Ai nostri lettori offriamo una importante testimonianza, quella dell’amico Muhamad T.A., Direttore Esecutivo del Centro Studi sui Diritti Umani e la Democrazia di Fallujah ma da mesi residente a Bagdad e che Giuliana ben conosceva:
«Cari amici del Campo Antimperialista,
Stiamo cercando di fare del nostro meglio per la liberazione della giornalista italiana . ..
[Bad] Google translation:
To our readers we offer one important testimony, that one of the friend Muhamad T.A., Executive Director of the Center Studies on the Human Rights and the Democracy of Fallujah but from months resident to Bagdad and that Giuliana very knew:
"Beloveds friends of the Anti-imperialist Field,
We are trying to make of our best for the liberation of the Italian journalist
Studies Center for Human Rights and Democracy in Fallujah
A briefed report on American Crimes in AL-Fallujah for the period of November 7 to December 25, 2004
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Studies Center of Human Rights & Democracy For/ The Civil Network Organizations at Al-Fallujah City
Al- Fallujah 14/01/2005
Studies Center of Human Rights & Democracy (SCHRD)
Headquarter: Iraq-Fallujah
Baghdad Office: Mansour, Rouad, Ice Shop
National Society of Iraqis Muthaqafin, 1th floor
E-Mail: muhtaq72@yahoo.com
Mobile Iraq: 07901615665
Mobile Jordan: 0796646877
Thuraya: +8821625072291
Abduljabbar Al-Kubaysi, president of the Iraqi Patriotic Alliance (IPA) and renown exponent of the popular resistance, was arrested on September 3 in a quarter of Baghdad controlled by the guerrilla.
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First signatories:
· Walter Wendelin, ASKAPENA (Basque Solidarity with the peoples)
· Lars Akerhaug, International Officer Red Electoral Alliance (RV), Norway
· Lola Oliván, Arabist, Arabist, militant of the Arab Cause and member of the Spanish Campaign Against Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (CEOS)
· Walid Al-Kubaisi, author and refugee from Iraq, Norway
· Gerhard Drexler, communist dissident and activist for the Iraqi resistance, Austria
· Arnljot Ask, international secretary of the Worker’s Communist Party (AKP), Norway
· John Catalinotto, International Action Center, USA
· Jörg Ulrich, former member of the PKK’s armed forces, leading member of Initiative Duisburg, Germany
· Sanaa Mustafa, Arab house Oslo, Norway
· Jean-Pierre Page, Co-organiser of the French conference in support of the Iraqi resistance
· International League of People’s Struggle (ILPS)
· Moreno Pasquinelli, spokesman of the Anti-imperialist Camp
· Leonardo Mazzei, chairman of the Free Iraq Committee, Italy
· Klaus von Raussendorff, journalist, Bonn, Germany
· Joachim Guilliard, publicist, Heidelberg, Germany
· Mohamed Regragui, activist for democratic rights, Morocco
· Dimitri Tsalos, spokesman of the Committee Free Iraq, Germany
· Sean Burns, 32csm International Department, Belfast, Irland
· Costanzo Preve, philosopher, Italy
· Giuseppe Pelazza, lawyer, Italy
· Domenico Losurdo, philosopher, Italy
· Franz Fischer, Anti-imperialist Group Basel, Switzerland
· Sammi Alaa, chairman of the Committee Free Iraq, Denmark
· Torstein Dahle, President of the Red Electoral Alliance, Norway
· Awni Al-Kalemji, intl spokesman of the Iraqi Patriotic Alliance
· Jagat Thoudam, President of All Manipur United Clubs Organisation (AMUCO), India
· Zafar Aslam, intl secretary of the Communist Mazdor Kisan Party (CMKP), Pakistan
· Group Revolusjon, Norway
· Gurmeet, editor Peoples Resistance, bi-monthly of the All Indian People’s Resistance Forum (AIPRF), India
· Hülya Sekerci, President of Özgur Der (Free Thought and Educational Rights Association), Turkey
· Serdar Yilmaz, President of Özgur Der Diyarbakir branch, Turkey
