Iraqi Women Getting Ready for U.S. Attack

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.