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American Cassandra: Susan Lindauer's Story
Thursday, 12 June 2008, 4:34 pm
Column: Michael Collins
An Exclusive Interview with Bush Political Prisoner Susan Lindauer
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"I am furious about the abuse that I have suffered. I regard this as a Soviet-style attack on my rights to dissent from the government."
Susan Lindauer
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On March 11, 2004, Susan Lindauer was shocked to find FBI Agents pounding on the door of her Takoma Park house in Maryland with a warrant for her arrest. She was more shocked to discover that she was accused of acting as an "unregistered agent" of the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein.
It's been four years since her federal indictment. On June 17, Lindauer will have her first pre-trial hearing, where she will be allowed to call witnesses to disprove the allegations.
Lindauer has never been tried in a court of law—nor allowed any pre-trial hearing to call witnesses to validate claims that she worked as an Asset supervised by U.S. intelligence for 9 years. Instead, she was forced to submit to a psychological evaluation inside a prison on a Texas military base, where she was held for seven months before getting transferred to New York. In all, she was detained for 11 months without a conviction or a guilty plea. Pro se motions for a hearing to prove the authenticity of her claims were ignored.
The psych evaluation culminated in a finding that she was incompetent to stand trial, on the grounds that she was "deluded" into believing that she had worked as a U.S. asset or would not get convicted. The coup de gras was a formal request by federal prosecutors to forcibly drug Lindauer with Haldol in order to cure her of those claims and beliefs, so that she could stand trial. She would be formally cured when she stopped declaring that witnesses would substantiate her story.
(See. American Cassandra: Susan Lindauer's Story).
This interview follows an article yesterday summarizing the case to date and the critical June 17, 2008 hearing in federal court, Southern District, Manhattan before Judge Preska. The hearing is open to the public at the defendant's request.
Previous "Scoop" coverage of Susan Lindauer's ordeal:
Michael Collins: Bush Political Prisoner Gets Her Day in Court 11 June 2008
American Cassandra: Susan Lindauer's Story 17 October 2007
Collins: When you were indicted there was a broad range of media covering your story. After about a month, things seemed to go dark with the mainstream media. How has your story stayed alive?
Lindauer: I am shocked and disappointed that the mainstream media has failed to cover developments in this story. I hope that's going to change after this hearing, because a functional media is vital to protecting citizens from arbitrary and tyrannical government decisions. By contrast, the bloggers, have kept me alive. During my incarceration, friends like JB Fields (now deceased) smoked the blogs with outrage. He urged folks to write Judge Mukasey. To his own credit, Judge Mukasey actually called a court meeting when JB's readers sent letters and papers to the Court contradicting the official Psych evaluations. Judge Mukasey wanted to know why that documentation was available on the internet but not in his courtroom. He demanded a formal explanation from the Prosecutor and my own attorney, accounting for the discrepancies in their psych reporting. JB Fields blog – and all the other bloggers who picked it up-- saved my life and my freedom. No question.
Collins: You've been in court at least 15 times over four years regarding this case. What's different about this hearing?
Lindauer: The other meetings are called "status meetings." It's a formality to show that I'm still in the system. This is the first time I have been granted the right to call witnesses into court to authenticate my story. The Prosecutor has said that I am incompetent to stand trial because I am convinced of my innocence and cannot grasp that I might be convicted. Specifically, the Prosecution has used psychiatry to argue that my belief that I worked as an Asset for the U.S. Government constitutes delusional thinking. In a bizarre legal twist, the Prosecutor has argued that since I am delusional, I should be denied the right to call witnesses to prove that I am telling the Truth. Allegedly, my belief in the existence of witnesses is a function of my delusional belief in my innocence. Is that crazy or what? Talk about Kafkaesque!
Carswell's report was significant in one way that must be noted: Their staff testified that I suffer no depression, no bipolar disorder, no schizophrenia, no hallucinations or hearing voices. They said that I was socially interactive and my behavior was appropriate to the detention. Dr. Vas testified before Judge Mukasey, "that he looked really hard, but he couldn't find anything" after 7 months incarceration.
Collins: Of all the affronts and stress you've experienced in this open ended prosecution, what's been the most offensive element?
Lindauer: I am furious about the abuse that I have suffered. I regard this as a Soviet-style attack on my rights to dissent from the government. After my arrest, I was ordered to attend weekly psych meetings for a year, during which we discussed articles in the Washington Post—and nothing else. After Carswell, I spent another year in court-ordered psych meetings. The only point of conversation was how psychology has grievously harmed my life, depriving me of freedom, damaging my reputation, and terrorizing me by interfering with my rights to call participatory witnesses, who could straighten out the matter within minutes. Beyond that, the court quack surfed the internet looking for clothes and weekend entertainment for her daughter. Since August, 2007, I have refused to go back. I told the Court the game is over. Go to trial or drop the charges, which are ridiculous anyway. They don't have a case, and they know it..
Psychiatry was corrupt enough to help the Bush White House out of a jam, which says a lot. Forensic psychiatry is a profitable business. In my opinion they are charlatans and court prostitutes who are abusing their access to the Courts in order to get money out of the state and federal budgets. They have little or no value. For myself, I have never engaged in therapy or counseling. I would never confide personal affairs to them, or listen to anything they have to say. In a weird twist, anything I say could get reported to pre-trial services. It's not private. They were a huge waste of my time, burning the clock on my 6th Amendment rights.
Collins: How do you react to your treatment by the prosecution and their mental health experts?
Lindauer: Psychiatrists are terrified of witness testimony to the point of psychotic reaction. They're so insecure as to be deeply threatened that reality will impose limitations on their phony authority in the courtroom.
The consequence for due process of law is quite terrifying. One horrific shrink—Dr. Robert L. Goldstein, a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University-- actually testified that the depth of my belief in witness testimony confirmed the "seriousness of my mental illness." He said the Court must be patient and tolerant of my requests to call witnesses. He said it showed I was still very sick, and the Court should pity me for not understanding that these people were a figment of my imagination.
I was a prisoner in shackles at the time. I experienced a total state of shock that this corrupt quack could actual testify that my requests for due process demonstrated my incompetence to stand trial. As a "professional psychiatrist"—who had never spoken to me OR my witnesses, Goldstein nonetheless assured the Court that he would stake his professional reputation on their non-existence.
It was the most terrifying and Kafkaesque experience of my life. Truly it proves that psychiatry is out of control in the Courts. They invent and fabricate, and if the truth contradicts them, they don't even care. As Dr. Vas at Carswell put it, "we'll just tell the Court you made it up. Who do you think the Judge is going to believe? You or me? I am a doctor!"
I am firmly convinced that Congress must change the laws so that defendants can file for punitive damages against this sort of quackery. Judges should have the right to file sanctions against psychiatrists who blatantly lie to the Court—which would have to be reported to other Judges, if they testify in other cases. In the most extreme cases of outright perjury, wherein the psychiatrist verifies the truthfulness of a defendant's story and then lies about it as a so-called expert witness, then the matter should be turned over to a grand jury for indictment. I have no mercy for this garbage.
Collins: The wheels of justice grind slowly for you. It's been almost four years and there hasn't even been an evidentiary hearing. How could the process have been simplified?
Lindauer: If the Court wanted to know if my witnesses would validate my story, the Judge could very easily have set a hearing date & called everybody into Court to answer questions. Authenticity would have been established, one way or the other, within the first 15 minutes of testimony. Then the question would be answered. Finished. That's Due Process 101.
What does this say about psychology in the court-room???
In my experience, court psychology is rife with corruption and fraud. Immediately after my arrest four years ago, the psychologist referred me to himself, and then was shocked to find out that I was wholly disinterested in anything he had to say. I told him that I had no intention of changing anything about myself. In one year I intended to be exactly the same person that I was when I walked into his office.
I took a cook-book to the first meeting and forced him to listen to recitations of recipes, sans commentary. When he asked if I intended to cook any of the recipes, I assured him that I would never do such a thing. I said that I consider his insights to be as useless as a recipe that I would never bake.
He had the sense to be embarrassed. From that day on, he always had a copy of the Washington Post, and we discussed news articles and current affairs. That continued for a year. He might have enjoyed it. I didn't. I don't recall that we discussed anything except my complaints about how our court-ordered psych meetings interfered with my employment, since the bail order stopped me from working full time. I had to take a part-time job, which killed me financially. I made perfectly clear that he was wasting my time.
After almost a year of this, I told him point blank that I refused to continue. I told him that he contributed nothing to my life, except to stop me from buying groceries, paying my utilities, and forcing me to borrow money to pay my mortgage and my property taxes-- because he was so selfish as to persist in interfering with my employment, so he could make money off the court.
Collins: What happened after this period of "freedom" after your initial hearings.
Lindauer: Life got to be good again until the fateful day when i was ordered to go to Carswell.
I was told that I would be held for no more than 120 days. That's 4 months. And Judge Mukasey's clerk assured my uncle, who attended the court date, that more likely I would be home within 60 days, because the Judge expected the psych evaluation to be finished rapidly. Then it would be over. Ok, I could do that. I'm a pretty tough lady.
I went in on October 3, 2005 and waited for my release. I got tons of letters of encouragement from friends. I stayed active, walking four to six miles a day on the track, reading lots of books, working at the law library and entertaining myself with NYT crossword puzzles.
Only the prison staff on the Texas military base had other plans. They didn't want to let me go home. They actually argued for the right to detain me indefinitely, and forcibly drug me until I could be cured of claiming that I had ever worked as a U.S. asset.
I was released after 11 months. Judge Mukasey retired on the day of my release. I want to be clear that the man is my hero. Though I was detained, he issued a lengthy and well considered decision that blocked the Prosecution from forcibly drugging me. It's a decision that deserves to be considered in other cases in the future. I am profoundly grateful to Judge Mukasey. He has a great and formidable legal mind.
To this day, I am still pre-trial. I have never been convicted of a crime, nor accepted a guilty plea. All of my most fundamental rights under the precious Constitution of the United States have been revoked because a crooked psychiatrist made up a bullshit story & lied to a federal judge.
Collins: What did you do to get things moving with the court?
In August, 2007, I refused to go back to the Court-ordered meetings. Judge Loretta Preska is now hearing the case. In August I stopped attending the meetings, and told the Court that it's time to drop the charges or go to trial. If the Prosecutor wants to pretend that I'm delusional, I would gladly call witnesses for a pre-trial hearing on competency, at the earliest possible date, to smash his arguments all to hell.
In September, October and November, the Prosecutor desperately tried to get my bail revoked and get me sent back to Carswell. That motivated friends to cough up the legal fees for my new attorney. Everybody was terrified that he might prevail and the Court might actually send me back to Carswell.
I refused to let them intimidate me into backing down.
My mother would be proud if she was still alive.
Collins: What will you try to prove in court on June 17, 2008 and where do you go from there?
I am confident that my witnesses will establish that I most definitely worked as long-time asset supervised by individuals in U.S. intelligence. At that point, I hope the Justice Department would seize the opportunity to end the case before we have to go into the specifics of my work. It would be hugely embarrassing for politicians in Washington, if a trial exposes how badly the politicians have mismanaged opportunities to engage the U.S. in counter-terrorism. They are not the innocent of bystanders of intelligence failures that they pretend to be. They made serious mistakes in leadership that they have refused to acknowledge.
Assets like me are just the scapegoats for bad policy decisions.
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\section{Introduction}

