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Cowl that converts to a head covering pattern
I'm looking for a cowl pattern that will also act as a head covering. Any ideas?
This may not be at all what you're looking for, but it was the first thing that came to mind:
http://knitty.com/ISSUEwinter04/PATTaibhlinn.html (a picture of this one being worn as a head covering can be found here)
How about The Moebius Scarf/Shrug in this free PDF?
I want to make it so bad.
There is an option that is based on the "magic scarf". Basically, you can knit it in the round, and then drop every fifth or sixth stitch and let them unravel. This allows the item to be stretched long like a scarf, or to be open like a neckwarmer or act as a hood. I made one for my son.
Here is the link.
Gosh, you guys are great. I have so many to choose from.
I wonder where the name "smokering" comes from.
Thank you again. Now to study the patterns and decide which one. What to do, what to do.
This is pretty too even though it is more of a turtle neck than a cowl.
There are several listed under scarves at www.knittingpatterncentral.com
Those are some great patterns! I love the one called a wimple at
carylldesigns Thanks Shandeh! It's so elegant yet simple.
Can't believe that thing you made Carmen.... looks soo complicated.
But I guess it isn't really. Nice job!
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E3 2009: The Saboteur Details and Trailer
Written Monday, June 01, 2009 By Jason Debelyak
And finally.. Some of the meat of EA's lineup. One of my most anticipated games of the year, The Saboteur is next in the press conference. The game will feature a very unique black and white art style, with certain colors showing up, particularly red. This is referred to as the "Will to Fight", where the hero will try to restore color back to Paris by fighting Nazis and restoring hope to the area.
The demo shows a lot of rooftops to explore in this open-world game (you can even climb the Eiffel Tower!). The game looks absolutely amazing and will launch in time for Holiday 2009. If you haven't seen the trailer we've posted yet, check it out below!


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The Alcoholic Brown Family The Alcoholic Brown Family Dec 6, 2013 01:39 Flag
Nelson Mandela RIP
'Former South African president Nelson Mandela, one of the greatest freedom fighters and political leaders of the 20th century, has died aged 95 surrounded by family at his Johannesburg home.
"Our nation has lost its greatest son. Our people have lost a father," South African president Jacob Zuma said in a live TV address to the nation.
"Although we knew this day would come, nothing can diminish our sense of a profound and enduring loss. This is the moment of our deepest sorrow."'
Good news for racists like Kipper and Geordiefool, sad news for the rest of us, a great man, rest in peace.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
I saw some dyslexic Africans laying flowers at a Nissan Main Dealers earlier today!
Fnarr Fnarr!
FABONGRASSS FABONGRASSS Dec 7, 2013 10:38 Flag
Absolutely bad taste using the death of Mandela as a tool for yet more diatribe.
Still...one has come to expect this from Rikki.
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OINK OINK! OINK OINK! Dec 8, 2013 14:15 Flag
Too right Fabs, if the Orungutan fiddler had just posted a RIP tribute to Mandela, then fair enough, but 'it' had to go and spoil it by accusing people of being racists!
In all fairness 'it' only posted the tribute to try and make itself look good but we all know 'it' is a prize plonker who tells tall tales and keeps getting OWNED BY A GEORDIE!
Hey Orungutan fiddler, 0-1 to the Toon against Prawnchester Uniturd, I'd have loved to have seen your ugly old mush when Cabaye scored! I bet you were on the verge of having a stroke!
LMFAO...cheers for the 3 points.
The Alcoholic Brown Family The Alcoholic Brown Family Dec 7, 2013 13:02 Flag
Trust the midget to turn this thread into another childish attack.
How typical of the old Orangutan fiddler, 'it' posts a tribute, but then starts calling people racists.
All keyboard and no trousers.
There's still no videos from beaches in Bali either, what a total laughing stock 'it' is!
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sweetblindness sweetblindness Dec 6, 2013 22:05 Flag
Kipper managed to be ambiguous in his response...but outwardly respectful....
....whereas you continue to be abusive, infantile, taunting and ridiculous....
....a man who made a difference to the way this world works...a man who suffered to make that difference... has died a peaceful death...his life is being lauded ....I've placed my tributes elsewhere...;(
....and you can't move out of your totally insular, abusive little internet world to acknowledge this...
...do you ever think outside of your own little keyboard...piglet....?
He had a good innings
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The Alcoholic Brown Family The Alcoholic Brown Family Dec 7, 2013 13:04 Flag
"He had a good innings"
Hahaha! That must have been hard, Kipper, as we all know how you REALLY feel!


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Hi caterina armento. Glad you like this one.
I am happy to read your new positive comment.
Greetings from Iran
Mahdi Kalhor
Would love to see this gorge in person. very beautiful and majestic! Eugene, Oregon
Wow, Beautiful photo and view. Greetings from Poland, Paulina.
Hi dear redrockwest1955,
This is My favourite location for vacation.
I am happy for your visit and nice comments.
Greetings from Iran
Mahdi Kalhor
My friend dous,. Glad you like this one.
Thank you so much for visiting my gallery and thanks also for your very kind words.
Greetings from Iran
Mahdi Kalhor
این هم از اون شاهکارهاست
یه بار گفتم بازم می گم که عسکهای شما به ذاتشون قشنگ هستند و آدم زیبایی رو اونجا به وضوح احساس می کنه
ممنون از همه زحماتی که بابت این عکسهای زیبا کشیده اید
آدم خوش ذات همیشه کار دیگران را نیک میپندارد و شما چنین هستید.
امسال عکسهای بسیاری از این منطقه به ارمغان خواهم آورد.
ممنون ازپیام زیبایتان مجید خان.
great landscape Mahdi very and very beautiful shot.
Warm wishes.
Hi GAST1, Excuse me for delay.
Thanks for your comment and also Thank You for your Visit.
Kind regards to you,
Hello Mahdi ;>)
I had no idea how beautiful is your your Iran!! and all this just a few miles from the capital city Terhan, This must be a very popular place to visit!!
Regretfully, I have never visited Iran. The opportunity never came to me!
Many thanks for visiting my gallery, I enjoyed your friendly comments.
Like all true fishermen, it is all about the escape from the humdrum routine of every-day life that is so appealing ;>)
Mahdi, fishing takes my mind to another place, a tranquil peaceful place where I have not a care in the world. If lady luck shines down on me, I catch the fish!! If not, it matters little!! I feel totally relaxed and completely at peace with creation!! Any person who needs to get stress and aggression out of their system should go fishing! eh??
I noticed from the other photos that you know how to catch your prey Mahdi!! Well done my friend ;>)
Best wishes
Hi my dear freind Axota. You are wellcome to my country! I hope see you here.
I,m always happy to read your friendly comment. I hope that you enjoy my gallery.
There is trout red mole in Lar dam. I like fishing very much.
Kind regards to you,
aaaa, nice!!this is a place for me!! :)
salam mr kalhor kam peydaee baradar?
Nature in Iran is so generous...Congratulations by your country.
Greetings from Brazil... Renato Hagy
تشکر دوستان
Maravillosa imagen, L
Un cordial desde Costa Rica, Melsen Felipe
Thanks for your visit.
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I don't understand why WP 1.5 lets you nest categories in parent categories, but then in the "categories" menu it displays them all inline, with no particular logic?
