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MAN NEEDS ANFALIZING
Remember Saddam Hussein? Dark-haired chap, lived in a hole in the ground, killed a bunch of people? No? Had a couple of psychopathic sons, invaded Kuwait, liked firing rifles from balconies? Still nothing? Umm ... George Galloway’s friend? YES! Yes, that’s the guy. Well, seems he’s still on trial for one thing or another:
A Kurdish woman testified Tuesday in the genocide trial of Saddam Hussein, breaking down in tears as she described how foul smoke billowed across her village in a 1987 poison gas attack and how her male relatives disappeared at a prison camp.
Najiba Khider Ahmed was one of two survivors who took the stand in the second day of Saddam’s new trial over the Anfal campaign, a military sweep across northern Iraq in which tens of thousands of Kurds were killed and hundreds of villages leveled ...
The 1987-1988 military offensive was so notorious among the Kurds that it entered their vocabulary. Ahmed and Hama often described relatives as having been “anfalized” referring to those who disappeared only to be found later, if at all, in mass graves.
Via reader Mental Floss. Beats me how anybody could ever have believed this man had an interest in chemical weapons.
This might sound silly to someone who is there, but whats the point of marking a destroyed village on a map 91B?
Or does ‘leveled’ mean something less than bulldozing the whole place flat?
A couple years ago I was living next door to three young Iraqi guys who had come here to the wonderful land of WOZ to start a better life. Sure enough the topic of Saddam came up sooner or later.
Much to my surprise however, they wanted him dead/out of the picture even more than Bush. As Kurds, they had somewhat of a score to settle…
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 08 28 at 12:48 PM • permalinkVia reader Mental Floss. Beats me how anybody could ever have believed this man had an interest in chemical weapons.—Tim Blair
What? Mental Floss had an interest in chemical weapons? The bastard. Can’t trust anyone nows days.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 08 28 at 01:06 PM • permalink“George Galloway’s friend?”
Galloway ought to be on trial alongside Hussein.
Traitors and aiders and abettors of mass-murdering Baathist tyrants deserve the death penalty.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 08 28 at 01:21 PM • permalinkFear not wronwright, you still have the market cornered in Israeli rust bombs.
And it appears we shall be seeing more of these in use in the coming weeks. How does that futures market work again?
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 08 28 at 01:29 PM • permalinkWOZ-they are a terrain feature like anything else. Generally they are a cluster of abandoned buildings (villages in Iraq are usually a group of adobe huts with fields spread out around them). Patrols need to be able to identify what they are looking at when they reference maps, so they are listed.
I haven’t been in Iraq since October, BTW. It is possible that some of those villages were destroyed during the Iran/Iraq war, but I am certain most were destroyed by Saddam-we were only an hour east of Tikrit and there were a lot of Sunni in our AO, which, while still predominantly Kurd, was once overwhelmingly so.
My unit is 2nd Squadron, 278th RCT and we were primarily around the city of Tuz Khurmatu in NE Iraq. 3rd Squadron was the next AO to the south of us and included the city of Halabja.
What a waste. The Iraqis could have learned something from the Romanians. Or Italians. (Not today’s Italians, of course, whose male population seems to be made up entirely of metrosexuals.)
The Kurds the bastard didn’t kill now face terrible genetic consequences from the chemicals he used. His is an evil that keeps on destroying.
I say we been pussyfootin’ around with this varmint long enough! Quietly ties rope into a noose. I say, we string him up NOW! Are ya with me?
If so, put down that rope and get up to date with The Li’l Anfalizer, NEW, from the Capital Punishment subsidiary of Paco Industries. With this device, Saddam Hussein is only a few clockwise twists away from his appointment with destiny.
The best portal for all things Kurdish.
It is nothing short of a miracle what they are doing up there. I have so much respect for these people and their unflagging and enduring desire for cultural and religous freedom, democracy and prosperity (both indivdual and collective), I am learning the language that I might better understand this ancient folk and participate in some small way in their future.
My eternal gratitude to the United States of America and its Allies, and the doughty Peshmerga, who worked, fought and died to establish and sustain the conditions whereby this exemplary flowering of freedom and peace could flourish.
And, yes, I blame Bush.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 08 28 at 04:48 PM • permalink# 13 Paco - does that come in a left handed model or is that sort of thing banned by the left?
Posted by surfmaster on 2006 08 28 at 07:42 PM • permalinkYou who Tim Tam, hi!
Look at this Kooky new ruling in Arab news…LOL
People With Health Risks Allowed to Tint Car Windows
According to the new ruling, drivers who wish to tint their car windows need to provide valid medical proof that their health is at risk if exposed to sunlight.
Wow, wouldn’t the RTA have fun trying to implement this here in OZ?
Take it for what it is worth.
Hussein forced to watch ‘South Park’
Saddam Hussein has been forced to watch South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, according to the film’s co-creator Matt Stone.
The former Iraqi leader is portrayed in the movie as a homosexual who is in a relationship with the devil, and Stone claims the prisoner is being forced to watch it “repeatedly” as he is held by US Marines.
The South Park movie was banned on release in Iraq seven years ago.
Stone reveals: “I have it on pretty good information from the Marines on detail in Iraq that they showed him the movie. That’s really adding insult to injury. I bet that made him really happy.”
In the movie, there is some “anfalizing”, at least as best as I remember.
I’ve got yer “null” link for ya, right here.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 08 28 at 10:27 PM • permalink#19 A sad comment, Chrenkov. All the more so for its truth.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 08 29 at 12:17 AM • permalink#13, Paco I aint payin fer one o dem new fangled machines. The tree outside works just fine.
Maybe the Iraqis could decapitate him and preserve the head in a jar or something.
With the brain removed, just in case they ever work out that living head in a jar thing from Futurama…Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 08 29 at 12:30 AM • permalink“Now we need a road, hospital, electricity and a school,” said one villager through a translator. - Link in #10
A village with a hospital? They dont want very much do they?
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 08 29 at 12:41 AM • permalinkHanging is too good for Saddam. But hanging, drawing, and quartering hasn’t been used for a long time.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 08 29 at 01:46 AM • permalink#10 91B30 (~S~, snap), thanks for that link. I’ve got to pay more attention to the many small town papers online (as well as MILBLOGS) to get more of these stories of good folks helping each other.
Good folks like Lt. Col. Macauley—“a little cornbread with it and that would be good”—leads one to ask, where else from Morocco to Malaysia could he (assumption of gender) tuck in to a plate of chunky goat’s milk and feel so at ease?
(btw, do modern GI’s use the “~S~” to represent “Salute” in SMS or other short messages?)
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 08 29 at 02:15 AM • permalink“Jumped up Anty Boy”, below, elicits 39 responses—what’s this one make…#25?
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 08 29 at 05:00 AM • permalink#28 Paco - won’t that electric motor thingy lead to polar bear drownings?
Posted by surfmaster on 2006 08 29 at 10:29 AM • permalinkNot today’s Italians, of course, whose male population seems to be made up entirely of metrosexuals.
Excepting Fabrizio Quattrocchi.
#25 & #27, thats why I no longer comment on ranty ant.
#31, Rest In Peace Fabrizio.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 08 29 at 10:06 PM • permalink
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You know, you would look at a map in Iraq and it would have a village listed and then underneath it in parenthesis-destroyed.
Damn unlucky people, those Kurds.