· Kenan Alpay, Editör of Haksoz (Islamic Monthly Magazine),Istanbul, Turkey
· Ridvan Kaya, Author Haksoz, Turkey
· Hamza Turkmen, Publisher Ekin Publishing House, Turkey
· Necip Kibar, Lawyer, Istanbul Bar Association, Turkey
· Badruddin Umar, President of the Bangladesh National Liberation Council
· Choukri Latif, Committee for the support of Palestinians and against the Normalization with Zionism, Tunisia
· Gabriele Roberto, Italy
· Aldo Bernardini, scholar for international law, Italy
· Vainer Burani, lawyer, Democratic Jurists, Italy
· Suhel Sleibi, Abna el-Balad, Magd el-Kurum, Palestina
· Gamil Safuri, Abna el-Balad, Shefa'amer, Palestina
· Yoav Bar, Abna el-Balad, Haifa, Palestina
· Abdelmoumen Belanès, former political prisoner, Tunisia
· Ali Ben Salem, president of the Ligue of former Resistance Fighters, Tunisia
· Mohamed Maali, journalist and former political prisoner, Tunisia
· Radhia Nasraoui, lawyer, president of the Association against Torture ALTT, Tunisia
· Hana al-Bayaty, film maker
· Nasir Loyant, Left Radicals of Afghanistan
· George Nicola, vice president of the Palestinian Community Austria
· Lachit Bordoloi, Secretary General of the North East Coordination Committee on Human Rights (NECOHR), India
· Abdul Ilah al-Bayaty, political refugee from Iraq, France
· Peter Szekely, Secretary general of the Left Front and member of the presidium of the Worker’s Party, Hungary
· Said Zeriouh, membre central committee Unified Socialist Left (GSU), Morocco
· Aziz El Atrouz, membre GSU, Marrakech, Morocco
· Pôle de Renaissance Communiste, France
· Franz Pöschl, Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands/Marxisten-Leninisten KPD/ML (Roter Stern), Germany
· Antonio Manuel Carrasco Fonseca, Badajoz, Spain
· Victor Novo, Secretary for international relations of the Federation of University Students (FEUV), Venezuela
· Erik Anderson, International secretary Communist Party Marxist- Leninist (revolutionaries) [KPML(r)], Sweden
· Monika Balzer, Kommunistische Plattform Hamburg »Friedrich Engels«, Germany
· Hamdan Aldamiri, member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Belgium
· Mohamed Elaouni, journalist, member of the Political Bureau of the GSU, Morocco
· Raj Kishore, General Secretary of Struggling Forum for Peoples' Resistance (SFPR), India
· Bruno Drweski, France
· Tania Noctiummes, economist, international functionary, Sri Lanka
· Lahoucine Amal, professor, Annahj Addimocrati, Morocco
· Djimadoum Ley-Ngardigal, Secretary General Action for Socialism and Unity, Chad
· Confederation of Workers’ from Turkey in Europe (ATIK)
· Farid Hanna, former employee of an international organisation, Vienna, Austria
· Bogdan Radomski, president of the Patriotic Front of Socialistic Left, Poland
· Hisham Bustani, Socialist Thought Forum, Jordan
· Chris Sedlmair, Iraq News Network, Germany
· Jozef Lachut, Vice president Polish Communist Party
· Boleslaw Tejkowski, Polish National Community Party
· Irmgard Hubauer, sociologist, Austria
· Alla Bogdanova, Arab House Oslo, Norway
· Douglas Richard Aitken, London, England
· Foreign Office of the Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan)
· Klaus Hartmann, vice president of the World Union of Three Thinkers, Germany
· Arab Cause Solidarity Committee (CSCA), Spain
· Gilles Munier, secretary general of Amitiés franco-irakiennes, France
· Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
· Cristina Avendaño, “Another world is possibile”, Argentina
· Maite Jean, elementary school teacher, Kingersheim, France
· Clément Dousset, teacher, member CasquesBleusCitoyens, France
· Ginette Hess Skandrani, journalist, Paris, France
· Aziz Messaoudim, AMDH, Rabat Section, Morocco
