And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Genesis 11:1-9
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:9
Babel First Shiite Political Alliance formed
The political blocs in Babil province announced the formation of a new coalition called “Babel First” to form the local government in the province.
A spokesman for the Citizen Bloc, Abdul Razaq al-Nasrawi, said to the reporte that “The new alliance, which was announced at the headquarters of the political bureau of the Sadr Trend, comprises Citizen bloc, Ahrar bloc, National Unified Iraqiya coalition, Babel Iraqiya coalition, the list of Iraq My Homeland, Dawa Islamic Party/ Iraq Wing, and Civil Babylon alliance to have 16 members of the members of the provincial council out of 31 members.”
Nasrawi added that "The new alliance will adopt the task of forming a local government," stressing that “The new alliance participates in ending the debate over the issue of forming the local government and distribution of positions in the province."
For his part, the spokesman for Ahrar bloc MP Awad al-Awadi, told reporter that "The door is still open for other blocs to join the new alliance," noting that "The essential program for the [Babylon First] Alliance is based on a partnership rather than marginalization and exclusion of others.”
