Abandoned City

Few days ago, I was at college and I recieved a call on my cell phone
from my mum, she said that there were gun shootings and bombings in my
street and that the only entrance to the neighbourhood was blocked, she
asked me to be careful when coming back home.

So Several friends of mine and I took a cab and headed back home, when
we reached the only entrance street of the neighbourhood, it was
blocked and that no car was allowed to enter the neighbourhood. So we
got out of the cab and decided to walk home, we asked the check-point
of the iraqi national guards which is located at that only entrance
street if it was okay for us to walk home, and they said yes.
So we walked in that entrance street and it was like walking into a
street in like a resident evil movie or old cow-boys movies.It was like walking into an abandoned city, the street was completely empty, there were no signs of life in that street, the street was
messed up and destroyed, the shops were all closed and broken, there was no single human being in that street, smoke clouds were coming out from a bombed or destroyed buildings, birds were flying high and it was completely quiet. After walking about 20 meters we heard gun shoots and bombing sounds and the check-point which we passed started to shoot back in our direction, they didn't have any target to shoot at, they were just shooting in the street. so we walked beside the walls and waited until it was quiet again and then continued walking to home. I was so sad to see that my neighbourhood which was one of the most famous neighbourhoods of baghdad of being so crowdy and never sleeps neighbourhood to end up like this.

Here's a video shows my street at 10 am in the morning, you can see
that there is no sign of life in the street and its completely empty
and quiet, and of course with Alqa`eda on motor bics roaming the street
every 4-5 minutes.





Here is a picture showing the damage to the electricity high tension
towers and light shafts of the street.

Here is another picture showing how the street is completely abandoned.

And never forget that each day we wake up in the morning finding
corpses lying on scattered areas of the street.

New Era of Sunni-sunni and shiite-shiite conflicts has began

In my last two posts, I have mentioned that Alqa`da became in control
of my neighbourhood, and I mentioned what they are doing to the
innocent people but I never imagened it could come to this..

A few days ago, an owner of a store in my neighbourhood came to his
store which he has abandoned for almost a year and a half, he came back
to take his big genertaor out of the neighbourhood, he was acompanied
by two patrols of the Iraqi national guards. They tried to take it but
they couldn't as it was too big to move, so they delayed taking it to
the next day. Before he came the generator was used by locals without
permission from the owner, and as those locals knew that the guy came
back for his generator, they grew angry and of course some of those
locals are alqa`eda members, so they burned the generator and set his
big store on fire and burned the whole store which contains a huge
amount of electrical systems and equipments, and then they sent a bomb
-car and put it infront of his store and destroyed it.The store was fully destroyed as you can see in the pictures below.The problem is that this owner of the store is a sunni guy, and he
worked in this street over 4 years and he knows most of the locals
around his store area, but those locals where the same who destroyed
his store and burned it.

Here's another story for a building which lays a few meters away from
that store, whose owner was asked for money by Alqa`eda to cover Jihad
expenses, and as the guy said that he didn't have money to give them,
the jihadists decided to take their revange out of his building, so
they asked the owners of the shops in the building to evacuate their
shops and they went bombing and destroying the building which is one of
the most famous building in the whole neighbourhood.And of course the owner of the building has escaped from the neighbourhood because otherwise they would have killed him for saying I
DON"T HAVE MONEY TO COVER YOUR FUCKING JIHAD!

You can see Alqa`eda actions in those pictures. ..

These people on the motorbics are Alqa`eda members.

