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| Iraq-Jordan |
| Documents reveal ethnic cleansing, gassing, 'Islamization' of Assyrians |
| 2004-08-05 |
| EFL - a prety grim read. I don't think that Sadaam's Iraq was as happy a place as Michael Moore makes it out to have been. "Entitled 'The Settlements and Villages of the Christian Assyrians in the Region of Kurdistan Iraq,' the document, which goes to 104 pages, is a shocking view of a previously mostly unknown campaign of terror against a tiny minority in Iraq." Joseph says 290 villages were named in the documentation with the word "destroyed" next to each one. "The document with 'Confidential For Internal Use Only' and subtitled 'The Contribution of the International Non-Governmental Organizations to the Islamization of Assyrian Villages' goes into great detail on the destruction of the indigenous people of the region," he writes. The villages in question had been inhabited by Christians for centuries, while the Assyrian people have lived in the area since before the time of Christ. According to Joseph, the Kurdistan Regional Government worked together with Saddam in the cleansing operations. "Entry after entry reads 'demography forcibly changed,' 'destroyed,' 'disappeared,' 'gas holocaust,' 'intifada,'" he writes. "Entries read 'gas-Anfal,' meaning the villagers were gassed during the 'Anfal Campaign' by the Saddam government to destroy the area and 'Islamizize' and 'Arabize' it. "The 'gassing of the Kurds' extended to a much greater population of Assyrian Christians as well, although this has been previously completely hidden." |
| Posted by:Super Hose |
| #15 lmao frank! |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-08-05 11:47:16 PM |
| #14 Ima not miss her - she'll be back - every 28 days, I bet |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-08-05 11:45:02 PM |
| #13 ima miss antiwar. she in always intrasting. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-08-05 11:42:14 PM |
| #12 If the server will quit breaking I'm going to fix that bug... |
| Posted by: Fred 2004-08-05 11:12:38 PM |
| #11 I miss Salhuddin....but my aim is getting better |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-08-05 11:09:36 PM |
| #10 This wouldn't have happened if there had been a fair resolution of the Palestinian problem! |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-08-05 10:53:06 PM |
| #9 trailing wife---mars flies in a klein bottle make a great nature gift for kids, like an antfarm, but more sophisticated. Salhuddin kept angrily posting on a thread for over a week, hammering away on it, then he said farewell. I advised Fred that there were some whipping-a-dead-horse comments going on, so now the comments should freeze after a day or whatever time limit Fred set. Was amusing though, like klein bottles. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-08-05 7:32:53 PM |
| #8 Klein bottles make great Xmas presents ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-08-05 5:47:44 PM |
| #7 I know, I know it did sound like she was hammering down the cheap stuff out of the Kleinbottle. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-08-05 4:10:17 PM |
| #6 Good heavens tu do you think Fred has created a Mobius thread? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-08-05 4:09:13 PM |
| #5 Hey, where's Salhuddin been? Is he still trapped in that thread from a month ago or are cheap drugs back on the street? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-08-05 3:09:02 PM |
| #4 Gotta admit she's one screwed up individual |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2004-08-05 2:53:38 PM |
| #3 Rex Mundi -- that's cold! But then, she thinks Saddam is sexy, too (eeewwww). |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-08-05 2:26:31 PM |
| #2 But wait....Antiwar says that Iraq NEEDS Saddam. Could she be wrong? |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2004-08-05 12:58:57 PM |
| #1 I'm sure the alphabet-soup networks will give this full coverage...... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-08-05 12:00:51 PM |