Monday, July 25, 2011
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Top Fourteen Signatures of Stanley Ann Dunham Obama Soetoro Doe
© Bridgette WTPOTUS 2011
Below is a compilation of Barack Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham’s, many variations of her signature. Like anything else having to do with this fabricated family, there are just too many inconsistencies in provided information to say any of them are biologically related to each other or that they even exist. The felonious crimes of the cabal involved in these crimes are getting too numerous to mention. The apparent forgeries of many documents are being examined by experts in various fields, and the exposure of these fraudulent documents and the crimes of those involved are beginning to reach a fevered pitch.
It is unfathomable to me how so many documents for this family that were completed for the government can raise so many questions, i.e., social security cards, social security applications, passport applications, petitions, written notes, letters, marriage licenses, birth certificates, school records, alien documents, and photographs.
Applications are incomplete, blank spaces occur where questions were supposed to be answered, dates referring to specific events are different in various documents, forms are used that were never in use by the government, and form numbers or revisions are erroneous.
Applications contain writing that is noticeably written by different hands on the same page and within the same file of documents. Handwriting signatures aren’t identical when compared to other examples supposedly written by the same person. Signatures occurring on the same page for the same day don’t match either.
As you will see below in examples of Ann Dunham’s signatures, the slant of the writing is either to the left, right or straight up and down. The cursive signature varies in the amount of pressure applied to the paper; it is heavy to extremely light. When the signature is written it is exactly on the baseline or way above it. The written letters are either angular or rounded and vary. Her signature is clear or sloppily written. As her name changes from Dunham to Obama to Soetoro, her first name is written either as Stanley, S., or Ann. Along with her name changes, her cursive handwriting style also changes. The discrepancies are quite obvious when they are laid out together and seen.
How can these abnormalities be explained away? The obvious answer is they can’t. Someone has forged these government documents. It has been done by those who have conspired to cover-up the usurper and his less than illustrious family. They try, but their deceit has gone too far. Their forged documents and the information presented are being dissected and examined page by page.
As your eyes can see, Ann’s name as well as her signature varies from document to document. Which, if any, is the real signature of Stanley Ann Dunham? In reality, is there a real Ann Dunham that is the mother of Barack Obama or is she a fabrication? I added the legal term of Doe to indicate another name she may have used but is unknown.
Let’s compare and contrast Ann’s signatures. These are arranged from the earliest dates to the latest. If you have other examples that are missing from this list, please let us know the source and they will be added.
Will a handwriting expert please weigh in!
Sources:
Stanley Ann Dunham Obama Soetoro Passport Application – Strunk v Dept of State.
White House Long Form COLB for Barack Obama on April 27, 2011
Lolo Soetoro Petition , Obama Sr. – Ken Allen FOIA Release – Department of Homeland Security
“Who’s your real Daddy?” is a question that remarkably continues to dog Barack Obama, even as he proceeds into his fourth year as president.
With the release this July of Joel Gilbert’s full-length documentary, “Dreams from My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception,” the mystery deepens regarding who Obama really is
“The film provides the first cohesive understanding of Obama’s deep-rooted life journey in socialism, from his childhood to his presidency,” Gilbert told WND.
Gilbert rejects the official story that the Kenyan-born Barack Obama was the president’s father.
Instead, he argues, Frank Marshall Davis, the radical poet and journalist who was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party USA, was the real, biological and ideological father of Barack Obama.
“I decided to investigate Frank Marshall Davis. His close physical resemblance to Obama was shocking, while Obama little resembled the Kenyan Obama,” Gilbert said. “How could this be?”
Get “Dreams from My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception” from WND’s Superstore.
Gilbert launched into what became two years of research during which he conducted interviews and discovered rare film footage and photos.
“I unearthed two film archives of Frank Marshall Davis, one from 1973, the other from 1987, as well as Davis’ photo collection,” he explained. “I then acquired 500 copies of the Honolulu Record, the communist-run newspaper where Davis wrote a weekly political column for eight years.”
Gilbert’s research turned shocking when he obtained seven indecent photos of Ann Dunham, Obama’s mother, at Frank Marshall Davis’ house, suggesting an intimate connection between Dunham and Davis.
“I was not happy to include these racy photos in the film but found it necessary to substantiate the intimate relationship between the two,” he said. “Those photos ended up in a men’s mail-order catalog of nude women, likely sold to them by Davis. I placed black bars on parts of the photos to be respectful.”
To establish the foundation for the photos, Gilbert documented that Davis was one of the founders of a photography club in Chicago, known as the “Lens Camera Club,” and that he specialized in nude photographs.
See the trailer for “Dreams from My Real Father”:
Alleged to be Stanley Ann Dunham Note the tell tale neck covering. Photo:NY Times
It is unfathomable to me how so many documents for this family that were completed for the government can raise so many questions, i.e., social security cards, social security applications, passport applications, petitions, written notes, letters, marriage licenses, birth certificates, school records, alien documents, and photographs.
Applications are incomplete, blank spaces occur where questions were supposed to be answered, dates referring to specific events are different in various documents, forms are used that were never in use by the government, and form numbers or revisions are erroneous.
Applications contain writing that is noticeably written by different hands on the same page and within the same file of documents. Handwriting signatures aren’t identical when compared to other examples supposedly written by the same person. Signatures occurring on the same page for the same day don’t match either.
As you will see below in examples of Ann Dunham’s signatures, the slant of the writing is either to the left, right or straight up and down. The cursive signature varies in the amount of pressure applied to the paper; it is heavy to extremely light. When the signature is written it is exactly on the baseline or way above it. The written letters are either angular or rounded and vary. Her signature is clear or sloppily written. As her name changes from Dunham to Obama to Soetoro, her first name is written either as Stanley, S., or Ann. Along with her name changes, her cursive handwriting style also changes. The discrepancies are quite obvious when they are laid out together and seen.
How can these abnormalities be explained away? The obvious answer is they can’t. Someone has forged these government documents. It has been done by those who have conspired to cover-up the usurper and his less than illustrious family. They try, but their deceit has gone too far. Their forged documents and the information presented are being dissected and examined page by page.
