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Last night I sat zapping between Iraqi channels (between the half dozen or so sometimes I try to watch). For me it is a tradition to see what the Iraqi channels thrown when there is power. Generalizing still no Iraqi brand really neutral. The most popular are supported and have been founded by different political parties currently vying for power. This was especially evident during the period immediately preceding the election.

trying to decide between a report on bird flu on one channel, a montage of bits and pieces of several latmiyas in another string and an Egyptian in a third. Shargiya stood in the channel which many Iraqis see as a reasonable channel wise (and during the elections showed its support for Allawi in particular). I was reading the little headlines that scroll across the bottom of the page. Salzburg - mortar fire in an area of \u200b\u200bBaghdad, an American soldier killed here, another wounded over there ... found 12 bodies of Iraqis in a Baghdad area, etc. Suddenly one caught my attention and I stood on the couch, wondering if I had read that right.

E. I was sitting at the other end of the room, taking apart a radio later would not know how to compose. I called him with the words "Come here and read this. Surely I have misunderstood ...". He stood in front of the TV and saw how moved the words about corpses and Americans and puppets and when it appeared the matter than I expected, I jumped and I pointed out. E. and I read in silence and E. seemed as confused as I was.

The line read:

وزارة الدفاع تدعو المواطنين الى عدم الانصياع لاوامر دوريات الجيش والشرطة الليلية اذا لم تكن برفقة قوات التحالف العاملة في تلك المنطقة

Translated:
"Minister of Defense requests that civilians do not comply with the orders of the army or police patrols at night unless they are accompanied by forces coalition's work in this area. "

is so busy is the country at this time.

switched to another channel, the channel "Baghdad" (Aligned with Muhsin Abdul Hameed and his group) and had the same story, but instead of generic "coalition forces" they put "American coalition forces." We checked two other channels, Iraqiya (pro-Da'awa) did not mention it and Forat (pro SCIRI) also did not put it into your news ticker.

What we discussed today when we have repeated on another channel.
"So what does it mean?" Asked the wife of my cousin when we have come together to eat.
"It means that if they come at night and want to get home do not have to let them in." I replied.
"Do not ask permission precisely, "said E. "They take the door down and take people, or did you forget?"
"Well, according to Minister of Defense, we can shoot, right?. If you transferred your property would be considered burglars or abductors .. . 'I said.
My cousin shook his head, "if your family is inside, not going to shoot them. They come in groups, do you remember?. They come armed and in large groups, shooting or resistance would jeopardize the people inside the house. "

" Besides that, the first time they attack, how can you be sure that he had no Americans with them, "said E.

We sat drinking tea, tangling with the possibilities. Confirmed what has been obvious to Iraqis since the beginning, the Iraqi security forces are actually militias allied to religious and political parties.

But also clarifies other issues of concern. The situation is so bad on the security front the two most important ministers in charge of protecting Iraqi civilians can not trust one another. The Minister of Defense can not even trust their own staff, unless they be "accompanied by American coalition forces."

Certainly it is difficult to understand what is happening lately. Hear there are conversations between Americans and Iran over security in Iraq, and then the American ambassador in Iraq accuses Iran of paying militias in the country .. Today there are complaints that the Americans killed 20 to 30 men from Sadr's militia in an attack yesterday at a huseeiniya. The Americans claim that the responsibility for the attack should lie with the Iraqi security forces (the same security forces they constantly praise)

This contradicts claims by Bush and other politicians that American troops and Iraqi security forces control the situation. Or that control, just not a good way.

have been finding corpses throughout Baghdad for weeks - and always the same: holes drilled in the head, multiple shots or strangulation, and that the victims were hanged. Military-style execution. Many people were taken from their homes by security forces-police or special army brigades ... Some were gathered in mosques.

few days ago we went to pick up one of my cousins \u200b\u200bto school. It happens that your school is quite close to the local morgue. E, our cousin L and I sat in the car because of traffic parked a bit away from the school to wait for our other cousin. I looked carefully at the commotion near the morgue. There

dozens of people - mostly men standing around a single group. Some smoked cigarettes, others leaned on cars or trucks ... Their expressions varied - grief, horror, resignation. In some faces there was an anxious look of fear and anticipation mixed. It is a very specific look, you can find only outside the Baghdad morgue. The eyes are wide open and bloodshot, as if searching for something, the brow furrowed, his jaw tight and his mouth is a thin frown. It is a look that says they are going to enter the morgue, where corpses lay in rows, and pray for not finding what you are looking for. My cousin sighed

deeply and told us that we opened a couple of windows and doors-cerrásemos was going to check the morgue. A month before the guy had taken his wife to a mosque during prayer, had not yet found. Every other day someone in the family goes to the morgue to see if they carried his body. "Pray that you will not find it ... or vice versa ... ..- I just hate uncertainty. " My cousin sighed heavily and left the car. I said a silent prayer while crossing the street and disappeared into the crowd.

