 Eric
Mueller comments: THIS is a rendition of the lead, front
page story from the Jordanian daily
al-Arab al-Yawm which describes the
dismal situation in occupied Baghdad, and
relates that Ariel Sharon was the
first leader to see Saddam Hussein
as a prisoner!
That is interesting in
itself, but there are some other pieces
that might be added to that bit of
information to make a still more
intriguing picture.
A couple days ago press
reports indicated that an American special
unit called Task Force 121 was involved in
the capture of the Iraqi President.
A few days before that
(on December 9) the British
Guardian published an
article saying that Task Force 121 was
being trained by the "Israelis."
So, putting all those
pieces together, I don't think that Sharon
just happened to drop by Baghdad Airport
on Sunday -- just when they happened to be
transporting Saddam Hussein out of the
country.
If true, it's another
confirmation of the Israeli role in the
American war on
Iraq. Arabist Eric Mueller
is this website's expert on Middle Eastern
affairs. |
al-Arab
al-Yawm
Amman, Jordan, Wednesday, December 17,
2003THE Iraqi capital Baghdad was
transformed into a military camp as the occupation
army braced itself for an offensive from the Iraqi
Resistance. The millions of Iraqi civilian residents of
their country's capital were unable to walk about
safely and normally or to drive their cars around
their city because of dozens of cement barricades,
barbed wire entanglements, security points, and
patrols by the occupation forces and collaborator
militias. Ahmad Sabri, Baghdad correspondent of the
Amman daily al-Arab al-Yawm, reported that
pedestrian and motor traffic in Baghdad, and
movement from one part of the city to another, was
blocked and obstructed as never before in the
entire 1200 years of the city's existence. Yet the barricades and barbed wire only serve to
increase the terror of death for Iraqis, as anyone
approaching the often camouflaged checkpoints is in
the cross-hairs of occupation soldiers' automatic
weapons. If a soldier so much as suspects that an
approaching person or vehicle might pose a threat
he is liable to open fire without warning, or with
a warning in an alien language that most Iraqis
cannot understand. The spectacle of the occupation military and
their collaborating stooges repeated itself again
and again in district after district of the
sprawling Iraqi capital as the aggressor forces
tried to prepare themselves for a new offensive by
the Iraqi popular Resistance as it seeks to inflict
some sort of retribution on the occupiers for
capturing and imprisoning the Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein. Concerning the imprisoned Iraqi President, word
leaked out from sources close to the puppet
so-called Interim Governing Council that the "prime
minister" of the Zionist Entity, Ariel
Sharon, was the first leader to view the
captured Iraqi President even before word of his
imprisonment had been announced. Naser Mahmud, an Iraqi politician who is
close to the so-called Interim Governing Council,
confirmed that American Proconsul of Iraq L.
Paul Bremer received the Zionist criminal at
Saddam International Airport in the occupied Iraqi
capital last Sunday night after Sharon had arrived
on an "Israeli" airplane accompanied by a group of
aides and Mossad agents. After learning from Bremer
that the Iraqi President had been captured and was
in the airport, Sharon asked to see Saddam Hussein,
"so that he might be the first to see Saddam as a
prisoner."  The
Zionist criminal, butcher of Sabra and Shatila,
reportedly spent the night in Baghdad
congratulating and celebrating with the American
occupation forces.
In the last 24 hours US occupation forces shot
and killed 40 Iraqi citizens as they suppressed
massive demonstrations in support of imprisoned
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Protests have swept
the occupied country as news spread about the
American capture of the Iraqi President. Eyewitnesses in the Baghdad Sunni neighborhood
of al-A'zamiyah said that 22 demonstrators for
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein died as martyrs
under the hail of American bullets on Monday and
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