Good Morning= Bet-Nahrain....................Turkish Troops will Stay in Northern Iraq
Surfs= Up....................................................."the only reason (our) leaders do not want to unite is financial gain"
Surfers= Corner............................................Erneute Massaker an die Suryoyo im Tur'Abdin
News= Digest...............................................Diplomatic Showdown Between U.S. & Iraq
Calendar of= Events....................................No New Entries
Assyrian Surfing= Posts..............................The Descent of Ishtar: Soundtrack in original Babylonian
Pump up the= Volume.................................Honor & Integrity
Back to the= Future......................................The First Dynasty of Babylon & Yazdgird III
This Week in= History............................... Assassination of the Assyrian Patriarch
The= Directory.............................................ZENDA News Sources
At the invitation of the Assyrian American= National Foundation and the Assyrian Academic Society, Professor Walid Phares= presented two lectures on September 3 and 4. Phares, who teaches Middle East Studies at south Florida's universities, addressed the issue of "Assyrian-Lebanese Christian resistance to Arabization throughout History." Afer an= introduction of the ethnic and cultural background of both groups, the speaker detailed the survival of the Assyrians in northern Mesopotamia, and of the Lebanese Christians -mainly Maronites- in Mount Lebanon. "While the entire region fell to the conqueror, Assyrians and Lebanese Christians chose to resist in the highlands. They preferred the harsh life of the mountains to the submissive life under the Califate or the Sultanate. In northern= Mesopotamia, or Beit Nahrain, the Assyro-Chaldeans maintained their identity, practiced their traditions, and spoke their language for centuries. In Western Syria, the Aramaic Christians, particularly the Maronites, established a similar independence. Mount Lebanon was the greatest gift from nature to the= Christians. There, they founded a sovereign state, the Marada state for seven centuries. It was only after the Mameluke campaign of 1305, that the Maronites were finally invaded."
Phares indicated that the beginning of the= twentieth century was critical and dramatic for both people, who culturally belongs to the same Syriac speaking culture. "While the Assyrians were persecuted in Mesopotamia and oppressed in Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Iran, the Lebanese Christians were given a state on a plate of gold, in 1920. In five decades, the Lebanese Christian leadership, particularly since the independence, lost everything. From accepting to integrate the Arab League, to the= Arab-Israeli conflict, to abandoning their historic identity, the Maronite elites gravely undermined the survival of their nation. Since 1975, the Lebanese Christians had the opportunity to correct past historical mistakes and redress their national situation. The Lebanese Christian resistance paid a very high price to maintain a free enclave in face of a powerful conglomerate of Syrian, Palestinian, and local fundamentalist forces.
In fifteen years of war, the Christian leadership
lost even more opportunities: In 1977 they endorsed the Syrian intervention,
then had to fight it in 1978. In 1982 they missed the opportunity of the
strategic change created by the Israelis, wasted the presence of the=
multinational
forces, and ended signing the first agreements of political defeat in=
Lausanne
and Geneva in 1984. In 1985, more concessions to the Syrians and the Arab
identity of Lebanon were made in the Bickfaya agreements. In the same year,
the tri-partite agreement almost ended the resistance. Four years later,
the Taif agreement executed the
remnant of the resistance. Most of Lebanon's
Christian leadership signed or endorsed the Syrian-take over. By October
1990, the central enclave was gone, the legal institutions were taken over,
and the Christians started their march of agony towards=
disintegration."
Today, said Phares, the Christians of Lebanon
are politically agonizing, hopeless and lost. They've learned the hard
way the meaning of lost opportunities and lacking strategic vision. Our
Assyrian and other Syriac-speaking brethren have experienced parallel=
tragedies
in the beginning of the century. Now all the Christians of the Levant are
in the same boat, a boat which is sinking. We would need extraordinary
efforts and a good deal of chance to be able to rescue part of what we
lost in this
decade, or probably in the early 21st century.
As we can see it, the Assyrians have initiated their renaissance in exile
and are struggling to keep their cause alive. The Lebanese Christians are
still under the influence of their political past and traditional=
leadership.
