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What Abu Nasr Sees in the Arab Media



Dear Jay,

A quick answer: no, nothing. The Iraqi ambassador to
the UN said he had no information and just watched TV
-- which probably accounted for his defeated tone.

Everything has been cut off from Iraq. All we have
now is "embedded journalists". Notice: the day after
the aggressors murder a bunch of journalists and send
them packing and two days after they pull the exact
same trick on the Russians, i.e., as soon as they have
no witnesses, the Americans proclaim themselves the
victors.

All I can say is that there has been a pattern of
Iraqi resistance in most cities and then it suddenly
melts away. Supposedly the total number of Iraqi POWs
is less than 8,000. The aggressors were expecting
50,000. The Iraqi armed forces plus the Jerusalem
Army, Fida'iyi Saddam and the rest are hundreds of
thousands. I suspect that they plan to just lie low
keeping the heat low until the US thinks it's secure
and maybe even after the US has installed a puppet
government and then strike. But they lose lots of
momentum by waiting. So we'll have to see.

Please notice too that the looting and liberating are
basically synonymous. The aggressors open the doors
of public buildings, schools, museums, palaces, etc.,
to the Lumpenproletarier and then, sure, the social
scum don't mind pausing for a photo op cheering for
Bush or pulling down a Saddam statue with their new
American friends. The official excuse is that the
Iraqi police are "afraid" to come out. No, the Iraqi
police are not working for the aggressor; and the
aggressor right now, whose greatest asset after
arrogance is money, knows how you build a power base
in a "democracy" -- you buy it. You want a cheering
crowd? Let them loot an office building or a hotel!
Yes indeed, it's "free" at last.

I expect the resistance to surface, but it might be
hard to hear about hit and run attacks. The attacks
in Afghanistan are virtually ignored in the US media;
you have to read about them on Islamicist news lines
and in obscure Pakistani regional papers. Iraq may
prove the same.

Actually, my feeling is that the US is now threatening
Syria but expects that its total control of Iraq will
enable them to arm twist Syria and the puppet Abu
Mazen to do what they want. Saudia will have to
listen to Washington too. Unless the resistance
starts to pick up soon and really get dramatic,
probably the US will turn its attention to Korea.

Korea, I think, offers nothing for the Americans -- no
oil, no Jewish issue -- but Korea is point blank
refusing to sail with the globalist wind. If
Washington doesn't attack them, they will build up
their strength. And they are absolutely right to do
so. The only way to withstand imperialist pressure is
to arm yourself with mass destruction weapons and
totally ignore the bullshit emanating from the US
puppet "united nations" which was a nice idea and
useful institution when there were two superpowers,
but which is now a pile of American garbage.

Democratic Korea is basically doing this and it is a
big problem for a regime (washington) that thinks it
is by divine right the king of the world, a big
problem for globalism.

So, I suspect the US will be going after Democratic
Korea sometime down the road.

Meanwhile as I say, I don't have much for you from
Iraq. Just expect that there will be a tremendous
wind for liberalism, globalism, Zionism and all sorts
of smiley-face "peace proposals" that are nothing but
sell outs in the coming days. I would of course like
to see the resistance get off the ground soon, but
admittedly I wouldn't want to take on the US military
head on so it might take a while.

Sorry I can't offer more. We're all cut off now.

Comradely,

Muhammad


--- Jay Moore <pieinsky@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Muhammad -- Like you and most of rest of the
> planet, I'm trying to figure
> out what the hell is happening in Iraq right now.
> Those useful, critical
> Russian intelligence reports are caput (not too
> surprisingly -- most likely
> they're gone for the same reason that Al-Jazeera and
> other "unembedded"
> reporters are being offed). What are you learning
> from the Arab language
> media? Has anybody representing the Iraqi govn't or
> Baath Party made any
> statements? Does anyone seem to be "in charge" of
> resistance?
>
> comradely yours,
> jay
>
>






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