The Multi National Forces' Violations to Iraq's Sovereignty, Unacceptable Behavior  

By Ali Jasim 

What has previously happened in the province of Diala in the city of Abi Saida on the past month, when the foreign forces arrested a well known politician, has been reiterated once again, but this time at the province of Wasit, when these forces arrested an Iraqi officer with his family after they had killed his brother and the killed brother's wife. 

This incident shows another violation to the agreement of withdrawal of the U.S. forces from Iraq once more. 

The agreement that Baghdad and Washington had agreed upon its items beforehand, represented --at that time-- a victory for the national and popular will in realizing what the people had hoped and made every effort to get it like the freedom, which had been the minimum possible thing that can be gained by the son of Mesopotamia, because Iraq when accepted this accord, it took the most important step in its history for the sake of realizing liberty, retrieving its dignity and sovereignty, and preserving its integrity. 

In spite of all this optimism and big hopes that were set on this agreement that is assumed to be operational on June 2009, but the thing that raises the attention is that the foreign forces from time to time violate this accord and do not respect the other partner's sovereignty and its laws and judicial system, by exceeding their limited authorities given for these forces, which include submitting the support and logistics to the Iraqi forces without interfering in their duties and effecting the actions of the judicial system or getting involved in the interior Iraqi affairs. 

So, these are serious infringements to the law and judiciary, whether it was by military operations made by the multi national forces carried out without prior notice, or without informing the Iraqi security forces about the plans or the breaking-in and arrest operations, in addition another faults are those when these forces shut their eyes to the rights of the Iraqi citizen and ignore all necessary measures to preserve his dignity and freedom untouched, moreover they directly or indirectly endeavor to waste his rights through effacing and deforming the truths or hiding the findings which frequently lead to forming investigative commissions. 

As usual, the response of the government is less than wanted, when it faces a crisis or a security and military operation, decline in the performance of the civilian and governmental institutions, nonfeasance and deficiency in public services, outbreak and rise of administrative and financial corruption, and plunder of the country’s wealth and its properties, so all of these aspects in fact, are a flagrant and serious violation to the laws, which were originally enacted to be in operation and not to be unrespected or inoperative by cheating, because these legislations were originally enacted for protecting the citizen’s rights and shielding him from injustice and discrimination. 

This equity and evenhandedness in granting the citizen what he deserves or what he hopes, is of the first rights he owns in the new Iraqi society, because the respect of the law and abidance by it does not preserve the rights of the citizens and identifies their duties only, but also it affirms and strengthens the confidence of the citizen in the state and protects it, because if the state abided by the law that is represented by the constitution of the state and respected the judiciary system and its independence, certainly it would gain the citizen’s confidence, because in the usual course of things, opportunities of justice, equity and ensuring the rights are sought by applying the law.  

While ignoring the law deliberately and non abiding by it, undoubtedly it constitutes a dangerous manner weakens the structure of the new Iraqi state, and targets the system of the reliable defense and the interior fortification of the state, and propagates malicious ideas that aiming at transforming the jurisprudents and judiciary into ostracized classes by the society, consequently the thing that results in eroding of the citizen's confidence in these institutions and in the state itself, and in this status the jeopardy is latent, this phenomenon remembers us the authoritarian, tyrannical practices of the defunct regime's era, because in effect it represents an unsound conduct conflicts with the project and concept of building the new state that respects the rights of citizens and gets them equal in duties and rights. 

Of these grave violations is what the foreign forces have committed lastly in Wasit Province, when they arrested an officer with two of his brothers without clarifying the reasons of the arrest, moreover they killed a bystander near the scene and killed the brother of the officer and his wife and scattered and devastated the contents of the house. 

This operation of arrest besides it’s accompanied events are clear violations to the rights of the Iraqi citizen, the thing that raised many questions concerning the reality of the status of the foreign forces in Iraq, the signed agreement between  the two country, the feasibility of it and whether abiding by its provisions or ignoring it, the failure in putting its items into effect and applying its schedules, and non respect for the signed memorandums and covenants between the two country, which state that the withdrawal from the cities completely, the security file is the job of the Iraqi security forces, non intervening in the country's interior affair, the arresting and breaking-in operations are the job of Iraqi security forces not of the foreign forces, and identifying the mechanism that is assumed to be practiced in the new Iraq, the Iraq of Constitution and law.