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(回答先: 「ティクリートではフセインの肖像画や写真が町中にあふれている」 ［ニューズウイーク日本版４・３０／５・７］ 投稿者 あっしら 日時 2003 年 4 月 23 日 21:08:38)
本日付けのロシア情報でもサダムはティクリートにまだあふれているらしい。
http://www1.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=3729&lang=en
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23.04.2003
Saddam everywhere but nowhere to be seen
23.04.2003 [06:12]
A replica of the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem still greets the visitor at the sole entrance gate to Tikrit - the Meonia Tigrides (Tigris Tower) of the Romans. The city is the birth place of Saladin, the icon of the Arab world who forced the Crusaders from Jerusalem in the 14th century. The city was destroyed by Mongol ruler Tamerlane later in that century and its people massacred to punish their resistance. Tamerlane then erected an immense pyramid with the skulls of his victims.
This time there was no resistance against the American army when they arrived at the city, which also happens to be the home town of Saddam Hussein. Tikrit just folded. But Saddam's imprint is still everywhere to be seen.
Every lamp post in the avenue that leads to central Tikrit still boasts a Saddam picture - with rifle, as a Bedouin or in suit in the officially-sanctioned 1960s black and white pose. Saddam art is still on display around town - his images turned into masterpieces of abstract expressionism, but sometimes still visible: Saddam the peasant, Saddam leading the (invincible? invisible?) Republican Guards under a constellation of fighter jets. But the Americans, according to residents, couldn't resist toppling a Saddam equestrian statue near the city center.
Saddam was not actually born in Tikrit but in Owja - a village in the outskirts of the city. This later housed the so-called Uday palace: a mixture of huge California condo and Southeast Asian resort on the top of a hill overlooking the city, complete with spinning wheel for kids and nuns in the garden, now thoroughly burned and looted. The whole area belongs to the Albu Nasr clan. Influential Albu Nasr and Albu Majid clan members - the elite of Saddam's regime - all fled. Their mansions, and the streets of Owja, are empty. Most in America's most wanted list - the 55 in a pack of cards - had homes in Owja, including top figures of the Ahmn-al-Kaas and the Mukhabarat, the secret services. Black banners displayed outside a central mosque celebrate a local "martyr", Tariq al-Hazar, a former Iraqi air force pilot whose car was hit by an American missile. Tikritis are now being fed two hours a day of American-sponsored TV, as well as radio, part of the Iraqi Information Net ("the new voice of Iraq") - but they hardly pay attention to it: they prefer listening to Kathim Alsaher, an exile in Canada, favorite of Saddam's son Uday (who received a brand new limo every year from Alsaher) and known as "the Iraqi song ambassador to the world".
The billion-dollar question in Tikrit is inescapable: Where is Saddam? "Saddam is in every house of every Iraqi," says a man in Bedouin dress. The occupation won't stand: "If the Americans stay more than six months, we will destroy them."
The (former) Tikrit hotel is a scene of devastation. It is still being looted. A woman looter yells to her daughter: "Shut up. Don't say we are from Tikrit." Yellow arrival cards - in English - signed by the front office cashier, are scattered among the rubble. Locals confront the foreign visitor: "This is terrorism. It's a civilian building. The Americans bombed it four times." Locals say there were six dead and 51 wounded.
Welcome to the pleasure dome: Saddam's sprawling main palace in Tikrit, its main entrance flanked by giant twin statues of Saddam riding a horse above four missiles. The palace was thoroughly bombed, and is now a converted marine camp, complete with Mississippi Delta blues soundtrack and guided tour for the visiting media. Tikritis have a different take: "The palaces are for the Iraqi people. Saddam came to the main palace only once, four years ago. And he got to swim in the river."
In the village of Owainat, locals still pay tribute to "President Saddam Hussein, God bless him." On the way back to Baghdad, we stop in Taramiya - by the Diala river, around 40 kilometers northeast of the capital. The luxurious landscape would fit Malaysia or southern Thailand. Palm trees shade mud-brick houses and narrow alleys. "People who live here are very rich. There are very good houses inland," says a trader with vast contacts in the community.
Most people belong to the Albu Shibli clan. The infamous Chemical Ali (whom the trader says is still alive) told the original inhabitants to leave these grounds and then took possession of the riverside. Chemical Ali, otherwise General Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of Saddam, masterminded the gas attacks on Kurds in northern Iraq in 1988 in which at least 5,000 people were killed in a single day.
"Most people here love Saddam Hussein. I'm sure he is hiding here," said the grinning trader. Saddam indeed owns a lot of land in Taramiya - although many locals cultivating their vegetable gardens don't know it. "Look at all these trees. Americans wouldn't find Saddam Hussein behind all these trees." The trader adds that Mahmoud Thiab al-Ahmed, the powerful former minister of internal security - also featured in the Americans' 55 playing cards - is hiding in Taramiya, where his family live.
Saddam as a ghost may soon be added to those splendid murals of Saddam art still visible all over Iraq. Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmad Chalabi, the Pentagon's pet Iraqi and self-styled successor to Saddam, says that the infamous Tikriti is alive and roaming around Iraq. Chalabi was sentenced to 22 years of hard labor in 1992 after he was tried in absentia for disappearing with US$60 million from the Petra Bank in Jordan.
Many Iraqis - and especially Tikritis - despise him, but for once Chalabi may be right. Saddam and the regime's elite have managed to melt away - maybe behind those palm trees in Taramiya - and they still haunt the Iraqi collective subconscious.
Источник: Pepe Escobar/Asia Times
(6 коммент.)
Saddam
автор Arup guest в 23.04.2003 [06:43]
And he will come back to haunt US for the future...........
Saddam, Osama, & Elvis Spotted in Las Vegas
автор Huggy Bear guest в 23.04.2003 [10:14]
Dateline April 21, 2003 [Las Vegas] -- Vito Malone, hotel manager of the Bellagio reports that cleaning staff have sighted Saddam in penthouse suite reserved by one "E. Aaron Presley". Later that evening three men, one with thick mustache, one with long beard and towel, led by a third with rhinestones were apparently seduced by Vanessa & Kitty at the VIP Sky Box in the Sapphire Gentlemen's Club. Authorities are following up.
My Type of Article
автор Baghdad Bob guest в 23.04.2003 [12:11]
We will grill these infidels stomachs. There are no Infidels in Tikrit. They are at the gates of the city committing suicide and roasting in their tanks. Great Article Comrades.
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автор alameda guest в 23.04.2003 [13:57]
What is the point here?. Why is this kind of stuff allowed in???
Let´s cheat the cheats
автор guest в 23.04.2003 [14:02]
Just watch how America makes Vietnam unreal with Rambo movies where lone rangers go back and "re-win" the war single-handed. American culture is 100% illusionist culture, and that is why we can destroy it. That will be hard, as it appeals to the lowliest human drives - the one reason for it´s success, especially with the low-witted (i.e. the majority). To defeat the Homer Simpsons we must go even lower, and smile and lie at them for awhile. It has proven efficient selling them drugs, for example. They also tend to easily fall for all things sexual, and they fall for every kind of hype, and false morale. Buy drugs and porn for America, hand it to them cheaply, and stash your money in Euros. Their education goes lower and lower - they feed on TV ads, no room left in their brains. We made them rich by buying their products and watching their movies... so this is also the time for anti-imperialist products. Iran alone could make billions from that, but China probably will...
Reverse engineering
автор guest в 23.04.2003 [14:31]
is the best ennemy to capitalism :)
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