Iraq

Arab Discriminates Against Women. Why Is That So?

by Haitham Sabbah December 1, 2004

Last week, Guardian-organised event at which more than 100 young British Muslims were brought together at University College London. The delegates came from all walks of life, and held a wide range of views. The one thing that came across very clearly was that the media are often wrong to refer to “the Muslim community”, [...]

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Gladiators of Iraq

by Haitham Sabbah November 22, 2004

According to Lycos News: US Marines of the 1st Division dressed as gladiators try to control a horse and stage a chariot race reminiscent of the Charlton Heston movie–complete with confiscated Iraqi horses at their base outside Fallujah, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 6 , 2004. For U.S. Marines tapped to lead an expected attack on insurgent-held [...]

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War correspondent Kevin Sites, in his own words about his Falluja shooting video

by Haitham Sabbah November 22, 2004

…I see an old man in a red kaffiyeh lying against the back wall. Another is face down next to him, his hand on the old man’s lap — as if he were trying to take cover. I squat beside them, inches away and begin to videotape them. Then I notice that the blood coming [...]

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U.S. Media Censorship

by Haitham Sabbah November 20, 2004

Google Censorship Abu Gharib Photos.
Fallujah Video has congressman calling for reporter ban.

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A Salute To The Minutemen of Fallujah!

by Haitham Sabbah November 19, 2004

Best wishes for the freedom fighters in Fallujah and Iraq. May you rid your country of its foreign occupiers. In 1776, gangs of raggedy-assed guerrilla resistance fighters took on the largest, best-equipped, best-trained Imperial Army on the planet, and dished them out a harder licking than they ever expected…and you know the rest. So it [...]

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Arofish Hits Iraq, the West Bank, and Gaza

by Haitham Sabbah November 18, 2004

arofish is a graffiti artist living in London who recently went into Iraq, the West Bank, and Gaza “vandalising the already ruined walls – painting over bullet scars.” We were blown away by arofish’s work in the Middle East. For us, the work that he does is incredibly haunting. The people he paints seem to come off the wall and into your soul.

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US Marine Filmed Killing Unarmed Iraqi

by Haitham Sabbah November 16, 2004

Several TV stations aired a video showing a U.S. marine shooting an unarmed wounded Iraqi man in the head inside a Fallujah mosque as he was laying down next to the wall.

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Bro. Arab Christians, Hold On, Don’t Leave

by Haitham Sabbah November 16, 2004

“This was the work of foreign terrorists. Iraq’s Muslim leaders do not want us to leave. Christians enjoy their highest respect.”

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Somebody Tell Lt. Brandon Turner That He’s Insane

by Haitham Sabbah November 13, 2004

[Quote:] This from the Los Angeles Times: “We’ve got chunks of territory, but these guys (insurgents) are all over the place,” Marine Lt. Brandon Turner said Thursday as he stood amid shattered glass and concrete under the green dome of Al Kalfa mosque, his fellow Marines resting on a plush red carpet. “They just keep [...]

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Iraq Visual Language Survival Guides for Military Personnel

by Haitham Sabbah September 28, 2004

It may look like a manual for fetishists, designed by a down-on-his luck coloring book designer. But, really, it’s a “visual language survival guide,” used by coalition soldiers and contractors in Iraq. A company named Kwikpoint makes them, and the military hands them out to personnel. The guides help English-speaking personnel communicate with prisoners, would-be-detainees, [...]

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Iraq Just Like USA

by Haitham Sabbah September 26, 2004

Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld yesterday: We had something like 200 or 300 or 400 people killed in many of the major cities of America last year. Is it perfectly peaceful? No. What’s the difference? We just didn’t see each homicide in every major city in the United States on television every night. It [...]

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Microwave gun to be used by US troops on Iraq rioters

by Haitham Sabbah September 20, 2004

Few weeks ago we talked about Electromagnetic and Informational Weapons: The Remote Manipulation of the Human Brain. Today The Telegraph reports that Non-lethal microwave weapons, also called Active Denial System , are to be issued to American troops in Iraq as concern mounts over the growing number of civilians killed in fighting. The non-lethal weapons, [...]

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To Kill The Child & Leaving Beirut

by Haitham Sabbah September 16, 2004

I’ve always been a big fan of Pink Floyd & Roger Waters. Few days ago, Roger Waters released two new tracks penned “In Response to the Invasion of Iraq”, as the press release says. However if you look at the cover photo of the tracks, you can see clearly that he chosen a photo of [...]

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