Some day Dubya will occupy Slobodan Milosevic;s cell and die like a dog for
killing this great Iraqi leader!
"Hajj Jafar" <Sjafar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:VVBDj.2724$bN3.2646@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In the name of God, the Merciful, the Mercy-giving.
>
> "And among the Believers are men who are true to that which they pledged
> to God. Some of them have fulfilled their pledge by death and some of
them
> still are waiting and they have not altered in the least. That God may
> reward the true men for their truth and punish the hypocrites if He
will,
> or relent towards them, for God is forgiving, merciful. And God repulsed
> the infidels for their wrath. They gained no good. God averted their
> attack from the Believers. God is strong, mighty." [Qur'an 33:23-25].
>
> To the American people:
>
> Peace upon those who believe in peace and desire it, and the mercy of
God
> and His blessings.
>
> I address you in this letter from the place of my confinement, as my
> attempt on the basis of my moral, human, and constitutional
responsibility
> so that no one among you might say that no one came to us with a message
> of peace after the war began, refuting the arguments for it and desiring
> peace for you and for our upright, loyal, heroic people. And as I say
> this, I do no know whether my brothers and comrades who are leading the
> Resistance outside the prison have come to you with a letter before or
> not. That is because the "democracy" of your leaders has prevented me
> since my arrest and until now from getting newspapers and magazines or
> hearing radio and television and has isolated me from the world and has
> isolated the world from me so that I might not hear or see anything from
> outside my place of confinement.
>
> Is this the true face of democracy and human rights that they advocate
> outside America!? Or have your rulers lied about it? This includes the
> killing of people in prisons and jails, some of them by means of the
> pistols of the American investigators. Or has all of this along with
other
> details that would turn an attentive person's hair white been concealed
> from you by your officials such that you do not know the truth!?
>
> Anyway, I address you with this letter of mine in the hope that it will
> reach you and that you will hear it or read it. And on the basis of my
> responsibility to bring the facts before people, whatever their color or
> nationality, for that is our duty to them, just as they have a duty to
us
> not to accept evil.
>
> I address you today as my attorney the eminent lawyer and Professor
Ramsey
> Clark has asked that I write this letter of mine to you. Professor
Ramsey
> has presented an excellent example of a humanitarian in his person and
in
> his colleague Professor Curtis Dobler, both of whom left a positive
> personal impression on me. On this occasion I wish to salute their
courage
> as they have volunteered for the task although they know the dangers
that
> surround them in carrying out their duty, in particular after criminals
> have killed four of the defense attorneys.
>
> People of America, it still seems to me that the officials in your
> government are still lying to you and are not giving you true
explanations
> of the reasons that led them to embark on their aggression against Iraq.
> In what they have said about the reasons they have deceived, from the
> starting point, not only the international community, and in particular
> the European Community but also the peoples of America themselves,
knowing
> beforehand that the facts were contrary to what they were declaring.
> Untrue is what they said, after their lies were exposed, about having
been
> deceived by their intelligence agencies and by the stooges that they
> brought along to serve as their puppets in Iraq, just as old imperialism
> and the old empires of the 19th and 20th centuries used to do. What we
are
> saying is based on many facts, the major ones being as follows:
>
> 1. The inspection teams - that came to Iraq in the name of the United
> Nations and carried out searches even of some private houses as well as
> government departments, presidential palaces and government do***ents -
> those teams knew that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction because
most
> of the leading members in those teams were Americans and British and in
> addition they had spies and volunteers of other nationalities. Those
teams
> searched Iraq piece by piece from one end to the other and never found
any
> information contrary to what they and others were told by Iraqi
government
> representatives. The inspections lasted for more than seven years. And
in
> addition to the teams that traveled by car and on foot, they used spy
> planes, helicopters, and satellites in space. The American and English
> officials thought that this was their historic chance to strike Iraq and
> destroy its legitimate aspirations and the lofty cultural and scientific
> achievements made in the course of 35 years, making use of the
information
> gathered by their spies in the inspection teams and making use of the
> so-called war on terror after the 11 September incident that struck
> America. They shuffled the cards to bring up the goals that they had
> already decided upon earlier, and these were not the goals that they
> publicly announced at the starting line.
