Monday, October 30, 2006

Majed Jarrar, a Teen in War - 10.30.2006

"I met Majed in Amman in 2005. He was a bright teen who was equal parts fire and self-righteousness and irresponsible and fun-loving. He helped start the ill-fated Iraq Indymedia, Al Muajaha. He’s had a mixed past dealing with Westerners, Americans, and activists.

Majed talks about the interest and exoticness of America and the possibility of Baghdad’s first McDonald’s. He has a strong love for his country and his home. It’s also important to remember, however, that despite Majed’s honest love for his country, he is not indicative of all Iraqi’s upbringing."
Alive in Baghdad
Admits to being a fixer with the Iraqi ministry of information, prior to the war working with the human shield people that went to Iraq. Well it's taken a long time but we finally have a Jarrar on the record admitting working directly with saddams government, or more precisely with the Minister of Information AKA Baghdad Bob.

Watch the video here

Update: Khalid's responds to Majids video.

Who do you believe? Khalid or your lying eyes and ears.

so i finaly got the chance to check the video:)

here how it really was:

There is this guy, Haider, who works now for the Routers i believe, anyways, we knew him throught the net and then turned out to be the sun of the owner of a house we rented before in baghdad for years, so we kind of became freinds.
so,
This haidar studies in the university of baghdad, and he is in what we call lajnat tashreefat, thats kind of the committee that supervises on welcmoing important guests adn accompanying them? you know?
ok.
so before the war, the university of baghdad obviosuly with cooperation with minstry of inofrmation was recieving a delegation of americna students that were against the war. so Haidar called me and asked me if i could go with him to recieve those people since there really arent that much of peopel our age that speak good english.
So i agreed, and i went with majid.
and the deligation didnt come, but instead of them there was a belgum deligation of anti war activists and human shields. we vpluntered to accompany them with haidar and helped them by translating for them during their tour in baghdad, answeing their questions, etc.
that was i believe few weeks before the war.

that is very much what happened.
me or majid couldnt possibly work as fixers or translators for the minstry of information cause thats consdiered a national security issue, contacting foreigners and translating to them, so a mukhabarat guy must do the work.

we were volunteers to help those people in their time in Iraq, as a part of our gratitude for them for leaving their lvies and coming to iraq to supporting the anti war efforts.

thats my response, Tom.

Good day.

oh and btw, among that delegation there was two girls that became good friends for us still are, Joana wilding, who is very fairly famous, you can contact her and ask her.

-- Khalid Jarrar

6 Comments:

Blogger Mister Ghost said...

Good Work, Mad Tom. The whole cadre of them, the Jarrars, Salam Pax, and Riverbend all seem to have connections to the Baathists.

You should have a transcript of the video, in case the Jarrars decide to wipe off the information, like they they did with the pics of Chemical Ali, etc.

8:28 PM  
Blogger madtom said...

Well I don't know if I would include Salam in the bunch. I believe that Salam Pax has come out and talked about his past and his families connections openly on his blogs. Everyone has family. I myself have communist relatives in Cuba who are dedicated to la revolusion. Nothing I can do about that.

I also have relatives who lived their entire lives under the rule of the communist, and though they never caused any trouble, they were never one of them. In secret, with the shades drawn, careful that no one was listening outside the window, they told you the truth. Had they had the opportunity to live free they would have said it at the top of their lungs. As it was, they could only whisper in the shadows about what it's like back on the island, under the thumb of dictatorship.

It's the ones that hide their connections to the regimes that worry me. Why hide it unless there is something to hide?

People have already sent me copies of the clip. If they take it down, some one will just put it up at youtube.

11:12 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mister Ghost, your paranoid ranting is uncalled for. Alive in Baghdad is an independent news agency reporting on various stories of life in Baghdad.

The Jarrars have no influence or impact on their product. In fact, if you look at the interview of Saleh Mutlaq, you'll see they are actually careful to acknowledge Mutlaq's apparent unpopularity amongst the Iraqi street.

Get over yourself and your weird paranoia about various Iraqi bloggers and others. Many Iraqis had connections to the Baath Party or to Saddam Hussein, doesn't say shit about them now.

1:33 PM  
Blogger Jon said...

Talk about paranoid. This guy won't even leave a name. At least Mr. Ghost has the courage to show his face.

3:17 AM  
Blogger madtom said...

If you ask me Khalid's so-called response only digs the hole deeper. They went from being just associated to the Ba'ath, to being associated to the "Mukhabarat".
No wonder they moved to Jordan with the rest.

All of a sudden I had a flashback too: "FOB", sort of has a new meaning now.

1:20 AM  
Blogger madtom said...

Get over yourself and your weird paranoia about various Iraqi bloggers and others. Many Iraqis had connections to the Baath Party or to Saddam Hussein, doesn't say shit about them now.

I thick that all depends on just how people handle saddams fall. I know that in my family if the castro regime would go away, some would cheer in the streets while others would fight to the end to hold on to their little privileges and perks.
I would put that side of the family in the wood chipper myself if I had the chance

Reaction goes a long way.

1:44 AM  

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