As your eyes can see, Ann’s name as well as her signature varies from document to document. Which, if any, is the real signature of Stanley Ann Dunham? In reality, is there a real Ann Dunham that is the mother of Barack Obama or is she a fabrication? I added the legal term of Doe to indicate another name she may have used but is unknown.
Let’s compare and contrast Ann’s signatures. These are arranged from the earliest dates to the latest. If you have other examples that are missing from this list, please let us know the source and they will be added.
Will a handwriting expert please weigh in!
Signature Variations of
Stanley Ann Dunham Obama Soetoro Doe
1.
Stanley Signature from High School Photo
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- Stanley Ann Signature from Application for Social Security Number from SSA
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Stanley Ann Dunham Obama as written on BHO's LFCOLB in 1961. Recently presented to the US by the White House on April 27, 2011
4.
Stanley Ann Soetoro Signature from Petition for Lolo, page 70
5.
Stanley Ann Soetoro Signature Passport File Page 5
6.
S. Ann Soetoro Nov. 30, 1965 Affidavit, Lolo Petition File, page 117
7.
Stanley Ann Dunham Passport File, Page 3, August 13, 1968
8.
Stanley Ann Soetoro Signature Page 6 Passport File
9.
S. Ann Dunham Soetoro, Passport Application, January 4, 1972
10.
Mrs. S. Ann Soetoro May 1, 1974 Letter, Lolo Petition File Pg 165
11.
S. Ann Dunham Soetoro, June 197? Passport Application, Page 11
12.
Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro Signature from Marriage Certificate - Lolo Soetoro Page 73
13.
Stanley Ann Dunham Signature April 9, 1986 - Note Trip to Philippines Delayed
14.
S. Ann Dunham Passport Application Signature April 27, 1987?
Stanley Ann Dunham Obama Soetoro Passport Application – Strunk v Dept of State.
White House Long Form COLB for Barack Obama on April 27, 2011
Lolo Soetoro Petition , Obama Sr. – Ken Allen FOIA Release – Department of Homeland Security
WND EXCLUSIVE
Film: President's father not Barack Obama
2 years of research, rare photos support compelling case
“Who’s your real Daddy?” is a question that remarkably continues to dog Barack Obama, even as he proceeds into his fourth year as president.
With the release this July of Joel Gilbert’s full-length documentary, “Dreams from My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception,” the mystery deepens regarding who Obama really is
“The film provides the first cohesive understanding of Obama’s deep-rooted life journey in socialism, from his childhood to his presidency,” Gilbert told WND.
Gilbert rejects the official story that the Kenyan-born Barack Obama was the president’s father.
Instead, he argues, Frank Marshall Davis, the radical poet and journalist who was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party USA, was the real, biological and ideological father of Barack Obama.
“I decided to investigate Frank Marshall Davis. His close physical resemblance to Obama was shocking, while Obama little resembled the Kenyan Obama,” Gilbert said. “How could this be?”
Get “Dreams from My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception” from WND’s Superstore.
Gilbert launched into what became two years of research during which he conducted interviews and discovered rare film footage and photos.
“I unearthed two film archives of Frank Marshall Davis, one from 1973, the other from 1987, as well as Davis’ photo collection,” he explained. “I then acquired 500 copies of the Honolulu Record, the communist-run newspaper where Davis wrote a weekly political column for eight years.”
Gilbert’s research turned shocking when he obtained seven indecent photos of Ann Dunham, Obama’s mother, at Frank Marshall Davis’ house, suggesting an intimate connection between Dunham and Davis.
“I was not happy to include these racy photos in the film but found it necessary to substantiate the intimate relationship between the two,” he said. “Those photos ended up in a men’s mail-order catalog of nude women, likely sold to them by Davis. I placed black bars on parts of the photos to be respectful.”
To establish the foundation for the photos, Gilbert documented that Davis was one of the founders of a photography club in Chicago, known as the “Lens Camera Club,” and that he specialized in nude photographs.
See the trailer for “Dreams from My Real Father”:
Later in life, Davis also penned a scurrilous, autobiographical sex novel, titled “Sex Rebel: Black,” in which he detailed an illicit sexual relationship with an underage woman named “Anne.” Gilbert believes the name was a thin disguise for Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham.
Gilbert reconstructs Obama’s autobiography, “Dreams from My Father,” and concludes that the tale of the goat-herding father from Kenya is a cover story, concocted to mask an inconvenient pregnancy.
The truth, Gilbert argues, is that Barack Obama II was born from the illicit sexual relationship that rebellious teenager Ann Dunham began with Davis after her parents forced her to move to Hawaii.
Gilbert believes that when Dunham first arrived in Hawaii after graduating from high school, she used the sexual relationship with Davis to act out her frustration that her parents would not permit her to fulfill her wish to attend the University of Washington in Seattle with her Mercer Island High School friends.
In 2010, Gilbert wrote and directed a film titled “Atomic Jihad: Ahmadinejad’s Coming War and Obama’s Politics of Defeat.” “Dreams from My Real Father” will be released this summer, with screenings in theaters across the country currently in the planning process.
Communist roots
The FBI had Davis under surveillance for 19 years, monitoring his support of the Communist Party both in Chicago and in Hawaii.
Gilbert portrays Obama as a “Red Diaper Baby,” a phenomenon among the radical left, referred to as “hand-me-down Marxism,” in which children of radical parents grow up to be radicals. Such was the case with much of the leadership of Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground, including Obama senior political adviser David Axelrod, who was born to a mother who wrote for a communist newspaper in New York City.
Barack Obama Sr., Barack Obama II and Frank Marshall Davis
What Gilbert presents is a direct challenge to the official narrative, arguing it is more likely President Obama has a deeply disturbing family background and a hidden Marxist agenda.
“Unfortunately, Obama’s style is to minimize, misdirect, and outright lie about damaging information about his past,” Gilbert said. “I hope the media will now demand that he come clean about his family background, his political foundations and fully reveal his agenda for transforming America.”
In writing his autobiography, Obama masked his relationship with Davis, naming him only as “Frank,” a friend of his grandfather who “lived in a dilapidated house in a run-down section of Waikiki.”
Gerald Horne, a contributing editor to “Public Affairs,” an openly Marxist political review, made the first positive identification of “Frank” as Frank Marshall Davis.