>
> It was their *****sment that the unjust embargo had not destroyed Iraq's
> will nor halted its legitimate aspirations to develop economically,
> culturally, scientifically, and as a civilization in the conditions of a
> new independence. They believed that Iraq had come close at that time to
> breaking the economic embargo as the result of the cooperation of those
> who cooperated with Iraq on the basis of mutual benefit and fraternal
> national feelings as far as the Arabs were concerned. The officials in
> your country thought that this was their chance to impose their will on
> the world by means of their control of the Middle East's oil and its
> production and marketing in new ways and for new goals - those about
which
> we spoke in and before the year 2003 - in addition to attaining one of
> their Zionist goals and winning sup****t in the election. Iran and its
> lackeys played a dirty role in making aggression appear attractive and
in
> facilitating its implementation.
>
> 2. The American officials did not withdraw from Iraq after they became
> hard pressed, but declared that the facts were contrary to what they had
> claimed before the invasion that took place in March and April of the
year
> 2003. If they had been truthful when they claimed that they had been
> deceived as a result of the information they had been given and which
they
> used as the cover for their invasion, and which they declared at the
time
> was sufficient justification for the invasion - declaring at the time
that
> it involved things that they said affected the security of the United
> States - then they would have withdrawn from Iraq after discovering that
> that information had been false. They would have apologized to the
heroic
> Iraqi people, to the American people and to the people of the world for
> what they had done.
>
> None of the Americans asked their government before the war how Iraq, a
> country that had still not emerged from backwardness, could threaten the
> security of a country like America across the Atlantic. And for that
> matter why would Iraq want to threaten America, which at that time had
not
> violated the territory of Iraq. If the American officials wanted to
> promote the claim that Iraq's threat was precisely involved in the
> opposing stances taken by Iraq and America over the Zionist occupation
of
> the land of Palestine and other Arab land, it could be said that Iraq is
> not the only state that takes an opposing stance to that of America in
> regards to the issue, whether that be Arab states or other states in the
> world. Furthermore, who has authorized America to make the countries of
> the world tailor their policies to America's measurements, and if they
> don't oblige, then war should be waged against them? How can one
> understand America's call for democracy if it does not permit a
difference
> of opinion even in issues of a regional character, to say nothing of
> international ones?
>
> Another lie was the claim of American officials that Iraq had links to
> what they called terrorism, although British Prime Minister Blair
declared
> that Iraq does not have any ties to so-called terrorism and had no
> internationally prohibited weapons, forcing Bush to declare the same
> thing. Despite that, none of the im****tant American personalities asked
> President Bush on what sort of rational analysis or what sort of
realistic
> information this claim rested. Do you know, esteemed ladies and
gentlemen,
> why they didn't ask? Because some of your prominent personalities are
> directed in what they do by hidden forces that distorted the image you
> received of Iraq's positions. They had been laying the groundwork for
> years to facilitate aggression from the start. Therefore no one asked
the
> American officials, for example, why no Iraqi took part in the events of
> 11 September!? And if the participation of individuals in the attack on
> American targets isn't to be taken as proof of the involvement of any
> country in those events, then how do you accuse a state like Iraq, the
> features of whose political system are known, of so-called relations
with
> terror? How can you consider this charge to be one of only two on the
> basis of which aggression was launched against the people of Iraq,
> destroying their property and achievements and bringing their lives
under
> daily and direct threat?
>
> Do you know, esteemed ladies and gentlemen, that I asked one of the
> American officials who talked with me perhaps two weeks after my arrest,
> just what was it that you based those false charges on? He said that as
> far as the weapons of mass destruction were concerned, "we didn't have
> anything to confirm what you were saying." And as for the links to
> terrorism, he said, because you, Saddam Hussein, did not send a letter
of
> condolence to President Bush after the incident [of 11 September].
