Iraq's Tribes Issue an Ultimatum to Al-Fallujah

Al-Najaf News Network ^ | July 4, 2004 | A Statement by the Iraqi Tribes

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A Statement by the Iraqi Tribes

In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful.

"Fain would they extinguish Allah's light with their mouths, but Allah will not allow but that His light should be perfected, even though the Unbelievers may hate this to happen. "

A look on the events shows us incidents occurring in quick succession in Ashura, Karbala, and Al-Kazimiyah. Our sons are blown up by booby-traps everywhere. Sedition is transported to our formerly peaceable and sacred cities. They clamor, weep, and mourn for the days of Saddam and nostalgically remember the days of Haddam [word play on Saddam's name, destroyer], days that were prosperous only for them. We know that their objective is not to bring Saddam back but an altogether different goal. They kill intentionally and brutally after kidnapping anyone who belongs to the jurisdiction of the Prince of the Faithful. They do not distinguish between an Iraqi, Arab, or foreign national. However, they respect, release, and apologize to anyone who is not loyal to the jurisdiction of the Prince of the Faithful regardless of his nationality. The best proof of their behavior is what they did to the Lebanese citizen and the Iraqis whose bodies they mutilated, but they set the Egyptian and the Turk free.

On 5 June 2004 a group of young men who own trucks and who transport goods went to Al-Fallujah to do work for one of its inhabitants. After they delivered the merchandise, they were taken captive by a group calling itself the "mujahidin," but should actually be called evildoers. The young men's families sought the help of the city's police and contacted Abdallah al-Jinabi, imam of Sa'd Bin-Abu-Waqqas Mosque, and Zafir al-Dulaymi, imam of Al-Hadrah al-Muhammadiyah Mosque. The two imams refused to cooperate to help secure the young men's release. The kidnappers brutally tortured them, executed them, and then mutilated their bodies. They robbed them of all their possessions including their clothes. The incident was covered up and the media organs that sympathize with the culprits and lament their calamities refrained from reporting it. The media that remained silent about this occurrence included Al-Jazirah and Al-Arabiyah television channels, which generally make mountains out of molehills. This action is unacceptable by any standard and by the rules of all heavenly religions. It violates all divine and man-made laws and all the values and ethics of all societies.

Hence we declare the following:

1. Do you wish us to strike a siege around Al-Fallujah and Al-Ramadi area in general and separate it from Iraq? Perhaps it is this that you want because you seek independence. In this way we will make it easier for you.

2. We swear by God that our patience has been exhausted by your treacherous, cowardly acts. We have been patient for long. Otherwise we will kill the owners of companies, offices, and businessmen who are natives of your area but who now reside in the south, the Central Euphrates region, and Baghdad. We will kill any of you who enter Baghdad or are now residing in Baghdad or our other provinces. If this is what you want, then it is your choice.

3. The Iraqi Government needs to adopt prompt measures to arrest the culprits and turn them over to the tribes of the men who were martyred. The tribes will judge them in accordance with civil and tribal laws.

4. The coalition authority must not take these events lightly. What has happened to the conditional truce? Was the truce only between Al-Fallujah's inhabitants and the Americans, or was it meant to provide security to the entire country and its people?

In light of the foregoing, we declare that we should not be blamed for what we will do because we have already given a warning. Beware of the wrath of the patient.

The Names of the Martyrs:

1. Hamid Faysal Matar 2. Khalid Latif Matar 3. Hamid Abbas Abal 4. Yas Khudayr Abbas 5. Ahmad Ali Hilal 6, Basim Muhammad Faris

The Names of the Tribes that Regard this Issue as their Private Cause and the Feud their Own Feud:

Al-Sadah Tribes: 1. Al-Musawiyah Al-Sadah Tribes 2. Al-Yasiriyah Al-Sadah Tribes 3. Al-Bukhat Al-Sadah Tribes 4. Al-Sharaa Al-Sadah Tribes 5. Al-Shawk Al-Sadah Tribes 6. Al-Jaza'ir Al-Sadah Tribes 7. Al-Ashraf Al-Sadah Tribes 8. Al-Sadah al-Sawad 9. Al-Sadah al-Makasis 10. Al-Sadah al-Husni 11. Al-Sadah al-Husayni 12. Al-Sadah al-Hammash 13. Al-Sadah al-Battat

The Tribes: 1. Bani-Lam Tribes 2. Al-Bu Hamad Tribes 3. Bani Asad Tribes 4. Al-Fartus Tribes 5. Al-Juwaybir Tribes 6. All of Al-Sawa'id Tribes 7. Al-Bahadil Tribes 8. Al-Fukaykat Tribes 9. Al-Subayh Tribes 10. Al-Ghurrah Tribes 11. Banu-Humayr 12. Al Laftah 13. Al-Akrad al-Afiliyah 14. Al-Ahlaf 15. Al Rusaytim 16. Al-Dalfiyah 17. Al-Izzah 18. Tallafar 19. Mandali 20. Khaniqin 21. Badrah 22. Banu Ka'b 23. Al-Sudan 24. Banu Malik 25. Al-Bu Zayd 26. Banu Zayd 27. Banu Hasan 28. Al-Ghazzi 29. Khafajah 30. Rubayah Ammah 31. Al-Isa and Al-Bazzun 32. Banu Layth 33. Banu Wa'il 34. Bayyat 35. Al-Husun 36. Al-Subayh 37. Al-Mayah 38. Al-Bu Daraj 39. Al-Dhahabiyat 40. Al-Jamamisah 41. Al Budayr

We urge everyone to act and publish this statement in all the media so that the world will learn about the real situation in Al-Fallujah and what the people of Iraq think about it.

[trek]

"If we did do that, then every Iraqi in the country would be calling his rival's location in"

Sounds good to me. Army Intelligence will sort them out.

[TexasCowboy]

We used to call this a "rumble".
This should be a good one.

[litehaus]

MOABs for Fallujah??????????? Only in their/our dreams....