In March 2007, Horne gave a speech at New York University on the occasion of the Communist Party USA archive being placed at an NYU library.
In that speech, Horne discussed Davis, noting that Davis, who was born in Kansas and lived much of his adult life in Chicago, had moved to Honolulu in 1948 at the suggestion of his good friend, actor Paul Robeson. In the 1940s, Robeson was an outspoken critic of segregation and racial discrimination in the U.S., a strong advocate of the Soviet Union and a member of the Communist Party USA.
Horne also documented Davis’s friendship with the Dunham family in Hawaii.
“Eventually, [Davis] befriended another family – a Euro-American family – that had migrated to Honolulu from Kansas, and a young woman from this family eventually had a child with a young student from Kenya East Africa who goes by the name of Barack Obama, who, retracing the steps of Davis, eventually decamped to Chicago.”
Lorne further stated Davis was “a decisive influence in helping [Obama] to find his present identity as an African-American, a people who have been the least anti-communist and the most left-leaning of any constituency in this nation.”
After Horne’s speech, the identity of “Frank” was never in doubt, nor his importance in the development of the young Barack Obama.
On Dec. 5, 1956, Davis appeared in executive session before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee investigating “the scope of Soviet activity in the United States,” one of the McCarthy-era panels seeking to expose communists considered to be a security threat.
Invoking his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination, Davis refused to answer a direct question asking if he was then a communist.
A year earlier, in 1955, a Commission on Subversive Activities organized by the government of the Territory of Hawaii identified Davis as a member of the Communist Party USA. The committee singled out for criticism several articles Davis published in the “Communist Honolulu Record” that were critical of the commission.
May 19th Communist Organization
Gilbert documents Obama’s association at Columbia University with what was known as the May 19th Communist Organization, an above-ground support group for the Weather Underground based in New York City from 1978 to 1985.
“May 19th” carried out raucous anti-Apartheid and anti-Klan protests and operated a host of front organizations.
At the time, Weather Underground co-founder William Ayers – Obama’s Chicago neighbor and colleague in education reform – wrote that May 19th provided “a sea for the guerrillas to swim in.”
Some May 19th members committed acts of violence and terrorism, such as the 1981 Nanuet Brinks robbery and murders, the bombing of South African offices in 1981 and the U.S. Capitol bombing in 1983.
“I spoke with a former FBI informant who told me the May 19th Communist Organization had a weapons training camp in the Catskill Mountains, run by former Black Panthers,” Gilbert told WND. “In addition, some May 19th members were sent to Cuba for several weeks each year with the Venceremos Brigade, a continuation of the SDS/Weather Underground program begun in the ’60s, for explosives training from Cuban intelligence, DGI.”
Obama’s election was not a sudden political phenomenon, Gilbert maintains.
“It was the culmination of an American socialist movement that Frank Marshall Davis nurtured in Chicago and Hawaii and has been quietly infiltrating the U.S. economy, universities and media for decades,” he explained. “To understand Obama’s plans for America, look no further than communist Frank Marshall Davis.”
My opinion If Davis was Obama father then Obama would be a Natural Born Citizen But Obama says Obama Sr was his father. But would America elect Davis's Communist Son of Frank Marshall Davis as their President?
Sandy Rios
Rios: 'There are Tons of People in Government' who are Communists
Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 10:09am
On yesterday's "AFA Today" radio program, Buster Wilson welcomed fellow AFA Radio Host Sandy Rios on to the program to discuss Rep. Alan West's recent allegation that were some 80 members of Congress who were members of the Communist Party.
Both Wilson and Rios were convinced that West was absolutely right, as Obama himself "admits to receiving Marxist training" and has filled his administration with open Marxists. In fact, there was so much evidence that Communists have infiltrated the government that Wilson could not understand "why the Left would mock those of us on the Right who call attention to it."
But Rios explained that mockery was all part of an effort to discredit those who point out that "there are tons of people in government ... who embrace Socialism/Communism, even if they don't call it that":
Both Wilson and Rios were convinced that West was absolutely right, as Obama himself "admits to receiving Marxist training" and has filled his administration with open Marxists. In fact, there was so much evidence that Communists have infiltrated the government that Wilson could not understand "why the Left would mock those of us on the Right who call attention to it."
But Rios explained that mockery was all part of an effort to discredit those who point out that "there are tons of people in government ... who embrace Socialism/Communism, even if they don't call it that":
UPDATE: Rios has posted a column on AFA's OneNewsNow seemingly suggesting that Obama is some sort of Communist plant who is aiming to help rebuild the Soviet Union:
The FBI waged war against Communist subversives from its earliest years until the 1980s when President Ronald Reagan brought the godless "Evil Empire," soaked in the blood of millions slain by Joseph Stalin, to its knees.
Yet the American Left idolized that empire and its ideology. The KGB was actively recruiting young American college students at the time young Bill Clinton mysteriously showed up in Russia while travel was still forbidden. In their own manifesto, Prairie Fire, William Ayres and Bernadine Dorn wrote: "We are a guerrilla organization .... We are communist women and men .... We need a revolutionary communist party in order to lead the struggle, give coherence and direction to the fight, seize power and build the new society." The Weather Underground sought the "violent over throw of the United States government."
The Marxist Barack Obama Sr. came to America and married Ms. Stanley Dunham, who he met in Russian class. Frank Marshall Davis, an editor of a Communist newspaper in Chicago with a damning FBI dossier, was a close friend to Ms. Dunham's father and later a mentor to his grandson, Barack Obama Jr., referred to affectionately as "Frank" in Dreams from my Father.
From the cousin Obama campaigned for, Kenyan Marxist Prime Minister, Raila Odingo, to Green Job Czar-Communist, Van Jones, to former White House communications director Anita Dunn, whose favorite political philosopher was Mao Zedong, to senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, daughter-in-law of Vernon Jarrett, philosophical friend and coworker of Frank Marshall Davis, the circle of Soviet romanticists surrounding the President seems endless.
