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14 Iraqis Killed in War Attacks, Israelis Active in Iraq, Obama Reiterates Pledge to Withdraw US Forces, According to July 22, 2008 News Reports

Editor's Note:

Only God knows how many Iraqis are killed everyday. The following represents part of the reporting but readers are advised that the actual number of deaths should very much exceed what's reported.

Concerning deaths of US soldiers, only those US citizens who die in Iraq are included in the statistics. There are no published statistics about US soldiers who die of their injuries after that. There are no published statistics about the deaths or injuries of the private army soldiers (security contractors), or about those without US citizenship.

It is noteworthy that May 20, 2008 news reports showed that death squads which execute Iraqis on daily basis are no longer hiding themselves. Previously, Sunni leaders pointed to Mahdi Army and Badr militiamen as the perpetrators. Now, death squads are composed of the US-recruited Sahwa fighters and policemen (which is an opportunity for US forces command to sever relations with these fighters).

Despite the fact that there are scores of organizations involved in the Iraq war, the Iraqi government officials prefer to refer to them as Alqaeda gunmen for propaganda purposes, as mentioned in the June 4, 2008 news report. For accuracy purposes, the term "Alqaeda gunmen" may be replaced with "Iraqi fighters."

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Yaqen.net reported the following news:

- A US-recruited Sahwa fighter killed a fighter of his group and injured four others in Samarra.

- US-backed prime minister, Maliki, told Senator Barack Obama that he supports his plan to withdraw US combat forces by 2010.

- An Iraqi journalist, Souran Mama Hama, was killed in Kirkuk.

- 5 US-recruited Sahwa fighters were killed, four were injured north of Ba'aqouba, as a result of a suicide bombing of a tractor filled with watermelons. Two more people were killed in the explosion.

- A senior police officer was killed, four were injured in a Kirkuk roadside bombing.

- US-backed president of the Iraqi autonomous region of Kurdistan pleaded with the US ambassador, Croaker, for the US to establish permanent military basis in the Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region.

The Iraq News Agency (INA) reported on an interview published by Al-Watan in Arabic with the Chairman of the Iraq Studies Center, Muhammed Sadeq Al-Hashimi. He pointed that the private US army in Iraq, known as Black Water is supervised and directed by the Israeli intelligence agency called Mossad.

He also said that the two persons who were caught by Iraqi police in September 2005 driving a car bomb were not British soldiers. Rather, they were two Israeli Mossad agents wearing Arab uniform.

The British forces did everything to free them before they would be interrogated by Iraqi police, which shows how the British occupation forces ultimately work for Israel.

See details in the Arabic text below.


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2 civilians killed, 2 policemen injured in acts of violence
 
Baghdad - Voices of Iraq
Tuesday , 22 /07 /2008  Time 7:08:54
BAGHDAD, July 22 (VOI) -

Two civilians were killed and two policemen were wounded in acts of violence that took place in Iraq from 9:00 pm on Monday until Tuesday afternoon, security sources said.

In Ninewa, a police source said two policemen were wounded on Tuesday in a bomb explosion in al-Mithaq neighborhood in southeastern Mosul.

Another police source said that unknown gunmen killed a civilian in al-Saylo street in in southwestern Mosul and fled to unknown place.

In Kirkuk, Brig. Sarhad Qader, the city's districts police chief, said police forces found today an unknown corpse near Alawat Mahmoud and Qurat Teba villages in Debs district in west of Kirkuk.
"The body bore signs of gunshot wounds and was sent to the forensic medicine department," he added.

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Bomb injures 2 policemen in Mosul
 
Ninewa - Voices of Iraq
Tuesday , 22 /07 /2008  Time 7:18:42
NINEWA, July 22 (VOI) -

Two policemen were wounded on Tuesday in a bomb explosion in southeastern Mosul, a police source said.