The  Circumnuclear Star-Forming
 Regions (CNSFRs) with sizes until hundred of parsecs (\citet{Diaz2000}) are constituted by several HII regions ionized by compact and bright
stellar clouds. Using stellar velocity dispersions (39-67 km/s), the previous authors derived the dynamic masses for the complete stellar formation complex
and the individual stellar clouds with masses from 4.9x10$^{6}$Mo to 4.3x10$^{7}$Mo.

There is evidence of the presence of at least two different ionized kinematic gas components in the regions. The narrow component provided by setting two
Gaussian components seems to have a relatively constant value for all CNSFRs studied, with an average of 23 km/s. This narrow component could be identified with ionized gas on a
rotating disc, while the stars and the gas fraction responsible for the wide component seem more related to the regions of star formation.

Furthermore, \citet{Diaz2000} have investigated the possible connection between nuclear activity and star formation in circumnuclear galaxies CNSFRs  with
variable degrees of nuclear activity, concluding that there is no relationship in the formation of stars  and the region of nuclear activity caused by remnants
of supernovae with gas and radiation expelled from the active nucleus. \citet{Dors2008}  combined optical IFS data (Integral Field Unit)
Gemini and models to determine the abundance of gas and star forming rate on the CNSFRs of two active galaxies NGC1097 and NGC6951.

 \citet{Riffel2008} and \citet{Riffel2010}  using slicers inside GEMINI near infrared ( NIFS and GNIRS in the IFU mode ) studied the AGN - starburst connection and
Kinematics of gas in galaxies NGC4051 active and NGC7582 , respectively. They concluded that there are two forms of connection: first, molecular gas leads to the formation
of stars in the circumnuclear region; second, the molecular gas is formed in the  circumnuclear star formation region.

