I've spent one week in solitary confinement because
I said there are American bases in Jordan taking
part in the aggression against Iraq

Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 07:05:01 PM MST
From: Orest Slepokura <slepokuo@telus.net>
Subject: Letter from Ibrahim Alloush

Dear Brothers and Sisters

Thanks to you all for your fruitful efforts to release me and to release all those imprisoned in the jails of the Jordanian regime which finds itself today trapped in the dilemma of supporting the American aggression on Iraq which it wrongfully thought would succeed in a matter of days.

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

I've been arrested because I said there are American bases in Jordan taking part in the aggression against Iraq. Interrogation focused on my declarations to that effect on BBC, Assabeel, and the Free Arab Voice. I was told that I will be going back to jail very quickly if I said there ARE American bases in Jordan. Thus, instead of sending letters to Jordanian embassies worldwide, we all need to insist that there are American bases in Jordan taking part in the aggression on Iraq.

That is what we need to concentrate on American bases in Jordan and their role in the aggression on Iraq is the point, not getting me released or anybody else. That is what you can do to help.

I've spent one week in solitary confinement where I knew nothing of the world swirling around me.

I've only been able to see the face of the sky from a narrow hole in the roof of the jail cell into which I walked shackled and blindfolded.

I've only been released a few hours ago, but I don't want you to act in solidarity with me.

At this moment in particular I am neither Palestinian nor Jordanian, but Iraqi, from the head to the toes.

Had the aggression been perpetrated against Mauritania, I would have been a Mauritani just as much.

Don't get me wrong! I appreciate very much what you have done, what have said and what you have written on my behalf.

But I am really nothing compared to the militants who have given decades of their lives in Zionist jails and the jails of Arab regimes.

More importantly I am but a small drop in the sea of Iraqi resistance.

I beseech you to forget about me. What is important now is to speak of American bases in Jordan.

So are you up to the challenge?!

Just a quick message from jail cell number 66 of the Jordanian Intelligence Division.

Later
Ibrahim Alloush