NO ATTACK ON MOSUL CITY / IRAQ

No Attack on Mosul!

An International Emergency Statement of Intellectuals and Activists * - 05 February 2008.
International Anti-Occupation Network

Bush’s failure in Iraq requires a new “success”. While the blood-soaked US occupation in Iraq declares one victory after another since nearly five years, it stages massacre after massacre of the people of Iraq.
ow the occupation declares a new “decisive” success is imminent, this time against the population of Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq. Its pretext is always the same: to eradicate “Al-Qaeda”, while Al-Qaeda from its mouth means Sunnis, Baathists, Arabs and all patriotic Iraqis.
Although the occupation has on many occasions declared its victory, the fact that it needs to attack yet again an entire city and its population proves that it couldn’t and cannot eradicate the legal resistance of the Iraqi people. The only thing decisive is that the occupation by its tactics announces its defeat.

The occupation has escalated its air bombing campaigns by 400 per cent [1] in the past year and openly promises more indiscriminate attacks on populated urban areas. It uses disproportionate force indiscriminately against civilian populations in a pattern of actions that constitutes genocide under international law.

he imminent attack on Mosul — another urbicide following the ones of holy Najaf, martyred Fallujah, Al-Qaim, Tel Afar, Haditha, and whole neighbourhoods of Baghdad, among others — will only result, as with its precedents, in horrific killings, destruction and mass population displacement, thereby changing the historical, sociological and demographic makeup of the city.

This imminent attack is a pre-announced genocide. It is blood, death and destruction for oil. As the spreading of the resistance to Southern and Northern provinces proves, this new attack is in vain. The Iraqi people rejects — and will always reject — the criminal US occupation.

This imminent attack should raise condemnation, disgust and protest from peace loving people and human rights defenders worldwide. Five years of destruction and death should have taught the Bush administration that its litany of killing serves no purpose and leads only to moral suicide for the United States.

Humanity is in distress in Iraq. Our role and duty is to save it.
Act to stop the massacre in Mosul!

5 February 2008

Abdul Ilah Albayaty, member of the BRussells Tribunal Executive Committee – Iraq / France.

Hana Al Bayaty, coordinator, Iraqi International Initiative on refugees – Iraq / Egypt.

Margarita Papandreou, Former First Lady of Greece, Peace activist and honorary president of Center for Research and Action on Peace - Greece.

Dr. Naji Sabri al-Hadithi, Iraq’s Foreign Minister (before occupation)
Issam Chalabi, former Iraqi Oil Minister, Iraq/Jordan

Dr. Saadallah Al-Fathi, former head of the Energy Studies Department at OPEC - Iraq.

Salah Al Mukhtar, former Iraqi ambassador to Vietnam and India.
Naji Haraj, former Iraqi diplomat.

Faruq Ziada, Former Iraqi Ambassador.

Wajdi A. Mardan, Former Iraqi diplomat.

Ghanim Anaz, Ex head of oil projects / kirkuk.

Dr. Imad Khadduri, former nuclear scientist - Iraq.

Prof. Dr. Zuhair Al Sharook - Former President of Mosul University

Buthaina Alnasiri, Iraqi writer and activist.

Jasim Arraseef, Iraqi Novelist & Journalist.

Hassan Khalil Gharib, writer - Lebanon.

Wafaa’ Al-Natheema, independent journalist, activist, founder of the Institute of Near Eastern & African Studies (INEAS)

Prof. Em. François Houtart, Director of the Tricontinental Center - Cetri, co-founder of the World Social Forum.

Sr. Anne Montgomery RSCJ, Christan Peacemaker Teams - USA
Mohammed Aref , Science writer - Iraq / UK

Sara Flounders, Co-Director, International Action Center - USA.

Dr. James E. Jennings, PhD, President Conscience International – USA.

David Swanson, Co-Founder AfterDowningStreet coalition - USA.

Sid Lacombe, coordinator, on behalf of the 150 member groups of the Canadian Peace Alliance which represent 4 million Canadians.

Dr. Gerri Haynes, past president, Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, Kirkland, Washington.

Dr. Hassan Aydinli, President, Committee for the Defence of the Iraqi Turkmens’ Rights.

Muhamad Tareq Al-Deraji, Director of Monitoring net of human rights in Iraq - Executive Director of Studies Center of human rights and Democracy in Fallujah.

Riad El-Taher, Chair of FAF Organisation - UK.

Hans-Peter Richter, chair, German Peace Council.

Socorro Gomes, president, Cebrapaz - Centre Bresilien de Solidaritré avec les peuples et de lutte pour la Paix.

Niloufer Bhagwat, Vice President of Indian Lawyers Association - Mumbai / India.

Dr. Curtis F.J. Doebbler, International Human Rights Lawyer - USA.
Karen Parker, Attorney, Association of Humanitarian Lawyers - USA.
Jennifer Van Bergen, journalist, author writing about civil liberties, human rights and international law - USA.

Jan Fermon, Lawyer of Court case against General Tommy Franks in Brussels, Progress Lawyers Network - Belgium.

Prof. Em. Peter d’Errico, Legal Studies Department, University of Massachusetts / Amherst - USA

Matthias Chang, Law specialist, Malaysia.

Prof. Kazashi Nobuo, Faculty of Letters, Kobe University, NO DU Hiroshima Project - Japan.

Ali Mallah, Canadian Peace Alliance, Canadian Arab Federation, Canadian Union of Public Employees.

Jan-Erik Lundström, photographic historian and director of the BildMuseet in Umea, Sweden

Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa, founder of Centre for Research on Globalisation - Canada
Prof. Dr. Lieven De Cauter, philosopher, K.U. Leuven / Rits, initiator of the BRussells Tribunal - Belgium.