So, what did the administration mean about resetting relations with Russia? And if this proclivity to "make it up" to the weakened Russians, handing them the tools to reclaim power, is already in place, is the gutted Space Shuttle Discovery a metaphor of what comes next?
theoptimisticconservative | February 27, 2012
Biggest anti-Israel conference evah? Americans there; UN, Europe in official attendance; *UPDATE*
An “International Conference on Jerusalem” is being held 26-27 February in Doha, Qatar. The conference was scheduled by the Arab League during its meeting in Sirte, Libya in 2010. Its purpose is to combat the “Judaization of Jerusalem.” In the words of the Global Muslim Brotherhood Report, which tracks Muslim Brotherhood activities, this month’s conference “represents an unprecedented coalition arrayed against Israel.”
This isn’t hyperbole. The conference is unusually well advertised in English, being referred to in the media regularly as a “conference on Jerusalem,” rather than sparsely as a “conference on al-Quds,” the Arabic (and larger Islamic) term for Jerusalem. Yousef al-Qaradawi, “spiritual leader” of the Muslim Brotherhood, has held a number of conferences on Jerusalem in the last decade, hosting them around the Arab world and flying largely under the radar in terms of his media posture with the West. Researchers on the earlier Qaradawi conferences were more likely to find them under “al-Quds” than under “Jerusalem.” But the February 2012 conference is simply billed – even in a number of Arab-world English-language media – as the “conference on Jerusalem.”
Yet that doesn’t fully convey the conference’s confident tone. The conference is being given a higher profile than usual in English-language outlets, but the English transcriptions (such as the ones at the official conference website) don’t all provide the event’s full name: “International Conference for the Defense of Occupied Jerusalem.” Implied in this posture is a sense of momentum behind, and mainstreaming of, anti-Zionist themes.
US participation
This unabashed posture is certainly bolstered by the attendance of representatives from around the globe. Thirteen of them are from the United States. One, Kenneth R. Insley, Jr., bills himself as a consultant to the US State Department. Mr. Insley’s Zoom Info profile describes him as the Director of Public Diplomacy for the Capital Communications Group, and a board member of the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation, Inc. The Foundation’s Links page includes a number of virulently anti-Israel groups such as the Holy Land Trust and the Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem/Society. (Note: the Foundation’s website does not show Insley as a board member, but the last update is marked with a date of March 2008.)
CIF Watch was able to obtain Insley’s prepared remarks for the Jerusalem conference (which was originally scheduled for 2011 but was postponed by the Arab Spring). Among other things, Insley warned (emphasis at CIF Watch):
Another associate of the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation is attending the conference: Albert Mokhiber. Mr. Mokhiber is listed only as an “attorney” on the conference roster, but he’s being modest: he is a former president and vice-chairman of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, or ADC. (His daughter Leila currently serves as the ADC’s Outreach and Communications Coordinator.) Mr. Mokhiber is also listed as a member of the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation’s advisory board, at least as recently as 2008.
A notable recent victory of the ADC was, of course, partnering with the FBI to eliminate “discriminatory” and “inflammatory” items about Arabs and Muslims from the Bureau’s training material, a project that trashed 1,000 documents and presentations. Among the other groups involved in the effort is the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which, like ADC, has close links to anti-Israel organizations, including the terror group Hamas. And sure enough, CAIR is represented at the anti-Israel Jerusalem conference this month by Mr. Nehad Awwad Hammad, CAIR’s national executive director.
The other Americans include many “usual suspects,” such as Alison Weir of the Council for the National Interest (please note: not Alison Weir the biographer and novelist) and Lara Friedman of Americans for Peace Now.
Religious participants
Sadly, one of the Americans is Bishop Georgi Panossian, Primate of the Armenian Orthodox Church. At the conference from the various nations are four Catholic bishops, two patriarchs, an Anglican minister from the UK, and a representative of the Roman Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem, as well as attendees from Religions for Peace (including the American William F. Vendley). The holocaust-denying, anti-Zionist rabbinical group Neturei Karta has six persons attending. (*UPDATE*: Challah Hu Akbar has remarkable conference video of Mahmoud Abbas and the emir of Qatar shaking hands with Rabbi Meir Hirsch of Neturei Karta.) Of course, there is representation from Islam as well.
UN participants
Eight attendees are listed as representing the United Nations:
Amb. Mutlaq Majid Alqahtani, Chairman, UN General Assembly
Ms. Elpida Rouka, Chief, Regional Affairs Unit, UNESCO
Dr. Raymond Dolphin, UN Officer for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Mr. Robert Serry, UN Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process
Mrs. Shifa Awni al Jayousi Abdeen, Program Officer, Office of the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process
Mr. Filippo Grandi, Commissioner General, UNRWA
Mrs. Maria Mohammedi, External Relations and Projects Officer, UNRWA
Mr. Peter Ford, Representative of the Commissioner General, UNRWA
European and other participants: Government officials
European nations are being represented by their officials as well as academics, activists, and media professionals. Mr. Ranier Fsadni’s roster entry describes him as representing the European Commission, for which he served in the past as the operations director for the Euro-Arab Liaison Office. Fsadni, a Maltese professor, is also advisor to the prime minister of Malta on Mediterranean and Maritime Affairs. Finland has a member of parliament and an advisor to the Ministry of Education and Culture at the conference; France has her ambassador to the Holy See, Stanislas de Laboulaye there; Spain has a Mr. Jose Antonio Martin Pallin representing the Tribunal Supremo (Supreme Court); and Sweden has a member of parliament and two officials of the Center Party at the conference.
Turkey is also represented by a member of parliament, as well as a deputy prime minister (see below). Former Australian prime minister Robert “Bob” Hawke, a Labor politician long described as an “emotional” friend of Israel, is at the conference. The roster reflects one anti-Zionist Arab member of the Knesset in attendance, purportedly representing Israel; other reporting indicates there are at least four.
The largest delegations are, of course, from the Arab Muslim nations. But the US, UK, Netherlands, and Sweden are heavily represented. Other participants come from Canada, South Africa, Denmark, China, Russia, Australia, India, Germany, Iran, Pakistan, Ireland, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy.
Oh, and Yousef al-Qaradawi is attending too.
Conference topics
The conferees have so far enjoyed a series of anti-Israel perorations, such as the one delivered by the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, in his conference-opener. According to the website OnIslam, the emir asserted the following:
Abbas’s themes have become well-worn in the campaign to erase the Jewish heritage of Israel and delegitimize the modern state. Elder of Ziyon has a worthwhile takedown of Abbas’s conference remarks. Challah Hu Akbar also calls out the theme of “Temple denial” in Abbas’s speech; that is, the denial that a Jewish temple has ever actually existed in Jerusalem. (For numerous articles on the documentation of Jewish history in Israel, see Emet m’Tsiyon. The Jewish Virtual Library’s Israel portal has comprehensive links.)
