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Christians by the tens of thousands have fled north out of Sunni and Shiite strongholds toward the Valley of Nineveh, a few miles from Erbil. The horrible story of a fourteen-year-old being crucified for sharing his faith broke my heart as I thought of the innocence of my own precious grandchildren. I heard of a pastor who was beheaded for sharing the Gospel, and of women having had acid thrown in their faces for going to church. The church in Iraq is under siege, yet the world remains silent.
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The following is from Mike Evans' Iraq journal. Over the next several weeks, we will share a portion of Dr. Evans' journal with you each Friday.
Part I - Iraq Journal
As I finish the research for this book in Iraq, my mind is spinning with memories of my time here during the Persian Gulf War. Iraq possesses the largest untapped oil reserves in the world in the Kirkuk fields. Like the diamond mines of Cambodia, the fragrance of the oil of Kirkuk has, like a snake charmer, seduced Turkey and Iran into an insane obsession.
Iraq is a small country about the size of California, yet two-thirds of it is not inhabited; it is simply dessert. The majority of the population lives in Central and Northern Iraq.
I can't sleep. I keep thinking about the events of the last twenty-four hours throughout Iraq, as the final minutes of Ashoura slowly sift away like the sands in an ancient, apocalyptic hourglass.
This is the holiest day on the Shiite calendar and commemorates the 7th Century death of the martyr-saint Imam Hussein, the son of Ali, the Prophet Mohammad's cousin. Like dry leaves on the wind, millions of pilgrims have been blown into Iraq from Iran and Muslim countries worldwide.
In Najaf to the north, hundreds of thousands of men vowing to become martyrs beat themselves with chains and cut themselves with swords in an attempt to feel the pain of Imam Hussein. Their blood flows like a river, mixing with the blood of hundreds of thousands throughout Iraq. With joy, they cry out to their fallen and martyred Imam.
Suddenly, chaos erupts as Sunni Arab gunmen and Shiite followers of Ahmed Hassani Yemeni, a vanguard of the Mahdi, attack. (The Mahdi is a messiah-like figure in Islamic mythology. He is referred to by some as "the perfect human being," and his apocalyptic appearing will usher in the perfect world in which all Christians and Jews will bow down to Islam.)
The battle began as terrorists moved closer toward Najaf with plans to kill Grand Ayatollah Ali-Sistani, the most powerful cleric in Iraq. His followers believe that he speaks for Allah. Sunni terrorists wearing the headbands of martyrdom that declared them to be "Soldiers of Heaven" opened fire on the pilgrims. It was the perfect storm...a conspiracy timed to coincide with the climax of Ashoura.
High-level Iraqi intelligence leaders have told me that it was an operation by Iran and coordinated with the Mahdi Army under the leadership of Sheikh Moqtada al-Sadr in an attempt to drive the last nail in President George Bush's coffin. The plan was to kill al-Sistani, since he was a moderate, and blame it on the Sunnis. Al-Sistani is the enemy of the radical al-Sadr who believes al-Sistani to be a traitor to the Islamic revolution. Without a quick response from the U.S. and Iraqi military, it would have happened.
Maniacal screams of "Bush, the infidel's greatest Satan" interspersed with cries mocking Christians and Jews and monkeys, pigs and infidels, could be heard reverberating through neighborhoods.
As the day-long battle continued, I realized it could spark an Islamic revolution. U.S. troops rushed in and averted a holocaust that the murder of al-Sistani would have ignited. Red flames from U.S. Abrams tanks and Blackhawk helicopters lit up the dark sky near Najaf. Suddenly a burst of machine gun fire hit its mark and a trail of black smoke followed one of the helicopters as it crashed to the ground. The streets of Iraq were covered with more U.S. blood as ground troops and armored vehicles poured into the city. Some two hundred people were arrested and three hundred were killed during the attack.
Najaf was turned over to the Iraqi army in December to provide security operations. In the first major battle, the Iraqis had to be bailed out by American ground forces.
Hundreds of terrorists had set up fortified encampments, complete with tunnels, blockades, forty heavy machine guns, and at least two anti-aircraft weapons ten miles north of the city.
The government sent one battalion and police to raid the armed camp. They were surrounded and pinned down, and had to call in American help.
Today, I looked into the eyes of Iraqi widows whose shy smiles are tinged with pain. The WMDs of Saddam Hussein killed every living thing in their village. These women in black mourn the deaths of their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers. The pictures of their loved ones are their only link to the past.
In tears, they tell me, "We hear the American media asking, 'Where are the weapons of mass destruction?' Tell them to come here; we will show them. These weapons of mass destruction are in our blood and in our souls. We will take you to the mass graves." Tomorrow, we will go with them. Many, however, do not even have a gravesite to visit. The bodies of their loved ones were completely destroyed, preventing the widows young and old from remarrying.
Entire villages were exterminated, erased from the map as if they never existed. Every living thing was destroyed...dogs, cows, but especially the men. It mattered not whether they were six months old or sixty years old. This genocidal barbaric atrocity has been erased from the minds of the people and from the newspapers of the world. It is as if it never happened. It did happen...as the world slept.
Iraqi weapons of mass destruction killed more than one million Iranians and almost 200,000 Iraqi Kurds. Still, the anti-war liberals scream about an unjust war because the WMDs could not be found. Iraqi intelligence officials tell me that they were shipped to Syria. They also readily tell me that Saddam's top leaders smuggled billions into Syria and are now working with Iran to defeat the Great Satan (America) in Iraq.
Early in the day, I met with the Speaker of the House in Kurdistan, Adnan Mufti. Northern Iraq is run by a Kurdish president. I asked him to tell me about terrorist attacks in Erbil, one of Iraq's largest cities, and the city over which he presides. With us was U.S. Colonel Harry Schute. "Terrorist attacks?" smiled Mufti. "This city has not had a terrorist attack in over one-and-one-half years. U.S. Colonel Harry Schutte spoke up, "The U.S. media will not tell you that. [The city is so safe] our airport has over 80 flights per week."
Mike Evans
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