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 News Right Now: Up in Smoke

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The world is watching the escalating tensions protests in Iraq which culminated in the targeted killing of Iranian General Qasem Sulaimani by the US military. The most recent events were precipitated by an Iranian backed militia that killed a US contractor in Kirkuk. After that attack, US Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper warned “the game has changed.” Prior to these events that have drawn international headlines is the fact that 600 people have been killed in Iraq since October of 2019 in protests against the government.

The peaceful protests have targeted the actions and corruption of PM Adel Abdul Mahdi and his government. The protesters are calling for basic services like water, electricity, hospitals and sports facilities, and accounting the government about foreign interference, the mismanagement of the oil which they say is being practically stolen, and are asking why state education is now at an all-time low. This is the level of crisis and disaster that Iraq is still in nearly 20 years after the illegal US invasion in 2003.

The Iraqi people have suffered beyond belief for even a decade prior to the 2003 invasion under UN sanctions that banned other nations from selling even the most basic of supplies to Iraq including food and medicine - leading to the needless deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children. Anyone who protests the corruption of the Iraqi government is arrested, tortured, or killed - and the world barely bats an eye. And now, after the attacks on the US embassy in Iraq by the Iranian backed Kataib Hizbollah militia, does the US suddenly pay attention.

As if the life of an American contractor and the storming of the embassy are worth more than the hundreds that have lost their lives protesting the US-backed Iraqi government and the misery they have meted out on the Iraqi people. This all begs the question, is the US playing up the Iranian-backed attacks against US interests in Iraq to deflect attention from the real concerns and failures of the US-backed government to take care of the affairs of the people.

Regardless, of whether the current tensions are a smokescreen for the political failures of the Iraqi government, the real culprit in Iraq is the US, the puppet Iraqi government that does the bidding of the US, and the agents that execute their orders. The carnage and suffering in Iraq is exactly what former US Secretary of State James Baker promised when he said they would “bomb it back to the dark ages.” The US bears full responsibility for the bloodshed and misery in Iraq is doing everything they can to divert attention from it.

It’s not until a mighty Khilafah is re-established that the US and its puppets will be called to account for their crimes.

Jazākallāh or Jazāk Allāhu Khayran

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