· Anti-globalist Resistance, Russia
· Nouvelle Gauche Communiste,France
· Emile Fabrol, editor Prométhée, France
· Alicia Villoldo-Botana, sociologist, teacher, journalist and psychoanalyst, Madrid, Spain
· Houmad Elkadiri Badaoui, Moroccan activist, Spain
· Antonio Soriano Espinosa, Spain
· José María García Labrac, student, Granada, Spain
· Pedro Servera, Spain
· Solidarity Association Salvador Allende, Galicia, Spain
· Narmi Joanna Michejda, bio-chemist, philosopher, Stop the War Initiative, Warsaw, Poland
· Carlos Felipe Barría Hamamé, Chile
· Huguette Saladin, France
· Emilio José Silva Chapellín, Spain
· Malgorzata Swiątek, Attac Mazowsze, Poland
· Kaosenlared, Catalonia, Spanish State
· Semir al-Mubarak, France
Tamsin Smith, "Italian group backs Iraq fighters", BBC, 11/17/2003
A group of Italian militants involved in staging anti-war protests is raising funds to support the armed Iraqi resistance, the BBC has learned. . .The "Antiimperialista" organisation's internet campaign asks people to send "10 Euros to the Iraqi resistance". . .The Antiimperialistas are a group of European anti-war and anti-globalisation supporters. They are currently organising an anti-war demonstration in Italy next month, and it remains to be seen whether news of the fund-raising activities will deter more moderate anti-war activists from attending. The organisation's Italian branch says the money will be given to an Iraqi resistance group known as the Iraqi Patriotic Opposition. Independent Iraqi sources in London say the leaders of this group have a long history of association with the Baath party and are now back in Iraq supporting the armed resistance. . .The Italian spokesman of the antiimperialistas, Moreno Pasquinelli, says the money collected so far is in an Italian bank account. Mr Pasquinelli said it would be taken to Iraq in January. He was candid when asked about raising money for the Iraqi Patriotic Opposition which says it actively supports military resistance. "Its not our affair how they use this money. If they want to use it to print papers for example, or to buy weapons in order to fight for the Iraqi independence," he said. "We support the armed struggle in Iraq. our money is to help them, it doesn't matter to us if they use it buy weapons, Kalashnikovs, or medicines for people." When asked to confirm if the money raised could be used to buy weapons he admitted: "Yes they could, and why not?"
Leading Iraqi Scholar Endorses The `LaRouche Doctrine', 5/1/2004
The following statement was issued today by the LaRouche in 2004 political campaign committee. Dr. Ahmed Al-Kubaisi, leading Sunni religious personality and chairman of the United Iraqi Patriotic Movement, in discussions with EIR on April 28, said: "Convey in my name, Ahmed Al-Kubaisi, Iraqi Islamic scholar and Chairman of the United Iraqi Patriotic Movement, that I support Mr. LaRouche's proposals for a new U.S. policy in Iraq and the region which he has called the LaRouche Doctrine."
Sgrena had told veteran war reporter Harald Doornbos that she was in no danger from Iraqi insurgents saying that Doornbos did not “understand the situation. We are anti-imperialists, anti-capitalists, communists, the Iraqis only kidnap American sympathizers, the enemies of the Americans have nothing to fear.”
Look at what Fedora found!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1358558/posts?page=118#118
Thank you fedora! That is very interesting!
I believe I've seen enough to draw a conclusion.
I'm willing to keep an open mind if more facts become available...but right now, it looks like the "journalist" should have died and not the Italian agent, and that seems to be the only "accident".
Interesting find!
And thanks for the ping Calp!
