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After 20 Years, An Iraqi Returns To A Changed Land

19 Jan 2012
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I can not add anything more to her beautiful words

Source NPR:

"I think the spirit of Baghdad will never change, no matter what. The Baghdad and Iraqi people will endure, but visually, I think the city's just completely destroyed. It used to be a beautiful city, and I'm searching really hard to find its beauty." Aseel Albanna

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/19/145397206/after-20-years-an-iraqi-returns-to-a-changed-land

Witness of Baghdad Church Attack (NourSat Interview Overview) (A Hostage View)

6 Nov 2010
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I am trying to translate things quickly but wanted to let people see whats happening in Iraq, and do not forget how Iraqis are treated under this government, This government called this rescue operation a success (yes believe it or not they did call it a successful operation).

this video of a girl who had a brother and sister and a young child (nephew) that got killed during the attack, she was one of the hostages,

She is very emotional as you can see in the video, she is describing the attacker and what they did. this is how she explain it

The attackers went into the church by having couple of explosions and the smoke start to enter the church, when the priest went out to tell them to cool down they right away shot him, her and her sister and Auday (her brother and his son (Adam)), there was few young men they attackers were telling each other to kill all of them.

His young child named Adam (was crying and attached to his dad), the kid was scared, his dad is trying to calm him down, the girls (2 sisters) were very close to their brother and his son, all scared and shaking, the only one who was trying to calm them is the brother. he was telling his sisters that these people will take money and leave, so just keep quite.

but the attackers went and shot the brother on the shoulder, his child started crying, and one of the girls got shot in the leg and fell over the brother and the child,

this girl was explaining how she moved that girl from above her nephew because so that the kid can breath.

She is explaining: The terrorist kept throwing grande toward us, and he was telling us that you all infernal gonna go to hell even when you live you are in hell, while no matter what we do, we are going to heaven,

she was explaining how cold blooded those terrorist are, while all the carnage around them the discussion between them was like this

Terroist 1: Is everything good with you,

Terroist 2: : am good, dont worry about me

Terroist 1: did you pray

Terroist 2: ya I did

all this while they are shooting innocent people ,

Adam (the young child) voice went down and I did not know what happen to him and could not do anything , she was scared when her phone went on and started vibrating and one of the terrorist was looking for the cause of the noise, she hid the phone quickly into her purse and laid over the purse so that they wont find her and her sister.

One of The terrorist started praying then blow himself up, she was trying to check if her sister was alive,

then the Army went in, but we did not know them and we though they were terrorist too (I think they were playing dead), so the army identified themselves as army and start asking people to leave if they are alive, she moved and searched for her brother son , using her cell phone light , she saw the child fully burned .

they left and church and it was a total mess the girl was crying and all what the army were doing is shouting at them to calm down , she shut them up. she was asking loudly whith all those army outside how come you keep us inside for so long (they were under siege for about 4 hours)

she said while leaving we were walking over flesh of people scattered around the church.

Who are the Iraqis

2 Jan 2010
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By Joe Bob Briggs
NEW YORK, (UPI) — Every decade or so, we should remind ourselves of who the Iraqis are:

Twelve thousand years ago, they invented irrigated farming. They got to be so good at it that, today, they can still produce all the food they need even when “sanctions” are imposed.
They invented writing.
They figured out how to tell time.
They founded modern mathematics.
In the Code of Hammurabi, they invented the first legal system that protects the weak, the widow and the orphan.
Five thousand years ago, they had philosophers who attempted to list every known thing in the world.
They were using Pythagoras’ theorem 1,700 years before Pythagoras.
They invented artificial building materials, some kind of pre-fab-crete stuff used to construct high-rise towers.
Ur, in southeast Iraq, is assumed to be the place we’re all descended from.
They were the first people to build cities and live in them.
For thousands of years, they wrote the greatest poetry, history and “sagas” in the world.
Because they were great horse breeders, they invented the cavalry in war.
The Iraq Museum in Baghdad contains some of the most outstanding stone, metal and clay sculptures and inscriptions created in the history of the world. Some of them are more than 7,000 years old. If a bomb hits this place, art lovers around the world will go into mourning.
The first school for astronomers was established by Iraqis. This is how the “wise men” got to be so wise. They knew how to follow the star.
Beginning around 800 A.D., the Iraqis founded universities that imported teachers from throughout the civilized world to teach medicine, mathematics, philosophy, theology, literature and poetry.
For the first 1,200 years of its existence, Baghdad was regarded as one of the most refined, civilized and festive cities in the world.
Abraham, the father of Israel, was from Iraq.
Abraham, the father of Islam, was from Iraq.
Abraham, the father and “model” of Christian faith, was from Iraq.
Saddam Hussein doesn’t regard himself as the heir of Abraham, or even as the heir of Muhammad. He regards himself, first and foremost, as the heir of Nebuchadnezzar. He identifies, in other words, with the enslaver, not the enslaved.

Everything we know about the rest of Iraq tells us that he is the exception,not the Iraqis.

Iraqi People

2 Jan 2010
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Ehtnic Groups
Arabs
They are almost 75% to 80% of Iraq’s population.

Kurds
They are about 15% to 20% of the Iraqi population, They live in the north and have had a lot of trouble with the central government. Regardless, the situation for Iraqi Kurds it is much better than that of Kurds in neighboring countries.

Turkmen, Assyrian, Chaldenian Jews, and other
Turkmen, Assyrian, Chaldenian Jews, and other are part of the iraqi socity. They live mostly in the main cities of iraq.

Religions
Shiaa Muslims
They are about 60%-65%, mostly living in the south of Iraq.

Sunni Muslems
They are about 31% to 36% of the Iraqi population, they live almost all over the country with concentration in central Iraq.

Christian
They are about 3% of Iraq, living mostly in Baghdad and also in the northern parts of Iraq.

Others
They are about 1% of Iraq, There are Jews and Yazeeden , they are few but still part of the Iraqi socity.

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