So as I say a new era of conflicts has began, its true, becuase those
two examples above represent sunni-sunni conflicts, and what we hear in
the news about confilcts in the southern governorates such as Basrah,
Nasiriya and Simawah, those represent shiite-shiite conflicts.I wonder when will it come to the brother-brother conflicts!
------------------------------------------------------------------------
I started to see new persons inside the persons that I knew for a long
time, everyone has became very cultic, and would blame the anit-cult
for anything that happens. Here in my neighbourhood, there were
independent educated people who never cared about being sunni or
shiite, they are now changed and became very cultic and aggressive
towards the anit-cult and when they hear that people of the other cults
were killed they kinda become happy and say like "they should die just
as people of our cult are dying", this has made me stay at home all the
time, and never go out and talk to those people about anything.
Even in college, its funny but I have to mention it, we had couples
from different cults who loved each other for two or three years, now
they broke up because one of them is shiite and the other is sunni. And
when a guy loves a girl, he first ask whether she is shiite or sunni
before he talks to her, and if she was from the other cult he would
neglect his feelings.Those are really funny and sick minds at the same time and I'm really
sorry for what happened to the people of my country and how ignorants
and sloven people they become! :(

AlQa`eda activity

Writings on the walls say "Long live Abu Omar Albaghdady" , "Down The Rafitha" (meaning down shiite) and "Long live the men of the Islamic Iraqi state"

Alqaida is in Power

Lately in my neighbourhood, violence is progressed and turned into a
new orientation, where the target now is the innocent people living
within the same neighbourhood (meaning: sunni people).
Yesterday, I was in a shop infront of my house owned by a friend of
mine,its a mini-market which sells food, drinks and ciggarettes..Recently me and some friends started to meet in that shop, and have
some drinks, play dominos and chat exchange news.We were sitting there playing domino and laughing on each other, then a
friend of ours came into the shop and said "Come on stop playing", and
told me to go to my house because I was wearing a short. We asked why??He said "Don't you know whats happening??" as he was hesitative and
afraid to speak, we asked him again to tell us whats wrong and he
started to explain to us.
He said,Alqaida is now in control of the neighbourhood, and they're doing
horrible things to the innocent people of the neighbourhood, he said
that a few minutes before he came to the shop, they killed a guy
infront of him because he was smoking in the street, and that he heard
that Alqaida shot a car of a bride and a groom because they were
celebrating in the street and playing music.I asked him why are you telling me to go to my house, he said because
you're wearing a short, I said "so f.... what??", he said its
prohibited to wear such clothes and that if they see you they would
kill you, I said why is it prohibited, he said Islam says so..my natural response was "OH REALLY???", he said who do you think you
are to argue with them, they would kill you without mercy, I said "ok" and went to my house.
Then I heard from my friends some ridiculous stuff, like Alqaida is now controling vegetable markets, and that its prohibited to put cucumbers along with tomato in the same sack, because cucumber is a male vegetable and tomato is a female vegetable, I chocked as I laughed about that story, they told me some extra ridiculous stuff of Alqaida and what they're doing in the streets and how they are killig people for no reasons.now I think that,ITS TIME TO LEAVE THIS SHIT HOLE COUNTRY, fuck Alqaida, fuck extremists, fuck Islam along with anyone who would kill innocent people just because they don't follow their fucked up rules.

And of course thanks to George Bush and his rat Almaliki for bringing us to this situation.
World War against terrorism, what a joke.

Its forbidden to say that you're happy in Iraq

Here's a funny story - its funny for me although it may sound horrible for you.

I was in my room, playing guitar as usual and was recording the song "Peace Train" for Cat Stevens, and after about 30 seconds on starting the song, when reaching the first line in the song, which was "Now I've been happy lately," a random bullet entered my room, crashed the window and broke all the glass and a heavy shooting then took place in the street.

I was like planted in my place and completely shocked because of the heavy shooting. I stopped the recording and went away from the windows to avoid getting in the cross-fire of the random bullets, and when the shooting was over, I went back to my room and checked what I recorded and here was the funny thing, that right after I said, "I've been happy lately," the bullet came in to my room.

It's like no one should be happy in this country, because if you say that you're happy, a bullet will come and smash your head right away.

maybe this country is cursed, because it's a really funny incident.

Here's the link for it.

Here's the link for the full song.

Filling the Emptiness!

There's nothing more amusing to do than writing songs with my old friend Yassir..
Here's a song about love and lying, the sound is not very clear, coz we used only one microphone and only one acoustic guitar.