The galaxy NGC 1068 has been long considered as the prototype Seyfert 2 galaxy, but it shows wide components lines (FWHM of the order of 3500 km/s), typical emission lines
of Seyfert 1 when its spectrum is obtained in polarized light  \citet{Antonucci1985}, \citet{Antonucci1993} but part of the unpolarized light reaching
the observer has been absorbed by the toroid. It has also been classified morphologically as a spiral galaxy of type Sab.It has angular size of 7.1'x 6'. It is located at a
distance of 14.4Mpc  \citet{Ulvestad1987} and has a redshift  z=0.00379 ± 0.00001  \citet{Huchra1999} .The position of the active
nuclei in far Infrared is R.A. 02 42 40.771, DEC(J2000) -00 00 47.84  \citet{Skrutskie2006}.

The mass of the black hole, derived from the observational data is about 8x10$^{6}$Mo  \citet{LodatoBertin2003}. Observations in wavelengths the optical-UV
show that the emission is concentrated in a cone that extends to the northeast  \citet{Capetti1995}, \citet{Colbert2002}.
The same result was detected in maps [OIII]  \citet{Ruiz2001} and [NII]  \citet{Cecil1990}. The direction of polarized light
cone coincides with jets observed in radio maps obtained with VLA  \citet{WilsonUlvestad1982}. The Cone also is seen in the southwest direction in
optical-ultraviolet and [OII] but weaker. A stellar bar of 2Kpc was detected in the near infrared  \citet{Scoville1988}, in turn,
surrounded by a starburst circumnuclear it has also been detected in molecular gas lines  \citet{Sternberg1994} and continuous radio
 \citet{Gallimore1996}. The emission of this burst added to other star formation regions contribute the order half of the bolometric
 luminosity  of the galaxy  \citet{Davies1998},  \citet{JimenezBailon2004}.
Optical spectroscopy  made with the HST (Hubble Space Telescope) showed that NGC 1068 has a region of complex coronal lines extended to hundreds of parsecs.
``The dynamics of the  molecular gas in the torus show strong non-circular motions and enhanced turbulence superposed on a surprisingly slow rotation of the disk,
evidence suggesting that the molecular torus is less inclined''  \citet{GarciaBurillo2016}.

NGC 1068 represents an ideal object to try to establish the origin of the different   kinematics components  of the   gas in circumnuclear regions.
The aim of this work is to study the field of the velocities of the circumnuclear stellar formation regions and its possible connection with the active kernel of the galaxy.
We will map field velocities of the gas in these regions with good spatial sampling, and we will separate the field velocity complexes of circumnuclear star formation,
to study radial velocity of different zones to understand their effect on a possible widening of emission lines on the gas and distinguish the origin of the two components.

\section{Observations and Reduction}

The spectroscopic data of NGC 1068 in infrared were obtained from the database of the 8.1m telescope  Gemini South with GNIRS instrument in its configuration integral
field spectrograph on the night of December 26, 2004. The seeing that night was between 0.6 and 0.8 arcsec in the band V. The instrument is set up in a position
angle PA = 0, ie,the slices are east-west orientation.

The data analyzed in this paper were obtained with the spectrograph (GNIRS). When the Information of this work was acquired spectrograph was on the 8.1m
telescope Gemini South. GNIRS provides integral field spectroscopy with a spectral resolution from R = ( $\lambda$ / $\lambda$ $\Delta$x ) 4800 to 1600, J -band in a
visual image field of 4.8 x 3.2 arcsec$^{2}$.
The central wavelengths of the gratings  GNIRS can be adjusted reaching lengths of higher or lower wavelengths. For this a network of 32 l/mm is used that depending
on the angle; it can be adjusted from the X (1.10 $\mu$m) to the M band (4.80  $\mu$m), although generally is used in bands J , H , K (1.25  $\mu$m to 2.20  $\mu$m).
The IFU- GNIRS divides the plane of the sky into 21 slices of 0.15 arcsecs wide each.
Six exposures of 300 second were conducted in the observed zone of NGC 1068. Spectra flat screen field ( GCALflat ) and flat field of sky were also obtained
(Twilight) at exposures 2.5 sec. and 30 sec. respectively. It has also been obtained a spectrum of a calibration lamp ( Arc- Lamp) with a 1.5 sec exposure
to calibrate wavelength.

The reduction of these data was performed using the tasks of pack GNIRS of IRAF called GIRAF . In the process of reduction, the images were prepared to cut them
(only if necessary with nscut), flat fields were created for screen and sky (nsflat) , the telluric star and object of science were normalized , correction of
distortion of light (nssdist) , identification of the lines of the lamp was made, the sky was subtracted , the spectra obtained in the same spot were combined,
the calibration was performed in wavelength  (nstransform). Finally, the 2D spectrum is extracted in a 3D cube data (nfcube).
The cube contains spatial information in two directions and information Spectral on in the third. The final cube contains 651 spectra of the band J.

\section{MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS}

\subsection{MEASUREMENTS}

The data cube contains 651 spectra obtained on J band. Each spectrum obtained has been manually analyzed component by component to keep
valuable information that could help us understand in more detail the kinematics of NGC 1068. The spectrograph has 21 slices or mirrors. We obtained 31
spectra of each in order to complete the 651 mentioned.
The spectra of NGC 1068 show emission lines of hydrogen recombination  Pa$\beta$ ($\lambda$12814) as well as [FeII] $\lambda$12570 and FeII ($\lambda$13201 ).
Like the optical spectrum \citet{Arribas1996} the emission lines in the infrared band show significant variation in their profiles with asymmetries and peaks of at least
three components in many of them.

The maps were drawn from our measurement tables of the lines, creating a script that makes an order that allows  IRAF to convert the information into an image that will be
eventually a map. The maps are in coordinates x, y, z,  where z is the value of our variable for example flux , for x, y subtends 0.15 arc seconds in the sky per pixel.
The bar that accompanies each map indicates the value of each pixel by color.

Some of the spectra obtained in this work are shown (see Fig.1), note that the components of the lines are well defined, profiles so characteristic  of NGC 1068.
The obtained flow is in counts since they are not calibrated flow, i.e., we  don't have a standard to calibrate star flow, then the y axes in our spectra is the intensity
measured by not being a calibrated flow. The equivalent width (Eqw) it is the intensity of the line relative to the continuum.

In general, as shown and mentioned above, the strongest lines are Pa$\beta$ ($\lambda$12814 ) and [FeII]$\lambda$12570 while FeII($\lambda$13201 ) , although it never
disappears spectra , it becomes weak in most of the spectra. It is noteworthy that the Pa$\beta$ line in several spectra does not appear so could not be measured in all of them.
For to analyze each line with its components has been used IRAF task splot program adjusting at least two discrete components ( " d " for doublet , "g " for Gaussian fit).

