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| Iraq |
| Kurdish Leader Assails Arab Nations for Backing Hussein |
| 2003-05-09 |
| Jalal Talabani, the Kurdish leader who is expected to take a senior post in Iraq's interim government, said that the heads of Arab countries should be called to account for Saddam Hussein's crimes against the Iraqi people. Mr. Talabani spoke in an interview on a day of political meetings between ranking American military and civilian reconstruction officials. He said that the discovery of mass graves in several locations around the country underscores the responsibility that Arab leaders must take for their support for Mr. Hussein and the Baath Party, which built and enforced his totalitarian rule. "The Arab governments must come and see those mass graves and decide what kinds of crimes were committed by Saddam Hussein," Mr. Talabani said. "And then they must go to the Iraqi people and apologize." (con't see link) |
| Posted by:Anonymous |
| #2 Damn right, Talabani. But you're not an Arab, so you just get dissed by the Arab world. You're a troublemaker in their eyes. Yesterday's Chicago Trib had an article about mass graves at Al-Hillah, a town south of Baghdad. Saddam put a bullet in everybody's skull for activities for during the Shiite uprising. (Ouch, gotta make up for that!) Anyway the article quoted a Human Rights Watch guy whining about how in Bosnia there were FBI and all sorts of forensic experts around, but in Iraq, the US just isn't interested. Huh? Bosnia was a three-year live civil war. Everyone was involved and screaming about it, especially the Muslim world. Why? Crusades, man. Christians killing Muslims. Iraq? Shit, no problem, just the normal Muslim killing Muslim, and THESE Muslims were Shiite, to boot. No publicity from the Muslim world. Why? Saddam, our great and strong Arab leader stuff, plus how many Arab/Muslim govts. had done the same to their citizens? So, here you go Muslim world. Focus on Algeria and cause a storm with your words and actions. Upset the apple cart. Go, you Al-Ahram, Al-Safir, Arab News. Take the bull by the horns, Mr. Amer Moussa, Sec. Gen. of the Arab League. Get off your asses and do some work for a change. Estimates are that at least 100,000 people have died since '92, when the military took over. Don't wait for westerners to do the job for you. Otherwise when the graves in Algeria are dug up, you'll just start whining that the West propped up the military govt. there, and we'll get guilt-ridden articles from Al-guardian, and the Arabs/Muslims govts/press bitching along with them with crocodile tears. |
| Posted by: Michael 2003-05-09 13:05:44 |
| #1 Gee, would the Kurds be good caretakers of the sacred sites in Mecca and Medina? Just curious. |
| Posted by: Chuck 2003-05-09 08:28:57 |