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Invasori reloaded

Qualche post fa avevo segnalato le malefatte degli "invasori italiani" in Irak: ora lo stesso quotidiano iracheno, al Azzam, ne riporta di nuove (grazie al Gabibbo per la preziosa segnalazione):

Iraq asks Egypt, Italy to upgrade irrigation systems



Wasal Mustafa



Azzaman, 2004-09-27



The Ministry of Water Resources has asked both Italy and Egypt for help to clean canals and construct new dams in the country.



Rainfall is erratic in Iraq and most of its cultivated land relies on irrigation.



But water logging and salinity are said to have slashed the irrigated lands in the country by almost half.



Water Resources Minister Abdul-latif Jamal has held meetings with the Italian and Egyptian ambassadors to Baghdad to convey to them the country’s willingness to boost cooperation in fields of irrigation.



Iraq is considering resuming work on the strategic Bakhma Dam in the north and officials are exploring ways to finance the project.



Work on the dam had started in the late 1980s but came to a halt after the 1991 Gulf War.



The minister said Iraq would like Italy to complete the construction.



The Egyptian ambassador, Farouk Mabrouk, has said his country was willing to offer whatever assistance Iraq needed to upgrade its irrigation systems.



''We are ready to share our experience and knowledge regarding the dredging and cleaning of irrigation canals,'' he said.



Iraq has some of the world’s oldest irrigation systems and historical records trace them to 7500 years ago.



Successive governments have tried to develop the country’s water storage facilities like dams to regulate the flow of water from the two main rivers – the Tigris and Euphrates.



The irrigation potential of the two rivers has increased significantly but many dams and canals are in need of maintenance and repairs.



With volume of water released from upstream countries becoming less and less over the years, the issue of storage and the use of economical ways of irrigation have become all the more important.

Tsk, tsk, che roba... di questo passo dove andremo a finire, signora mia?



A proposito, avete letto questa o altre notizie simili, recentemente, sulla nostra stampa zapatera? Claro que no: qui le uniche notizie "buone" sono quelle che parlano di attentati, sgozzamenti, black-out elettrici e idrici, e chi più ne ha più ne metta - noblesse oblige: non vorrete mica che la nostra "stampa indipendente" (sic) si metta a fare il gioco degli imperialisti invasori, no?

Simona e Simona, determinante il ruolo della CRI

Dalle ricostruzioni apparse in queste prime ore appare evidente il ruolo di primissimo piano svolto dalla Croce Rossa Italiana (l'unica CR rimasta in Irak: la Croce Rossa Internazionale ha abbandonato il Paese lo scorso anno, a seguito di un sanguinoso attentato portato a compimento dai nazisti islamici che si spacciano per "resistenza") nelle trattative e poi nel rilascio delle due italiane.



Qui e qui due articoli pubblicati dal Corriere della Sera.



Segnalo anche questo editoriale di Stefano Folli.

Libere!

È finita, finalmente, ed è finita nel migliore dei modi.



Simona Pari, Simona Torretta e i due ostaggi iracheni catturati con loro hanno riacquistato la libertà:

Insieme alle due italiane sono stati rilasciati anche gli altri due volontari iracheni di 'Un ponte per...', rapiti insieme alle ragazze. Simona Pari e Simona Torretta sono state lasciate dai sequestratori in due località differenti e incappucciate.

Corriere della Sera

Corea del Nord: armi nucleari da plutonio

Dal Corriere della Sera:

COREA DEL NORD - Secondo quanto ha riferito ieri il viceministro degli affari esteri nordcoreano, Choe Su Hon, la Corea del Nord possiede armi nucleari, ottenute da putonio trattato. La Corea del Nord "non aveva altra scelta", ha dichiarato il viceministro, "dal momento che gli Stati Uniti minacciano di eliminare attraverso la forza il Paese comunista".

Che dite, vedremo i pacifisti manifestare contro l'escalation degli armamenti del regime guerrafondaio nord-coreano? (tranquilli, è solo una domanda retorica).

