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US
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push Iraqis to join resistance
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CAIRO,
September 12 (IslamOnline.net) – Dying to enjoy freedom and a better
life, Iraqis, Sunnis and Shiites, welcomed the US forces ousting
Saddam Hussein's regime, but with the US invasion-turned occupation,
Iraqis found no other option but to take up arms against the
occupation forces, a leading British newspaper said Sunday, September
12.
"It
gave me a glimpse of a better life. When I heard that the Americans
were coming to liberate
Iraq
I was very happy. I felt
that I would be able to live well, travel and have freedom. I wanted
to do more sport, get new appliances and a new car and develop my
life. I thought the
US
would come here and our
lives would be changed through 180 degrees," The Observer quoted
an Iraqi resistance man as saying.
Abu
Mujahed, an Iraqi Sunni, said the
US
forces came to
Iraq
just to destroy the
country.
"When
I saw the American soldiers watching and doing nothing as people took
everything, I began to suspect the
US
was not here to help us but
to destroy us."
Feeling
the mounting anger among the different sects of the Iraqi people, Abu
Mujahed believed that he had to do something to stop the American
atrocities against innocent Iraqi people.
"We
realized. We had to act," the British daily quoted him as saying.
With
a group of Iraqi men, Abu Mujahed formed a resistance group to fight
the occupation forces in the war-torn country.
With
their first resistance operation against the US forces turning into a
fiasco, Abu Mujahed, his real name is not known, insisted to go on.
"One
day we try and snipe them, the next we use an IED (Improvised
Explosive Device), the next a mine. We never get any orders from
anybody. We are just told: 'Today
you should do something', but it is up to us to decide what and when."
The
US launched war on
Iraq
in March 2003 to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's regime under
pretexts of possessing weapons of mass destruction, which the
US
occupation forces never found.
Shame
of Occupation
Seeing
his country under occupation and with the Americans killing innocent
people and destroying mosques, Abu Mujahed vowed to sweat blood to
drive the invading American forces out of the country.
"We
are under occupation. They bomb the mosques, they kill a huge number
of people. There is no greater shame than to see your country being
occupied."
Abu
Mujahed denied allegations that the Iraqi resistance operations are
financed by Al-Qaeda network.
"Often
sympathizers buy cars in
Saudi Arabia
or
Jordan
and we get them driven to
Baghdad
or
Basra
and we sell them. A supporter in the
UK
has recently sent an Opel pick-up. But most of our money comes from
local people who support what we do but can't fight themselves,"
the British daily quoted him as explaining.
"Some
have no allegiance to any group, others have so much money they must
come from Al-Qaeda. It is impossible to work with them. They are
bloody people, far too irrational. They do not care if they kill
innocent Iraqi people. They are terrorists."
The
unabated Iraqi resistance has played its toll on the
United States
military death toll which passed 1,000, nearly 18 months after the
invasion, making its mark on the
US
presidential election campaign.
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