Ali Nasir Jubar again

Ali Nasir Jabur is a boy in Tikrit whose family was murdered by gunmen wearing Iraqi Security Forces uniforms the night of August 21, 2005. He was the only member of his family to survive. He hid under a blanket and the gunmen missed him. I have blogged about him before in August 2005. In September 2005, I visited every US Senators office and left a picture of Ali and asked them to investigate this and stop the death squads in Iraq. None of them did.

This is an other piece of information about the Jaburi tribe and Tikrit, from Nir Rosen’s book, “In The Belly Of The Green Bird”. In his chapter The New Mongols: Summer –Fall 2003, he says that the Americans appointed a governor for Tikrit from the unpopular Juburi tribe, which increased local consternation. The new governor appointed his relatives to all positions, including police, traffic, communications, and college deans. He ads that Iraqis in Balad, Baquba and Samara all detested this governor and the fact that the Americans unilaterally appointed him. I have no idea if this is related to the violence against Ali’s family, but I wanted to make a note of it.

Also, in this chapter, the author says that an American intelligence officer claimed that the “Shia fingers” extended from Iran into Tikrit, even though Tikrit was almost 100% Sunni. A lot of the Tikriti people benefited from Saddam’s reign claimed a university student and the few (about 5%) who did not were very poor.