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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-30-06 04:46 PM
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Resistance and Liberation
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/opinion/?id=17677

The US war and Occupation have caused the death of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians (mostly women and children) at the hands of US forces and their collaborators, argues Ghali Hassan.


Let us be very straight. The promotion of “al-Qaeda” as the face of the Iraqi legitimate Resistance is a fraud. Nor was the US invaded Iraq to “liberate” the Iraqi people and “build democracy” true. Equally fraud is the argument that US troops are in Iraq to “prevent civil war” and fight “terrorism”. The US invaded Iraq to control its natural resources, destroy Iraq’s independence, and serve Israel-US Zionist ideology. The US is not fighting “terrorism” in Iraq; the US is fighting legitimate national Resistance.

Iraqis were far better off under Saddam Hussein’s government than under a violent imperialist Occupation, supplemented with Gestapo-like force of death squads and criminal militias, and a US-imposed puppet government of jackals. Iraq was a sovereign state with a sovereign government capable of protecting its citizens and investing heavily in health, education and social programs which contributed to the improvement of the well-being of Iraqi society at large. Foreign military ‘Occupation is the highest form of dictatorship’; it is Fascism. The overwhelming majority of the Iraqi population are against the Occupation. snip

Al-Qaeda (the base) was created, financed and its recruits trained by the US and U.S allies as a proxy army of mercenaries (”freedom fighters”, not an “Islamic terror network”) against the Soviet troops in Afghanistan. It constituted of Muslims (including Arabs) and non-Muslims, such as Richard Reed (England), John Walker Lindh (US), Adam Gadahn (born Adam Pearlman, a wealthy Jew from California), and David Hicks (Australia) and so on. After the withdrawal of the Soviet troops from Afghanistan, al-Qaeda recruits were airlifted to the former Yugoslavia and used by the West in the war against the Serbian forces in the Balkans. During the invasion of Afghanistan, al-Qaeda fractionated, and many of its recruits were killed, fled or captured. It is possible that some al-Qaeda recruits continue serving the US and US allies.

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bigbrother05 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-30-06 05:45 PM
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1. This needs to be read
The US is not fighting “terrorism” in Iraq; the US is the perpetrator of naked international terrorism. Resistance is the legitimate right of people struggling under foreign occupation.
Thanks for posting
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