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CHECHNIA: The symbol of a peoples' Will to Live
and Die with Honor
[With thanks to sis. Hamdiyah Fatima, South
Carolina, courtesy kavkaz.]
February 23 is the 59th anniversary of the total
deportation of Chechen and
Ingush Nations to Central Asia and Siberia. On
February 23, 1994 the first
President of Independent Chechen State Dzhokhar
Dudayev signed a special
Decree on the Day of Rebirth of the Chechen
Nation. Speaking at the meeting
in Jokhar, the Chechen President stated, - "Our
enemies want the Chechen
people to remain in constant mourning and to
constantly mourn the losses of
their relatives and loved ones. We are rejecting
the eternal mourning. The
Chechen Nation has strong spirit and strong
faith. From now on and forever
this day will become the Day of Rebirth of the
Chechen Nation, the Day of the
demonstration that we are alive and that we are
fighting no matter what.
Regardless of all the efforts that our enemies
are making in order to plunge
us into eternal mourning. We will not mourn, we
will not forget or forgive!"
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60 Minutes of Lies: Rebuttal of
CBS
Story
Hussein Al-Shaharastani was NEVER in a nuclear
weapons program
Large Landowner's Land was Distributed by Saddam:
Worked for pro-Iran Group.
If you watched the 60 Minutes interview with
Hussein
Al-Shaharastani, it was one HUGE LIE.
My husband and I
knew Husain Al Shaharastani and his wife Berniece
Coleman Al-Shaharastani in the 60s and 70s in
Iraq.
I
used to teach with Berniece at Thanawiat Baghdad
fi
Mansour. Berniece used to teach the first and
second
class English but she has a BSc in Biology from
Canada. (I don't remember the name of the
university
she graduated from, though.) She was a good
friend of
mine and we visited each other often. She had 3
daughters named Zainab, Fatma and Ruqaya before I
left
Baghdad in 1976. She has had at least 2 more
children
since then. Her husband has a MSc in Petroleum
Engineering and a PhD in Nuclear Physics. He used
to
do nuclear research in medicine. I was asked to
participate in one of his research projects which
was
to measure the amount of mercury and DDT in the
body.
I was asked to contribute hair samples for that
project. The nuclear research facility he worked
at
was called the Takathariya.
Hussein Shaharastani is from Kerbala. He is the
son of
the second wife of a wealthy landowner. His
family
used to own 12,000 donums in Kerbala and his
father
was known as a religious leader and a Shia
sheikh. His
father died while Hussein was still young as his
father was quite old when he married Hussein's
mother.
When the Baathist Party came into power, they
seized
the land and distributed it to the share croppers
who
were working on the land. However, Huseain felt a
need
to continue a relationship with his former
sharecroppers and would make
frequent trips to Kerbala on
Shia holidays. He was very bitter about the
seizure of
his property and the subsequent loss of status of
his
family.
Husain Al-Shaharastani rose quickly in the
Baathist
Party and was soon working out of the
Presidential
Palace in Baghdad as a favored "son" of Saddam.
However, Hussein was also a member of Hezba Dawa,
a
Shia terrorist group that was supported by
Khomeni
whose aim was to violently overthrow the Baath
Party
in Iraq. The Hezba Dawa staged demonstrations and
planted bombs in the universities.
It seems that
Husain disguised himself with a beard and an
imama
(shia hat) and participated in a
pro-Iranian/anti-Baath demonstration. The
demonstration was filmed by the Baath Party and
Husain
Al-Shaharastani was identified. When he showed up
at
the Presidential Palace the next day, he was
shown the
film and then he was thrown into jail. That was
in
1978 or 1979 just before the Iraq/Iran war.
In 1980, the
Israelis
bombed the French built nuclear
reactor
which was a research facility only. At that time,
it
was estimated that Iraq was at least 10 years
away
from developing any nuclear weapons. Hussein
Al-Shaharastani was NEVER in a nuclear weapons
program
as he claimed on 60 Minutes. He was doing medical
research.
He wasn't put in jail for refusing to
develop nuclear weapons. He was jailed for being
a
member of the Iranian terrorist group, the Hezba
Dawa
which had planted bombs in Mustansaria
University. He
was working for Iran and was planning
insurrection in
Iraq. He was caught.
He also couldn't know about any
secret underground tunnels as he claimed on 60
Minutes
as he was jailed before Israel bombed the nuclear
reactor in 1980. At the time he was employed in
medical research, there was no need for
underground
tunnels.
The whole 60 Minutes story was a fabrication
of the INC (the Iraqi National Congress) which is
headed by Ahmad Chelabi. Ahmad Chelabi is wanted
both
in Jordan and Morocco for committing bank fraud.
It
appears that Ahmad Chelabi is now supporting the
former Iranian spy and Iraqi traitor Husain
Al-Shaharastani. And since this whole episode is
well
known in Iraq, I am assuming that 60 Minutes is
fully
aware of the truth and is perpetuating another
fraudon the American public.
As for Berniece, she continued working at
Thanawiat
Baghdad fi Mansour after her husband went to
jail. She
then disappeared from Iraq. Rumor had it that she
was
in Iran with the Iranian half of the Shaharastani
family. She couldn't take her children back to
Canada
as Canada has a rule that the children born in
the
country of the foreign parent become the citizens
of
the country in which they are born. I am glad to
see
that she and her children are safe in London. But
I am
very upset that she has become embroiled in a
plot to
invade Iraq and made to seem to be confirming the
lies
her husband espoused on 60 Minutes.
[Writer's name withheld on request.]
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