H-Net* [Fwd: Statement from Ulema]
---BeginMessage--- Asalamu'alaikum, This is a roughly translated Bayyan. Obviously some of these points are not related to us, but we can call on governments and participate in demonstrations and do anything in our legal means to defend these armless civilians and Masjid Al Aqsa. Allahu Akbar, Walilah Al Hamd, _ In the name of Allah, The Most compassionate, The Merciful This is a Call to the Scholars of the Muslims Ummah (Nation), the Muslim Intellectual leaders, and the Arab and Islamic nations. Allah the exalted says: To those who against who the War is made, permission is given (to fight), because they are oppressed, and verily Allah is the Most capable to give them victory. Those who were expelled from their homes with out any justification, except they say Allah is our Lord. Chapter 22 A39-40 To the masses of the Arab and the Muslim Nations everywhere. The heroic Palestinian people have entered a battle against the Zionist enemy, and are resisting against their heavy machinery weapons. They are resisting against an enemy that is committing barbaric massacre, who make no difference between an infant, a woman, elders, and men. These Zionists are cutting off the supply of medicine, electricity, food, and even water. The streets of the Palestinian cities are filled with dead bodies that have no body to burry them. The streets are painted with the flowing blood of the injured and the dead. Our brothers and sisters are calling upon us, anybody to help them, but to no avail, no one is responding to their call. Yet, all this is not stopping the children of this heroic nation to offer themselves and their own blood to defend themselves. To masses of this Nation, the Palestinian people have entered this battle; indeed they are doing it on behalf of the Arab Nations and the Islamic Nations. The bodies of the men and women of Palestine are shields against the Zionist agenda, which its greater target is to destroy the entire Islamic Ummah. With all these hardships, the Palestinian people, AL Mujahideen, are offering their own souls to defend the honor of this Ummah. They are holding themselves steadfast against these Zionist attacks. They have realized that Muslim Ummah governments have betrayed them, and they realized that they only can depend on themselves. Our Ummah (governments) have turned their back on the Palestinian people and they act like they havent heard the words of Allah, the exalted, where He says, And why should you not fight in the cause of God, and of those who being weak, from the men, women, and children, whose cry is: Our lord rescue us from this town whose people are oppressors; and raise from us a Wali (one who protect) and raise from us one who will help. Chapter 4 A75 In this time they posses (the Arab and Islamic nations) all the military and army capabilities. Therefore, some of the scholars and thinkers of the Islamic Ummah are signing this historic document to affirm, as religious leaders, that Jihad is an Obligation (Fardh ain) on the Muslims at this crucial time. We have the obligation of giving victory to the people of Palestine and we should try to liberate the land and its holy places from the hands of the Israelis. Based on this, they (the scholars who signed this document), are asking the Muslim Ummah to put pressure on the leaders to call onto the following: 1- Call for a state of emergency in their country and prepare people to for Jihad to liberate Holy Land from the Zionist regime. 2-Apply pressure to cut off oil on Israel and America, the strategic partner in killing the Palestinian. The scholars are calling on all the Arab and Islamic nations to follow the footstep of Iraq in cutting off exporting oil for one month. 3-Cutting all diplomatic, economic, and security relations and to stop all normalization with the Zionist state of Israel. All Muslim countries should close all Israeli embassies and consulates in all Islamic countries. 4-To come up with means to support any efforts that strengthen the resistance in Palestine. And to go to demonstrations to support the Palestinian people and to make that day of Al Jumaa 4-12-?2002 a day of outrage against the barbaric massacres committed against the Palestinians. 5-To increase the assistance to the Palestinian people by any means possible. Money, food, armory, etc 6-To allow the general Muslim public to demonstrate as a form of expressing their anger about whats going in Palestine. 7-Send letters to the world governments, human right institutions to carry its responsibility and stop the blood shed in Palestine. 8-Boycotts all Zionist and American products in the Arab and Islamic worlds. 9-Calling on all government and independent media offices to be in the service of this battle against the Zionists propaganda. O Allah we have convey O Allah be our witness 04/09/2002 Signed by: 1-Shaykh Mustafa Mashhour, The
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H-Net* Israeli soldiers die in Jenin ambush
infrastructure, the IDF said. Israeli forces entered Dura, a town southwest of Hebron, with the goal of apprehending wanted suspects, the IDF said. A rocket was fired into northern Israel from south Lebanon Tuesday following clashes between Hezbollah guerrillas and Israeli troops, Lebanese security sources said. There were no immediate reports of casualties. Earlier, Israeli forces in the area fired artillery into Lebanon after coming under Hezbollah attack. No casualties were reported. Three Palestinians were killed in fights with Israeli troops in Hebron, Palestinian sources said. Israeli troops began their offensive in the West Bank on March 29. The operation started during a wave of Palestinian suicide bombings over the Passover holiday. Arab anger Arab nations have condemned the Israeli incursions, launched during a wave of Palestinian suicide bombings over the Passover holiday. We have seen how many civilians have been killed, how many civilians have been maimed, how many houses have been destroyed, and how people have not been allowed to get medical help that they needed, said Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher. Secretary of State Colin Powell, in Cairo for a meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, said he spoke with Sharon Tuesday. The prime minister reaffirmed his commitment to bring this to an end as quick as he can, said Powell, who is due to arrive in Israel Thursday. Powell also said he intends to meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at some point after he arrives in Israel. Arafat has been holed up for more than a week at his compound in Ramallah, on the West Bank. (Full story) Meanwhile, Israeli officials said they would allow Arafat to meet with his senior aides once the aides meet with U.S. Middle East envoy Anthony Zinni. Palestinians said they need to meet with Arafat first, because they have not talked him in days. Arafat's senior officials will confer with Arafat on Wednesday, said Saeb Erakat, the Palestinians' chief negotiator. After that session, another group of senior Palestinian officials will meet with Zinni, he said. ( Melanggan ? To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] pada body : SUBSCRIBE HIZB) ( Berhenti ? To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] pada body: UNSUBSCRIBE HIZB) ( Segala pendapat yang dikemukakan tidak menggambarkan ) ( pandangan rasmi bukan tanggungjawab HIZBI-Net ) ( Bermasalah? Sila hubungi [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Pengirim: Mohd Bazil Badrul Jam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
H-Net* [Fwd: Sheikh Qaradawi's Jumu'ah Khutbah: Jihad is fard 'ayn (meaningobligatory for every Muslim in the world and that if you do not do it youare a sinner and may go]
---BeginMessage--- Assalamu'alaikum, Reported in Qatari newspaper Ar-Raayah, 23 March 2002) Important: Sheikh Qaradawi's Jumu'ah Khutbah: Jihad is fard 'ayn Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi during the Friday Sermon at Doha: I am a terrorist!!! Jihad is no longer fard kifaayah, but is now fard 'ayn on every Muslim: Each has the duty to strive with what is possible to him- his life, his words, with all he can. Doha, Dr. Hasan Ali Daba The eminent scholar Dr. Yusuf Qaradawi deplored the state of Arabs and Muslims who have been driven out of the conflict and have become mere intermediaries, considering the resistance of the Palestinian people the sole achievement of the Ummah in the past Hijri year. He criticised preachers who neglect the state of the Ummah, focusing instead on individual account. His eminence called during yesterday's Friday sermon, which came after an absence of many weeks due to travels and health problems, for the provision of Palestinians with arms and funds which will - if the Arabs and their leaders had a little patience - bring about victory to the Intifada. He considered jihad to be an individual obligation on every Muslim (fard 'ayn) and not only a collective obligation (fard kifaayah) on the Palestinians alone, and he called on Arabs and their leaders at the Summit to oppose the attack on Iraq and not support the U.S. in that regard. The prominent scholar also denounced the targeting of Muslims in America and the raiding of their institutions, while they are only active in the cultural and educational fields and have no links to violence or terrorism or physical jihad. The Islamic university was victim to such a raid, their books and equipment were confiscated and its director Dr Taha Jaabir al-'Alawani detained, and so were the Islamic Fiqh Council and the Institute of International Islamic Thought; sisters were detained, and one had her hands tied behind her back for 3 hours until she cried, then they kept her hands tied to the front for 2 hours. He said: America which claims adherence to freedom and human rights treats people in this way, detaining over 1,000 people in America, with no charge leveled at anyone except one out of 1,000! Are these international standards? We are puzzled that America has reached such a level of contravention of law, giving complete freedom to its services to carry out such acts and treat people as sub-humans!! We raise our voice, and demand that these people - many of whom are American-born - be granted their citizenship rights and be treated with the respect and dignity bestowed by the Creator: And we have indeed ennobled the sons of Adam. His eminence began his sermon by remembering his days as a student awaiting the advent of the new Hijri year to read what was written by writers and poets on the occasion which was celebrated in some literary and cultural magazines, where poets and authors used to write on the Hijri year and the Ummah's pains and aspirations. He criticised preachers and imams who focus on the actions of the individual and personal account, saying: That is a good thing, but the neglect of the state of the Ummah is a dangerous matter. He continued, We were concerned with the state of the Ummah, what it has achieved and what it has lost. Islamic poets used to feed our emotions at the time. I recall one such poet whose poems we used to appreciate. He was a great Islamic poet, Mahmood Ghuneim who on the occasion of a new hijri year wrote a poem lamenting the state of Muslims at the time which he called: standing at the ruins, in which he cries, deplores and laments saying: [..] The Sheikh commented: Thus this man stood watching the ruins of the past, weeping over the state of the Ummah in those days. And its state was not like our state now. Our state now is a deplorable state, which makes our eyes cry and our hearts bleed. Evaluation As we say farewell to a hijri year and welcome a new one - what have we achieved in the past year? And what gains has this Ummah made? Sharon and his gang can say that we have done a lot and achieved a lot. He could with his tanks destroy villages and towns, raid people's homes, enter their bedrooms, violate their sanctity. They could spill blood, violate everything, destroy homes, burn lands, and destroy mosques and schools. They were not content with imposing a blockade on this people to starve it; they wished to kill it and finish it off. Sharon did a lot, with tanks and planes. He cared for nothing and feared no one. For he has money, arms and the American veto, and he has the humiliation of the Arabs who silently watched what was happening. The only thing achieved by the Ummah is the resistance of the Palestinian people, its heroism, so let us salute this Palestinian people, salute the daughters of Palestine, and the mothers of Palestine, and the elderly of Palestine, and the youth of Palestine. Let us alute this heroic people who turned weakness into strength, and made out of nothing
H-Net* Taliban bargaining on 18 US soldiers
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Taliban bargaining on 18 US soldiers
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ISLAMABAD: While the American Special
Forces are continuing their efforts to locate
the 18 US soldiers taken hostage by the
Taliban and AlQaida fighters during the most
intense fighting in the snow covered peaks of
the Arma region of the eastern Paktia
Province, bargaining efforts are going on at
highest level between the Americans and the
Taliban who now are demanding the safe
release of more than 350 Taliban and non
Afghan prisoners languishing in X-Ray Cells
in Cuba.
Reliable and informed sources have told The
Frontier Post that 18 US soldiers were taken
hostage during the severe fighting in the snow
covered mountains of Gardez in Afghanistan
between the US soldiers and the Taliban forces.
Sources said that Taliban are now demanding
the release of all the Taliban and non Afghan
prisoners from Guantanamo X-Ray cells but so far
diplomacu is going on with no positive signs from
Bush administration.
More than 400 Ame! rican forces had not only
withdrawn from the Gardez region but also
provided safe passage to the AlQaida and Taliban
forces for the safety of the US soldiers who were
taken hostage during a night time operation.