\subsection{RESULTS}

In this section the results of this work show : Radial velocity of material in each region studied, flow lines and components; Intensity maps (flow)
for two components of each line ([FeII] $\lambda$12570 Pa$\beta$ $\lambda$ 12814 ); FWHM maps and Eqw ; Radial velocity maps; Location of the galactic nucleus on maps
with coordinates of Right Ascension (RA) and  Declination (DEC); understanding on behavior of the material in the study area.

The FWHM was disaffected of the instrumental width. To determine this we used the average of FWHM of the 10 most intense emission
lines from the sky, obtaining a value 182 km/s . The instrumental width was quadratically substacted to the  FWHM values measured.

The line  [FeII]$\lambda$13201 shows weak in most of the spectra, so that the mapping velocity and FWHM of that line would show a great error and it is not very reliable.

\subsubsection{[FeII]/Pa$\beta$ Ratios .}

In the map of figure 4 can be seing the ratio of lines [FeII]/Pa$\beta$. The ratio was made dividing the line intensities [FeII] and of Pa$\beta$ for its main component.
The ratio allows separate regions where photoionization dominates. The most common values range are from 0.5 to 2. In this map (Fig. 4), the nuclear region
(Marked with x) has values around 2. This would imply that there dominate the shocks, the SN, and the winds; but moving away from the region we can not say much
for poor signal/noise.
The map for the second component is not shown as values indicate  little signal to noise.

\subsubsection{Spectra settings on maps}

Once done the maps of various line parameters of [FeII] and Pa$\beta$ it has been found the spectra configuration with respect to the maps.
The maps are mapped  in 21x31 arrangements (y-axis vs x axis), the scale in arcsec is 0.15x0.15 by spaxel,square. Each box on the map corresponds to a spectrum.

\subsubsection{Error analysis}

The error map gives us an idea of the regions that are acceptably measures. For the component one of the map of Pa$\beta$, the purple regions are regions with errors smaller
than 50 km/s. Blue regions, they range from 50 to 100-150 (acceptable limit). To know what is the acceptable limit according to our data, we calculated the velocity resolution
and we have: if our spectrum for the line Pa$\beta$  at $\lambda$ = 12800 (approximately) has a Resolution on 3.85($\Delta$ $\lambda$) $\AA{}$, and " c" the speed of light,
we use the equation $\Delta$ $\lambda$ / $\lambda$ =$\Delta$V / c = 90km/s (each pixel in the spectrum). In figure 5 are error maps.

\begin{figure}

	\includegraphics[width=5cm]{e1}
	\includegraphics[width=5cm]{e2}
	\includegraphics[width=5cm]{e3}
	\includegraphics[width=5cm]{e4}
	\includegraphics[width=5cm]{e5}
	\includegraphics[width=5cm]{e6}
	 \caption{Most representative spectra obtained 651 spectra which can be seen clearly
       three lines l of emission on that have been analyzed. El spectral range for the X axis ($\lambda$) is 12000-13000
       $\AA{}$. The Y axis is in accounts (intensity)}
    \label{fig:spectra}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\epsfig{file=Flujo_FeII_comp1.jpg,width=4cm}
\epsfig{file=Flujo_FeII_comp2.jpg,width=4cm}
\epsfig{file=FWHM_FeII_comp1.jpg,width=4cm}
\epsfig{file=FWHM_FeII_comp2.jpg,width=4cm}
\epsfig{file=eqW_FeII_comp1.jpg,width=4cm}
\epsfig{file=eqW_FeII_comp2.jpg,width=4cm}
\epsfig{file=Velocidad_radial_FeII_comp1.jpg,width=4cm}
\epsfig{file=Velocidad_radial_FeII_comp2.jpg,width=4cm}
\caption[Flux Maps,FWHM,EqW y  radial velocity for FeII]{\label{flux_FeII_comp1} {\footnotesize Flux maps for  FeII line
 $\lambda$12570 (one a two images); first block at center: FWHM maps in km/s; Centering second block, Eqw $\AA{}$; Finally,
 radial velocity maps in km/s. Color bar indicate parameter value. Left maps are for the first component, while, right maps to the second.
 Maps orientation is North up, east left. There are not maps for the third component because low signal to noise and was detected in a reduced region of the field.}}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\epsfig{file=Ancho_eq_Pa_comp1.jpg,width=4cm}
\epsfig{file=Ancho_eq_Pa_comp2.jpg,width=4cm}
\epsfig{file=Flujo_Pa_comp1.jpg,width=4cm}
\epsfig{file=Flujo_Pa_comp2.jpg,width=4cm}
\epsfig{file=FWHM_Pa_comp1.jpg,width=4cm}
\epsfig{file=FWHM_Pa_comp2.jpg,width=4cm}
\epsfig{file=velocidad_Radial_Pa_comp1.jpg,width=4cm}
\epsfig{file=Velocidad_Radial_Pa_comp2.jpg,width=4cm}
\caption[EqW maps,flux,FWHM and Radial velocity of  Pa$\beta$ $\lambda$12814]{\label{EqW_comp1} {\footnotesize  Up: EqW  maps of the Pa$\beta$12814 line
in $\AA{}$; First block at the center, flux maps; Second block at the center, FWHM maps in km/s. Last one, Radial velocity maps in km/s.
Color bar indicate parameter value. Left maps are for the first component, while, right maps to the second.
 Maps orientation is North up, east left. There are not maps for the third component because low signal to noise}}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\section{DISCUSSION}

\subsection{Intensities obtained in the Maps}
\normalsize
The intensity maps that have been obtained in this work for lines [FeII]$\lambda$12570 and $\lambda$12814 Pa$\beta$ are for main components. \citet{Riffel2011} have worked
with the Mrk 1157 galaxy observing with NIFS of Gemini telescope, making intensity maps for the same lines ([FeII] and Pa$\beta$ and its ratios, concluding that the emission
flow for [FeII] increases due to shocks produced by the jet (radio), which destroys the dust grains expelling from the AGN. In addition \citet{Riffel2011}
worked with NGC 7582, which keeps recent star formation with a dark region in the central region \citet{Morris1985};. \citet{Regan1999};
\citet{StorchiBergmann2001}; \citet{SosaBrito2001}; \citet{Wold2006}, dust is responsible for asymmetrical contours flow maps obtained while the
star formation ring is circle. These clouds of star formation had not been observed in optical-IR. Comparing with the preceding information and maps obtained in
this study we conclude that: i) emissions lines are elongated in the direction of the jet; ii) the emission of flow for [FeII] in both components is greater than for
Pa$\beta$ components, which means influence of shocks produced by the jet; iii) More intensity in the emission of Pa$\beta$ for component 1 would imply a
ionization region of the component 1 due to a younger cluster, or where there are more massive stars that ionize the gas.

