Iraqi Blogs

Something funny is going on. There hasn’t been any power for 21 hours and water supply is very very weak. I heard something like air strikes last night and choppers where flying very low in our neighbourhood all night. Some people are saying that the whole city is on blackout because the mugahedeen attacked the main power station in Dorah south of Baghdad with mortars and short range missiles. There has been absolutely NO explanation about any of this either on tv or radio. We don’t want to live like sheep anymore

I dont know really know why Saddams regime lasted for over three decades, but I am sure as an Iraqi who survived that period that therere no legal or moral justifications
for it to remain … Through out these decades I lost trust in the world governments and international committees. Terms like (human rights, democracy and liberty..etc.)became hallow and meaningless and those who keep repeating these words are liars..liars..liars. I hated the U.N and the security council and Russia and France and Germany and the arab nations and the islamic conference.

I was very pleased to see an arab brother “Firas” joining the discussion. A brother who “understands” better. Iraq is, has been and will always be part of the Arab World. We are ofcourse very angry with terrorists sneaking across the borders to join the Saddamists in their terror campaign. They are misguided and wrong. I have much to say but power is about to shut off so I must say goodbye now.

Today, when I was going to the clinic, Ive seen a guy, he is tall, with a black hair, cute face, but he has sad facial expressions. There was something that has attracted me, It was his ear, his ear was cut from the upper portion. At once I remembered Ali the man who was in our neighborhood, Ali had the same ear cut. Also I remembered a mentally deranged man, he was hiking in Baghdad streets, he had the two ears cut and a burned forehead. There are many others with those defects … If my memory serves me right, that was in 1994, Saddam Hussien had given a command that said (( Any soldier who escapes from the conscription must be caught and his ear must be cut ))!!!

My cousin, his wife and their two daughters were at our house when the commotion began. A few explosions were so loud, the windows began to rattle with each impact and I had flashbacks of March and April. The kids reacted differently- the older one, ran to sit beside her mother, as far away from the living-room window as possible. She once confided to me that the glass terrified her; four of the windows at her grandparents’ home cracked during the ‘shock and awe’ phase of the bombing and she still remembers the incident. The younger one was silent and stoic. You can hardly tell she’s scared except that if you sit particularly close, you can hear her grinding her little teeth, which is what she does when she’s frightened.

The Americans decided to appoint the first woman judge in Najaf. Halleluiah halleluiah. equal rights, civil society, freedom and democracy. Women of the world be united. No fuckin patriarchal society telling the women to be veiled, to lie down, to get raped any more. A woman judge that would know how deal with women and child cases. Well maybe in another universe: “This is impossible, it is haram. Women are inferior to men, they are emotional, there religion and there mind is not ideal said the women lawyers in the Najaf court house, quoting the prophet (peace be upon his name) – who allegedly has said that 1500 years ago.

From Al-Jazeera TV today I heard that in Moosal north Iraq where the crash of the USA Helicopters occurred that there are 2 streets named after Al-Fulojah as Fulojah 1 and 2!
Any one can read very clearly the joy in the eyes of the broadcasters in these channels when they present a news a bout the coalition forces or Iraqis killed in a bomb or so. Some time they film these incidents live. How and who told them about it to go to the scene? We know that there should be freedom in the media, but it should not be biased. It is even worse if this bias could lead to blood shed, life losses and destructions.