Tidbits
To be honest I have a few things I want to vent about, its like when you try and quit smoking or go on a diet and realise its not working you come back with a bang, well I have a lot on my mind and I realise its best to let it all out.
Firstly I kindly asked one of the more famous 'Iraqi' blog sites why my link was removed, apparently I do now right enough. I guess that would be a logical response but at the same time a lot of the links that are still there do not write often either. Its not a big loss in the end of the day but I don't want to get into those petty details because everyone is free to think and write as they please and so are they.
I want to start with Saddam's trial. I haven't really written about it much just because I think this is one of Ja'afari's worst legacies. He started with the Dujail trial that was meant to show the the Dawa Party and their supporters are heroes who fought and battled against Saddam. Again even in the trial of one of the world's greatest dictators, Jaafari put his own party interests above Iraqi interests. As a Kurd I would not have even started with the Anfal trials, as the most legally sound case would be of how the Ba'ath party including Saddam took over power by a military type coup. This would kill the argument that the Arabic lawyers along with a couple of left-wing wannabe type Americans who are relishing the end of the trial to return to the states and make some good money.
The story is well known and documented and evidence is avaialable. I am not absolving Saddam of guilt, I mean he is guilty of almost any crime I can think of at 2 o'clock in the morning but still what can you do. I like the judge, he is not the greatest but then again any judge on live television in a case like this will not really be the greatest judge.
On to Abu Musab Zarqawi, where the brother of one of the most senior ministers in the new Iraqi government told me and a number of friends on how Al Zarqawi was really caught but said that it was left a secret for a number of reasons. Now please one thing people should know is that Iraqis love exaggerating and lying about many things espically in the field of story telling so I wouldn't be surprised if this was not true but I'll recite it based on the merit of the individual who told me.
Apparently a gentleman was caught in Baghdad with a laptop and a whole bunch of techie equipment that was of obvious importance. Al Maliki then sought out IT experts to maxmimise what they can get from the computers. He did not let those IT people leave as soon as he realised that documents on the laptop say where the locations Zarqawi usually goes to are. Then this is where it gets funny, apparently Al Maliki being the courageous smart PM he is made sure the IT men were not allowed out and did not inform anyone from the Interior or Defence ministires because of his lack of faith in them, and only told a small number of his inner circle and coalition forces so that the operation could not be infiltrated.
My opinion? Some truth but mostly hollywood....... point is the man is gone and he will be replaced since despite what some Iraqi bloggers may write this type of mentality still exists in the Middle East. I hate US therefore by transitive property of love I love Zarqawi is how the average person must think. Anyways as long as a lot of Iraqis and by that, I mean a number enough to keep operations moving, continue their support than zarq or anyone else for that matter will be able to do almost anything they please.
I think that I am chaning in the sense I used to believe that everything was going to be solved not knowing how lazy people can be. I wish to write this to the people who still read this,, I am back and better than before, im excited and to be honest I have a lot of projects on the go, including a possible return to kurdistan somewhere in the not too distant future with an eye on a high job since I am related after all to some of the 'agents and spies' that call themself the Iraqi government.
Have a nice day, watch Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, no relevance to Iraq but god movie that I watched on DVD tonight.
Firstly I kindly asked one of the more famous 'Iraqi' blog sites why my link was removed, apparently I do now right enough. I guess that would be a logical response but at the same time a lot of the links that are still there do not write often either. Its not a big loss in the end of the day but I don't want to get into those petty details because everyone is free to think and write as they please and so are they.
I want to start with Saddam's trial. I haven't really written about it much just because I think this is one of Ja'afari's worst legacies. He started with the Dujail trial that was meant to show the the Dawa Party and their supporters are heroes who fought and battled against Saddam. Again even in the trial of one of the world's greatest dictators, Jaafari put his own party interests above Iraqi interests. As a Kurd I would not have even started with the Anfal trials, as the most legally sound case would be of how the Ba'ath party including Saddam took over power by a military type coup. This would kill the argument that the Arabic lawyers along with a couple of left-wing wannabe type Americans who are relishing the end of the trial to return to the states and make some good money.
The story is well known and documented and evidence is avaialable. I am not absolving Saddam of guilt, I mean he is guilty of almost any crime I can think of at 2 o'clock in the morning but still what can you do. I like the judge, he is not the greatest but then again any judge on live television in a case like this will not really be the greatest judge.
On to Abu Musab Zarqawi, where the brother of one of the most senior ministers in the new Iraqi government told me and a number of friends on how Al Zarqawi was really caught but said that it was left a secret for a number of reasons. Now please one thing people should know is that Iraqis love exaggerating and lying about many things espically in the field of story telling so I wouldn't be surprised if this was not true but I'll recite it based on the merit of the individual who told me.
Apparently a gentleman was caught in Baghdad with a laptop and a whole bunch of techie equipment that was of obvious importance. Al Maliki then sought out IT experts to maxmimise what they can get from the computers. He did not let those IT people leave as soon as he realised that documents on the laptop say where the locations Zarqawi usually goes to are. Then this is where it gets funny, apparently Al Maliki being the courageous smart PM he is made sure the IT men were not allowed out and did not inform anyone from the Interior or Defence ministires because of his lack of faith in them, and only told a small number of his inner circle and coalition forces so that the operation could not be infiltrated.
My opinion? Some truth but mostly hollywood....... point is the man is gone and he will be replaced since despite what some Iraqi bloggers may write this type of mentality still exists in the Middle East. I hate US therefore by transitive property of love I love Zarqawi is how the average person must think. Anyways as long as a lot of Iraqis and by that, I mean a number enough to keep operations moving, continue their support than zarq or anyone else for that matter will be able to do almost anything they please.
I think that I am chaning in the sense I used to believe that everything was going to be solved not knowing how lazy people can be. I wish to write this to the people who still read this,, I am back and better than before, im excited and to be honest I have a lot of projects on the go, including a possible return to kurdistan somewhere in the not too distant future with an eye on a high job since I am related after all to some of the 'agents and spies' that call themself the Iraqi government.
Have a nice day, watch Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, no relevance to Iraq but god movie that I watched on DVD tonight.
posted by Sami at 10:58 PM
2 Comments:
Nice to see you back Sami. I'll try to stop by more regularly now that I know you're back.
Never heard of "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang". Hmmm, I'll have to look it up.
Me again.
I just wanted to let you know that I watched "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" over the weekend. You're right, it was good. Clever.
If you haven't seen "Cellular" or "Crash" yet(they're kind of old), I recommend them. :)
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