With the arrival of extra 1700 British forces and
American reinforcements in Afghanistan, the
allied
forces have started a rigorous hunt of the
AlQaida
forces to secure the release of the US hostages,
sources added.
Already the US Central Command General Tommy
Frank is in Kabul.
Sources have said that US may try to use the
good offices of the JUI-F leader Maulana
Fazal-ur-
Rehman who has been released recently after six
month government custody but Rehman has
denied playing any such role while talking to the
Frontier Post on Tuesday from his residence in
Dera.
I have also heard some reports about the US
soldiers taken hostage by the Taliban but no one
has approached me and I am not in touch with any
body said Rehman.
Source: The Frontier Post
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---BeginMessage--- Assalamu'alaikum, The new face of Islam by Nick Compton http://www.thisislondon.com/dynamic/lifestyle/londonlife/top_review.html?in_review_id=523131review_text_id=488082 At first she tried to resist. She did not want this to happen. She was not that sort of person. After all, there were no gaps in her life, no spiritual ache, she did not need support or direction. But she kept reading and it kept making sense. 'I had absolutely no expectation or desire to end up where I am,' she says. 'It was almost with trepidation that I kept turning the pages and the trepidation just increased. I kept thinking: OK, where's the flaw? Where's the bit that doesn't make sense? But it never came. And then it was like: Oh no, I can see where this is leading. This is disastrous. I don't want to be a Muslim! Caroline Bate is 30 years old, blonde, blue-eyed and pretty, with a soft Home Counties accent. She has a degree from Cambridge (she studied Russian and German before switching to management studies) and works for an investment bank in the City. She is Middle England's dream daughter or daughter-in-law. And though she has yet to make her formal declaration of faith in Allah and the prophet Mohammed - a two-line pledge called the Shahada - she considers herself Muslim. She ticked the box on a form recently. It felt good, she says. Caroline is not alone. Though data is hard to come by, several London mosques have been reporting an increase in the number of converts to Islam, especially since 11 September. Like Caroline, many of these converts are from solid middle-class backgrounds, have successful careers, enjoy active social lives and are fundamentally happy with their lot. This is not a new trend, however. Matthew Wilkinson, a former head boy of Eton, became Tariq, when he converted to Islam in 1993. Jonathan Birt, son of Lord Birt, late of the BBC and now the government's transport guru, converted in 1997. The son and daughter of Lord Justice Scott also converted and Joe Ahmed Dobson, the 26-year-old son of the former Health Secretary Frank Dobson, has recently and, somewhat reluctantly, emerged as the voice of new Muslim converts in Britain. But it is a trend that has been pushed along by recent events. So far it has gone largely unnoticed, as the press concentrates on some of the more colourful characters that 11 September has thrown up. Since 11 September, the luridly painted poster boys of British Islam have been radical clerics such as Abu Hamza al-Masri, the steel-clawed, milky-eyed so-called 'mad mullah' of Finsbury Park mosque. Here are Victorian villains, fiendish emissaries of some ancient and foreign evil, straight out of an Indiana Jones movie. Their followers are blank-eyed drones like Richard Reid, packing his high-tops with high explosives. Or James McLintock, the 'Tartan Taliban'. There are lost boys, dislocated and dysfunctional, petty thieves preyed on in South London prisons and young offenders' institutions by fakir Fagins who forge an untempered anger into a righteous ire and provide it with a target. (Three imams working in British prisons have been suspended since 11 September for making 'inappropriate remarks' about the terrorist attacks.) But that is a sideshow, a compelling melodrama played out beyond the fringes of Islamic culture in this country. And while it might be stretching a point - and answering caricature with caricature - to insist that a demure English rose is the exemplar of the modern British convert to Islam, Caroline Bate is certainly more representative than Richard Reid. Talking to recent Muslim converts, it is striking how similar the descriptions of their embrace of Islam are. Most were introduced to Islam, and Islamic history and teaching, by friends. And, given that Islam is not generally a missionary faith, these were gentle introductions. For most, conversion was born of curiosity, an attempt to better understand the people around them. Caroline first started reading about Islam last April. A school friend she has known since she was 11 was marrying a Tunisian, a Muslim. 'My best friend was marrying into a different culture so I wanted to know more about it,' she explains. 'I came at it from more of a cultural perspective than a religious one. But the literature that I picked up just stimulated me. And Islamic teaching made perfect, logical sense. You can approach it intellectually and there are no gaps, no great leaps of faith that you have to make.' Roger (not his real name) is a doctor in his mid-thirties. About a year and a half ago, he started talking about Islam to Muslim colleagues at work. 'All I had ever heard about Islam in the media was Hezbollah and guerrillas and all of that. And here were these really decent people whom I was beginning to get to know. So I started to ask a few questions and I was amazed at my own ignorance.' He became a Muslim a couple of months ago. For these new converts, embracing Islam is usually a
H-Net* ::KAVKAZ CENTER::news::facts::analysis
http://www.kavkaz.org/eng/article.php?id=475 Title: ::KAVKAZ CENTER::news::facts::analysis Search: 11 03 2002 Monday 04:04on Djokhar time main Main Events Analysis Important Photo Video Islam Talking Point Cooperation About us Links Chat Feedback mirrors kavkazcenter.org US negotiations to free 18 captured US soldiers Special Report(Daily Ummat): Reliable sources have disclosed that the US has offered to negotiate with the Mujahideen and make some deal in exchange for the freedom of 18 US soldiers, captured by the Mujahideen. These arrested US soldiers include at least two senior high ranking officers. It is believed that Operation Anaconda has been stopped because of American concern as to the fate of these 18 prisoners. More to come shortly, Allah Willing. French Soldier Killed in Kabul Whilst Trying to Neutralize Explosive Device KABUL(Special Reporter, Daily Ummat) : A French soldier was killed in Kabul airport, as he was trying to neutralize what believes to be an unexploded shell or bomb. It seems as if this bomb had been planted and this comes as the second incident in a week involving the occupying forces in Kabul. Previously, five of these soldiers stationed at Kabul were killed, whilst trying to neutralize a booby trapped explosive device. Us-Afghan allied commander surrenders to the mujahideen in Girdees Special Reporter( Daily Ummat): The interim government had sent one of its most trustworthy commanders, Baseer Salangi, along with a contingent of 1000 Afghan soldiers in order to assist US operations in Girdeez. They had been assigned the responsibility to attack Taliban and Arab Mujahideen positions, but when they reached the front line, Commander Baseer Salangi surrendered to the Mujahideen along with 32 of his men. This resulted in many US-Afghan allied troops retreating from their positions and fleeing from the front line. Western media has claimed that Northern Alliance soldiers have retreated back due to intense fighting etc. but the
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---BeginMessage--- Assalamu'alaikum, Peter Popham: The myth of Ram's temple has become a licence to kill in India 'Muslim equals terrorist, Hindu nationalists tell each other; we have 140 million terrorists in our midst' 05 March 2002 http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=270940 India is a big country, and it is usually big-hearted enough not to betray signs of being bothered by what we Delhi-based foreign correspondents write. So it was a rare event when, nearly a year ago, I was politely summoned to the office of Raminder Singh Jassal, then Chief Secretary for External Publicity in the Ministry of External Affairs, and given a sound ticking off. The main complaint was that I had written at some length about Hindu-Muslim clashes that had broken out in several towns and cities across India following the Taliban's demolition of the Bamiyan Buddhas. The Indian officials didn't question the veracity of my report, but they made it plain that they regarded it as unfriendly of me to have written on the topic of communal disturbances at all. Relations between majority and minority communities have been far better under this government than they were before, Mr Jassal told me. So when there is some little incident, why focus on it? I expect no such call from the ministry this week. The deaths of at least 450, and probably more than 1,000, Gujaratis, nearly all Muslims, in four days of communal bestiality have exploded for ever the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) claim to have presided over an era of communal peace. And now, riding the crest of that particular wave, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP, or World Hindu Council), an extremist group within the same Hindu nationalist family as the BJP, is pressing ahead with its plans to begin construction of the long dreamed-of temple to the god Ram in Ayodhya, on the ruins of the mosque torn down by a mob of the same people in December 1992. These two events, the Gujarat bloodbath and the Ayodhya temple, are intimately connected. Taken together they throw into urgent focus the question: what sort of people are ruling the world's biggest democracy today? Where are they headed? The first man on earth was an Indian, and a Hindu. Hinduism was the primeval religion, not just of India but of the world. There was no Aryan invasion of India, no enslavement of the southern Dravidians. Hindus were here from day one. Other people arrived on these shores, but eventually they bent the knee to Bharat Mata, Mother India, and were knitted into the Hindu fabric. Only the Muslims (and to a lesser extent the Christians) stood out. They smashed temples and erected mosques on the rubble, with sword and fire they tore millions of Hindus from the breast of Mother India and brought them forcibly over to Islam. It is the duty of patriotic Hindus to reverse that historic wrong. That, reduced to its crude essentials, is the Hindu nationalist creed, and it helps to explain why the primary goal of the most powerful political party in this vast, impoverished country, with all its desperate problems, should be the construction of a temple in a squalid little town in Uttar Pradesh. Ayodhya, goes the mythology, is Ramjanambhoomi, the birth place of Ram, an avatar of Vishnu. The Muslim invader Babur (and this, too, is myth) tore down the great temple that stood here and built the Babri Masjid mosque, demolished by the mob in 1992. Hindu Rashtra, the true Hindu nation, cannot come into being until the temple is rebuilt. The men who have been ruling India for nearly four years, including the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, and his powerful second-in-command Lal Krishna Advani, the Home Minister, are true believers in this, India's exotic variety of neo-fascism. But the world at large has gradually lost sight of that fact. The nuclear tests conducted in May 1998, immediately after they came to power, gave due warning that they meant business. But the need to keep a squabbling and disparate coalition intact forced Ayodhya off the government's agenda. Mr Vajpayee's became the first Indian government to develop cordial relations with the US. Last September, India became a front-line ally in the war against terrorism. But while India's stature grew abroad, at home Mr Vajpayee was often described by critics on the left as the mask of the BJP, the acceptable face of a neo-fascist movement that was only biding its time. Mr Vajpayee, increasingly doddery at the age of 78, remains in place; but in the past week the party's mask has been ripped away. The war on terrorism and India's long military stand-off with Pakistan, which continues undiminished, have given a new licence to the Hindu nationalists. Muslim equals terrorist, they tell each other: we have it on American authority; we have 140 million terrorists in our midst. At the same time, recent BJP losses in state elections both in Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh have given the hardliners a new urgency and and a new
H-Net* [Fwd: GUARDIAN UK: An insidious result of September 11 is that the UStreats many non-whites as terrorists]
---BeginMessage--- Assalamu'alaikum, War on the third world An insidious result of September 11 is that the US treats many non-whites as terrorists George Monbiot Guardian Tuesday March 5, 2002 http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4367836,00.html Those of us who opposed the bombing of Afghanistan warned that the war between nations would not stop there. Now, as Tony Blair prepares the British people for an attack on Iraq, the conflict seems to be proliferating faster than most of us predicted. But there is another danger, which we have tended to neglect: that of escalating hostilities within the nations waging this war. The racial profiling which has become the unacknowledged focus of America's new security policy is in danger of provoking the very clash of cultures its authors appear to perceive. Yesterday's Guardian told the story of Adeel Akhtar, a British Asian man who flew to the United States for an acting audition. When his plane arrived at JFK airport in New York, he and his female friend were handcuffed. He was taken to a room and questioned for several hours. The officials asked him whether he had friends in the Middle East, or knew anyone who approved of the attacks on September 11. His story will be familiar to hundreds of people of Asian or Middle Eastern origin. I have just obtained a copy of a letter sent last week by a 50-year-old British Asian woman (who doesn't want to be named) to the US immigration service. At the end of January, she flew to JFK to visit her sister, who is suffering from cancer. At the airport, immigration officials found that on a previous visit she had overstayed her visa. She explained that she had been helping her sister, who was very ill, and had applied for an extension. When the officers told her she would have to return to Britain, she accepted their decision but asked to speak to the British consul. They refused her request, but told her she could ring the Pakistani consulate if she wished. She explained that she was British, not Pakistani, as her passport showed. The guards then started to interrogate her. How many languages did she speak? How long had she lived in Britain? They smashed the locks on her suitcases and took her fingerprints. Then she was handcuffed and chained and marched through the departure lounge. I