1) Free Abduljabbar - support the int'l call
2) Iraqi Patriotic Alliance on arrest of its leader
3) Al-Kalemji: Withdraw troops, release Italian girls
4) Bangladeshis to take part in 25 Sept int'l day of action for the Iraqi Resistance
5) Indian political prisoners still on hunger strike
6) Noam Chomsky and 'left' apologetics for injustice in Palestine

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September 14, 2004

1) Free Abduljabbar!

# Following appeal has been drafted commonly by the forces of the emerging political network in Europe supporting the Iraqi Resistance. The list of first signatories will be published within a few days. For your endorsement of the call or participation in the delegation write to: c...@antiimperialista.org #

Abduljabbar Al-Kubaysi, president of the Iraqi Patriotic Alliance (IPA) and renown exponent of the popular resistance, was arrested on September 3 in a quarter of Baghdad controlled by the guerrilla. The house he stayed in was surrounded and stormed by US occupation forces employing helicopters, tanks and up to one hundred heavily armed soldiers.

Immediately after the Anglo-American aggression Abduljabbar decided to end thirty years of exile and returned to Iraq in order to engage in the struggle to chase away the occupants. For more than one years he has been spending - under very difficult conditions - all his energy to forge the unity of all popular forces fighting for independence and sovereignty of his country.

His passionate commitment for the freedom of Iraq, the love for his people afflicted by the war, the intransigent determination to chase out the imperialist invaders have earned him the ferocious hostility of both the Americans and their local satraps (first of all the so-called prime minister Allawi) who had been tracking him already for a while.

We express our strongest possible protest against the hijacking of Abduljabbar as we condemn the numerous disappearances of people opposing the occupation. Actually we are faced with an act of international piracy perpetrated by a despotic - nobody can forget Abu Ghraib - and illegitimate power for which democracy is valid only within the perimeter in which are barricaded all those accepting the bloody occupation.

Expressing our full solidarity to the family and comrades of Abduljabbar we demand his immediate release. In case this is not met we commit ourselves to send an authoritative international delegation to Baghdad emphasizing our demand.

Free Abduljabbar al-Kubaysi!
All occupation troops out of Iraq!
Self-determination and freedom for the Iraqi people!

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2) IPA condemns the arrest of Abduljabbar al-Kubaysi

We condemn the arrest of our leader Abduljabbar al-Kubaysi, and we hold the occupying forces responsible for the health and life of al-Kubaysi. We commit ourselves to work together with our brothers and sisters in- and outside Iraq for an international campaign for the liberation of al-Kubaysi's.

We hereby reconfirm that our resistance is legitimate according to international law and the UN Charter, including the right to resort to armed means.

Facing a supreme power with few guns and a strong belief in our right cause make us stronger and more resilient.

Free Abduljabbar al-Kubaysi!
Long lives the Iraqi resistance

Iraqi Patriotic Alliance
September 5, 2004

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3) "Not all hostage-taking by the Resistance"
Awni al-Kalemji: Withdraw troops, release Italian girls

According to my information the Iraqi Resistance opposes any action which does not serve the liberation of Iraq from occupation. We have heard and seen that the Resistance released several hostages of different nationalities after their innocence had been proved.

From the south to the north Iraq is a battlefield. Those coming to Iraq as tourists in most cases are no real tourists. Neither are they journalists searching for the truth. Unfortunately in most of the cases they offer their services to the occupation. Therefore the Iraq Resistance has to treat the hostages as Prisoners of War according to international law.

I do not believe that all hostage-taking has been performed by the Resistance. There are more than 20,000 people in Iraq who had been brought in by the occupation force. They are being paid to attack civilian targets and thus to destroy the reputation of the resistance.

I have 100% trust in my sources of information who assure me that the two girls have nothing to do with the occupation. Therefore I advocate that they should be immediately released as I publicly stated two days ago.

However, the Italian prime minister bears the full responsibility for the participation of his county in the aggression against Iraq - only to please Bush junior. Why he does not withdraw his troops as several counties already did, especially after it turned out that all the alleged reasons for the war were lies?

Awni al-Kalemji, intl spokesman of the Iraqi Patriotic Alliance

Full declaration:
www.antiimperialista.org/view.shtml?category=9&id=1095071683

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4) Update Int'l day of action for the Iraqi Resistance

This is to inform you that we are going to have protest meetings and demonstrations in Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna, Kushtia, Pabna and other places on 25 September, 2004 as part of the International Day of Action for the Iraqi Resistance.

Badruddin Umar
President,
Bangladesh National Liberation Council

See call and endorsers:
www.antiimperialista.com/sept25/view.shtml?category=51&id=1093679285&key...

See venues:
www.antiimperialista.com/sept25/view.shtml?category=51&id=1094039777&key...

To endorse or join the mobilization write to c...@antiimperialista.org

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5) SIGN and SUPPORT the Cause of Prisoners who are on an Indefinite Hunger Strike in Tamil Nadu Jails

Dear Friend,

We are mailing you an appeal addressed to Eleven POTA Prisoners of Tamil Nadu who are on Hunger Strike since 26/9/2004. Today is the 17th day of their indefinite fast and most of them, including three women, are in a precarious condition. Any one of them may suffer the loss of life or permanent damage to vital organs like kidneys if the government remains adamant and the prisoners continue with their struggle in this way. It is a matter of concern for all justice loving, democratic and humane people. They should come forward in defence of the prisoners' cause. The prisoners are demanding the withdrawal of POTA cases against themselves and others and also the repeal of POTA as a law.

The case highlights:

1. These prisoners are political prisoners and, are twenty seven in number.

2. They are members of the Revolutionary Youth League (RYL).

3. They were arrested in November 2002 from a place in Dharmapuri district of Tami Nadu while they were attending a political class.

4. In January 2003 they were charged under POTA

5. Their trial has not yet started even when it is about two years when they were incarcerated.

6. Their petition before the Review Committee on POTA is still pending as the Government of Tamil Nadu is not co-operating.

7. Already, a representation has been made to the Home Minister of India but he has expressed his helplessness to intervene.

8. Many prominent personalities have come in support of the cause of these prisoners.

Now, as the government of Tamil Nadu is intransigent the danger to the life of these prisoners has increased. Some intellectuals and human and democratic rights activists have decided to intervene into the matter to end this fast. Here, we are sending an appeal to you to express your concern by signing it.

Dr. Darshanpal
President of the All India Peoples Resistance Forum

See the call:
www.antiimperialista.com/view.shtml?category=12&id=1095024792

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6) Noam Chomsky and 'Left' Apologetics for Injustice in Palestine

by Noah Cohen, member of the New England Committee to Defend Palestine

It's particularly interesting in the case of Palestine to see where US intellectuals and progressives decide that it's necessary to be "realistic" and where "principled;" where they choose to accept more or less the general media consensus about "the boundaries of acceptable discourse" and where they reject it. In the case of Palestine, people who are generally on record as calling for forthrightness and honesty in the demand for justice in political discourse, who criticize a false "pragmatism" oriented toward the corporate media and academic political consultants and who question generalizing statements about popular consensus, suddenly become believers in pragmatism and the limits of what the discourse will allow. An interview with Noam Chomsky published on Znet under the title "Justice for Palestine?" (Znet, March 30, 2004) is an exemplary contribution to this genre of left apologetics. Since it contains so many of the arguments generally advanced to legitimize some form of continued existence for an Israeli system of colonialism and Apartheid--and to shore up rear-guard support for it among US progressives--it is worth examining in full.

Full article:
www.antiimperialista.com/en/view.shtml?category=9&id=1093291174&keyword=...

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