Like if I make a category called "Pictures" and then a child category "Dogs" it should show this in the "categories" menu:
Category 1
Category 2
Category 3
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but instead it looks like this:
Category 2
Category 3.1
Category 3
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you know what I mean?


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BodogInternet United States of America
Bodog Morris Mohawk Gaming BEWARE of BODOG won't pay big winners Internet
*Author of original report: Bodog and Calvin Ayre Affiliation Obvious
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I urge everyone who's been screwed over by Bodog to call their banks and credit card companies to retrieve all funds that were deposited to Bodog. TRUST ME the banks and credit cards have no questions asked and they can not do anything to you if you file a dispute charge under the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. The banks and credit card companies have 100% support of their customers. Don't believe Bodog with their silly threats. I'm pissed off I was only able to retrieve $15,000 that i deposited. Bodog still owes me another $10,000.
Stay away from Bodog ! and those who've been screwed by Bodog, do a chargeback !
This report was posted on Ripoff Report on 02/07/2010 11:21 AM and is a permanent record located here: http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Bodog/internet/Bodog-Morris-Mohawk-Gaming-BEWARE-of-BODOG-wont-pay-big-winners-Internet-565895. The posting time indicated is Arizona local time. Arizona does not observe daylight savings so the post time may be Mountain or Pacific depending on the time of year.
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Bodog and Calvin Ayre Affiliation Obvious
AUTHOR: Bodog Beware - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, February 23, 2010POSTED: Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Either way, this issue has been resolved (although not the way Bodog or myself would have liked). Any US players encounters problems with Bodog please contact www.ic3.gov.
As I am certain those who are involved with Bodog's illegal enterprise will be weary of stepping foot in the U.S. upon an ongoing investigation. If you're unaware the US Attorney's office in Baltimore has launched suits against Bodog and has an ongoing suit (see Forbes article about Bodogs problems with payouts in the US) As many US players can provide proof just as in this report with the reply, this shows that they're admitting their illegal acts committed by Bodog (Bodog Ambassador with www.calvinayre.com). Defrauding a player of their payout once requested a large payout.
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Response from Becky Liggero, Global Brand Ambassador, BodogBrand.com
AUTHOR: BodogBecky - (Antigua and Barbuda)
SUBMITTED: Monday, February 08, 2010POSTED: Monday, February 08, 2010
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Rutland Police investigating car window-breaking rampageStaff Report | January 23,2013Vyto Starinskas / Staff Photo
Vyto Starinskas Photo - One of the dozens of cars that were damaged in an overnight spree of breaking windows.
More than 50 cars and at least two businesses were damaged during the early morning hours today by an unknown vandal who used a pellet gun to shoot out windows, according to city police.
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Discussion in 'Fantasy Sports Central' started by obey86, Feb 12, 2009.
Out with AI maybe???
Should we just pick for Obey then?
Did you guys forget about this? Are you going to run the simulation?
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We've encountered that the AJAX-calls to the counter-scripts didn't work out as expected. When running the plugin using a Firefox-client in the webserver-logs we got something like:
which misses GET-parameters activate_counter and top10_rnd.
Looking into the HTML-source it seems that for some reason the ampersands (&) in the JavaScript got replaced by something like & (if I remember correctly). Turning the AJAX-calls in the source to & made it work for Firefox, but it didn't seem to work in Opera then. After call, what was needed would be simple and plain ampersands.
To workaround this problem (wherever that escaping may have come from) we modified the JavaScript in wp-content/plugins/top-10/top-10.php in tptn_add_viewed_count() to a different calling-syntax for the jquery-AJAX-calls, passing in an array for the get-parameters:
jQuery.ajax({url: "' .$tptn_url. '/top-10-addcount.js.php", data: {top_ten_id: ' .$id. ', activate_counter: ' . $activate_counter . ', top10_rnd: (new Date()).getTime() + "-" + Math.floor(Math.random()*100000)}});
Did others encounter the same problem? How do you think about this solution? That seems to have fixed it for us now.


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- Report: #818024
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Complaint Review: United Financial education and services
United Financial education and servicesin Deerfield Beach FL Internet United States of America
United Financial education and services 'qualified' for 14000 loan,but needed credit repair, ripped off $494,no longer at Deerfield Beach address in Deerfield Beach FL, Internet
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We live in Florida and my husband went to the address when he was on a business trip near Deerfield Beach. He was told by the building receptionist that they had left hurriedly about a month before.
John was the worst because I actually believed he was sincere. Nothing ever came of my credit repair. United Financial filed disputes with the 3 credit bureaus and I received the reports back. I had to upload them to my account but NOTHING happened subsequent to that.
In January 2011 I had asked if there was any way to get a smaller loan (partial) at that time and when my credit was repaired, pursue the rest. It took 4 weeks to get any movement. Finally I was given a website to contact to see if I could 'qualify', but if I couldn't, then basically too bad for me because i would no longer be a client of United financial.
The thing was, I had supposedly qualified already and being a member of the credit repair was just a beneficial thing for me. When I posed the question about already qualifying, the answer was that they had changed vendors.
Unfortunately I am a trusting soul and I have been ripped off since then! It is very hard for me to believe EVERYONE on the internet is trying to ripoff someone else. But I'd better start believing. We need to do something about these scammers.
This report was posted on Ripoff Report on 01/04/2012 04:59 PM and is a permanent record located here: http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/United-Financial-education-and-services/internet/United-Financial-education-and-services-qualified-for-14000-loanbut-needed-credit-repa-818024. The posting time indicated is Arizona local time. Arizona does not observe daylight savings so the post time may be Mountain or Pacific depending on the time of year.
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When you're in the normal posts list of the Admin, there's both a Categories and Tags column, which lists the posts' Categories and Tags. You can quickly view all posts in a single Cat/Tag by clicking it under the appropriate column.
However, on my Custom Post Type I created using this excellent plugin, in the equivalent list view, it doesn't show the Custom Taxonomies I have linked to it. That means there's no way to sort by the Custom Taxonomies via the admin (at least that I can see). It would sure make managing my custom posts a lot easier if it worked the same as normal posts. Is it possible to have Custom Taxonomies listed there in the same way? If so, how?


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It's time to start talking about using pictures in InDesign. Let's start at the beginning. How to get our images on to our InDesign page? Fortunately, InDesign makes it really easy. I'll go to the File menu, choose Place or press Command+D or Ctrl+D on Windows and up comes the Place dialog box. I'm looking at the Links folder in my Exercise Files folder and I'm going to scroll down until I find the image called girl and boy. Now click Open and it loads it into the Place cursor. You can even see a little thumbnail of that image and it lets me do a number of things with the Place cursor.
I could simply click and it would build a frame and place the image into it, and you can tell that this is actually a huge, huge image. So that's not what I want to do. I'm going to press Command+Z or Ctrt+Z on Windows to undo that, which reloads the Place cursor and lets me do something different with it. I could click-and-drag out an area, and notice that as I'm dragging, the frame that it's building for me is going to be proportional to the image. That is, the frame will always be just the right size, so that when I let go, the image fits it perfectly.