E. and I waited patiently for H, who was still in college and L. I was in the morgue. The minutes lengthened and E and I still sat in silence - talk seemed almost blasphemous under the circumstances. L came first. He looked tense and I found myself biting my lip. "Have you found? Hopefully you have not been found ... "I said to nobody in particular. As he approached the car shook her head. His face was still and grim, but behind this expression could see relief. "He is not here. Hambulilah (thank God). "

"Hamdulilah" E and I repeat in unison.

all look back at the morgue. Most cars had over simple, narrow wooden coffins for the child or daughter or brother. A hysterical woman dressed in a black abaya was struggling to get inside, while being restrained by two relatives. A third man came to untie the coffin tied to the roof of your car.

"Look at that woman. Have found their son. I saw them identifying him. A bullet in the head. " The woman continued to struggle, her legs suddenly loosened, their cries filled the afternoon, and although that day was surprisingly warm, I pulled my sleeves trying to cover my suddenly cold fingers.

continue to see the various scenes of grief, anger, frustration, and every once in a while an almost tangible relief when someone left the morgue without found what they feared most find - eyes moist by smell, a lighter step than when they entered, having been given a reprieve of the death of a loved one to claim the morgue ...

- posted by river @ 9:51 PM

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Three years ...

been three years since the beginning of the war that marked the end of the independence of Iraq. Three years of occupation and bloodshed. Spring

should mean renewal and rebirth. For l @ s Iraqi spring means reviving painful memories and preparing for future disasters. In many ways this is like 2003 years before the war when we stored gasoline, water, food and first aid supplies and medicines. We do so again this year but now they argue about what we do. Bombs and B-52 are much easier to see than any other possibility.

do not think anyone imagined three years ago that things would be as bad as today. Recent weeks have elapsed in tension. I'm so tired of everything ... We are all so tired.

three years and the electricity supply is worse than ever. The security situation has gone from bad to worse. It feels as if the country was on the brink of chaos once again, but a planned chaos before hand, prefabricated, and directed by militias religious fanatics.

school, college and work have been issues that have worked again, and have stopped working again. It seems that for every two days of school / work there five days of sitting at home waiting for the situation improves. Right now the university and the school closed because it is near the "arba3eeniya" or "Day 40", more black and green flags, hordes of men in black and "latmiyas." We were told that children should try to return to class next Wednesday. I say "try" because prior to the long-awaited parliamentary meeting two days ago the schools were closed. After pump in the Samarra mosque schools closed. The children have been at home this year longer than they have been in school.

Arba3eeniya worries me the most this year. I worry that we will look more like what happened in the Askari mosque in Samarra. Most l @ s Iraqis believe that everything was prepared for those who have more to gain by dividing the Iraqis.

I sit here trying to think what makes this year, 2006, much worse than 2005 or 2004. There are visible differences, such things as electricity, water, dilapidated buildings, broken streets and ugly concrete security walls. Those things are annoying, but they are bearable. L @ \u200b\u200bs Iraqis have demonstrated time and again that countries can be rebuilt. No, it is not obvious what we fear.

The real fear is the mentality of so many people lately, crack seems to have broken through the very heart of the country, dividing people. It is disheartening to talk to acquaintances, sophisticated and civilized people, and hear that the Sunnis and Shiites are so-so. See people who pick up their things to move to "Sunni neighborhoods" or "Shia neighborhoods" How could this happen? I read constantly

analysis mostly written by foreigners or by Iraqis who have spent decades abroad, saying it has always been split between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq (observation, which ironically sehace only evident when you're not living among Iraqis l @ s) ... but with the dictator nobody saw or nobody wanted to see it. That simply is not true, if there was division among fans of both sides. Shiite extremists and Sunni extremists. Most people simply could not get to make friends not related to its neighbors based on their religious sect. People do not care, you could ask that question, but everyone was going to look like you're stupid or rude.