Music Writing and playing by Nabil (one acoustic guitar)
Lyrics by Nabil and Yassir

Here are the lyrics of the song:

Verse*1
All my life I've been trying...
to never see myself crying..
to never let myself be fated..
to never let this heart be traded..
but you turned me baby...
and you took me baby..
you changed the man in me..
with you I couldn't see..
in a glimpse you had me..
and in the next you left me...

Verse*2
And now that she left me...
I'll remember her endlessly... (Spoken)
I'm not the man I used to be..
From now and on I'll never be lonely..
Coz this man won't be traded..
New man won't be fated..
I did love you baby...
and you killed me baby..
your lies I won't buy..
Now I have to say Good-Bye..
Gooood-Bye.

End

I hope you like it
here's the link:

Broken-Hearts - Good-Bye

The New Security Plan!

It's been almost 13 days since the Iraqi army and police supported by American troops started to carry out the new security plan, did anything change??
I think, yeah, actually there are things that have changed, now we have more blocked streets, and more fake checkpoints and patrols who practice sectarian violence in day and night.

It became almost impossible for people who lives in Karkh side to come to Alrasafa side on time and vice versa.
During my final exams in college, some students couldn't make it to college, others were like 2 hours late, because all streets and bridges are blocked, the rest suffered a lot to come to college and they had to bear the bad language and tirades of the soldiers in every single checkpoint.

The streets are still empty and filled with horror, gunmen and militias are still roaming the streets even in the presence of American or Iraqi patrols.
its really funny that the policy of those patrols is that if those gunmen won't hit us we won't hit them, so they can do whatever they want to do to the harmless people as long as they don't shoot us.

I think this is really what making Maliki and his crap security plan successful.

Life in Baghdad

Life in baghdad is like Hell, I used the term Hell and yet its worse than hell. People are locked up in their homes trying to be safe and yet they're not safe enough. streets are almost empty all the time and though they aren't safe enough.
All life's activites are stopped, for me I stopped going to school two months ago, and now I only go there if I have an exam or an important lab.

Life in Baghdad became less meaningful, there is no life in the city, people are scared to go out, they are afraid of fake police patrols or fake check points, they are afraid of random explosions, they are afraid of black militias and gunmen who would kill people for sectarian reasons.Horro is everywhere, people are terrified even from their own shadows.

My life became less active since I got back to Baghdad in Oct. 10th, Now I stay at home 24 hours a day, without going out, I only go out if I had to do something important or go to college if I had an exam, otherwise, I won't go out, because it's too dangerous to be out in the streets.

Being locked up at home is a very sad experience that I'm going through, there's too much emptiness in our lives nowadays, too much horror and too much grieve for the innocent people who are dying everday.
I lost several friends of mine, because they died either in a field of action or due to sectarian violence.
my long-time neighbour died during a random mortar shells attack on our neighbourhood, one of the shells fell on his house and killed him.
I stopped seeing my best friends for a long time ago, because its dangerous to go to other neighbourhoods to see them.

Due to secterian violence, now we have sunni and shiite neighbourhoods, and thus a sunni man can't enter a shiite neighbourhood and vice versa.
For this reason, I haven't gone to some places for a long time, because its too dangerous for a sunni man to go there, because gunmen would kill me just because I'm sunni.

Now people are even afraid to say their full names or in which district they live, we started to experience this even at college, some of our friends changed their names and made fake IDs for themselves, trying to protect themselves, others just left their houses and their neighbourhoods and moved to another places because they recieved death threats, such threats said "either you leave the area, or you will be killed", my ex-girlfriend and her family were forced to leave their house, she was a shiite living in a sunni distrist, and her family recieved a death threats telling them to evacuate their house in 24 hours or they all will be killed, other friends of mine just couldn't stand the situation and left the country and went to Jordan or Syria.

On the other hand in college, most students are failing in all their exams, they can't concentrate on studying while living in such horror and terror, I don't know how I managed to pass all my exams, but it is very hard to focus on studying while people are dying in the streets for no reasons.