FEBRUARY 2003 : (BAGHDAD, IRAQ : LEFTWING ITALIAN GROUP IPA aka "IRAQI PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE" LEADER ABDUL JABBAR KUBAISY RECONCILES WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN AND COMMITS HIS GROUP TO CONFRONTING "AMERICAN IMPERIALIST AGGRESSION") Italian police are investigating the IPA, whose members originally were Iraqi communist dissidents living in European exile. Their leader, Abdul Jabbar Kubaisy, reconciled with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad in February 2003 and committed the group "to confront American imperialist aggression." --- "Al Qaeda seeking funds in Italy," By John Phillips, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, June 12, 2004, http://washingtontimes.com/world/20040612-113949-4683r.htm
MARCH? 2003 : (AFTER HIS EARLIER RECONCILIATION WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN IN IRAQ, ABDUL JABBAR KUBAISY RETURNS TO BAGHDAD WHEN THE US INVADES) Mr. Kubaisy returned to Baghdad when the United States invaded Iraq, leaving his deputy, Awni al Kalemji, to organize anti-American propaganda, according a senior official of the Italian military intelligence organization SISMI. --- "Al Qaeda seeking funds in Italy," By John Phillips, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, June 12, 2004, http://washingtontimes.com/world/20040612-113949-4683r.htm
2003 summer : (ASSISI, ITALY : ANTI-IMPERIALIST CAMP : "IRAQI PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE" LEADER ABDUL JABBAR KUBAISY, FRANCO CARDINI, AND FATHER JEAN-MARIE BENJAMIN ARE AMONG THE ATTENDEES TAKING PART IN THE CAMP) Mr. Kalemji took part last summer in the "Anti-Imperialist Camp," a weeklong gathering of communists and other leftists including revolutionaries from Iraq, the Philippines, Nepal, the Palestinian territories and Venezuela. The camp was held in the Umbrian hill town of Assisi, home of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226), patron saint of animals and the environment and founder of the Franciscan Order of monks.
Also present were radical intellectuals such as Franco Cardini, a leading expert on medieval history who says that recent videos of Osama bin Laden are fakes distributed by the CIA to foster anti-Islamic sentiment.
Another participant was the Rev. Jean-Marie Benjamin, a French Roman Catholic priest who in February 2003 organized a visit to the Vatican by then Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz. --- "Al Qaeda seeking funds in Italy," By John Phillips, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, June 12, 2004, http://washingtontimes.com/world/20040612-113949-4683r.htm
APRIL 2004 : (IRAQ: ITALIAN CONTRACTOR IS MURDERED: AT LEAST ONE ITALIAN IS REPORTED TO BE AMONG THE MURDERERS) Italian extremists' involvement with the terrorists is thought to be so deep that, according to press reports, at least one Italian accomplice was present when an Italian contractor was killed in April in Iraq. --- "Al Qaeda seeking funds in Italy," By John Phillips, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, June 12, 2004, http://washingtontimes.com/world/20040612-113949-4683r.htm
APRIL 2004 : (ITALIAN CONTRACTOR FABRIZIO QUATTROCCHI IS MURDERED BY TERRORISTS IN IRAQ) An Internet posting this week [the week of June 12, 2004] attributed to Abdulaziz Issa Abdul-Mohsin al-Moqrin, the purported head of al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia, said the man's throat was slit "as a gift for the Italian government and its leader, a little stupid and arrogant, who is proud of his hostility to Islam and of having sent troops to fight Muslims at wars like in Iraq."
Persistent reports have appeared in the Corriere della Sera newspaper and on TG5 television channel suggesting that one or more Italians might have been present as accomplices during the killing.
Gen. Niccolo Pollari, the head of the [Italian] intelligence agency SISMI, has been invited to appear before the parliamentary Committee for Control of the Secret Services to explain those reports. --- "Al Qaeda seeking funds in Italy," By John Phillips, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, June 12, 2004, http://washingtontimes.com/world/20040612-113949-4683r.htm
APRIL 1, 2004 : (PERUGIA, ITALY : MORENO PASQUINELLI IS ARRESTED DURING INTERNATIONAL CRACKDOWN ON SYPATHIZERS OF THE TURKISH-MARXIST TERROR GROUP "REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S LIBERATION PARTY/FRONT DHKP/C") Moreno Pasquinelli, an activist arrested April 1 in the Umbrian city of Perugia as part of an international crackdown on sympathizers with the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C), a Turkish Marxist terror gang. He subsequently was released. "It is not our business to know what use is made of the funds," Libero quoted him as saying. "They can print newspapers or buy weapons, it is the same thing for us." --- "Al Qaeda seeking funds in Italy," By John Phillips, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, June 12, 2004, http://washingtontimes.com/world/20040612-113949-4683r.htm
(* My note: Moreno Pasquinelli would later become one of the most vociferous leaders of the [June 2004] Anti-Imperialist Camp)
JUNE 2004 : (ITALY : ANTI-IMPERIALIST CAMP ORGANIZERS ARE COLLECTING FUNDS FOR THE IRAQI PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE, A COMMUNIST GROUP OF EXILED IRAQIS WHO RECONCILED WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN) Organizers of the Anti-Imperialist Camp still are collecting funds for the IPA, asking for the equivalent of $12 from each participant, Libero reported recently. It said the contributions were going into a special bank account but did not say where they went from there.