Let me undo that with Command+Z or Ctrl+Z, and I'll show you a couple other options. I can drag at a frame and hold down the Shift key and the Shift key deconstrains the frame, so I could make it any size I want, like I'll make it really, really narrow. Then when I let go, it automatically fills that frame with that image. That's, of course, a very silly looking thing, so I'm not going to do that, Command+Z, I'm just showing you all your different options here. What I really want to do with this is place it inside of a frame. So notice how the cursor changes very subtly, when I go on top of an image frame.
It's a little hard to see there, but the cursor changes to a rounded sort of parenthesis, dotted lines, and that means when I click it's going to go into this frame. So I'll click and in comes the image and it's, in this case, automatically sized to this frame and automatic sizing is something I'm going to be talking about later on in this chapter. But for now, suffice it to say that it's automatically sized to that. Let's go ahead and grab some other images. Now let me show you another way to import graphics into InDesign. You can use drag-and-drop.
You can drag-and-drop from the Mac OS Finder, which is what I have right here or on Windows, the Windows Explorer, just open up any folder you want and take an image and drag it right out on to your InDesign layout in the background. You can see that once again the cursor changes, if I'm out here on the pasteboard, I get one kind of cursor. That means it's going to load the Place cursor. If I come over here, on top of this empty frame, I get a different kind of cursor, which means it's going to drop right into that frame. In fact, that's what happens. So this is a very easy way to get images right out of your desktop and into InDesign.
Okay, now I'll do one more image. I'm going to grab this California_snow image out here and drop it out on the pasteboard. It loads the Place cursor, but I can't actually see that until I get back to InDesign. Now you can see that it's loaded up and I can put it anywhere I want. I'm going to put it right inside this area here. I'll do that by clicking-and-dragging and I'm going to let go when it's about the right size. This is going to be a little bit too tall. So that's okay. I'll just drag it in here and then I'll grab the lower handle and drag it up until it's the right height. There we go! But all the images that I've imported so far are raster images.
They're pixel images from Photoshop. Let's go ahead and get a vector image. I'm going to press Command+D or Ctrl+D on Windows to open the Place dialog box, and then I'm going to scroll to the bottom of my Links folder and choose this taste_of_cal_logo. Now notice that this is an .AI file. What does that mean? It means it's a native Illustrator file. InDesign tries to be as flexible as possible when it comes to importing images. That means you can import all the regular things like TIFF files, JPEG, PDF and so on, but it also supports native Illustrator files, these AI files, native Photoshop files, otherwise known as PSD files.
In fact, it even lets you import native InDesign files. That's right. You can import one InDesign file into another. It's treated like a graphic. So, it's very, very flexible and very powerful. In this case, when I choose my AI file, my Illustrator file, I'm going to turn on the Show Import Options checkbox here. That way, I get one additional dialog box to help me fine-tune what I'm going to import. Click Open and you can see that it says Place PDF, but it's really an Illustrator file. But in this dialog box, it gives me a preview of the image, which is kind of cool, and also lets me choose a page within this.
What does that mean? Well, if I had more than one artboard in my Illustrator file, it would let me choose which artboard I want. If I had more than one page in a PDF file that I was placing, or an InDesign file I was placing, it would let me choose which page in that PDF or InDesign file I was importing. So that's very handy. It also lets me choose what I want to crop to, and usually this is set to Bounding Box, but if I set this to something like Media, you can see the dash line here. It's going to import this entire area with the image just in the upper left corner.
Media means the artboard or the page that art was actually on in Illustrator. In this case, I actually do just want the art or just the bounding box of the art. The bounding box means the smallest rectangle that will fit that artwork. That's what I want in this case. So, you can see you have a lot of options when it comes to importing graphics into InDesign, if you turn on that Show Import Options dialog box. I'll go ahead and click OK. It loads that image up into the Place cursor and I'll drag it out and you can see that I now have that vector artwork inside my InDesign document. Okay.
I would be remiss in my duty if I did not show you one more special, cool, hidden trick for importing graphics. I'm going to just pan over to the side here with the Option+Spacebar or Alt+Spacebar panning trick. To get the Hand tool, scroll over here. I'm going to use this blank space over here, so I have some space to work with. I'm going to use Command+D or Ctrl+D to open up the Place dialog box. I'm going to grab a bunch of these images. That's about six images, great, and I'm going to turn off Show Import Options, because I don't need that this time. I'll click Open and it loads all six of those images into my Place cursor.
So that's very handy if I want to click very quickly, like I could go click and click-and-drag, click-and-drag, click- and-drag, so I have all of those images loaded up and I can place them very quickly. That's cool, but that's not actually what I was going to show you. So let me undo that, Command+Z, and now I'm going to place all of them with one click-and-drag. How do I do it? I start dragging out and it thinks that I'm just going to drag out for one image, but while the mouse button is held down, I'm going to click one of the up arrows or right arrows on my keyboard.
So I press the Up Arrow and you can see that all of a sudden I have two frames. Can you see that? I've got two frames there. I'll click the Right Arrow and now I have two columns. So I've got four frames total. Why don't I go ahead and click that again. Now I've got six different frames for all six images on here. I can make this any size I want. I'm still dragging around with this. When I let go of the mouse button, all of a sudden InDesign brings all of them in at once. That's called the Gridify feature because it makes a grid, although I think of this as a Contact Sheet feature because it is a great way to make a contact sheet really quickly in InDesign.
Notice that the gutter space, the amount of space in between each of these frames equals the gutter space for our document. It picked up that number to put in between each of these as well. So that makes it very fast for placing in a document, if I were, in fact, going to put this on my document page. Note that I have not said anything about how to copy and paste images from one application to another. You can actually copy and paste vector shapes from Illustrator into InDesign and vice versa. If you do that, all the objects remain editable, all those Bezier shapes.
However, I strongly urge you not to copy images from Photoshop or any other program other than Illustrator. There are a number of technical reasons for this, but suffice it to say that it's rarely a good idea. But those pixel images, you really should place them just like I showed you earlier in this movie.


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Premier Family Services - Fathers Choice - fatherschoice.org, Cheats and liars. Crooks! Golleta California
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Snuggie the product was a rip off . the quality was awful. it was full of static and it fuzzed off little fuzz balls. sent it back they only rembursed me $14.95 for two. they did not arrive on time either so they gave me a $5.00off the regular order. Wallingford Connecticut
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I returned mine but only got $14.95 credit to my credit card because they gave me a courtesy fee of $5.00 for not delivering them on time so therefore when I sent them back they took that $5.00 away from me to make the $19.95. they also were supposed to reimburse me for the shipping to send them back and I did not get it . it cost me $6.95 to send two back but they charged me $15.90 to send them to me . ... big rip off..
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Fulham's Sascha Riether
Currently banned for 3 matches for his stamp on Man U's Adnan Januzaj under new FA disciplinary system despite been yellow carded by the referee during the match.
I wonder what the Fulham defender Sascha Riether made of Rooney's latest crazy kick on Mutch.
Thing is, Fellaini and some Man U players were calling for the FA to throw the book at Riether after their game against Fulham. Hopefully Rooney won't escaped punishment to become the second player to be charged by the FA under a new pilot scheme where a panel of 3 ex- referees reviews video evidence of incidents not seen by match officials or deemed worthy of a red card.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
The Alcoholic Brown Family The Alcoholic Brown Family Nov 26, 2013 04:06 Flag
"Hopefully Rooney won't escaped punishment to become the second player to be charged by the FA under a new pilot scheme"
"An FA spokesman said: 'The change in regulation can only apply where an incident has not been clearly seen by the match officials. 'FIFA regulations also forbid upgrading a yellow card to a red.'"