So the situation in Baghdad is painful as much as it's dangerous, people can't keep on the right track anymore, everone is confused and scared.

The only victim of this situation is the good Iraqi people, whom their lives became shortened on just eating and sleeping and try to survive for another day.

Another terrifying day

Yesterday was round 2 of mortar attacks on my neighbourhood. Over 20 mortar missiles fell on the neighbourhood and caused 30 deaths and injuries. Here is my side of the story:

I was at my grandmah's house which happens to be next door to my house. Me and my cousin were at the back garden playing soccer and mocking each other. Suddenly we heard a very loud noise of mortar missile passing over us. I said "did you hear it?" and by the time he was saying "yes", a huge explosion took place. It was very close to us, we couldn't tell where it exactly fell as it was too close. We ran inside my grandmah's house and waited there for several minutes.
Shortly after that, we heard screaming, shouting and people running in the street, we ran out to the street to see what happened.

At first, I couldn't see as there was alot of dust and ashes in the air, then my vision cleared and I saw smoke clouds coming out from the roof of the house of my neighbour which is in front of my house. Instinctively I ran with the people to the inside of my neighbour's house to check for survivers. There were women all over the place shouting and screaming "help him, help him, he is at the roof", meanwhile mortar missiles were falling here and there very close to us. Me and several people ran to the roof of the house, and there was my neighbour lying on the floor with his legs got cut due to the explosion and he was severly bleeding and there was blood stains all over him. I was completely shocked, scared and terrified, I stood there and didn't know what to do. A man who was standing next to me shouted on me "come on!, grab him with me, lets take him to the hospital." I ran to him and carried my neighbour with him, we went down to the street carrying my neighbour where a kind man stopped his car and took us with him to the hospital.

Although I tied his cut off legs and squeezed on it trying to stop the bleeding, but by the time we arrived to the hospital, he was already gone, as he was bleeding severely.

In the hospital they didn't do anything to him, because he was already dead, they took him to the bodies refrigerator.shortly after his son (my neighbour's son) arrived to the hospital, he was shouting and crying "where is he? I wanna see him." We went to the bodies refrigerator, and it wasn't actually a refrigerator, bodies were lying on the floor, as there were too many bodies and there weren't enough rooms for them in the frig. The view of the bodies lying on the floor was very disgusting and sad, most of the bodies were victims of the mortar attacks.

Anyway, my neighbour relatives came to the hospital and brought a coffin for their dead relative, we took the body and headed back to my neighbour house, so that his wife and kids can see him for the last time before they bury him. I told them not to take him to his parents, because it would be very painful for his kids to see their father dead and his legs cut off. Anyway, his son insisted on taking him back home. We took him back to his house, and there was his wife and kids waiting for him and by that time they didn't know whether their father was dead or not. By the time they saw the coffin they started screaming, shouting and crying. I was very touched seeing the tears of his little kids crying with so much pain.

Shortly after that, his son said "lets take him to the cemetery, I want him to be buried before it gets dark". so they took him to the cemetery right away. they considerd him as a martyr.(In islam the martyr should be buried right away, with his blood and with his clothes he was wearing when he died). Anyway, we went to the cemetery, and the handlers started to bury him. I was standing with my cousin, near them watching them, before they were done closing his grave, another round of mortar attacks took place very very close to the cemetery, people just started to run and left his grave not completely closed, Me and my cousin closed his grave and ran to the car and headed back home.

When me and my cousin went back, my neighbours told us that another mortar missile fell on my grandmah's house but it didn't explode. Thank god it didn't explode because my grandmah was alone in the house.

Thats what happened yesterday. God knows what more can happen.

Happy or Sad should I be??!!

Today...I woke up in the morning, supposed to be Eid's morning, the day that we should have celebration and having fun.
At first I went downstairs, hugged my dad and wished him the best for the new year..and after a while he just shocked me with the news. He said that Saddam was executed earlier this morning.. I was feelingless at that point, because I was still sleepy. I stood there speachless, thinking of the whole thing and the consequences of this matter, and about the timing of the execution which is in Eid's morning.