>
> I smiled bitterly and told him: as regards your claim that you didn't
have
> confirmation of our statements, it seems that your officials lie and
> imagine that officials in countries around the world do not tell the
> truth, or that many of those who have relations with you in fact do not
> tell you the truth, neither when they oppose your policies nor when they
> agree with them. This is a dangerous matter, not only for the countries
of
> the world but because they then pose a danger for America as well, if
> nobody in the world will tell America: 'this is a mistake' and 'this is
> unacceptable'! And at that time when American planes were striking
targets
> in Iraq and destroying public and private property, killing Iraqi
citizens
> including women and children for no reason and imposing on Iraq their
> unjust embargo, prohibiting Iraq from im****ting even pencils for
children
> to use in primary schools, what exactly is it that should obligate
Saddam
> Hussein to send a telegram of condolences to the president of the state
> whose officials have committed all those crimes, unless it be out of
> hypocrisy and weakness? But because I am neither a hypocrite nor a
> weakling I didn't send Bush a telegram of condolence. But I did agree on
> the telegram sent containing condolences in the name of the government
of
> Iraq and sent by Comrade Tariq Aziz, the Deputy Prime Minister, to our
> friend Ramsey Clark and through him to the stricken families.
>
> Are the great states so deluded as to imagine that whoever does not send
a
> letter of condolence deserves that war should be waged against him, his
> country, and his people!? Here you see how the American officials used
> even your own blood to promote their reckless, aggressive policy. Is
this
> the kind of morality that people should have? Or men? Or officials?
There
> is nothing graver than for disasters to ravage people who have been
> stricken by delusions, committed wrongs, and wantonly despised the roles
> of others. The worst disease of the American officials who involved the
> Americans in war against Iraq is this.
>
> 3. After I was arrested they made vain attempts to use intimidation and
> threats against me. One of their generals conveyed that intimidation and
> host threats and tried to bargain with me, promising to let me live if I
> agreed to read in my own voice and sign a prepared announcement that was
> shown to me. That stupid announcement called on the people of Iraq and
the
> courageous Resistance to lay down arms. They said that if I refused, my
> fate would be that I would be shot just like Mussolini, as my
interlocutor
> put it. But, as you know me and would expect of me, I disdainfully
> refused, not even touching that dirty do***ent with my hand and sullying
> myself with it. I told them if I were given the chance to address my
> people, I would call them to more resistance.
>
> Seven days later, to reinforce themselves, they sent a group to talk
with
> me. They said they were from an American University and that they wanted
> to engage me in a broad discussion. I agreed and I confirmed to them
that
> Iraq didn't have any of the things the American officials claimed and I
> advised them [the US] to leave Iraq quickly and apologize to the people,
> warning them that they were going to get what they now are facing and
what
> they are now embroiled in - in fact, the fate I expect for them is worse
> than what they are facing now - and they will never have an adequate
> chance to pull their arms and equipment out of Iraq if the two halves of
> Iraq engulf them, and they will engulf them, God willing, because our
> people are deeply rooted and conscious. They know that our liberation
can
> be clean and complete only with their unity, and that tolerance must be
> the basis for the orientations of our people within their ranks, and
that
> wounds must be bound up, not ripped open.
>
> I say, I told them all that at that time but they didn't change their
> methods; they didn't replace the keys of falsehood, and they are still
> knocking on the doors of wrong, failing to try the door of legitimacy,
> even though they now know. In this connection, attached to this letter
are
> some verses from a long ode; a selection of 56 verses. [Not translated
> here.]
>
> 4. It is neither reasonable nor convincing that a country like America
to
> which the doors of the intelligence agencies in the east and most of the
> countries of the west have been opened did not know the truth and could
> not know the truth. Although I am convinced and believe that many
> countries in the world have an interest in war or wars, she [the United
> States] does not have an interest in war even though she might believe
she
> does. The contrary, in fact, is the case.
