To: Vitas who wrote (9060 ) 4/9/2004 7:52:38 AM From: PartyTime Respond to of 173976 Friday, April 09, 2004 The next couple of days are going to be really red. The Red Weekend… Tomorrow is the first anniversary of the “fall” of Baghdad. Tomorrow is Friday, the Muslims sabbath, and the mosques of Baghdad will NOT be available for the noon prayer. The mosques announced that the Friday prayer of tomorrow is going to be in the central mosque, for all Sunnis. Um AlMaarek mosque, thousands and thousands are going to be there. Thousands of Iraqis from all Iraq joined the Falluja blood donation campaign, Falluja is still under siege, more than 300 people killed there and more than 500 injured in the because of the collective punishment Bremer has ordered. Iraqi police officers joined AlMahdi Army in Najaf and Kufa, where the coalition forces lost control over the city. The same thing in AlKut city too. The GC is falling apart, some members resigned, others are on their way. People are making jokes about the “hand over of authorities”, who is going to hand over what? This Saturday is a sacred religious anniversary for Shia, the (Arbaeen) of AlHusien. This anniversary witnessed millions of Iraqi Shia marching to Karbala from all the Iraqi cities, and if this thing happens this year… ohhh… The systematic kidnappings today indicate that the different “new” Islamic groups are just masks for the main uprising Party, AsSadr’s. More attacks will happen against the Japanese army and people, as I predicted yesterday. Everyone knows that little pressure on the Japanese army or killing some soldiers is going to destroy the Japanese government… and lead to the withdrawal of their forces. I feel very sorry for the families of all the hostages… Koreans, Canadians, Japanese and British people. This bloody cycle of violence is not going to stop in the next couple of days, but next week I think a political solution will be acceptable. I feel sad and frustrated. The sound of aggression and violence is louder than my voice. Posted by: Raed Jarrar / 5:32 AMraedinthemiddle.blogspot.com