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Lurking Nemesis In Iraqi Desert

Contrary to Anglo-American wishful thinking, far from greeting the invaders with open arms the Iraqis are solidly behind their leadership in resisting the murderous foreign campaign and incursion into their country. According to the ICRC in Jordan, five thousand refugee camps in Amman for sheltering refugees from Iraq are empty. On the other hand Iraqis living in Jordan are returning to Iraq in large numbers to remain by the side of their nation at the hour of its peril. There is nothing to lose heart.

ABDUL HANNAN
IRAQ, systematically disarmed and stripped of its defence arsenal by 12 years of most stringent UN sanctions and a rigorous UN weapons inspection regime since 1991 (with intervening 3 years of suspension before its resumption 4 months back) is bleeding and lies in waste by the Anglo American invading forces. The Iraqis caught in an asymmetric warfare and pitted against a powerful enemy equipped with superior weaponry, communication support and deadly long range Tomahawk cruise missiles, B52 bombers, and Apache helicopters, and what you name them, are putting up a heroic resistance and last ditch fight to live with honour and dignity by defending their national independence and territorial integrity. The potential danger of an imminent blood bath and carnage in the battle of Baghdad is real. However, amidst these dark portents of a looming disaster, there are some glimmers of hope, faint though. The elements of thick clouds of billowing and steaming sand storm, mysterious but unmistakable acts of divine intervention, reminiscent of Tiran Ababil episode in the Holy Quran, have risen in full fury to hold in check the invading US led coalition army. There are occurring casualties among coalition forces by friendly fire and accidental helicopter crashes, seen as acts of divine justice and retribution.
America and Britain, the two permanent members of Security Council, have defied the international public opinion, arrogantly snubbed Security Council members -- France, Russia, China and Germany -- by not disarming Iraq through peaceful UN route but by unilaterally launching military attack flouting with impunity the international law and the UN charter. America has rebuked France as 'ungrateful' and ridiculed it as 'old Europe' and has accused Russia of selling anti-tank guided missiles, jamming devices and night vision goggles to Baghdad. Russia has denied
the charge. Russian president Putin has warned that the Iraq war is the worst crisis threatening to destabilize international relations to a new low since the cold war. America has brought unsubstantiated accusation against Syria and Iran of supplying war materials to Iraq. It has asked other countries to expel Iraqi diplomats and freeze Iraqi mission assets. It has asked Canada and Mexico to stifle dissent on war on Iraq These are ominous signs of arrogance of a superpower which has run amuck riding roughshod over everybody at will. These are grunts and fulminations of wounded pride of a lion caged and humbled by its own stupidity. President Bush is playing with wild fire which can spill over and spiral out of control any moment into a wider conflagration engulfing the whole world by tearing apart the status quo of existing dynamics of balance of power. George W Bush the conceited, megalomaniac 37th president of the United States has assured for himself the dubious honour of a place in the company of history's dangerously mad men including Hitler, Chengiz Khan, and Tamerlain. But is not hatred and
violence an anathema to reason, science and modernism and the Christian values of love, compassion and tolerance?.
The international community cannot sit back and watch Baghdad burning without a burden of guilt but must join forces with nature to voice its protest, anger and revulsion at the unilateral and wanton invasion of Iraq. Thank heavens, an emergency meeting of the Security Council was held, pressed by the Arab League. But the Council can brook no assault on its integrity and must formulate a robust resolution condemning this naked aggression and act of rank perfidy, expressing concern at the approaching massive human rights violation and humanitarian catastrophe. The Council should send a stern warning that the failure to comply with the resolution will be fraught with 'serious consequences'. The aim was not to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction (which clearly they didn't find) but in reality to assassinate Saddam Hussein and bring about a regime change to whet their imperialist ambition to hold unfettered sway over
Iraq's oil resources and expand colonial hegemony over the entire Middle East region. General Tommy Frank is no Lawrence of Arabia to 'liberate' Iraq but to occupy as a US protectorate. About post war administration dispensation in Iraq, Colin Powell wants 'dominant influence' by America. Americans have displayed their unabashed greed by starting to give contracts to American companies in the reconstruction of war ravaged Iraq. Vice President Cheney' s firm Heliburton has received contract for fire fighting burning Iraqi oilfields. They have now unveiled their true intention behind their so called infatuation with human rights and democracy in Iraq. The Russian Foreign minister Igor Ivanov has truly said 'Iraq does not need a democracy which is carried on the wings of a cruise missile'.
The full weight of the international community must be brought to bear against the mad and reckless Anglo US invasion of Iraq which is a threat to international peace and stability and an assault on civilization.. What is imperative now is a special emergency meeting of the UN General Assembly to
discuss this critical situation. This will partially shore up the shattered image of the United Nations which has lost all credibility. The European parliament should craft an urgent message to stop forthwith the US led coalition aggression on Iraq. The 57-member OIC and the 166-member NAM should also condemn this attack in the strongest term and ask for an immediate halt. The resolution adopted at the recently concluded Arab foreign ministers' meeting in Cairo has not been sufficiently strong because of inherent weakness of the faction ridden Arab League. The fractured and fragmented Arabs are their own enemy. They should read the writing on the wall and close their ranks and withdraw active support to Anglo US Coalition war efforts or face the maelstrom of seething popular anger and frustration of ordinary Arabs against their despotic rulers sunk into the delight of wealth and luxury under patronage and protection of the United States.
Contrary to Anglo-American wishful thinking, far from greeting the invaders with open arms the Iraqis are solidly behind their leadership in resisting the murderous foreign campaign and incursion into their country. According to the ICRC in Jordan, five thousand refugee camps in Amman for sheltering refugees from Iraq are empty. On the other hand Iraqis living in Jordan are returning to Iraq in large numbers to remain by the side of their nation at the hour of its peril. There is nothing to lose heart. Pride goeth before fall. An unjust war will not stand. Iraq has already won a pyrrhic victory world wide morally. It will prevail on the ground too. Truth, righteousness and justice will triumph over the forces of evil. Baghdad may be destroyed and desecrated by American smart bombs but cannot and will not fall. The invaders will meet their nemesis faced with fierce Iraqi resistance combined with the raging inferno of April sun and sand storms of Iraqi desert.
Abdul Hannan is a former press Counselor, Bangladesh UN Mission in New York.