[Vision2020] Disturbing Testimony on Iraq War

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PM Friday, June 24, 2005 

Disturbing Testimony on Iraq War 

HAIFA ZANGANA, 

haifa_zangana at yahoo.co.uk

http://www.bintjbeil.com/articles/en/020917_zangana.html

     Zangana is an Iraqi-born novelist and former political prisoner. She 
went back to Iraq for the first time in 2004, after 25 years of exile. She had 
been imprisoned in Abu Ghraib by the Ba'athist regime and tortured. She said 
today at the World Tribunal on Iraq underway in Istanbul, Turkey: "The U.S. 
managed in the last two years what Saddam Hussein could not in the past 35, killing 
our hope for a democratic future. There are many people from Iraq taking part 
in this Tribunal because it is very important for us to document all the 
crimes we are enduring: the random killings, the collective punishments, the 
indiscriminate use of weapons, including napalm, the looting, the torture. ... 
Advocates of democracy like me are now finding their task harder, as the 
occupation makes a mockery of any notion of democracy. People in Iraq now laugh at us 
if we say democracy; indeed, it has all become laughable with this carnage we 
are experiencing, along with a stunning shortage of medicines, of clean water, 
of electricity, and of freedom." Zangana can also arrange interviews with 
other members of the Iraqi delegation to the Tribunal.   

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