Les Blough: Encampment Women Confront the Iraqi Embassy in Washington

2007-03-15

LeiLani Dowell and Namwiinga Simwiinga-Khumalo led a delegation of 12 women to the Iraqi Embassy to protest the new, U.S.-backed Iraqi government’s decision to hang 3 Iraqi women, Wassan Talib, Zainab Fadhil and Liqa Muhammad for their resistance to the U.S. occupation. The women were sentenced to hang on March 3rd for carrying out successful military operations against the U.S. military and Iraqi police.

One of them gave birth to a child and is now nursing the baby in prison. There has been a total corporate media blackout on these death sentences. However, the alternative internet media brought massive international pressure upon the U.S. and Iraqi governments and the women were given a temporary reprieve. MORE
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_24098.shtml
For clarity, please click the Axis of Logic photo and then see:

Haifa Zangana: We have not been liberated
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m31169&hd=&size=1&l=e

The Iraq Situation
http://www.unhcr.org/iraq.html

War, Violence Take Toll on Women
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1173087888704&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout

3rd UPDATE on the three Iraqi women facing imminent execution
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=3271&blz=1
Felicity Arbuthnot: Some Mothers' Daughters - The Silence
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=3240&blz=1
Iraq: CALL FOR WORLDWIDE INTENSIFYING MOBILIZATION
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=3239&blz=1