Anti-Pan-Arabism

Iraqis burn the Jordanian flag during a demonstration in the holy city of Najaf, March 14, 2005. Thousands of Iraqi Shi'ite protestors burned the Jordanian flag in Najaf on Monday after hearing reports that relatives of a Jordanian national suicide bomber celebrated him as a martyr after he conducted an attack killing 125 Iraqis south of Baghdad.

This happened after few months of strong attacks on Iran and Shia by the Jordanian Government, mainly against a Shia "Crescent" in the Middle East, the same crap the bush administration was repeating over and over.

On the other hand, it is happening after months of Anti-Arab Anti-Islam propaganda organized by the occupation and mercenaries in Iraq. And after years of attacks on the Jordanian government by the bank robber Chalabi (who has very bad relationships with Jordan after he was accused of stealing about $300 million from the Petra Bank), which happened that he is a strong member of the bushtani gang now.

You can really feel this Anti-Arabism wherever you look at any US supported media station or party in Iraq.

“What did Arabs and Muslims do for us?”
“What did we gain because of this Pan-Arabian nationalism?”

These are the questions made in occupied Iraq media. Iraqis watch this semi-daily show on their state TV with people accusing Syria and Saudi Arabia of supporting the so-called terrorism.



Iraqi Shiite demonstrators burned the flag of the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad in protest at the alleged involvement of a Jordanian national in an attack last month that killed 118 people

This was another demonstration in front of the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad.

So let me get this straight: The Iraqi fake government and the Chalabi alliance led by bushtani didn't call for a single demonstration when the US army killed (or caused the death of) more than 100,000 Iraqis, but they called for two demonstrations against Jordan in a couple of days, because of a Jordanian person blowing himself in Hilla?

Did the US government ask people to burn the Saudi flag after 9-11?
or no no, wait, I know... these are "spontaneous" demonstrations.

Hundreds, or maybe thousands, of Iraqis went the last couple of days driven by rage around the main streets in Baghdad and other cities in the South like Hilla and Najaf chanting Anti-Jordanian Anti-Arab slogans. Some of them are asking for the immediate deportation of Arabs from Iraq.

So pathetic and sad.



Iraqis chant slogans as they hold up a poster depicting Jordan's King Abdullah during a demonstration in the holy city of Najaf, March 14, 2005. Thousands of Iraqi Shi'ite protestors burned the Jordanian flag in Najaf on Monday after hearing reports that relatives of a Jordanian national suicide bomber celebrated him as a martyr after he blew himself up and killed 125 Iraqis south of Baghdad. The poster also has a photograph of king Abdullah walking alongside Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon

Who gave these reports? The cheap Iraqi state-media. They tell Iraqis that Jordanians are celebrating the death of their “civilians”. They tell them that the Jordanian “terrorist” killed Iraqi civilians, and that his family is celebrating.

Btw, how come Sistani, Hakim and associates didn't have a problem with Chalabi and his men going on public visits to Israel, or the Kurds having strong relations with Israel, or, hmmmm, with bush having special relations with the man of peace?



U.S. Army soldiers stand guard outside the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad March 14, 2005. The extra protection for the embassy was arranged following protests by Iraqis condemning a suicide attack that killed 125 people in Hilla, Iraq on February 28. An Internet statement allegedly from Jordanian al-Qaeda insurgent Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for the attack

This is the ultimate US-administration dream, to put news about how bushy is protecting us from each other.

No one that I know in Jordan or Iraq supports attacks on Iraqis. No one supports Zarqawi, bush or their extremist followers. It's true that the 125 people killed in Hilla last month were policemen and soldiers and not civilians, but this doesn't mean they were not Iraqis.

The family of Raed Al-Banna announced that they denied that their son might have been involved in the Hilla bombing. They told AFP in Amman they received a phone call on March 3rd from someone speaking with an Iraqi accent telling them their son had become a “martyr”.

The family of Raed Al-Banna believes he died in a suicide attack against occupation soldiers, and that’s why they believed he is a martyr. They wouldn’t have called him a martyr if he was the killer of Iraqis, even if they were soldiers and policemen collaborating with the occupying forces.

The Jordanian government isn’t being articulate enough, maybe they don’t want to mention the part about the family being happy because they believe their son killed occupation soldiers. They are allies after all.

Jordanian government strongly rejected statement by Iraqi Shiite leaders linking Jordan to terrorist attacks in neighbouring Iraq, the Jordan Times reported Monday. Jordanian government spokeswoman Asma Khader said allegations that the country was involved in such attacks were "unjustified." News reports quoted a statement Sunday by the Iraqi Shiite religious authority, led by Iraqi Shiite highest cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, as saying that Iraqi-Jordanian relations were "threatened under Iraqi bloodshed." It added that the religious authority was surprised by the Iraqi interim government's "silence over Jordan's interference in Iraq's internal affairs by instigating violence and hatred among Iraqis...and sending their terrorists to Iraq." Khader said whether these statements were true or not, they were based on misunderstanding of Jordan's stand.



Raed Al-Banna is a lawyer, he used to live in California and work there. His family say that he started to be a fundamentalist after 9-11, and that he came back to Jordan, then to Iraq to fight the bushy fundamentalists there.

Iraqis and their brothers, Jordanian, Palestinians, Syrians, Saudis, Egyptians, Lebanese, Sudanese, Yemenis, Iranians, Afghans and other neighbours are fighting against the illegal foreign occupation led by the bush administration, and all of this crap about us killing each other is untrue, and is not the core of the problem.

After the occupying forces will leave (or be kicked out of) Iraq, Iraqis and their brother neighbours will solve any problems among themselves without external interference.