Eccoli qua, gli invasori

Eccoli, gli invasori occidentali, gli infedeli che "massacrano i civili iracheni e saccheggiano le risorse del Paese": leggete, leggete di quali crimini sono capaci (dal quotidiano iracheno Al Azzam):

$15 million for Nasiriya marshes



By Basem al-Rikabi



Azzaman, 2004-09-17



The Italian government has earmarked $15 million to revive part of the marshes in Nasiriya which once covered are area of 3,500 square kilometers, according to a provincial official.



The official, Nidaa al-Jibouri, head of the Construction Planning Directorate in the Province of Dhi Qar, said two committees have been formed on how to spend the money.



The city of Nasiriya, 250 kilometers south of Baghdad, is the capital of the province.



“The Iraqi Ministry of Irrigation and the Italian Ministry of Environment will coordinate on the projects that will be implemented in the marshes,” al-Jibouri said.



She said the donation by Italy was one of the largest sums allocated so far to revive the southern wetlands which former President Saddam Hussein had turned into a waste land.



The region surrounding Nasiriya was once compared to the “Paradise of Aden” (Eden, NdR) as it included one of the biggest contiguous wetland habitats in the Middle East.



Nasiriya had the largest lake in the lower Euphrates, approximately 120 km long and up to 25 km wide.



Saddam dried the lake and turned it into desert, forcing tens of thousands of marsh Arabs to flee.



Al-Jibouri said about 10,000 families have returned to their ancestral land when the flood gates and water sluices Saddam Hussein had erected to dry the marshes were removed.



Nasiriya bore the brunt of Saddam Hussein’s wars and the more than a decade of tough U.N. trade sanctions.



Its nearly 600,000 people are among the most impoverished in Iraq.



Italian troops, as part of the US-multinational forces, are stationed in Dhi Qar.



Al-Jibouri said the population of Nasiriya and particularly the returning marsh Arabs are looking forward to “a new reality on the ground after years of neglect.”



Italy is also involved in other reconstruction projects in Dhi Qar.



According to Salah Hassan, head of the province’s Consultative Council, Nasiriya has signed a protocol with Rome under which Italy pledges to undertake more reconstruction projects, hold training seminars and consolidate “the democratic process.”

Per fortuna, però, non tutti gli italiani sono così: ci sono anche, in questo Paese, dei sinceri amici del popolo iracheno, ben consci dell'importanza di sostenere la resistenza antimperialista, che anche ieri hanno sfilato per le strade scandendo nobili slogan (segnalati da Otimaster, che ringrazio) quali ad esempio:



Dieci..... cento..... mille Nassiriya;



Basta con le scimmie e i topolini, per la vivisezione usiamo i celerini;



Yankee, oggi come ieri..... americani a casa nei sacchi neri.



Bravi, continuate così, mi raccomando: sì, continuate a comportarvi come delle merdacce collaborazioniste (ché solo questo, e non altro, siete), così almeno la gente capirà una volta per tutte con chi ha a che fare.

Dedicato ai Republicones (e non solo)

Dal sito di Random House:



"Thinking with your ideology rather than your brain makes you susceptible to being duped. Dan Rather and CBS News are finding this out the hard way....

The CBS eye is blinded by ideology."

—DANIEL FLYNN



Why did CBS insist that the documents were authentic? Why do people everyday hold on to their beliefs when there is proof that they are incorrect? The answer, Daniel J. Flynn reveals in Intellectual Morons, is ideology. Flynn, the author of Why the Left Hates America, shows how people can be so blinded to reality by the causes they serve that they espouse bizarre, sometimes ridiculous and often dangerous positions. In other words, ideology makes smart people stupid.



With the upcoming elections, an ever-increasing amount of smart people are falling for stupid ideas. Intellectual Morons is a welcome reality check for the glaring excesses of today’s political and cultural debates.



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