What is needed is a tidal wave among the community's vital forces to reverse
the process of decline. A renaissance is what is needed. But such
intellectual revolution cannot develop within the context of obsolete=
thinking
and backward
political behavior. This is today's challenge
among the Lebanese Christians both within the country and in the diaspora.
"
Phares called on the Assyro-Chaldeans and Syriacs
to join the Lebanese Christians in their quest for freedom and self=
determination.
"For, in this historical period, only a free Lebanon can express the freedom
to the greater family of Syro-Mesopotamian Christians. In the diaspora,
and particularly in the United States, there are enough freedom for Mideast
Christians to reassert themselves and reclaim their own history, identity,
and fundamental rights. While we see so many ethnic, religious and other
type of communities working hard to defend their traditions, culture, and
rights, our communities,
Maronites, Melkites, Orthodox, Assyro-Chaldeans
and Syriacs, are fragmented, dispersed, lost, and above all, used by lobbies
to promote the interests of Arab regimes, most of which ironically, are
oppressing the Mideast Christians."
Phares concluded by calling on the= Assyro-Chaldean leadership to stage a campaign aiming at recapturing the representation of the community, and building strong bridges with the Lebanese Christians, other Mideast Christians, and all communities seeking freedom, democracy and justice in the Middle East."
Mideast Newswire
Detroit, Michigan
September 4, 1997
(ZNAF: Ankara) Approximately 30,000 Turkish troops are preparing to spend the winter in northern Iraq on the Iraqi side of a border "security zone" which the Ankara government announced informally last week to prevent Kurdish separatist rebels from staging attacks in Turkey. The number of troops currently in the area remains unknown, and there was no official confirmation of the plans to retain an important military presence in northern Iraq. Iraqi authorities lost control of this mountainous region to Iraqi Kurds after the 1991 Gulf War. In this year's incursions, the Turkish troops are allied with a leading Iraqi Kurdish group, the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Massud Barzani. Two rival Iraqi Kurdish groups resumed clashes in northern Iraq late Saturday as heavy rains which prevented them from fighting for two days eased. "Last night there was fighting in the Harir valley," some 60 kilometres (40 miles) south of the Turkish border, noted a spokesman in London for the Iraqi National Congress (INC) . Massud Barzani's KDP and Jalal Talabani's PUK resumed heavy fighting in northern Iraq in mid-October following the collapse of a fragile one-year ceasefire. The PUK has accused Turkish warplanes of pounding its positions in support of the KDP since the resumption of hostilities on October 13. = Talabani's group charged Turkey with using napalm and cluster bombs in the last several days of air raids, but the Turkish foreign ministry Friday denied the= claim. Barzani and Talabani's groups have controlled northern Iraq in defiance of Baghdad since the 1991 Gulf war, but their partnership collapsed in 1994 due to rifts on power-sharing and revenue. More than 3,000 people have died in intermittent clashes since then. The Assyrian community has so far maintained a neutral position and at times offered its= representatives (Assyrian Democratic Movement "Zowaa") as mediators during the Ankara Talks between the western negotiators and the Kurdish groups.
(ZNUP: Damascus) The joint=
Syrian-Iraqi
water committee concluded one week of meetings in Damascus with a
I agree totally with Mr. Ed William's remarks
that " national unity is imperative standing over the church and tribal
affiliations" and I would like to add that the only reason the so called
leaders do not want to unite is financial gain. All Assyrians should realize
that and stop going to church and stop supporting those bums."
Dr. Alksander Odisho
The editorial board of JAAS should explain to
Assyrian community how did JAAS evolve from an academic journal to
a journal of personal attacks."
"Thank you for the opportunity to say a word=
about
the letter of criticism recently directed at the Journal of the Assyrian
Academic Society by Mr. Tony Khoshaba. Curiously, the Journal has
yet to receive any letter or other message directly from Mr.=
Khoshaba.
