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Titolo: La resistenza Irakena combatte contro gli occupanti, non i civili

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2054881,00.html
Haifa Zangana, an Iraqi exile who was imprisoned by Saddam Hussein, is
the author of Women on a Journey: Between Baghdad and London
The Iraqi resistance only exists to end the occupation
The escalating attacks are not usually aimed at civilians, but are a
direct response to the brutal actions of US-led troops
Haifa Zangana
Thursday April 12, 2007
The Guardian
In Muqdadiyah, 50 miles from Baghdad, a woman wearing a traditional
Iraqi abaya blew herself up this week in the midst of Iraqi police
recruits. This was the seventh suicide attack by a women since the
Anglo-American invasion in 2003, and an act unheard of before that.
Iraqi women are driven to despair and self-destruction by grief. Their
expectations are reduced to pleas for help to clear the bodies of the
dead from the streets, according to a report by the international
committee of the Red Cross, released yesterday. It's the same
frustration that drew hundreds of thousands to demonstrate against
foreign forces in Najaf on Monday.
In the fifth year of occupation, the sectarian and ethnic divide
between politicians, parties and their warring militias has become
monstrous, turning on its creators in the Green Zone and beyond, and
not sparing ordinary people. One of the consequences is a major change
in the public role of women.
During the first three years of occupation women were mostly confined
to their homes, protected by male relatives. But now that the savagery
of their circumstances has propelled many of them to the head of their
households, they are risking their lives outdoors. Since men are the
main target of US-led troops, militias and death squads, black-cloaked
women are seen queuing at prisons, government offices or morgues, in
search of disappeared, or detained, male relatives. It is women who
bury the dead. Baghdad has become a city of bereaved women. But
contrary to what we are told by the occupation and its puppet regime,
this is not the only city that is subject to the brutality that forces
thousands of Iraqis to flee their country every month.
Bodies are found across the country from Mosul to Kirkuk to Basra.
They are handcuffed, blindfolded and bullet-ridden, bearing signs of
torture. They are dumped at roadsides or found floating in the Tigris
or Euphrates. A friend of mine who found her brother's body in a
hospital's fridge told me how she checked his body and was relieved.
"He was not tortured", she said. "He was just shot in the head."
Occupation has left no room for any initiative independent of the
officially sanctioned political process; for a peaceful opposition or
civil society that could create networks to bridge the politically
manufactured divide. Only the mosque can fulfil this role. In the
absence of the state, some mosques provide basic services, running
clinics or schools. In addition to the call to prayer, their
loudspeakers warn people of impending attacks or to appeal for blood
donors.
But these attempts to sustain a sense of community are regularly
crushed. On Tuesday, troops from the Iraqi army, supported by US
helicopters, raided a mosque in the heart of old Baghdad. The well-
respected muazzin Abu Saif and another civilian were executed in
public. Local people were outraged and attacked the troops. At the end
of the day, 34 people had been killed, including a number of women and
children. As usual, the summary execution and the massacre that
followed were blamed on insurgents. The military statement said US and
Iraqi forces were continuing to "locate, identify, and engage and kill
insurgents targeting coalition and Iraqi security forces in the area".
It is important to recognise that the resistance was born not only of
ideological, religious and patriotic convictions, but also as a
response to the reality of the brutal actions of the occupation and
its administration. It is a response to arbitrary break-ins,
humiliating searches, arrests, detention and torture. According to the
Red Cross, "the number of people arrested or interned by the
multinational forces has increased by 40% since early 2006. The number
of people held by the Iraqi authorities has also increased
significantly."
Many of the security detainees are women who have been subjected to
abuse and rape and who are often arrested as a means to force male
relatives to confess to crimes they have not committed. According to
the Iraqi MP Mohamed al-Dainey, there are 65 documented cases of
women's rape in occupation detention centres in 2006. Four women
currently face execution - the death penalty for women was outlawed in
Iraq from 1965 until 2004 - for allegedly killing security force
members. These are accusations they deny and Amnesty International has
challenged.
There is only one solution to this disaster, and that is for the US
and Britain to accept that the Iraqi resistance is fighting to end the
occupation. And to acknowlege that it consists of ordinary Iraqis, not
only al-Qaida, not just Sunnis or Shias, not those terrorists - as
Tony Blair called them - inspired by neighbouring countries such as
Iran. To recognise that Iraqis are proud, peace-loving people, and
that they hate occuption, not each other. And to understand that the
main targets of the resistance are not Iraqi civilians. According to
Brookings, the independent US research institute, 75% of recorded
attacks are directed at occupation forces, and a further 17% at Iraqi
government forces. The average number of attacks has more than doubled
in the past year to about 185 a day. That is 1,300 a week, and more
than 5,500 a month.
Another way of understanding this is that in any one hour, day or
night, there are seven or eight new attacks. Without the Iraqi
people's support, directly and indirectly, this level of resistance
would not have happened.
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 The Guardian
Un nome, una garanzia (di stronzate) :)
-Stefano