Anyway I went up to my room again, dressed myself up, and went straight to my grandpah's house, where all the family comes on Eid's morning and have lunch and enjoy the first day of Eid. I enterd the room where they were all gathered. I noticed the sad look on their faces. I started to hug each one of them and wish them the best for the new year, then sat with them for a while. They were talking about this execution and they were very mad and angry about it, first because they think that this trial is not legitimate, and secondly that the timing of this execution is very bad. I remained speachless there too, because I didn't know what to say, I wasn't so sure about my feelings myself, I was like am I happy or am I sad or what the hell am I feeling??!

Anyway, Eid continued at grandpah's house as usual. We had a nice lunch and everything was okay. Then after I went to see my friend who wasn't feeling anything about the whole matter and wasn't thinking about the consequences.

I returnd home and still haven't decided my feelings whether I'm sad or happy. Now as I'm writing this post I can describe my feelings very well, but still don't know what other people might think of me saying this.

I think I'm happy to see this despot receiving a fair verdict and being executed for the crimes he had done to the Iraqi people, and for his aggressive behaviour towards the poor people. And yet, I'm so sad actually that this (great man as he was) this symbol of the Arab nation (as hypocrites used to describe him) is being treated this way.. being hold with disgust by two guards, and executed in this humiliating manner, its too much for me to take easily..

I think the Iraqi government has taken this day to carry out the verdict to avenge themselves and to attack the Sunni community in an indirect way, because today was only the Sunni's Eid, not the Shiite's Eid..
They were eager to execute him as soon as they can, to insure their wicked sick minds that the idea of Saddam coming back to power will be terminated, though they know that this won't happen even if he remained alive..

Anyway, carrying out the verdict will not solve anything, and will not make the security situation any better, it will only make it worse, and by this bad timing they attacked an important sect of the Iraqi people, and I don't think that this sect will remain harmless to what they've did..

Finally, I still don't know whether I'm happy or sad.. but to say the truth I'm sad, because I think that Iraq will never ever have a president that knows how to deal with the bad groups of the iraqi people like Saddam.

A car filled of explosives exploded about 20 meters away from the outer gate of my house...

The car exploded when an American army patrol was passing the street...there was no injuries niether from the American soldiers nor the civilians...

Electricity high pressure wires got destroyed and now the neighbourhood is without electricity at all..

Translations for Posters which were attached on the walls in my street

To our kinsfolk from the students and professors in sunni districts:
Subject: Communique about Closing Universitys and institutes in Baghad:
As a result for the act of Al-Maliki government and the dirty death
squads that are supported by that government, in killing and torturing
people from the sunni sect, and after these crimes were done by small
groups, Today, they are done by hundreds of people in daytime, by the
Persian forces of the internal affairs ministry officailly.
And the incident of the Higher Education Ministry is our biggest
example, the number of these crimes had increased a lot, and you are
the ones who are living them day by day, because the you are their
target!.

Thus, After consulting with a group of experts and University
professors, WE! decided to cancel the official attendance for college
students and higher education students, for the studying year of 2006-
2007 in all the Universities and institutes and the private colleges in
the capital of Baghdad only, in order to fist save the blood of our
professors and students, and secondly to clean these institutions from
the death squads.

As for students in primary and secondary schools, they are not included
by this verdict, and they should continue their attendance, because
they are not suffering what University students are suffering.
Today, Universities are being administrated by the hands of ALRWAFITH
(Religion quoting), controlled by the people of the dirty black
turbans, those who they know nothing about life only they know how to
kill innocent people, and they changed these University from
Educational Building institutions to killing institutions, and after
professors and students were safe, teaching and studying in these
universities, nowadays they get killed on the doorsteps of these
universities.

60% of the students from the sunni sect didn't start studying at this
year, they didn't even go to their universities this year, because they
were afraid of getting kidnapped or killed, and the same for the
students of the higher educations, and the rest of the sunni students
and professors became the main target for the death squads. As with
what happened to Dr. Esam Alrawi who was assassinated in Al-Mansour
district.

So for the people of the sunni sect, this verdict is to save your blood
and to save you from the perfidy bullets, because we are not satisfied
with that the RWAFITHS get the highest degrees and the sunni people are
staying at their homes because they are afraid of death, so to make
justice this year should be canceld for everyone not just for the sunni
sect people.

Again we repeart our advice for the students from the sunni sect, to
avoid going to their Universities and institutes and colleges, for this
year, and we know that the avoidance of going for studying is a painful
fact, but getting our professors and students killed is much more
painful, thats why we are working to clean these institutions from the
death squads.
And who Alerted is excused...who alerted is excused...who alerted is
excused.

Ansar AlSuna Group

Its not safe for people...even if they were locked up in their houses

Pics for a mortar missile fell on the side-walk.....just a few steps away from the outer door of my house....

Mortar missiles are falling on my district for about a week....at the rate of 15 mortar missile per day...lots of killed innocent people...lots of injuries from the people of the district...


















I was in my room...around 7 pm...chatting on the internet with my friends...then I heard a huge sound of bombing...and huge amount of dust came into my room.... I was shoked... I stopped thinking for minutes...I didn't know what to do...then heard the voice of my mum from down stairs...screeming..Nabil, Nabil...are you okay?!.... I ran downstairs to check if my mom and dad are okay...and thanks to god they were okay.

Then we started to try to understand what happened...meanwhile we heard voices in the street...saying that a mortar missile fell on a shop infront of my house.... the owner of the shop is one of my friends... and his house is just behind the shop...so I ran out to check if they were okay... I crossed the street...it was too dark...no electricity as usual...saw few men with torch lights looking at the shop and trying to find what happened...then a guy who was passing the street....stood in front of my house and shouted to us...that he found a hole in the street... we ran to his spot...and found what you see in these pictures...
We found that it was a mortar missile which fell on the side-walk as you see....

Its not safe for us...even being locked up in our homes...WHAT A MESS !!!!!

3 terrifying days had passed in Adhamiah District (Sunni district), tons of mortars had fell on the area....the targets were random...about 50 innocent people were killed..hunderds are injured...lots of houses are fully destroyed...streets are ruined.....

As what the people in that district said..that gunmen are surrounding the area...killing people..shooting mortars randomly...and we can do nothing to stop them...

Maliki goes on Tv screen...says that he opened an investigation on from where these mortars are being fired...well, excuse me... you can ask the army that you're leading..which is Al-Mahdi army...ask them...from where are you shooting that area...I guess that would be easier than opening an investigation and blah blah blah....

Some higher force has to interfere to stop this blood shedding....

Oh yes... Maliki orders check points removed from Alsader district..... well, what about other districts will they remain blocked???...Iraqi prime minister shows his alignment to the shiite publicly...

lets just review what happend... Alsader district was besieged for about a week... what happened within that besieging?? a car filled up with explosives exploded in that district?? doesn't that give the Iraqi government any idea about from where do thses bombing cars are coming??... I mean the city was besieged... there was no enterance for cars to that district.. and yet they had an explosion by a car... that means that most not all of the cars which are being exploded in Baghdad are coming from that area...

4 hours after the siege was opend and the check points were removed... police reports that 21 dead bodies were found in Alresafa side... I mean come on... do something about this!!

And if I'm wrong and if Almaliki is not backing up these militias and gunmen... why Alsader district was the only area that were not checked for guns, morters and other heavy weapons???

Even the most IGNORANT man in this universe can figure it out....that the current Iraqi government is backing up the militias and the gunmen... and all of the Iraqi government institutions are filled with corruption... and the loyalty of the IRAQ Army Soldiers and police men is not to Iraq but to the Black Militia of Almahdi Army..

14,000 piece of weapons are missing from the Iraqi Army... what an irony... I'm sure that they are in the hands of Al-Mahdi army which its members are over 150,000 men....approximatley to a 20% of Alsader district population.

P.S: Almahdi Militia men are preventing Students from going to their colleges or schools and government employees from going to their works, good news? we won't study this year... because the ignorant fatso Muqtada Alsader don't want us to..

Update

An Innocent life of a young hair styler woman had to end like that.....

As what Eye witnesses told me...
She was on her way home... after she closed up her shop.. around 5:30 pm.... she hired a taxi... just at the time that she got inside the taxi car...
A civilian car with four young men inside it.. just blocked the way on the taxi.. one of the young men..(As they said.. they doubt if he is over 18 yo... they meant that the age of those boys is certainly under 18).. came out of the car.... and headed to the taxi car... brought that woman out of the taxi by force... put a black plastic sack on her face... and he assassinated her.
for what??? why did they kill her??? no one knows....

later about 8:20 pm an Iraqi Army patrol came and picked up the dead body.

News from the neighbourhoods (updates)

Violence is continued and there is no force that can save the innocent lives..

Two days ago in my street in the morning.. two roadside bombs blew up on an Iraqi army patrol who was passing the street.. there was no casualties.. only the road got messed up.. and an under-ground water pipe was broken... and wasn't repaired till today...

2 dead bodies were found near a mosque in the neighbourhood, they were just laying in the street.. and the people were afraid to pick them up and deliver them to the police... they got picked up by an American army patrol...

Two Days ago in Al-Adhamiah neighbourhood (Sunni Neighbourhood).. mosques announced to the people using microphones... telling them to stay at home for the next day.. cause there will be fake police patrols surrounding the neighbourhood exits in the morning... and they will assassinate people according to their IDs.. that means sunni people will get killed..

I don't know where are they going by doing these things....

News from the neigbourhoods

Yesterday... I witness the most horrible thing since I got here in
Baghdad.. I was standing with some friends in the street.. and saw a guy
coming out from a house.. his eyes were coverd, his mouth was shut.. and
his hands were tied.. the house was across the street just about 20
meters away from us.. the guy came a cross the street without seeing and
went to a shop.. he was shouting.. untie me.. open my eyes.. some people
ran to help him, his only words were.."please take me to my house...
they will kill me".. so the people just helped him.. and hired a taxi
for him.. then we heard his story from the people of the house that he
came out from..
they said that they were sitting in their back garden.. waiting until
the time of eating comes.. (they were fasting as it Ramahdan now).. they
said suddenly... a body jumped into the garden from the back fence of
the house... at first they said that they thought he was dead.. but the
guy just stood him self up... and began to move.. they're were girls
sitting in the garden as well, so they started to scream as they were
very scared.. because his view was very scary..(I mean I freacked out
when I saw him), after the girls started to scream.. the guy said
"please, don't scream..I'm kidnapped..the kidnappers will hear you", the
girls just didn't stop screaming.. so he ran out from the front door of
the house..where we saw him coming out.

At first we thought that he was kidnapped and being held in that house..
but then we got the whole story..

About the people in the street.. they were confused.. whether should
they help him?? or should they not??some people just ran to help him at the moment that they saw him.. some people didn't move a finger.. because they were afraid of the
kidnappers.. thats how's the situation now.. people are afraid to help
each other..
An owner of a shop near by in the same street happens to know the guy who was
kidnapped.. after few hours of the scene.. we went again out to the
street.. the shop owner said that he contacted the parents of the
kidnapped guy.. and they said that they recieved their son.. and now
he's on his way to Arbil.. just to escape from the kidnappers.

In the same neibouhood.. in the evening of that night.. an armed guy
riding a motorbic.. just opend fire on a mosque three blocks away from
the same street.. just without reason..(I think he was just bored.. and
thought to waste some bullets by learning how to shoot on a mosque walls
when he is riding a motorbic!!!).

Later at the same day.. US army patrols found 2 dead bodies in the same
neighbourhood.

P.S: I am talking about just one neighbourhood, imagen what happens
in other ones.. and you count the number of the dead bodies and
kidnapped people.

I'm just living in an irony country... where religion scientists.. who
assume that they are scientists of religion.. are leading the country to
a total mess...