Mr. Khoshaba concludes as follows: "Publication
of such one-sided and non-academic materials is definitely a deterioration
of JAAS mission (i. e. to publish well-researched and academic articles)
and should be stopped in future volumes. "The editorial board of JAAS should
explain to Assyrian community how did JAAS evolve from an academic
journal to a journal of personal attacks." It would seem first of
all that Mr. Khoshaba has overlooked the introduction to the Assyrian=
section
(pages 1-2), where we stated the following (in Assyrian): "The Editors
of the Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society feel that the Journal
is a vehicle for our people in general, and its intellectuals in particular,
to express their views on any subject that is related to their national
and religious identity."
Prompted by this belief, and to offer our readers
a variety of viewpoints on the subject, we invited two bishops, four=
priests,
and a number of lay persons to share their thoughts with us. To date, not
a single cleric replied, although we continue to hope for some answers.
Pending the arrival of other comments, we decided to publish the replies
which had been received by press time.
In conclusion, we must stress one factor in=
particular.
This Journal does not have a specific position which supports or opposes
any of our Churches. It was our intention to invite commentary on this
issue from all comers. The fact that the first set of letters=
generally
represented only one point of view has unfortunately given the impression
that this is editorial policy. Nothing could be more wrong. Those who make
up our Journal come from differing confessional attitudes, and our=
publication
as such has no
The Editors of JAAS
[The letters written in the Assyrian section of
the Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society can be found in Vol XI, No
1, 1997 issue.]
Eine weitere=
syrisch-orthodoxe
Familie wurde am 24.9.1997 in Mzizah umgebracht.
Das Ehepaar Iskender (75) und Rihane (70) Araz wurde am Abend in ihren
Wohnung nach Angaben von Familienangehoerigen wahrscheinlich von kurdischen
=84Dorfschuetzern" oder Hisbollah brutal mit mehreren Kopfschuessen=
getoetet.
Nach den hinterlassenen Spuren in der Wohnung zu urteilen, duerften sich
die Moerder vor dem Verbrechen von ihren Opfern verpflegt haben lassen.
Die Bewirtung legt den Schluss nahe, dass die Taeter von der beiden=
Ehepartnern
bekannt waren. Weder eine Gerichtsmedizinische Untersuchung noch eine=
Spurensicherung
wurden, wie auch bei allen anderen Mordfaellen im Tur=91Abdin, von Seiten
der tuerkischen Regierung durchgefuehrt. Nur kurz protokollierten die=
Behoerden
von Midyat die Geschehnisse. Die Leichen des Ehepaares wurden noch am=
gleichen
Tag in Abwesenheit von Familienangehoerigen beigesetzt. Die Kinder und
Verwandten der Opfer fluechteten vor Jahren nach Deutschland und konnten
nicht an dem Begraebnis ihrer Eltern teilnehmen.
In der gleichen Art=
und
Weise wie diese brutalen Morde sind weitere syrische
Familien, im Tur=91Abdin umgebracht worden: im Mai 1990 zwei Personen der
Familie Bulut in Anhil und einen Monat spaeter das Ehepaar In dem 7 km oestlich
von Midyat gelegenen Dorf Mzizah leben heute nur noch
fuenf syrischen Familien. Der Rest der Bewohner mit ihrem Pfarrer
ist wie die anderen Suryoye aus dem Tur=91Abdin
im Laufe der letzten Jahrzehnte in
den Westen meistens nach Deutschland ausgewandert. Die Wir Suryoye=
appellieren
an die tuerkischen Regierung diese verhaengten
Dear Memorial Fund Contributor; =
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bsp;
October 1997
The Assyrian American AMVETS (American Veterans
of World War II, Korea and Vietnam) Post 5 of Chicago, Illinois Memorial
Committee has started the final phase of installing the Memorial=
Monument
honoring Assyrian Americans who gave
The Memorial, a center tablet and two wings,=
weighing
over 15 thousand pounds, may be seen on or about November 15, 1997 in=
Section
45 of Elmwood Park Cemetery located in the Chicago suburb of River Grove,
Illinois.
You can participate in this Memorial by making
a tax deductible contribution to the Memorial Fund. Your generous
contribution is needed to complete the $70,000.00 Memorial.