felt like the guards were parading me in front of the passengers like their prize catch. Why was I put in handcuffs? I am a 50-year-old housewife from the suburbs of London. What threat did I pose to the safety of the other passengers? Last week, a correspondent for the Times found 30 men and a woman camped in a squalid hotel in Mogadishu, in Somalia. They were all African-Americans of Somali origin, who had arrived in the US as babies or children. Most were professionals with secure jobs and stable lives. In January, just after the release of Black Hawk Down (the film about the failed US military mission in Somalia), they were rounded up. They were beaten, threatened with injections and refused phone calls and access to lawyers. Then, a fortnight ago, with no charges made or reasons given, they were summarily deported to Somalia. Now, without passports, papers or money, in an alien and frightening country, they are wondering whether they will ever see their homes again. All these people are victims of a new kind of racial profiling which the US government applies but denies. The US attorney general has called for some 5,000 men of Arab origin to be questioned by federal investigators. Since September 11, more than 1,000 people who were born in the Middle East have been detained indefinitely for immigration infractions. The Council on American-Islamic Relations has recorded hundreds of recent instances of alleged official discrimination in the US. Muslim women have been strip-searched at airports, men have been dragged out of bed at gunpoint in the middle of the night. It reports that evidence which remains shielded from the suspect, of the kind permitted by the recent US Patriot Act, has been used almost exclusively against Muslims and Arabs in America. In the US, people of Middle Eastern and Asian origin are now terrorist suspects. Some officials appear to regard them as guilty until proven otherwise. Similar policies appear to govern the judicial treatment of detainees. During his press conference on December 28, President Bush initially misunderestimated a question, and provided a revealing answer. Have you decided, he was asked, that anybody should be subjected to a military tribunal? Bush replied, I excluded any Americans. The questioner pointed out that he meant to ask whether Bush had made any decisions about the captives in Guantanamo Bay. But what the president had revealed was that the differential treatment of those foreign fighters and John Walker Lindh, the American Talib currently being tried in a federal court in Virginia, is not an accident of process, but policy. He couldn't treat a white American
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---BeginMessage--- Assalamu'alaikum Let's put the blame where it belong. The Hindoos are murderous and fanatical, But Muslims, who want peace and justice, are protecting their rights and lives. You are either with us or with the terrorists some jerk in the white house recently said. ININ Muslim villagers fleeing firebomb attack are electrocuted by murderous Hindus By Peter Popham in Ahmedabad 04 March 2002 http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=251156 The cement homes in the narrow cul-de-sac on the edge of the village stand open today, ready for their owners to return, to light a wood fire in the kitchen, turn on the small television on a shelf in the corner and bolt the door. But after what happened here early on Saturday morning, no one believes the Muslim labourers of Sadarpur will come back. The assault began soon after 2am. I was told that 10,000 people (likely to be an exaggeration), from surrounding Hindu-majority villages descended on Sadarpur and in little more than one hour slickly eviscerated this little community of about 140 Muslims. Tree branches and lengths of concrete sewer piping were dragged across access roads to stop army and police reaching the village. When the thugs arrived they flooded the dead-end lane with water, then electrified the water with cables hooked up to the mains. They clambered on to the low roofs of the houses, smashed holes in them and hurled in petrol bombs and Calor gas cylinders that exploded inside, driving the residents out into the lane. There, many were electrocuted. Their bodies were dragged back into the houses to burn. Others fled out of back windows into fields. Some got away, others were hunted down and incinerated. Some were sheltered in homes of sympathetic Hindus in the village, but the marauders tracked them down and butchered them. At least 28 men, women and children died. Now it's not possible for Muslims to stay here, a Hindu living near by says flatly. Fifty kilometres (30 miles) away, in the majority-Muslim village where the survivors have found shelter, one of them agrees. We decided that we must leave that place, says MY Pathan, a teacher. We left everything behind, we came with what we were wearing. And we don't want to go back, even to collect our belongings. The Hindu-Muslim violence in the west Indian state of Gujarat has claimed almost 500 lives in the past five days, though senior police say privately the figure may exceed 1,000. The first 58 to die were Hindus, pilgrims returning from Ayodhya, incinerated in their train carriages. But in wave after wave of retribution that followed, almost all who died have been Muslims. The violence spread yesterday to the country's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, where Hindus and Muslims clashed. While arsonists continued to attack Muslim homes and businesses in Ahmedabad, the state's commercial capital, yesterday, Gujarat was struggling to come to terms with the fact that these new waves of murder and destruction have been different from anything the state has seen before. Across Gujarat, Hindu militants are seizing the opportunity to kick-start a programme of brutal communal cleansing. Like many of last week's victims, the Muslim labourers of Sadarpur were extremely vulnerable: their simple homes are notably smaller and more primitive than those of the Hindus who surround them on three sides. But until last week, such exposure meant nothing. As well as a temple, the village has a sizeable mosque, and a higher-caste Muslim community living close to it. Hindu-Muslim riots have broken out almost every year in Gujarat the fountainhead of Hindu nationalism but they have been confined to the big cities. With the killing of the Hindu pilgrims last Wednesday, a new era arrived. A Hindu hotel clerk in Ahmedabad said: Now each and every Muslim is a target. There was rumour of trouble in Sadarpur on Friday evening. Mr Pathan says: We were told some people will attack.So we called the police. An officer and five constables showed up, distributed bland assurances and went away again. Far from being an outburst of communal frenzy, this was a surgical strike, carried out with military ruthlessness and discipline. All the bodies had been removed when The Independent visited the site, but evidence of the massacre was all around: the huge puddle in the lane, anomalous in this parched zone; a burnt-out jeep; bags hastily half-packed for flight; and in home after home, beds where victims had died, burnt out, nothing left but the charred frame and a stinking black spongy mess on the floor. Yet there was no looting here. Televisions sit untouched. Shiny galvanised food dishes are still neatly aligned on sideboards. The murder of 28 people in Sadarpur one survivor claims the true figure is 55 followed precise instructions. In Sawala, where 20 survivors from Sadarpur have taken refuge, I spoke to GM Bahelim, a teacher. about the Muslims' future. Hindus from
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---BeginMessage--- Assalamu'alaikum, Trapped in House of Fire By Rajiv Chandrasekaran Washington Post Foreign Service http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29774-2002Mar2.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29774-2002Mar2.html SARDARPURA, India, March 2 Carrying wooden sticks and plastic jugs of kerosene, the mob of 500 Hindus made no secret of its intentions as it swarmed into this tiny farming town late Friday night. Kill the Muslims, they chanted. Kill the Muslims. Trying to flee but surrounded on all sides by the Hindu crowd, most of the town's Muslims holed up in the one place they believed was safe: a one-room house with thick concrete walls and metal-barred windows at the end of their neighborhood. But the throng soon followed them there and encircled the house. Get rid of the Muslims, some of the Hindus said, according to a Hindu man who witnessed the attack. Panicked and crying, those inside the house begged for their lives. We said, 'Please forgive us. Please let us go,' said Ruksanabano Ibrahim, 20, who was packed inside with a dozen family members. We kept saying, 'We are not your enemies. What have we done to you?' Then, just as it did moments earlier with shops, cars and other homes in the neighborhood, the mob doused cloth-wrapped sticks with kerosene, ignited them and hurled them through the windows. The terrorized occupants, who were locked inside the house, tried in vain to smother the flames with wool shawls and douse them with bottles of drinking water. When police officers arrived a half-hour later and broke down the door, 29 people were dead. Most of the 20 others in the house were seriously burned. The gruesome attack was the latest in a wave of retaliatory killings by Hindus that have plunged India's western Gujarat state into anarchy over the past three days, after a train carrying Hindu pilgrims, who had been rallying to build a temple at the site of a destroyed mosque, was firebombed by Muslims on Wednesday, killing 58 people. The subsequent clashes, which have claimed more than 350 lives, are the most severe religious strife in India in almost a decade. Although police imposed a curfew in 37 towns and army troops sent to the state received orders to shoot rioters on sight, the unrest continued today. In Ahmadabad, which was the scene of brutal slayings and arson attacks on Thursday and Friday, Hindu gangs set fire to shops in several Muslim neighborhoods. In the town of Vadodra, police said seven Muslims working in a bakery were burned alive by a Hindu mob. Police said more than 120 people were killed Friday in Ahmadabad, Sardarpura and another village in eastern Gujarat. Despite fears among some government officials that the fighting would spread to other cities, most of the violence has been confined to Gujarat, which has a long history of Hindu-Muslim clashes. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee delivered a nationally televised address calling for peace. He said the attacks were a blot on the country's face. About 12 percent of India's 1 billion people are Muslims, while 82 percent are Hindu. Although India is an officially secular nation, religious tension between Hindus and Muslims has existed for centuries. In 1947, when India gained its independence and was partitioned to create the Muslim nation of Pakistan, hundreds of thousands of people were killed as they tried to move between the countries. And in 1993, in the last major round of religious fighting, more than 800 people died in sectarian riots in Bombay. While the police and military have increased their presence in large cities, the revenge attacks appear to be spreading to rural areas like Sardarpura, where security forces are stretched thin. Local police officials expressed concern at their ability to stem a wave of vigilante attacks across the state's farming villages, many of which have small Muslim enclaves but lack full-time police protection. In Sardarpura, which has the largest Muslim population in a 30-mile radius, the violence began on Friday afternoon, when several hundred irate Hindus arrived from Ghantral, a nearby village. Claiming that two Ghantral residents were killed aboard the train on Wednesday, the mob used pickaxes to demolish a light blue mosque on the road into Sardarpura, located about 40 miles north of Ahmadabad. Forced to disperse from the mosque by police, the Hindus later regrouped and returned to the village around 9 p.m., police officials said. Once again, the police pushed them back by firing tear gas canisters, the officials said. But then, the 14-man police contingent left the town to patrol neighboring villages. As soon as they departed, the mob returned with devastating consequences. We couldn't just stay here, said B.K. Purohit, a police sub-inspector. We had to patrol other areas. After an emergency call from the town, the officers headed back, but said they were stopped a few miles away by roadblocks. Muslims who used to
H-Net* [Fwd: LONDON OBSERVER: Police took part in slaughter. India's lawmenoffered little protection against Hindu gangs massacring Muslim neighbours.So much for Bush's BS]
---BeginMessage--- Assalamu'alaiukm Police took part in slaughter India's lawmen offered little protection against Hindu gangs massacring Muslim neighbours Luke Harding in Ahmedabad Sunday March 3, 2002 The Observer http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,660969,00.html In an alley next to her affluent bungalow, Mrs Rochomal's mobile phone was still ringing yesterday. Her son's jeans were drying on the washing line. The dishes of her last meal had been carefully stacked, ready to be washed. Mrs Rochomal - an elderly Muslim lady - was not in a position to take her call. Her charred, mutilated corpse lay in the sunny courtyard, framed by the metal posts of an upturned bed. It was not just the kerosene that had killed her. The Hindu mob that poured into her home two days ago had slashed her twice across the face. They had also cut her throat. A few clues hinted at Mrs Rochomal's final terrifying hours: a small blue address book was abandoned next to her Nokia cellphone. She clearly knew what was coming and had been trying to summon help while hiding in her outside pantry. The fact that Mrs Rochomal lived 80ft away from a police station reveals a bleak truth about the violence that has convulsed India over the past four days: it has been state-sponsored. The authorities have done little to prevent the inferno that has swept the western state of Gujarat - not because of incompetence but because they share the prejudices of the Hindu gangs who have been busy pulping their Muslim neighbours. Indian troops yesterday finally took control of the rubble-strewn streets of Ahmedabad, the state's main city. They took up positions on the edges of Hindu neighbourhoods. The mood was calmer. But the army's belated deployment seemed little more than a political calculation that the Muslims had now got the beating they deserved. 'Everything is finished,' rickshaw driver Narinder Bhai said, gesturing at the charred interior of his home and his ruined fridge. 'Many people have been killed here. My wife and children have disappeared. I don't know where they are.' Narinder's home is almost next door to Mrs Rochomal's, in the Ahmedabad district of Naroda, which suffered the worst battering. Hindu mobs armed with iron bars and machetes burned down the entire colony on Thursday and Friday. Yesterday, it was almost completely deserted: a ruin of smouldering rickshaws, charred family photographs and abandoned homes. 