American Crimes in Iraq Will Go Unpunished

American Attack on Beni Malik and the Awakening of the Prime Minister

At dawn on Friday, a force of the American occupation of approximately sixty fighters with four large Apache helicopters attacked the village of Jnajah in the rural province of Karbala.

After the attack, Aqeel Khaz’al, one of the members of the Dawa Party and who serves as a governor of Karbala and who is connected to the United States operations, condemned the U.S. operation, which he described as a breach of the security agreement to hand over the security operations to the Iraqis in Karbala, and that the American criminals must be prosecuted by the Iraqi justice system.

In the same context, Iraqi Armed forces’ commander-in-chief and secretary general of the Islamic Dawa Party, Nouri Kamel al-Maliki, condemned the operation in Karbala and strongly called to audit American forces and to bring the criminals to justice by Iraqi judges.

After further investigations, it was confirmed that the American attack was aimed at a rural region inhabited by the tribe of Malik, from the Euphrates region and not the south, and that one of the attack’s victims, Ali abd al-Hussein al-Maliki, was directly related to Nouri al-Maliki.

In other words, the Iraqi Prime Minister was awakened and realized that America does not respect anyone in Iraq, including the cousins of Beni Malik in Karbala, even though he always condoned the crimes of the American forces throughout the years of his control, including the crimes of the American occupation in Sadr City in which the American occupation killed more than one thousand Iraqi martyrs and devastated the city, all without comments from the leaders in the Green Zone. And let’s not forget about the crimes in Sahat al-Nosour (Western Baghdad), and Hayaniya Square and Tanouma in Basra.

The strangest claim that I have heard is their calls for putting the Americans on trial for their attacks on Karbala. Iraqis know very well that, whether they like it or not, the Americans have legal immunity, and no American soldier or member of the gangs of foreign security companies will ever be held accountable for any crime committed in the territory of Iraq because they are simply above the laws of Iraq and over the constitution.

This late awakening of the Prime Minister clarifies this discriminatory situation, which burdens him and other Shiites in the Green Zone. Wherever they meet gunfire they scream in great distress for assistance from the rule of law, in accordance with Iraqi conduct. However the deaths which occur in this manner, in Sadr City or Talaafr, or Mosul, or Faluja, or others, are not of importance. Laws do not apply, and Iraqis and Iraqi sovereignty continue in their progression to Hell.

What happened in the village Jnajh of Karbala in the attack on Beni Malik has led to a strange awakening in the Green Zone. But the awakening to discrimination is not for Iraq and the Iraqi people – clans, denominations and races -but an awakening for the Prime Minister to protect the clan killings and arrests, an awakening abhorrent to the tribe, for kinship and for intermarriage, and not for the oppressed people of Iraq. The misery of that awakening is men awakening to sectarianism, regionalism, tribalism and racism. Its mandate was an awakening for Iraq, and for Iraq’s security, and for Iraq’s sovereignty and independence, and prosperity for Iraq.

We condemn this attack not only because it targeted the tribe of Beni Malik, but also because it was an attack on a safe Iraqi village. As we condemned the attack on Mosul and Sadr City and Basra, Fallujah, Tal Afar, and in the area of Al-Yazidi, the displacement of peaceful Sunnis and Shiites, and the assassination of Christians, we are against any American attacks on any Iraqi in all parts Iraq. We reject every act of ethnic clan protection in return for collective protection for all of Iraqis, embodied as a single Iraqi government where the rulers of Iraq will provide security and sovereignty for Iraq and Iraqis of all sects and nationalities and refuse to sign the Security Convention which will conclude the sale of Iraq’s sovereignty.

I say we hear a lot of talk about the near completion and conclusion of the agreement between governors/government, Green Zone security, and US occupation forces in order to(hoping to) colonize Iraq and end Iraqi sovereignty. I say to the tribal awakening in the Green Zone, “What are you doing about the future immunity claimed by American soldiers in the convention for the security here?” You have seen what America did in the village of Beni Malik in Karbala. You have seen that they kill and arrest without respect for Iraqi Sovereignty or the presence of the governor of Karbala. And what they did is a message to everyone that they will continue their approach after the agreement on security:

-Killing Iraqis without fear of Iraqi justice

-Detaining Iraqis in American prisons in Iraq

-Unilateral attacks on Iraqi cities without notifying the Iraqi government

-Unimpeded entry and exit of Iraqi cities where no one has a right to stop them.

-Free movement of any military equipment across the Iraqi border, including nuclear wastes which may be buried in Iraqi soil.

What can you do???