Once again, slayer shows how little he knows about the laws of the game!
The Alcoholic Brown Family The Alcoholic Brown Family Nov 25, 2013 12:46 Flag
"Hopefully Rooney won't escaped [sic] punishment to become the second player to be charged by the FA under a new pilot scheme where a panel of 3 ex- referees reviews video evidence of incidents not seen by match officials"
"not seen by match officials" Geddit?
If it was "not seen by match officials" how did he get a yellow card?
Idiot, there is no further punishment, and there is no panel!
sweetblindness sweetblindness Nov 24, 2013 21:10 Flag
Mr 99...
..."Rooney's latest crazy kick on Mutch"..... are you suggesting he's kicked him before...?...or is it just your poor grammar...
....as for Rooney...if it's thought applicable...then he should be held as accountable as other players are under the "pilot scheme"....he might well be....so what's your beef. tonight...?
...ohhhh....wrong board again...I guess you were just looking for a ruck...?...:)
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This is what I'm suggesting Rikk...............
'On a weekend where the main discussion has been; is the refereeing in the Premier League poor or terrible? It's sad to say that the final game of the weekend, terrible took the victory!
Neil Swarbrick, a referee who showed a lack of bottle all afternoon, let Rooney get away with what I would describe as assault. There is no way what Rooney did can construed as anything but a red card. Out-muscled by Jordon Mutch, Rooney saw it fit to leather him through the back of his legs.
The ball was nowhere near him. The aggression was Rooney-esque. The referee saw it but only booked him.
Of course, if Mutch had committed the same offence at Old Trafford, the referee would have had the red card out in record time. It was dirty, it was dangerous and it was full of intent. It's a red card all day.
Instead, the Manchester United rule came into effect. In fact, the whole game was refereed in this spirit. Cardiff players were booked for offences that United players were allowed to get away with. Fellaini was warned and then fouled more without picking up a booking.
Rooney, who shouldn't have been on the pitch, spent his game berating the referee even when decisions went his way. Peter Whittingham picked up a yellow card where Tom Cleverley escaped one for a similar indiscretion.'


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The Sustainable Development Goals, otherwise known as the Global Goals, build on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight anti-poverty targets that the world committed to achieving by 2015. The MDGs, adopted in 2000, aimed at an array of issues that included slashing poverty, hunger, disease, gender inequality, and access to water and sanitation. Enormous progress has been made on the MDGs, showing the value of a unifying agenda underpinned by goals and targets. Despite this success, the indignity of poverty has not been ended for all.
The new SDGs, and the broader sustainability agenda, go much further than the MDGs, addressing the root causes of poverty and the universal need for development that works for all people.
UNDP Administrator Helen Clark noted: "This agreement marks an important milestone in putting our world on an inclusive and sustainable course. If we all work together, we have a chance of meeting citizens' aspirations for peace, prosperity, and wellbeing, and to preserve our planet."
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The Halabja Monument as a top-down "chosen trauma"
The Halabja Monument as a top-down "chosen
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were forced to resort to armed
struggle against the central governments in Baghdad
to secure and serve their distinct national
identity. In so doing, their cause has contributed
to the wider instability in the Middle East. This in
turn has influenced international politics to
consistently refuse to address the Kurdish issue, in
part because the stability of the regional powers
was connected to the political and economic
interests of the United States (U.S.) and the former
Soviet Union.
During the Cold War era, both, the U.S. and the
former Soviet Union were heavily engaged in
supporting dictatorial regimes in the region. The
national interests of the bipolar hegemonic powers
were inconsistently favoured over the fundamental
principles of human rights and, in the process,
turned blind eyes to atrocities committed by their
Middle Eastern state actors. Moreover, this neglect
has allowed some greedy international companies
trading with Iraq to clearly violate international
agreements by supplying prohibited plants and raw
chemical materials to Baghdad which enabled the
proliferation and the production of a vast arsenal
of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) to be used
against innocent civilian Kurds by the executed
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
Iraq is not the first state to have used chemical
weapons and the Kurds are not the first victims of
chemical gases. However, it is the first time in
history of mankind to have the WMD been used by a
sovereign state against its own people in an attempt
to suppress an intrastate conflict and to commit the
act of genocide to eradicate an opposing ethnic
That been said, it is worth mentioning that the
recent history of the Kurds in Iraq comprises of a
long list of tragedies of which only the major ones
have gained international public awareness and
generated varying degrees of international concern.
Only the genocide of Halabja in March, 1988 has
captured the world attention. There have been
numerous other chemical attacks which were not
exposed or investigated by the international
community despite consistent allegations and appeals
by the Kurds. Paradoxically, neither the U.S., as
the world champion for democracy and individual
freedom and liberty, nor the United Nations (UN), as
the legitimate platform of the civilized world, have
raised concerns, let alone condemning such heinous
crimes against humanity.
The U.S. State Department, especially during the
Ronald Reagan era, was silent about Iraq's use of
chemical weapons against its own Kurdish population
during the eight years of Iran-Iraq war before 1987.
The first Iraqi gas attack on its own Kurdish town
of Penjween, some 40 kilometers northwest of Halabja,
was on November 13, 1983 (Khateri and Wangerin,
2008, p. 9) during which 17 casualties were secretly
reported owing to nerve gases (Lin, 2008). By any
account, the attack on Penjween was a serious breach
of the 1925 Geneva Protocol, but both, the U.S. and
the UN continued to publicly ignore it.
A month after the Penjween poison gas attack, the
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), one of the two
major Iraqi Kurdish political organizations in
opposition to Saddam Hussein's totalitarian regime,
was vowed to engage in a year-long fruitless
bilateral negotiations with Baghdad government.
Desperate for a respite after losing one-third of
his military might in the southern Iraqi frontiers
of his war with Iran, Saddam Hussein, tactically
recognized the Kurdish cause with the intentions of
making concessions on the disputed status of the
Kurdish majority Kirkuk province. As for the PUK
leaders who initially earned the sympathies of the
majority of the Kurds, their trilateral combats with
Iraq, Iran, and most devastatingly their long years
of internal fighting with the pro-Iranian leadership
of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) had earned
them unbearable hardship and countless Peshmarga
loses. Therefore, aside from daunting the imminent
dangers of Iraq's poison gases, the PUK leaders
welcomed Saddam's recognition despite their
awareness of his intentions to assimilate the Kurds.
The PUK saw a number of possible long-term
achievements to be gained in aforementioned
negotiations. For the first time since 1975, the
Ba'athists officially confirmed that no genuine
autonomy had been granted to the Kurds; that Saddam
Hussein had made concessions to Jalal Talabani, the
leader of PUK and the current President of Iraq,www.ekurd.net
promising him not only to share oil revenues from
Kirkuk province, but also a remapping of the
Kurdistan autonomous region to include eastern side
of the Khasa River that runs horizontally through
the centre of Kirkuk city. However, once the Reagan
administration fully backed the Iraqi regime in its
war with Iran, the PUK-Iraqi Ba'athists'
negotiations reached an impasse in January 1985. As
a result, renewed fighting between the two sides
broke out encouraging the PUK leadership to ally
with Iran and eventually make truce and
reconciliation with the KDP and the other main
Kurdish political parties. This political
reshufflings empowered the PUK-KDP Peshmargas to
inflict severe blows on the Iraqi military operating
in Kurdistan.