"A roadside bomb went off targeting a police vehicle patrol in al-Mithaq neighborhood in southeastern Mosul," wounding two policemen,.' the source told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq (VOI) on condition of anonymity.
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Kirkuk court's judge survives assassination attempt
 
Kirkuk - Voices of Iraq
Tuesday , 22 /07 /2008  Time 7:18:42
KIRKUK, July 22 (VOI) -

A judge working for the Kirkuk's court escaped an attempt on his life on Tuesday when a bomb exploded targeting his car in southwest of the province, the city's districts police chief said.
"Judge Mohamed Farhan survived an assassination attempt today when an improvised explosive device went off targeting his car in al-Waseti neighborhood in southwest of Kirkuk," Brig. Sarhad Qader told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI).

Meanwhile, the brigadier said that "police forces found today an unknown corpse near Alawat Mahmoud and Qurat Teba villages in Debs district in west of Kirkuk."

"The body bore signs of gunshot wounds and was sent to the forensic medicine department," he added.
Kirkuk, 250 km (156 miles) north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, sits on the ruins of a 5,000-year-old settlement. Because of the strategic geographical location of the city, Kirkuk was the battle ground for three empires, Assyria, Babylonia and Media which controlled the city at various times.

Kirkuk is the centre of the northern Iraqi petroleum industry. It is a historically and ethnically mixed city populated by Assyrians, Kurds, Arabs and Iraqi Turkmen. The population is estimated at 1,200,000 in 2008.

SH

News Summary
 
Baghdad - Voices of Iraq
Tuesday , 22 /07 /2008  Time 7:18:42
BAGHDAD, July 21 (VOI) –

Following is a summary of news reports posted until 04:00 p.m. Baghdad local time Tuesday.

*Politics:
 
BAGHDAD, A parliamentarian from the Shiite Unified Iraqi Coalition (UIC) on Tuesday called on the Iraqi government to increase security forces in Mosul, citing what he described as the deteriorating security conditions in the city.
 
BAGHDAD, Two Baghdad-based newspapers on Tuesday focused on what they described as the dangers facing Arab states, with another praising the current Iraqi government's efforts to restore its close ties with neighboring countries.
 
BAGHDAD, U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama discussed with the top U.S. commander in Iraq, David Petraeus, the future of U.S. military presence in the country, a U.S. army media adviser said on Tuesday.
 
BASRA, U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama stopped at Basra International Airport on his way from Kabul to Baghdad to meet with an Iraqi army commander and a U.S. official, a Multi-National Force (MNF) spokesperson said on Tuesday.
 
BAGHDAD, The parliamentary education committee is currently studying a draft law that will allow university and institute students to receive monthly salaries, a committee member said on Tuesday.
 
BAGHDAD, A Kurdistan Coalition (KC) leader said that a proposal to postpone Kirkuk's provincial council elections until further notice and to set up joint committees of the city's main constituents will be debated by the Parliament today.
 
ARBIL, The Kurdistan press syndicate on Tuesday called on the Iraqi government to conduct prompt investigations into the killing of a Kurdish journalist by unknown gunmen in Kirkuk city.
 
BAGHDAD, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday in the German capital Berlin to discuss security conditions in Iraq and economic relations between the two countries, according to a German government spokesman.
 
KIRKUK, Four gunmen belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq group were captured on Tuesday during a search raid in different areas of the city, a security source in the province said.
 
KARBALA, Three persons were detained on Tuesday in southern Karbala with two tons of explosives found in their possession, the chief of local police said.
 
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Obama stops in Basra to meet security officials
 
Basra - Voices of Iraq
Tuesday , 22 /07 /2008  Time 7:27:47
BASRA, July 22 (VOI) –

U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama stopped at Basra International Airport on his way from Kabul to Baghdad to meet with an Iraqi army commander and a U.S. official, a Multi-National Force (MNF) spokesperson said on Tuesday.

"Obama stopped for two hours at Basra International Airport on his way from the Afghan capital Kabul to Baghdad. He met with the operations commander, Maj. Gen. Mohammed Jawad Huweidi; the MNF commander, southeast; and the U.S. forces stationed at the airport," Captain Chris Ford told Aswat al-Iraq- Voices of Iraq- (VOI).

Ford did not name the MNF commander in southeastern Baghdad.
Yesterday, Obama arrived on a surprise visit to the Iraqi capital as part of a tour he started with Afghanistan earlier this week.

