Iraqi Writer Criticizes Arab Intellectuals Supporting Terrorist Attacks

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...on U.S. Forces and Iraqis
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Attacks on coalition soldiers and Iraqi citizens elicited criticism from some Arab journalists. One such critic is Mustafa Al-Qara Daghi, an Iraqi citizen of Kurdish origin, who publishes a column in the Kuwaiti daily Al-Siyassa and on the liberal website Elaph.com.

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"Each day, the press and satellite television channels, bring us the tidings… of criminal terrorist acts… which some of our hallucinating intellectualslike to call 'resistance aspiring for Iraq's independence'… Do these intellectuals ask themselves who the elements are that make up the 'resistance to the occupation'? What are their true motives and what is their political platform once the occupation ends…? It seems that the answers to these questions are that those intellectuals don't have a clue. What is important to some of our sick elites and Arab intellectuals is that there is someone who is resisting the U.S. and colonialism, and is ready to die… But how, for what, and at whose expense? Such questions are trivial and are not discussed by our noble intellectuals!

"Those who carry out such filthy operations do not want Iraq's independence… to return Iraq to the abhorred despotism era, and to control Iraq and the Iraqis again with iron and fire. Otherwise, what is preventing them from disclosing their political platform? Since the ugly truth is different , we see them implementing their operations in a perfidious manner using methods of savage murderers. They appear on TV screens masked and covered from head to toe… because they are afraid that if their wretched truth is uncovered they will be duly punished and will be swept into history's garbage can…"

continue at:

http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD60303

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1. Oh, the Selective Memri Again...

MEMRI is a propaganda arm of the Israeli PR machine:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,773258,00.html

[The Magistrate]

2. Even The Article You Cite, Sir

Does not really support the charge of distortion, as it specificly acknowledges accuracy of the translations.

In relation to the article posted by Mr. Bushes, two points are worth making. First, Iraqis have a right to resist U.S. occupation, and this whether it is done as Ba'athists or from religious conviction, or from any other permutation of nationalist or tribal motive. In doing this, they have a perfect right to strike at foreign soldiery, and natives they view as collaborating directly with same. Second, attacks such as that against the Red Cross facility are certainly crimes of war. There would be blistering denunciation of a U.S. bpmbardment directed deliberately at a hospital facility, and rightfully so.

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3. Just Clarification,

No charge of distortion and lack of accuracy of the translations intended. Only the selectivity of the source and its mission.

Agree on your second paragraph, except that who is going to argue the “crimes of war” with the Iraqi resistance forces?

[The Magistrate]

4. Still, Sir

There is little point to denying the degree of rabble-rousing carried out by the government press in various Arab countries: it helps divert the anger of the people of their own mis-rule.

As for the question of war crimes by Iraqi resistance, it will certainly come to be an element of political discussion, and popular feeling, in our own country.

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5. O.K.,

“There is little point to denying the degree of rabble-rousing carried out by the government press in various Arab countries: it helps divert the anger of the people of their own mis-rule.”

Correct. It happens all the time and it is a tool of manipulation by all dictatorships.

As for the question of war crimes by Iraqi resistance, it will certainly come to be an element of political discussion, and popular feeling, in our own country.”

Not “war crimes” by Iraqi resistance only, but war crimes by all involved. The outcome would certainly be awakening to some.

[RuB]

6. Damn, at least theres one decent Iraqi

not dancing in the streets praising the terrorists after one of our brave soldiers dies.