Press Release
America Plans for Permanent Occupation in Iraq

The Washington Times published on 16 June 2010 a report detailing a request from the state department officials to the pentagon to provide heavy military gear, including 24 Black Hawk helicopters, 50 bomb-resistant vehicles, heavy cargo trucks, fuel trailers, and high-tech surveillance systems.

It also says that the state department will need substantial support from private contractors such as the infamous Houston-based KBR (Halliburton) Inc, the long time pentagon's partner in its dirty wars since Vietnam to Afghanistan and Iraq.

Not surprisingly this report comes to expose the real agenda of the empire builder in the power corridors in the military-industrial complex in America. This report proves that all the lies of Obama and slogans of reaching out to the muslim world are no more than empty words falling on deaf ears.

The naked truth is that America has attacked Iraq not because of non existing weapons of mass destruction, neither to establish peace and prosperity, but solely to expand the Pax Americana at the expense of millions of innocent civilians.

The request states that "After the departure of U.S. forces, we will continue to have a critical need for logistical and life-support of a magnitude and scale of complexity that is unprecedented in the history of the Department of State". Neither Germany nor Japan has oil or gas, yet the American occupation still on going 6 decades after the Second World War is over. It is clear that the American policy makers have planned for open occupation in Iraq supported by the crony regimes in Syria, Iran and Turkey, who have no qualms in legitimizing the American occupation behind the façade of puppets political parties under some Islamic as well as secular fig leaf.

Hizb-ut-Tahrir calls upon the Islamic nation to realize the open deception of the American occupation and the insistence of the American politicians to subject the Muslim nation to the same fate of the native Indians. The Muslims need to be aware of the complacency of their rulers who serve the American colonialism.

It is time for the sincere sons of the ummah to put their hands with us to resume the Islamic way of life by establishing the Khilafah "Caliphate" which will liberate the ummah from the American slavery.

Osman Bakhach

Director of The Central Media Office Hizb-ut-Tahrir