Obama discussed a timetabled withdrawal of U.S. troops during two separate meetings with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and President Jalal al-Talabani.

A U.S. army media advisor, Abdul Latif Rayan said that Obama had pledged to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq if he won the presidential elections to be held in November.
The U.S. White House hopeful had paid a single visit to Iraq in January 2006.
 
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Obama, Petraeus tackle troop presence in Iraq
 
Baghdad - Voices of Iraq
Tuesday , 22 /07 /2008  Time 7:27:47
BAGHDAD, July 22 (VOI) –

U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama discussed with the top U.S. commander in Iraq, David Petraeus, the future of U.S. military presence in the country, a U.S. army media adviser said on Tuesday.

"Yesterday, Obama met with Petraeus in Baghdad and discussed the future of U.S. troop presence in Iraq," Abdul Latif Rayan told Aswat al-Iraq- Voices of Iraq- (VOI).

The adviser noted that Obama will leave the Iraqi capital on Wednesday for Jordan.
Yesterday, Obama arrived on a surprise visit to the Iraqi capital as part of a tour he started with Afghanistan earlier this week.

Obama discussed a timetabled withdrawal of U.S. troops during two separate meetings with the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and President Jalal al-Talabani.

Rayan said that Obama had pledged to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq if he won the presidential elections to be held in November.

The U.S. White House hopeful had paid a single visit to Iraq in January 2006.

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Iraq War Report for events of Monday, 21 July 2008.

Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr,

member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. 
 
Monday, 21 July 2008.
 
·        Bomb explodes by US vehicle in southern Baghdad suburb Monday morning.
 
·        US forces capture anti-occupation Hizballah activist in southeastern Baghdad Monday morning.
 
·        Bomb kills deputy police administrator for Kirkuk district Monday evening.
 
Al-Anbar Province.
Al-Fallujah.
 
Belt bomber killed, five policemen wounded in clash in al-Fallujah Monday.
 
In a dispatch posted at 1pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that gunmen blew up a house and a gunman wearing an explosive belt blew himself up in the course of clashes between gunmen and a police patrol in al-Fallujah, 60km west of Baghdad, on Monday,
 
Yaqen reported an officer in the al-Fallujah police as saying that a man dressed in a police uniform but wearing a belt bomb blew himself up near the home of an officer in the police.  The police opened fire on the man, setting off the explosive.  The belt bomber was killed and five policemen wounded in the incident.
 
Recent weeks have witnessed an upsurge in al-Qa ‘idah activity in al-Fallujah and al-Anbar Province generally.
 
Baghdad.
 
Bomb explodes by US vehicle in southern Baghdad suburb Monday morning.
 
In a dispatch posted at 2:44pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that a bomb exploded by a US column in the southern Baghdad suburb of ad-Durah on Monday morning.
 
The AMSI reported witnesses as saying that the attack took place on al-Masafi Road at about 7am local time.  After the incident, US and Iraqi regime troops cordoned off the area and closed the road to cars.  Local people were prevented from approaching the scene making it impossible to ascertain whether there had been any casualties in the attack.  Witnesses said they saw US helicopters hovering over the area as rescue teams headed towards the scene, suggesting that there might have been casualties, but no specific information was available.
 
US forces capture anti-occupation Hizballah activist in southeastern Baghdad Monday morning.
 
In a dispatch posted at 2:40pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the US military arrested a member of the Hizballah Brigades in Iraq during raids in the Baghdad al-Jadidah section of southeastern Baghdad early on Monday.
 
Yaqen reported a US statement as saying that the Americans arrested the man who worked in the public relations department of the Hizballah In Iraq organization, an armed militia loyal to Iran and opposed to the US occupation of Iraq.  The American statement said that prisoners already in US custody had told the Americans that this man had been responsible for taking pictures and video tapes of attacks on Iraqi regime forces.
 
Resistance group claims attack on US Humvee in southern Baghdad.
 
In a dispatch posted at 12:17pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the Iraqi resistance group known as the Army of the Muslims (Jaysh al-Muslimin), a constituent organization of the Jihad and Change Front, issued a communiqué on Monday.
 
Yaqen reported the communiqué as claiming that fighters for the Army of the Muslims had attacked a US column to the south of Baghdad, detonating a bomb by the Americans and destroying a Humvee.  The communiqué claimed that all the Americans aboard the vehicle had been killed.  The communiqué gave no indication as to when or precisely where the attack had allegedly taken place.
 
Home of mother of pro-western Sunni politician blown up in western Baghdad.
 
In a dispatch posted at 11:50am Baghdad time Monday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that gunmen blew up the home of the mother of Mithal al-Alusi, a Sunni secularist member of the US-backed Iraqi parliament who favors an alliance with the Zionist state of “Israel.”
 
Yaqen reported that armed men planted explosives around the empty home of the mother of the head of the “Ummah Party” in the al-Jami ‘ah neighborhood of western Baghdad.  A source in the police reported that the explosion brought down the home, which was vacant at the time.  The blast also inflicted damage on neighboring dwellings.
 
Diyala Province.
Ba‘qubah.
 
Gunmen kill tribal chief in Ba‘qubah Monday.
 
In a dispatch posted at 1:35pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that gunmen shot and killed a chief of the al-‘Ubayd tribe in Ba‘qubah, 65km northeast of Baghdad on Monday.
 
Yaqen reported a source in the Diyala Province police as saying that gunmen sprayed Shaykh ‘Abd al-Ghafur ‘Abdallah with a hail of bullets in the Abu Sayda area of Ba‘qubah, killing him on the spot.
 
At-Ta’mim/Kirkuk Province.
Kirkuk.
 
Bomb kills deputy police administrator for Kirkuk district Monday evening.
 
In a dispatch posted at 10:20pm Baghdad time Monday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by the motorcade of the Deputy Administrator of the police in the al-‘Urubah district of Kirkuk, 250km north of Baghdad, on Monday evening.
 
Yaqen reported the Director of the police for outlying districts of Kirkuk, Lieutenant Colonel Khabat Hammah Gharib, as saying that the explosion, on al-Kurnish Street near the Gharnatah Bell in Kirkuk killed the deputy police administrator on the spot.  Four of the official’s guards were wounded in the blast and taken to hospital for treatment.
 
Resistance group claims destruction of US minesweeper in Kirkuk area.
 
In a dispatch posted at 4:20pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the Iraqi resistance group known as the Brigades of the 1920 Revolution, a constituent member organization in the Jihad and Change Front, had issued a communiqué.
 
Yaqen reported the communiqué, dated Monday, as saying that the 1920 Brigades fighters had destroyed an American minesweeper vehicle somewhere in the Kirkuk area, 250km north of Baghdad.  The communiqué, which did not specify when or exactly where the attack supposedly occurred, asserted that all the Americans aboard the vehicle had been killed in the attack.
 
Ninwa Province.
Al-Mawsil.
 
Al-Qa‘idah gunmen kill two Iraqi regime soldiers in al-Mawsil.
 
In a dispatch posted at 6:35pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the US military had issued a communiqué announcing that two Iraqi regime soldiers had been killed when al-Qa‘idah gunmen equipped with light arms attacked their patrol in al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad.
 
Two men shot to death in eastern al-Mawsil as police discover bodies of two other shooting victims elsewhere in city Monday.
 
In a dispatch posted at 4:45pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that gunmen shot and killed two men to the east of al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad on Monday.
 
Yaqen reported a source in the provincial police as saying that gunmen opened fire on a car in which the two men were riding.  Both men were killed on the spot.
 
In another incident, Iraqi police recovered the unidentified bodies of two shooting victims in the “17 Tammuz” area of western al-Mawsil.  No other information was available.
 
Since 10 May, the US and its Iraqi regime allies have been waging an offensive against the al-Qa‘idah organization in al-Mawsil and surrounding Ninwa Province.
 
Wasit Province.
Al-Kut.
 
Gunmen on motorcycle kill man in al-Kut Monday morning.
 
In a dispatch posted at 10:33am Baghdad time Monday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that armed; men killed a man in front of his house in western al-Kut, 180km southeast of Baghdad, on Monday.
 
