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The Hanoudi Letter: A letter to the American People |
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Saturday, 31 December 2005 |
I am writing this letter on the eve of the New Year. I am not very happy or in a celebratory mood, but praying and hoping that the New Year would be better and bring peace and happiness to the whole world and mainly to you and to my own people. 2005 was a terrible year, the death and destruction it has brought are very difficult to describe in this short piece which is not intended to be a record of the miseries and pain the major disasters that happened during that year has brought about. The expired year is already in the annals of history and I am going to leave it there. I am not going to talk about the major catastrophes that struck various parts of the world like the Indian Ocean Tsunami, Katrina and the recent Asian earthquake, these are manifestations of a very angry and furious nature they are usually very hard to predict and control, but man should at least be able to deal reasonably with their terrible aftermaths something which seems to have not been the case in most of these instances. I am going to talk about one special case which resulted from mistakes and blunders by men in both our countries, politicians and ideologues who were interested only in their narrow personal interests and agendas that has resulted in an unusual suffering in our two countries.
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The Hanoudi Letter: The First Anniversary |
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Sunday, 25 December 2005 |
The Hanoudi Letter is two years old now, the first letter was inserted in this blog on the 10th of December 2004. On the 11th of this month I was back to Baghdad from Amman were I have been residing in Amman, Jordan for the last six months with my unfortunate and still seriously ill son who is still suffering from the effects of the injury which resulted from a foolish unexplained shooting by an American soldier on the last 29th of March. The great city was still without electricity as part of the still terrible situation it has been enduring under the American occupation since it was honored by the presence of the Americans. I was staying the night in my old house which was in terrible darkness, so I lit a candle not to celebrate the birthday of the Hanoudi Letter, but to honor a fascinating very wise old Chinese saying "Do not curse the darkness, lit a candle".
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The Iraqi Situation: The trial of Saddam and the parliamentary elections |
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Thursday, 15 December 2005 |
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I have always resisted the temptation to talk about the Iraqi situation from the outside, I have repeatedly emphasized that there are very subtle factors in the situation which are impossible for someone outside it to grasp. I'm back in Baghdad now. I have been staying in Amman for the last six months caring for the endless suffering of my son who has been injured by a trigger happy American soldier and is still in a very serious condition of brain damage for the last year and a half. The two most significant features of the Iraqi situation at present is the campaign for the election of a new parliament which is due on December 15th. The other major issue is the trial of Saddam Hussein and some of his senior aides which has been going on now for more than a month.
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Saddam: Part 3: The Roots, the Rise and the Fall |
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Saturday, 03 December 2005 |
The trial of Saddam Hussein was resumed on Monday, November, 28, 2005, it has started after a very long delay six weeks earlier but was adjourned at the behest of the defense team who asked for a three months adjournment. The court only gave the defense team six weeks. The first session was essentially a ceremonial affair and did not involve a great deal of very serious trying, the most important feature of it was Saddam himself and his behavior during the few hours it lasted. The man was clearly defeated, but he was trying to project an image of power and control, he refused to accept the constitutionality of the court and its jurisdiction in his case, he refused to give his name but insisted that he was innocent.
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