The intelligence official confirmed the newspaper report and said the funds were being transferred to Iraq.
Other militants of the anti-imperialist movement are active as IPA supporters in Austria and Germany and make no secret that funds they gather are used to buy weapons for Iraqi guerrillas, intelligence sources said.
It is not clear why Italian authorities have tolerated the fund-raising activities. In Italy and Germany, raising funds for a foreign terrorist organization is a crime.
Among those frequently donating funds to the Iraqi resistance are militants from the hard-line Rifondazione Comunista, unreconstructed Marxists who broke away from the Italian Communist Party mainstream when it ditched orthodox communist thought and changed its name to the Democratic Party, the article said.
One of the most vociferous leaders of the [June 2004] Anti-Imperialist Camp is Moreno Pasquinelli, an activist arrested April 1 in the Umbrian city of Perugia as part of an international crackdown on sympathizers with the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C), a Turkish Marxist terror gang. He subsequently was released. "It is not our business to know what use is made of the funds," Libero quoted him as saying. "They can print newspapers or buy weapons, it is the same thing for us."
--- "Al Qaeda seeking funds in Italy," By John Phillips, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, June 12, 2004, http://washingtontimes.com/world/20040612-113949-4683r.htm
JUNE 12, 2004 : (REPORT : THERE IS A SURGE IN AL QAEDA PROPAGANDA ATTACKS ON ITALIAN PM BERLUSCONI) Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is a strong U.S. ally in the war in Iraq, where Italy has 3,000 troops. Recent al Qaeda propaganda has included a surge in attacks on Mr. Berlusconi, prompting SISMI operatives to worry the group is planning attacks on Italian interests in the hope of undermining the country's support for the Iraq war. Four Italians were taken hostage in Iraq recently, and one of them, contractor Fabrizio Quattrocchi, was killed in April. --- "Al Qaeda seeking funds in Italy," By John Phillips, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, June 12, 2004, http://washingtontimes.com/world/20040612-113949-4683r.htm
JULY 2004 : (BAGHDAD, IRAQ : PRELIMINARY COURT HEARING FOR IRAQI BAATHIST REGIME LEADERS SADDAM HUSSEIN, TARIQ AZIZ, OTHERS) Tariq Aziz, whose urbane manner distinguished him from Saddam's thuggish henchmen, has been virtually incommunicado since he gave himself up to US forces last year. The only glimpse his family have had of him was when he and 11 other ex-regime figures were arraigned with Saddam at a preliminary court hearing in Baghdad in July. As he stood in the dock he asked to be appointed a foreign lawyer and denied any personal culpability, telling the court: "I never killed anybody by any direct act." -------- "Tariq Aziz wins 'unofficial support' from Vatican ," by Colin Freeman and Bruce Johnston, The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.), 12/12/04
NOVEMBER 2004 : (FATHER BENJAMIN AND ASSOCIATES TRAVEL TO JORDAN TO MEET FORMER IRAQI PRIM MINISTER TARIQ AZIZ'S SON, ZIAD) Last month [Nov 2004] Fr Benjamin and his team travelled to the Jordanian capital of Amman to meet Aziz's son, Ziad. "Fr Benjamin knows my father well and has asked lawyers from Italy to defend him without charge," said Ziad Aziz. "He has also said he will get support from the Vatican." -------- "Tariq Aziz wins 'unofficial support' from Vatican ," by Colin Freeman and Bruce Johnston, The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.), 12/12/04