Monday, December 20, 2004
Bad Moments
I was trying to write an article about attacking the police station in Salam residential compound south Baghdad on Friday the 3rd of Dec 2004 for about two weeks now, and holding my self not to talk negatively about things here, but what really happened and the story here from eye witnesses is “about twenty armed men came to the area on the hour of dawn praying and started to through the men out of the mosque who were there for the pray, and after that started to attack the police station by AKs and RPGs and the policemen did all what they could do to defend their place until they were all killed and the prisoners were set free”, here is some none answered questions for you:
1- Why didn’t any one help the policemen?
2- Why didn’t the policemen get any backup?
3- Why didn’t any neighbor call for help on the phone numbers written on the signs all over the streets?
4- Why didn’t the mosque keeper call for help by the loud speakers as he calls for the pray time?
5- Why couldn’t the policemen win the battle?
6- Why didn’t we get any answers for these questions?
7- Will it happen again?
1- Why didn’t any one help the policemen?
2- Why didn’t the policemen get any backup?
3- Why didn’t any neighbor call for help on the phone numbers written on the signs all over the streets?
4- Why didn’t the mosque keeper call for help by the loud speakers as he calls for the pray time?
5- Why couldn’t the policemen win the battle?
6- Why didn’t we get any answers for these questions?
7- Will it happen again?
All I can tell you that if I was in responsibility, then I will take all those who didn’t help or try to help or didn’t take the mater as their responsibility as guilty and at least will press charges against them even if I know they will not be convicted, but at least they will start to think. We had thirty five years of being told what to do, how to do it, when to do it and how often to do it. But enough, we need to make people start to think.
Do you think that’s impossible or difficult………..Well……of course not if we will all help to make that difference, all it will take is time, actually a very precious time out of our life time, and here is another question, but this time its for me “do I have that time to spend waiting for things to be better?”, let me see…..I was fourteen when the Iran-Iraq war started, and finished on 1988 to start the war again on the 1990 because of invading Kuwait, that’s about two other years of peace in between; I spent some of it in the army for the compulsory military service. Starting 1990 till this moment we are still in a none stop threat for our lives and having a none secured or clear future,….now… that’s totally sixteen years of peace out of my 37 years of age which means 16 years of peace against 21 years of war and threat. If I am going to die on the age of 65 or about (the life time expected for an Iraqi person) then I have another 28 years to live, and that means I can not afford to spend another ten years of a none steady unhappy years otherwise it will make my life be divided between 34 years of peace against 31 years of wars, threat and none clear future, if we will take out the first three years for having no memories for them, then its exactly the half of my life lived in bad situations.
My friends…… I am not intending to live that way, actually I can’t let this happen again for me and my family as my father did so for his family including me, what am I going to do?, that’s what I am thinking of for long hours of my day, and all I am coming to is to start again a new life somewhere else, somewhere peaceful, but at that time if all Iraqis thought that way what’s going to happen to Iraq?.
Few days a go I returned home to find my little daughter is hot and got cold because of a none heated house of ours, and that was because we had two hours of electricity after ten hours of no electricity for a month now, and so we couldn’t use electric heaters, but we couldn’t use kerosene heaters as well, because of the fuel problems we are having, so I went out that evening to buy a kerosene heater, a kerosene lamp, and some kerosene beside the medicine to be prepared for emergencies at night. It was easy for me to do so and I had no problem financially, but do all problems may be solved by money?. Till when we are going to solve these problems individually?.
It is a struggling thought I am sure many of Iraqis are having just like me at this time; I hope God will give us enough patience and wisdom to find and choose the right decision.
I know it’s not the usual me but I needed to share these thoughts, thank you to reach this far of reading.
Friday, December 03, 2004
One Year Long
It is a year long bloging for me now and I am really happy about it, because when you realize that you have posted more than 100 articles and got good positive comments for them and sometimes it’s a real debate between comments posters, you can say that you did something to be proud with, and I am proud with Iraq and Iraqis. I am trying to post steady, weekly articles but I am not getting luck yet.
For such a day I would like to remember an article that made some site visitors real angry and posted many criticizing comments on it which was:
Tuesday, December 09, 2003
Bedu
Bedu are the people who lives in the desert in tents .One of our most important problems is the struggle between those who wants to be civilized and the Bedu who does not know to live other way than there life stile, and if we search a little we certainly would find that there life stile depending on killing and steeling basically from each other or from any one near them. Those were the most important helpers for the ext regime. No mater if they lived in cities, used cars, phones they still Bedu . To solve such a problem we need to reduce their influence and effect on other people. Their influence is depending on the strong financial situation they have, and that’s because they were extremely befitting from the ext regime. Now that should be stopped and thing should go back to the right way.
I have lost the comments I got at that time because of switching to another comment software, but the visitors criticized my point of view of BEDU and took it as a racial opinion against other follow Iraqis, and I had to think twice before writing such thoughts since that article.
I have lost the comments I got at that time because of switching to another comment software, but the visitors criticized my point of view of BEDU and took it as a racial opinion against other follow Iraqis, and I had to think twice before writing such thoughts since that article.
Last Saturday and Sunday the 27th and 28th of November 2004 the Life BroadCast TV (LBC) which is a Lebanese TV station showed a documentary movie about Abo Musab Al Zarqawi made by his follow reporter who is a Palestinian Jordanian who spent some time in a prison in Jordan with him, and the movie took about three hours and gave me very important information and conclusions about him, first of all he is BEDU and depending on BEDU as his close men and army and that made me right about all the wards I said about them, ignorance naïve aggressive people who think the man earns his manhood by steeling and killing, if we put on all that religious fanatic minds and thoughts then we get what we saw in the movie which were young boys who laugh and happy and celebrating just few hours before their suicide operations against solders and police and even the innocent people in the streets.
And that’s the real strength of that man, his capability of brain wash and convincing young men and even women to die killing people they don’t know just because he told them to do so. Nobody can stop a moving bomb with a brain, that’s the problem and the difficulty. I cant hide that I was astonished watching the movie for two days and wished for every one to watch it to know how dangerous this man is I even came to believe that he is more dangerous than Bin Ladin, at least Bin Ladin don’t chop heads on TV as this man do, and it was funny to know that Jordan released this man from prison early nineties with the condition that he leaves Jordan, and he did left to Afghanistan and met with Bin Ladin but their opinions and thoughts didn’t, so he established his own training camp for Mugahideen, which leads us to the most important question: Where does this man get the money to do all that?, may be his men are not so expensive but they do eat, they do need clothes weapons, TNT, lessons, tools, machines, traveling, faked passports, and even some money for their families, where do that money come from. And if someone is willing to stop this man without the capability of arresting him, then his resource must be dried, and money must not reach him, that’s the only way to deactivate this type of criminals and terrorists.