\subsection{FWHM from maps}

\citet{Riffel2010} studied  NGC 7582, reporting the presence of a broad component of Br$\gamma$ line with FWHM of 4000 km/s.
Another broad component observed (which disappeared) is h$\alpha$ and had also been reported by \citet{Aretxaga1999}, the latter seemed to have been caused by a transient
event and proposed three possible scenarios for its origin: i) Capture and breaking of a star by a supermassive black hole.
ii) A change in the redness of the toroid surrounding the core. iii) An explosion of Supernova Type II.

In this paper the map of FWHM for [FeII] has values ranging from 200-800 km/s being the most dominant about 600 km/s, indicating increased gas turbulence in
the area where that line is produced causing wider and deformed lines by turbulence.

From the maps obtained in this work, we found that for  Pa$\beta$ line the FWHM  obtained for component one is higher than for the component two with values ranging from
100-500 km/s and 100-300 km/s respectively with maximums at 300 km/s and 100 km/s respectively. We conclude that  exists more gas turbulence in
this line for component 1 than in component 2.

\subsection{EqW from Maps}

In his study of NGC 7582 \citet{Riffel2010} found for Br$\gamma$ line an Eqw  of 30$\AA{}$ and  stellar formation of 5Myr.  \citet{Dors2008}  found similar values of CNSFRs
in NGC6951 and NGC1097 . A greater Eqw indicate more star formation as shown \citet{RodriguezZaurin2010}. For this paper, we can see that, in the case of the Eqw of
[FeII]$\lambda$12570, we have values from 3-30 $\AA{}$ $^{-1}$. In the component one centered at 3$\AA{}$, and for the component two, values are similar. While in the case of
Eqw of Pa$\beta$  for component one, it has values from 1-6$\AA{}$ and for the component two, it has values dominated for 1-2$\AA{}$ .

Because the component 1 shows an EqW of  Pa$\beta$  bigger, we can estimate that this component would occur in an area with more
 recent star formation or abundant.

\subsection{Ratio lines}

The map obtained can observe the ratio of the lines [FeII]/Pa$\beta$ . The ratio allows separating regions where photoionization and shock regions dominate.
The most common values are 0.5 to 2. In this map the nuclear region (marked with x) has values around 2. This implies that there dominate the shocks, the SN,
and the winds; but moving away from the region we can not say much because poor signal/noise. The map for the second component is not shown because the values
indicate little signal to noise and higher errors.

\subsection{Radial velocity and dispersion velocity}

The optical spectra of the nuclear region show clear signs of middle-aged stars (Cid-Fernandes (2002)).
About the kinematics of gas, the blue shift could be due to an inflow if the gas is located in the plane or a outflow if the gas is
extended at high latitudes above the plane (conical structure facing us). \citet{Riffel2010} studied NGC 7582, the radial velocity field shows a blue shift
toward SE and a redshift NW, suggesting rotation although the kinematic center is shifted from the continuous  emission peak.
They concluded that the stellar velocity field shows distorted rotation which is offset relative to the core 50 pc (continuous peak); The distortion may be due to a bar
in the nucleus. In this work the velocity for the two components are of 1200 km/ and 600 km/s for the line [FeII], while for the line Pa$\beta$ we have 1150 km/s and 700 km/s.
In the work of \citet{Mazzalay2010} NGC 1068 was studied (with NIFS at 1.15-1.3 microns) but it was not adjust each of the lines of interest manually, it built codes to analyze them
losing valuable  kinematics information from different components. \citet{Riffel2010} studied NGC 1066 with NIFS  (1.10-1.35 microns) to obtain a very similar
to that presented in this paper (GNIRS), but adjustments the same lines without considering the components, losing kinematics information of the galaxy.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\epsfig{file=Cociente_Fe_Pa_comp1.jpg,width=6cm}
\caption[Ratio map of Intensity of FeII / Pa$\beta$]{\label{Cociente_Fe_Pa_comp1} {\footnotesize  Ratio map of Intensity of FeII/Pa$\beta$
using the principal component  of each line respectively. Orientation of the map is North up and east left.}}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\epsfig{file=Evel_FeIIc1.jpg,width=5cm}
\epsfig{file=Evel_FeIIc2.jpg,width=5cm}
\epsfig{file=Evel_PaBc1.jpg,width=5cm}
\epsfig{file=Evel_PaBc2.jpg,width=5cm}
\epsfig{file=barra_color.jpg,width=4cm}
\caption[Error analysis]{\label{Evel_FeIIc1} {\footnotesize Error maps  for radial velocity. On the Superior part are the error maps for [FeII].
Inferior part, the corresponding maps to the Pa$\beta$ line. The maps are show for two components, the first at left, and second at right.
The color bar represents the error value  km/s. To get error maps we use the Keel formula (1996).}}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\section{Conclusions}

In this paper, 651 spectra were obtained from NGC1068  between 1.25-1.32 microns , in these spectra
have being identified the most important emission lines [FeII]$\lambda$12570, Pa$\beta$ $\lambda$12814 and FeII $\lambda$13201.

For each of the lines, it has made an adjustment of multicomponent obtaining up to five components to the same line in some spectra, which in this work
only the two most important were presented and mapped: [FeII]$\lambda$12570 , Pa$\beta$ $\lambda$12814 being obtained the velocity field.

The information obtained for the observed distribution of flow in the two mapped components has shown that the emission gas in each has a double origin.
It has being associated with photoionization by young stars, or excitation by collisions. The nuclear emission for [FeII] in both components is greater than Pa$\beta$,
which means a high influence of shocks produced by the jet; Moreover, the emission intensity of the Pa$\beta$ line is high for the component 1, which imply
that this component is ionized by a younger cluster, or there are more massive stars. The Map FWHM for [FeII] has higher values for component 1,
indicating greater gas turbulence in the zone where the line is measured causing deformed wider lines by turbulence. For Pa$\beta$ line, the FWHM obtained
for component 1  is greater than for the component 2. We conclude that for this line, there is greater gas turbulence shown in componte 1 than component 2.

We Obtained for the case of eqw of [FeII]$\lambda$12570 similar data values for the two components show slightly lower in the component 2; For the component two of the
Pa$\beta$ line, values shown slightly lower than for the component 1. Because the component 1 shows a greater Eqw of Pa$\beta$  we can estimate that it would
occur in an area with more recent star formation or abundant. On the map shown, marked with x, the nuclear region  has values around 2. This would imply
that the shocks, the SN, and the winds dominate there; but moving away from this area, we can not say much due to poor signal to noise and greater errors.
The map for the second component is not shown because  values indicate very low signal to noise ratio and increased errors.

