Some under-rated stories
Here are what I thought were interesting stories this week. Mainly cos I'm fed up with having stories about the poor resistance (who just so happen to be murdering thugs and criminals) rubbed in my face mercilessly.
Remember Amar Mohammed, the down syndrome kid who was used as a human bomb on election voters, well his family have been interviewed and they explain how the criminals lured him.
His mother is unable to forgive herself for mistaking the intentions of the strangers whose promises of help for her desperately poor family ultimately led her 19-year-old son to his fate as a weapon in the war against America.
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The family spent the last 12 years of Saddam Hussein's rule on the run because Fatima's 50-year-old husband, Ahmed, was an army deserter. They fled to Baghdad from the southern city of Basra, but without local residency papers he was unable to find work.
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Accustomed to living on charity, they were not entirely surprised when, 10 days before the election, two men got out of a car that pulled into their alley to announce that they were from the local Sunni mosque and they wanted to help Amar.
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"Sunnis had helped us before so I didn't think it strange. It felt good that these men cared for us and they were so affectionate to Amar."
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She recounts painfully how a neighbour told her Amar was definitely the bomb carrier because he had recognised the teenager's decapitated head where it lay on open ground
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"We went to the Sunni mosque but the Imam was crying too. He said he did not know these men."
The other story is about Mithal Alusi, I wasn't exactly sure what to think about him before but he had this interview 6/7 months back about his public trip to Israel. He came across as someone who said things as they are, you know for example he said that he didn't want Iraq to be like those hypocritical middle eastern countries who all have ties with Israel then encourage attacks against it. He was also very vocal against terrorists and dirty ex-baathists
Anyway yesterday he was the target of yet another assassination attempt. He survived but both his sons (in their 20s) were killed
He was interviewed by Radio Free Iraq and here are bits of the transcript of the interview
They claim that Islam is a message of killing, while Islam is a message of peace. They claim that the principles [of Islam] encourage killing, while the only principles that encourage killing are the principles of the Ba'ath [Party] and of the heathens from Al-Qaeda groupings.
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We will be building Iraq. We will be building Iraq despite all that has happened. May God help us.
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If they have a slogan, a goal, a language, and an activity, it is killing. They [Ba'athists] were killing us for more than three decades. They want to kill us and enslave us, over and over again
Remember Amar Mohammed, the down syndrome kid who was used as a human bomb on election voters, well his family have been interviewed and they explain how the criminals lured him.
His mother is unable to forgive herself for mistaking the intentions of the strangers whose promises of help for her desperately poor family ultimately led her 19-year-old son to his fate as a weapon in the war against America.
...
The family spent the last 12 years of Saddam Hussein's rule on the run because Fatima's 50-year-old husband, Ahmed, was an army deserter. They fled to Baghdad from the southern city of Basra, but without local residency papers he was unable to find work.
...
Accustomed to living on charity, they were not entirely surprised when, 10 days before the election, two men got out of a car that pulled into their alley to announce that they were from the local Sunni mosque and they wanted to help Amar.
...
"Sunnis had helped us before so I didn't think it strange. It felt good that these men cared for us and they were so affectionate to Amar."
....
She recounts painfully how a neighbour told her Amar was definitely the bomb carrier because he had recognised the teenager's decapitated head where it lay on open ground
...
"We went to the Sunni mosque but the Imam was crying too. He said he did not know these men."
The other story is about Mithal Alusi, I wasn't exactly sure what to think about him before but he had this interview 6/7 months back about his public trip to Israel. He came across as someone who said things as they are, you know for example he said that he didn't want Iraq to be like those hypocritical middle eastern countries who all have ties with Israel then encourage attacks against it. He was also very vocal against terrorists and dirty ex-baathists
Anyway yesterday he was the target of yet another assassination attempt. He survived but both his sons (in their 20s) were killed
He was interviewed by Radio Free Iraq and here are bits of the transcript of the interview
They claim that Islam is a message of killing, while Islam is a message of peace. They claim that the principles [of Islam] encourage killing, while the only principles that encourage killing are the principles of the Ba'ath [Party] and of the heathens from Al-Qaeda groupings.
...
We will be building Iraq. We will be building Iraq despite all that has happened. May God help us.
...
If they have a slogan, a goal, a language, and an activity, it is killing. They [Ba'athists] were killing us for more than three decades. They want to kill us and enslave us, over and over again
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