time when American planes were striking targets in Iraq and destroying public and private property, killing Iraqi citizens including women and children for no reason and imposing on Iraq their unjust embargo, prohibiting Iraq from importing even pencils for children to use in primary schools, what exactly is it that should obligate Saddam Hussein to send a telegram of condolences to the president of the state whose officials have committed all those crimes, unless it be out of hypocrisy and weakness? But because I am neither a hypocrite nor a weakling I didn’t send Bush a telegram of condolence. But I did agree on the telegram sent containing condolences in the name of the government of Iraq and sent by Comrade Tariq Aziz, the Deputy Prime Minister, to our friend Ramsey Clark and through him to the stricken families.
Are the great states so deluded as to imagine that whoever does not send a letter of condolence deserves that war should be waged against him, his country, and his people!? Here you see how the American officials used even your own blood to promote their reckless, aggressive policy. Is this the kind of morality that people should have? Or men? Or officials? There is nothing graver than for disasters to ravage people who have been stricken by delusions, committed wrongs, and wantonly despised the roles of others. The worst disease of the American officials who involved the Americans in war against Iraq is this.
3. After I was arrested they made vain attempts to use intimidation and threats against me. One of their generals conveyed that intimidation and host threats and tried to bargain with me, promising to let me live if I agreed to read in my own voice and sign a prepared announcement that was shown to me. That stupid announcement called on the people of Iraq and the courageous Resistance to lay down arms. They said that if I refused, my fate would be that I would be shot just like Mussolini, as my interlocutor put it. But, as you know me and would expect of me, I disdainfully refused, not even touching that dirty document with my hand and sullying myself with it. I told them if I were given the chance to address my people, I would call them to more resistance.
Seven days later, to reinforce themselves, they sent a group to talk with me. They said they were from an American University and that they wanted to engage me in a broad discussion. I agreed and I confirmed to them that Iraq didn’t have any of the things the American officials claimed and I advised them [the US] to leave Iraq quickly and apologize to the people, warning them that they were going to get what they now are facing and what they are now embroiled in – in fact, the fate I expect for them is worse than what they are facing now – and they will never have an adequate chance to pull their arms and equipment out of Iraq if the two halves of Iraq engulf them, and they will engulf them, God willing, because our people are deeply rooted and conscious. They know that our liberation can be clean and complete only with their unity, and that tolerance must be the basis for the orientations of our people within their ranks, and that wounds must be bound up, not ripped open.
I say, I told them all that at that time but they didn’t change their methods; they didn’t replace the keys of falsehood, and they are still knocking on the doors of wrong, failing to try the door of legitimacy, even though they now know. In this connection, attached to this letter are some verses from a long ode; a selection of 56 verses. [Not translated here.]
4. It is neither reasonable nor convincing that a country like America to which the doors of the intelligence agencies in the east and most of the countries of the west have been opened did not know the truth and could not know the truth. Although I am convinced and believe that many countries in the world have an interest in war or wars, she [the United States] does not have an interest in war even though she might believe she does. The contrary, in fact, is the case.
America is a big country on the other side of the Atlantic. It has developed a unique unparalleled power such that I think some people there imagine that it is on its way to attaining the crown of the world all for itself as a world empire. Have they not learned a lesson from their war in Viet Nam? The west used to promote the idea that world Communism and the Soviet bloc threatened their interests and also the security of the entire west. But despite that promotion, this was nothing but a flimsy cover. Nevertheless, America used it and wrapped itself in it until the heroic Vietnamese people expelled them by force.
As to their invasion of Iraq, it came in a situation that made the first step easy from the standpoint of the reaction of the international community because of the international balance of forces. But it came in a situation that might make it more costly that its war in Viet Nam. That is because when America was expelled from Viet Nam it did not lose its standing, or we might say it only lost a small part of its standing. But when it is expelled and routed from Iraq, which has no great power to support it directly, it will lose the fundamental basis of its standing.
In fact it has now already lost the foundation for that standing and its reputation has begun to decay. It is no longer able to wield the big stick that it formerly threatened to use. It used to accomplish more by threatening to use force than by really using force. I will go further and say that after its war in Iraq, that stick no longer frightens many people and America has come to need the silence of the smallest and simplest countries and tries to please them in order to get them to stay quiet about America’s crimes and reckless, deviant policies.