'The crowd was so big, the officers could not control it,' one policeman said. 'They have done their job very well.' The reality is that the police made no effort to hold back the mob, and in certain places even joined in. 'Several policemen without uniforms started firing guns at us,' said one Muslim resident, Naseem Aktar, in the suburb of Bapunagar. 'They killed six or seven people.' The violence - prompted by last week's gruesome attack on a train carrying right-wing Hindu activists back from the temple town of Ayodhya - is clearly an embarrassment for Hindus of moderate views. In an address to the nation, India's elderly Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, yesterday appealed for peace in his country. But Vajpayee's own Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is part of the problem. Gujarat is one of the few Indian states still controlled by the BJP. It has a reputation as a laboratory for Hindu revivalist thinking. Since sweeping to power in the mid-1990s, the BJP has pursued a communal pro-Hindu agenda. It has also supported the construction of a temple on the disputed site in Ayodhya, where Hindu zealots demolished a mosque in 1992. Several members of the present Cabinet, including India's hawkish Home Minister LK Advani, watched. The Ayodhya issue now threatens to tear India apart. The extremist Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) or World Hindu Council has called for construction on the temple to begin by 15 March. It has so far not been swayed by pleas from Vajpayee to abandon its plan. The official death toll since last Wednesday is now 250 - but few dispute that the real total is vastly higher. The army has restored some order to Ahmedabad, and the first bulldozers embarked yesterday afternoon on the epic task of clearing up. But in the vast countryside around Gujarat, where Hindu and Muslim villagers live side by side, local massacres were still going on. On the national highway leading to Bombay, Hindu gangs yesterday manned roadblocks and set fire to all trucks driven by Muslims. Last night, meanwhile, Mrs Rochomal still lay face up in front of her veranda, her gruesome remains a warning to those who survived the flames. Her white flip-flops were where she had left them, next to the shoe rack and a brightly-painted swing-seat. Before being murdered, she had padlocked her front door. The ferocity that killed her left her home largely untouched. She was clearly a lady of fastidious habits and through the windows it was possible to make out black-and-white photographs of
H-Net* Welcome to Khilafah.com
http://wwwkhilafahcom/1421/categoryphp?DocumentID=3444TagID=2 Title: Welcome to Khilafah.com Search forfind the exact phrase all of the words in all categories KCom Journal Khilafah Magazine Leaflets News Viewpoint (Advanced Search) Home News Leaflets Viewpoint KCom Journal Khilafah Magazine Books khilafah.com Enter your email:SubsribeUnsubcribe Purchase Online Subscription to Khilafah Magazine. Narrated Abu Bakra: During the battle of Al-Jamal, Allah benefited me with a Word (I heard from the Prophet). When the Prophet heard the news that the people of the Persia had made the daughter of Khosrau their Queen (ruler), he said, "Never will succeed such a nation that makes a woman their ruler." [Volume 9, Book 88: Afflictions and the End of the] News Prince Abdullah admits to blowing away his peoples wealth audi Arabia, Its Wealth on the Wane, Courts Foreign Investors Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- A generation ago, oil was Saudi Arabia's blessing, turning the desert kingdom of Bedouin tribes into one of the wealthiest nations on earth. Today, the country's leaders blame their dependence on oil for ills ranging from a male unemployment rate of at least 15 percent to a ballooning national debt of $170 billion, to near zero economic growth. Prince Abdullah bin Faisal, head of the newly created Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority and a member of the ruling al- Saud family, is trying to help the largest oil producer out of its slump. He's traveling the world, speaking at conferences and meeting with journalists in an effort to publicize new investment rules aimed at attracting foreign investment into nonoil projects. Saudi Arabia hasn't reached out to foreign investors this way since before the kingdom nationalized many of its industries, beginning in the 1970s. The prince hasn't found it easy. Foreign companies remain skeptical of Saudi Arabia, which has yet to put into place laws that will govern such investment. ``We're essentially starting from scratch,'' the prince says, tapping off the ash from his ever- present cigarette. Foreign companies have made $8.5 billion of commitments in the past two years, and only a fraction of that has actually been spent. Heavy Debt Saudi Arabia needs the money. The building of new power, water, gas and telecommunications capacity will cost $15 billion a year for the next several years, says Brad Bourland, chief economist of Saudi American Bank, or Samba, the kingdom's second- largest bank. The government is already carrying debt equivalent to nearly 100 percent of gross domestic product -- almost twice Argentina's ratio. This year, the debt figure is set to rise by $10 billion as the government borrows more beccause of a projected decline in oil revenue. In the meantime, Saudi Arabia's wealth has dwindled. According to the International Monetary Fund, Saudi GDP per capita was $15,319 in 1980 compared with $17, 283 for the U.S. By the end of 2000, Saudi GDP per capita had fallen to $8,452, slightly above Argentina's $7,778. ``Fifty years ago, we were desert Bedouin,'' says Prince Abdullah. ``Then, we discovered oil -- and money. Lots of money. So we spent it. Now, those days are over, and we have to think again.'' Under Pressure A Saudi Arabia short of money is a daunting prospect for the Middle East and its Western allies. Saudi Arabia is not only the producer of 25 percent of the world's oil supplies and the largest supplier to the U.S.; it's also a linchpin of political stability in the region. As it struggles with growing unemployment and wider disparities in
H-Net* [Fwd: FBI Closes in on Anthrax Terrorist - Prime Suspect is a Zionistwhich explains why FBI has not yet made an arrest!!!]
---BeginMessage--- Assalamu'alaikum, see also: FBI knows anthrax mailer but wont make an arrest, US scientist charges at: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/feb2002/anth-f25.shtml FBI Closes in on Anthrax Terrorist Prime Suspect is a Zionist by Hector Carreon La Voz de Aztlan http://www.aztlan.net/zack.htm Los Angeles, Alta California - 2/26/2002 - (ACN) Jewish microbiologist Dr. Philip M. Zack may be behind the deadly anthrax contaminated letters that were mailed to NBC's Tom Brokaw, Senator Tom Daschle and others, according to FBI sources. In a rapidly unravelling investigation by the FBI, it appears that the Arab-hating-Jew was behind a vile conspiracy to frame a colleague who was born in Egypt and who worked, along with Dr. Zack, at the U.S. Army's Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Md. La Voz de Aztlan has maintained from the beginning that the anthrax-laced letters seemed contrived and were purposely written to make them appear that they were coming from someone in the Islamic World. New information just released by the FBI confirms our suspicions. On October 9, 2001 we published Anthrax Terrorists may be Zionists in which we outlined the reasons for our suspicions and in addition reported on a letter we received with a yellowish powder. On October 24, 2001 we published an editorial Anthrax Letter Messages Seem Contrived in which we commented on our theory concerning the origin of the letters. We also published pictures of the three actual letters and envelopes. We have now compared the handwriting on these letters to the one we received and it looks suspiciously the same. We are not handwriting experts and have made the decision to publish the envelope and letter we received so that our readership can see for themselves. Our local police department never came to pick up the envelope and letter and we still have them in a double zip-lock plastic bag. The letter and envelope addressed to La Voz de Aztlan are published at http://www.aztlan.net/letterbiochem.htm The case against Dr. Phillip M. Zack begin unravelling when Egyptian-born scientist Dr. Ayaad Assaad, now a U.S. citizen, was called in by the FBI for an interview on October 2, 2001. The FBI had received an unsigned letter falsely accusing Dr. Assaad of being responsible for mailing the anthrax tainted letters. The letter stated, among other things, Dr. Assaad is a potential biological terrorist, and I have worked with Dr. Assaad, and I heard him say that he has a vendetta against the U.S. government and that if anything happens to him, he told his sons to carry on. Rosemary A. McDermott, attorney for Dr. Assaad, stated that here is a very close connection between the person who sent that letter and the person who sent the anthrax. Ms. McDermott said The person who wrote that letter knew intimate details of my client's life and his professional history, and about the Fort Detrick operation. I don't think that is a coincidence. The Fort Detrick biochemical research laboratory has maintained stores of weapons-grade anthrax that is commonly known as the Ames strain of Bacillus anthracis. The anonymous letter falsely accusing Dr. Assaad was was sent a little after the September 11 terrorist attacks but before anyone knew about the anthrax-laced letters. On October 5, 2001, about 10 days after the anonymous letter was mailed, Robert Stevens, Photo Editor of The Sun in Florida, became the first of five individuals to die from an anthrax infection. The racist and bigoted attacks on Dr. Ayaad Assaad by Zionist Philip Zack and others started while he worked at the Army's bioweapons lab at Fort Detrick in Maryland during the 1990's. This is when a vicious racist vendetta was launched against the scientist of Arab descent. A group of coworkers led by then Army Lt. Col. Philip Zack began a hateful campaign to harass and get Dr. Assaad fired from his duties. The Zionists apparently wanted to get rid of anyone that could uncover their sinister plans which consisted in stealing weapons grade anthrax and other deadly viruses used in biological weapons. The conspirators had the support of the lab's former commander. Among other things, the bigots wrote and passed around a very crude poem denigrating Arab Americans, an obscene rubber camel and constantly poked fun at Dr. Assaad's use of the English language. In 1991 Dr. Assaad discovered the eight-page poem in his mailbox. The poem was lewd and mocked Dr. Assaad. The poem also referred to the rubber camel that was passed around. It was outfitted with all manner of sexually explicit appendages. The poem in part read: ``In Assaad's honor we created this beast; it represents life lower than yeast.'' The bigots noted that the rubber camel will be given each week ``to who did the least.'' It appears that the conspirators created an extremely toxic workplace on purpose in order to take control of the laboratory. The lab became very dysfunctional and hostile to the few
H-Net* Islam Online- News Section
http://64.29.210.216/English/News/2002-02/20/article49.shtml Title: Islam Online- News Section Home | About Us | Media Kit | Contact Us | Subscribe | Support IOL Your Mail Search Advanced Search News Views & Analyses Society Art & Entertainment Health & Science Poll Islam Hajj Qur'an Hadith Sunnah Ramadan Auspicious Time Discover Islam New to Islam My journey to Islam Contemporary Issues Fatwa Corner Fatwa Bank Ask the Scholar Live Fatwa Counseling Cyber Counselor Hajj Counsels Directories Islamic Society Islamic Banks TV Channels Telephone Code Site Directory Services Date Converter Calendar Discussion Forum Live Dialogue Address Book E-Cards Newsletter Islamic Party Sues Malaysian Government Over Oil Royalties Report by IOL Correspondent, Kazi Mahmood KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 19 (IslamOnline) - The battle over hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars of oil royalty between the Malaysian government and the Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS) is now being fought, since Monday in the High Court in Kuala Lumpur. The legal battle became inevitable after the Malaysian government withdrew royalty payments for offshore petroleum to the Terengganu state government run by the PAS. The withdrawal took effect in September 2000 and has since then denied the PAS run state government a valuable source of income. The PAS maintained the decision was politically motivated and is suing the federal government and the national oil company Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) for default payment. PAS officials say the decision to stop the royalty was a punishment meted by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad against the party which has wrestled the state in a landslide victory in 1999. Mahathirs party, the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) ruled over Terengganu for 25 years and had always been paid the royalty, which
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H-Net* The Massacres of Hama: Law Enforcement Requires Accountability
http://www.shrc.org/english/special/hama/index.htm Title: The Massacres of Hama: Law Enforcement Requires Accountability Home | Search | About Us | Feedback | Contacts Front Page Annual Reports Reports Press Releases Detainees Campaigns Appeals Discussion Boards News Headlines Books Syria World View Documents Site Statistics Links JUSTICE Journal SHRC in Arabic > SHRC | SPECIAL REPORT | Hama The Massacres of Hama: Law Enforcement Requires Accountability Introduction Violations of Human Rights Executers of the Massacre Conclusion Photos On the 20th anniversary of the massacres in the city of Hama: Did the Syrian authorities have to commit those atrocities and violations of human rights? On the twentieth anniversary of this massacre, two questions still desperately await adequate and convincing answers from the regime in Syria: Why did the massacre of Hama on Feb 2nd, 1982 take place? Were those atrocities committed to enforce the law and preserve order or just to save the regime? The Al-Tallia magazine, which is issued in Paris after the massacre, conveyed a statement from a Syrian official trying to reason what happened during the massacre: About 200 armed men emerged at the night of February 2nd, 1982 and occupied the city. They executed about 90 people of the regime followers, took over important city offices and landmarks, and announced an armed disobedience, which forced the Syrian authority to undertake a decision to clean the city of them and to restore law and order. Upon hearing this statement, the following question comes to mind: if 200 people had announced disobedience, then why did the state kill 30,000 human beings? Isnt this an outrageous violation of the right to live? Isnt this a decision to commit mass murder? Why did the regime deliberately order the destruction and levelling of one third of
H-Net* [Fwd: The Bush administration and John Walker Lindh: who are the realconspirators?]
