| I dunno. What do you think they might want? |
By Hassan Hanizadeh
 As Iraq's January 30 general election approaches, the Jordanian government is expanding its disinformation campaign against the Iraqi majority. The remarks of Jordanian King Abdullah II and Foreign Minister Hani al-Mulqi claiming that Iran is making efforts to establish a Shia arc in the region are part of the psychological operations against the Iraqi nation. Now the question arises: What does Jordan want from Iraq?
| My guess would be for the Medes and the Persians to remain in their own back yard and leave places like Jordan to go to hell in their own way... |
During the 25-year Baathist regime of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, Jordan, which is a poor country, received billions of dollars from Iraq, both in the form of free oil and financial assistance. The country lost its only big source of revenue with the collapse of Saddam's government. Furthermore, Jordan was allied with Saddam's regime during the 1980-1988 Iraqi imposed war against Iran as well as during Iraq's occupation of Kuwait. It also directly participated in the massacres of Shias in southern Iraq in 1991.
| Did it really? I hadn't heard about that part. |
After the overthrow of Saddam, officials of the small country of Jordan sent Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to Iraq to carry out destabilization activities, and this terrorist criminal bombed several places in the Shia-majority Iraqi cities of Najaf and Karbala. These bombings, besides killing ordinary people, also martyred the eminent Shia cleric Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Baqer al-Hakim, the leader of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution of Iraq (SCIRI) at the time.
| Izzat so? I was wondering who was behind it... |
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