For Khidhr Mahallawi, the chalk and the blackboard were his only friends. He didn’t know they will be the reasons behind his murder.
Mahallawi, a 35-year-old teacher of English was a resident of Ramadi, a restive city west of Baghdad. He wasn't able to stop ten armed men who broke into the classroom. “Your teacher is an agent to the CIA,” the terrorists told the students whose eyes were staring.
Panicked by the scene, the students hurried away from the classroom except some who were not able to. They saw their teacher beheaded in front of them. The terrorists used one of the desks as their altar.
Mahallawi "looked at us just like he was telling us that we do not have to be scared. Even as we were running out of the door, his looks were still telling us that nothing will happen and we do not have to be scared," the Washington Post quoted a student, whose father asked that his name not be used. "I heard him screaming for a few seconds, then stop screaming."
Later, the group Al-Qaeda in Iraq, which is responsible for most of the brutal attacks here, issued a statement considering the beheaded teacher a “CIA and occupation agent.” Their statement which was signed by “The Mujaheddin Shura”, a recently formed council of terrorist groups believed to be led by al-Qaeda in Iraq was hanged of a Ramadi local mosque. “The Mujahideen warned him several times. He claimed he stopped working with them but he continued,” the statement read.
In Anbar province, every thing is out of control. Nothing of what the Iraqi government or the US forces are saying is true. The province is in the hands of the terrorists.
No police, army or U.S. troops could be seen there. Only armed men with RPJs, AK47 rifles, and pistols are patrolling and doing whatever they like without any deterrence. They break into schools, have offices in public, hang terrorist statements of their operations wherever they like, kill innocents and non-innocents in public, set up checkpoints wherever they want, and plant IEDs wherever it is possible.
Where the hell is the government and the “Multinational Forces” from all of this?!
Every time politicians along with US officials show up on TV with their fake diplomatic smiles, I feel disgusted. They keep their meetings inside the “Green Zone” ignoring the real danger happening in Iraq. They fight on positions by the time people are being killed day after day. Go out of that damned castle and see what is happening on the ground. Stop fighting for positions. Try to realize that the country is in need of your cooperation, not fights. How do you expect us to help you by the time you don’t care about us?
Yesterday, a friend of mine, who works in the ministry of displaced and Immigrants, said they wanted to go to the Palestinian refugee camps on the borders with Jordan but they didn’t. They have to drive through Anbar province. “We are government employees,” he said, “we’ll be killed. There is no doubt.” The ministry decided then not to send a delegation to see the refugees and will continue their work “on papers only”. Alas! Terrorists control the country, not the so-called government.
Mahallawi, a 35-year-old teacher of English was a resident of Ramadi, a restive city west of Baghdad. He wasn't able to stop ten armed men who broke into the classroom. “Your teacher is an agent to the CIA,” the terrorists told the students whose eyes were staring.
Panicked by the scene, the students hurried away from the classroom except some who were not able to. They saw their teacher beheaded in front of them. The terrorists used one of the desks as their altar.
Mahallawi "looked at us just like he was telling us that we do not have to be scared. Even as we were running out of the door, his looks were still telling us that nothing will happen and we do not have to be scared," the Washington Post quoted a student, whose father asked that his name not be used. "I heard him screaming for a few seconds, then stop screaming."
Later, the group Al-Qaeda in Iraq, which is responsible for most of the brutal attacks here, issued a statement considering the beheaded teacher a “CIA and occupation agent.” Their statement which was signed by “The Mujaheddin Shura”, a recently formed council of terrorist groups believed to be led by al-Qaeda in Iraq was hanged of a Ramadi local mosque. “The Mujahideen warned him several times. He claimed he stopped working with them but he continued,” the statement read.
In Anbar province, every thing is out of control. Nothing of what the Iraqi government or the US forces are saying is true. The province is in the hands of the terrorists.
No police, army or U.S. troops could be seen there. Only armed men with RPJs, AK47 rifles, and pistols are patrolling and doing whatever they like without any deterrence. They break into schools, have offices in public, hang terrorist statements of their operations wherever they like, kill innocents and non-innocents in public, set up checkpoints wherever they want, and plant IEDs wherever it is possible.
Where the hell is the government and the “Multinational Forces” from all of this?!
Every time politicians along with US officials show up on TV with their fake diplomatic smiles, I feel disgusted. They keep their meetings inside the “Green Zone” ignoring the real danger happening in Iraq. They fight on positions by the time people are being killed day after day. Go out of that damned castle and see what is happening on the ground. Stop fighting for positions. Try to realize that the country is in need of your cooperation, not fights. How do you expect us to help you by the time you don’t care about us?
Yesterday, a friend of mine, who works in the ministry of displaced and Immigrants, said they wanted to go to the Palestinian refugee camps on the borders with Jordan but they didn’t. They have to drive through Anbar province. “We are government employees,” he said, “we’ll be killed. There is no doubt.” The ministry decided then not to send a delegation to see the refugees and will continue their work “on papers only”. Alas! Terrorists control the country, not the so-called government.
Let all the Iraqi and US officials go there and see how it looks like and then let them continue praising their “achievements”