---BeginMessage--- Assalamu'alaikum, The Bush administration and John Walker Lindh: who are the real conspirators? By David Walsh - 25 January 2002 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jan2002/walk-j25.shtml The Bush administration is proceeding with its brutal legal vendetta against John Walker Lindh, the young American who joined the Taliban in Afghanistan last year and surrendered to Northern Alliance forces in November. Walker (who generally goes by his mothers name) arrived in the US late Wednesday after being taken off the USS Bataan warshipwhere he has been imprisonedby helicopter and transferred to another military plane at the airport in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. He was restrained during the flight to the US. Walker made an initial appearance Thursday in US District Court in Alexandria, Virginia. US Magistrate Judge W. Curtis Sewell set a preliminary hearing for February 6. On January 15 the US government charged Walker with four criminal counts. The charges include two counts of providing material support to terrorist organizations, conspiring to kill US nationals abroad and engaging in prohibited transactions with the Taliban. The charges, which carry a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, are based almost entirely on Walkers own alleged confession, extracted from him by the military and FBI on board the US military vessel where he was held incommunicado for more than six weeks. The 20-year-old was neither granted access to the lawyer engaged by his parents nor was he apparently informed that an attorney was available. The International Committee of the Red Cross was prevented from delivering letters to Walker. On January 16 Attorney General John Ashcroft defended the charges brought against Walker and indicated that the government had not foreclosed charging other crimes against this individual, including those which carry the death penalty. The attorney general asserted that Walker had waived his right to remain silent, hypocritically declaring, in regard to the parents efforts to provide their son with legal counsel, that No other individual has a right to impose an attorney on him or to choose an attorney for him. In his reactionary and ignorant, albeit defensive, comments to the press Ashcroft did his best to poison public opinion against the young man. John Walker Lindh chose to fight with the Taliban, Ashcroft said, chose to train with Al Qaeda, and to be led by Osama bin Laden. We may never know why he turned his back on our country and our values, but we cannot ignore that he did. He added: Youth is not absolution for treachery, and personal self-discovery is not an excuse to take up arms against ones country. Misdirected Americans cannot seek direction in murderous ideologies and expect to avoid the consequences. Ashcrofts denunciations of Walker follow the comment made by George W. Bush on December 21 that Walker was the first American al Qaeda fighter that we have captured. This assertion prompted Anthony Arend, a professor at the Georgetown University law school in Washington, to tell a reporter: He shouldnt have said it It can prejudice various people and make selecting a jury more difficult. In response to Ashcrofts inflammatory remarks, Avern Cohn, a district judge from Detroit, in a letter to the New York Times, observed that the attorney general appears to have violated Justice Department guidelines on release of information relating to criminal proceedings that are intended to ensure that a defendant is not prejudiced when such an announcement is made Mr. Ashcrofts statement and news conference seem to suggest that there is really no need for a trial. Moreover, evidence has yet to be presented to a grand jury. The judge is referring to a section of the Code of Federal Regulations which prohibits the type of prejudicial comments made by the attorney general January 16 and in subsequent interviews with the media. The regulation instructs Justice Department personnel not to furnish any statement or information for the purpose of influencing the outcome of a defendants trial, nor shall personnel of the Department furnish any statement or information, which could reasonably be expected to be disseminated by means of public communication, if such a statement or information may reasonably be expected to influence the outcome of a pending or future trial. Furthermore: Disclosures should only include incontrovertible, factual matters, and should not include subjective observations. The regulation specifically prohibits the release of Statements, admissions, confessions, or alibis attributable to a defendant. In his comments Ashcroft clearly violated both the letter and the spirit of this regulation. The Bush administration treats Justice Department guidelines with the same contempt it reserves for the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war. At every step the administration reveals its authoritarian and anti-democratic proclivities.
H-Net* [Fwd: US military intervention in Somalia]
---BeginMessage--- Assalamu'alaikum, The biggest training camp in the world for international terrorists is the US army. ININ - US military intervention in Somalia 24 January 2002 By Abdullah Vawda The US and its allies have intensified military activities in Somalia and along its 2000-mile coastline to prevent 'al-Qaeda terrorists' from finding refuge or setting up new bases there, according to American officials. But the scale of the military preparations, the nature of the deals US officials have struck with rival forces, and the involvement of Ethiopia suggest that the plan goes much further. And, as Washington's alignment with Sudan's Christian neighbours indicates, that strategy is to fight Islamic movements. The Pentagon has recently increased the number of Marine Corps units in the Arabian Sea. Germany is also sending ships to the Somali coast and the Arabian Sea. Reconnaissance flights over Somalia have also increased, and France and Britain have also sent planes. In the first week of January flights went up from one or two to four or five daily. According to media reports, US navy P-3 planes flying out of a base in Oman have been used to carry out the main aerial-reconnaissance effort. Their main task is to take photographs of suspected Qaeda sites, the reports say, adding that the photographs can show changes in numbers of trainees or vehicles arriving at or leaving sites. Donald Rumsfeld, US defence secretary, has refused to say whether these activities mean that an invasion of Somalia is imminent, but he spoke about the presence of al-Qaeda there: we know there have been training camps there and that they have been active over the years and that they go inactive when people are attentive to them. Other officials say that no decision has been made to take specific action, but insist that Washington is determined to prevent al-Qaeda and other terrorists groups from using Somalia as a safe haven. The Americans are not only after alleged 'al-Qaeda terrorists' in Somalia, but are also determined to dispose of local Islamic groups, which they claim are linked to al-Qaeda and have received support from Usama bin Ladin. The Bush administration believes that it has successfully tarred al-Qaeda and bin Ladin with the brush of terrorism, and therefore that it can target Islamic movements said to have ties with them without being accused of an anti-Islam strategy. Bush has already put al-Ittihad on the list of terrorist groups, and has frozen the assets of al-Barakah, one of Somalia's biggest business groups. According to a report in the London Sunday Times on January 6, there are up to 100 al-Qaeda terrorists said to be operating in Somalia already who are linked to al-Ittihad al-Islami. Vincent Cannistraro, the CIA's former head of counter-terrorism, claims that the heavy naval patrol of the Somali coast cannot keep them out. Al-Qaeda terrorists could easily be hidden away in Mogadishu, he said; despite heavy naval patrols they could be entering in small fishing vessels and dhows. Somalis, unlike Muslims elsewhere, have no sectarian divisions. Like Muslims anywhere, they are likely to sympathise with fellow Muslims being hunted down by 'infidels'. But they are also strongly polarised along clan-lines: they have been unable to form a national government since the overthrow of Said Barre, military dictator, more than a decade ago. Barre's divisive policies, the clan-based response to his rule by the opposition groups overthrowing him, and the decade-long absence of central government have made this polarisation worse. So it is difficult for them to organise viable and radical organisations that cut across clan lines. The alleged march of Islamic fundamentalism is a myth that the US and its allies promote to justify their intervention in Somalia. The transitional government has made strong efforts to convince Washington that there are no al-Qaeda bases or training sites in Somalia, and that al-Ittihad al-Islami is not a terrorist organisation. US officials have brushed all this as an inconvenient irrelevance. And when a government delegation tried to visit Washington and deliver a formal letter to president George W Bush to explain that there is no need for US military intervention, the delegation were refused US entry visas. On December 12, 1992, the U.S. sent 28,000 soldiers into Somalia under the cover of the United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM) in what they said was a humanitarian mission to bring food to starving people. The invasion came when a several-year drought that had taken tens of thousands of lives was actually abating. At the time, the evening news showed images of thousands of starving Somalis. What people didn't see was U.S. troops not delivering food but instead engaged in daily gun battles and bombing raids in heavily populated neighbourhoods. In ten months, more than 10,000 Somalis died as the U.S. engaged in aggressive military action
H-Net* [Fwd: PROOF THAT AMERICA IS A TERRORIST ROGUE STATE: Day 100: another raidin the bombing war without end (Guardian)]
---BeginMessage--- Assalamu'alaikum Day 100: another raid in the bombing war without end http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,633637,00.html The Taliban may have vanished but the conflict is far from over for many in Afghanistan Suzanne Goldenberg in Zhawar Tuesday January 15, 2002 The Guardian The rocket screeches low overhead, and the world stands still for a second before US munitions slam into an Afghan mud hut and the mountains shudder in a sickening explosion. It is a direct hit on this abandoned training camp of the Taliban and al-Qaida, a moment of pure terror for the Afghans of these neighbouring mountain hamlets. In darkness and in light, for 10 long days, US bombers have prowled above the winter clouds, pulverising the slate and lava rock of Zhawar. The villagers gauge the danger by the engine noise. When the low whirr rises to a grinding roar, it's time to take cover. All the mountains are shaking, says Khali Gul from Kaskai, a small hamlet a few hundred metres from the Americans' target. We are very afraid of these planes. We just want this to stop. In the capital, Kabul, delegations come and go. Aid workers draw up charts for reconstruction; diplomats leave their calling cards with the interim government. As America's war on terror entered its 100th day yesterday, the world speculated on its next venue: will it be Somalia or Sudan; Yemen or Iraq? Here, in the mountains of Zhawar, there is only war. US warplanes are destroying, day after day, one of the last redoubts of the Taliban. Overnight, the bombing was so heavy the windows shook in Khost, a town 22 miles from America's latest theatre of war. Fifteen people were killed two days ago in Shudiaki village, says Noorz Ali, rattling down the dried-up river bed in a pick-up truck piled with a wheelbarrow, a brass basin, and four baby goats - the pitiable sum of his belongings as he joins the exodus for the safety of the plains. The village is completely flattened. My house was destroyed, and my neighbours were killed, he says. There were so many bombs I lost count. The dead remain there in the village. Everybody else has left. Like all the other villagers, he swears there are no Taliban or al-Qaida in Zhawar anymore. They bundled into their four-wheel drives and vanished into the mountains. It is impossible to verify Mr Ali's story, or other accounts of civilian casualties as the American bombing of Afghanistan enters its fourth month. Mr Ali's village lies on a ridge behind the Zhawar camp, and the extensive network of caves dug into the sides of the gorge below. The bombing is too intense for any exploration, and the area is too remote, accessible only by four-wheel drive jolting along through the mountains. Every vehicle is a target for the American bombers as they hunt down the stragglers of the Taliban and al-Qaida, and the warplanes begin to circle over our pick-up truck - the vehicle of choice for Afghanistan's old rulers. Apart from the growling of the bombers, and the thunder of rockets, there is silence. The isolation was crucial to the establishment of the Zhawar caves and training camps in the early 1980s. Two decades later, it allows the US bombardment of the base - and the calamity that has befallen the civilian hamlets clinging to the mountain tops - to go largely unremarked, and unlamented. For those outside this small corner of the world, the Afghan war is over. Afghans say the bombing began 10 days ago when 20 special US forces descended on the district capital of Khost. They emerge at dusk, night vision goggles strapped over furled woollen Afghan caps, and assault rifles smothered in blankets in a vain attempt at disguise to meet the local tribal chieftain of Khost who is their patron and protector. By day, they hunker down in a two-storey building the colour of egg yolk. The locals call it mechanik ; it's the vocational high school. We send up our business cards. The Americans send down a polite refusal, fat printed letters written in a careful hand. Be safe, the note ends. In the hills around Zhawar, it's a difficult proposition. The men sent their women and children down to Khost several days ago, but stayed to guard their herds. At night, they sleep in bunkers above their mud and chaff houses. By day, they squat beneath the parched acacia trees that provide what little cover there is on these barren mountains. What can we do? Where can we go? asked Khalil Jan, a shepherd squatting by the road. Everyday, the Americans are dropping bombs. Last night there were six and this morning there were five. We are very afraid of the bombs, and we are very angry at the Americans. There is no reason for this. The camps are empty, but still the Americans are dropping their bombs. A generation ago the CIA helped anti-Soviet rebels tunnel through the mountains to create the camp: an impenetrable system of connecting caves that served as arms depot, training camp, and safe haven. When that stage of