Carlos Varea, Coordinator of CEOSI - Spanish Campaign against Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq – Spain.

Marion Küpker, International Coordinator against nuclear-and uranium weapons for GAAA and DFG-VK, Germany.

Dr. Ian Douglas, editor and correspondent for the Cairo-based Al-Ahram Weekly and visiting professor in the Department of Political Science at An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine.

Felicity Arbuthnot, Journalist - UK.

Dirk Adriaensens, member of the BRussells Tribunal Executive Committee, Coordinator SOS Iraq.

John Catalinotto, International Action Center - USA.

Dr. Dahlia Wasfi, M.D., Anti-war activist, speaker, Global Exchange - Iraq / USA.

Laith Al Saud, journalist, college lecturer in social sciences - Iraq / USA
Adel Samara, Palestinian Arab in the occupied Palestine.

Merry Fitzgerald, Committee for the Defence of the Iraqi Turkmens’ Rights.

Nermeen Al-Mufti, member of the BRussells Tribunal Advisory Committee - Journalist.

Michael Parenti, Author and scholar – USA.

Prof. Em. Edward S. Herman, writer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Prof. Stephen Soldz, Director, Center for Research, Evaluation, and Program Development Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysts for Peace and Justice - USA.

Prof. Em. Gideon Polya, retired senior biochemist, author: biochemical scientific publications and global avoidable mortality – Australia.

Prof. David Miller, Professor of Sociology at Strathclyde University, co-founder of Spinwatch – UK.

Prof. Paola Manduca, Geneticist, University of Genoa, Newweapons working group - Italy.

Prof. Glen D. Lawrence, Long Island University, USA.

Prof. Dr. Jean Bricmont, scientist, specialist in theoretical physics, U.C. Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium.

Prof. Stephen Eric Bronner, Professor of political science, Rutgers University - USA.

Prof. Jim Harding, Past Director, School of Human Justice, University of Regina - Canada.

Dr. Thomas M. Fasy, MD PhD, Clinical Associate Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine – USA.

Dr. Pol De Vos, Public Health Researcher, chair, Stop USA – Peace movement, Belgium.

Mujbil Al-Marsumi, Iraqi nationality, Professor, Applied Science University, Amman, Jordan

Prof. Em. Marc Pilisuk, Ph.D., The University of California, Professor, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center

Anne Burns, U.S. Academics For Peace / Conscience International - USA.

David Peterson, writer and researcher, Chicago, USA.

Eman Ahmed Khammas, Former co-director of Occupation Watch - Journalist - translator - Iraq.

Comaguer, Anti-war Committee Marseille - France.

Sigyn Meder, Iraq Solidarity Association in Stockholm - Sweden.

Joachim Guilliard, Journalist, Anti-war movement - Germany.

Sarah Meyer, Independent researcher living in Sussex – UK.

Cynthia Banas, Iraq Peace Team member, 2002-2003 - USA.

José Reinaldo Carvalho, Cebrapaz, Brazil.

Ludo De Brabander, chair, Vrede – Peace Movement, Belgium.

Hans Lammerant, chair, Vredesactie - Peace movement, Belgium.

Paul Rafferty, chair, UNObserver.

Frank Vercruyssen, Actor, TG Stan - Belgium.

Luc Pien, filmmaker - Belgium.

April Hurley, MD - USA.

John LaForge, Nukewatch - USA.

Karen Hoover, USA.

Frans Dumortier / Charles Ducal, Poet - Belgium.

David Hungerford, Iraq support activist - USA.

Hassène Kassar, Université de Tunis.

Suror Merza
Zuhair Alkadiri
Othman Al-Rawi - Iraq.

Marika Lohi, Finland.
Mahmud Saeed
Fakhri Alaimiri, Ph.D., USA

Seab Al Khedairy
Dr Abdul-Hadi H Jiad Al-Timimi, Editor/Broadcaster, London, UK

Dr Alaa Q Al-Sheikh, Doctor Consultant, London, UK

Dr Lara Abdul-Hadi Al-Timimi, Senior Engineer, London, UK

Miss Hola Abdul-Hadi Al-Timimi, Premium, Banking Manager, London UK

Mr. Mohammed Abdul-Hadi A-Timimi, Engineer, London, UK

Dr. B Nimri Aziz, author and scholar, Fulbright Fellow 2007-08

Rand Hadi Alubaidi - Science teacher/ Dubai Arab American Shool- UAE

Malak Abdel-Hadi, Palestinian Arab, Artist in Painting and Sculpture.

Shahira Mehrez, Egyptian, Islamic Art Specialist.

Iman Badawi, Activist

Arab Abdel-Hadi, Palestinian, Counselor in Palestinian Art.

Sirwan Anwar - Iraqi artist

Iman Abdul Adhim Mohammed - writer / Cairo

Abdulwahab Al Hani

Anis Al-Kilani - Iraqi / Cairo

Assem Alfaiad - Iraqi writer
Dr. Emad Mohammed Dhiab Hafeez

Riyadh raouf uk consultant eng

Wafaa Aldibouni / Engineer

Faris Khudairi / Manager

Husam Khudairi / Engineer

May Khudairi / Animator

Tamara Khudairi / Engineer

Insaf Kalaji , a writer ,Jordan

Rafid M. Yaseen Iraqi Engineer

mohammed faidi alfaidi, Iraqi student. Mosul

M. Naji Mahmoud Awad Obaidi Engineer

Al-Khalidi, citizen Saudi Arabia

Firas Moussalli , Press and media Mosul - Iraq

Nasser Al-Yasiri / writer and journalist Iraqi press

BOUDA Ahmed Président de Radio Al Manar arabe Bruxelles