Posted on 03/02/2006 10:03:54 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in Iraq by Iraqis belonging to various political and religious factions over the past few months, Palestinian Authority officials here told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
In the past week alone, three Palestinians living in Baghdad were kidnapped and brutally murdered, the officials said. A week earlier, gunmen kidnapped and murdered Nawaf Mussa, a Palestinian who was working as an imam in a Baghdad mosque.
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday phoned several Iraqi government officials and representatives of various groups in Baghdad, urging them to intervene to stop the killings.
The PA, according to the officials, has also requested the intervention of the US and the UN.
"Palestinian refugees in Iraq are being targeted on a regular basis," said Azzam al-Ahmed, a former PLO ambassador to Iraq. "We are doing our utmost to stop this vicious campaign."
Ahmed said US troops in Iraq had managed to thwart several attacks on neighborhoods where large numbers of Palestinians live, saving many lives.
Ahmed said Abbas had phoned Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and other government officials and asked them to provide protection for the Palestinians.
"The situation is very tense," Ahmed said. "Sadly, many Iraqis, especially the Shi'ites, see the Palestinians as allies of their rival Sunni brothers. The Palestinians are not involved in the conflict between the Shi'ites and the Sunnis."
The families of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Iraq appealed this week to the PA leadership to launch a worldwide campaign to stop the killings. The families demanded that the PA move all Palestinians from Iraq into other countries.
Ala Muhanad, a spokesman for the families, told the Post it was time that all Palestinians leave Iraq.
"The situation there is extremely dangerous because the country is on the verge of civil war," he said. "The Palestinians are being targeted, mainly by Shi'ite militias and Iraqi intelligence officers who accuse them of supporting the Sunnis and the ousted Ba'ath regime. They are also accused of supporting Saddam Hussein. According to unofficial statistics, at least 300 Palestinians have been murdered in Iraq over the past three years."
Muhanad said one proposal being floated around calls for transferring some 85,000 Palestinians who live in Iraq to the Gaza Strip, Sudan and Syria.
Another Palestinian with family in Iraq, who asked not to be identified, scoffed at the news that Abbas had phoned the Iraqi president.
"Who is this Talabani and what influence does he have in his own country?" he asked. "The Palestinians in Iraq are being massacred and no one seems to care. Is this all our president is capable of doing - phoning the Iraqi president? We want to see real measures, such as transferring the Palestinians there to safe countries."
The PLO's acting ambassador to Iraq, Dalil Kassous, accused elements of the Iraqi security forces of standing behind many of the attacks. He said members of the Dhi'eb (wolf) division in the Interior Ministry attacked a Palestinian community east of Baghdad with rockets and mortars last week.
He said gunmen also tried to storm a mosque frequented by Palestinians in the Baladiyat neighborhood in Baghdad. According to Kassous, Palestinian gunmen managed to repel the attackers and even took one of them prisoner.
In another recent incident, Iraqi militiamen kidnapped and murdered the two brothers of a former PLO diplomat. Their bullet-riddled bodies were discovered in the Thawra neighborhood.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/alf.htm
http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/tgp/plf.htm
http://www.theinformationproject.org/groupinfo.php?id=3224&sort=i
Nobody can tolerate Palestinians. One can come in a room full of people, turn around three times, and hit everyone in there upside the head with that chip on his shoulder.
Send them to France.
Hmmm. Palestinian Authority officials trying to help calm things down in Iraq . . . which would give President Bush a big boost at home and abroad? And blaming just about everybody but Bush for what's going on there? Hard to complain about that. These are strange times.
I actually feel sorry for most of the people living there-who are probably just working there in order to keep their families from starving-but the idea that the PA is in any position to make demands of other countries is ridiculous.
They were the ones that bankrolled and supported all of these terrorist groups that allied themselves with the Hussein regime-and similarly despotic, corrupt Muslim dictatorships in the region-and to feign innocence now defies credulity.
An excellent idea..
"A week earlier, gunmen kidnapped and murdered Nawaf Mussa, a Palestinian who was working as an imam in a Baghdad mosque."
Dollars to donuts he was a radical sunni cleric who was preached the gospel of hate and was killed by the shiite militias in revenge for the attack on the golden dome mosque.
Let's respond to this appeal thusly:
The moment palestine offers protection to every israeli civilian, such protection will be given to every palestinian civilian.
It isn't very charitable of me, I know. But I have a hard time feeling sorry for the scum who want to eradicate God's chosen people from the land He personally gave to them.
;-/
Karma!
No Arabs want pali vermin?
Every where the palis have gone they have casued trouble like leaches and locust. Every country they've taken residence they've been thrown out.
They are worse by far then our welfare class and if they all were deleated I wouldn't feel bedly for them.
No way.
Send them to their Muslim brothers in Egypt and Algeria.
Why let them tear up Europe even more?
That's one of the reasons why no Arab country will let them in. They are despised by all Arabs because they are the absolute trailer trash of all Arabs because of how they walk.
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