Finally, from the analysis of the velocity field is obtained that the component one of [FeII] line  is for greater than component 2.
In the same way, the velocity is higher in component one than component two  for Pa$\beta$ line.
The data relating to the component 1 are consistent with the presence of rotation. However, it is hard to
distinguish this effect produced by a jet. In the event that the rotation is displaced from the maximum continuous, our observations may point to the presence of a bar.

\section*{Acknowledgements}
This work has been supported by the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid fellowship 2010-2011.
A special  gratitude to  Luc Binette from UNAM for the support in my short stay with him.
My special  gratitude to German Gimeno from Gemini Telescope for the amazing experience at the telescope.
A special appreciation to Antonio Sanchez Ibarra, Carmen Mendiola, Hector P. Coiffier, Rocio P.
Mendiola, \mbox{K. Paola Tellez (and Pity).}
My gratitude to Luis Felipe Rodriguez from IRYA, Sergio Martin from ESO, Damian Mast from the Observatorio Astronomico de Cordoba, Angeles Diaz from
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, and Rolf Guesten from Max Planck for Radioastronomy for believing in me.

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text:
People NewsCN
Factbox: Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's testimony in 'wife beater' libel trial
LONDON (Reuters) - Johnny Depp is suing the publisher of Britain's Sun newspaper and its executive editor Dan Wootton for libel over an article that described the movie star as a "wife beater".
FILE PHOTO: Actor Johnny Depp and his wife Amber Heard attend the red carpet event for the movie "Black Mass" at the 72nd Venice Film Festival in northern Italy September 4, 2015. REUTERS/Manuel Silvestri
The Sun's lawyers told the court they would show the allegation in the article was true and that Depp had beaten ex-wife Amber Heard during violent rages brought on by alcohol or drugs.
Here is some of the testimony given at London's High Court by Depp, 57, and Heard, 34.
- Depp rejected all allegations that he attacked his ex-wife and said Heard assaulted him. "For the avoidance of any doubt, I have never abused Ms Heard, or, indeed, any other woman, in my life," Depp said in a written witness statement.
- Depp denied first assaulting Heard at her home in March 2013 after she mocked one of his tattoos.
- Depp also denied attacking Heard while filming in Australia in March 2015. He said she had thrown a vodka bottle at him during an argument, severing the tip of his finger. He said he then suffered "some species of a nervous breakdown" and began to write messages on the wall in blood.
- Depp denied assaulting Heard after she became upset that he was late for her 30th birthday party in April 2016, saying he was delayed by a meeting with his business managers where he learned he had lost $650 million. He accused her of attacking him while he was reading in bed.
- The day after, a cleaner found faeces in the couple's bed. "I was convinced it was Miss Heard herself or one of her cohort," Depp told the court. "I thought it was a strangely, oddly fitting end to the relationship."
- Depp said Heard's accusations were part of a hoax. "She was building a wonderful dossier, an insurance policy for when we did break up."
- Depp said he had taken "every drug known to man" by the age of 14 and had struggled to come to terms with his fame after a difficult childhood. He used drugs to self-medicate rather than for recreational purposes and spent $30,000 a month on wine, he said.
- Depp said he modelled himself as a "Southern Gentleman" who would never strike a woman. He added what Heard referred to as "the monster" was him yelling back at her in arguments. "It would become a screaming match and that was the monster."
- Heard said Depp attacked her on at least 14 occasions, threatened many times to kill her, and that he slapped, punched, head-butted, throttled and kicked her when he became "the monster" - a violent and jealous alter ego fuelled by excessive drinking or drug-taking. "Johnny - the monster - nearly killed me. I loved the Johnny who was clean and sober," she said.
- She said while in Australia Depp took drugs, drank large volumes of alcohol and became violent and abusive. He grabbed her by the neck, smashed her head against a refrigerator, choked her and threw glass bottles at her. "He was pressing so hard on my neck I couldn't breathe." "I remember thinking he was going to kill me in that moment."
- Heard denied throwing a bottle at Depp and severing part of his finger. He had flung bottles at her "like grenades" she said. "I only threw things to escape Johnny when he was beating me up."
- Heard said she punched Depp in Los Angeles in 2015 because she feared he would push her sister downstairs.
- She said Depp belittled her work and accused her of having affairs with actors with whom she had auditioned or co-starred.
- Heard denied she or one of her friends had defecated in the bed and said one of their dogs may have done it.
- A series of texts Heard sent to her mother in 2013 were read out in court by a lawyer: "He's nuts mom. Violent and crazy. I am heartbroken that THIS is who I love," Heard said in one of them.
Closing arguments are expected on Monday. A verdict is expected to be announced later.
Compiled by Alexandra Hudson; Editing by Janet Lawrence


