Iraqi Women Getting Ready for U.S. Attack

Islam Online ^ | Augustus 14 2002 | Aous El-Sharqi, IOL Iraq Correspondent & Dalia El-Hadidi, IOL Qatar Correspondent

[knighthawk]

BAGHDAD, August 14 (IslamOnline) - Iraq is organizing its troops to face an expected American aggression, as U.S. President Georges W. Bush seems determined to launch an attack in the name of regime change. Thousands of women from different organizations are among those who volunteered to face the upcoming attack.

To be able to deal with the enemy, women belonging to different partisan, popular and student groupings, joined training camps to learn different methods of fighting and how to use light weapons like guns, rifles, hand grenades, mines and bombers.

Military experts are tainting female groups, or Karadis, according to a specific plan based on jihad training programs, in addition to some theoretical lessons.

“The training areas are full with female students, teachers, workers and employees who came to develop their fighting skills so that the Iraqi women will have the honor of sharing in the battle of defending the nation against the aggressor,” said Nagat Al-Bayati, one of the female fighters.

What is really surprising is that many mothers came together with their daughters to take the training and they were able to strongly deal with weapons despite their ages, said another female fighter, Ala Abdelal.

In one of the training areas, a 50 years-old mother of four said that the homeland is celebrating its females fighters, Mujahidat, who make up an element of strength added to the male fighters and are the reserve forces in facing the enemy.

“We can fulfill both our duties as mothers in our homes and as fighters in training camps,” she said, adding that “the enemy can’t harm us as long as all sectors of the Iraqi people can fight and use weapons.”

Other Iraqi women see that training to use weapons is the right of all women which they must take in order to be able to defend their countries.

“It’s a right before being a duty, because such training strengthens and complements woman’s character as a wife, sister and daughter of a fighter,” said Orouba Abdel Wahab.

Different parades by women in military uniform have been organized in Iraq in the last weeks.

Women, shouting their readiness to sacrifice their lives for Iraq, occupied Palestine and besieged Al-Aqsa Mosque (Islam’s third holiest shrine), marched in these parades holding guns and rifles and photos of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Iraqi ambassador to Qatar, Fakhry Al-Delimy, told IslamOnline that recruitment of women in the Iraqi military is an obligatory necessity, as it is normal that the army will need half of the force of the society, or else it will be a waste of an important power in the society.

“Iraqi women have been through a series of wars, starting with the war with Iran, then the American aggression and finally the economic siege that lasted more than 11 years,” he said.

“This has given them [Iraqi women] the experience of going through wars,” he added.

The mission of the Iraqi female fighters will not be restricted to nursing and administration; they will participate in all fields and in all sections of the army where they are needed, said Al-Delimy.

The Iraqi women are not the first Arab women to participate in wars, he said.

“There are females in the Libyan army. Palestinian women have also carried out many resistance operations against the Israeli occupation. Egypt and Syria have also used women’s efforts in 1967 and 1973 wars,” he added.

[knighthawk]

Ping

[Mr. Jeeves]

I expect the Iraqi women are in fact gathering flowers to throw at our victory parade in Baghdad.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

	Iraqi military women with their weapons parade on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2002, in Baghdad on the 14th anniversary of the end of the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran War. The parade is coinciding with the ongoing U.S. threats to launch a military offensive on Baghdad. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein pledged in a televised speech to repulse the anticipated attack on his country. (AP Photo/Jassim Mohammed). - Aug 08 8:20 AM ET
	Iraqi women fighters march during a military parade to mark the anniversary of the end of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, in Baghdad August 8, 2002. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said on Thursday he was not frightened by U.S. threats to topple his administration and his country was ready to repel any attack. REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber - Aug 08 8:05 AM ET

Iraqi military women parade on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2002, in Baghdad on the 14th anniversary of the end of the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran War. The parade is coinciding with the ongoing U.S. threats to launch a military offensive on Baghdad. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein pledged in a televised speech to repulse the anticipated attack on his country. The slogan on their uniform says "Yes Saddam". (AP Photo/Jassim Mohammed) - Aug 08 7:16 AM ET

[MD_Willington_1976]

How PC of them letting women join in (BARF)...should train them to dig graves too while they are at it.

[DWSUWF]

"...Iraqi Women Getting Ready for U.S. Attack..."

Yeah... Right.

What does that involve? Shaving their legs? Getting makeovers? Telling their boyfriends and husbands that they 'need some space' and moving into a room at the No-Tell Motel?

Hopefully it's this sort of post-war 'engagement' that they anticipate, rather than anything more boisterous...

Because -if they do choose to take up arms and stand in harm's way- our boys will go through those pug uglies like sh!t through a goose.

[facedown]

Different parades by women in military uniform have been organized in Iraq in the last weeks.

Because the men are all in hiding!

[Amerigomag]

All this preparation and there's little chance that a human enemy will come calling.

Oh well they can always attempt to catch the smart bombs and cruise missiles with the loose folds of their burkas and blind the UAVs with highly polished frying pans.

[knighthawk]

LOL!

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

...she said, adding that “the enemy can’t harm us as long as all sectors of the Iraqi people can fight and use weapons.”

Well, actually she doesn't have this figured out exactly right. Oh well, I guess they'll find out soon enough.

[LouD]

To be able to deal with the enemy, women belonging to different partisan, popular and student groupings, joined training camps to learn different methods of fighting and how to use light weapons like guns, rifles, hand grenades, mines and bombers.

I wonder if they still teach that block of instruction on "How to Surrender to Passing Aircraft?"

[twyn1]

"How to Surrender to Passing Aircraft?"

correction: Passing Unmanned, Reconnaissance Aircraft

[texson66]

Who knows? Iraqi women might be a lot better fighter than their men!(That's still not saying much)

[OldFriend]

Real men hiding behind their women and children.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Well, in all seriousness, would you want to run around the desert fighting the United States' Military with old outdated equipment? I don't know if the men are cowardly or not, but they certainly didn't want to die in the desert for Saddam. I can't blame them.