>
> America is a big country on the other side of the Atlantic. It has
> developed a unique unparalleled power such that I think some people
there
> imagine that it is on its way to attaining the crown of the world all
for
> itself as a world empire. Have they not learned a lesson from their war
in
> Viet Nam? The west used to promote the idea that world Communism and the
> Soviet bloc threatened their interests and also the security of the
entire
> west. But despite that promotion, this was nothing but a flimsy cover.
> Nevertheless, America used it and wrapped itself in it until the heroic
> Vietnamese people expelled them by force.
>
> As to their invasion of Iraq, it came in a situation that made the first
> step easy from the standpoint of the reaction of the international
> community because of the international balance of forces. But it came in
a
> situation that might make it more costly that its war in Viet Nam. That
is
> because when America was expelled from Viet Nam it did not lose its
> standing, or we might say it only lost a small part of its standing. But
> when it is expelled and routed from Iraq, which has no great power to
> sup****t it directly, it will lose the fundamental basis of its standing.
>
> In fact it has now already lost the foundation for that standing and its
> reputation has begun to decay. It is no longer able to wield the big
stick
> that it formerly threatened to use. It used to accomplish more by
> threatening to use force than by really using force. I will go further
and
> say that after its war in Iraq, that stick no longer frightens many
people
> and America has come to need the silence of the smallest and simplest
> countries and tries to please them in order to get them to stay quiet
> about America's crimes and reckless, deviant policies.
>
> Before, many of the world's countries used to court the United States
and
> most countries in the world, all except a few, used to fear her threats
or
> parried them with defensive arguments. But now Mao Zedong of fond memory
> is laughing in his grave because his prediction has been fulfilled and
> America is a paper tiger. This is by the will of the Living Eternal God,
> and by His agents on earth, the heroic Mujahideen in glorious, virtuous,
> militant, jihadist Iraq. So God bless the heroic people of Iraq and God
> bless the jihad and the mujahideen.
>
> Esteemed ladies and gentlemen of the peoples of America, the time has
come
> to an end in which greatest and best-equipped armies could scatter the
> organized formations of the opposing army and thereby bring a war to a
> close. Now you see our courageous army, our heroic people, and our
> Mujahideen replacing the system of organized formations with a new kind
of
> warfare. And when the Americans on the ground become targets in the
> vicinity of the guns of the revolutionaries, who attack them as deadly
> human bombs with nothing more than their bodies filled with faith in
God,
> American superiority is worn down over time. In fact in the near future
> that superiority will become a burden whose equipment will be difficult
to
> withdraw. So, will America trust the voice of rationality and logic that
> calls for the preservation of what still remains, or will Satan the
> deceiver and the hate-filled sup****ters of Zionism keep pu****ng the
> Americans until the waves swallow them and they sink to the depths of
the
> raging sea?
>
> Who, after all, appointed the American government to be the world
> policeman, to form the world in the mold that it likes, giving national
> orders to the countries of the world?
>
> Saddam Hussein, ladies and gentlemen, is an honorable patriot and an
> honest man. He is a statesman resolute in implementing the law, just,
but
> benevolent. He loves his people and his nation. He is straightforward,
> doesn't double-cross or deceive. He speaks the truth even against
himself.
> Do tyrants like Bush like such characteristics? If he were a person like
> De Gaulle or even like Reagan, perhaps he would understand them, or at
> least would not abhor them. But I must say to you that your country will
> discover more, esteemed ladies and gentlemen. It has lost his reputation
> and his standing. Indeed the American who used to travel around the
world
> respected and safe and welcomed wherever he went, is now no longer able
to
> step outside America without a mine detector. And the State Department
> issues warnings for you constantly about what world regions are
dangerous
> to American lives
>
> It was American officials and their polices themselves that have created
> an atmosphere of anti-American hatred in the world by means of their
> arrogant behavior, their haughty aggressive attitude, their lack of
> respect for international law and the security of the world - including
> the security of my Arab Nation through their sup****t for the Zionist
> entity in Palestine - and other world and human issues.