H-Net* [Fwd: LONDON OBSERVER: The treatment of al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners bythe United States offends a sense of justice]
---BeginMessage--- Assalamu'alaikum, NOTE: Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman, or child is likely to be displaced, tortured, killed, or disappeared', at the hands of governments or armed political groups. More often than not, the United States shares the blame. - Amnesty International, 1996 The treatment of al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners by the United States offends a sense of justice Peter Beaumont Sunday January 13, 2002 The Observer http://www.observer.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1501,631914,00.html Imagine the scene. A group of alleged Irish terrorists is seized and handed over to the British Government by a third country. They are held without access to any lawyers. Some are threatened by interrogating intelligence officers. They are told that if they don't tell them what they want to know then they might simply 'disappear'. Some of the men are tortured while being held in prison and forced into confessing that they are members of a terrorist organisation. These men are drugged and bound and then flown out of the country to an island camp, where lawyers are appointed for them but where the normal guarantees of defendants' rights do not apply. Those lawyers cannot appeal for their release - no mechanism exists - nor can they challenge their extradition or the criteria for it. In that island camp, they will face an emergency military tribunal that has the right to kill them. Confronted with these gross violations, the international media and human rights organisations would rightly be up in arms in protest. Yesterday, a group of unidentified men, including a Briton, completed a journey identical in almost every detail to the one described above. Manacled, with some sedated, they were chained to their seats in the aircraft that delivered them. The difference is that this group of 20 men were alleged terrorists with the Taliban and al-Qaeda and their destination was the US base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The difference, too, is that what complaint there has been about their treatment has been curiously muted. The reality of what is happening to the prisoners of Afghanistan is a scandal of international proportions. Brutalised, often tortured, these are men who have been stripped of their most basic rights under international and US law, rights guaranteed at the International Tribunal in the Hague even for the alleged architects of the genocide in Yugoslavia and Rwanda. In a few deft strokes, the administration of President George W. Bush has dropped a 'daisycutter' not only on the Geneva Conventions, designed to protect the rights of prisoners of war, but also America's own constitutional guarantees for defendants. It is possible, even likely, that many of these people committed terrible crimes - some many even have had foreknowledge of the attacks of 11 September - but their special treatment presupposes a special guilt. They are the kind of people, we are assured, after all, by General Richard B. Myers, US Chief of the Joint Staffs, who are so 'dangerous that they would gnaw through the hydraulic cables' on their transport plane to bring it down. It is a description appropriate to an animal, not to a man. A few weeks ago, I was in Afghanistan looking for some of these almost mythically self-destructive creatures. The first man we tried to see was an elderly Taliban official our fixer had come across at an anti-Taliban base in the suburbs of the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar. When our fixer saw him, he was being beaten slowly and methodically to death by a local warlord. We reached the camp too late. When we arrived, the man who had been doing the beating told us that he no longer had any Taliban prisoners. They had buried some al-Qaeda fighters that day whom they had killed in the liberation of the city, he told us. We asked again about the prisoner. He clarified the situation: 'There are no prisoners any longer.' It was not an isolated incident. Ten days later, I found myself with a group of Western journalists in the office of the governor of the Third Directorate prison in Kabul. Abdul Qayum, a lean and hard-faced man in his fifties, had been promising for a week to let reporters see his prisoners and check on their conditions. He told us he was both jailer and the man who leads the interrogations. He told us, too, that he regarded the Taliban and al-Qaeda as indistinguishable. So how, we asked, does he persuade them to confess? 'We ask them in a friendly and Islamic way to confess their crimes,' he explained to us. 'If they do not confess, then we use force.' If one cannot condone this sort of behaviour, perhaps one can understand it in a virtual state, stripped of its institutions and atomised by two decades of war. But the role of America and its allies in the maltreatment of the Taliban and al-Qaeda prisoners defies comprehension. What is most alarming are the potential consequences of those beaten and forced confessions in the
H-Net* [Fwd: Kandahar comes out of the closet - Northern Alliance openly promotingsodomy (Times of London)]
---BeginMessage--- Assalamu'alaikum Kandahar comes out of the closet FROM TIM REID IN KANDAHAR http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001570030-2002020060,00.html Our correspondent sees the gay capital of South Asia throw off strictures of the Taleban NOW that Taleban rule is over in Mullah Omars former southern stronghold, it is not only televisions, kites and razors which have begun to emerge. Visible again, too, are men with their ashna, or beloveds: young boys they have groomed for sex. Kandahars Pashtuns have been notorious for their homosexuality for centuries, particularly their fondness for naive young boys. Before the Taleban arrived in 1994, the streets were filled with teenagers and their sugar daddies, flaunting their relationship. It is called the homosexual capital of south Asia. Such is the Pashtun obsession with sodomy locals tell you that birds fly over the city using only one wing, the other covering their posterior that the rape of young boys by warlords was one of the key factors in Mullah Omar mobilising the Taleban. In the summer of 1994, a few months before the Taleban took control of the city, two commanders confronted each other over a young boy whom they both wanted to sodomise. In the ensuing fight civilians were killed. Omars group freed the boy and appeals began flooding in for Omar to help in other disputes. By November, Omar and his Taleban were Kandahars new rulers. Despite the Taleban disdain for women, and the bizarre penchant of many for eyeliner, Omar immediately suppressed homosexuality. Men accused of sodomy faced the punishment of having a wall toppled on to them, usually resulting in death. In February 1998 three men sentenced to death for sodomy in Kandahar were taken to the base of a huge mud and brick wall, which was pushed over by tank. Two of them died, but one managed to survive. In the days of the Mujahidin, there were men with their ashna everywhere, at every corner, in shops, on the streets, in hotels: it was completely open, a part of life, said Torjan, 38, one of the soldiers loyal to Kandahars new governor, Gul Agha Sherzai. But in the later Mujahidin years, more and more soldiers would take boys by force, and keep them for as long as they wished. But when the Taleban came, they were very strict about the ban. Of course, it still happened the Taleban could not enter every house but one could not see it. But for the first time since the Taleban fled, in the past three days, one can see the pairs returning: usually a heavily bearded man, seated next to, or walking with, a clean-shaven, fresh faced youth. There appears to be no shame or furtiveness about them, although when approached, they refuse to talk to a western journalist. They are just emerging again, Torjan said. The fighters too now have the boys in their barracks. This was brought to the attention of Gul Agha, who ordered the boys to be expelled, but it continues. The boys live with the fighters very openly. In a short time, and certainly within a year, it will be like pre-Taleban: they will be everywhere. This Pashtun tradition is even reflected in Pashtun poetry, odes written to the beauty and complexion of an ashna, but it is usually a terrible fate for the boys concerned. It is practised at all levels of Pashtun society, but for the poorer men, having an ashna can raise his status. When a man sees a boy he likes the age they like is 15 or 16 they will approach him in the street and start talking to him, offering him tea, said Muhammad Shah, a shop owner. Sometimes they go looking in the football stadium, or in the cinema (which has yet to reopen). He then starts to give him presents, hashish, or a watch, a ring, or even a motorbike. One of the most valued presents is a fighting pigeon, which can be worth up to $400 (277). These boys are nearly always innocent, but such is the poverty here, they cannot refuse. Once the boy falls into the mans clutches nearly always men with a wife and family he is marked for life, although the Kandaharis accept these relationships as part of their culture. When driven around, ashna sit in the front passenger seat. The back seat is simply for his friends. Even the parents of the boys know in their hearts the nature of the relationship, but will tell people that their son is working for the man. They, like everyone else, will know this is a lie. They say birds flew with both wings with the Taleban, Muhammad said. But not any more. ININ List Archives Found Here: http://www.egroups.com/messages/inin TO SUBSCRIBE: To subscribe please e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body type: subscribe inin-net TO UNSUBSCRIBE: To unsubscribe please e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body type in: unsubscribe inin-net
H-Net* Dr.Zakir's program-ISLAM:The Religion of Peace
From: SABA Coordinator To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 01 January, 2002 5:07 PM Subject: UPDATE 2 : Dr. Zakir's program - ISLAM : The Religion of Peace Dear members, Assalamu'alaikum and greetings. Here's the latest update (AS OF 1st Jan 02) on Dr. Zakir's Lecture program, plz spread the news and come : Lecture 1 - MISCONCEPTION ON ISLAM Date : Friday, 4th January 2002 - 8:30pm Venue : Islamic Arts Museum, Jalan Perdana, KL Lecture 2 : DOES ISLAM PREACH VIOLENCE, TERRORISM, FUNDAMENTALISM ? Date : Saturday, 5th January 2002 - 8:30pm Venue : Compound near - SABA Islamic Media, Prima Peninsula, Jalan Setiawangsa 11, Taman Setiawangsa, Kuala Lumpur. (Please see attachment for Map) Lecture 3 : INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - USE OR ABUSE? Date : Sunday, 6th January 2002 - 8:30pm Venue : Kompleks Belia Kebudayaan Negeri Selangor Section 7, Shah Alam (near UITM Shah Alam) Lecture 4 : UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD Date : Monday, 7th January 2002 - 8:30 pm Venue : Semarak Hall, FELDA, Jalan Semarak, KL Admission is FREE!!.. People of ALL FAITHS INVITED. NOTE : All lectures will be followed by QUESTION ANSWER session. So bring your family friends for an eye-opening evening with the world expert on the subject. To know more about Dr. Zakir and his works, click on: www.irf.net/irf/drzakirnaik/index.htm For latest updates and more info, please contact Sabariah (019-3500995) or Shah (019-5557770) or Lana (019-2127040). Don't miss out, see you there..!! SABA Islamic Media
