Personality Martyr Dr. Isam Al-Rawi (The Biography)

07-02-2008

Doctor Isam Kazım Fathi al-Rawi was born in 1949 in the town of Rawah which is in Anbar governorate.

He completed his bachelor and master degrees in the faculty of science, University of Baghdad in 1975. His profession was in science of earth (geology). Then he started to study for a doctorate programme in which he was the the first student grant doctorate from University of Baghdad in the jurisdiction.

Martyr Rawi grown in the environment of pious and warm family. His father Prof. Dr. Kazem Fathi Rawi was very eminent and distinguished person with his knowledge who was the author of many scientific books. His brother Dr. Ahmad was the former president of Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe. His other brother Dr. Kazım Kazım was the former dean of Islamic College in France.

He was very active in the area of da’wa among university students in spite of difficult circumstances which surrounded the Islamic Movement in that time. Martyr was arrested in 1985 with a number of his colleagues on charges of participating in the secret organization. He was sentenced to death which is changed to life imprisonment in 1987. Then, he was released in a general amnesty after the intervention of eminent Islamic personalities from outside Iraq.

After his release, Dr. Rawi went to University of Saladin in Irbil to teach where he spent several years. He set up close relations with people in general and the Islamic movements in all ways in particular. These relations provided good memories and were useful in bolstering ties between Arabs and Kurds.

After the occupation of Iraq, he joined to the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq. He saw this Association as the appropriate place for carrying out Islamic and national activities under occupation. Martyr Rawi participated in every political and non-political activities of AMSI.

Prof. Dr. Rawi founded the Association of University Teachers with a number of his colleagues and students in June 29, 2003. The purpose of this association was to be an instrument for the defense of important segment of society and to inform them about American woes and problems. This association has achieved great successes in this area and become a scientific & cultural institution with a distinguished status inside and outside Iraq. Even, the association has published statements and reports which was based on reliable scientific facts in Iraq in spite of difficult conjuncture under occupation.

Now, the association has 1400 university professor member, 225 of them are women professor. In the framework of Association’s interested area, martyr Rawi documented the crimes of occupation and presented them to the society. The Association also recorded very important list which included university professor’s names that are arrested and murdered with using many official and unofficial sources. Iraqi intellectuals are being killed on the daily basis and nobody is saying a word.

American Report: Mossad Systematically Killed 350 Nuclear Scientists And 200 Iraqi Academics A report published by the American Iraqi newspaper that the Mossad and together with American forces in Iraq has been able so far killed 350 Iraqi nuclear scientists and more than 200 university professor in the various scientific knowledge. Numerous reports for many months have stated that with collaboration from American occupation forces, Israel’s espionage apparatus, Mossad, slaughtered at least 530 Iraqi scientists and academic professors.

Persistent Israeli hit squads against Iraqi scientists had been active in Iraq since April 2003, but the latest chapter was uncovered on Tuesday, 14 June 2005 by the Palestine Information Center which, citing a report compiled by the United States Department of State and intended for the American President, stated that Israeli and foreign agents sent by Mossad, in cooperation with United States, to Iraq, killed at least 350 Iraqi scientists and more than 200 university professors and academic personalities. According to the report, which was referred to the U.S. president George W. Bush, Mossad agents had been operating in Iraq with the aim of liquidating Iraqi nuclear and biology scientists, among other scientists, and prominent university professors. That was after the U.S. failed to persuade those scientists to cooperate with or work for it.

"Israeli commandos had been operating on Iraqi territory for more than a year, the focus of their activities being the assassination of Iraqi scientists and intellectuals. The Zionists resorted to the large-scale assassination campaign after the failure of American efforts that started immediately after the American occupation of Iraq, aimed at attracting a number of Iraqi scientists to cooperate and go to work in the United States,” The Palestine Information Center quoted the report as saying.

"Some Iraqi scientists were forced to work in American research centers; however, the majority of them refused to cooperate in certain fields and fled the U.S. to other countries", it further stated. The Pentagon agreed with the suggestion of Mossad, which believed that the best way to get rid of those scientists was to "physically eliminate them". The American security service provided Israel with complete biographies on the Iraqi scientists and academics to facilitate killing them, the report said, adding that the Mossad campaign targeting Iraqi scientists is still underway.

There is no investigation. Dr. Isam Al-Rawi says the goal of these assassinations is the eventual destruction of Iraq. A former general in the Iraqi army, who would only give his initials, A.R., said the killing of professionals was intended to have a long-term impact.

"Occupation forces focused on Iraqi scientists who worked in military plants, they arrested many of them, and some of them were assassinated," he told IPS. "That's why Iraqi scientists sent an appeal for help over the Internet. They are asking the UN to help them with their situation in Iraq and to save them from the arrests and raids by occupation forces."

There is a clear design behind the killing, the former general said. "Many of them get killed near their houses or on the way to their work, and others get kidnapped, and we find their dead bodies in the street. When you follow these crimes you will be sure that the criminals have special training and their purpose is to make Iraq empty of any professionals."

It is not just the U.S. forces that Iraqis blame for these crimes. They see also an influence from Iran. Dr. Isam Al-Rawi, suggests that Iran is involved in assassinating educated and influential Iraqis. "Really we don't know exactly who they are, but I am sure these criminals are not normal and they get training in other countries, they know very well what they are doing. Their purpose is to destroy Iraq from the inside."

"This is tyranny, we live in the worst tyranny in all of human history," Dr. Al-Rawi further said. "Every hour in Iraq there are killings, kidnappings, arrests, house raids and more. And all of that is because of occupation and our weak government. When I say that I don't mean Saddam was good leader. No he also was bad but Iraqi streets were clean from these crimes, especially the crimes against professionals." Al-Rawi said, "I charge occupation forces and the Iran government because both want to destroy Iraq. The Iraqi minister of interior helps Iran to do their crimes, and the Iraqi government hides the statistics of assassinations, but we have our statistics." The Shia-led government in Iraq is close to Iranian religious and political leaders.

Martyr Rawi arranged many seminars and sypmosium inside and outside of Iraq. He participated in many scientific and religious conferences. Most of scientific, cultural, da’wa and religious conferences, meetings were outside of Iraq.

Some of these important programs:

1- Islamic Movement in Turkey
2- Islamic Society and Organizations in Turkey
3- The Dialogue between Religions
4- The Muslim Community in Britain
and a number of scientific and academic institutions.

Martyr Rawi represented the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI) in a number of forums, conferences and meetings. He visited Turkey, Lebanon, Russia, Libya and other countries as representative of AMSI.

He participated in the meeting with Sadr Movement which followed the tragic events of Samarra. al-Rawi also cooperated with al-Khalisi School to solve some problems and crises.

Professor Rawi studied on several scientific issues like sedimentary rocks and metals in the university.

Those universities:

1- Iraq - Baghdad University
2- Iraq - Irbil Saladin University
3- Libya - Sibha University
4- Religious and cultural activities in Istanbul
and many activities outside of Iraq after compelled and immigrated.

He was martyred on December 2006 in Baghdad, Insya Allah. The killers escaped in a car after gunning down Isam al-Rawi. The gunmen drove in front of al-Rawi's car, forced it to stop, then sprayed it with automatic weapons fire, said an official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared reprisal.

About 180 professors have been murdered and at least 3,250 have fled Iraq since the outbreak of widespread sectarian violence, the Higher Education Ministry said, but al-Rawi refused to leave, even though like the others he was threatened many times to leave Iraq. He felt that he was mostly needed to unveil all the crimes committed against his colleagues by pro-government militias including Badr and Jaish Al-Mahdi and other security gangs. His death is a great loss.