Yaqen reported a source in the Wasit Province police as saying that men on a motorcycle opened fire on a man who was standing in front of his home in the al-‘Izzah district to the west of al-Kut Monday morning.  The gunfire killed the man on the spot.  Police arrived on the scene and cordoned off the area but the gunmen had already fled.

www.albasrah.net

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 واع / مدير مركز العراق للدراسات : شركة «بلاك ووتر» الأميركية يديرها الموساد الإسرائيلي
2008-07-22  7:22:21 AM


أثناء زيارته إلى دمشق التقت «الوطن» الدكتور محمد صادق الهاشمي مدير مركز العراق للدراسات، وحاورته حول العديد من المسائل التي تشغل بال العراقيين والعرب بدءاً من الاتفاقية الأمنية- الأميركية- العراقية المشتركة التي دار الحديث عنها وصولاً إلى مستقبل العراق في ضوء الانتخابات الرئاسية في الولايات المتحدة مروراً بالتغلغل الإسرائيلي في أرض الرافدين. وفيما يلي نص الحوار:

ما تقييمك لردود الفعل العراقية تجاه الاتفاقية الأمنية الأميركية-العراقية المشتركة التي دار الحديث عنها؟
يمكن القول: إن ردود الفعل كانت على المستوى الذي يلبي طموح الشعب العراقي، وقد جاءت هذه الردود الرافضة لاتفاقية كهذه من المرجعيات الدينية العليا، ومن الحركات والأحزاب والمكونات الأساسية للحكومة، وقد صدرت عن المرجعية الدينية العليا محاذير دفعت في اتجاه منع أي معاهدة تمس سيادة العراق وتجعله منطلقاً، من خلال بناء القواعد الأميركية، لضرب دول الجوار، كذلك صدرت مواقف جيدة بهذا الخصوص من السيد الحائري والسيد مقتدى الصدر وهيئة علماء المسلمين. أما بالنسبة للأحزاب العراقية فأستطيع أن أقول إن أغلبيتها قد تحفظت على البنود التي تمس سيادة العراق، وفيما يتعلق بالحكومة فقد رفضت أربع مسودات قدمها المفاوض الأميركي، والموقف إلى الآن بالنسبة للحكومة هو رفض التوقيع على اتفاقية تسمح ببقاء القوات الأميركية في العراق دون قيد، ودون تحديد السقف الزمني لبقائها، كما اعترضت الحكومة على إعطاء الحصانة للقوات الأميركية، ورفضت سائر الامتيازات التي طالبت أميركا بها. وطبعاً هناك بعض المواقف التي تخالف هذا التوجه العراقي العام وتنطلق من حسابات تتعلق بمصالح فئوية، ورغم ذلك أستطيع أن أقول: إن الموقف الداخلي العراقي يتأثر إيجاباً بالموقف الإقليمي الرافض للاتفاقية لكونها تشكل خطراً على العراق والمنطقة.
رغم هذا التقييم المتفائل ألا تتخوف من بروز طرف عراقي يوقع على المعاهدة؟
لا يجرؤ في الوقت الراهن أي عراقي على توقيع اتفاقية مع الأميركيين وذلك إذا أخذنا بالحسبان موقف الشعب العراقي الرافض للاحتلال والمقاوم لوجوده على أرض الرافدين، وهو موقف جماهيري لا يقبل بأقل من وضع سقوف محددة للقوات الأميركية بغية ترحيلها. ومن يجرؤ من الحكومة على توقيع معاهدة أو اتفاقية تأتي على ذبح المنطقة وتهدد مصالحها الاقتصادية والسياسية والأمنية، وخاصة أن سقوف المطالب الأميركية تنذر بشر مستطير لدول الجوار.
