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> "Tim Murphy" <info@cinox.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:<c5f37f$ngf$1@pencil.math.missouri.edu>...
> April 12th 2004
> > Sidney Morning Herald
> > http://www.smh.com.au/
> > 
> > How GI bullies are making enemies of their Iraqi friends
> > 
> > by
> > 
> > Paul McGeough (in Baghdad)
> > 
> > Iraqis who detested Saddam and welcomed the invasion are uniting against a
> > new perceived oppressor - the US.
> > 
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> > toppling of Saddam Hussein and the first chance in decades for millions of
> > Iraqi Shiites to join the Arbi'een pilgrimage to the southern shrine city of
> > Kerbala - their holiest day which had been outlawed by Saddam.
> > 
> > Instead, the country is in convulsions and it seems the Americans have
> > already lost the battle for Iraqi hearts and minds.
> > 
> > The Tigris River was like glass beneath an empty corn-blue sky as we set out
> > for the Mother of All Battles Mosque to talk to Sunnis and Shiites, who,
> > after centuries of enmity, were working together, packing trucks for a
> > humanitarian convoy to besieged Falluja.
> > 
> > We were approaching an overpass when suddenly there were multiple explosions
> > and a towering pillar of smoke. Ammunition was going off in the blazing
> > wreck of a US tank on the highway below. The rest of the US convoy had fled,
> > but one of the insurgents had hung back to observe their handiwork.
> > 
> > When we slowed to ask a man on the bridge what had happened, he jumped into
> > a car that went off at speed, saying: "I'm from Falluja. Now I go back to
> > continue fighting."
> > 
> > Under the next overpass, 37-year-old Sallah Hashosh was selling lambs for
> > the feast that marks Arbi'een. But business was poor. People were too
> > frightened to leave their homes. Clutching a fat-tailed, woolly lamb that he
> > reckoned should fetch $A60, he confessed to being confused.
> > 
> > "I didn't expect this. It was good that Saddam fell, but unless the
> > Americans go, all Iraqis will fight. We are becoming one nation."
> > 
> > We were on the road to Falluja, so it was reasonable to conclude these were
> > reflections of a Sunni. But the sheep-seller was a Shiite.
> > 
> > In the last week the Americans have managed what the Iraqis have been unable
> > to achieve in a year - a sense of national unity. But the glue is outrage
> > and anger as Iraqis who have stood back from Washington's attempt to remake
> > the country have found voice and weapons to challenge the US occupation.
> > 
> > The Americans have isolated themselves by mistakenly believing they could
> > challenge the Mehdi Army of the radical Shiite Moqtada al-Sadr at the same
> > time as it mounted a punishing attack on the vexing Sunni city of Falluja,
> > west of Baghdad.
> > 
> > The Iraqi Governing Council, the ineffectual body Washington stacked with
> > friendly exiles, turned against the US for the first time; many in the new
> > Iraqi police force fled their posts; an entire battalion of the new Iraqi
> > army is said to have refused to join the assault on Falluja.
> > 
> > By some estimates, as many as 25 per cent of the new Iraqi security forces,
> > on which the US is depending to impose law and order after June 30, has quit
> > or simply melted away.
> > 
> > It was one thing for the Americans to be killing small numbers of Sunni
> > insurgents, but when the guns were turned on majority Shiites last week and
> > the Iraqi death toll in Falluja was being counted in hundreds, Iraqis said
> > "enough".
> > 
> > To Western eyes, the Iraqi tactics are appalling - particularly the butchery
> > of US security contractors and hostage-taking - but they required a smarter
> > response from the US.
> > 
> > On Thursday last week, the US commander, Ricardo Sanchez, was dismissive
> > about negotiating with the Falluja insurgents, yet in the face of actual and
> > threatened resignations by IGC members, he caved in.
> > 
> > With the end of the religious commemoration at Kerbala yesterday, the
> > Americans say they will embark on a new assault on elements of the Mehdi
> > Army still in control of sections of the holy cities of Najaf and Kufa. They
> > also intend to arrest Sadr on a murder warrant, a move many Iraqis warn will
> > stoke the revolt.
> > 
> > Hachim Hassani, an Iraqi Islamic Party alternate ICG delegate, said: "The
> > coalition has opened too many fronts in Iraq, alienating a large swath of
> > the population. The Iraqi people now equate democracy with bloodshed."
> > 
> > But the most stinging rebuke came from a man on whom the Americans thought
> > the could rely - the highly-respected Adnan Pachachi, a former foreign
> > minister of Iraq who is so close to Washington that three months ago he was
> > given the honour of escorting the First Lady, Laura Bush, to the State of
> > the Union address.
