Iraqi Abuse: All because of Mr. Bush

[croak]

This is political, right? Because I don't think I can put this anywhere else. Isn't exactly a debate, anyways.

ABU GHRAIB PRISON ATTACKED IN RESPONSE TO “FATIMA'S LETTER”

Dec 21, 2004
By Khadija Abdul Qahaar, JUS And Muhammad Abu Nasr, Free Arab Voice

At approximately 12:25pm on Saturday, resistance fighters waged an unprecedented assault on the Abu Ghraib prison camp south of Baghdad. The assault was sparked by a letter from a female prisoner named Fatima that fueled some Muslim fighters into action.

Fatima’s letter, a hand written document, was recently smuggled out of Abu Ghraib. Fatima is the sister of one of the celebrated Resistance fighters in the area. US occupation forces raided his house some time back but failed to find him, so they took his sister prisoner in an attempt to force him to give himself up. JUS reported the incident at the time and it was said that this family is known for their piety and uprightness.

Here is Fatima’s letter as originally published in Arabic by Mafkarat al-Islam and translated to English by Muhammad Abu Nasr of Free Arab Voice

Fatima’s Letter

"In the name of God, the Merciful, the Mercy-giving. “Say He is God the One; God the Source [of everything]; Not has He fathered, nor has He been fathered; nor is anything comparable to Him.” [Qur’an, Surat 112 “al-Ikhlas”]

I chose this noble Surah from the Book of God because it has the greatest impact on me and on all of you and it strikes a particular kind of awe in the hearts of Believers.

My brother Mujahideen in the path of God! What can I say to you? I say to you: our wombs have been filled with the children of fornication by those sons of apes and pigs who raped us. Or I could tell you that they have defaced our bodies, spit in our faces, and tore up the little copies of the Qur’an that hung around our necks? God is greatest! Can you not comprehend our situation? Is it true that you do not know what is happening to us? We are your sisters. God will be calling you to account [about this] tomorrow."

By God, we have not passed one night since we have been in prison without one of the apes and pigs jumping down upon us to rip our bodies apart with his overweening lust. And we are the ones who had guarded our virginity out of fear of God. Fear God! Kill us along with them! Destroy us along with them! Don’t leave us here to let them get pleasure from raping us! It will be an act to ennoble the Throne of Almighty God. Fear God regarding us! Leave their tanks and aircraft outside. Come at us here in the prison of Abu Ghurayb.

I am your sister in God (Fatimah). They raped me on one day more than nine times. Can you comprehend? Imagine one of your sisters being raped. Why can’t you all imagine it, as I am your sister. With me are 13 girls, all unmarried. All have been raped before the eyes and ears of everyone.

They won’t let us pray. They took our clothes and won’t let us get dressed. As I write this letter one of the girls has committed suicide. She was savagely raped. A soldier hit her on her chest and thigh after raping her. He subjected her to unbelievable torture. She beat her head against the wall of the cell until she died, for she couldn’t take any more, even though suicide is forbidden in Islam. But I excuse that girl. I have hope that God will forgive her, because He is the Most Merciful of all.

Brothers, I tell you again, fear God! Kill us with them so that we might be at peace. Help! Help! Help! [Wa Mu'atasima!]"


Subsequently, approximately 100 resistance fighters launched a fierce attack on the prison, forcing US troops to take cover inside their barracks within the compound. Fighters pounded the Americans with barrages of 82mm and 120mm mortar rounds. Large crowds of people gathered outside, fearful that the bombardment might harm the prisoners but they were assured by the fighters that they knew the layout of the prison camp very well.

Mafkarat al-Islam’s correspondent in Baghdad reported that the fighters succeeded in destroying part of the walls of the prison camp, blasting a hole four meters long in the inner and outer fences that encircled the camp.

The fate of Fatima and the other woman with her is unknown.

On a final note, an individual responded to Fatima's letter yesterday on the Ansar site and wrote:

“Sorry, sister, we are not men. Only true men can answer your cry for help. Men are in a very short supply these days. Sorry again sister.”

....We feel great frustration and failure over the receipt of Fatima’s letter because we know there are many more Fatimas being raped in prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan and many other sisters who are being violated who are not in captivity. What must we do to make these voices heard and where are the Muslim men to defend their honor?


From www.jihadunspun.net

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Do you think that it was such a good idea going to Iraq? I don't think so.

 

[Scuba Pete]

Sounds like one of those letters that gets circulated on the internet. Full of lies and deciept and targeted to create hate where none should exist.

I scoff at this letter and deem it a fake. Probably written by a man wanting to invoke the wrath of others for crimes not committed. There is no honor in such a letter... only stupidity at being duped by it.

I am no fan of President Bush, but feel that this is merely trash. Fuel for the war beast. God will not have mercy on the perpetrator.

 

[Jaymes]

Truly disgusting.

On the topic of 'because of Bush'...

Newly Obtained FBI Records Call Defense Department’s Methods "Torture," Express Concerns Over "Cover-Up" That May Leave FBI "Holding the Bag" for Abuses

NEW YORK -- A document released for the first time today by the American Civil Liberties Union suggests that President Bush issued an Executive Order authorizing the use of inhumane interrogation methods against detainees in Iraq.

I find myself quite... vicious in hoping this comes back and makes him regret it. To say the least.

 

[Jaymes]

I am no fan of President Bush, but feel that this is merely trash. Fuel for the war beast. God will not have mercy on the perpetrator.

According to the ACLU, he is responsible in some ways. Maybe not for everything described in that letter... but he helped make it possible.

 

[robtex]

In the end war is a breeding ground and cesspool for the creation of bad and evil. Its the nature of the business. Imagine you are a soilder and you have a group of captives. Some soilders from the opposition came into your camp last night and killed your drinking buddy and some guy just in country ...not even a week. Than slipped out with none killed or wounded. Here you have all this rage and hate and anger and..and...prisioners.....prisioners who may know who these guys all and where they live.

Now before you stop me and say "hold up there robtex" "that makes no sense, how the heck these guys gonna have a clue?" " ponder this: would they be running on emotion or rational more after a dramatic incident and do they run on logic all the time or both with variances from time to time?

Torture happpens in war. Rest assured executions have happen by both sides during the war and -people have survived the war cause others were executed against genova codes. That is reality and that is war.

Maybe these woman were raped and maybe they were not....rape happens in war. All wars. Killing happens in war --all wars....torture happens in all wars......and those involved collectiivly speaking turn in a net experience that is can be deemed negative as a result of their partipation in it.

 

[Sunstone]

Rearing Arabian, have you considered the possibility that this "news report" of a letter from prison, along with an attack on the prison, might be a complete fabrication? That is, sheer propaganda? The reason I ask is in part because the older I get, the more I discover that much of what is passed off for truth is actually only so much bunk. Also, I haven't seen any independent reports that there actually was an attack on that prison recently. So I wonder if it is not possible that we are being propagandized with this one.

 

[jewscout]

I have to agree with Sunstone on this one, i'm not sure that much of this report can be substantiated elsewhere.

 

[retrorich]

Since Bush caused the Iraq War, he is responsible for all the death, torture and destruction that that has resulted from that unjustifiable invasion.

 

[Feathers in Hair]

I'll be interested to see if this is real or not. I certainly disagree with what's happening, though, and don't feel having people imprisoned under any circumstances in which they have not been proven of committing a crime is morally and legally wrong.