TEHRAN, May 24 (MNA, Tehran Times) -- Even though the majority of the Iraqi people hope to regain their rights and to play a role in determining the fate of their country after the long years of suppression, some members of the Iraqi Governing Council, with the support of the United States and certain Arab states, are making strenuous efforts to sideline the Iraqi majority.
Five months ago, reports surfaced claiming that elements of Western intelligence agencies, especially those of the occupiers of Iraq, had made contact with remnants of the toppled Iraqi regime with the aim of returning Baathist security and intelligence officers to their former posts.
Since that time, concerns have arisen about hidden hands working to prevent the Iraqi majority from taking charge of their own affairs. Now it appears that these concerns were justified as security and intelligence agents of the former regime, who are well-known for their crimes against the Iraqi nation, are being appointed to security and intelligence posts in Iraq.
The following evidence shows that there is a plot to sideline the majority of the Iraqi people:
(1) The newly appointed Iraqi interior minister, Samir Shakir Mahmoud Sumaidy, immediately ordered the dismissal of dozens of personnel who held key posts in the Interior Ministry, including two deputy ministers who were Shia. He then hired former members of Saddam Hussein’s dreaded security and intelligence services.
(2) Major General Mohammad Abdullah al-Shahwani, the head of the Iraqi intelligence agency, has begun appointing former members of Saddam’s secret police to security and intelligence posts. The former regime’s secret police ruthlessly suppressed all Iraqi opposition groups and some of these secret agents carried out acts of sabotage in neighboring countries, especially in Iran.
(3) Adnan Pachachi, an influential member of the Iraqi provisional government, Sumaidy, and Shahwani, who had a close relationship with Saddam until he was dismissed and defected to the West and who is known for his tribal inclinations, have formed a troika with the goal of preventing Shia from being appointed to key posts.
These officials are trying to implement a coordinated plan to guarantee that the majority never gain control of Iraq’s security and intelligence services.
This is the reason why the U.S.-favored Pachachi is insisting that he be allowed to oversee the process of hiring security and intelligence personnel.
Now certain questions arise: Is this just an attempted comeback on the part of supporters of the tribal system? Are the decades of division of citizens into first class and second class and the suppression of the majority’s fundamental political, social, economic, and cultural rights not enough? Is it really logical to allow a small group which is supported by the occupiers and certain Arab states to become puppets of the occupiers to help suppress the majority? And, in light of the death and disappearance of thousands of Iraqis at the hands of Saddam’s security and intelligence agents, haven’t the majority paid a heavy enough price for them to be given a share in the government?
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