Before, many of the world’s countries used to court the United States and most countries in the world, all except a few, used to fear her threats or parried them with defensive arguments. But now Mao Zedong of fond memory is laughing in his grave because his prediction has been fulfilled and America is a paper tiger. This is by the will of the Living Eternal God, and by His agents on earth, the heroic Mujahideen in glorious, virtuous, militant, jihadist Iraq. So God bless the heroic people of Iraq and God bless the jihad and the mujahideen.
Esteemed ladies and gentlemen of the peoples of America, the time has come to an end in which greatest and best-equipped armies could scatter the organized formations of the opposing army and thereby bring a war to a close. Now you see our courageous army, our heroic people, and our Mujahideen replacing the system of organized formations with a new kind of warfare. And when the Americans on the ground become targets in the vicinity of the guns of the revolutionaries, who attack them as deadly human bombs with nothing more than their bodies filled with faith in God, American superiority is worn down over time. In fact in the near future that superiority will become a burden whose equipment will be difficult to withdraw. So, will America trust the voice of rationality and logic that calls for the preservation of what still remains, or will Satan the deceiver and the hate-filled supporters of Zionism keep pushing the Americans until the waves swallow them and they sink to the depths of the raging sea?
Who, after all, appointed the American government to be the world policeman, to form the world in the mold that it likes, giving national orders to the countries of the world?
Saddam Hussein, ladies and gentlemen, is an honorable patriot and an honest man. He is a statesman resolute in implementing the law, just, but benevolent. He loves his people and his nation. He is straightforward, doesn’t double-cross or deceive. He speaks the truth even against himself. Do tyrants like Bush like such characteristics? If he were a person like De Gaulle or even like Reagan, perhaps he would understand them, or at least would not abhor them. But I must say to you that your country will discover more, esteemed ladies and gentlemen. It has lost his reputation and his standing. Indeed the American who used to travel around the world respected and safe and welcomed wherever he went, is now no longer able to step outside America without a mine detector. And the State Department issues warnings for you constantly about what world regions are dangerous to American lives
It was American officials and their polices themselves that have created an atmosphere of anti-American hatred in the world by means of their arrogant behavior, their haughty aggressive attitude, their lack of respect for international law and the security of the world – including the security of my Arab Nation through their support for the Zionist entity in Palestine – and other world and human issues.
Today you are in a bad predicament with the world and nobody can rescue you but yourselves. If you reform, you will open for the world and for yourselves a new opportunity. But if you are heedless, that is your decision. What you need is free and fair competition and peace in order to have security.
The years that followed the 18th century had long gone when they came as invaders to the Middle East to bring back memories of things that awaken and arouse. The Middle East, and the Arab homeland in particular, was the cradle of prophets and messengers from God. Is the cradle of the prophets, where the prophets are buried in their tombs, also the home of devils and their mirror images – the malicious invaders?
We have believed, and our faith was suited to us,
Then came the Zionists with a devil for a guide.
They stormed in on us as invaders, unjust.
The did not stop their advance nor sit still,
Their diabolical patron has prepared their dilemma.
But as for us, we have the Merciful God as Patron.
People of America, despite the crimes your government inflicted on our people, our Arab Nation and humanity, the people of Iraq – and I mean by that the Iraqis, not those with split loyalties who prefer to serve foreigners rather than their own people – I say the free people of Iraq even in their present circumstances are not thinking about their destiny alone but about the destiny of others wherever it’s possible to create a solution that treats a painful problem.
On this basis I said to some Americans when I was in my prison, why don’t you come to an agreement with the Resistance to designate a country with a charter and power to which the Resistance can hand over those American soldiers whom they capture, rather than executing them as currently is said to be taking place. In fact the extent to which the Resistance is responsible for this is unknown, but people who are equitable know that America has not abided by international law in any of its activities in Iraq, including the Geneva Conventions regarding prisoners and detainees. The Resistance has no secure place in Iraq where prisoners can be kept. So whether the Resistance is at all responsible, or whether the responsibility lies with some other parties that have no connection to the Resistance, the justification for it is that there is no secure place for prisoners to be kept.
Therefore in order to fulfill humanitarian needs and to eliminate the justification [for killing prisoners] I make this proposal to you and to the national Resistance and to anyone concerned, and I make this with the best of intentions. If you accept it and respect the Geneva Conventions then the argument of those who kill rather than detain prisoners will have vanished. But if your government does not accept it, then it will bear the responsibility for refusing and for whatever befalls our people and the heroic Resistance as a result of your government’s violation of international law. This will be particularly true if the number of American prisoners increases in the future, and we think that it will increase. Or is it that your government can’t see anything until it feels it?
