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GI Special: thomasfbarton@ 12.16.03 Print it out (color best). Pass it on. GI SPECIAL155: THE RESISTANCE WILL GROW: Iraqi civilians gather around a charred vehicle in front of a police station following an attack north of Baghdad. (AFP/Sabah Arar) Insurrection In Hilla “Resistance To Occupation Will Grow” The Guardian: By Sami Ramadani December 15, 2003 (Sami Ramadani was a political refugee from Saddams regime and is a senior lecturer in sociology at London Metropolitan University) The joy was deep, but the pain, too, was overwhelming as I remembered relatives and friends who lost their lives opposing Saddams tyranny or in his wars. I remember my disappeared and dearest school friend, Hazim, whom I hugged goodbye in 1969 at the canteen of the college of medicine in Baghdad. I never saw him again. Although only 15, Hazim had the courage to distribute anti-Baathist leaflets at our school in Baghdad within months of the 1963 CIA-backed coup that brought the Baathists to power. I remember, too, my dear friend Ghassan, who died in a hospital in Canada after many years in exile. He didnt live to see the moment he had waited so long for. What will the Americans do with their captive? Is Saddam going to face a trial? Will the truth of his mass murders and crimes come out? Will the trial shed light on how the US backed him and supplied him with chemical weapons? Will it reveal how the US encouraged him to launch the war on Iran, causing the death of a million Iranians and Iraqis? Will the trial go into the alliances with and support for Saddam by so many of members and parties now in the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council? The dark clouds over Iraq havent lifted yet. Thousands of Iraqi civilians have been killed by the US-led unjust and immoral war, and the death toll continues to rise as innocent people are being killed in US military raids, bombardments and Sharon-style collective punishment, and harmed by the depleted u