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Dear List, I would like to repost a message from Ghazwan posted about a year ago, on 3 Jun 2002. It shows that those inside Iraq and those who opposed the aggression had a clear vision of what was coming to Iraq under the US. Ghazwan wrote: "Goerge Orwell wrote "Animal Farm" a satirical book about revolutions and dictatorship. The story is: The animals thought that humans were mistreating them so they revolted and kicked them out of the farm and started running it themselves. They painted their slogans(of equality, good treatment, no exploitation, and all the other nice things) on the barn. Every few weeks a slogan is changed or removed. To the "All animals are equal" they added "BUT some are more equal than others". To cut the long story short the pigs controlled the farm and became WORSE than Humans in treating their follow animals. To those of us who lived the revolutions since 1958 and Judging by the rhetoric and the quality of the people I think we will see a repeat of the events of Animal Farm! Best Regards Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar Baghdad, Iraq" I remembered this when I read about what occurred during a TV program on the Abu Dhabi satellite channel sometime in early May. The program, Muwajaha (confrontation) was transmitted from Baghdad, and on that day they had Dr. Wamidh Nadhmi (an Arab Nationalist who openly opposed Saddam's regime from INSIDE Iraq) and Intifadh Qanbar (the spokesman for Al-Chalabi's group, the INC) discussing the occupation. The discussion got heated up, ending in Qanbar attacking Nadhmi, punching him in the face and causing him clear injuries... Dr. Nadhmi has informed Arab human rights organizations of what happened and further states that Qanbar threatened to kill him, all documented on tape.. Abu Dhabi TV has sent Al-Chalabi a letter demanding an apology and action to be taken against Qanbar... So far, no reply has come. These are the new rulers of Iraq: the democratic leaders who will replace Saddam. This is how freedom of expression will be handed down to Iraqis... It doesn't matter that Dr. Nadhmi was inside Iraq, opposing both Saddam and war, while others lived in comfort: he did not fulfill the requirements for a "good guy". He didn't support the war and he is not a thief.. HZ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk