Region | Iraq
Americans, common enemy of all Iraqi sects
Americans seemed more odious to Iraqis five years after the invasion and occupation of the country."
- By Basil Adas, Correspondent
- Published: 23:38 April 8, 2008
Baghdad: Americans seemed more odious to Iraqis five years after the invasion and occupation of the country."
Jumaa Al Khafaji told Gulf News: "I am an Iraqi Shiite; frankly I can say that I was happy that Saddam's regime was toppled and I welcomed the US Army who helped us achieve that goal.
"But now I hate the Americans who have harmed and abused Iraqis and helped in spreading sectarianism among us, We are divided as Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. They killed Sunnis in Fallujah and Haditha, murdered Shiites in Sadr City, Najaf and Diwaniya. I hate them so much," Al Khafaji said.
"Throughout the last five years, the US army committed violations that offended the Iraqi people beginning with the abuse of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib, carrying out massacre of civilians in Hadith, and Baghdad's Al Nisr Square massacre which was perpetrated by armed men working for Blackwater, an American security company."
"What did Iraqis gain from this occupation which has put Iraq back hundred years," Samia Abdul Amir Al Samurai, an Iraqi University student, asked.
"This occupation made this country an arena for settling accounts, by terrorists, infiltrators and assassins to hit targets in scientific and academic communities. All these are done by parties supported by the American occupation, therefore I am certain that all Iraqis hate Americans," Al Samurai said.
Bakhtiar Berzinji, a Kurdish citizen, told Gulf News: "It is true that the American army is not deployed in Kurdistan regions but the Turkish invasion to our territories is supported by Americans who allow Turks to shell Kurdish villages and to displace hundreds of Kurds, besides the Kurdistan territory guard forces is under strict Americans surveillance so that there will be no Iraqi effective force to face internal and external threats."
"I am an Iraqi Christian. Before the American occupation, Christian population was more than one and a half million, but now this number has dramatically dropped to less than one million because of fear, murder and kidnapping," Hani Dnkha.
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