Sudden al-Aqsa Syndrome
The Global Muslim Brotherhood Report points out that this conference takes place in the wake of inflammatory statements made less than a week ago about the al-Aqsa mosque, by Hamas and al-Qaradawi. Hamas accused Israel of seeking to “storm” the al-Aqsa mosque, and asserted the mosque’s need for “rescue” from the “occupation.” Qaradawi followed up the Hamas statement with the announcement that al-Aqsa is a “red line” for Muslims, and urged Palestinians and other Arabs to rise up and liberate the mosque from the “Jewish occupation.”
The trend of sudden claims about peril to the mosque has been gathering steam for about two weeks. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, who is not to be outdone in Temple denial, reportedly proclaimed earlier in February:
More on Sudden al-Aqsa Syndrome is here and here (Elder of Ziyon and Challah Hu Akbar are doing a superb job following this). Meanwhile, two US congressmen were caught in a rock-throwing attack by Palestinian Arabs at the Temple Mount on the 24th – a repeat of an earlier attack on tourists on 19 February. In each case, Arab anger at the “Jewish” threat to al-Aqsa is invoked.
Global March to Jerusalem
If you thought the only thing lacking was an activist plan to complicate the security situation, you were wrong. A “Global March to Jerusalem” is being planned for 30 March, and is to involve foot marches (being organized by Hamas), a fly-in to Ben Gurion Airport, and – of course – a flotilla. CIF Watch has this one cold; start here and work backward through comprehensive summaries of the usual-suspect activists behind the “march.”
Conclusion
We can hope the following: that the US State department will publicly repudiate the conference in Doha, as it has previously repudiated the anti-Semitic “Durban” conference series; that Ban Ki-Moon will rebuke the UN officials who claim to represent his organization at the conference, and state the UN’s fundamental interest in impartiality and the rule of law; that Christians around the world will make a point of rejecting the participation of Christian leaders in the Doha conference; and that Western governments will discipline their officials who are in attendance this week, and discourage their citizens from challenging Israel’s authority to secure her territory and enforce law and order on it.
I am hopeful that the State Department may at least distance itself from the conference, and that Christian leaders in many countries will reject the conference’s premise and the idea of Christian participation. Perhaps the rest is not as unlikely as – regrettably – it seems to be.
J.E. Dyer’s articles have appeared at Hot Air’s Green Room, Commentary’s “contentions,” Patheos, and The Weekly Standard online.
Not one chapter in the Koran even mentions Jerusalem. Not once when the Muslims Occupied Jerusalem did they allow Jews to pray at the Wailing Wall. Jews were forbidden to even go near the Wall. Jerusalem is only holy to the Jews and the Temple Mount which was there when Mohammad burnt it down was not Muslim but belonged to the Jews Not to the Muslims.
(l. to r.) EVC Malcolm Hoenlein, Rabbi Abraham Lubinsky, and Congressmen Eliot Engel and Jerald Nadler looking at desecrated gravestones.
Photo Credit: Yishai Fleisher, JewishPress.com
Two US congressman were attacked by rock-throwers on Friday in front of a mosque in the Ras Al-Amud neighborhood of Jerusalem. Congressmen Eliot Engel and Jerrold Nadler from New York State were on a tour of the Mount of Olives Cemetery, along with Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Malcolm Hoenlein, and Rabbis Abraham and Menachem Lubinsky, founders of the International Committee for the Preservation of Har HaZeitim. Their tour, which included some 40 Jewish American leaders, was guided by JewishPress.com Managing Editor Yishai Fleisher.
Earlier, following Friday prayers, hundreds of worshipers hurled rocks at the Mughrabi Bridge entrance to the Temple Mount, and dozens gathered inside the Al-Aqsa mosque. Israeli police forces entered the plaza and attempted to stop the violent protest. Several policemen were injured.
Jerusalem District chief Nisso Shaham blamed the ongoing Friday riots on a poster announcing a Temple Mount visit by Likud member Moshe Feiglin, which was originally scheduled for ten days ago. The poster itself was a fake.
Muslim leaders have been actively inciting their followers over the past month to “protect Al-Asqa”.
Prior to the attack, Hoenlein announced the launching of a campaign to “retake the Mount of Olives cemetery for the Jewish people.”
The oldest and largest Jewish cemetery in the world, the Mt. of Olives is subjected to non-stop violence against visitors, grave desecrations, an unlawful mosque expansion, illegal building – all part of a concerted Arab effort to assert control over the burial site used by Jews for 3,000 years.
The focused aim of the International Committee for the Preservation of Har Hazeitim (www.saveharhazeitim.org) is the sustained improvement of the current conditions at the Mount of Olives Cemetery. The ICPHH is driven to react to and ameliorate the rampant and systematic violence, destruction, and incitement taking place on the Mount of Olives, as well as the general, widespread neglect and the current illegal expansion of a mosque situated just meters away from the grave of Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
JewishPress.com’s Managing Editor Yishai Fleisher, who led the tour, lives with his wife and children in the community of Maale HaZetim on the Mount of Olives, a few steps away from where the attack took place.
Fleisher said, “The attack the congressmen faced is part of the day-in day-out reality of Jewish communities who live in proximity to the ancient Jewish cemetery at the Mount of Olives and that is what we need to fight. However, when people ask me whether we are scared to live here, I tell them that while there is danger, it does not have to translate into fear. The enemies of Jewish rights in Jerusalem use terror as a tactic to keep us away. But we will not bow to the bullying. One day soon, Maale HaZeitim will be a quiet, gentrified, normal Jerusalem neighborhood.”
On Saturday night there will be an emergency meeting to save Har HaZeitim. Details can be found here.
