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Iraqi Women Condemn Atrocities Committed by Saddam Hussein Regime The terrible plight of Iraqi women under the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein was brought into sharp focus at a recent press conference by a group of independent Iraqi women. The speakers, representing a broad geographic cross-section from various parts of Iraq (South, Central and Iraqi Kurdistan), reflected various ethnic and religious backgrounds. In a show of courage and open defiance against Saddam Hussein's regime, they detailed the atrocities committed against Iraqi women and their loved ones by Saddam and his henchmen. The speakers stressed the need for the international community to condemn Saddam's regime and its atrocities committed against humanity.
Safia Taleb Al Souhail described the 1994 assassination of her father Sheikh Taleb Al Souhail, eminent Iraqi leader and head of the Bani Tamim tribe, at the hands of Saddam Hussein's intelligence service, the Mukhabarat. Although the murderers confessed to the killing, the crime went unpunished. The perpetrators were released and sent back to Iraq by the Lebanese authorities as part of a diplomatic pact with Iraq.
The Hon. Zakia Ismail Hakki detailed the atrocities committed against the Faylee Kurds, mostly males aged 16-28, detained unlawfully in Saddam's torture camps since 1980 as their families were deported to Iran. Judge Hakki appealed to the international community to enforce U.N. Security Council Resolution 688 regarding human rights for Iraqis and for worldwide support for the Iraqi people's efforts to topple Saddam Hussein's outlaw regime.
NOW, let me get this straight WHO is the ENEMY here? Sounds as if the Iraqi people are better off with the USA coming in than with there current leader!
Adam aka Big Dude