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Disturbing Testimony on Iraq War <BR>
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HAIFA ZANGANA, <BR>
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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. <BR>
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V2020 Post by Ted Moffett<BR>
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