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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Ricken Patel - CeasefireCampaign/Avaaz.org
[mailto:avaaz@avaaz.org] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 25, 2007 3:25
AM<BR><B>To:</B> leeloe@igc.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Iraq is
Dying<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<TD>Dear friends, <BR><BR>
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<TD><FONT face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" color=black size=2>On
May 3rd, US, Iraqi, Syrian, and Iranian leaders will meet for the
first time to debate Iraq's future. Join thousands of Iraqi Avaaz
members sending messages telling these leaders to follow a NEW
course: negotiations and the withdrawal of US troops:
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><A
href="http://www.avaaz.org/en/iraq_new_plan/?cl=7615052">Click
Here</A> </DIV></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>The nightmare in Iraq
worsens daily. It's make-or-break time -- but next Thursday in Egypt, we
could start to turn the tide. Because <B>on May 3rd – for the first time
ever - top US and Iraqi leaders will meet with Iran and Syria</B> plus
international powers. They can agree on negotiations to end the war -- or
escalate their bloody conflict.<BR><BR>Iraq: It Ends on May 3rd <B>Avaaz
is launching a major advertising and text-message campaign inside Iraq
this week to bring Iraqi voices to this decisive meeting.</B> As citizens
around the world, <B>let's join our voices with theirs</B> to end this war
-- sign the petition calling for negotiations and a withdrawal of US
troops here:<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.avaaz.org/en/iraq_new_plan/?cl=7615052">http://www.avaaz.org/en/iraq_new_plan/</A><BR><BR>To
make sure we're heard, <B>we'll hand-deliver our petition to the leaders'
conference in Sharm El-Sheikh on May 3rd,</B> and project Iraqi
text-messages on to a huge wall near the US Capitol building in
Washington.<BR><BR>Thousands of Iraqi Avaaz members have supported our
N.E.W. plan -- for all-party "Negotiations", "Empowering" international
mediators and the responsible "Withdrawal" of US troops. <B>Please read
the personal email below from Khalid, an Iraqi Avaaz member.</B> Khalid
and our other Iraqi members need a show of global support from the rest of
us. The campaign is already supported by over 75,000 people as well as key
international experts -- let's gather a massive, united voice of Iraqis
and citizens round the world to tell our leaders to do the right thing in
Iraq:<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.avaaz.org/en/iraq_new_plan/?cl=7615052">http://www.avaaz.org/en/iraq_new_plan/</A><BR><BR>With
hundreds of thousands dead and 4 million made refugees, just criticising
the US government for this catastrophe is not enough. It's now the
responsibility of all of us to help save Iraq, and the only solution is a
political solution.<BR><BR>Khalid Jarrar and his mother Faiza Jarrar have
been wonderful supporters of Avaaz in Iraq. We asked Khalid to write a
message to Avaaz members, here's what he emailed us
yesterday:<BR><BR><I>alright:)<BR>feel free to edit it if its too
long.<BR>and just for the record, i am not a drama queen, these were
written for real, and tears in my eyes are my witness...<BR>Dear
AVAAZ,<BR><BR>I want to introduce myself, and tell you a story, but i
don't know how to start, and where to stop. <BR><BR>My name is Khalid, i
am an environmental engineering student and i am 24, but this is the least
important to know about me, what's really important for me to tell, and
for you to know, is that I am Iraqi, and that I have a deep, deep wound in
my soul, that has been bleeding for over four years now. <BR><BR>Iraq, my
soul, is bleeding. And i had to leave it against my will, because of the
incredibly bad security situation that led to me getting kidnapped and my
family paying a huge ransom, which made me leave immediately after i was
released in fear that i would be kidnapped again. I left Iraq one month
before my graduation and had to come to Jordan, which made me lose two
years of my university time and life, but even worse, made me lose the
company of the Tigris and the Euphrates. <BR><BR>I had to travel, leaving
Iraq behind me, to live like a refuge, one of a million other refuges, in
a country of less than five millions people, that already has its own
financial problems without needing our additional burden to add to it. I
am an Iraqi refuge in Jordan. <BR><BR>Since I left in July 2005, things
have exponentially deteriorated in every possible aspect, now people
hardly get 1 hours of electricity a day, they have water problems, regular
lack of gas that its prices multiplied about 20 times since the war. Let
alone the main and real problems of the actual presence of an occupation
that is leaching on the country and causing the destruction to its people,
unity, sovereignty, infrastructure and economy.<BR><BR>Iraq is the loving
mother, that gave birth to thinkers and builders, people that enriched
humanity with their contributions in all aspects of life, people that
their civilization accumulated for over 7000 years till now.<BR><BR>Iraq,
the noble wisdom, the land of the two flowing rivers, the land of the
mosques and churches, is in crises, and needs your help.
<BR><BR>yes.<BR>it needs your help.<BR><BR>Iraqis need the support of the
world, of every human being that believes in the values of justice and
peace, of every person that cares about the judgment of history on what
the world did when Iraq needed its support the most. Iraq, needs your
voice, to support the voices of its own people, to help remove that
injustice, and help it rise up again and stand on its feet. <BR><BR>Help
us demand to give Iraq back to Iraqis, and to prove to the future
generations once more, that occupations don't last, that occupations are
wrong, and that the will of people is invincible. Help us clear to them
that our hearts and minds, our values and sense of justice, are stronger
than any tank, battleship or rocket. Help us by singing AVAAZ petition
that will be presented to the politicians discussing the future of Iraq
security, help by asking your friends to do so, let our voices be louder
than the roars of weapons and the madness of greeds, help us, sign AVAAZ
petition now, let our voice be heard, support Iraq today, and once the
last occupying soldier leaves iraq, and once we rebuild our country with
out own hands, we will reciever you in Baghdad, and you will see the love
and gratitude competed by nothing but Iraqi hospitality. Together we can
prove that our brotherhood is strong, together we can prove that our bonds
are real, I can see that day coming, really soon.<BR><BR>Khalid
</I><BR><BR>Click below to join Khalid in telling US, Iraqi and
international leaders to do the right thing for Iraq:<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.avaaz.org/en/iraq_new_plan/?cl=7615052">http://www.avaaz.org/en/iraq_new_plan/</A><BR><BR>With
hope, <BR><BR>Ricken, Graziela, Paul, Tom and the whole Avaaz
team<BR><BR>Avaaz.org is a global organization with almost 1million
members all over the world. Our goal is to use technology and the internet
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