This isn’t hyperbole. The conference is unusually well advertised in English, being referred to in the media regularly as a “conference on Jerusalem,” rather than sparsely as a “conference on al-Quds,” the Arabic (and larger Islamic) term for Jerusalem. Yousef al-Qaradawi, “spiritual leader” of the Muslim Brotherhood, has held a number of conferences on Jerusalem in the last decade, hosting them around the Arab world and flying largely under the radar in terms of his media posture with the West. Researchers on the earlier Qaradawi conferences were more likely to find them under “al-Quds” than under “Jerusalem.” But the February 2012 conference is simply billed – even in a number of Arab-world English-language media – as the “conference on Jerusalem.”
Yet that doesn’t fully convey the conference’s confident tone. The conference is being given a higher profile than usual in English-language outlets, but the English transcriptions (such as the ones at the official conference website) don’t all provide the event’s full name: “International Conference for the Defense of Occupied Jerusalem.” Implied in this posture is a sense of momentum behind, and mainstreaming of, anti-Zionist themes.
US participation
This unabashed posture is certainly bolstered by the attendance of representatives from around the globe. Thirteen of them are from the United States. One, Kenneth R. Insley, Jr., bills himself as a consultant to the US State Department. Mr. Insley’s Zoom Info profile describes him as the Director of Public Diplomacy for the Capital Communications Group, and a board member of the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation, Inc. The Foundation’s Links page includes a number of virulently anti-Israel groups such as the Holy Land Trust and the Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem/Society. (Note: the Foundation’s website does not show Insley as a board member, but the last update is marked with a date of March 2008.)
CIF Watch was able to obtain Insley’s prepared remarks for the Jerusalem conference (which was originally scheduled for 2011 but was postponed by the Arab Spring). Among other things, Insley warned (emphasis at CIF Watch):
It is now well understood by almost everyone that either Israel will cease to be a democratic state, or a Jewish one, because it can’t have both without the creation of a Palestinian state…or it will lead to Armageddon.Read the whole thing.
Another associate of the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation is attending the conference: Albert Mokhiber. Mr. Mokhiber is listed only as an “attorney” on the conference roster, but he’s being modest: he is a former president and vice-chairman of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, or ADC. (His daughter Leila currently serves as the ADC’s Outreach and Communications Coordinator.) Mr. Mokhiber is also listed as a member of the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation’s advisory board, at least as recently as 2008.
A notable recent victory of the ADC was, of course, partnering with the FBI to eliminate “discriminatory” and “inflammatory” items about Arabs and Muslims from the Bureau’s training material, a project that trashed 1,000 documents and presentations. Among the other groups involved in the effort is the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which, like ADC, has close links to anti-Israel organizations, including the terror group Hamas. And sure enough, CAIR is represented at the anti-Israel Jerusalem conference this month by Mr. Nehad Awwad Hammad, CAIR’s national executive director.
The other Americans include many “usual suspects,” such as Alison Weir of the Council for the National Interest (please note: not Alison Weir the biographer and novelist) and Lara Friedman of Americans for Peace Now.
Religious participants
Sadly, one of the Americans is Bishop Georgi Panossian, Primate of the Armenian Orthodox Church. At the conference from the various nations are four Catholic bishops, two patriarchs, an Anglican minister from the UK, and a representative of the Roman Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem, as well as attendees from Religions for Peace (including the American William F. Vendley). The holocaust-denying, anti-Zionist rabbinical group Neturei Karta has six persons attending. (*UPDATE*: Challah Hu Akbar has remarkable conference video of Mahmoud Abbas and the emir of Qatar shaking hands with Rabbi Meir Hirsch of Neturei Karta.) Of course, there is representation from Islam as well.
UN participants
Eight attendees are listed as representing the United Nations:
Amb. Mutlaq Majid Alqahtani, Chairman, UN General Assembly
Ms. Elpida Rouka, Chief, Regional Affairs Unit, UNESCO
Dr. Raymond Dolphin, UN Officer for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Mr. Robert Serry, UN Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process
Mrs. Shifa Awni al Jayousi Abdeen, Program Officer, Office of the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process
Mr. Filippo Grandi, Commissioner General, UNRWA
Mrs. Maria Mohammedi, External Relations and Projects Officer, UNRWA
Mr. Peter Ford, Representative of the Commissioner General, UNRWA
European and other participants: Government officials
European nations are being represented by their officials as well as academics, activists, and media professionals. Mr. Ranier Fsadni’s roster entry describes him as representing the European Commission, for which he served in the past as the operations director for the Euro-Arab Liaison Office. Fsadni, a Maltese professor, is also advisor to the prime minister of Malta on Mediterranean and Maritime Affairs. Finland has a member of parliament and an advisor to the Ministry of Education and Culture at the conference; France has her ambassador to the Holy See, Stanislas de Laboulaye there; Spain has a Mr. Jose Antonio Martin Pallin representing the Tribunal Supremo (Supreme Court); and Sweden has a member of parliament and two officials of the Center Party at the conference.
Turkey is also represented by a member of parliament, as well as a deputy prime minister (see below). Former Australian prime minister Robert “Bob” Hawke, a Labor politician long described as an “emotional” friend of Israel, is at the conference. The roster reflects one anti-Zionist Arab member of the Knesset in attendance, purportedly representing Israel; other reporting indicates there are at least four.
The largest delegations are, of course, from the Arab Muslim nations. But the US, UK, Netherlands, and Sweden are heavily represented. Other participants come from Canada, South Africa, Denmark, China, Russia, Australia, India, Germany, Iran, Pakistan, Ireland, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy.
Oh, and Yousef al-Qaradawi is attending too.
Conference topics
The conferees have so far enjoyed a series of anti-Israel perorations, such as the one delivered by the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, in his conference-opener. According to the website OnIslam, the emir asserted the following:
There is no Palestinian State without Al-Quds and there is no Al-Quds without Al-Aqsa Mosque.Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay, in Doha for the conference (but not on the roster), had this to say:
“Without the liberation of Jerusalem, no real peace and stability can be achieved in the Middle East or farther afield…”Mahmoud Abbas, long-superannuated head of the Palestinian Authority, delivered a speech Sunday morning in which he simply ignored facts and made up “history” to justify calling on Arabs to “fight the Judaization of Jerusalem.” Abbas called Jerusalem “the cause of every Arab, Muslim, and Christian,” a grotesque but far from unusual attempt to establish a common interest between Muslims and Christians in seizing Jerusalem from the control of Israel.
