" Visible Secrets"

But this is Iraq - and both are foreign interferences... We are not an extension of Iran and we will never be. We are not an American playground and we will never be.We are not an English park and we will never be. We are not an Israeli wailing wall and we will never be...

Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues - Reflections in a sealed bottle...

...The murder of Saddam Hussein, however much you hate it or hate him, was the turning point... Everything you witness or hear about today in Iraq is nothing but a delayed response to that day. Do not dismiss so easily things and people. Specially not Saddam Hussein and what he represented... I do not need to praise Saddam Hussein. His own death and the circumstances surrounding it, are his best eulogy. All in his honor and again...however much you hate it. I am interested, just like in a murder film, in those present on that infamous day, the day of assassination. That grim day that will never be forgotten. Let me review who was present that day and you figure out the plot... The Americans supposedly "handed" Saddam Hussein to the following : - Al- Hakeem of SCIRI. Al Hakeem is an Iranian national, born and bred in Iran. - Al– Maliki of the Dawa party. Al Maliki is a dual Iranian – Iraqi national. - Muwafak Al Rubaie – aka K.Shahpour, an Iranian national. Others present at the murder scene were : - The Iranian Ambassador to Iraq ! - A few Western journalists – the Pentagon press amongst others... - And none other than Muqtada Al-Sadr. The born again shiite mullah who never studied theology. Muqtada Al –Sadr is known to be a school drop out, a boy in jeans...who did nothing but roam the streets, play pool and harass girls...We call him in Arabic, "Ibn al shaware’e"...Meaning the son of the streets. By the way, that psychopath has gone in hiding again in Iran! In your slang, it means a street kid...In our slang it's a polite word for son of a bitch. And no one praises street kids thugs or sons of bitches, specially when they are reknown to be drillers and rapists...under a mullah cloak. I mean no one in their right mind...unless they too, are psychopaths and sons of bitches. Amidst shouts of "long live Muqtada", the legitimate president of Iraq and a great leader was murdered. Now, I assume you are intelligent enough (mind you I may be very wrong on that one) to deduce who the assassins were... I also assume you are intelligent enough to realize that the Americans and Iranians were complicit in the murder of the one who kept Iraq together - the Iraq of all sects and creeds...

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