Gorilla’s Guides

All Washington’s calculations depend on a quick war and an easy victory. ‘There’s an assumption that the Americans will be greeted as liberators, and very little consideration of the deep anti-American sentiment as the result of 10 years of poverty due to the sanctions’, one UN official said.
‘No decisive policy is without its […]

Posted on February 10th, 2008 under Analysis Briefings Commentary, Iraq, Team Members. Tags: Genocide. Comments: None

We wish all our Muslim readers a holy, happy, and peaceful New Year, for our Iraki brothers and sisters we pray especially that God bring us freedom, peace, and fortitude, and that he drive the American barbarians from our sacred soil.
Ali, Ali Ibn Hussayn, Fatima Jameel, Haleema Al-Azzawi, Hussein Al-Bayati, Khaled Al Basrawi, Khalil Ibn […]

Posted on January 9th, 2008 under Iraq, Postcards from Iraq, Team Members. Tags: Hear Our Voices, Iraq, Postcards from Iraq, Team Members. Comments: None

O God! Pardon our living and our dead, the present and the absent, the young and the old, the males and the females.
There will be no further postings today.
Khaled
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Posted on November 8th, 2007 under Team Members. Comments: None

Karbala Aftermath Update Seven — Summary:

Sharp criticism of the security authorities by Grand Ayatollah Sistani’s representative (see sermon reports)
Najaf remains under complete curfew.
There is a very partial lifting of the curfew in Karbala.
Massive raids underway.
Ambulance drivers abducted.

Najaf:
Security authorities in Najaf confirmed that a number of senior clergy […]

Posted on September 1st, 2007 under Iraq, Politics and Security, Religion, Team Members. Tags: Babil (Governorate), Badr Brigade, Baghdad, Bombings, Jaish al-Mahdi, Karbala, Mahdi, Mahdi Army, Militia, Mosul, Najaf, SIIC (Formerly SCIRI), WNA Iraqi News. Comments: None

Mike Kinman:

Thank you first of all for outlining what you as a Muslim believe about Prophet Isa (Jesus). This is very helpful to me.
I am a follower of Jesus, a Christian. I am a priest in the Christian tradition. Still, I want to make it clear that my words on being a follower of Jesus […]

Posted on August 21st, 2007 under Iraq, Religion, Team Members. Tags: Christianity, Islam, reconciliation. Comments: 36

O God! Pardon our living and our dead, the present and the absent, the young and the old, the males and the females.
Khalil
Indexed under: Children, Women and Children

Posted on August 6th, 2007 under Children, Team Members, Women and Children. Tags: Children, Women and Children. Comments: None

أهلا و سهل ,
Ahlan wa-sahlan,

Dubhaltach the follower of the Prophet Jesus (PBUH) the friend of my childhood and the son of the friend of my father and I have spoken together. After discussions we have agreeed to repost this that I wrote originally for the American Christian Priest Michael Kinman on February 15th, 2007. There […]

Posted on July 24th, 2007 under Iraq, Religion, Team Members. Tags: Christianity, Follow Up, Islam. Comments: 2

AP publish accurate headline about Irak on Yahoo News … Gorilla’s Guides team members take screenshot before collapsing … rushed to cardiac unit … condition said to be “stable” … AP headline writers, relent, apologise, send flowers, bananas, get-well cards … …

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Posted on June 25th, 2007 under Iraq, Team Members. Comments: None

I am posting three extracts of three accounts published by the British “Financial Times” as part of their Iraq In Depth Series

The first account describes a day in the life of day of a woman working as an administrator in the university.
In the second article in the series, Abbas, a driver who lives in Sadr City […]

Posted on June 23rd, 2007 under Features, Iraq, Politics and Security, Site News, Society And Economy, Team Members, Women and Children. Tags: Baghdad, Child Poverty, Hear Our Voices, Jaish al-Mahdi, Mahdi, Mahdi Army, Militia, Poverty, Refugees, Sadr City, Sulaymaniyah, Water, Water Crisis (Iraq), Women and Children. Comments: None