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Iraqis Grapple With Fears Of Israeli Infiltration
Additional Reporting by Aws al-Sharqy, IOL Iraq Correspondent
BAGHDAD, June 24 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Reports were rife in the Iraqi capital Baghdad that Israeli companies and intelligence elements were being housed in the famous Baghdad Hotel which was rented by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and some American reconstruction firms.
"We were surprised that some people rented the whole hotel and were later told they were from the CIA and that the building would be devoted for them and other accompanying agents," a hotel employee told IslamOnline.net Tuesday, June 24, on condition of anonymity.
He said that hotel employees noted Monday that more foreigners and armed civilians "were seen roaming the hotel, with increasing whispers that they were here to protect Israeli companies working that rented several rooms in the hotel.
"The light guns they were carrying were not U.S.-made but rather appear to be the well-known Iraeli Ouzi machineguns," said the hotel employee to IOL correspondent outside the heavily guarded hotel.
Ousting all guests from the Baghdad Hotel, the U.S. forces even prevented the shop owners from entering the hotel and refused to pay them compensations.
"I was told to vacate my shop, which I have rented 26 years ago, in two hours' time," complained Hamid Al-Izawi, expecting the decision to extend to other shops located in the hotel vicinity.
"They even refused to compensate us for the rent money we had paid for the whole of this year, " he lamented.
IOL correspondent tried to enter the hotel, but was banned by U.S. and Iraqi security members, who also prevented him from taking any photos.
"The hotel is now rented by U.S. reconstruction companies," they told the reporter.
Infiltration
The incident coincided with the circulation of an anonymous leaflet in Baghdad this week urging Iraqis to shun that hotel, because it was used by Jews and Israeli intelligence elements.
Signed by "a sincere Iraqi Muslim," the leaflet sounded the alarms that some people were buying houses from Iraqis at sky-high prices for the interest of Jews.
The warning found credit among mosque preachers and Iraqi citizens, with reports that Israelis were seeking to lay their hands on key buildings in sensitive areas of the capital.
"Jews will try to lure Iraqis into selling their homes at whatever prices, and control the media in order to spread corruption and immorality," asserted Muhanad Abdullah, Imam of Omar Ibn Al-Khatab mosque.
"But we will fight them, and will never allow a rerun of the Palestine episode," said Sheikh Muhanad, in reference to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.
On Friday, a Sunni Muslim prayer leader charged that U.S. forces occupying Iraq were opening up the country to "Jews" and chided Iraqis he said were working as "brokers" for the Jewish infiltrators, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
"The Jews, civilian and military people, are now entering Iraq ... buying property, factories and companies while Iraqis work for them as brokers and guides," Sheikh Mahmud Khalaf told the faithful during weekly Muslim prayers in Baghdad's Sheikh Abdul Kader al-Kilani mosque.
"It is a sin for Iraq's people to sell their lands to the Jews and to deal with the Jews in this way," he said.
The warnings came few days after U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary John Taylor invited Israeli companies to join hands in the reconstruction of Iraq.
Taylor said in an interview with the Israeli daily Yediot Ahoront Saturday, June 21, that the Iraqi market would be always open to Israeli products.
Press Warning
Grapping with news of Jewish infiltration of the U.S.-occupied country, Iraqi press joined in with a flurry of reports about acquisitions of Iraqi estate by Jewish interests.
"A hotel in the city center hosts a group of Zionists seeking to buy homes and palaces that belonged to officials of the former regime," the daily al-Dawa wrote last week under the headline, "The secrets of a Karrada hotel."
"Jews are coming and buying as they did in Palestine," echoed Al-Hilal, while another newspaper, citing Baghdad residents who were offered big money to sell their homes, wondered if "Jews were about to reclaim property confiscated (when they left) in 1951."
Israeli public television reported on Saturday that a representative of the Jewish Agency had visited Iraq to check on the safety of Jews since Saddam's ouster.
Some 100,000 Jews were living in Iraq before the creation of Israel in 1948, but most left to the Jewish state and only around 40 Jews remain in Iraq now.
