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Ad-Dujayl Residents Pay Visits to President Saddam Hussein's Graves

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 3 January 2007.  Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.  http://www.freearabvoice.org

Mourners continue to stream into Tikrit – from the Shi‘i south, as well as the Sunni west and north – to pay last respects to martyred Iraqi President Saddam
Husayn.

In a dispatch posted at 2:05pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that crowds of mourners still flock to the gravesite of martyred Iraqi President Saddam Husayn near Tikrit, about 180km north of Baghdad.

The Tikrit correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported relatives of the martyred President as saying that on Tuesday deputations of mourners came from the predominantly Shi‘i cities of Karbala’, an-Nasiriyah, and al-Basrah arrived to offer their condolences.  The sources said that these mourners from the south were from Iraqi Arab tribes of the Shi‘i Muslim faith who
are neither sectarian nor do they have any inclination to support Iran.  They came to visit the tomb of their fallen Iraqi leader and to pay their last respects.

The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent noted that on Wednesday, mourners came in from the provinces of al-Anbar, Diyala, Ninwa (al-Mawsil) and at-Ta’mim (Kirkuk).

Deputations from ad-Dujayl offer condolences at grave of fallen Iraqi leader, denounce false testimony from fake “witnesses” at “trial” that ordered Saddam Husayn’s death.

In a dispatch posted at 7:08pm Makkah time Wednesday evening, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that delegations of residents of the city of ad-Dujayl, about 55km north of Baghdad, have paid two visits to al-‘Awjah village, where President Saddam Husayn’s grave is located, the second visit being on Tuesday.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that dozens of ad-Dujayl residents poured into the condolence hall carrying a large banner reading “Condolences of the people of ad-Dujayl for the Heroic Martyr Saddam Husayn.”

The Iraqi President was “executed” by the US-installed puppet regime on Saturday, 30 December 2006, following a show “trial” in which he was condemned to be hanged
for the prosecution and execution of 148 individuals from ad-Dujayl who took part in a plot to kill the Iraqi President and overthrow the Iraqi government in 1982.

One of the members of the delegation, Shaykh Mahmud al-Fatlah, told Mafkarat al-Islam: “Lots of people in the city wanted to make a statement about the case at the trial but the sectarian government prevented them from doing so.”  Shaykh al-Fatlah noted “all of those whom Saddam executed were members of the Shi‘i Da‘wah Party and of Iranian intelligence.”  He said, “everybody knows that Saddam didn’t kill one civilian in that incident.”

“We were hoping that they would bring at least one real witness from among the people of ad-Dujayl,” Shaykh al-Fatlah said of the so-called “trial” in which the Iraqi President was sentenced to death, “but I swear by God and the people that all of them [the “witnesses”] were from an-Najaf and Karbala’ and some of them were Iranians.”

Shaykh al-Fatlah asked: “What about the 4,000 people of ad-Dujayl who were killed last year by the occupation and the sectarian government?  The most recent such incident was the killing of more than 50 citizens and the arrest of 77 others after the Iraqi Resistance killed an American General in the city last July.”

Before leaving the grave site, Shaykh al-Fatlah addressed the people there calling for support for the Iraqi Resistance and insisting that the Persian invasion of Iraq be stopped.