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Message from FAV editor Ibrahim Alloush on his release from jail
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                                                         March 31, 2003

Dear Brothers and Sisters

Thanks to you all for your fruitful efforts to release me and to
release all those imprisoned in the jails of the Jordanian regime which
finds itself today trapped in the dilemma of supporting the American
aggression on Iraq which it wrongfully thought would succeed in a
matter of days

Dear Brothers and Sisters

I've been arrested because I said there are American bases in Jordan
taking part in the aggression against Iraq

Interrogation focused on my declarations to that effect on BBC,
Assabeel, and the Free Arab Voice

I was told that I will be going back to jail very quickly if I said
there ARE American bases in Jordan

Thus, instead of sending letters to Jordanian embassies worldwide, we
all need to insist that there are American bases in Jordan partaking in
the aggression on Iraq

That is what we need to concentrate on

American bases in Jordan and their role in the aggression on Iraq is
the point, not getting me released or anybody else

That is what you can do to help

I've spent one week in solitary confinement where I knew nothing of the
world swirling around me

I've only been able to see the face of the sky from a narrow whole in
the roof of the jail cell into which I walked shackled and blindfolded

I've only been released a few hours ago, but I don't want you to act in
solidarity with me

At this moment in particular I am neither Palestinian nor Jordanian,
but Iraqi, from the head to the toes

Had the aggression been perpetrated against Mauritania, I would have
been a Mauritani just as much

Don't get me wrong!  I appreciate very much what you have done, what
have said and what you have written on my behalf

But i am really nothing compared to the militants who have given
decades of their lives in Zionist jails and the jails of Arab regimes

More importantly I am but a small drop in the sea of Iraqi resistance

I beseech you to forget about me

What is important now is to speak of American bases in Jordan

So are you up to the challenge?!

Just a quick message from jail cell number 66 of the Jordanian
Intelligence Division

Later
Ibrahim Alloush