The tiny Jewish community lives in Baghdad, chiefly around a synagogue in the Batawin district.
http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2003-06/24/article08.shtml
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Iraq.. Replica Of Palestinians' Plight
By Aws al-Sharqy, IOL Iraq Correspondent
BAGHDAD, June 19 (IslamOnline.net) - It seems that Iraq has become a second occupied Palestine with military checkpoints, barbed wires, trigger-happy occupying soldiers, women humiliation and unemployment becoming everyday scenes in the war-scarred country, with the only difference that the occupiers are Americans not Israelis.
Over the past two days, Baghdad was the scene of incidents identical of those taking place day in and day out in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The U.S. occupation soldiers stepped up their search operations, established a myriad of checkpoints at the entrances and exits of Baghdad and kept provoking Iraqis.
Fanned by the American provocations, Iraqi resistance operations have taken an upward trajectory.
To mention but a few examples of the suffering and humiliation endured by the Iraqis under occupation, U.S. soldiers battered and assaulted an Iraqi woman at one of these numerous military checkpoints, just because she objected to being frisked.
Irked by the incident, two Iraqi men could not help stand handcuffed and opened fire at the American soldiers, leaving one dead and seriously injuring another before making their escape.
"It was a natural reaction to the American assault on the Iraqi lady," one eyewitness told IslamOnline.net.
"The U.S. soldiers traded the Iraqi fire with indiscriminate fire, leaving nearby houses damaged," he said, adding that it was a mirror image of the Israeli practices Iraqis used to watch in televised media coverage.
Hollow Promises
On Wednesday, June 18, U.S. soldiers opened fire at former Iraqi officers protesting their deplorable conditions under the U.S. occupation, killing two protesters and critically injuring others.
"When the protesters reached the headquarters of the U.S. civil administrators (Paul Bremer) to demand him fulfill his pledges, a U.S. military patrol tried to disperse the crowd.
"Suddenly, an American woman soldier opened fire from her semi-automatic gun, killing two former Iraqi soldiers Mortada al-Sayeed Ali, a father of one, and Samir Abdul Qader, who was fathering four children," Khaled Abdul Sattar, one of the protesters, told IOL.
"The Americans promised us one month ago to give each serviceman $50 per month, but they did not honor their promise," former Brig.Gen. Sief Kamaludin, who took part in the demonstration, told IOL.
Just as the Israeli occupation troops attack foreign reporters to hide their crimes, Abdul Sattar asserted that U.S. soldiers assaulted the correspondent of the Lebanese LBC satellite channel, who was filming the rally.
Some eyewitnesses confirmed to IOL that U.S. troops rounded up pressmen and photographers for refusing to hand over their cameras.
American soldiers harassed on Saturday, May 31, IslamOnline.net correspondent Ali Halani, driver Mazen al-Ebeidi and Samir Sobhi, a journalist accompanying Halani, who were filming some places in al-Bayaa’ street in Baghdad.
On April 8, U.S. missiles hit the Baghdad offices of Al-Jazeera television killing one of its reporters, Tareq Ayub.
The same day, five press men, including a Spanish cameraman and three staff of British news agency Reuters, were wounded when a Baghdad hotel housing foreign reporters covering the Iraq invasion was hit by a U.S. tank.
Crippling Siege
As for al-Bayaa district, U.S. soldiers cordoned off the entire region Wednesday night with barbed wires and prevented anyone from entering or leaving the area from 6 p.m. to midnight.
They also closed a stand where public-transport buses were setting, which link ten areas around Baghdad.
The Americans prevented the buses from transferring the Iraqi citizen to their destinations under the pretext they were hunting down some armed Iraqis.
For his part, Dr. Ahmad al-Kubaissi, the head of the Unified Iraqi National Movement (UINM), told IOL that the U.S. practices against the Iraqi people reaffirmed that the U.S. occupation is not respecting the human rights of "this down-trodden people, and is only preoccupied with controlling the resources of the country.
"The U.S. has no intention to set up a real government in Iraq, and even if it do, it would be a puppet one with the U.S. and British occupiers at the helm," he charged.
Iraqis will never yield to the occupation and are waiting for the end of the period the Americans argue is "necessary for stabilizing the country" before waging a ferocious war to force out the occupiers, Kubaissi asserted.
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