Iraqi Election Violence in Australia

CBS News carried the story Iraq Exile Voters Fight Protesters

Underscoring security concerns, protesters in Australia, identified by ballot organizers as Wahhabis — followers of an austere brand of Sunni Islam suspected of having influence over militants in Iraq — yelled insults at voters.

The Sunday Telegraph in Australia had the story as Fight breaks out at Sydney polling booths.

Police cordoned-off Queen St, Auburn, after a violent scuffle broke out between supporters of terrorist leader Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi and advocates of democracy.

When, in fact, as the Sydney Morning Herald reported in the story Democracy dawns with a shove in a Sydney queue, they were Communists.

The local election was not unopposed. On the other side of the street, a group called the Workers' Communist Party of Iraq called on people through loudhailers to boycott the vote.

Mazin Nadir said: "You are free here, but back in Iraq your families are voting for the oppression of workers."

The WCPI are described by Andrew Flood in his article Anarchism and the Iraq elections as

The WCPI are an interesting neo-leninist group which broke with orthodox communism out of their experiences in the workers councils thrown up in the Iranian revolution of 1979 and the uprisings that followed the 1991 Iraq war. The conclusions they came to are in some ways similar to that of the Dutch and German Council Communists of the 1920's. Naturally enough this experience also left them with a healthy hostility towards the Islamist program. They warn that "Iraq has become a battlefield for a war between American and Islamic terrorism and the Iraqi masses are constant victims caught amid the fire between both these terrorist forces".

Does this mean that Wahhabis and Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi are all now part of the world-wide Communist conspiracy? No! The above articles show that the Coporate media will smear anyone who stands in the way of the Captialist program.