University Daily Kansan, October 17, 1980
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Iraqi people don't support war with Iran, speaker claims
By KATHY BRUSSELL Staff Reporter
The Iraqi government's recent military attacks against Iran were aimed at diverting the Iraqi people's attention from the cruelty and corruption of their leaders, an Iraqi student said last night.
"We can't speak about anything; we are seared even to talk to a mother or a brother for fear of finding out they are
part of the CIA or the intelligence service in Iraq," said Ahrad Jailani, an Iraqi student studying in the United States. He was one of two speakers at a forum sponsored by KU's Muslim Student Association.
Officers of the association, citing "security reasons," refused to provide any additional information about the student.
According to Jallil, many of the Iraqi people have disowned their government
U.S. considers admitting 600 Cubans
WASHINGTON (UP1)—The administration agreed yesterday to consider admitting to the United States 600 Cubans stranded in their homeland by Fidel Castro's abrupt decision to end the chaotic refugee seafire to Florida.
and its leader, President Saddam Hussein.
He added that U.S. agreement to do so would be $600,600 would be eligible to enter the country.
"The Cuban government asked us as a humanitarian gesture if we would consider processing them," a State Department official said.
HUSEIN, WHO seized control of the government in July 1979, arranged for the assassination of at least 10 political leaders on his way to power, Jailiil said.
Each of the Cubans must comply with U.S. immigration laws and standards before being granted permission to
enter, and those admitted must arrange their own air transport, according to the official, who declined to be identified.
Besides cutting off the sealift, Castro promised to return to the United States for prosecution anyone hijacking airliners to Cuba. This week he ordered the release of 33 U.S. prisoners, some of them suspected air nipples.
Between 1787 and 1979, he was partially responsible for torturing and murdering some 3,000 anti-Islamic citizens, Jallil said.
An estimated 125,000 Cubans fled to the United States this summer in a disorganized and sometimes fatal boat journey across the Florida Straits, many aboard overloaded and unseaworthy vessels.
As president, Hussein has appointed close relatives and friends to high military and political positions, Jalili said.
"We have had a bunch of criminals leading the government of Iraq since 1968," he said. "Hussein had to use an external force to get the people to think about something else, so he started a war with Iran."
"he figured he could have a victory
and then stay in power
for a long time."
LALLII SAID THAT all Iraqis and Iranians were Moslem brothers, and that the religious bond between them was strong. This is evidence in ideology that might separate them.
The fighting, he said, is not between the Iranian and Iraqi people as much as
In fact, several captains in the Iraqi army have defected to the Iranian side to fight against the Iraqi government, he said.
between the Iraqi government and the Islamic movement in Iran.
Jalil spoke to an overflow crowd in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union as part of a program called "Iran and Iraq: The Reasons Behind This Confrontation" guided by Hamid Sajed, an Iranian who is now an optometrist in Kansas City, Mo.
Sajadi said that the United States had played a role in the timing of the Iraqi attack.
"The U. press has been saying that Iraq struck at just the right time, wher
Iran was weak," Sajadi said. "But that's wrong. Iran was weakest right after the revolution, but the United States did not stop it." There and it told Iran not to go ahead."
AFTER THE SEIZURE of the American hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Iran, things got worse for the United States, he said.
A rescue attempt to free the hostages failed miserably, he said, and a later attempt by forces within Iran to stage a military coup also was foiled.
At that point, the United States had nothing left in Iran that it needed to protect, Sajadi said.
"Every single card was gone except for the last one—the Iraqi card," he said. "The United States told Iraq to go ahead and invade Iran, destroy Abadan. They didn't want Iran to have that strength anymore."
Sajadi said that the Western media had greatly misled its readers about the war.
Among the myths perpetuated by newspapers and television was the notion that the United States was in the middle of the war, when in fact it backed Iraq, he said.
Also, he said, the media have asserted that the Iranian revolution was concerned only with that country, and not with the Arab nations.
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