All contributors will be honored by having their
names included in the time capsule to be entombed at the dedication.
You may wish to acquire a Memorial Brick on the
walkway in front of the Monument. A contribution of at least $500.00 is
required to place the name of a loved one(s) on the Memorial Brick.
The number of Bricks are limited and will be assigned
The dedication will be in the spring of 1998=
prior
to Memorial Day. Please make your plans to attend this memorable
weekend which will include the dedication of the Monument and the=
celebration
of the AMVET Post 5, Fiftieth Anniversary.
The AMVET Post 5 Memorial Committee:
Cyrus A=
Alexander
Edward E Joseph Albert=
Miglioratti
Lincoln Peters
* For further information Please call (773)
264-2786 or (773) 463-0990
Please find my tax deductible contribution
of $400.00______ $300.00 _______ $200.00______ =
Other$______
Please reserve Memorial Brick(s) in the
name of : =
____________________________________________
Please make your checks payable to:
Assyrian American AWER Post 5 Memorial=
Fund
ALL CONTRIBUTIONS ARE TAX=
DEDUCTIBLE:
7055 North Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois 60626
(ZNAF: Baghdad) Last week Iraq turned
back US arms inspectors working for the United Nations and was poised for
a new showdown if their colleagues posted in Baghdad ventured out to resume
field operations. The UN Special Commission (UNSCOM) in charge of
disarming Iraq said the Iraqi authorities allowed in six arms inspectors
of other nationalities, including the Swedish head of a monitoring centre
in Baghdad. UNSCOM addressed a letter to the UN Security Council
president
Nov=
22-24
Middle East Studies Association's 31st Annual Meeting
Dec=
11-13
British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology
Through Mar=
8,1998
In the Presence of the Gods: Art from Ancient Sumer
Nov=
3
Dokhrana 'd Mar Gewargis, Sahda (The Martyr)
Dec=
31
New Year's Eve Party
The First Dynasty of Babylon=
began
to rule in the city of Babylon under its founder, Sumuabum, who reigned
for 13 years. The Dynasty's eleven kings ruled for 300 years.
Under Sumulailu, Sabum, Apil-Sin, and Sin-Muballit, the power of the=
Babylonians
increased greatly, but it was under the rule of Hammurabi that Babylon
achieved its greatest influence and splendor. Hammurabi ruled for
42 years and was the sixth king of this Dynasty.
AD (651)
Yazdgird III, the last Sassanid
king of Persia, after his defeat by the Arabs, dies in the city of Merv
and is buried by the Nestorian bishop of this town.
<< Journal of the Assyrian
Academic Society, Vol XI, #1 >>
(ZNDA: San Jose) Beginning in November,
two new classes are offered at the Assyrian American Association of San
Jose's BETA (club house). The "Computer Class", taught by Esha Tamras,
will cover the history of computers, networking, and the Internet.
Wilfred Alkhas will teach a new course to adults with little
or no knowledge of the Assyrian language. The computer classes are
held every other Sunday from 2:00 to 4:00 pm and the Assyrian language
class will be held on Monday nights. For more information contact
AAA of San Jose at (408) 927-9100 or write to zenda@ix.netcom.com.
The AAA of San Jose also welcomes any donations of PC's that could
be used in training the students of the Computer Class.
CORPORATE ACCOUNTS
[Map of Syria courtesy of CIA World Fact Book;
John Hosanna's photo courtesy of Assyrian Information Medium=
Exchange.]
Thank You
For Referring ZENDA to a Friend:
Would you like to know more about
a particular topic on Assyrian culture, arts, history, language, politics,
etc. Drop us a note!
Are your old Assyrian books and
magazines sitting at home eating dust? How about sending them to
ZENDA so we may share their information with our readers. ZENDA will
gladly cover your cost of postage and handling.
ZNAA (Assyrian Academic=
Society-Chicago)
new call on Turkey to join talks for a final
accord on sharing disputed waters of the Euphrates River. The=
conferees
have
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Toronto, Canada
"This week I received the new issue of JAAS.