>
> Today you are in a bad predicament with the world and nobody can rescue
> you but yourselves. If you reform, you will open for the world and for
> yourselves a new op****tunity. But if you are heedless, that is your
> decision. What you need is free and fair competition and peace in order
to
> have security.
>
> The years that followed the 18th century had long gone when they came as
> invaders to the Middle East to bring back memories of things that awaken
> and arouse. The Middle East, and the Arab homeland in particular, was
the
> cradle of prophets and messengers from God. Is the cradle of the
prophets,
> where the prophets are buried in their tombs, also the home of devils
and
> their mirror images - the malicious invaders?
>
> We have believed, and our faith was suited to us,
> Then came the Zionists with a devil for a guide.
> They stormed in on us as invaders, unjust.
> The did not stop their advance nor sit still,
> Their diabolical patron has prepared their dilemma.
> But as for us, we have the Merciful God as Patron.
>
> People of America, despite the crimes your government inflicted on our
> people, our Arab Nation and humanity, the people of Iraq - and I mean by
> that the Iraqis, not those with split loyalties who prefer to serve
> foreigners rather than their own people - I say the free people of Iraq
> even in their present cir***stances are not thinking about their destiny
> alone but about the destiny of others wherever it's possible to create a
> solution that treats a painful problem.
>
> On this basis I said to some Americans when I was in my prison, why
don't
> you come to an agreement with the Resistance to designate a country with
a
> charter and power to which the Resistance can hand over those American
> soldiers whom they capture, rather than executing them as currently is
> said to be taking place. In fact the extent to which the Resistance is
> responsible for this is unknown, but people who are equitable know that
> America has not abided by international law in any of its activities in
> Iraq, including the Geneva Conventions regarding prisoners and
detainees.
> The Resistance has no secure place in Iraq where prisoners can be kept.
So
> whether the Resistance is at all responsible, or whether the
> responsibility lies with some other parties that have no connection to
the
> Resistance, the justification for it is that there is no secure place
for
> prisoners to be kept.
>
> Therefore in order to fulfill humanitarian needs and to eliminate the
> justification [for killing prisoners] I make this proposal to you and to
> the national Resistance and to anyone concerned, and I make this with
the
> best of intentions. If you accept it and respect the Geneva Conventions
> then the argument of those who kill rather than detain prisoners will
have
> vanished. But if your government does not accept it, then it will bear
the
> responsibility for refusing and for whatever befalls our people and the
> heroic Resistance as a result of your government's violation of
> international law. This will be particularly true if the number of
> American prisoners increases in the future, and we think that it will
> increase. Or is it that your government can't see anything until it
feels
> it?
>
> Esteemed ladies and gentlemen, the time has come for your government to
> look at all people as equals before international law regardless of the
> size of the countries to which they belong. Whoever violates
international
> law in his policies and the behavior of his army, he alone must bear the
> consequences for that policy. And if his policies are not in accordance
> with the letter of international law, he has no right to call others to
> protect his rights in accordance with that law.
>
> Esteemed ladies and gentlemen, whoever missed his or her chance to take
> action to try to prevent the war still has a chance to act to end it and
> bring back peace and freedom to Iraq in accordance with the choice of
its
> people without foreign interference by anyone whoever that may be.
>
> People of America, I address you not from weakness nor as a supplicant.
I,
> my people, my brothers, comrades, and my nation - we address you on the
> basis of our moral and human responsibility. I tell you that officials
> whom you know, and first among them your President, lied to you and
> deceived you and tricked you using the media that ****trayed Iraq to you
as
> incorrigible, and Saddam Hussein as a hateful dictator, and that his
> people hate him and that his people are just waiting for their chance to
> get at him. Some of them just wallowed in lying falsehood to the point
> that they openly declared that the Iraqis would meet the invading armies
> with roses and celebration.
>
> I know that lots of people don't do a lot of analysis; they don't have
the
> time or the ability or the desire to do careful *****sments when
presented
> with falsified news so as to uncover the truth. The American peoples had
> no chance to inquire, for example: why, if the people of Iraq hate
Saddam
> Hussein, how he managed to defeat the Iran of Khomeini after eight years
> in the aggressive war that Iran sought to impose on us under the slogan
of
> ex****ting the revolution beginning with Iraq? People of America, the
> victory over Khomeini's Iran was not due to the short length of the war,
> but came only after eight years of grinding warfare in which tens of
> thousands fell and hundreds of thousands on the Iranian side.
