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Aafreen
03/12/03 at 04:44:30
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WE WANT TO LIBERATE THE IRAQI PEOPLE

This is the inane rhetoric espoused by partners in crime messers Bush and Blair, whenever they are questioned about their proposed barbarous attack on the innocents of Iraq. Of course it has nothing to do with oil, or the imposition of a more “democratic” dictator upon the Iraqi nation or with entire control of the Caspian basin from which to launch an attack upon other ‘rogue’ states, namely Iran and Syria. No they are doing it for the benefit of those who are currently suffering great torment and humiliation, whose plight can no longer be ignored!



Perhaps they intend to continue the liberating process set in motion in 1991.
                                                   
Cluster bombs were used by the US in Iraq during the first Gulf war. Will the US use them in the second (UK's initial cost of war put at £3.2bn, February 8) Depleted-uranium munitions and tank armoury were also used by the US during the war. As a result, large tracts of the region will remain contaminated for thousands of years. What about this time?

During the first Gulf war, the US bombed Iraq's water supply system. This led to thousands of deaths, particularly children, as a result of illnesses caused by drinking unpurified water. Partly declassified documents (see www.oulflink.osd.mil ) show the Pentagon "'was fully aware of the mortal impacts on civilians".

In the first Gulf war, the allies bombed residential areas, markets, civilian vehicles, bridges crowded with people, a bus station, a museum, two functioning nuclear reactors and the Amiriya air raid shelter. The extremely intense bombing of Baghdad continued well after the Pentagon announced that virtually all military targets in Iraq had been destroyed or rendered inoperative. Will we see similar conduct by the US and its allies in the next Gulf war?

Recent comments by officials in the US military give some indication of the answer to the above questions. A "storm" of missiles and bombs is apparently being prepared for the people of Iraq. According to the military strategist, Harlan Ullman, "there will not be a safe place in Baghdad. The sheer size of this has never been seen before, never been contemplated before ... You have this simultaneous effect, rather like the nuclear weapons [sic] at Hiroshima".  

Dr Antony Moore – Oxford (letters to The Guardian 13/2/03) http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,894370,00.html

Once again, MPAC are forced to ask why is that Muslims are not more vociferous in their condemnation of such blatant acts of terrorism, why is the job left to non-Muslims? Why do we not demand justice for our brothers and sisters in Islam who are being brutally murdered? Will we wait until the death squads come to our own doors before we wake up and smell the coffee?

It is no coincidence that this attack is taking place now, in this month of Muharram. Fourteen hundred years ago the grandson of The Holy Prophet (saw), Imam Husayn (as) and his entire family were brutally murdered at the hands of the tyrant Yazid in the land of Karbala. Now once again the people of Neynava are facing almost certain destruction. If we believe that Imam Husayn (as) is an example to us, then the time has come for the Muslims to rise once more against the forces of oppression and despotism, we cannot justify inaction, to do so is morally bankrupt and repugnant.

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MPAC – WHY AREN’T YOU DOING MORE?
03/12/03 at 04:46:50
Aafreen


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