U.S. troops have isolated certain quarters in the neighborhood of Dora with concrete slabs, blocking the passage of vehicles. Residents now vent their fury on U.S. troops, accusing the military of turning their neighborhood into a big prison. Residents said at least three districts were now completely cut off, leading to shortages of food and vegetables. Cars are not allowed to enter or leave these areas making it difficult for patients to visit hospitals and shop owners to replenish supplies. Residents have now to walk for long distances to reach bus terminals and it is impossible for ambulances and cars to drive patients in acute conditions to hospitals. Um Mohammed, a house wife, said conditions in Dora were deteriorating with every passing day. "We have become almost like detainees in a prison camp. There is no water and there is no electricity and no fuel to run the standby generators," she said....
[34873] |
Uruknet on Alexa
:: Segnala Uruknet agli amici. Clicka qui.
:: Invite your friends to Uruknet. Click here.
:: Segnalaci un articolo
:: Tell us of an article
:: If you find this site informative, please donate -
every donation helps us keep up with costs. Thanks.
:: If you find this site informative, please donate -
every donation helps us keep up with costs. Thanks.
|
|
U.S. erects more walls to isolate Baghdad quarters
Haqqi Ismael, Azzaman
 |
July 28, 2007
U.S. troops have isolated certain quarters in the neighborhood of Dora with concrete slabs, blocking the passage of vehicles.
Residents now vent their fury on U.S. troops, accusing the military of turning their neighborhood into a big prison.
Doura is one of the most violent areas in Baghdad and repeated U.S. military forays have failed to pacify it.
Residents said at least three districts were now completely cut off, leading to shortages of food and vegetables.
Cars are not allowed to enter or leave these areas making it difficult for patients to visit hospitals and shop owners to replenish supplies.
"These measures have caused a lot of problems for us. We are under fire now from all sides. Mortars and bombs by rebels and terrorists continue falling over our heads while U.S. troops have turned our areas into a big prison," said Abu Saif.
Residents have now to walk for long distances to reach bus terminals and it is impossible for ambulances and cars to drive patients in acute conditions to hospitals.
Um Mohammed, a house wife, said conditions in Dora were deteriorating with every passing day. "We have become almost like detainees in a prison camp. There is no water and there is no electricity and no fuel to run the standby generators," she said.
Mohammed Salem blamed the government for Dora’s predicament. He said even before the Americans besieged certain areas the government had failed to provide residents with food rations, fuel and other public utilities.
Dora is already ringed by fences and walls but it is the first time U.S. troops separate its parts with concrete slabs.
Adnan Ahmed urged Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and the parliament to order a halt to U.S. building of walls in Dora.
"We have become U.S. prisoners. Their tanks and Humvees have occupied our streets and their snipers the roofs of our houses, shooting randomly at anyone they find walking in the streets," he said.
Falah Hassan said U.S. troops’ practices have turned most of the population against them. "Sometimes U.S. soldiers take ordinary people, women and men, who leave their homes for shopping, to their barracks. They chain them and humiliate them before they are released.
"This government pays no attention to the innocent sons of this nation who are being subjected to inhuman practices," Hassan said.
|
|
:: Article nr. 34873 sent on 29-jul-2007 01:31 ECT
www.uruknet.info?p=34873
Link: www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\\2007-07-28\\kurd.htm
:: The views expressed in this article are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of this website.
|
COMMENTS BY READERS OF URUKNET
The COMMENTs of our readers are the sole responsability of their authors, and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of URUKNET. If you believe that any COMMENT contains pornographic, racist or otherwise objectionable or offensive content, or if the COMMENT is contrary to law in any way, please let us know. Our legal representatives will review any and all complaints and, if any complaint is deemed to be accurate, the COMMENT will removed at once.
Comments must be pertinent to the article and must not exceed 5000 characters.
To publish long comments, send it to the our Editor, it can become an article.
Do not complain to the Editor if you do not agree with an article or with a comment: simply reply here below.
You can get the password to become a REGISTERED USER and POST YOUR COMMENTS by clicking HERE (needed only once forever).
Click HERE to post your own comment. Now, also users not registered can post their comments.
| Comment pos ted: by tenzing on 29 Jul 2007 - 21:41 | The United States government-military-industrial complex is enthusiastic about b uilding walls and prisons. It's a growth industry. It's also a symbol of defeat for a nation that has prided itself on being a beacon for freedom and democracy.
There are thousands of us living here in the U. S. who fight against this degene racy, but the building of walls and prisons goes on, along with the carnage in I raq. I'm so sorry.
Almost 100 years ago, one of the greatest of American poets wrote a poem that is as powerful now as it must have been then. With respect and a prayer for better days ahead, I give you
MENDING WALL By Robert Frost (1915)
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."
|
|
[ Printable version
] | [ Send it to a friend ]
[ Contatto/Contact ] | [ Home Page ] | [Tutte le notizie/All news ]
|
|
Uruknet on Twitter
::
RSS updated to 2.0
:: English
:: Italiano
::
Uruknet for your mobile phone:
www.uruknet.mobi
The newsletter archive
|
:: If you find this site informative, please donate -
every donation helps us keep up with costs. Thanks.
|
:: All events
|
