Iraq's Political Prisoners.
The following are excerpts from an Urgent Appeal addressed to Ban Ki Moon of the United Nations on behalf of the hundreds of Iraqi detainees in US custody. While the Americans claim that the number of Iraqi detainees in their camps is not more than 10'000 or so, maybe even less, the reality is far different... And I shall quote from the text which can be found here . dated 11th March 2010, written by WATA - World Association of Arab Translators and Linguists and published on the Brussels Tribunal Website. "... we would like to inform you that the USA occupying forces in Iraq have locked-up more than (162,000) hundred and sixty-two thousand Iraqi citizens in more than (50) prisons and detention camps including (28) camps run by US occupying forces, in addition to many undisclosed investigation and incarceration centers over Iraq. The number of detainees registered in International Red Cross records is around (71,000) Seventy-one thousand, the other detainees are not
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I am asking this to you as you seem to be quite a palm tree "expert", besides ex-owner of a sweet innocent unlucky one *sighs*
Some time ago, someone very very very dear to this poor mad heart of mine wrote to me that my nature reminded him of that of "a palm tree, when at sunset..." - and left the rest in suspense.
I asked him many a time to finish his sentence, but he (by the way, a most unique, both insufferable and unforgettable type of human being...) refused to satisfy my curiosity.
I must say I never had the pleasure and honour to see a palm tree in her natural environment, juast like I was star-crossed enough not to be in time to visit the Great Iraq under the Martyr President's wise and enlightened rule.
But I love them both, the plant and the land, to such a point as to always pray the Almighty God that they may one day offer my mortal remains cool shade and safe shelter...
Long live Baghdad and Al-Quds free and dignified, and eternal glory to the Arab nation.
I will be awaiting your clearing-up.
My respects.
I don't know you tell you me !
I just write and the outcome is not in my hands.
As to how blogging changed me -- it has changed me radically. What is on the inside and the outside, are one and the same.
I am not sure what your friend meant by that analogy. I'd take it as a compliment. The most beautiful sight is watching the sunset through the branches/leaves of a palm tree. The sunsets and the palm tree remains upright and unbending...
No, am an agent for the Somalian secret services...
I FEEL your pain and sense of loss ...
Not for long - the tide will turn. Helwa ya baladee will be far, far more helwa than you've ever known.
With love and in solidarity.
Good to see you around. The tide will turn when the scum are out - regardless of where they came from.
God bless
How come Haris went to Israel?
Does everyone have to go there?
Thanks for your sharp, clear edges.
Am SO tired of keeping losing "things" on my way...
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