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Iraqi Women Besiege U.N. Office, Vow to Battle Invaders
With world attention now commanded by the looming U.S. war on Iraq, people inside the target country act with a clear sense of patriotic responsibility and a spontaneous readiness to "fight the new Anglo-American colonialism" on Sunday, February 9. They chanted anti-American slogans and lambasted Washingtonâs false justifications to win over world skeptics of war. Did they get this rhetoric from KCNA? Raising Iraqi and Palestinian flags, the women demonstrators called on U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to take up responsibility to ensure settling international disputes through peaceful means and not to succumb to vicious American attempts to blackmail the international agency. "I participated in the march to express my deep feelings of condemnation of U.S. historic aggression plans against our country which are only meant to raze its infrastructure, monopolize its resources and force its people to their knees," said Zahraa Nazim Suheil, one of the organizers. "That, and 'cuz they told me to..." She has attended several training courses on fighting techniques in what described as a clear demonstration that Iraqi women will stand shoulder to shoulder with men in battling the invaders and thwart their occupation schemes. "Iraqi women are not less courageous than their Palestinian counterparts who ferociously stand against Israeli occupation forces in heroism, ready to sacrifice their lives for their usurped homeland," Sahbaa Abdel-Rahim Hassan, a pharmacy student, said amid spiraling anti-war slogans. "Yeah. Them Paleos got nothin' on us..." Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-02-13 |
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