>
> Then if Saddam Hussein were a dictator, why did he establish a
parliament
> with elections for the first time in the year 1980 during wartime, when
> there had been no parliament in Iraq since 1958? If he and his
government
> were dictators, how could he visit schools, universities, towns, and
> villages and spend the night with the people wherever the sun went down?
> How could he travel around and lead at the battle front at night and
> during the day even in the trenches in the front lines on the
battlefield
> among the Muslim soldiers!?
>
> Yes, esteemed ladies and gentlemen, your government deceived you, and
you,
> or rather most of you, had no chance to inquire of themselves or of
others
> in order to discover the truth because the Zionists in the lobby who
> advocated the war together with some of the centers of power were
> deceiving you and tricking you, hiding from your eyes the real truth,
> exchanging the facts for falsified and slanted information. Last but not
> least in this regard, if Saddam Hussein were a dictator hated and
despised
> by his people, how is it that his people endured him and why was he
chosen
> President by referendum?
>
> People of America, the misfortunes that have afflicted you and afflicted
> our Arab Nation and within it our heroic Iraqi people - including the
> breakdown of America's standing and reputation - were only caused by the
> reckless behavior of your government and by pressure from Zionism and
> power centers that influenced the government to commit those crimes and
> scandalous actions for specific ends that have nothing to do with the
> interest of the American peoples. The massacres and blood that now flows
> in the streets and countryside of Iraq in torrents - the responsibility
> for that falls on America before all others. You know, or rather you
have
> now come to learn, that neither the stooges whom the American forces
> brought in on board their aircraft or as shamefaced presents aboard
their
> tanks, nor Iran, which pushed and still pushes forward those who sup****t
> it and whom they sup****t, would be able to cause the bloodshed, or the
> destruction of the honor, and property of our people and our state had
not
> America undertaken the aggression and invasion and issued the orders. It
> is still issuing orders in the Green Zone. Therefore America bears the
> burden of all those crimes and outrages. So, will you put an end to what
> is going on by using the methods of direct truth without evasion and
> digression? Or will you invite the machine of death to continue to eat
> away at the flesh of Iraqis and the flesh of Americans without doing
> anything to resolve this?
>
> It is your historical responsibility, esteemed ladies and gentlemen. If
> you reform, you could save what remains of the standing and reputation
of
> America and its legitimate interests. If you do nothing, you will be
> keeping silent over something evil. "God grant us patient perseverance
and
> let us die as Muslims." [Qur'an, 7:126]
>
> People of America, the wars that your government promotes in the world -
> one of them being the war in Iraq - with input from certain centers of
> power - which you know better than we - are not in the interests of the
> American people. You know better than many how you paid in blood so that
> you might liberate yourselves from British colonialism and after that
how
> the United States of America was unified and what rivers of blood were
> shed in order for that to come about. So, esteemed ladies and gentlemen,
> how do you accept this interference that abases America before it abases
> Iraq? How can you accept not only the invasion but becoming mired in the
> internal affairs of Iraq? You know that Iraq is a land of prophets,
> messengers, and righteous figures. You know that Baghdad is the fourth
> holiest city in the Arab homeland - after Mecca, al-Madinah, and
> Jerusalem - in the sight of all of the Islamic world and all of our Arab
> Nation. How can one imagine that Iraq could reconcile itself to colonial
> rule, even if it comes, this time, under another name and with other
> slogans? Save your country, esteemed ladies and gentlemen, and leave
Iraq.
>
> Peace.
>
> God is greatest. God is greatest.
>
> [signed]
>
> Saddam Hussein,
> President of the Republic of Iraq and Commander in Chief of the Mujahid
> Armed Forces.
>
> 7 July 2006.
>
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