Esteemed ladies and gentlemen, the time has come for your government to look at all people as equals before international law regardless of the size of the countries to which they belong. Whoever violates international law in his policies and the behavior of his army, he alone must bear the consequences for that policy. And if his policies are not in accordance with the letter of international law, he has no right to call others to protect his rights in accordance with that law.
Esteemed ladies and gentlemen, whoever missed his or her chance to take action to try to prevent the war still has a chance to act to end it and bring back peace and freedom to Iraq in accordance with the choice of its people without foreign interference by anyone whoever that may be.
People of America, I address you not from weakness nor as a supplicant. I, my people, my brothers, comrades, and my nation – we address you on the basis of our moral and human responsibility. I tell you that officials whom you know, and first among them your President, lied to you and deceived you and tricked you using the media that portrayed Iraq to you as incorrigible, and Saddam Hussein as a hateful dictator, and that his people hate him and that his people are just waiting for their chance to get at him. Some of them just wallowed in lying falsehood to the point that they openly declared that the Iraqis would meet the invading armies with roses and celebration.
I know that lots of people don’t do a lot of analysis; they don’t have the time or the ability or the desire to do careful assessments when presented with falsified news so as to uncover the truth. The American peoples had no chance to inquire, for example: why, if the people of Iraq hate Saddam Hussein, how he managed to defeat the Iran of Khomeini after eight years in the aggressive war that Iran sought to impose on us under the slogan of exporting the revolution beginning with Iraq? People of America, the victory over Khomeini’s Iran was not due to the short length of the war, but came only after eight years of grinding warfare in which tens of thousands fell and hundreds of thousands on the Iranian side.
Then if Saddam Hussein were a dictator, why did he establish a parliament with elections for the first time in the year 1980 during wartime, when there had been no parliament in Iraq since 1958? If he and his government were dictators, how could he visit schools, universities, towns, and villages and spend the night with the people wherever the sun went down? How could he travel around and lead at the battle front at night and during the day even in the trenches in the front lines on the battlefield among the Muslim soldiers!?
Yes, esteemed ladies and gentlemen, your government deceived you, and you, or rather most of you, had no chance to inquire of themselves or of others in order to discover the truth because the Zionists in the lobby who advocated the war together with some of the centers of power were deceiving you and tricking you, hiding from your eyes the real truth, exchanging the facts for falsified and slanted information. Last but not least in this regard, if Saddam Hussein were a dictator hated and despised by his people, how is it that his people endured him and why was he chosen President by referendum?
People of America, the misfortunes that have afflicted you and afflicted our Arab Nation and within it our heroic Iraqi people – including the breakdown of America’s standing and reputation – were only caused by the reckless behavior of your government and by pressure from Zionism and power centers that influenced the government to commit those crimes and scandalous actions for specific ends that have nothing to do with the interest of the American peoples. The massacres and blood that now flows in the streets and countryside of Iraq in torrents – the responsibility for that falls on America before all others. You know, or rather you have now come to learn, that neither the stooges whom the American forces brought in on board their aircraft or as shamefaced presents aboard their tanks, nor Iran, which pushed and still pushes forward those who support it and whom they support, would be able to cause the bloodshed, or the destruction of the honor, and property of our people and our state had not America undertaken the aggression and invasion and issued the orders. It is still issuing orders in the Green Zone. Therefore America bears the burden of all those crimes and outrages. So, will you put an end to what is going on by using the methods of direct truth without evasion and digression? Or will you invite the machine of death to continue to eat away at the flesh of Iraqis and the flesh of Americans without doing anything to resolve this?