As a member of Assyrian Academic Society, I have always supported the JAAS
staff and their continuous effort to provide us with a high quality journal.
However I was stunned by the contents of the Assyrian section of the new
issue of this Journal. The editorial board has published six=
letters/articles
that question the current dialog between the Assyrian Church of the East
(new calendar) and the Catholic Church. Although we should welcome=
expression
of opinions and concerns with regard to this very important issue, we should
be careful not to insult the religious believes of each other. The letter
written by Odishoo Malko and published in JAAS is a total insult to our
Assyrian brethren in Catholic church. Publication of such one-sided and
non-academic materials is definitely a deterioration of JAAS mission (i.
e. to publish well-researched and academic articles) and should be stopped
in future volumes.
Tony Khoshaba
Chicago, Illinois
As a long-time active member of the Assyrian
Academic Society, Mr. Tony Khoshaba is understandably concerned that views
expressed in the Journal should not necessarily be seen as those of the
Society. We wanted to assure Mr. Khoshaba that this was not our intention.
We have never spoken for the Society, nor have Journal writers ever spoken
for our publication. Mr. Khoshaba goes on to note that the Assyrian
section of the Journal recently published six letters which question the
current dialog between the Assyrian Church of the East and the Catholic
Church. Mr. Khoshaba is particularly critical of a letter by Odisho
Malko, which he views as "a total insult to our Assyrian brethren in the
Catholic Church." We would characterize it otherwise. Clearly Mr. Malko
has sharp disagreement with the nomenclature "Chaldean". He also takes
great exception to the principle that "Mary is the mother of God". In this
and other respects, Mr. Malko is simply restating Church of East doctrine
which has been affirmed at least up to the present time.
The current ecclesiastical dialogue has been
the subject of several previous articles in our Journal, none of which
ever engendered any negative feedback. We have tried as best we can to
provide the reader some of the historical background along with some of
the contemporary viewpoints. Whether it is seen as an exercise in=
"reconciliation"
or aimed at "unification", the current discussions constitute a red-button
issue to many. The letters published in the last issue were intended to
generate
responses, and we hope they will. Disputes are
the lifeblood of democracy. We hope that Mr. Khoshaba, who obviously
takes sharp issue with previous writers, will take advantage of the=
opportunity
to submit his own letter for our next issue. To date, we have not received
his comments, nor can we ascertain from his letter to Zenda exactly what
his views may be.
position pro or con in relation to the current
ecumenical dialogue. Anyone is welcome to express his or her reasoned
views to us regarding this issue. Please address us at the following=
address:
JAAS, P.O. Box 4102, Des Plaines, IL 60016-4102.
Doerfern und in der
Tuerkei nur 14539 insgesamt (stand: September 1995).
undemokratischen=
Massnahmen
aufzuheben, und alle Minderheiten in der Tuerkei
mit demokratischen Rechten zu behandeln. Dieser Appell ist auch
an die deutsche Regierung und an die EU=
gerichtet,
die Menschenrechtsverletzungen an die Minderheiten in der Tuerkei ernst
zu nehmen und die Regierung in=
Ankara
auffordern, die Demokratie im Lande besser
zu schuetzen.
their lives in the service of our country and
the Assyrian men and women who served in all the Wars of the United
States of America.
on a first come basis.
John=
Hosanna &n=
bsp;
Marshall Joseph *John J=
Ninirod
Lincoln S Tamraz *
c/o Ms. Margaret Cumniing
First Bank & Trust of Evanston
820 Church Street
Evanston, IL 60201
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John Hosanna, editor and
publisher of the "Assyrian Americans Who Served in the Armed Forces of
the United States" died on Sunday, October 19 in Chicago. He was
86. John worked diligently to in the fundraising efforts toward the
construction of a permanent memorial monument at Elmwood Cemetery in honor
of the Assyrian American servicemen. His book contains the pictures
of hundreds of Assyrian men and women who served during World War II, Korean
War, and the War in Vietnam. For more information visit
As already announced in Venice, the XLV RAI will
be held in Cambridge, MA, and New Haven, CT, from the 5th through the 10th
of July, 1998, under the auspices of Harvard University and with the=
participation
of Yale University. The principal part of the XLV RAI will take place
in Cambridge, on the campus of Harvard University, from the 5th through
the 8th of July.