I remember when I was a child during a visit he was playing outside with one of the children of neighbors. Amal was exactly my age, even we were born in the same month separated by just three days. We were laughing at a joke silly when he suddenly turned and asked timidly, "Are you Sanafir or Shanakil?." I stood there, confused. Sanafir is an Arabic word for "smurfs" and Shanakil is the Arabic word for "Snorks". I do not understand why I was wondering if it was a Smurf or a snork. Apparently it was the indirect way of asking whether it was Sunni (Sanafir) or Shia (Shanakil).

"How?" I asked with a half smile. She laughed and asked if he prayed with his hands at his sides or folded across my stomach. I shrugged, not very concerned and a little embarrassed to admit they did not yet know how to pray properly, at the tender age of ten years.

Later in the afternoon, I sat at my aunt and I remembered to ask my mother if we were Smurfs or Snorks. She gave me the same blank look I had noticed Amal. "Mom, do we @ s pray with their hands like this or like?". Got up and did the two positions of prayer. My mother's eyes cleared and shook turning his head looked up at my aunt. "Why are you asking? Who want to know?. I explained as Amal, our neighbor Shanakil, had asked earlier that day. "Well, tell us @ s Amal are neither Shanakiles or Sanafires. We are Muslims, there are no difference.

was years before that found that half the family was Sanafir and the other half was Shanakil, but nobody cared. At family gatherings we do not sit to discuss the Sunni Islam or Shia Islam. The family did not care if this cousin prayed with his hands on the sides and one other with hands clasped in front of his stomach. Much @ s Iraqis of my generation have that attitude. @ S have been educated to believe that people who discriminate in any way, positive or negative, based on religious sect or race, are people backward, uneducated and uncivilized.

The most worrying aspect of the situation now is that discrimination based on sect has become commonplace. The average educated person in Baghdad still feels contempt for all this talk Shia / Sunni. Sadly people are being pushed to declare this or that because political parties are promoting it with every speech and every newspaper, everything is 'us / them'. Constantly read about how "we Sunnis must unite with our Shia brothers ...", or "we the Shia should forgive our Sunni brothers ..." (notice how we, the Shia and Sunni brothers do not seem to fit into any equation at this point.) It seems that the political and religious personalities forget throughout the day tod @ s are simply Iraqis.

And what role are the occupiers playing in this?. It is very convenient for them, I think. It's great that the Iraqis are abducting and killing each other, because that occupants may be presented as the neutral third party that is foreign to promote peace and understanding among people who, before the occupation, were very peaceful and understanding. Three years later

da war, and we managed to go back in a visible way, and in a not so visible.
Only in recent weeks, thousands have died in senseless violence, and, as I write this, the Iraqi and American armed Samarra bombing. The sad thing is the air strike, one of the hundreds of air raids we've seen over the past three years. The sad thing is the resignation of the people. Feel is their home in Samarra, because there is nowhere to go. Before we gathered refugees in and around Baghdad. Now l @ s @ s Baghdad are propylene looking for a way out of town ... ways out of the country. Find a safe haven abroad has become the typical Iraqi dream.

Three years later and the nightmares of bombings, apprehension and fear have evolved into another kind of nightmare. The difference between then and now is that even three years ago we were concerned about material things, possessions, houses, cars, electricity, water, etc ... It is difficult to define what worries us most now, even the most cynical war critics could not imagine that the country would be so bad three years after the war ... Allah ill yistur rab3a (God protect us from the fourth year).

- posted by river @ 3:28 a.m.

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And the Oscar goes to ...

is, again, time for the Oscars. We've been bombarded with propaganda from the Oscars for almost a month now. MBC and One TV (a chain of the Emirates) have been engaged since January to cover the Oscars live. It seems as if all the interviews and programs of the past week had been on the Oscars-Barbara Walters, Oprah, Inside Edition, Entertainment Tonight, an endless stream of nominees and analysts.

Now that I've seen the nominees-we see them all the years I have come to a conclusion: Iraqis need a gala awards. While Hollywood stars are good entertaining, our local superstars, Hakeem, Jaffari, Talabani, Allawi et al. are GREAT entertainers. This past year has seen the development of several dramas and our local politicians have us hooked!