حملت الكثير من المقالات والتعليقات في الصحف والمواقع الإلكترونية سواء كانت عراقية أم عربية معلومات كثيرة حول التغلغل الإسرائيلي في العراق، فما صحة هذه المعلومات؟
إذا نظرنا إلى موضوع الحضور الإسرائيلي في العراق نظرة سطحية بأن نبحث عن مكتب مكتوب عليه عبارات تشير إلى أنه تابع لشركة أو جهة إسرائيلية فلن نجد ذلك، لكن إذا دققنا في الإستراتيجية العامة التي تجمع أميركا وإسرائيل فإننا سننتقل من التحليل إلى وقائع وحقائق تعد بالعشرات كشفت عن وجود 340 شركة مارست عملها من خلال شركات عربية وعراقية باعت ضميرها للأجنبي، وهناك شركات إسرائيلية تعمل بغطاء شركات أوروبية وأميركية، واتخذت صوراً متعددة مثل مؤسسات تقديم الإعانات ومراكز الدراسات وشركات الاستثمار، وأبناء بغداد يعرفون بشكل دقيق تحركات هؤلاء ومكاتبهم وسياراتهم ويكفي هنا أن نشير إلى أن الجنديين اللذين ألقي القبض عليهما في البصرة عام 2005 كانا إسرائيليين توفر لهما القوات البريطانية الحماية، ويقومان بمهمات استطلاع تخريب وزرع عبوات نافسة، وكانا يرتديان الزي العربي الجنوبي، ويذكر أيضاً أن المعلومات عن شركة بلاك ووتر أنها تُمول وتُدار من قبل الموساد، وأن المعهد الجمهوري يُدار من قبل إسرائيل، وقد أصدر مركز العراق للدراسات كتاباً اسمه (الدور الصهيوني في احتلال العراق) كشف عن 137 وثيقة أكدت التدخل الإسرائيلي في العراق.
هل تعتقد أن هناك راهناً في العراق مناخات تجعل العقول والخبرات العراقية تساهم في تنمية بلدهم؟
التنمية في مختلف مجالاتها وحتى النفسية والاجتماعية مرتبطة بعوامل الاستقرار الأمني. وعندما توجد الحرية ورأس المال ومؤسسات صحيحة فهي تخدم العقول، وتساهم في تنفيذ السياسات المقترحة، في ظروف كهذه تستطيع العقول أن تنمو، لكن في بلد محتل، تُقتل فيه العقول يتعطل الإبداع، وظرف العراق عطل التنمية، بما فيها البشرية والعلمية، وهذا الأمر أنا لا أدعيه فأنا على تماس يومي مع جامعات العراق، وإن شكواهم وظروفهم تكشف تعطيلاً كاملاً لهذه العقول.
طرح في العراق ملف الشركات الأمنية الأميركية الخاصة مثل بلاك ووتر التي ذكرت أنها تدار من الموساد الإسرائيلي ماذا بخصوص عمل هذه الشركات حالياً؟
من الخطأ الاعتقاد أن برايمر قد حكم العراق لمدة سنة واحدة، فبرايمر أسس قانون ترك بصمات على العراق ستمتد آثاره لسنوات طويلة، لعقود، وربما لقرون، فقد فرض نظريته ورأيه في مختلف المجالات في السياسة والاقتصاد وتشكيل الحكومة، وأوجد قوانين في المجالات المختلفة منها القانون رقم 17 النافذ إلى الساعة (مع وجود الدستور) وهو القانون الذي يعطي حصانة للجيش الأميركي وللشركات المتعاقدة معه، لذا وفق هذا القانون فإن حكومة ووزارات ومؤسسات العراق لا تعلم بعدد هذه الشركات وطبيعة عملها، ودخولها وخروجها وسائر تفاصيل عملها، وأبرز هذه الشركات «بلاك ووتر» التي تؤمن الحماية للمسؤولين الأميركيين.
ومن المضحك المبكي أن هذه الشركات قتلت 17 عراقياً ولم يستطع القضاء والحكومة أن يقاضيا الشركة أو يجبراها على دفع تعويض أو «دية»، كما يقال عندنا، لهؤلاء الأبرياء في الوقت الذي عوضت شركة «بلاك ووتر» لسيدة أميركية قتل كلبها برصاصة خطأ أثناء التدريب بمبلغ 25 مليون دولار.