Iraq's reaction to the
KDP-PUK relations with Iran
For decades, the enmity between Iran and Iraq had
seemed to Kurdish politicians as a geopolitical gap
that they could exploit to their advantage. In their
reconciliation efforts with the KDP leadership,
leaders of the PUK were eager to have Iran play a
fair role in managing the balance of power in Iraqi
Kurdistan. Desperate to defeat Iraq, Iran played a
dominant role in subsiding Kurdish factionalism. As
a result, the Iranian sponsored PUK-KDP
reconciliation not only boosted the moral and
military strength of the Peshmarga forces of both
Kurdish factions, but also led to the subsequent
formation of the Iraqi Kurdistan Front (IKF) in
December 1986.
This newly formed political umbrella, IKF, managed
to cover all Iraqi Kurdish opposing political groups
and parties under the slogan of the "Overthrow of
Saddam Hussein and the establishment of a democratic
Iraq and autonomous Kurdistan" (Al-Sharara, 1987).
In fact, with direct Iranian support and occasional
joint operations with small numbers of the Iranian
Revolutionary guards (Pasdaran), the Peshmarga
forces, mainly belonging to the PUK and the KDP,
launched sophisticated attacks deep inside Iraqi
Kurdistan targeting Iraq's vital economic facilities
and military installations located in Kirkuk and
elsewhere. Such operations invoked Saddam's wrath.
On March 18th, 1987, Saddam's Revolutionary Command
Council (RCC) appointed Ali Hassan Al-Majid,
Saddam's powerful first cousin, as the Secretary
General of the Northern Bureau of the Ba'ath Party
Organization (Human Rights Watch, 1993, p. 62).
Shortly thereafter, the RCC issued decree no. 160,
dated March 29, 1987, authorizing Al-Majid to be the
overlord of northern Iraq with extraordinary powers
"mandatory for all state agencies, be they military,
civilian and security" in order to exterminate the
Kurds in a systematic genocide known as the Anfal
(spoils) campaigns (1993, p. 63). Accordingly, Al-Majid—later
earned the nickname of Chemical Ali—unleashed his
evil wrath to ethnically cleanse Iraq's Kurdish
population, especially those who were suspected of
having sympathy or association with the Kurdish
liberation movement.
Aside from intensifying the Ba'athist regime's
Arabization of Kurdistan, Chemical Ali ordered the
Iraqi military to extensively use chemical weapons
against the villages and small cities suspected of
cooperating with the Peshmarga forces.
On April 15, 1987, four fixed-wing planes flew low
over Helladen, Bergallu, Kanitu, Sirwan, Awazic,
Noljika and Chinara, all in Sulaymania province, and
dropped their poison loaded bombs (Ala'Aldeen, 1991,
p. 7). Although the high winds on that day rendered
the exploded poisonous bombs almost ineffective,
still, tens of serious as well as hundreds of
moderate injuries occurred, mainly among women and
young children. A day later, Chemical Ali sent his
planes to Erbil province bombing the villages of
Sheikh Wassanan, Totma, Zeni, Ballokawa, Alana,
Darash and the entire valley of Balisan.
In Sheilch Wassanan alone, a village—in the District
of Rawanduz, Erbil—consisting of 150 houses and a
population of about 500 people, 121 of them were
killed instantly, including 76 children aged between
one day and eight years. 286 of the injured
villagers were able to go to the city of Erbil to
seek medical attention. As they were admitted to the
Erbil Educational Hospital, the Ba'athists rounded
them and took them to a military prison in Erbil
where 202 of them died over a short period because
of their untreated skin burns, lung damages, and
other internal injuries caused by mustard gas. The
remaining 84 victims with moderate injuries were
taken to a military range, not far from Erbil where
they were shot dead and buried in a mass grave (Ala'Aldeen,
1991; Human Rights Watch, 1993, p. 69-71).
Throughout 1987, poison gas attacks of the Ba'athist
regime continued on the Peshmarga strongholds in the
provinces of Sulaymania and Erbil, and also expanded
to target the liberated areas of Duhok
province—bordering Turkey and Syria—as well as the
north-eastern regions of the oil-rich Kirkuk
province. Ironically, while these horrific
atrocities had become a daily reality for the Kurds;
and, while the international community turned a
blind eye to the occurrences of these appalling
crimes, it was clear that the unleashed Ba'athists
would not hesitate to use these WMD
Kurdishness and Iraq's
Arabization Policy
There is no doubt that these poison attacks were
used as a catalyst to terrorize with the aim of
Arabizing the entire Kurdish population in Iraq.
With every air raid or artillery bombardment on
Peshmarga strongholds, every Kurd, including the
majority of the pro-government Kurdish mercenaries,
felt the
irrationality of Ba'athists'
pan-Arab "hate-ness" towards the non-Arab Kurdish
minority. In fact, many Kurds resisted the central
authorities' tangible as well as psychological
pressures exerted on them to join the ranks of the
ruling Ba'ath Arab Socialist Party (BASP). In so
doing, they argued that the BASP's ethnocentric
group identity postulated in its central slogan as
"One Arab nation, bearing a Perpetual Massage" does
not correlate with their separate group identity
portrayed as "Kurdishness." In other words, the
Kurdish argument based its substance on the fact
that if the Ba'athists' pan-Arab struggle to unite
the Arabs of the twenty-two sovereign nation-states
in a united single state was logical, then the
Kurdish nationalist struggle to unite the divided
four parts of Kurdistan must be logical as well.
Thus, the Ba'athist regime devised its infamous
Arabization policy after the collapse of the 1974-75
Kurdish revolt.
The initial phases of the Arabization policy began
with the deportation of more than 200,000 Fayli
Kurds from central Iraq to Iran and the resettlement
of more than 150,000 Kurds who participated in the
1974-75 revolt to the southern Arab provinces of
Iraq. Parallel to this Kurdish population uproots,
the Ba'athist regime brought thousands of Arab
nomads and Palestinian refugees and settled them in
Kirkuk province while forcing close to 300,000
Kirkuki Kurds to resettle either in Erbil and
Suleimaniya provinces or to be deported to southern
Iraq. The consequence of this state sponsored
neo-racism not only strengthened positions the
Kurdish armed opposition groups, but also seriously
questioned the notion of Kurdish patriotism
vis-à-vis Iraq's sovereignty and territorial
Therefore, faced with the Baghdad government's
denial of their people's basic human needs and in
the course of combating Arabization enforced with
poison gases as direct threats to their existing
identity, Kurdish opposition leaders saw no
wrongdoings in letting their Peshmarga forces
cooperate with the Iranian forces against the Iraqi
military targets. Still, instead of addressing its
Kurdish conflict objectively, the Iraqi Ba'athist
regime chose to deal with it subjectively. Saddam
Hussein and his rubberstamp RCC authorized Chemical
Ali to begin prepping then executing the Anfal
campaigns of Kurdish Genocide.