It is your historical responsibility, esteemed ladies and gentlemen. If you reform, you could save what remains of the standing and reputation of America and its legitimate interests. If you do nothing, you will be keeping silent over something evil. "God grant us patient perseverance and let us die as Muslims." [Qur’an, 7:126]
People of America, the wars that your government promotes in the world – one of them being the war in Iraq – with input from certain centers of power – which you know better than we – are not in the interests of the American people. You know better than many how you paid in blood so that you might liberate yourselves from British colonialism and after that how the United States of America was unified and what rivers of blood were shed in order for that to come about. So, esteemed ladies and gentlemen, how do you accept this interference that abases America before it abases Iraq? How can you accept not only the invasion but becoming mired in the internal affairs of Iraq? You know that Iraq is a land of prophets, messengers, and righteous figures. You know that Baghdad is the fourth holiest city in the Arab homeland – after Mecca, al-Madinah, and Jerusalem – in the sight of all of the Islamic world and all of our Arab Nation. How can one imagine that Iraq could reconcile itself to colonial rule, even if it comes, this time, under another name and with other slogans? Save your country, esteemed ladies and gentlemen, and leave Iraq.
Peace.
God is greatest. God is greatest.
Saddam Hussein,
President of the Republic of Iraq and Commander in Chief of the Mujahid Armed Forces.
7 July 2006.
[Appended to the letter was a selection of poetry by Saddam Hussein dealing with the homeland, invasion and the struggle for liberation]
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RE: COWARDS and SCUM! - 6/30/2007 10:21:25 AM
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Again the US Military doesn't see eye to eye with Iraqi Government reports. Who should we believe?
US Military: "Headless" Media Reports False
Military Disputes Reports 20 Decapitated Bodies Found South of Baghdad
The U.S. military today dismissed as false news reports that received much attention Thursday that 20 headless bodies had been recovered on the banks of the Tigris River near the town of Salman Pak south of Baghdad. Thursday, the Associated Press, Reuters, and the Voices of Iraq (VOI) agency were among the news outlets reporting on the recovery of the decapitated bodies, with that information attributed to anonymous Iraqi police sources. Today, the U.S. military released a statement saying U.S. and Iraqi authorities checked out the reports and determined them to be false.
Three key sentences from the U.S. military statement:
"Coalition and Iraqi officials began investigating to determine if the reports were true. Ultimately it was concluded the reports were false. (Insurgents) are known for purposefully providing false information to the media to incite violence and revenge killings, and they may well have been the source of this misinformation."
The U.S. military suggestion that the erroneous information might have been insurgent propaganda raises questions about why Iraqi police officers would be relaying insurgent propaganda.
In reporting on the U.S. military statement today, Reuters concluded its report this way:
"Verifying reports in Iraq is very hard for journalists, who have been systematically targeted by different militant groups and rely extensively on local sources for information. Paris-based press freedom advocates Reporters Without Borders estimate that over 180 journalists and media assistants have been killed since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, making Iraq the most dangerous place in the world to report."
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RE: COWARDS and SCUM! - 6/30/2007 10:28:14 AM
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Man this is getting hard. Yet another Iraqi with an opinion is murdered for no other reason than she was trying to expose the truth.
Iraqi Sex Slaves Share Horror Stories
Women Looking for Work Tricked into Sexual Slavery, with some Trafficked Abroad
By Sahar al-Haideri
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
(Sahar al-Haideri was an IWPR journalist working in Mosul. She was murdered there in June 2007)
Mosul - Asma's family was facing dire financial problems when a man in his 60s came to her father with an offer they couldn't refuse: he said he would hire Asma for 200 US dollars a month to help take care of his wife, who was handicapped. Asma's mother is blind and her father is disabled, leaving them struggling to make ends meet. The man assured the couple that Asma could visit them, and that he would raise her with his daughters. The impoverished family took him up on the offer, but Asma, 17, had no idea what was in store for her.
"My work was not only in the kitchen; I had to have sex with son of the man who hired me and his four or five friends," she said in an interview after fleeing a life of sexual slavery. "I left my father's house a virgin and now I am... "
She stopped speaking. Her father said nothing except, "I put my trust in God.”
The deteriorating security situation and absence of law and order has allowed sexual slavery to grow in Iraq, with traffickers able to sell victims without fear of punishment. According to the US State Department's Trafficking in Persons Report, issued in June, Iraqi women and children are forced into prostitution and trafficked inside Iraq and abroad, to countries like Syria, Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Iran. In the volatile northwestern city of Mosul, near the Syrian border, girls and young women from poor and illiterate families are particularly vulnerable to sexual exploitation. Many of those hired as domestic servants end up becoming sex slaves.
Khaled, 45, who readily admits to involvement in the sex trade, wears jeans and a yellow T-shirt with four or five rings on his fingers and bracelets around his wrist. This reporter witnessed him speaking to a client about whether he preferred a brown or white girl or woman as a sex slave.
