Lately I can hardly muster the energy effort and resolve to write to the blog. I think mainly it's because just thinking about the situation in Iraq leaves me depressed and depressed. But tonight I had to write.
As I write this, Oprah is on Channel 4 (one of the MBC channels we tune with Nilesat), showing the Americans how to get out of debt. His guest speakers spoke to a studio full of American women who appear to have over-bought, saying that could probably be have arranged with less product design. As they talk of increasing incomes and fortunes, Sabrine Al-Janabi, a young Iraqi woman is telling Al Jazeera and Iraqi security forces abducted her from her home and raped her. You can only see his eyes, his voice is hoarse and stops speaking. In the end she tells the reporter who can not speak more about it and covered her eyes with shame.
may be the bravest Iraqi woman in history. Everyone knows American forces and Iraqi security forces are raping women (and men), but it is possibly the first woman who publicly comes out and says using his real name. Hear him tell his story makes my heart hurt me physically. Some call her a liar, others (including pro-war Iraqis) will call her prostitute - shame you give in advance.
I wonder what excuse will use to attack it. Most likely be one of thousands of people that circulate under the general label of "suspected terrorists." She may have been one of those subtitles you read on CNN or BBC or Arabiya, "13 insurgents captured by Iraqi security forces" The men who raped her are those same security forces Bush and Condi are so proud, you know - who trained the Americans. Here is another chapter of the book that documents American occupation in Iraq: the chapter that tells the story of the girl 14 years old Abeer who was raped, killed and burned along with her younger sister and parents.
The kidnapped from his home in an area of \u200b\u200bsouthern Baghdad called Hai Al Amil. No, not a band, it was Iraqi peacekeepers and security forces trained, what do the Americans? I already know. She was brutally gang-raped and is now recounting the event. Half his face is covered by security or privacy. I have translated below what it says.
"Le I said, 'I have nothing (I have not done anything). " He said, 'Have you done anything? One of them knocked me down and my head hit the tiles. He did what he wanted, I mean he raped me. The second came and raped me. The third one also raped me. [Pause-sobbing] I begged and cried, and one I cover my mouth [Unclear, crying]. Another one came and said 'Have you finished? We also want our turn. " Then they said, 'No, American has been a committee' I was taken to court. "
announcer: Sabrine Al Janabi said that one of the security forces of the filmed / photographed and threatened with death if she had something of the violation. Another officer raped her after seeing the investigating judge.
Sabrine continuing:
"One of them said ... I said, 'Please, for your father and mother-let me go." He said, 'No, no, for the soul of my mother let you go, but with a condition, just give me one thing. " I said, 'What? He said '[I] rape you' I said, 'No, I can not' then took me to a room with a gun ... He had a weapon, a Klashnikov, a small bed [Unclear], I sat on the bed. Then [the officer came] and told him, 'Leave it to me' I swore on the Quran, I said, 'By the Light of the Prophet I do not do these things ...' He said 'You do not do these things? I answered, 'No' 
[Crying] He picked up a black hose, like a pipe. He hit me in the thigh [crying], I said, 'What do you want from me? "To tell you rape me? I can not ... I'm not one of those *****[ Prostitutes] I do not do those things. " Then I said, 'we take what we want and what we do not kill him. That is all. '[Sobbing] I can not more ... please. I can not finish. "I look at this woman and I can not feel nothing but anger. What have we gained? I know that looking at her, foreigners will never understand. Feel pity and maybe some anger, pear she's one of us. There is a girl in jeans and therefore will only be a vague sort of sympathy. Poor Third World countries, this is what their women bear. Just knowing that we had never supported it before. There was a time when Iraqis were safe and in the streets. That era is long past. We comforted after the war with the fact that at least had a modicum of security in our homes. Homes are sacred are not they? That too is gone.
She is just one of dozens, possibly hundreds of Iraqi women who are raped in their own homes and in Iraqi prisons. It looks like raw that I have, like friends who I have. It looks like a neighbor with whom I sometimes stop to gossip on the street. Every Iraqi who looks sees a cousin, a friend, sister, mother, aunt ...
Muslim humanitarian organizations are warning that three Iraqi women will be executed next month. Women are Wassan Talib, Zainab Fadhil and Liqa Omar. They are accused of "terrorism", having links with the Iraqi resistance. This may want say they are relatives of people suspected of being in the resistance. Or it may simply mean that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. One of them has given birth in prison. I wonder what kind of torture have endured. Let no one say Iraqi women have not gotten at least SOME equality under the American occupation, now we are equal in regard to execution.
And yet, while the situation continues to deteriorate and Iraqis inside and outside Iraq, and for Americans in Iraq, Americans in America are still debating on the state of war, are they winning or losing? Is it better or worse?
Let me clear it up for any moron with lingering doubts. It's worse. It's over. You lost. You lost the day your tanks spread throughout Baghdad between the cheers of your imported, American-trained monkeys. You lost every family whose home your soldiers have been violated. You lost every Iraqi and healthy red blood, when the photos of Abu Ghraib came to light and verified your atrocities within the prison walls as well as those we see in our streets. You lost when you brought murderers, thieves, gangsters and militia heads to power and were hailed as Iraq's first democratic government. You lost when a horrific execution is named your greatest achievement. You lost the respect and reputation you once had. Have lost over 3000 soldiers. This is what you lost America. I hope the oil, at least make it worthwhile.
- posted by river @ 1:09 a.m.
