Free Republic 4th Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $66,609
82%  
Woo hoo!! And now only $621 to reach 83%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: muhammadawi

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Listen to the Iraqis

    01/08/2005 3:22:00 PM PST · by stevejackson · 4 replies · 723+ views
    War to Mobilize Democracy, LLC ^ | January 8, 2005 | Michael Rubin
    http://netwmd.com/articles/article849.html Baghdad, Iraq — Half past ten in the morning on Monday, January 3, an Iraqi National Guard unit, escorted by a dozen uniformed U.S. military, pulled up to Abdul Karim Muhammadawi's headquarters in the Hay al-Jamiah section of Baghdad. Muhammadawi, known to the Iraqis as Abu Hatem, is renowned among Iraqi Shia as "the Robin Hood of the marshes." Hailing from al-Amarah, during Saddam's rule, he led a persistent Shia resistance which harried local Baathist commanders and protected political opposition. A member of the now-defunct governing council, he has since joined the Iraqi National Alliance (al-Ittilaf al-Watani al-Iraqi), the...