"I know some families who are ready to have their daughters work to earn a living for them," he said. "Some ask me if can only work in kitchens, while others try to close their eyes and pretend that they have no idea that their daughters are being used as prostitutes."
Other women seek Khaled out on their own, but don't always know the full extent of his business. Zaineb, 20, is a thin and beautiful woman with light-colored hair. She felt financially responsible for her family because her father was arrested by the US military, her mother was ill and she had younger sisters that needed support. Zaineb got a job through Khaled, but to her horror discovered that she had been forced into prostitution.
"I sleep with different men each night," said Zaineb, who managed to contact IWPR. " and his friends always take me to a farm, where they get drunk, and then have sex with me. I cry, asking for help from my father and mother, but how can they hear me?"
Victims of sexual slavery in Iraq have little support from the police or the courts. Iraqi law only criminalises the sexual exploitation of children. Many women are tricked into sex slavery in Iraq with the promise of a new life in the Gulf. Khaled convinced 18-year-old Alia's family that a man in the Gulf wanted to marry her, and paid for her passport and new clothes.
"Like any other bride, I was happy," she said. "But I discovered after I traveled to the Gulf that the bridegroom was a nightclub manager who used many other Iraqi girls for prostitution. I managed to flee after 10 humiliating months.
"I was screaming when one of had sex with me; they considered me a slave that they had bought. I lost my dreams, hopes and future."
The state department report noted that the Iraqi government did not prosecute any trafficking cases this year, nor did it offer protection for victims or make efforts to prevent or document trafficking. It also said efforts needed to be made to "curb the complicity of public officials in the trafficking of Iraqi women".
The names of people mentioned in this story have been changed to protect their identity.
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RE: COWARDS and SCUM! - 6/30/2007 1:12:20 PM
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Its the oldest profession in the world. This has been going on in Iraq for years. I remember in 2001 or 2002, Saddam issued a kind of Fatwa against prostitutes and pimps in Baghdad and many of the guilty were beheaded and their bodies dumped outside the brothers as a warning. The irony was that the Tikrities were their best customers. 
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RE: COWARDS and SCUM! - 7/1/2007 2:09:32 PM
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This is so bad. Discusting. 
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RE: COWARDS and SCUM! - 7/2/2007 1:44:34 AM
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Top Iraqi Newspaper Editor Kidnapped
Editor-in-Chief of Iraqi Govt-funded al-Sabah Newspaper Taken Captive06/23/2007 2:20 PM ET Baghdad, June 23, (VOI)- Unknown gunmen kidnapped on Wednesday morning the Editor-in-Chief of al-Sabah newspaper, Fleh Dway Megthab, while leaving his house in al-Habebiya neighborhood in eastern Baghdad, head of the Iraqi association for defending journalists' rights said.
"Security forces are cooperating with al-Shahid al-Sadr office and the Iraqi Media Network to search for the kidnappers," Ibrahim al-Seraji told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
He did not add further details.
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RE: COWARDS and SCUM! - 7/3/2007 1:24:18 AM
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Dudes, I hate this guy.
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Bush: A Takfiri - Al Qaeda person is hopeful!
Ten years ago and in a fine spring day this man in the picture led a punch of Takfiri gangsters of 7 people, armed with hand grenades and assault rifles, and attacked a big liquor store in Al-Waziriya area near Al Maghrib Street and burned it down. He then fled to the adjacent Adamiya district and stayed there for a few days. But when Saddam’s security services (were extremely intolerant of any Takfiri – so called Al Qaeda activities) investigated the incident his name was implicated and they tracked him down. But by then he managed to flee north and the case was closed - He was once jailed by Saddam and in 2006 Bush called him a 'hopeful' person.
Today, under the invasion authority, he is Iraq’s Speaker of the House (parliament)!
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RE: COWARDS and SCUM! - 7/3/2007 11:16:20 AM
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He is an absolute disgrace and has single handedly turned the Iraqi Parliament into the mehzela it is. Would be far better suited to selling stolen spare parts or water melons. A Shroogi who doesn't belong in politics.
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RE: COWARDS and SCUM! - 7/3/2007 11:18:30 AM
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Now Hizbollah are sticking their noses into our business.
US links Iran to attack in Iraq
The US military in Iraq has accused Iran of orchestrating an attack that killed five US soldiers and of using Lebanese militants to train insurgents. The information came from a top Hezbollah fighter recently captured in southern Iraq, an army spokesman said.