Atalay described Jerusalem as “a captive city in the hands of Israel,” saying that Israel’s policy is aimed at denying Jerusalem’s thousands-year-old history with Muslims, Christians and Palestinians. …
“Israel’s oppressive attempt is aimed at changing Jerusalem’s historic fabric by intimidating Palestinians. Turkey will not allow that.”
Abbas’s themes have become well-worn in the campaign to erase the Jewish heritage of Israel and delegitimize the modern state. Elder of Ziyon has a worthwhile takedown of Abbas’s conference remarks. Challah Hu Akbar also calls out the theme of “Temple denial” in Abbas’s speech; that is, the denial that a Jewish temple has ever actually existed in Jerusalem. (For numerous articles on the documentation of Jewish history in Israel, see Emet m’Tsiyon. The Jewish Virtual Library’s Israel portal has comprehensive links.)
Sudden al-Aqsa Syndrome
The Global Muslim Brotherhood Report points out that this conference takes place in the wake of inflammatory statements made less than a week ago about the al-Aqsa mosque, by Hamas and al-Qaradawi. Hamas accused Israel of seeking to “storm” the al-Aqsa mosque, and asserted the mosque’s need for “rescue” from the “occupation.” Qaradawi followed up the Hamas statement with the announcement that al-Aqsa is a “red line” for Muslims, and urged Palestinians and other Arabs to rise up and liberate the mosque from the “Jewish occupation.”
The trend of sudden claims about peril to the mosque has been gathering steam for about two weeks. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, who is not to be outdone in Temple denial, reportedly proclaimed earlier in February:
Arabs and Muslims must protect Al-Aqsa before it is ruined by the Jews. According to Hussein, Israel is trying to destroy Al-Aqsa in a variety of ways and that all the violations “cannot be summed up in words.”And on 12 February, Xinhua relayed a Syrian news report that Israel’s Likud Party had called for Jews to storm the al-Aqsa mosque, citing what turned out to be false reports that Israeli right-wing websites were circulating posters inciting the attack. The poster presented as evidence of the incitement campaign was an obvious fraud – and hilariously inaccurate, rendering “Manhigut Yehudit,” or the “Jewish Leadership” movement, incorrectly as “Manhigut HaLikud” – meaning “Likud Leadership,” which is not the movement’s name. A number of websites are referring to this incident as a “prank” against Likud and Manhigut Yehudit leader Moshe Feiglin.
More on Sudden al-Aqsa Syndrome is here and here (Elder of Ziyon and Challah Hu Akbar are doing a superb job following this). Meanwhile, two US congressmen were caught in a rock-throwing attack by Palestinian Arabs at the Temple Mount on the 24th – a repeat of an earlier attack on tourists on 19 February. In each case, Arab anger at the “Jewish” threat to al-Aqsa is invoked.
Global March to Jerusalem
If you thought the only thing lacking was an activist plan to complicate the security situation, you were wrong. A “Global March to Jerusalem” is being planned for 30 March, and is to involve foot marches (being organized by Hamas), a fly-in to Ben Gurion Airport, and – of course – a flotilla. CIF Watch has this one cold; start here and work backward through comprehensive summaries of the usual-suspect activists behind the “march.”
Conclusion
We can hope the following: that the US State department will publicly repudiate the conference in Doha, as it has previously repudiated the anti-Semitic “Durban” conference series; that Ban Ki-Moon will rebuke the UN officials who claim to represent his organization at the conference, and state the UN’s fundamental interest in impartiality and the rule of law; that Christians around the world will make a point of rejecting the participation of Christian leaders in the Doha conference; and that Western governments will discipline their officials who are in attendance this week, and discourage their citizens from challenging Israel’s authority to secure her territory and enforce law and order on it.
I am hopeful that the State Department may at least distance itself from the conference, and that Christian leaders in many countries will reject the conference’s premise and the idea of Christian participation. Perhaps the rest is not as unlikely as – regrettably – it seems to be.
J.E. Dyer’s articles have appeared at Hot Air’s Green Room, Commentary’s “contentions,” Patheos, and The Weekly Standard online.
Not one chapter in the Koran even mentions Jerusalem. Not once when the Muslims Occupied Jerusalem did they allow Jews to pray at the Wailing Wall. Jews were forbidden to even go near the Wall. Jerusalem is only holy to the Jews and the Temple Mount which was there when Mohammad burnt it down was not Muslim but belonged to the Jews Not to the Muslims.
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Two US Congressmen Caught in Arab Rock Throwing Near Temple Mount
By: Yori Yanover
Published: February 24th, 2012
Latest update: February 26th, 2012
Latest update: February 26th, 2012
(l. to r.) EVC Malcolm Hoenlein, Rabbi Abraham Lubinsky, and Congressmen Eliot Engel and Jerald Nadler looking at desecrated gravestones.
Photo Credit: Yishai Fleisher, JewishPress.com
Earlier, following Friday prayers, hundreds of worshipers hurled rocks at the Mughrabi Bridge entrance to the Temple Mount, and dozens gathered inside the Al-Aqsa mosque. Israeli police forces entered the plaza and attempted to stop the violent protest. Several policemen were injured.
Jerusalem District chief Nisso Shaham blamed the ongoing Friday riots on a poster announcing a Temple Mount visit by Likud member Moshe Feiglin, which was originally scheduled for ten days ago. The poster itself was a fake.
Muslim leaders have been actively inciting their followers over the past month to “protect Al-Asqa”.
Prior to the attack, Hoenlein announced the launching of a campaign to “retake the Mount of Olives cemetery for the Jewish people.”
The oldest and largest Jewish cemetery in the world, the Mt. of Olives is subjected to non-stop violence against visitors, grave desecrations, an unlawful mosque expansion, illegal building – all part of a concerted Arab effort to assert control over the burial site used by Jews for 3,000 years.
The focused aim of the International Committee for the Preservation of Har Hazeitim (www.saveharhazeitim.org) is the sustained improvement of the current conditions at the Mount of Olives Cemetery. The ICPHH is driven to react to and ameliorate the rampant and systematic violence, destruction, and incitement taking place on the Mount of Olives, as well as the general, widespread neglect and the current illegal expansion of a mosque situated just meters away from the grave of Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
JewishPress.com’s Managing Editor Yishai Fleisher, who led the tour, lives with his wife and children in the community of Maale HaZetim on the Mount of Olives, a few steps away from where the attack took place.
