Jinn of Current Events

We are a diverse group of women from Iraq who are speaking up about the suffering of our people under Saddam Hussein's brutal rule, and their yearning to be liberated. We represent a broad cross-section of Iraq's diverse ethnic groups - Sh'ias, Sunnis, Kurds and Assyro-Chaldean Christians. As the international community follows the war in Iraq, we want to make sure the voices of Iraqis were heard.

The site shares personal stories about persecution by Saddam's regime, and hopes for a free, pluralistic Iraq where they can bring up their children without fear.

We extend our gratitude to all those who will be asked to risk both lives and treasure to remove Saddam. 

Kenneth Joseph, a confused American pastor with the Assyrian Church of the East, went to Iraq as a "human shield" — and managed to escape to Jordan when he opened his eyes to the truth. Some of the Iraqis he interviewed on camera told me they would commit suicide if American bombing didn't start. They were willing to see their homes demolished to gain their freedom from Saddam's bloody tyranny. They convinced me that Saddam was a monster the likes of which the world had not seen since Stalin and Hitler. He and his sons are sick sadists. Their tales of slow torture and killing made me ill, such as people put in a huge shredder for plastic products, feet first so they could hear their screams as bodies got chewed up from foot to head. 

Maj. Duncan McSporran, of the British Fusiliers' Zulu Company: The biggest problem we are having is getting it out of their minds that the Baath Party is returning. I've got an enormous amount of sympathy for them -- they've lived under a reign of terror for 30 years. They don't know who to trust. 

Residents of the southern Iraqi city of Basra are helping Coalition forces against Saddam's thugs, according to General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: We are receiving a lot of help from Basra residents who are directing us to the positions of the Iraqi armed forces, to Baath officials and hideouts of Saddam's Fedayeen. 

British military interrogators report that captured Iraqi soldiers have told them that al-Qaeda terrorists are fighting on the side of Saddam Hussein's forces against allied troops near Basra. At least a dozen members of Osama bin Laden's network are in the town of Az Zubayr where they are coordinating grenade and gun attacks on coalition positions, according to the Iraqi prisoners of war. 

Donald Rumsfeld denies any chance of a premature cease-fire: The regime of Saddam Hussein will be removed, and the only thing that remains unclear is precisely how long it will take. 

Mark Steyn: the Anglo-Aussie-American forces will win. And the way they win will have tremendous implications for the years ahead. In so far as the enemy has a strategy, it's to use their own people as hostages. It's important to remember that the Butcher of Baghdad is a murderous tyrant, morally and directly responsible for any death of innocent civilians in Iraq. 

USS Clueless: Now it seems as if [Chirac] will instead go down in history as being among the worst leaders in crisis that France has ever had, whose misbegotten policies and inept execution will lead to a drastic loss of diplomatic stature in the world, influence in Europe, and what may turn out to be the catastrophic collapse of France's economy. Do Chirac and de Villepin truly think that continuing to preach sanctimoniously to the British and Americans will somehow redeem the whole situation? 

Dominique de Villepin, asked whether he hoped American and British forces would win the military campaign to remove Saddam Hussein, replied angrily I'm not going to answer.