Letter from an Iraqi mother

[DuctapeFatwa]

In the name of God, the most Compassionate, the most Merciful.

Mr. George Bush president of the United States of America,
Mr. Tony Blair prime minister of the United Kingdom,
Mr. Jacques Chirac president of the republic of France,
Dr. Adnan Pachachi president of the Interim Governing Council,
Mr. Paul Bremer American civil adminstrator of Iraq,
Mr. Kofi Anan general secretary of the United Nations,
The Director of the Red Cross Organaziation,
The Director of the Human Rights Organization,

Dear Sirs,

I write to you in a very distressed state of mind and that may burst my emotions and passions because of the weighty calamity that struck me and my husband after losing our oldest son who was at the tender age of nineteen years. He was looking forward with eyes full of hope and optimism to a bright and eventful future, especially after being engaged to marry a relative of his very recently. He moved forward with all his energy to build their future life with firm and confident steps. But Fate stood in his way and seized him unexpectedly leaving a bleeding wound in the hearts of his parents, his fiance, and his friends and family. Please allow me to tell you my story......

they tied them up both and led them to an area about three kilometres from the scene and...in front of one of the gates of the Tharthar dam where water flows at its strongest rate and to my son and his cousin's horror, they ordered them to jump into the water, it was midnight and the cold was unbearable, when they hesitated, they were pushed by the soldiers. Unfortunately my boy cannot swim, even though swimming at this time of the year wouldn't have helped. Yet my sons cousin survived miraculously after he got stuck in a tree branch to give us his account of this tragic event which could have went untold. He tried saving my son, but the water current was stronger than him...

To document the incident, my son's name is Zaydun Ma'mun Fadhil Hassun Al-Samarrai, born in the 1st of June 1984...Yes, they killed him and they broke my heart,..Those soldiers have turned everything America has ever stood for into one big lie...I know that anything you may do will not bring me back my boy, but I wish that the procedures may put an end to the suffering of Iraqi mothers, we are reaping misery every day from actions of American soldiers with no regard to our human life, our dignity...Maybe such an investigation will support the power of law and justice so that day may not come when the conscience of one of the murderers awakens and confesses to its deeds, which will make it then a responsibility on your great nation.

I am assured that you know terrorism and what is regarded as a terrorist act. Pray tell me have you ever seen or heard about a terrorist act that is considered any uglier than this crime, which was followed by crushing the car and levelling it to the ground by American military vehicles?


The family met an American official to ask him for an investigation, he yelled at them and started to lecture them about the discipline of American GI's...

http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/archives/2004_01_01_healingiraq_archive.html

[qanda]

1. I read this earlier and was going to post it

Thanks for beating me to it. This is on the blog of an Iraqi who is pro-occupation and happens to be the cousin of the guy that was killed. I've been reading his blog for a few weeks now and he does not have a reason to lie about this.

Please read some of the responses that he has received-- they are despicable, to put it mildly. Maybe Zayed will wake up to the reality of what occupation is all about.

[DuctapeFatwa]

2. Anybody who is pro-occupation is either making money from it

or living in a little leaf boat on a big ol' river in Egypt.

Or hoping to make money from it.

I am not optimistic about anybody "waking up."

Goebbels was damn good at what he did, and his legacy does not lie fallow.

[qanda]

3. Kick

Please take time to read this.

:kick:

[Minstrel Boy]

4. Good God....

Despicable.

I'm afraid this story has been repeated many times, and will be many more, yet will be received in America (when it's received at all) with heated denial, because such acts surely are beyond the American soldier.

[DuctapeFatwa]

5. kick because it's your tax dollars at work

[Ms. Clio]

6. kick for those who think those tax dollars are well spent

[qanda]

7. Kick for those who must be kidding

eom

[the populist]

8. Why is she writing to Chirac? n/t

[Ms. Clio]

9. why not?

and why do you ask?