After conducting a national census in October 1987,
Chemical Ali began his ethnic cleansing preps as
1. Aside from offering clemency to the Kurds who
were willing to change their nationality from
Kurdish to Arabic, no other Iraqi ethnic minorities
allowed be identified other than Arabs or Kurds
(Human Rights Watch, 1993, p. 25).
2. Forceful evacuations of all Kurds from the "grey"
areas—25 kilometres away from major cities, towns,
and highways—in which the Iraqi regime had partial
control. In so doing, he razed their homes,
villages, and towns to the ground without allowing
them the rights to rebuild.
3. Impose a total economic blockade on designated
"prohibited zones" where shoot-to-kill orders
applied on every moving creature at distances of 50
kilometres from major cities, towns, and highways
(1993, p. 24).
4. Burn down crops, farms, trees and other plants;
and, seal all water springs with concrete and spoil
the underground water supply.
5. Finally, launch the Anfal campaigns in eight
stages to systematically eliminate everyone who
dares to challenge the government's Arabization
policy (1993, p. 25).
It became evident that the target was not merely the
Kurdish opposition groups, but the whole population
of Iraqi Kurdistan. Eventually, by the Fall of 1988,
over 4,000 villages were demolished, an estimated
182,000 Kurds "disappeared", and half a million
people were forced to live in "Protected Camps"
scattered all over Iraq (1993, p. 11).
The Anfalization of the
Jafayeti valley and the gassing of Halabja
Even before the first stage of the village
clearances got underway, the Iraqi regime had
crossed a new barrier in its war against the Kurds.
Throughout 1987, the PUK Peshmarga forces kept up a
steady rhythm of military actions. In early April
1987, the PUK leadership decided to sweep out Iraqi
government forces from the Jafayeti valley, which
runs southeast from Dukan Lake. Edged in by sharp
mountains, the valley was a strategic PUK stronghold
protected by difficult terrain. But, because of its
close proximity to Iraq's northeastern borders with
Iran, the Iraqi regime had established dozens of
forward military posts in areas leading to the
valley. As Chemical Ali became the supreme commander
of the Iraqi forces in the north, these posts posed
looming dangers on the PUK headquarters. Therefore,
the PUK amassed thousands of its Peshmergas in the
valley and within a few hours had overrun all those
Iraqi forward posts and taken hundreds of prisoners.
While these operations boosted the morals of the
Peshmargas to liberate large expanses of Kurdistan,
they became pulpit for accusing the Kurds with
disloyalty and treason. In the eyes of those who saw
the glass half empty, Iraq's sovereignty and
territorial integrity was considered to be much more
important than the Arabization, ethnic cleansing,
and the exterminations of its Kurds. Such a
wrongfully predisposed international interpretation
had encouraged the Ba'athist culprits to devise and
execute more deliberate attacks which became known
as the Anfal campaigns to wipe out the Kurds, once
and for all.
In retaliation to the PUK's Jafayeti valley
advancement, the Iraqi regime began to congregate
its forces to take back the forward military posts
which were lost to the Peshmarga forces in 1987.
Using more toxic nerve gases, the Iraqi regime was
able to sweep through the Jafayeti valley on
February 23rd, 1988. After two weeks of fierce
resistance, the PUK headquarters in the villages of
Sergalu and Bergalu came under siege. Thus, the PUK
leadership took the desperate decision to open a
second front against the Iraqi military. As a
strategic manoeuvre, the PUK leadership chose to
capture the City of Halabja hoping to draw the Iraqi
forces away from the siege of Sergalou and Bergalou.
For the Iraqi regime, however, the fall of Halabja
meant the PUK's direct access to the manmade Sirwan
Lake which not only provides summer irrigation to
much of Iraq's northeastern agricultural industry,
but also electricity generated from the dam at the
southern edge of the Sirwan Lake feeding the
provinces of Diyala and Baghdad. In addition, if the
PUK decides to blow up the dam, then most of Diyala
province and Baghdad would be flooded.
As a result, on March 13, 1988, Shawkat Haji Mushir,
a member of the PUK leadership, led 500 Peshmargas
and fought his way towards Halabja while government
forces were busy carrying out the first phase of the
Anfal campaigns in the Jafayeti valley. After a full
day of fierce fighting, the Iraqi forces retreated
from Halabja towards Sulaimaniya city, some 70
kilometers northwest of Halabja. Two days later
(i.e., on March 16th, 1988), the Iraqi regime began
its aerial nerve gases attacks on the Halabja
killing at least 5,000 innocent Kurds instantly and
wounding over 10,000 people.
It is important to clarify events before the gassing
of Halabja and to stress a very important historical
fact that Halabja was not occupied by Iranian troops
before the Iraqi planes bombarded the city with
chemical weapons. The people of Halabja welcomed the
native Peshmargas, including their leader Shawkat
Haji Mushir who himself was from Halabja. Except for
a cameraman and two unarmed individuals, no Iranians
participated in the PUK led liberation operation.
Yet, astonished by the people's loyalty to the
Peshmargas, the Ba'athist regime tried publicly to
link the battle for Halabja and its poison gassing
to the Iraq-Iran war. Once the gassing of the city
caused thousands of casualties and drove the entire
population of the city, some 80,000, to seek refuge
in Iraqi controlled Suleimaniya city with others
running to the borders with Iran, the Iranians came
to the rescue of the victims and entered Halabja.
However, in the process of evacuating the wounded
civilian Kurds, the Iranian regime attempted to take
advantage of the tragic scenes for its political
propaganda. This is on the one hand. On the other
hand, the impotence of the international community
and the lack of condemnation from individual
governments in the face of Saddam's clear violation
of human rights allowed this regime to continue with
its genocide campaigns which ended in January 1989.
Halabja and its effects on
the 1991 Kurdish uprising
Once the Iraq-Iran war in August 1988, the Iraqi
regime not only expanded its operations to
exterminate the Kurds in the North, but also went
after the very allies which supported it in its war
against Iran, mainly Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. After
a year-long of extortion policy towards the Arab
Gulf states, the Iraqi regime invaded Kuwait
claiming the forceful unification of the Arab
Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, not only
caused great International condemnation, but also
prompted the U.S. to use the gassing of Halabja as a
cause to outlaw the Iraqi regime which eventually
was driven out of Kuwait in March 1991 by the U.S.
led International forces in the so-called Desert
Storm Operation.
The aftermath of Desert Storm led to tragic events
in Iraqi Kurdistan. After responding to the U.S.
calls for uprising against the Iraqi regime, the
Iraqi Kurdish population were able to drive out all
Iraqi security forces from Kurdistan, including the
Kirkuk province. For a month-long, Kurds felt the
true meaning of freedom. However, after the American
back-down from toppling the Iraqi regime and,
consequently, permitting the Iraqi regime to go
after its Shiite and Kurdish opposition groups,
Saddam Hussein used all his might to expel close to
three million Kurds who had nowhere to go but the
icy mountains of Kurdistan. In this tragic process,
close to 120,000 civilian Kurds, mainly young
children, elderly, and women lost their lives due to
fields littered with mines, cold weather, and food
shortages. Although the Iraqi regime did not use
chemical weapons in putting down the Kurdish
uprising in 1991, but memories of Halabja and the
fears of being gassed, chemical weapons had greatly
contributed to the mass exodus of the Kurds and the
casualties left behind.
