IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE BENEFICENT, THE MERCIFUL
THE END OF A DICTATOR
[Shamim A Siddiqi,
The era of the dictatorial regime
of Saddam Hussain of
A dictator is always coward. It
comes to power from backdoor with the help of some opportunist people or group
and corrupt civil and military bureaucracy with the “claim” to “restore”
people’s rights, enforce the rule of the law, end corruption and establish peace in the country that is “taken” as in jeopardy with the
existing regime. Around the world, the military dictatorship whether it is of
Asia, Muslim countries, African continent or of
These dictators “conquer” their own people, create a vested class in the country to survive and prolong their regime or “dynasty”, maximize their worldly gains, deny human rights, brutalize the people who criticize or do not see eye to eye with the ruling coterie, create personality cult of their own and use the national wealth and resources to strengthen and perpetuate their own power and regime as the “only hope” for the people of the land. Saddam committed all these crimes to satisfy his whim to be recognized as the “supreme” leader of the Arab world. He played with the rights and life of his Shiite community ruthlessly and that of the Kurdish in the North. These oppressed people must naturally feel relieved after his “mysteriously” disgraceful surrender to the “occupied” forces, giving a chance to President Bush to “justify” his naked aggression over Iraq and throwing Bush-Blair’s “false” and concocted story of WMD far behind in the background.
Saddam was timid and has no self respect. He humiliated his people and the entire Arab world by surrendering so ignominiously. He fought the battle with Iran on the instigation of the USA, attacked Kuwait when “pumped” up by American ambassador in Iraq, boasted for his national guards in the first Gulf war, evaded and avoided the International inspection by the UN team unnecessarily creating doubts and suspicion in the minds of “others” about the “presence” of WMD for nothing, providing a baseless opportunity to Bush-Blair hegemony to destroy the infrastructure of the country and “occupy” the heart of the Muslim world by its diehard adversaries. He was first the enemy of his own people who have suffered immensely during his regime and are now suffering beyond any description many a times more even for the basic necessities of life. He should be put to some exemplary form of death not by Americans or any international court but by people’s court of Iraq at least to revenge some of the shame that he brought to his people and the country that he usurped.
The charge sheet against Saddam
does not end here. He has put his country at least fifty years behind in terms
of material progress, technical know-how, capital outlays, and “handed over”
the natural wealth in the hands of greedy-oil-hungry “shylocks” who in no way
will ever be prepared to leave the country at ease. He, out of his arrogance
and “serving” as “secret” agent of the CIA has paved the way for the
Still, the “end of Saddam”
carries a lot of lessons for the despotic rulers of the Muslim world. The way
America has disposed off his “bosom friend”, Saddam, the same way these
“mighty” rulers can be eliminated form the pages of history by their “masters”
sitting in London and Washington and their secret agencies that are actively
operating in all these countries in no time. The game is now quite open. It
would be either through internal conspiracies or open overthrow by naked
aggression that is known as “preemptive” attack, a weapon that is hanging on
the head of each Muslim country that does not tow down the lines of the
mega-superpower of the world. Only today Col. Gaddafi of
Shamim Siddiqi
December 20, 2003