H-Net* [Fwd: 'My dad buys me books about Islam']
---BeginMessage--- Assalamu'alaikum, 'My dad buys me books about Islam' (Filed: 30/12/2001) http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/30/nmus3 30.xml CONVERTS to the faith of Mohammed are increasingly drawn from the British middle classes - often idealists or disillusioned Christians, reports Jonathan Petre. The son of Frank Dobson, the former Cabinet minister, is one of a growing number of the British middle classes to convert to Islam. Joe Ahmed-Dobson, who is 26 tomorrow, was brought up in an atmosphere which he describes as agnostic at best; now he prays to Allah five times a day unless prevented by some act of God, reads the Koran and is planning a pilgrimage to Mecca. Unlike many of the estimated 10,000 to 20,000 Britons who have converted to Islam over the past 20 years, his decision was not greeted with horror by his family - even though his father was the Secretary of State for Health at the time. Speaking publicly about his faith for the first time, he said his initial impressions of Islam were almost entirely negative. When he was 16, however, a friend gave him an English translation of the Koran. Reading through it was a revelation, he said. It was entirely contrary to all the perceptions I had of Islam. It praised education, for both men and women. It said that you had to treat everyone with respect. I had never believed that politics answered the 'why' question rather than the `what' question. What Islam does is answer the 'why' question: why you should treat every man as your brother, every woman as your sister, why you should strive to do your best for yourself and for your fellow human beings. That's what the Koran did for me, it gave me an answer as to why I should live in this way. A trip to Indonesia also impressed him, though it was another six years - January 1998 - before he formerly converted by declaring his faith in front of witnesses in a north London mosque. My belief that this was the truth with a big 'T' was a feeling that grew. I didn't want to say I was a Muslim until I was sure that I could live by it. Now when I make decisions about most things in life, from small things like whether I should do the washing up to big things like career decisions, I am guided by Allah. His family have always been supportive, he said. My dad buys me books about Islam every Christmas. Now married to a Muslim, he lives in south London, not far from the Brixton mosque once attended by Richard Reid, though his approach to his faith could not be more different. Cleanly shaven and sporting a fashionable haircut, Joe Ahmed-Dobson is the chairman of the Muslim Council of Britain's Regeneration Committee and is involved in a range of inner-city projects. His criticism of Western capitalism and the bombing of Afghanistan derives from socialist principles rather than any extremist Muslim views, of which he is contemptuous. These groups are tiny, powerless organisations which live in a fantasy world. They are paper dragons, he said. The September 11 terrorist attacks on America, paradoxically, have swelled the numbers of Westerners converting to Islam. One Manchester mosque has reported 16 conversions in the past few weeks alone. Mohammed Siddique Saddon, 41, a research fellow at the Muslim Institute in Leicester and a convert, said: There is a resurgence. The constant demonisation of Islam has awakened the Western inquisitive mind to ask what is so evil. Given the perception in the West that Islam treats females as second-class citizens, it is surprising that most of the converts are women. In America, women converts outnumber men by about four to one, and in Britain by about two to one. Many of Britain's new Muslims are from middle-class backgrounds. They include Matthew Wilkinson, a former head boy of Eton who went on to Cambridge; a son of John Birt, the former director general of the BBC, and the son and daughter of Lord Justice Scott, the judge who headed the arms-to-Iraq inquiry. Harfiyah Ball-Haleem, a graduate of St Anne's College, Oxford, whose father was Jewish and mother a Roman Catholic, converted at the age of 26 in 1971. I was a very trendy Sixties chick and now I'm a very respectable Muslim matron, she said. What's happened in the West is that feminism has robbed women of their right to be women. It has forced them out to work and fewer and fewer are getting married. This is something that Islam protects against. I feel that I'm more liberated now because I was terribly confused about the values that society held. Society expects women to be both men and women, to be sexy and virtuous, beautiful and clever and everything else. No one can sort this mix-up out, whereas in Islam you have your role shown to you. Your femininity is recognised and appreciated and valued but you are not restricted from working or doing anything else. Many converts are former Christians disillusioned by the uncertainty of the churches. Others are
H-Net* US warplanes now targeting civilians
US warplanes now targeting civilians PESHAWAR: Having run out of military targets in Afghanistan with the exception of Tora Bora near Jalalabad, the US warplanes wanting to get rid of their payloads, have in recent days bombed vehicles carrying civilians and flattened villages that have nothing to do with the Taliban or Al-Qaeda's Arab fighters. In the latest instance of what has come to be known as collateral damage, the US jets killed at least ten civilians and caused injuries to another 12 when they bombed the Mashikhel village in Jaji district of Paktia province. Two village mosques were badly damaged in the attack on Monday noon. The incident came to light when Mashikhel villagers brought the injured across the border to Parachinar, headquarters of Pakistan's Kurram's tribal agency, for medical treatment. An eyewitness, Soorat Gul, told reporters in Parachinar that the bombing outraged the villagers because there were neither Taliban nor Arabs in the village or even in the while area. Earlier on Sunday night, bombing by US warplanes killed 16 civilians in the neighbouring Paktika province that also borders Pakistan. Eyewitnesses who reached Peshawar said Paktika's provincial capital, Sharana, and Mashkhel village sited 20 kilometres away were bombed by at least two jets. The losses were higher in Mashkhel, where four men sitting in "Etkaaf" in the Saqawa mosque were among those killed. Among them were two old men, Haji Fakhrak and Dadan Khan. An entire family comprising Ghulam Shah, his wife and four children was wiped out in the bombing raid. It was the second time that Mashkhel village was bombed. Two weeks ago, the US jets killed four civilians when their bombs missed an abandoned Taliban base and instead fell on a populated area. Earlier, another mosque was hit on the outskirts of Khost town killing over two dozens of the faithful when the US warplanes struck in a bid to eliminate a former Taliban minister and known mujahideen commander Mulla Jalaluddin Haqqani. Among the dead were several young Taliban below the age of 15 studying at a nearby madressa to learn the Holy Quran by heart. The raid took place when the mosque was full during the late evening Isha'a and Taraweeh prayers. In another recent incident, a number of villagers living near the Shamshad Ghar, where a former mujahideen and Taliban base is located, were killed in US aerial strikes. The area is close to the border town of Torkham. Several reports claimed between 60 to 100 civilians were killed in the almost round-the-clock US air raids in the Tora Bora area near Jalalabad. The massacre prompted elders of the area to condemn the US bombing and demand an end to the operation. But they found themselves helpless in the face of anti-Taliban military commanders such as Haji Mohammad Zaman, Hazrat Ali and Haji Zahir who have reportedly received substantial American military and monetary assistance to launch a ground offensive against Arab fighters loyal to Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda organization. Two of the most well documented cases of US bombing of civilian targets were Khrum village in Surkhrod district near Jalalabad and Chokar Karez village in Daman district of Kandahar province. This was made possible when the Taliban took international journalists to the two villages to assess the damage and meet survivors and relations of the victims. Though the Taliban officials and Khrum villagers claimed that about 200 people were killed in the US aerial strikes, it would be safe to conclude that the death toll was about 100. In Chokar Karez, about 50 villagers perished in two revengeful bombing sorties by US jets and helicopter gunships. Almost all the journalists, included those from the West, who visited the two villages felt that there were no military targets in the area and that the US pilots had erred in their judgement while offloading their payloads. Earlier, a mosque was bombed in a village near Herat killing several people. Besides, a place hit by bombs in Herat was described as an old people's home by the US authorities and the human losses regretted. It was a revelation for people in this part of the world that an old people's home existed in Herat because such institutions have yet to be set up in most eastern countries, more so in a tribal society like Afghanistan where the presence of old people in a home is considered a blessing. The bombing errors by US pilots, the straying of the so-called smart bombs and the killing of American and pro-US Afghan fighters by friendly fire have terrorized large sections of the Afghan population. The US aerial strikes that began on October 7 have displaced hundreds of thousands of people, exposing them to cold and hunger and depriving them of dignity. Afghans arriving in Pakistan told The News that driving in convoys of vehicles, which is necessary to tackle bandits and highwaymen who have re-emerged after the collapse of the Taliban regime, has become dangerous because they are a
H-Net* Four crew saved after American bomber crashes
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Four crew saved after American bomber crashes
By Rupert Cornwell
13 December 2001
All four crew from an American B-1 bomber that crashed in the
Indian Ocean were rescued yesterday.
The bomber crashed into the sea 30 miles north of the British
air base at Diego Garcia at 4.30pm British time and were
rescued within two hours by a helicopter from an American
destroyer.
Pentagon officials did not know the condition of the men, who
were reported to have spent two hours in the water.
The supersonic bomber was on its way back to the island
when the crash happened, and a nearby flying tanker was sent
to see if it could locate the crew. It spotted their distress
beacons and spoke to one of the men, and within an hour a
helicopter from the USS Russell had picked up all four men
and taken them to the ship.
The plane's loss is the first of a fixed-wing aircraft in the
conflict. A helicopter has been lost and another badly
damaged.
Marine General Peter Pace, vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, said B-1s had been taking part in the same missions in
Afghanistan as B52 and B-2 bombers.
What we most hope for right now is good news on the
condition of the crew. If we lost the airframe, that would be
unfortunate, but if we lost the crew that would be totally
different, he said.
All these airframes are doing the same type of mission. They
are providing support to our teams that are with the opposition
forces that are on the ground.
The £140m swing-wing B-1 bomber can fly supersonically, and
has a crew consisting of a pilot and co-pilot, a bomber and an
offensive systems officer, the modern equivalent of a
tail-gunner.
The American Air Force's official description of it says: The
B-1B's speed, superior handling characteristics, and large
payload make it a key element of any joint/composite strike
force.
It has some stealth technology, including electronic jamming
equipment and a body shape designed to minimise its size on
a radar screen. It is designed to launch precision-guided
munitions as well as traditional dumb bombs and cluster
bombs.
The 72 planes the air force has, 51 of which are in active
service, entered service between 1984 and 1998 and were first
used in combat against Iraq in 1998. They were also used in
Kosovo.
Diego Garcia, which is British-owned, has been used as the
base for the B-1s and B52s deployed in the Afghan conflict,
while B2 stealth bombers have flown from Missouri in the
central United States.
There was no indication of the cause of the crash, the
Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke said.