Images of dying and suffering Kurds on the borders
of Iran and Turkey—being broadcasted by
international media all over the world, forced the
U.S. and the UN to intervene on behalf of the
suffering Kurds. By the spring of 1991, the UN
decided to set up a "safe heaven" where Kurds could
be protected from the wrath of the Ba'athist regime
of Iraq. This safe heaven then developed into a
"no-fly zone" in which the Iraqi government could
not authority over. This precipitated the weakness
of the Iraqi regime which eventually withdrew its
governmental institutions from Kurdistan leading to
a political as well as an administrative vacuum.
To fill the gap, the IKF managed to run
internationally observed and acceptable elections in
June 1992 that resulted in the first elected Kurdish
parliament in Iraq's history. Shortly after the
elections, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)
was established to govern the three dominated
Kurdish provinces of Duhok, Erbil, and Sulaimaniya.
Throughout its first four years of duration, the KRG
promised to rebuild the City of Halabja with plans
to bring back its original population scattered
between Iraqi "designated camps" and various Iranian
refugee camps. However, lacking sufficient economic
resources and being under the triple embargos of the
UN on Iraq, the regional powers (i.e., Iran, Syria,
and Turkey) on the KRG, and the Iraqi internal
embargo on the rest of Iraqi Kurdistan, the KRG not
only defaulted on its promises, but lost its control
of the Halabja district to some hard-core
pro-Iranian Iraqi Kurdish Islamic political
entities. Thus, Halabja and the Halabjans became
exploited and fell victim to International,
regional, and domestic politics.
Attempting to erect a sculpture in memory of the
victims of chemical gas, a local Halabjan artist was
shot dead by radical members of the Islamic Movement
of Kurdistan (IMK) in 1994. To add more traumas to
the sufferings of the Kurds, the IKF dissolved
itself because of factional frictions between the
leaderships of the KDP and the PUK. Thanks to the
regional interferences, the KDP-PUK relations
severely deteriorated to the point that the KDP
leadership, in alliance with the Iraqi Ba'athist
regime, drove the PUK leadership out of power in
August 1996. Hence, a bloody internal fight broke
out lasting well over two years.
After the Washington Agreement in 1998, sponsored by
then the U.S. Secretary of State, Medline Albright,
the KDP and PUK agreed to settle their differences
peacefully by which both parties to improve their
separate governments and gradually work towards a
unified KRG. As for Halabja, it remained under the
control of the Kurdish Islamist groups until the
U.S. led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The U.S. invasion of Iraq
and the construction of the Halabja Monument
When the U.S. invaded Iraq in March 2003, the
centerpiece of its justification was WMD. But its
precise timing was driven, in large part, by the
fifteenth anniversary of the poison gas attack on
Halabja. Short on credible intelligence on Iraq's
WMD arsenal, the Bush Administration deliberately
used the gassing of Halabja as an international
"chosen trauma" to justify his war on Iraq.
At the Azores summit on March 16, 2003, President
George W. Bush stated that "on this very day 15
years ago, Saddam Hussein launched a chemical
weapons attack on the Iraqi village of Halabja…"
Then, Bush reiterated five reasons for going to war:
"The dictator of Iraq and his weapons of mass
destruction are a threat to the security of free
nations. He is a danger to his neighbors. He's a
sponsor of terrorism. He's an obstacle to progress
in the Middle East. For decades he has been the
cruel, cruel oppressor of the Iraqi people"
(Whitehouse, 2003).
During the invasion of Iraq, a series of Tomahawk
missiles were launched against the Kurdish
Ansar-Al-Sunna radical group operating in the rural
areas of the Halabja district. After uprooting this
radical group from the region, both the Bush
Administration and the PUK leadership jointly
claimed to find chemical raw materials identical to
those which believed the Iraqi regime had in
Needless to say more, the radical Ansar-Al-Sunna was
driven into Iran and later was designated as a
terrorist group operating against the U.S. forces in
central Iraq. With the U.S. help, the PUK was able
to gain control of the region, including the city of
Halabja. A few months after the invasion of Iraq,
Coalition Provisional
Authority (CPA) allocated close to US$20 million to
rebuild the fresh water system in the city. But, by
the suggestion of the current Iraqi President Jalal
Talabani and his trusted man, Barham Salih who was
then the PUK factional Prime Minister in Sulaimaniya
province, that money was diverted to construct the
Halabja Monument. Within a few months, the Halabja
Monument was inaugurated on September 15, 2003.
Attended by then Secretary of State Colin Powell,
the Halabja Monument became a showpiece for the KRG
and the newly installed pro-U.S. government in
Baghdad. Foreign visitors were taken to the Halabja
Monument dedicated to the victims of Halabja without
ever seeing the city or meeting its residents.
The Halabja Monument is built on a 1,600 square
meters land. It has a circular shape with a central
tower depicting joined hands reaching for the sky.
At the top of the tower, sixteen palms hold an
invisible steel globe. Each palm representing a day
in the month has been shaped differently to
represent various ages of a human being. Ironically,
the hidden globe represents the world. In other
words, Halabja is an international "chosen trauma."
Still, the irregular and the unequal heights of the
hands represent different parts of Kurdistan in
geographical terms. At the bottom of the sixteen
hands just above the circular structure of the
Monument, there are several discolored balls. These
identical shapes represent the clouds of chemical
gases which engulfed the city in March 1988.
It is critical to mention that this bizarre Monument
became an added burden for the ignored and suffering
population of the city. On the one hand, it became a
pilgrimage for the novice Kurdish politicians,
especially those who never lived in the district
before; yet, own many pieces of lands leading to the
Monument. On the other hand, none of the promises
made by the KRG officials in the last two decades
were materialized. Adding more insults to the
traumas of the Halabjans, Jalal Talabani reportedly
"had regretted the fact that there were no more
Halabjas because it had put the Kurdish question
internationally on the map" (Amin, 2009).
Simply put, Halabjans are asking to have a
"bottom-up" rather than "top-down" monument with
which they could express and tell their own "chosen
trauma" and not those who are twisting this very
Kurdish trauma for political gains. Nevertheless,
when their demands fell on deaf ears, angry young
Halabjans planned a demonstration to take place on
the eighteenth anniversary of the gassing of Halabja
in 2006. As some Kurdish government officials
entered Halabja city and forced their way to the
Halabja Monument, a group of high school students
tried to block the convoy of the officials from
reaching the Monument. During that protest, two
security guards of the officials opened fire on the
protesting students killing one and wounding several
others. Therefore, enraged residents marched to the
Halabja Monument in protest against the KRG's
indiscriminate brutality. After another alteration
with some PUK officials at the site of the Monument,
the outraged and crowd entered the Monument burning
everything, including much of the articles and the
exhibited pictures of their relatives.
The Halabja Monument and
the initiative for a Peace and Reconciliation
On my first visit to the Halabja Monument in October
2008, I met with the Director of the Monument, Mr
Sarkhel Ghafar Hama-Khan, who tried to blame the
burning of the Monument on the radical Islamists who
consider memorials and grave yards as non-Islamic
practice. In the meantime, there were couple of
young and energetic men present during Hama-Khan's
retelling of the burning account. I was told by
those two young men that the main reasons for the
protest on March 16, 2006 was because of their basic
human needs were not met. Their access to clean
water, electricity, and essential public services
were nonexistent. For the people in Halabja, their
human needs were much more important than having a
controversial Monument visited by those who played a
significant role leading to the gassing of Halabja
in 1988. When I argued on the importance of having a
monument to commemorate the victims of Halabja, I
was told by those two men that they were all for a
monument that has a simple shape and truly
represents not only the victims of Halabja, but also
those who lost their lives during the Anfal
campaigns and the Ba'athists' Arabization policy of
Kurdistan. Also, knowing the actual cost of the
Halabja Monument was almost half of the allocated
US$20 million, Halabjans were baffled by the level
of corruption and political deceits in Kurdistan.