Brig-Gen Kevin Bergner said the suspect admitted working with the Quds Force, linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
Iranian officials have always denied involvement in anti-US and anti-British attacks in Iraq. Tehran says it supports the US-backed Iraqi government, and blames the violence on the myriad conflicts within the country since US-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003. But Gen Bergner insisted that the Quds Force knew of and helped plan the attack on a Karbala government compound in January.
'Prior knowledge'
Gen Bergner said the Quds Force and the Iranian-backed Lebanese Shia organisation Hezbollah were jointly operating camps near Tehran in which they trained Iraqi fighters before sending them back to Iraq to conduct attacks. Gen Bergner said Hezbollah's Ali Moussa Dakdouk - who he said was captured in southern Iraq in March - was the liaison between Iran's shadowy Quds Force and a breakaway Shia group.
Gen Bergner said it was this group - led by Qays al-Khazaali, a former spokesman for cleric Moqtada Sadr - that carried out the attack against the provincial government building in Karbala in January. Mr Dakdouk "was directed by the Iranian Quds Force to move Iraqis in and out of Iraq and report on the training and operations of Iraqi special groups," Gen Bergner said.
"They were being taught how to use EFPs (explosively-formed penetrators), mortars, rockets, as well as intelligence, sniper, and kidnapping operations," he added. Correspondents say the accusations appear to be part of a continuing campaign by the US military to link Iran with insurgency violence in Iraq. US commanders have long accused Tehran of financing and anti-US militants, but this is the first time they have accused Iranians of prior knowledge of the Karbala attack.
Sophisticated assault
Gen Bergner said Mr Dakdouk had told his US interrogators that the Karbala attackers "could not have conducted this complex operation without the support and direction of the Quds force".
Five Americans were killed in the Karbala assault, a bold and sophisticated assault in which up to a dozen gunmen posed as a US security team to gain access to the government compound. Mr Khazaali and his brother were captured with Mr Dakdouk, Gen Bergner said. Hezbollah officials said they would not comment until they had checked claims that Mr Dakdouk was a member of their group. Hundreds of US-led forces in Iraq have fallen victims to EFPs. Hezbollah used the same weapons to deadly effect in its conflict with Israeli forces in southern Lebanon in 2006.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/h...st/6260690.stm
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RE: COWARDS and SCUM! - 7/4/2007 1:44:17 AM
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As you know I don't have much time for Meshhadani but I hate Al Jibouri who is an opportunist pig. During Saddam's time he stole money and fled to Syria. After the occupation he re-invented himself as a champion of democracy, again stealing money with his son while pretending to protect Iraqi pipelines from attack, then he opened his ZAWRA channel inciting and supporting terrorism under the guise of Al Muqawamah. Finally this thief who has sheltered in Syria for many years has been kicked out of Parliament. Here is the report:
Parliament Ousts MP Mishan al-Jubouri
Outspoken Sunni Arab, Known for "al-Zawraa TV," Wanted on Corruption Charges
The Iraqi Parliament has replaced a well-known controversial Sunni Arab legislator, according to a statement issued Tuesday. Mishan al-Jabouri, leader of the predominately Sunni Arab “Dialogue and Reconciliation Front” was replaced by the Parliament, according to a statement issued in Arabic by the Iraqi Council of Representatives. Hussein Muhammad 'Abdallah al-Jubouri, a member of Mishan al-Jubouri’s tribe and political bloc, was named as the replacement. Hussein Muhammad 'Abdallah was sworn in by Khalid Attiya, the deputy speaker of the Parliament, the statement says. Attiya is performing the role of acting speaker during an ongoing controversy over the position of Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani.
It bears noting that the 275-member chamber met without the 30-seat Sadrist bloc, and the 44-seat Tawafuq Front, which have suspended their participation in the Parliament over the issues of reconstruction of the Samarra shrine and the attempt to remove Speaker Mashhadani, respectively. The parliament’s statement says that Mishan al-Jubouri’s parliamentary bloc itself (Liberation and Reconcilation) had requested the replacement. The statement cites the fifth paragraph of the first article of the “Law for Replacing Members of Parliament,” number six, of 2006, as the legal basis of the action.
"This council is a joke," Mishan al-Jabouri told the Associated Press from Damascus. "There is nothing called replacing a member of parliament. This does not happen in any parliament in the world."
