Accountability and Justice: Change of terminology of a law that started the death squads

- The law drafted and signed by the Amer­i­can civil admin­is­tra­tor Paul Bre­mer as res­o­lu­tion No. (1), inspired by Amer­i­can ideas used in Ger­many and Italy Japan, tak­ing advan­tage of the Iraqi ideas pre­sented by Ahmad Al Cha­l­abi, who is one of the contributors.

- Read­ing the intro­duc­tion of the Account­abil­ity and Jus­tice law, you can con­clude that it was build with the same spirit that made the De-Baathification law or an extend to the old law.

.……[the law] do not for­get the great sac­ri­fices of our peo­ple and their suf­fer­ing dur­ing that era, .…to build a free and demo­c­ra­tic Iraq, far from sec­tar­i­an­ism, racism, tyranny, dis­crim­i­na­tion, exclu­sion and mar­gin­al­iza­tion, sub­mit­ting those who com­mit­ted crimes against the Iraqi peo­ple to justice…

- Ara­bic word for the orga­ni­za­tion was (Ijtithath) which is the (De) part from (De-Bathification) but (Ijtithath) is more asso­ci­ated with phys­i­cal pun­ish­ment [to cut, uproot] and some hid­den vio­lence with using such word, Ara­bic word for [dead body] (Jutha) is deriva­tion from (Ijtithath).

This word gave the green light and put in prac­tice lit­er­ally by the mili­tias and death squads to legit­imize the assas­si­nate of the Baathists.

- In the Ara­bic draft res­o­lu­tion, that came from the Amer­i­can embassy there was a line say­ing the following :

The Baath mem­bers who com­mit­ted adul­tery crimes.

The inter­est­ing thing is the use of [adul­tery] word in Ara­bic was (Fusuk) which is [adul­tery] lim­ited with the reli­gious point of view but not a social crime.

- Some­thing about the names of the lead­ers of organization’s supreme body, shows lack of polit­i­cal neu­tral­ity and non-specialization in the legal process.

Ahmad Al Cha­l­abi [chair­man], Nuri al-Maliki, Sami Al Askri, Jal­lal Al Sageir and Hadi Amri [Al Dawa Party]

The aim was to pol­ish the images of per­sons who were known with crim­i­nal back­grounds before and recently pro­tected by their by their polit­i­cal par­ties and armed groups.

- The most inter­est­ing part is the bud­get of this orga­ni­za­tion, $7 bil­lion, which exceeded the bud­get of the Min­istry of Women, and the Min­istry of Higher Edu­ca­tion, you can eas­ily say it became a mini-political state.

For the his­tory I say that Salih Al Mut­laq was the only politi­cian who called for the can­cel­la­tion of the law from the begin­ning and kept say­ing it until today, in his inter­view with Radio Sawa he said:

You can not put the law in prac­tice against one-party or one slice of the soci­ety leav­ing the others.