Thereafter, I asked Mr. Hama-Khan if there was any
initiative or program in place to utilize the
Halabja Monument as a touring site for "Peace and
Reconciliation" efforts. The Director responded in
the negative. Then, I began explaining to him my
initiative to form an Iraqi Peace and Reconciliation
Missions (PRM) that would bring all senior Iraqi
military and police officers, especially those who
served under the deposed Iraqi dictator—Saddam
Hussein, so that they could never again obey any
orders to kill or torture their fellow Iraqi
citizens under any circumstances. Also, I provided
that I have a strong endorsement coming from the
current Chief of Staff of the Iraqi Military,
General Babekir Zibari, and some funding for the
initiative coming from the Commanding General of the
U.S. led coalition forces operating in Iraq.
Mr. Hama-Khan's initial reaction was that organizing
PRM to visit his site for such a humanitarian work
would highly be encouraging. However, knowing most
of the KRG officials responsible for the Halabja
he reiterated that it would be very difficult to
begin with my initiative without getting their prior
permissions. To my surprise, I later learned that I
needed to meet with two dozen officials working for
three different governments; the central government
in Baghdad, the KRG in Erbil, and the provincial
government in Sulaimaniya.
Once I returned to Baghdad, I met with the then
Iraqi deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Barham Salih who
while he expressed his full support for the
initiative, he also, amiably, cautioned me not to
rush. Dr. Barham Salih highlighted the fact that the
Halabjans had already made their minds not to
forgive let alone reconcile with the perpetrators of
the Halabja tragedy.
On April 01, 2009, as a joint delegation made of
senior Iraqi and U.S. military generals and I, we
visited the Halabja Monument. While there to
evaluate the viability of my PRM initiative, Major
General (MG) Hussein Duhi—the Iraqi Deputy Chief of
Staff for Training—became overwhelmingly emotional
and began openly crying. At that very moment, both,
the Director of the Monument and the Mayor of
Halabja, Mr. Khidir Kareem, in an unprecedented
scene, hugged and comforted MG Duhi. Later, he
recorded a very emotional note in the "Memorial Note
Book" at the Monument as following:
"… I have visited the Halabja Monument to see the
infidel Saddam's criminal acts of using chemical
weapons against my people in Kurdistan, Iraq. It is
truly a perpetual shame that will continue to hunt
down Saddam, his thugs, and his regime forever.
Viewing aspects of the said tragedy here in this
Monument, I can undoubtedly tell that the actual
traumas of the Kurdish people are much bigger and
more painful than to be comprehended here.
Therefore, on behalf of myself and on behalf of all
members of the new Iraqi Army, I sincerely apologize
to our proud people in Kurdistan and reiterate that
the Iraqi Army will always serve and fearlessly
defend the people of Iraq with all their vital
interests. Never again we will be used to oppress
our own people.
May Allah forgive and sanctify the pure souls of all
those who were victimized in Halabja tragedy and my
condolences go out to their relatives …" (Kakei,
A week later, our delegation had returned to Baghdad
where each member had submitted a separate
evaluative report to his superiors. Towards the end
of June 2009, I was informed that the Multi-National
Security Transitional Command –Iraq (MNSTC-I) would
support and partially fund the PRM initiative for a
duration of one year. Afterwards, it would be up to
the Iraqi government to fully fund it or not.
Regrettably, the Iraqi Minister of Defense (MoD),
Abdul-Qdir Al-Ubaidi, was not happy with the news of
MG Duhi's emotional breakdown. As a result, he
decided not to support the PRM. In fact, I was told
by General Babekir Zibari that Al-Ubaidi—in one of
his weekly defense meetings—has told his senior
military subordinates that if they need to
publically be humiliated, then no one will stop them
from doing so. Al-Ubaidi has reportedly also said
that "by joining the PRM visits to the Halabja
Monument, your genuine tears will be seen by Kurds
as crocodile tears" (Kakei, 2010). Thus, after six
long months of waiting for Iraqi funds match the
MNSTC-I, which never allocated, the PRM initiative
came to an end. Accordingly, among other reasons, I
resigned from my position as a senior advisor to the
Iraqi MoD and returned to Canada early in January
To sum up this narrative, I must say that despite
the controversies related to the Halabja Monument
representing a top-down "chosen trauma." The
Monument has a great potential to be used as a site
not only for PRM, but also for a critically needed
either Iraqi or Kurdistani Truth and Reconciliation
Commission (TRC). Given the volatility of the
security situation in Baghdad, the notion of
establishing a TRC is too early to be suggested.
But, the need to have a TRC in the relatively stable
Kurdistan region is very critical. There are many
Kurdish tribal chiefs who in one way or another have
been accused of participating in the Anfal campaigns
of Kurdish genocide. Though the KDP and the PUK are
not willing to bring justice to these publically
accused tribal leaders, either a TRC or at least a
PRM could play significant role in healing the
wounds of the Saddam era. Finally, KRG officials
need to listen to the legitimate concerns of the
people in Halabja. Their sorrows and concerns may be
accommodated by modifying the Halabja Monument so
that it can represent a solid and an uncontested
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The Savannah-Chatham police chief position has drawn interest from 114 applicants from 29 states, according to city officials.
A majority of submissions came from Georgia, with 39 applications submitted from inside the state by Monday night's deadline, City Manager Stephanie Cutter informed the City Council in a memo on Tuesday.
City spokesman Bret Bell declined to provide the number of applications that came from inside the department. Police spokesman Julian Miller also declined to say whether interim Chief Julie Tolbert or interim Assistant Chief Terry Enoch were among the applicants.
During the next month, the city and Chatham County will begin the internal screening process and use various community stakeholder panels to interview finalists, with the goal of installing a new chief by September, Cutter said.
Whoever is hired will succeed former chief Willie Lovett, who retired Sept. 27 in the face of officers' sexual harassment and racial discrimination complaints, as well as concerns regarding the Internal Affairs division.
A subsequent investigation by MDB International that was launched in mid-October and initially expected to take two weeks was completed this month. The investigation cost the city $197,056, Bell said Wednesday.
The investigation, as well as other inquiries by the city, resulted in the termination, resignation or retirement of several senior police officers and the criminal prosecution of two former officers, according to the investigative firm's final report that was submitted last week.
That report stressed the importance of hiring a new chief who is committed to implementing the firm's recommendations, which included regular audits of the department and enforcement of established policies.
A total of 549 online city surveys, along with another 33 written surveys, were also submitted in response to the city's attempt to gauge what qualities residents desire most in a chief.
A majority of respondents said the new chief's top priority should be crime reduction, while experience in the field of law enforcement was the most favored background requirement.
Tolbert, appointed by Cutter on the day of Lovett's retirement, has said she is not interested in filling the position permanently.