إزاء هذا الوضع في العراق، ما دور مراكز الدراسات ووسائل الإعلام الوطنية في عملية جلاء المحتل ومقاومته؟
إن الدور الحقيقي للإعلام ومراكز الدراسات هو الدور الوطني الشريف، وهو تعبئة الشعب للنهوض بمقاومة مستمرة لترحيل آخر جندي من العراق. فلا يمكن لأي ثورة أن تؤدي دورها بفعالية سواء أكانت عسكرية أم سلمية، سواء اتخذت طابع الكفاح المدني أم حرب العصابات والكفاح المسلح، ما لم تمد بالوعي.
الوعي يخلق البندقية لذا ورد عن النبي (ص) «إن مداد العلماء أفضل من دماء الشهداء».
ما الذي يمكن أن تراه في المشروعات الموجودة راهناً في العراق؟
في العراق هناك ثلاثة مشروعات:
1- المشروع السياسي الممثل بالدستور.
2- مشروع حكومي يتمثل بالحكومات التي تأتي نتيجة الدستور.
3- مشروع أميركي ممثل بالسفارة الأميركية وجيش الاحتلال وقواعده وإستراتيجية الولايات المتحدة.
وهنا لا أريد أن أشكك بالحكومة أو بالدستور، أريد أن أتحدث كلاماً علمياً، ما الذي يستطيع أن يفعله الحكام والحكومة، وما الذي يستطيع أن يفعله أو يحققه الدستور إذا كانت الإرادة الأميركية هي الأقوى؟ وقد يتصور القارئ أن هذا تحليل أو افتراض، لكن هذا ما عكسته الأحداث منذ احتلال العراق في عام 2003 حتى اللحظة، فطوال هذه السنوات شهدت الساحة العراقية فيتو مطلقاً لا مثيل له من قبل الأميركيين على المشروعين السياسي والحكومي وتصرفت على نحو يكشف بشكل أكيد أن السفارة الأميركية تدير البلاد بشكل علني ولا تحتاج إلى تبرير أو غطاء.
لكن ماذا بالنسبة لمشروع المقاومة؟
المشروع الحقيقي الذي يعطي للحكومة حرمتها، ويجعلها معبرة عن آمال وطموحات الشعب العراقي هو مشروع المقاومة بكل أشكالها، وعلى الحكومة أن تحدد في أي حيز تقع، وفي أي جهة تنتمي، هل هي مع مشروع الشعب العراقي المقاوم للاحتلال والرافض له أم إنها في الموقع الآخر؟ يجب عليها أن تحدد هذا الأمر وخاصة أن لا إمكانية للحياد والوقوف في الوسط.
بعد أشهر ستجري الانتخابات الرئاسية الأميركية فكيف تنظر إلى احتمالات فوز الديمقراطي باراك أوباما أو الجمهوري جون ماكين على مستقبل العراق؟
كنت قد عقدت ندوة في القاهرة اختصت بهذا الموضوع، وهل هناك اختلاف في وجهات النظر بين الديمقراطيين والجمهوريين بخصوص العراق؟ وهل يترتب على وصول أي منهما أثر يساهم في ترحيل القوات العراقية أو تقليصها أو الانسحاب التام؟.. الذي توصلنا إليه هو أن هناك في المجتمع الأميركي أصواتاً تملك إحساساً إنسانياً وضميراً حراً، وتدرك خطر الإستراتيجية الأميركية التي يقودها الجمهوريون، وهذا لا نقاش فيه، إلا أن النقاش والاختلاف هو حول هل يستطيع الديمقراطيون إن حكموا أن يتخذوا قرارات مهمة لتعديل الإستراتيجية الأميركية.. أعتقد شخصياً أن القرار الرسمي هو ما تسنده اللوبيات الكبرى في الولايات المتحدة، ومن ورائها إسرائيل، وهو يسير في اتجاه إبقاء هذه الإستراتيجية، وإن عدلت فإن التعديل لا يمس الجوهر، أما إذا انتصرت إرادة الشعب الأميركي على اللوبيات ومراكز القرار فإن ثمة تغييراً سيحدث وإنني أراهن على الزمن الطويل بأنه كفيل بتعديل هذه السياسة.

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