"To The Iraqi Government"

A nifty Iraqi hacker found a way to protest the government here with the government's own tool. The Iraqi Presidency Council's website has been hijacked by  someone who calls himself SoSo H H Lion.

Instead of the latest news from the Presidency Council a statement exclaims "Defaced!" in English and in Iraqi slang lashes out at the government.

The statement titled "To the Iraqi government," is graced with the old Iraqi flag and the Iraqi national anthem plays to the complaints.

The flag was recently replaced with an interim flag so that the government could fly the Iraqi flag in the region where they will host a pan-Arab parliament meeting. In Kurdistan the flag is seen as a symbol of the genocide committed against them under Saddam Hussein.

Eventually Iraq will chose yet another flag to represent them. But many Iraqis, like hacker SoSo, are angered by the change. To them it is a symbol that preceded Saddam Hussein and they believe it represents them.

The hacker asks, "A question; what are you doing for the country besides theft, looting and killing the people?"

Here are some excerpts from the statement which I suspect will soon be removed:

"Mention one thing that you did and the people will say 'God have mercy on the government's parents.' Of course you know very well that Iraqis are dying by the thousands. If one person died from the parliament or the ministries wouldn't the world turn upside down? Wouldn't it?"

"You left militias and the problems of the country and came to the symbol of Iraq, the Iraqi flag, and changed it. This is the flag that we raise everywhere and we are proud of it. This is the one we used to wrap our martyrs who sacrificed their souls for the sake of this country."

"It is sure that you will say, according to your media, that terrorism, the nation's enemies, Iraq's enemies and supporters of this and that sabotaged the website.

"These are your tricks. But the ones who sabotaged the site are Iraqis and we belong to our country not to anyone else.

"We know very well that this will not change anything but we are expressing the feelings of all Iraqis...Hopefully consciences will awaken."

Comments

[Momma Brucks]

I wan't every body to remember the nazis in germany and how they replaced the flag of the nazi governement that represented the genocide of millions of jewish people. Not in just a small country but over all of europe. What is most sad is the genocide caused by saddam hussein was of his own people not of other countries or race. I believe what he did discraced that flag, the iraqi people need to pull together and bring a flag to represent their strength togehter as a nation today. A good example would be once you take a virgins virginity she is no longer a virgin, once you splatter blood on your flag it will always hold blood. Arab culture is beautifull just like all the cultures in the world its a shame its being .... hidden,defiled. It is hard to find a word for what is happening.