So, not surpassed by Barbara Walters and Oprah Winfrey, we present the Oscars of Baghdad Burning Special! Except for our awards suggest changing the name of the Oscar statuette to something more local and family (Oscar is too similar to the pronunciation of the Arabic word "Iskar" which means "drunk", so if we use "Oscar" I fear the show is hijacked by Sadr's religious militia, so that would suggest "Savid Awards)."

Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, we present the nominees for Sayid Awards 2006!

Nominees for Best Actor:

Ibraheim Al-Jaffari in "Free Iraqi Elections" for its attempt to portray the Prime Minister of a "legitimate" Iraqi government and independent non-sectarian. George W.

Bush,
, in "OIF: The War on Terror." The third installment of the original "Operation Iraqi Freedom Iraq: Weapons of Mass Destruction "and" Operation Iraqi Freedom: Liberating Iraqis. " Bush's nomination is due to its compelling incarnation as president of the world's first mentally disabled.


Bayan Baqir Solagh in "The House of Torture" for his performance in the world as the surprised and indignant Iraqi Minister of Interior over the scandal of the torture house.

Abdul Aziz Al Hakeem in "Men in Black (turbans)"
, as the deeply devout Mullah pretending to be independent of their teachers Iran.

Mihsan Abdul Hameed in "Sway" for his accurate portrayal of a slaughter and pro-war, then suddenly anti-war and anti-occupation Sunni politician.

Nominated for Best Actress:

Condi Rice "Viva Iran" as the vicious Secretary of State in the charade to stop Iran's program of nuclear power (in spite of Iranian control of Iraq.)

Nominees for Best Supporting Actor:

Jalal Talbani, in "President Kaka (Kaka = Kurdish word meaning" brother ") his attempt to make the leadership role "legitimate" the New Iraq (and although technically he's the star of the film, he was nominated as best supporting actor as the PM has managed to put in the spotlight all year.

Dick Cheney in "OIF: The War on Terror" for his role as the devoted, fanatical VP and his relentless insistence that all is well in Iraq.

Muqtada Al Sadr in "Viva Iran" as the Young, charismatic and black turbaned leader of the militia dedicated to protecting Iran from harm and to promote tolerance between Sunnis and Shiites (although the Sadr militia is responsible for vandalism and attacks against Sunnis and secular).

Scott McClellan in "OIF: The War on Terror" and "Denial" best known for his ability to keep his face unmoved while reading press releases from the White House.

Nominated for Special Effects:

Ahmed Al Chalabi in "Law disappearing" for his magnificent evaporation of the Iraqi political scene this year. Mr. Chalabi is a master of illusion and received a previous nomination for his disappearance from Jordan in "The Petra Bank Scandal."

Best Production:

"OIF: The War on Terror" (originally titled "My Father's War") produced by the Washington neocons, including Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, etc.
"Iraqis Free Elections" - produced (and directed) by Abdul Aziz Al Hakeem et al and his army (almost literally) of supporters (the Badristas).

Best action film:

"OIF: The War on Terror" starring George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Condi Rice and others. An insistent drama set in Iraq. Rated "G" by gullibility and "R" by "Republican"

"Disappearing Act" starring Ahmed Al Chalabi, Adnan Al Pachachi and Ghazi Al Yawir.

"Free Iraqi Elections" - a black comedy based on the incredible theory of free elections under foreign occupation led by Abdul Aziz Al Hakeem, Ibraheim Al Jaffari and Muqtada Al Sadr.

"Kangaroo Court" - starring Saddam Hussein, Barzan Hassan and several judges, prosecutors and lawyers.

Many special mentions:

First and foremost an honorable mention to them that Bush's speechwriters. Should be the job difficult in the world write notes to make Bush sound / look not great or even good, but passable. It must also be a challenge having to write speeches using words of two syllables or less.

A special mention to the Saudis for their support to Sunni extremists and Wahabis, the Iranians for their support to Shiite extremists, and the Americans for their support of chaos.

And while our "glietterati" Green Zone retire to their camps to celebrate their great victory, Iraqis wonder what wonderful new film opportunities ahead. There is much talk of working in a "Bombshell" - in the staging of the pre-production of more psychological thriller this year announced "Iraqi Civil War" .

- posted by river @ 2:50 a.m.