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Mom on popular YouTube show accused of pepper-spraying her kids when they flubbed their lines
The "Fantastic Adventures" YouTube channel has racked up more than 250 million views with its adorable cast of seven adopted children, silly topics and charmingly low-fi visual effects.
Behind the scenes, though, the children told a different story. A welfare check last week found the home was a den of abuse in which their mother would withhold food and water for days at a time, pepper-spray them, force them to take ice baths and lock them in a barren closet, according to a statement of probable cause in Maricopa, Arizona.
"They stated they are disciplined in the manners above if they do not recall their lines or do not participate (in the videos) as they are directed to," the probable cause statement said.
"They further stated this is one of the reasons their mom took them out of school so they can keep filming their series and they mentioned they have not been in school for years."
Police on Friday arrested their mother, Machelle Hackney, 48, on two counts of molestation of a child, seven counts of child abuse, five counts of child neglect and five counts of unlawful imprisonment.
Her adult sons, Logan and Ryan Hackney, also were arrested Friday. They face seven charges each. They are accused of failing to report the abuse of a minor.
The three are being held without bond. A spokeswoman for the District Attorney's Office said they did not yet have an attorney.
In the police report, Hackney said the closet in her room is never used for punishment, and denied the accusations involving pepper spray and ice baths. She said the only forms of punishment she uses are having to stand in the corner, spankings and being grounded, the statement said.
Ryan Hackney invoked his Miranda rights, but Logan Hackney spoke to police and said the children were locked in the closet, pepper sprayed, and forced to take ice baths, the statement said.
What a welfare check found
Hackney's YouTube channel posts a new video about once a week and boasts nearly 800,000 subscribers. With titles like "The FLOOR IS LAVA!" and "Escape The Babysitter!" each of the 10- to 15-minute episodes features the family of cute children in lightsaber battles, turning into superheroes or attempting to steal cookies.
The statement of probable cause details a visit that welfare officers made to the home on March 13 after getting a tip from an adult daughter, who said one of the children said they were being abused.
During the welfare check, one child was found in an unlocked closet, which has a locking mechanism, wearing only a pull-up diaper, the statement said, adding that the other six children appeared to be malnourished. It said they had pale complexions, dark rings under their eyes, were underweight and they said they were thirsty and hungry.
According to the probable cause statement, one of the children drank three 16-ounce bottles of water within 20 minutes and said he had been pepper sprayed numerous times as punishment by his mother. Another child said she was extremely hungry and was given a bag of chips on the scene. However, she was afraid to eat the chips because she didn't want her mother to smell them on her breath, the statement said.
The Department of Child Safety then removed the seven children from their mother's custody.
A search of the home found two cans of pepper spray in the mother's room, and the closet in her bedroom had a deadbolt lock and a bare tile floor, the statement said.
In follow-up interviews, one child told of how they were kept locked in a closet for days at a time with no food, water or restroom. They also were pepper sprayed all over their face and body, spanked, forced to take ice baths, and forced to stand in the corner with their arms raised for several hours at a time, the statement said.
"I either get beat with a hanger or belt" "or a brush," one child said, "or get pepper sprayed from head to toe," according to the statement.
The child also said his mother would pinch the tip of his penis with her fingernails until it would bleed. Another child said she had been pepper sprayed on her vagina and recalled being in pain for four to five days, the statement said.
YouTube confirmed the channel was demonetized once the company was made aware of the arrest.
Mom allegedly put 4-year-old in hot car as punishment, sitting within reach of needle mom used for drugs
She FaceTimed her mom after a night out and then vanished. Her remains were found naked, bound 6 months later
Man charged with fatal child abuse of girlfriend's son
The appeal of unboxing videos online
Mom arrested after reportedly taking video of her daughter licking tongue depressor at doctor's office, putting it back
Family involved in caught-on-video brawl at Disneyland's Toontown denied it happened: police
NJ mom beaten unconscious by school bully who threatened her son: prosecutors
Phoenix mayor apologizes after cops pull guns on family when 4-year-old took a doll from a store
Woman accused of torturing several of her 15 children, boiling their puppies
A 2-year-old boy was having trouble getting around. So employees at a Home Depot built him a walker
California couple who shackled children face life in prison
Mom of slain children killed by their father asks for mercy for ex-husband in his trial


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namespace BlogSystem.Web.Areas.Administration.ViewModels.Page
{
    using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
    using System.Web.Mvc;

    using BlogSystem.Data.Models;
    using BlogSystem.Web.Infrastructure.Mapping;

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    {
        [Required]
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        [Display(Name = "Title")]
        public string Title { get; set; }

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text:
Q: How to calculate occurrence percentage with respect to available options I'm trying to make a polls app where user will give their input according to available choices
# they can be different also `len` of `choices` list can be changed
choices = ['Agree', 'Disagree', 'Leave Blank']

And the user_input will 1 item from the choices. like
new_user_input = 'Agree' # that could be anything from choices

I've been struggling with returning accurate results with out running multiple iterations.
Lets see what I'm trying :
def find_occurency_percentage(list_):
    return {i: round(list_.count(i)/len(list_)*100, 2)  for i in list_}

Running this function in Scenario 1:
# Fist Scenario
all_user_inputs = ['Agree', 'Disagree', 'Agree', 'Disagree', 'Agree', ]
new_user_input = 'Agree' # that could be anything from choices
all_user_inputs.append(new_user_input)
print(find_occurency_percentage(all_user_inputs))
'''
current result = {'Agree': 66.67, 'Disagree': 33.33}
expected result = {'Agree' : 66.67, 'Disagree': 33.33, 'Leave Blank' : 00.0}
'''

My problem is I'm unable to handle it so that the result should be according to all original choices. Not just only all_user_inputs
Here are more examples to understand the problem with running compiler https://godbolt.org/z/eTqYWd54e

A: This should be more understandable
from collections import Counter

def find_occurency_percentage(list_, choices):
    counts = Counter(list_)
    return {k: counts[k] / len(list_) for k in choices}

choices = ['Agree', 'Disagree', 'Leave Blank']
all_user_inputs = ['Agree', 'Disagree', 'Agree', 'Disagree', 'Agree', 'Agree']
print(find_occurency_percentage(all_user_inputs, choices))

# {'Agree': 0.6666666666666666, 'Disagree': 0.3333333333333333, 'Leave Blank': 0.0}

A: Iterate over choices instead:
{choice: round(100 * _list.count(k) / len(_list), 2) for choice in choices}

This has the added benefit of only iterating once over a much smaller input space, choices, as opposed to a theoretically much larger space, which is the user inputs.