Fleisher said, “The attack the congressmen faced is part of the day-in day-out reality of Jewish communities who live in proximity to the ancient Jewish cemetery at the Mount of Olives and that is what we need to fight. However, when people ask me whether we are scared to live here, I tell them that while there is danger, it does not have to translate into fear. The enemies of Jewish rights in Jerusalem use terror as a tactic to keep us away. But we will not bow to the bullying. One day soon, Maale HaZeitim will be a quiet, gentrified, normal Jerusalem neighborhood.”
On Saturday night there will be an emergency meeting to save Har HaZeitim. Details can be found here.
Obama Administration Courts the Muslim Brotherhood
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has a long history of deception, promotion of Sharia law, anti-Semitism, and anti-Western values. Yet this does not seem to concern the Obama White House. Recently the Obama Administration wholeheartedly welcomed a delegation from the Muslim Brotherhood to Washington. It even suspended normal screening processes for them, including one member who, according to the Investigative Project on Terrorism, was “implicated—though not charged—in a U.S. child pornography investigation.”
In addition to turning a blind eye to suspected criminals, the Obama Administration has overlooked the Muslim Brotherhood’s policies and beliefs. The Brotherhood has explicitly stated it will not accept Israel as a state “under any circumstances.” The organization referred to Osama bin Laden with the honorary title “Sheikh” and called him a “shaheed” (martyr) after he was killed. They also have an intricate connection to the terrorist organization Hamas, which regularly attacks Israel.
U.S. relations with Egypt have soured not only due to the ascendency of the Muslim Brotherhood, but also because of the transitional government’s witch hunt against pro-democracy workers in the country, including members of U.S.-funded nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). But none of this has fazed the Obama Administration; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that America will continue to give Egypt $1.5 billion in annual aid.
In addition to turning a blind eye to suspected criminals, the Obama Administration has overlooked the Muslim Brotherhood’s policies and beliefs. The Brotherhood has explicitly stated it will not accept Israel as a state “under any circumstances.” The organization referred to Osama bin Laden with the honorary title “Sheikh” and called him a “shaheed” (martyr) after he was killed. They also have an intricate connection to the terrorist organization Hamas, which regularly attacks Israel.
U.S. relations with Egypt have soured not only due to the ascendency of the Muslim Brotherhood, but also because of the transitional government’s witch hunt against pro-democracy workers in the country, including members of U.S.-funded nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). But none of this has fazed the Obama Administration; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that America will continue to give Egypt $1.5 billion in annual aid.
Obama Spends $6M to Restore Mosques Worldwide
Creeping Sharia blog
Stimulus for sharia. $6 million is chump change compared to the billions already spent on Obama’s Islamic initiatives. Nevertheless, it’s still $6 million more of your tax dollars going to restore mosques and minarets in the Muslim world. Vote wisely.
This year, the Obama administration will spend nearly $6 million to restore 63 historic and cultural sites, including mosques and minarets, in 55 nations, according to State Department documents.
Under a program established by Congress in 2001, the department will fund at least five projects in as many countries at a cost of more than $271,000.
Stimulus for sharia. $6 million is chump change compared to the billions already spent on Obama’s Islamic initiatives. Nevertheless, it’s still $6 million more of your tax dollars going to restore mosques and minarets in the Muslim world. Vote wisely.
WASHINGTON — The good will tour of the Middle East by the imam behind the proposed mosque near ground zero is just part of the U.S. government’s efforts to reach out to the Muslim world.
This year, the Obama administration will spend nearly $6 million to restore 63 historic and cultural sites, including mosques and minarets, in 55 nations, according to State Department documents.
Under a program established by Congress in 2001, the department will fund at least five projects in as many countries at a cost of more than $271,000.
The contributions include $76,135 for the 16th century Grand Mosque in Tongxin, China, and $67,500 for the 18th century Golden Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan. An additional $62,169 will be spent on restoring a 19th century minaret in Mauritania’s ancient city of Tichitt; $50,437 for the Sundarwala Burj, a 16th century Islamic Monument in New Delhi, and $15,450 to restore the 18th century Gobarau Minaret in Katsina, Nigeria.
The amount spent on mosque restoration projects is a fraction of the total in the 2010 Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation, which also will fund projects to restore Christian and Buddhist sites as well as museums, forts and palaces.
Since 2001, the U.S. government has spent almost $26 million on the program to fund about 640 cultural preservation projects in more than 100 countries.
via US funds restoration of global Islamic sites | Top AP Washington Stories | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle.8,080 computers, worth $1.8 million, paid for by American taxpayers, go missing in Iraq
I've often noted the futility of such gift-giving. Attempts to win hearts and minds do not address the Islamic underpinnings of the hatred and contempt so many Muslims feel for America; a free laptop isn't going to change that. "U.S. Gift for Iraqis Offers a Primer on Corruption," by Steven Lee Myers in the New York Times, September 25 (thanks to Bill):
BAGHDAD -- The shipment of laptop computers that arrived in Iraq's main seaport in February was a small but important part of the American military's mission here to win hearts and minds. What happened afterward is a tale of good intentions mugged by Iraq's reality.The computers -- 8,080 in all, worth $1.8 million -- were bought for schoolchildren in Babil, modern-day Babylon, a gift of the American taxpayers. Only they became mired for months in customs at the port, Umm Qasr, stalled by bureaucracy or venality, or some combination of the two. And then they were gone. [...]
But the American military commander in southern Iraq, Maj. Gen. Vincent K. Brooks, was clearly furious. Even if the culprits are not exactly known, the victims are: Iraqi children and American taxpayers. He issued a rare and stinging public rebuke of a government that the United States hopes to treat as an equal, strategic partner -- flawed, perhaps, but getting better.
In a statement, he demanded an investigation into the actions of "a senior Umm Qasr official," who, even now, has not been identified.
The disclosure embarrassed the government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, who, in the middle of a protracted political fight to win a second term, could hardly have welcomed the headlines.
"They are stealing the computers of students," the newspaper Al Nasiriya declared, voicing a populist outrage at Iraq's government that is becoming fairly common....
