By
Awas Al-Sharqy, IOL Iraq Correspondent
BAGHDAD,
February 9 (IslamOnline) – With world attention now commanded by the
looming U.S. war on Iraq, people inside the target country act with a
clear sense of patriotic responsibility and a spontaneous readiness to
fight the new Anglo-American colonialism.
In
a defiant manifestation of their staunched rejection of U.S. and British
war threats to their country, Iraqi women virtually besieged the U.N.
head office in Baghdad on Sunday, February 9.
They
chanted anti-American slogans and lambasted Washington’s false
justifications to win over world skeptics of war.
Raising
Iraqi and Palestinian flags, the women demonstrators called on U.N.
Secretary General Kofi Annan to take up responsibility to ensure
settling international disputes through peaceful means and not to
succumb to vicious American attempts to blackmail the international
agency.
"I
participated in the march to express my deep feelings of condemnation of
U.S. historic aggression plans against our country which are only meant
to raze its infrastructure, monopolize its resources and force its
people to their knees," said Zahraa Nazim Suheil, one of the
organizers.
She
has attended several training courses on fighting techniques in what
described as a clear demonstration that Iraqi women will stand shoulder
to shoulder with men in battling the invaders and thwart their
occupation schemes.
"Iraqi
women are not less courageous than their Palestinian counterparts who
ferociously stand against Israeli occupation forces in heroism, ready to
sacrifice their lives for their usurped homeland," Sahbaa
Abdel-Rahim Hassan, a pharmacy student, said amid spiraling anti-war
slogans.
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Iraqi
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The
women protestors also attempted to make their case for the far-fetched
dimension of ambitions of America, the new occupation power.
"The
U.S. invasion is not only aimed at controlling Iraq, but also
maintaining a tight grip on all of the Arab region's riches,"
warned Magda Mohamed Al-Qusayee, a university professor.
"We
are looking forward to countering any U.S. and British presence all over
(Arab) nation, and Arab women should take to the streets along with
their brothers to teach the invaders a bitter lesson," she
thundered with signals of defiance and boldness shining in her eyes.
But
as the U.S. and its closer ally Britain step up military preparations
for war, the protestors were confident that Iraq would prevail in any
showdown.
"Allah
will be with us against those aggressors who are coming with an
intention to demolish our sacred places, kill innocent people, spread
corruption and chaos all over Islamic countries," said Mona Gamal
Al-Qaderi, a factory worker.
The
protestors lashed out at neighboring Gulf countries who allowing their
land to be a launching pad for the potential invasion of a fellow Arab
and Muslim country.
"How
can these countries host U.S. and British forces, backed by Zionists, to
occupy the land of Arabs and kill their innocent children" another
female protestor lamented in an angry tone.