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National Archives Opens Groundbreaking Civil War Exhibition in April 2010
Press Release · Wednesday, December 16, 2009
"Discovering the Civil War" Launches Nation's Sesquicentennial Commemoration
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Washington, DC…Beginning on April 30, 2010, the National Archives will peel back 150 years of accumulated analysis, interpretation, and opinion to reveal a Civil War that is little-known and even more rarely displayed in a new exhibition in the Lawrence F. O'Brien Gallery of the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. The Discovering the Civil War exhibition will present the most extensive display ever assembled from the incomparable Civil War holdings of the National Archives, and will take a fresh look at the Civil War through little-known stories, seldom-seen documents, and unusual perspectives. The exhibition is presented by the Center for the National Archives Experience and the Foundation for the National Archives.
Discovering the Civil War offers visitors the chance to join researchers in unlocking secrets, solving mysteries, and uncovering unexpected events in Civil War records of the National Archives. The exhibition features letters, diaries, photos, maps, petitions, receipts, patents, amendments, and proclamations.
This exhibition is unconventional in every way. It combines these great treasures with engaging touch-screen interactives incorporating social media tools in a physical environment inspired by 21st Century research rooms. Rather than trying to recreate 1860, these interactives let visitors see the war through the lens of 2010 technology. Passing over the traditional chronological approach, the exhibition is arranged by such themes as, "Spies and Conspiracies," "Prisoners and Casualties," "Emancipation," "Global War," and "Raising Armies."
Discovering the Civil War marks the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, will be shown in two parts in the Lawrence F. O'Brien Gallery of the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. The first part of the exhibition opens April 30, 2010 and runs through September 6, 2010. The second part opens in November 2010 and runs to April 2011.
Related free public programs will feature a Civil War film series, author lectures, family days, and expert panel discussions. The Spring 2010 issue of Prologue Magazine, the quarterly magazine of the National Archives, will focus on the Civil War and will feature an article from America's preeminent Civil War historian James McPherson. A special exhibition catalogue will be published in Fall 2010.
The original Emancipation Proclamation, which is rarely shown, will be showcased in a special three-day display during Part II of the exhibition.
In Part I, visitors will discover:
The original Virginia ordinance of secession;
The "substitute book" listing names and information on men who were paid $300 to replace draftees;
Abraham Lincoln's "substitute" in the Union Army;
How Lincoln stopped the execution of a Confederate major;
Messages from southern governors rejecting Lincoln's call for troops;
The Chinese connection to the Civil War;
Similarities of the Constitution of the Confederacy and the U.S. Constitution;
Original pension records from a woman who served in the Union Army as Frank Thompson.
In Part II, visitors will discover:
How social media networking will connect visitors to realtime live chats with "virtual docents" across the country, or allow them to share information on the Civil War with friends;
That two 13th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution were proposed by Congress;
How a congressional investigation into war profiteering transformed the meaning of the word "shoddy;"
Firsthand accounts of the Battle of Gettysburg at the veteran's 75th reunion filmed by the Army Signal Corps;
Original Freedmen's Bureau records documenting murders and outrages committed against African Americans;
Innovative wartime patents including a multipurpose device that could serve as a tent, knapsack or blanket.
The National Archives is located on the National Mall on Constitution Avenue at 9th Street, NW. Winter Exhibit Hall hours are 10 A.M. – 5:30 P.M. daily, except Thanksgiving and December 25 (through March 14). Spring hours are 10 A.M. – 7 PM (March 15-Labor Day).
After premiering in the Lawrence F. O'Brien Gallery in Washington, DC, Discovering the Civil War will embark upon a major, multi-city national tour beginning in 2011.
For more information about Discovering the Civil War or to obtain images of items included in the exhibition, call the National Archives Public Affairs staff at 202-357-5300.
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Q: what causes why $().val() sometimes not working? I am trying to help my friend with his problem regarding to the code of $().val();
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$("#btnClick").click(function(){
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I know that above example is running well. But in his case its not getting the input text from the text box and returning a "" / blank. He is using VS2010, Windows 10 OS and IE10

A: In your code most likely the problem is the id,if you have multiple elements on the page with the same id javascript will select only the first one in the dom tree


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Anxiety Evoked by Memories of Invasion
Tuesday, 16 August, 2022 - 04:30
Abdulrahman Al-Rashed
Abdulrahman Al-Rashed is the former general manager of Al-Arabiya television. He is also the former editor-in-chief of Asharq Al-Awsat, and the leading Arabic weekly magazine Al-Majalla. He is also a senior columnist in the daily newspapers Al-Madina and Al-Bilad.
Most members of the generation who witnessed late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990 consider it an unforgettable day, and deservedly so. It always evokes a disquieting anxiety that haunts the Arab Gulf region, particularly in Kuwait itself, albeit it being a discussion theme that is better avoided during dinner sessions.
Could another invasion recur and shock the region and the entire world on a hot summer night? Well, the fear is currently not of Iraq itself to be the initiator, but rather of it being a passageway or arena exploited by other sides for the same. Under the current circumstances, an invasion is hardly expected. However, nothing can be categorically ruled out, and therefore countries are building their military capabilities and preparing their forces for an anticipated day that no one wishes to come, but hazards are always hard to predict and anticipate.
On the 32nd anniversary of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and returning to the key question – which many intend to ignore – on the likelihood of a recurring invasion either on the short term or within a decade, I would opine that, although the possibility is very remote, but it can never be entirely out of the question. Hence, it is better to live according to the maxim of preparing for the worst scenario while hoping for the best one. At any rate, the prologue to Hussein's invasion was not historically unprecedented. Back in 1961, former Iraqi President Abd al-Karim Qasim initiated a three-year international crisis that was directed against the then newly independent State of Kuwait.
The current Iraqi state is going through a transitional phase the results and fluctuations of which are hard to predict. At any rate, the Iraqi political arena remains partially governed by wise personalities who, in spite of their disputes, have managed to protect their country from a civil war similar to that which destroyed countries like Libya and Yemen. Thus, there is tangible hope that the national Iraqi sides will preserve their country from disintegration and foreign domination. Nevertheless, the prevalence of ever-growing armed militias is posing a serious danger to Baghdad as the country's political center and threatening to drag Iraq to extremist policies or regional battles, as is the case in Lebanon brought about by Hezbollah.
Any threat to Kuwait is by default a threat to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and the rest of the Arab Gulf countries since geography is a constant factor – regardless of the circumstances, as Hegel stated.
Kuwait's options are more difficult than those in 1990, as back then everything was clear-cut and the entire world was split into two sides; one categorically opposing the invasion and the other supporting it. Nowadays, however, things are a bit different, as US' active military presence has considerably diminished, and frightening countries, like Iran, are boosting their military capabilities and expansionist ambitions. Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani liked to keep reminding GCC countries that Hussein proposed sharing the Gulf Region with Tehran in return for the latter's approval of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, noting that Iran rejected that offer. Regardless of how authentic that story is, the current political drivers are different from those three decades ago. China the superpower has emerged as the major customer of the Gulf Region's most important good; oil, and thus Beijing's influence has partially replaced that of the US there. However, and unlike Washington, Beijing is not ready to intervene militarily to protect oil-producing countries from bullying and aggression. Hence, the US remains the most dominant country in the region with its protection and military bases that are present there, as they are present in Japan and Western Europe.
After all, Washington is still the key international player in the Arab Gulf region. It has a defense agreement with Kuwait that entails the deployment of 13,000 US troops, which acts as a deterrence against any external aggression or even any plans for it. Meanwhile, major international shifts are taking place, and they include the gradual US withdrawal, the comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran expected to be signed before the end of 2022 and that would set the latter free, and the growing dominance of China as a country that does not differentiate between aggressor and victim countries. These shifts are posing a challenge to the leaders of GCC in managing the future of their region.
This recalls the topic of options available to the Arab Gulf countries in general. The GCC was established in 1981 as a political and defensive apparatus in response to the Iraq-Iran war. During the remaining years of this decade, the best option the GCC countries have is to enhance their joint defensive strategies, which in turn would attract international cooperation and deter regional expansionist ambitions.
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Whilst it seems to me that HHS are not entirely innocent in all of this, the serving of a wide ranging enforcement notice appears heavy handed and does not seem to balance the community needs (including employment) against the demands of blanket green belt legislation. There must be a common sense compromise that allows the business to continue successfully.
Failing that, we can exercise our democratic rights at the next election and seek to change our representatives.