Join us in demanding the release of our activists from the capture of an armed gang in Iraq

Dear Friends

On December 10, an armed gang has attacked our office in Baghdad and kidnapped two of our political and human rights activists; Akram Faleh Khattab and Basim Ghamees. It is obvious that this gang belongs to the forces of Political Islam. Political Islam has a horrendous track record of violence, killings, beheadings, kidnappings, threats to human rights activists, and abduction of journalists and political activists.

The crime of Faleh Akram Khattab and Basim Ghamees in the eyes of such gangs is the defense of human rights from the violations of the militias and forces currently prevailing in Iraq. The two comrades were brave defenders of civility, equality, political freedom and secularism and they stood firmly by the oppressed. Our two comrades were interested in workers’ issues and adopted their demands and prevented their exploitation. Our two comrades are socialists.

The attack on our two activists and their abduction is not another act of terrorism that average citizens of Iraq are facing daily by the different gangs due to destruction of civil society and lack of security. Although happens within the same environment of insecurity, this attack is in fact political terrorism and bears the fingerprints of the Islamic movement which is opposed to secularists, human rights activists and socialists. Our comrades had previously been threatened by the same group.

We call upon you to support these two individuals and show your solidarity with them. We would like to invite you to join us in our campaign to release them immediately. We would also seize the opportunity to draw the attention to the serious human crisis of the Iraqi society which was caused by the US war and the turning loose of the dark anti-human forces in the society.

We call upon you to denounce the abduction of our comrades and adopt their case and join our efforts to release them from their captures and their safe return to their families and children. We also encourage you to run your own campaigns to defend the lives of these people and get their case across to the widest circles possible within your reach.

Your voices will definitely make a difference. Through our joint efforts we can stop further degradation of the human dignity and sanctity. Together we can make the world a better one.

Sincerely Yours,





Issam Shukri

For the Executive Committee of the Left Worker-communist Party of Iraq – LWPI

14-12-2005