Expect more news updates from Baghdad neigbourhoods... but unfortunely
sad ones.

Education in Baghdad 2006-2007

The Iraqi minsiter of education announced that the schools (primary and secondary) starts on 20th sep. 2006 for the studying year of 2006-2007, well here's what I've heard...

In a school called Omar bin Abd Alaziz for boys (17th of july revolution before), in the day of the openning of schools, just one student went to school from about 600 students in that school, this guy said..
"I woke up in the morning, had my breakfast, and went to school for the new studying year, but I found myself alone in the school", he said that he was surprised to see the school was empty, at first he didn't know what to do, because there was no one in the school, no teachers.. no students.. he found only the guards, he spoke with the guards of his school, they told him to go back home, and to droop by in 1st of Oct. or maybe after Ramdan ends in nearly 22th Oct.

In Another school called Alhariry school for girls... I heard that only few students went to school at that day.. but the school was filled of Iraqi & American soldiers and vehicles in order to protect the student...

Sharqyia Tv Channel has made a report about the openning of schools, they chose one of Baghdad schools, I don't remember it's name, but there was a lot of students in that school.. the reason of the good number of students in that school, is because the school lies in a niegberhood which is a little better from other places by the security situation...

About The Universities and Colleges...
The Iraqi minister of high education still didn't decide.. when the studying will start.. but the rumers say that it will be in the 1st of Oct...
I heard from the students of the privte Baghdad college of pharmacy.. which is being transfered into another location... they said that the college administration haven't decided when will be the openning.. and maybe it will be too late because they still haven't transfered all the college labs and classes...

Students Rumers...
As for the people that I see here in Jordan... or what I hear from my friends in Baghdad...
some of them says that there will be no schools nor colleges for this year.. because of the messed up situation in Baghdad.. and because of Almahdi Militia which is kidnapping most of the people in the streets and even from their houses... and kills them for cults reasons..

Others says that there will be schools and colleges for this year... and they will start exactly in the 1st of Oct. and everything will be normal just like last year.. they say that they will experience the same situation of the last year...

Other people said that maybe and they were not very sure... they said maybe there will be schools and colleges for this year... but not before Ramadan ends...

Others here in Jordan said.. that Iraq is hell nowadays.. and everyone who goes back to Iraq will have one fated destiny which is death.. whether be explosions or by the Black Militias of Jaish Al Mahdi or Badir...

So lets just hope and pray.. for the people of Iraq.. and the students of Iraq to have a safe studying year... and may God let the good people of Iraq live and not get killed by the hands of the black men of Al Mahdi Militia and other Militias.

Can Anyone Stop Aljazeera Tv Channel

Today.. I was watching the news on Aljazeera tv channel, and most of the news were about the terorrist attacks... so the comercials came.. and one of them was about a programe that will be Brodcasted in Monday 12:05 am KSA time... this programe is about discribing how the terorrist are maneging to get to Iraq... through the borders with syria and Iran.. I mean a reporter was with terorrist crossing the borders when they taped the movie... and about how they bring the guns and the wepons with them..
I mean if Aljazeera knows about all these details.. how come the Iraq government or the Army and the American Army.. and the American administration doesn't know about it.. or can't stop it...
I mean do we have a fake government.. and all what they care about is stealing money from Iraq????
THe security situation is getting worse everyday.. and The Iraqi PM goes on tv and promice the nation that he will improve the security situation.. just bullshit.... they do nothing.. cause most of the Police and the Army soldiers are from the Almahdi Army and Badir association who works for Muqtada Al-Sadir and Abd Al aziz al hakeem, those Iranians (basterds) who work for Iran interest...
Iran is now playing in Iraq... they are behind everything now....
and I hope that the American Administration are satisfied with what they did to Iraq...
if I can give one advice to the Iraqi PM... my advice will be... execute everyone that you suspect he's a terorrist.. and do it the old fashion way ... by hanging with a gallows pole.. and keep them hanged in the streets so other people see them...
Saddam was right by doing that.. bacuase Iraqis terorrist deserve only this....