Guarda non leggo nemmeno l'articolo e non perché è del Guardian (che
già è tutto dire), ma perché il titolo del post dice già tutto.
Se la resistenza non combatte i civili, perché ne ammazza a dozzine
ogni giorno?
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 ogni giorno?
e tu lo sai che è la resistenza ad ammazzare i civili perchè te l'ha
detto la libera e imparziale stampa occidentale, vero? Mai sentito
parlare di strategia della tensione e di squadroni della morte (eppure
il nome Negroponte dovrebbe ricordare qualcosa....)?

della morte
Mai sentito parlare dell'onere della prova?
-Stefano


wrote:
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Accidenti. Ma come ho fatto a sbagliarmi? In verità i kamikaze che si
fanno saltare tra i mercati di Baghdad sono soldati americani. Potevo
rendermente conto prima, grazie che me l'hai fatto notare tu.

 rendermente conto prima, grazie che me l'hai fatto notare tu.
no, sono al servizio degli americani, esattamente come i repubblichini
erano al servizio dei nazisti...

 erano al servizio dei nazisti...
Cioè tu _sinceramente_ credi che qualcuno si faccia saltare in aria
dietro compenso da parte della CIA? Se non stai scherzando ti meriti
una bottiglia di Sassicaia.

 Mai sentito parlare dell'onere della prova?
da un negazionista, che nega l'evidenza per definizione?

che nega l'evidenza per definizione?
Se fosse "evidente" avresti *PROVE* in quantita' da portare.
Invece hai sempre e solo il nulla.
-Stefano


wrote:
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No dai, che la bottiglia se l'è già scolata prima di scrivere le
cazzate che ha scritto.

 cazzate che ha scritto.
Ma ti pare che uno dopo aver bevuto una bottiglia di Sassicaia scriva delle 
cazzate cosě???
quello era un vinaccio nel cartone...
Carlo "Jurassic Park" 

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Tavernello? Eh si, forse hai ragione

 cazzate che ha scritto.
vedremo quando gli americani se ne andranno da Baghdad come fecero a
Saigon chi si ubriacherà dal terrore che adesso i tagliagole finiranno
il loro lavoro coi porgiculo degli americani....

 il loro lavoro coi porgiculo degli americani....
Poesia d'avanguardia o grammatica squinternata?
Ahi, questi rossobruni, e la loro sostanza bifronte.
Tb
-- 
רפוה שלמה לחולה פרנץ בן יוסף וחנה

 Ahi, questi rossobruni, e la loro sostanza bifronte.
Ah, questi nazisionisti, e la loro sostanza antiumana...

giovanni wrote:
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Domanda. Questo è sempre il solito pirla che scrive sempre le stesse cazzate con 
una varietà di nick, vero?
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 una varietà di nick, vero?
LOL...TB, il Persio di destra....

 Domanda interessante‭: ‬non ci avevo pensato‭.
anche perchè il saggio Toni baruch dovrebbe anche dimostrare ogni
tanto le cazzate che dice lui....

 anche perchè il saggio Toni baruch dovrebbe anche dimostrare
Ok, confermato.
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ah, ho capito, ci vuole la parola magica per dimostrare che l'ottimo
sionista Tb ha torto:
PUTTANATA INDIMOSTRATA..:D

 ah, ho capito [cut]
Improbabile.
Comunque grazie della ri-conferma.
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