The main theme of the meeting will be=
"Historiography,"
seen from both philological and archaeological perspectives, and as broadly
understood as possible, to accommodate a wide range of topics and=
approaches.
There will also be a session (comprising four
or five invited papers) devoted to the Hurrians, their history, language,
art, and material culture. This session is to coincide with the exhibit
on Nuzi and the Hurrians, which will be mounted for the occasion of the
RAI by the Semitic Museum of Harvard University.
The principal part of the RAI will also include
a panel entitled "Women in the Public Sphere," comprising four invited
papers.
One of the afternoon sessions - to be followed
by a reception - will take place at Brandeis University, situated in=
Waltham,
a suburb of Boston. Our hosts there will be Professor Tzvi Abusch and=
Brandeis'
Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies.
The provisional program of the principal part
of the RAI is as follows:
Sat., July 4: Registration.
Sun., July 5: Morning:
Mon., July 6: Morning: Paper=
sessions.
Tue., July 7: Morning: Paper=
sessions.
Wed., July 8: Morning: Paper=
sessions
and business meeting.
The principal part of the RAI will be followed
by an additional day of activities in New Haven, CT, on the campus of Yale
University (for the specifics, see below). The participation in that event
will be optional; there will be a separate registration fee for it.
Registration forms (both for the Harvard and
Yale events) and additional information will be sent out at the beginning
of this December. These materials will be additionally distributed
through E-mail, and they will also be available on the Internet, at the
site "Abzu" (//www-oi.uchicago.edu). All the participants of the last two
RAIs (Prague and Venice) will be mailed these materials automatically.
Those who did not attend either meeting but wish to obtain registration
forms should contact the organizers, preferably using the attachment just
below.
XLV=
RAI =
Cambridge - New Haven
July 3-10, 1998
Please send me registration forms
Surname and Title ........................ First
Name..........................
Requests for registration forms and all=
inquiries
should be directed to:
Description of the New Haven part of the XLV
RAI:
The entire Rencontre is cordially invited to
New Haven, CT, at the conclusion of the meeting in Cambridge. The following
program is planned:
I. Thursday, July 9:
10:00 AM: Depart from Cambridge
by charted buses.
11:30 AM: Arrive in Sturbridge,
MA, for a tour of Old Sturbridge Village, an open air museum that=
constitutes
a fascinating
1:00 PM: Buffet lunch
at the Bullard Tavern in Old Sturbridge Village.
2:30 PM: Depart from
Old Sturbridge Village by charted buses.
4:00 PM: Arrive New
Haven and check in at the Holiday Inn, 30 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT
06511
5:00 PM: Walk (5=
minutes)
to Beinecke Rare Book Library, Yale University (northeast corner of Wall
and High Streets)
8:00 PM: Free=
evening.
II. Friday, July 10:
9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon:
Symposium (invited papers) on "Seals and Seal Impressions" in the lecture
hall of the Yale Art
12:30 to 2:00 PM: Lunch at
Morse College (entrance on York Street).
2:30 to 3:30 PM:
Visit to the Babylonian Collection in Sterling Memorial Library (spouthwest
corner of Wall and High
3:30 PM:=
Conclusion
of RAI. Participants may stay on at the Holiday Inn, go on to New York,
or return to Cambridge.
Costs:
The all-inclusive package price for all the=
above
is $ 80.00 for a shared room (2 persons) and $ 115.00 for a private
room. This price covers the bus from Cambridge to New Haven, admission
and lunch at Old Sturbridge Village, hotel room for one night, and lunch
on Friday. Those who wish to stay over on Friday night may do so at the
rate of $ 36.50 for a shared room or $ 72.00 for a private room.