> > 
> > That he spoke out was bad enough for American credibility here; but that he
> > chose to do so on Al Arabiya, the Arab satellite TV channel so hated by the
> > Pentagon, was open defiance.
> > 
> > Pachachi, an IGC member, invoked one of the constant Arab criticism of the
> > Israel's collective punishment of whole Palestinian families or communities
> > in the occupied territories, when he said: "It is not right to punish all
> > the people of Falluja, and we consider these operations by the Americans
> > unacceptable and illegal."
> > 
> > The upshot is that the Americans have made something of a national hero of
> > Moqtada al-Sadr, and in the eyes of many Iraqis they have become a
> > heavy-handed occupation force with its own designs for post-Saddam Iraq.
> > 
> > Still refusing to acknowledge a rising consensus among observers that it
> > faces a broad-based nationalist movement, President George Bush insisted in
> > a weekend radio address that "a small faction is attempting to . . . seize
> > power", and his Baghdad spokesman, Dan Senor, railed against "two-bit thugs
> > . . . despised by a majority of Iraqis".
> > 
> > But, while the Americans kill Iraqis in the numbers that they have taken to,
> > they will have little or no support from Iraqis - no politician or religious
> > leader can afford such an association. Personally many find it distasteful
> > and if they were to support it publicly, they would go through their lives
> > fearing a fate similar to that of the US security contractors in Falluja.
> > 
> > Unless the US can pull back, it risks having no Iraqi administration for
> > what is largely a ceremonial return of sovereign power to Iraqis on June 30.
> > There is still no agreement on the make-up of the proposed administration,
> > and the events of the last week could leave the US alone at the negotiating
> > table as it attempts to craft one.
> > 
> > The US is close to being as isolated in Iraq as the Firdos Square plinth
> > from which US forces stage-managed the demolition of a statue of Saddam on
> > April 9 last year. Few Iraqis were there to celebrate last year and none
> > were in the square for the first anniversary.
> > 
> > Access was denied as part of a tight US security lockdown. US tanks prowled
> > the square and loud-hailers were used to warn that those who approached the
> > square could be shot on sight.
> > 
> > The only other weekend activity in the square was the arrival, almost to the
> > hour of the anniversary of the statue coming down, of a team of US soldiers.
> > 
> > Despite the chaos across the city, it was deemed important enough for them
> > to be sent to the square with a ladder to remove posters of Moqtada al-Sadr
> > that Iraqis had hung from the obscure sculpture which has replaced Saddam on
> > the plinth.
> > 
> > But just off the square, in a shuttered shop, there was a stunning measure
> > of how the US has squandered Iraqi support.
> > 
> > The 56-year-old shopkeeper was too scared to give his name. Among his bolts
> > of cloth and bottles of detergent, he talked about how this time last year
> > his family's hopes were so high, but now they feared that things would just
> > get worse.
> > 
> > The son of a Shiite father and a Sunni mother, he spoke of his two brothers
> > who Saddam had executed as political prisoners, and then he gave his verdict
> > on the occupation: "The invasion was a bad idea. Saddam was bad and Bush is
> > bad - but we'd have Saddam back any day."
> > 
> > Sadeer, my driver in Baghdad, is leaning the same way.
> > 
> > When he arrived at the Palestine Hotel yesterday he was limping; the leg of
> > his jeans was soaked in blood. The cut was small and we were able to bandage
> > it, but George Bush had lost another Iraqi friend.
> > 
> > Sadeer, a 28-year-old Shiite, had been an enthusiastic supporter of the
> > Americans and he takes his life in his hands by working for me. Iraqis are
> > being executed just for being in the company of Westerners.
> > 
> > But his encounter with a bullying US soldier, who roughed him up as he came
> > through the security cordon around the hotel, has pushed him into the
> > nationalist Iraqi camp.
> > 
> > When the GI challenged him, Sadeer tried to explain in his limited English
> > that he entered the hotel routinely. But he was barked at, shoved away and
> > then belted on the foot with a rifle. He used to slow in traffic to greet
> > the US troops. Now he has turned: "Americans bad for Iraq - too many
> > problems."
> > 
> > Leaving the hotel on foot, we had to go through the same streets to get to
> > his car. I tried to explain our movements to the officer in charge of a US
> > tank unit, but we were greeted with a stream of invective.
> > 
> > As I thanked the officer for his civility and moved on, one of his men fell
> > in beside me, mumbling. Asked to repeat himself, he exploded: "Don't you
> > f---in' eyeball me."
> > 
> > Nodding to his officer and raising his weapon, he shrieked: "He has rank to
> > lose. I don't. I'll take you out quick as a flash, motherf---er!"
> > 
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> > http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/12/1081621847374.html
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