Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Secondo l'Impero, l'Amore non e' piu' forte della guerra

La pace il Israele e Palestina arrivera' SICURAMENTE quando un numero
sufficiente di Palestinesi e Israeliani si sposeranno e faranno
Bambini.
Infatti, il governo Israeliano ostacola matrimoni del genere in ogni
modo
possibile (dal non riconoscere matrimoni civili, alla recente legge
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=429490
)
---------------
Israel imposes 'racist' marriage law 
Palestinian-Israeli couples will be forced to leave or live apart
By Justin Huggler in Jerusalem
01 August 2003
 Israel's Parliament has passed a law preventing Palestinians who
marry Israelis from living in Israel. The move was denounced by human
rights organisations as racist, undemocratic and discriminatory.
-------------------
Nello stesso modo, i matrimoni fra soldati Americani e Donne Irakene
dovrebbero essere benvenute da chi vuole veramente la liberazione
dell'Irak,
proprio perche' sono il modo migliore per migliorare i rapporti fra
occupante
e occupato.   Vedi l'Europa dopo il '45 (Italia compresa).
Eccetto, ovviamente, in Irak c'e colonialismo, e non liberazione.
E l'esercito Americano non ha la minima intenzione di permettere ai
propri soldati di sposare donne... brrrrr, non bianche e potenziali
terroriste.
Fino a punirli per aver osato fare una cosa del genere (in violazione
alla convenzione di Helsinki).
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/27/1067233095193.html
The two brides of Baghdad 
October 28, 2003 
Like every other story out of Iraq, the tale of the brides of Baghdad
is complicated, with no certain ending. The story includes newlyweds
who have not laid eyes on each other since the ceremony that joined
them for life, on August 17, a mother who hasn't heard from her son in
nearly four weeks, and a soldier, newly converted to Islam, whose
tenuous grasp of civilian life could be measured in weeks.
 The brides have no names. They are Iraqi women in their mid-20s, well
educated, and in at least one case, well-travelled. Their decisions to
marry US soldiers, Sergeant Sean Blackwell, 27, and Corporal Brett
Dagen, 37, have not been well received in Baghdad or the wider Arab
world.
 Although they have tried to keep their identities secret, their names
and faces have been broadcast on Arab TV and the internet, says
Blackwell's mother, Vickie McKee. "She [Blackwell's wife] is in
hiding, from all the threats she's been getting," McKee said from her
home in Pensacola, Florida.
 Sean Blackwell was on guard outside the offices of the Iraq Ministry
of Health when he met the 25 year-old woman for the first time, in
April. The Saddam regime had fallen and the woman, a doctor educated
in Paris, was looking for work as a translator. She found work
elsewhere in the city, but the initial mutual attraction remained
strong. The woman also met other troops, including Dagen, whom she
introduced to a friend, aged 26.
 Blackwell and Dagen are members of the Florida National Guard,
citizen soldiers, rather than enlisted men. But the same codes of
military discipline apply.
 The women would visit Blackwell and Dagen at the gates of their base
in Baghdad, and the romance acquired a certain degree of common
knowledge. One of Blackwell's immediate superiors wrote a letter to
the US Consulate on his behalf, requesting a visa for the woman.
Later, the woman's family would visit Blackwell at his post. In early
August, Blackwell and Dagen formally converted to Islam.
 This religious, romantic and cultural crossover caused consternation
further up the military chain of command, which regarded it as a
security problem. "We are accomplishing a mission on the street and
protecting our forces," said Captain Jack McClellan, the Baghdad-based
spokesman for the Florida National Guard. "We cannot develop
relationships with the locals unless they are mission-related."
 So when Blackwell and Dagen left their base on foot patrol on the
baking hot morning of August 17, clutching M-16 rifles, and encased in
bullet-proof vests, it had to appear like service as usual.
 The families of the brides had met, as arranged, at a street corner.
There, they were met by an Iraqi intermediary, who took them to a
place along the route of their future husbands' patrol. After the
groups met, they were ushered into the courtyard of a restaurant where
an Iraqi judge married them under Muslim law, a process that took 30
minutes. Rings were exchanged and documents were signed. The couples
separated and the patrol resumed.
 Blackwell had been married before, when he was 19, and had two
daughters before it ended. "He was really hurt from that," McKee said.
"It took him a long time to get over it."
 Then she began hearing about the woman in Baghdad. "I asked him the
questions that anyone who is a parent would ask: 'Are you sure she's
not looking for a free ride?' I was concerned for my son. He said,
'No, mum. She's got morals and values and things I've been looking for
in a woman'."
 With the apparent danger facing her new daughter-in-law, McKee has
hired an immigration lawyer, Richard Alvoid, to try to expedite the
process of getting her a visa. Blackwell and Dagen, meanwhile, are
incommunicado. In a letter he wrote to his congressman, Blackwell said
he may be charged with disobeying an order.
 That the military hammer could come down so hard should have been no
surprise to Blackwell. He had been a soldier for five years, and had
left the army after returning home from Korea last November. He joined
the National Guard immediately for the subsidy the service would
provide for his intended college education.
 Under the revised rules of service caused by the hostilities in Iraq,
the tour of duty for Blackwell's unit has been extended to a year.
This means he and Dagen will not be home until next March.

alla convenzione di Helsinki).
No, in violazione del regolamento militare, visto che si sono sposati
mentre stavano svolgendo servizio e senza aver presentato alcuna
richiesta di permesso in tal senso.
----
So when Blackwell and Dagen left their base on foot patrol on the baking
hot morning of August 17, clutching M-16 rifles, and encased in
bullet-proof vests, it had to appear like service as usual.
The families of the brides had met, as arranged, at a street corner.
There, they were met by an Iraqi intermediary, who took them to a place
along the route of their future husbands' patrol. After the groups met,
they were ushered into the courtyard of a restaurant where an Iraqi
judge married them under Muslim law, a process that took 30 minutes.
Rings were exchanged and documents were signed. The couples separated
and the patrol resumed.
----
Oltretutto di quale fantomatica e fantasiosa "Convenzione di Helsinki"
staresti cianciando? :))
*LOL*
-Stefano