Registration forms (which will be sent out in
December) should be received by April 1 and can be submitted to the=
undersigned
by mail (Yale Babylonian Collection, Yale University Library, 130 Wall
Street, Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520) or E-mail (William.Hallo@Yale.edu)
or Fax: (-203-432-7231). Payment for participation is due in full at the
same time, and can be made by check or money order made out to Yale=
University
and sent to Ms. Susan Adler, Director, Office of Conference Services, 246
Church Street, New Haven, CT 06520.
to inform him of the incident at Habbaniya=
airport,
west of the capital. Two Americans working for UNSCOM were asked "politely"
to leave, in the incident at Habbaniya airport, west of the capital, a
diplomatic source here said. In "solidarity," a third US national
who works for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to disarm Iraq
returned with them aboard a UN plane to Manama, although he was not turned
back. The same US nationals had tried in vain to enter Iraq on Thursday,
a day after President Saddam Hussein imposed a ban on Americans who work
for UNSCOM and ordered out the eight posted
here. One of the eight Americans in Iraq also
left on Sunday as part of a "normal rotation" of staff, who on Monday are
to
resume field operations. "Monday will be a=
crucial
day because it will be the real test for Iraq. Inspectors are going to
start a new mission, and it is very, very probable that Americans will
take part in it," said a Western diplomat in Baghdad. The Arab League
on Sunday also "categorically" rejected any military intervention against
Iraq and called on the Security Council to take peaceful actions to contain
the crisis. Meanwhile, Saddam and his ministers held a meeting Sunday
on what measures to take against possible "US aggression," the official
INA news agency said. A UN oil embargo in force against Iraq since
its invasion of Kuwait in 1990 can not be lifted until UNSCOM has
certified the elimination of Baghdad's weapons of mass destruction.
Protests took place in Iraq for the fifth straight day Sunday supporting
the government's decision to stop cooperating with US officials from the
UN Special Commission to disarm Iraq (UNSCOM). Some 15,000 people
rallied in Mosul (Nineveh), 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of Baghdad,
with banners that said "Yes to President Saddam Hussein," "No to the=
Americans"
and "No to injustice," witnesses there said. State television reported
that similar demonstrations occurred in the southern cities of Basra,=
Diwaniya,
Najaf, Nassiriya and Hilla and in the northern city of Kirkuk.
Dec=
7 &n=
bsp;
General Meeting of the Assyrian Foundation of America
East
Syrian Christian Society
on the
Khabur River
Dec=
20 &=
nbsp;
Maestro Nebu Issabey's Nineveh Choir
Nov=
19
Commemoration of Mar Yacoub m' Pasqa
Nov=
22
Dokhrana 'd Mar Odisho d'Urmi
Dec=
7
Annunciation of the Virgin Mary (Soobara)
Dec=
8
Immaculate Conception
Dec=
13
Mar Yacub d'Nsiven (St. James of Nisibin)
Dec=
20
King Abgar V
Dec=
22
Mar Yousip (St. Joseph)
Dec=
25
Christmas (New Calendar)
Jan=
1
Mee-yah Khateh (Epiphany)
Jan=
22
Dokhrana 'd Mar Benyamin (St. Benjamin)
Nov=
9
Fundraising Dinner
E N T=
R
A C T E!
I N T E L L I G E N T
S I A
Chicago
Intro & Adv=
Modern
Assyrian
Zaia Kanoon
Wed,Thu,& Sat
7:00-9:00 PM
North Park University
Carlson TowerAssyrian Academic Society
800-454-6979
Soccer Practice
Ages 7-14
Mondays
7:45-9:45 PM
Warren Park Gymnasium
Assyrian Athletic Club Soccer Development=
Program
Harvard University
Elementary & Readings in Syriac I &=
II
Dr. J.F. Coakley
North Hollywood
Assyrian Boy Scouts
Sargon Gewargis=
fishtale@juno.com
(818) 891-3705
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Nisibis School
Saturdays
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Toronto, Canada
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MSA Room, Fennell Campus
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20000 Almaden Rd, San Jose
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