August 13, 2010 Some samples of Iraq’s rumor mill
Lack of transparency in almost all walks of life in Iraq – particularly when the matter concerns the country’s future, economy, security and politics – has unleashed a wave of rumors in Baghdad. We cannot confirm or deny these rumors, but in Iraq the saying goes: ‘There is no smoke without fire.’
Lack of transparency in almost all walks of life in Iraq – particularly when the matter concerns the country’s future, economy, security and politics – has unleashed a wave of rumors in Baghdad. We cannot confirm or deny these rumors, but in Iraq the saying goes: ‘There is no smoke without fire.’
Here are some samples of these rumors:
· The crime of killing medical doctors is back in Baghdad in full force.
· Al-Qaeda is luring Sahwa Councils – the Sunni militia the U.S. raised and armed – by paying them salaries higher than those the U.S. offers.
· The Iraqi army is asking U.S. troops to extend their occupation of the country for another decade. The reason is that the army comprises mainly candidates from sectarian parties who are not capable of guarding the country.
· Iran wants free shipments of Iraqi oil in return for compensations of the 1991 Gulf War.
· The bombing of fixed U.S. military bases is easier than smoking a cigarette.
· Militia leaders have returned to Baghdad camouflaged in parliamentary garb and quiet and moderate turbans.
· The row over the formation of the government is a prelude to a delayed war because no one was ready to wage it so far as all those residing in the Green Zone were engaged in travel and cashing in on contracts and commissions.
· Iran has come to an understanding with the Americans under which both have agreed for a period of quiet and a fair division of interests in light of the meetings Ali Akbar Wilayati had in Syria and Lebanon.
· The Arabs have discovered the fundamentals of the game being played in the lad of Twin Rivers. As a result, they have distanced themselves from what is happening in Iraq and sent their envoys as a façade made of glass that will break to pieces in case of any explosion.
· Electricity is not an essential amenity but a luxury which Iraq’s enemies want to use as a weapon to deal a blow to its democracy.
· Izzat Ibrabhim, former Baathist leader, has already written the speech he is to deliver when he enters the Presidential Palace again.
· Eritrea is jealous of its neighboring Somalia and rejects the notion that its conditions are as worse as those of Iraq.
Nonetheless, all of them, whether those residing in the White House in Washington or the Black House in Baghdad raise ‘the V sign’.
· The crime of killing medical doctors is back in Baghdad in full force.
· Al-Qaeda is luring Sahwa Councils – the Sunni militia the U.S. raised and armed – by paying them salaries higher than those the U.S. offers.
· The Iraqi army is asking U.S. troops to extend their occupation of the country for another decade. The reason is that the army comprises mainly candidates from sectarian parties who are not capable of guarding the country.
· Iran wants free shipments of Iraqi oil in return for compensations of the 1991 Gulf War.
· The bombing of fixed U.S. military bases is easier than smoking a cigarette.
· Militia leaders have returned to Baghdad camouflaged in parliamentary garb and quiet and moderate turbans.
· The row over the formation of the government is a prelude to a delayed war because no one was ready to wage it so far as all those residing in the Green Zone were engaged in travel and cashing in on contracts and commissions.
· Iran has come to an understanding with the Americans under which both have agreed for a period of quiet and a fair division of interests in light of the meetings Ali Akbar Wilayati had in Syria and Lebanon.
· The Arabs have discovered the fundamentals of the game being played in the lad of Twin Rivers. As a result, they have distanced themselves from what is happening in Iraq and sent their envoys as a façade made of glass that will break to pieces in case of any explosion.
· Electricity is not an essential amenity but a luxury which Iraq’s enemies want to use as a weapon to deal a blow to its democracy.
· Izzat Ibrabhim, former Baathist leader, has already written the speech he is to deliver when he enters the Presidential Palace again.
· Eritrea is jealous of its neighboring Somalia and rejects the notion that its conditions are as worse as those of Iraq.
Nonetheless, all of them, whether those residing in the White House in Washington or the Black House in Baghdad raise ‘the V sign’.