"I do not have the honor to be a member of the parliament but this does not mean that anyone can change my capacity. I was elected by the people and 150,000 people voted for me," he said.
Mishan al-Jabouri was stripped of his parliamentary immunity in October 2006 after he was accused of embezzlement of public funds. He has not appeared in Iraq since that time. Jabouri, now in exile in Damascus, publishes a newspaper critical of the Iraqi government and Coalition forces, but may be best recognized for his role as the owner of al-Zawra television, a satellite channel that celebrates Iraqi resistance activity against Coalition forces, as well as having been one of the earliest Sunni Arab venues to publicly denounce al-Qa'ida and related organizations in Iraq.
In February, US forces reportedly issued an arrest warrant for Jubouri, on charges of “inciting terrorism and attacks against U.S. forces,” and raided his party offices in Kirkuk as well as residences of his relatives north of Baghdad.
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RE: COWARDS and SCUM! - 7/5/2007 4:17:14 AM
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Jibouri inthurab boori. 
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RE: COWARDS and SCUM! - 7/5/2007 4:20:46 AM
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Good old Maslawis. They have found a way of getting their frustration out by using the WWW to taunt Al Qaida. Read below.
Mosul Residents Taunt Al-Qaeda on Web Forums
Islamic State of Iraq militants have stepped up their campaign of intimidation against Mosul’s religious minority communities of Shi’ites, Christians, Yazidis, and Shebek. Many members of the large Kurdish community in Mosul have fled to the Kurdish autonomous region. They have faced hostility and threats because the two Kurdish political parties dominate the governorate council and the police and army force, marginalizing the city’s majority Arab population. Mosul residents describe dozens of killings and assassinations each day, attributed to different groups, but most of which seem to be carried out by extremist Sunni militant groups, who control large parts of the city.
Posters on Al-Mawsil, an Iraqi Web forum dealing with Mosul news, often collide with self-described members of the Islamic State of Iraq and their sympathizers, reflecting local resentment in Mosul toward their brutal activities. The antagonism has increased recently as Al-Qaeda is blamed for the lawlessness and chaos in Mosul. “This is the Islamic state that they want,” said a poster named Al-Rammah, on a thread describing the assassination of a local storeowner killed in broad daylight by Al-Qaeda gunmen. “The man was killed by Al-Qaeda criminals, not by militias or the police. Just keep on justifying the crimes of Al-Qaeda and falsifying the truth until your own beards are drenched with water . Regret will not help you then. May God curse Al-Qaeda and its followers.”
Al-Feta said, “In fact a lot of people are prepared to intervene, but without organization and unity, we can do nothing. One hand does not clap by itself. Strong groups are busy fighting each other, and parties are busy reaping benefits.”
A poster named Mosul70 said, “I am tired of posting about this. We want a solution. We want a leader who can guide Mosul. I swear I would be the first soldier to sacrifice myself and my possessions, and God is witness to what I say.”
Another poster named Abu Al-Hassan said, “Do not be sad because this person was either an apostate or a lackey for occupiers. Why else would he be targeted? In my opinion, no one would come near you if you were minding your own business. You have nothing to fear from the mujahideen if you were not a traitor.”
A poster called Humam Al-Mosuli attempted to categorize the groups who, in his opinion, were behind the assassinations in Mosul: “One, American occupation forces, who benefit from the chaos and who target patriotic figures; two, the two Kurdish parties, who are behind the assassinations of Arab and Islamic figures in order to silence the voices demanding the rights of the Ninewa governorate, and to force professionals to emigrate to Dohuk and Erbil; three, Shi’ite militias, who have a limited presence in Mosul but strike against well known Sunni figures; four, Al-Qaeda elements, who by far are the most notorious in targeting professionals who they claim are apostates; five, criminal gangs and hired guns who work for all the above in return for money; and six, people settling personal accounts in the absence of law and order.”
An insurgent sympathizer posting under the name “Muthanna district resident” objected to the accusations against armed groups, saying, “ Al-Hashimi’s party is responsible for the assassinations of qualified people and professionals. They are the ones who inform the occupiers and their supporters of their locations. They are also infiltrated by occupation forces and Iranian intelligence, and the photos published in this forum are proof of their cooperation.”
An Iraqi woman posting under the moniker Hashimiya responded by saying, “The people carrying out assassinations are you. You kill whoever fails to pay or support you. You are the ones plundering people’s possessions and honor because you regard them as booty. May God rid us from you by the hands of honorable people.”
