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| Plan for 100,000 Jordanian Human Shields in Iraq |
| 2002-12-21 |
| Opposition activists in Jordan have launched a campaign aimed at enlisting tens of thousands of Jordanians to defend Iraq against a US attack. A group of Islamist and nationalist leaders, calling itself the National Mobilisation Committee in Defence of Iraq, said it planned to transport 100,000 Jordanian civilians to Iraq before January 17 to form human shields around key installations. Good idea. That should stop the Merkins in their tracks, by golly. The Jordanian government, which maintains a military alliance with the US, said it had no objection to people travelling to Iraq or expressing their opinions. "We cannot prevent people from choosing to commit suicide," said Mohammed Adwan, information minister. "No skin off my fore." The authorities are struggling to narrow the widening gulf between official policy and popular sympathies. King Abdullah has launched a nationwide poster campaign, entitled "Jordan First", to encourage Jordanians to focus on domestic concerns, but an official from the Committee for the Defence of Iraq claimed - somewhat implausibly - that within a few hours of registration opening on Wednesday some 17,000 Jordanians had registered to go to Iraq. They're gonna enlist in the al-Quds army, too, no doubt about it. A pity they don't have anything to do with their lives... A trade union official close to the committee - which is based in the Amman headquarters of the socialist Arab Ba'ath party, the Jordanian wing of Saddam Hussein's political organisation - questioned how many would make the 650-mile journey to Baghdad. Wotta coincidence! Must be convenient, being right next door to the Baath Party offices like that... Volunteers are required to pay for their own accommodation and travel. You've gotta buy your own bus ticket to get killed? Wotta gyp! The initiative is the latest attempt by the opposition to mobilise widespread pro-Iraqi sympathies. Last month the Muslim Brotherhood gathered Jordanian religious leaders to declare Washington an "enemy of God" and threaten a holy war against US targets in the kingdom if Washington went to war with Iraq. Is there anybody, anywhere, who hasn't threatened a holy war against us? Since we ignore such things at our own peril, I sure hope lots of those holy warriors show up in Iraq. Wouldn't want to have them kicking around in later stages of the war on terror, would we? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 I'll bet the King of Jordan won't lose too much sleep over the nuttiest 100 Grand of his subjects voluntarily taking a powder next door. He ought to do what Castro did in the late '70's Mariella Boat Lift and send all his lunatics and convicted felons along with one way bus tickets. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-12-21 19:18:23 |
| #2 Voluntary Human sheilds is an act of confession; It says "The Islamic system I live under is the most futile, economically unsound way to live, and in fact is not a life style, but a death-style, so I am going to complete the picture. There's no point in adapting to something better, and the imams are the only ones with any rights or powers anyway, and until their gone, its hopeless". So there is your answer: Rise up and slaughter your imams, a la (French) Revelucion. |
| Posted by: myron 2002-12-21 17:54:55 |
| #1 We cannot prevent people from choosing to commit suicide," said Mohammed Adwan, information minister. "In fact, we'd appreciate a daisy cutter or two to remove the remote chance these eye-rollin', turban-wearing, economy-sucking fools made only one-way trips...yasss" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2002-12-21 16:07:47 |