Another poster said, “By God, the Kurds are not responsible for one quarter of the murders committed by those Kharijites. They are definitely hired murderers and mercenaries, and you know what I mean by mercenaries. They threatened my own husband and took $10 thousand from him for what they said was their jihad. God’s curse on your jihad. He said, ‘I’m an Emir.’ Maybe he is an Emir of mules. Is this your jihad? Stealing money to spend at casinos in Syria?”
Muthanna district resident said, “Ba’athists are like flees in front of the infidel invaders. Only the mujahideen can stand up to the Americans, may God grant them victory.” To which Shadha Al-Ward responded sarcastically, “Hehehe. Yes, that’s right, the mujahideen stand up to the Americans so they can receive their salaries and offer obedience to their masters.”
Hashimiya rebuked another poster, who was advocating the implementation of Shari’a law as a solution. “What Shari’a are you bragging about?” she asked. “Is it the Shari’a of beheadings or the Shari’a of threats or the Shari’a of imposing Islam by force? What Shari’a are you talking about? The Shari’a of ‘Either you pay me or I kill you’? What Shari’a is this? This is a secular country and we have members of different religious sects living here. You can’t just go around implementing Shari’a and imposing Islam by the sword. Stop acting under the guise of religion. You are being exposed every day like the traitors who are exposed one after the other.”
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RE: COWARDS and SCUM! - 7/6/2007 3:11:32 AM
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I suppose this is the Muqawameh too! 
Blast Kills 17 at Baghdad Wedding Party
At least Two Dozen Injured as Car Bomb Hits Photo Studio
A car bomb struck a wedding party in Baghdad on Thursday, killing 17 people, and wounding the bride and groom, AFP reports, citing security officials and eyewitnesses. The bomb exploded outside a photographer’s studio in Abu Tchir, AFP reports. BBC reports that the blast struck at about 6:45 PM local time. Abu Tchir is a predominantly Shi'a southern district on the southern outskirts of Baghdad known as Dora, near to rural and suburuban areas that have been strongholds of Sunni militant groups.
Thursdays are popular days for Iraqi weddings, before the Friday holiday. BBC cites sources at Yarmouk Hospital, where the wounded were taken, who say that the newly married couple were striken with only minor injuries. A local resident, Ali Hussein, told AFP that the wedding party had stopped at the Adel Photo Studio for pictures when a suicide car bomber collided with their convoy.
Hussein said he rushed to the scene after the blast. "I saw two minibuses completely burned out with bodies still inside them. People said the bomber was being chased by security forces but his car exploded when it hit the wedding party," he told AFP by telephone from the scene. Nearby shops and businesses were also damaged, including the Al-Baghdadi restaurant, Hussein told AFP. More than two dozen people were injured, Iraqi officials said.
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RE: COWARDS and SCUM! - 7/7/2007 10:42:01 AM
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At the top of the cowards list is Al Qaida! This is their dirty work. After causing havoc and killing and wounding innocent people they then open fire to stop the rescuers from doing their job. JUBANAA!!
Suicide Truck Bombing Kills 100, Wounds 120
Tikrit, Jul 7, (VOI)- The casualties from the explosion that occurred in Tuz Khurmato district on Saturday morning rose up to 100 dead and 120 wounded, said a medical source while a security source said that scores of gunmen impeded the rescue work in the city that is located 200 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
"The final death toll of the explosion that occurred in an outdoor market at Tuz Khurmato district, this morning, reached 100 dead and 120 wounded," Dr. Hassan Zain al-Abdin, director of Salah al-Din Health Department, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). Dr. Zain al-Abdin added that most of the wounded were in a critical situation and they were rushed to hospitals in Kirkuk and Tikrit.
Earlier on Saturday, a police source said that a suicide bomber detonated a truck crammed with explosives in the mainly Turkmen market of Amer Li in Tuz Khurmato leaving 25 people dead and over 80 others injured, including women and children. Medics from the Tuz Khurmato hospital said that it received 20 bodies and 90 wounded people, indicating that critical cases were transferred to the Kirkuk public hospital. Sources from the Iraqi police said that the explosion caused severe damage to nearby shops and houses.
Tuz Khurmato, a mainly Turkmen district within the Sunni province of Salah al-Din, lies 200 km northeast of Baghdad.
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