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---BeginMessage--- Assalamu'alakum, The truths they never tell us Behind the jargon about failed states and humanitarian interventions lie thousands of dead John Pilger http://www.zmag.org/pilgertruthes.htm Polite society's bombers may not have to wait long for round two. The US vice-president, Dick Cheney, warned last week that America could take action against '40 to 50 countries'. Somalia, allegedly a 'haven' for al-Qaeda, joins Iraq at the top of a list of potential targets. Cheered by having replaced Afghanistan's bad terrorists with America's good terrorists, the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, has asked the Pentagon to 'think the unthinkable', having rejected its 'post-Afghanistan options' as 'not radical enough'. An American attack on Somalia, wrote the Guardian's man at the Foreign Office, 'would offer an opportunity to settle an old score: 18 US soldiers were brutally killed there in 1993 . . .' He neglected to mention that the US Marines left between 7,000 and 10,000 Somali dead, according to the CIA. Eighteen American lives are worthy of score-settling; thousands of Somali lives are not. Somalia will provide an ideal practice run for the final destruction of Iraq. However, as the Wall Street Journal reports, Iraq presents a 'dilemma', because 'few targets remain'. 'We're down to the last outhouse,' said a US official, referring to the almost daily bombing of Iraq that is not news. Having survived the 1991 Gulf war, Saddam Hussein's grip on Iraq has since been reinforced by one of the most ruthless blockades in modern times, policed by his former amours and arms suppliers in Washington and London. Safe in his British-built bunkers, Saddam will survive a renewed blitz - unlike the Iraqi people, held hostage to the compliance of their dictator to America's ever-shifting demands. In this country, veiled propaganda will play its usual leading role. As so much of the Anglo-American media is in the hands of various guardians of approved truths, the fate of both the Iraqi and Somali peoples will be reported and debated on the strict premise that the US and British governments are against terrorism. Like the attack on Afghanistan, the issue will be how 'we' can best deal with the problem of 'uncivilised' societies. The most salient truth will remain taboo. This is that the longevity of America as both a terrorist state and a haven for terrorists surpasses all. That the US is the only state on record to have been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism and has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling on governments to observe international law is unmentionable. Recently, Denis Halliday, the former assistant secretary general of the UN who resigned rather than administer what he described as a 'genocidal sanctions policy' on Iraq, incurred the indignation of the BBC's Michael Buerk. 'You can't possibly draw a moral equivalence between Saddam Hussein and George Bush Senior , can you?' said Buerk. Halliday was taking part in one of the moral choice programmes that Buerk comperes, and had referred to the needless slaughter of tens of thousands of Iraqis, mostly civilians, by the Americans during the Gulf war. He pointed out that many were buried alive, and that depleted uranium was used widely, almost certainly the cause of an epidemic of cancer in southern Iraq. That the recent history of the west's true crimes makes Saddam Hussein 'an amateur', as Halliday put it, is the unmentionable; and because there is no rational rebuttal of such a truth, those who mention it are abused as 'anti-American'. Richard Falk, professor of international politics at Princeton, has explained this. Western foreign policy, he says, is propagated in the media 'through a self-righteous, one-way moral/legal screen with positive images of western values and innocence portrayed as threatened, validating a campaign of unrestricted political violence'. The ascendancy of Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, and associates Richard Perle and Elliot Abrams means that much of the world is now threatened openly by a geopolitical fascism, which has been developing since 1945 and has accelerated since 11 September. The present Washington gang are authentic American fundamentalists. They are the heirs of John Foster Dulles and Alan Dulles, the Baptist fanatics who, in the 1950s, ran the State Department and the CIA respectively, smashing reforming governments in country after country - Iran, Iraq, Guatemala - tearing up international agreements, such as the 1954 Geneva accords on Indochina, whose sabotage by John Foster Dulles led directly to the Vietnam war and five million dead. Declassified files now tell us the United States twice came within an ace of using nuclear weapons. The parallels are there in Cheney's threat to '40 to 50' countries, and of war 'that may not end in our lifetimes'. The vocabulary of justification for this militarism has long been provided on both
H-Net* [Fwd: US atrocity against Taliban POWs: Whatever happened to the GenevaConvention?]
---BeginMessage--- Assalamu'alaikum, US atrocity against Taliban POWs: Whatever happened to the Geneva Convention? By Jerry White 28 November 2001 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/nov2001/afgh-n28.shtml Despite the silence in the American media and the lies from Bush administration officials, there is growing international outrage over the systematic massacre of hundreds of Taliban prisoners of war in Mazar-i-Sharif on Sunday and Monday. This act of mass murder was carried out by US warplanes and helicopter gunships, directed by US Special Forces and CIA personnel, and backed by several thousand soldiers of the Northern Alliance. As many as 800 prisoners were killed at the Qala-i-Janghi fortress. The government of Pakistan, under intense public pressure because hundreds of Pakistani volunteers were among the Taliban troops taken prisoner, strongly condemned the prison massacre and declared that it contravened UN Security Council resolutions urging respect for the Geneva Convention. President Pervez Musharraf, the military strongman who seized power in Pakistan two years ago, has backed the US military onslaught against his former allies in the Taliban, and US forces used Pakistani bases as part of the campaign against the prisoners in Mazar-i-Sharif. A columnist in the Pakistani newspaper The Nation declared that the killings at Mazar-i-Sharif can only be quantified as a conspiracy and premeditated genocide. Rejecting the claims that the prisoners caused their own deaths by engaging in a suicidal uprising, he wrote, it is most unlikely that only recently surrendered captives would rise in sudden and open revolt against their captorsunless their very lives were at stake. No matter how US officials try to gloss over what happened, there could be no justification, even from a military standpoint, for the wanton slaughter of hundreds of captured soldiers. News accounts acknowledge the 19th century fortress was encircled by thousands of heavily armed Northern Alliance troops, as well as US and British special forces, whose base is located at a military airport just outside of the fort. Even if some prisoners had seized their guards weapons, as US officials and the media claim, they did not have the manpower or ammunition to hold out against the tanks, jets and the superior ground forces arrayed against them. The only proper designation for the action taken by the US military is a premeditated war crime. What was done in Mazar-i-Sharif was entirely in line with the policies advocated by top US officials, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who has repeatedly said that he favors the killing of Taliban soldiers, especially those from outside of Afghanistan, rather than their capture and imprisonment. Almost as sickening as the massacre itself is the universal silence on the part of the American media, including the so-called liberal press, about the cold-blooded murder of Taliban prisoners. Not a single US newspaper or media outletmany of which had reporters on the scene who know exactly what happenedhas raised any serious questions about the action. Demonstrating a racist contempt for the lives of hundreds of Afghan and foreign prisoners killed by bombs and bullets, the US news media focused its attention on half a dozen American military and CIA personnel hit by friendly fire when US warplanes bombed the compound. While CNN broadcast pictures of dozens of mutilated corpses strewn around the inside of the prison, as well as earlier scenes of Northern Alliance and US and British forces firing over the walls of the compound at prisoners, there was much more media interest in the possible death of one CIA interrogator. One could only imagine how the US media would have reported the killing of Northern Alliance prisoners by Taliban troops if the sides had been reversed. The two leading US daily newspapers offered radically different explanations of the massacre. The New York Times quoted a Red Cross official claiming the prisoners started the fight and that the Northern Alliance troops had not sought to attack them. It cited the controlling role of American Special Forces and CIA personnel, who took over the operation, as though this guaranteed that no extrajudicial killings could have taken place. The Washington Post, on the other hand, essentially admitted that the prisoners were murdered, but attributed the killings to the Northern Alliance: A precise death toll could not be determined, but the apparently large number of Taliban deaths, compared to the reported killing of about 40 Northern Alliance fighters, raised questions here about the whether the violence was less an uprising than a massacre orchestrated by alliance troops, the Post wrote Tuesday. These accounts are diametrically opposite presentations of the facts, but they serve an identical political purpose: to deny that the US forces were responsible for a monstrous war crime. This perfectly expresses the role of the
H-Net* [Fwd: FISK: Another war on terror. Another proxy army. Another mysteriousmassacre. And now, after 19 years, perhaps the truth at last...]
---BeginMessage--- Assalamu'alaikum, Another war on terror. Another proxy army. Another mysterious massacre. And now, after 19 years, perhaps the truth at last... The eyes of the world are on Afghanistan, but today a Belgian appeals court is due to consider a case with disturbing contemporary parallels. Robert Fisk reveals shocking new evidence that the full, horrific story of the Sabra and Chatila massacres of 1982 has not yet been told 28 November 2001 http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=107100 Sana Sersawi speaks carefully, loudly but slowly, as she recalls the chaotic, dangerous, desperately tragic events that overwhelmed her just over 19 years ago, on 18 September 1982. As one of the survivors prepared to testify against the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon who was then Israel's defence minister she stops to search her memory when she confronts the most terrible moments of her life. The Lebanese Forces militia [Phalangists] had taken us from our homes and marched us up to the entrance to the camp where a large hole had been dug in the earth. The men were told to get into it. Then the militiamen shot a Palestinian. The women and children had climbed over bodies to reach this spot, but we were truly shocked by seeing this man killed in front of us and there was a roar of shouting and screams from the women. That's when we heard the Israelis on loudspeakers shouting, 'Give us the men, give us the men.' We thought, 'Thank God, they will save us.' It was to prove a cruelly false hope. Mrs Sersawi, three months pregnant, saw her husband Hassan, 30, and her Egyptian brother-in-law Faraj el-Sayed Ahmed standing in the crowd of men. We were told to walk up the road towards the Kuwaiti embassy, the women and children in front, the men behind. We had been separated. There were Phalangist militiamen and Israeli soldiers walking alongside us. I could still see Hassan and Faraj. It was like a parade. There were several hundred of us. When we got to the Cité Sportif, the Israelis put us women in a big concrete room and the men were taken to another side of the stadium. There were a lot of men from the camp and I could no longer see my husband. The Israelis went round saying 'Sit, sit.' It was 11am. An hour later, we were told to leave. But we stood around outside amid the Israeli soldiers, waiting for our men. Sana Sersawi waited in the bright, sweltering sun for Hassan and Faraj to emerge. Some men came out, none of them younger than 40, and they told us to be patient, that hundreds of men were still inside. Then about 4pm, an Israeli officer came out. He was wearing dark glasses and said in Arabic: 'What are you all waiting for?' He said there was nobody left, that everyone had gone. There were Israeli trucks moving out with tarpaulin over them. We couldn't see inside. And there were jeeps and tanks and a bulldozer making a lot of noise. We stayed there as it got dark and the Israelis appeared to be leaving and we were very nervous. But then when the Israelis had moved away, we went inside. And there was no one there. Nobody. I had been only three years married. I never saw my husband again. Today, a Belgian appeals court will begin a hearing to decide if Prime Minister Sharon should be prosecuted for the massacre of Palestinian civilians at the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps in Beirut in 1982. (Belgian laws allow courts to try foreigners for war crimes committed on foreign soil.) In working on this case, the prosecution believes that it has discovered shocking new evidence of Israel's involvement. The evidence centres on the Camille Chamoun Sports Stadium the Cité Sportif. Only two miles from Beirut airport, the damaged stadium was a natural holding centre for prisoners. It had been an ammunition dump for Yasser Arafat's PLO and repeatedly bombed by Israeli jets during the 1982 siege of Beirut so that its giant, smashed exterior looked like a nightmare denture. The Palestinians had earlier mined its cavernous interior, but its vast, underground storage space and athletics changing-rooms remained intact. It was a familiar landmark to all of us who lived in Beirut. At mid-morning on 18 September 1982 about the time Sana Sersawi says she was brought to the stadium I saw hundreds of Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners, probably well over 1,000, sitting in its gloomy, dark interior, squatting in the dust, watched over by Israeli soldiers and plain-clothes Shin Beth (Israeli secret service) agents and men who I suspected were Lebanese collaborators. The men sat in silence, obviously in fear. From time to time, I noted, a few were taken away. They were put into Israeli army trucks or jeeps or Phalangist vehicles for further interrogation. Nor did I doubt this. A few hundred metres away, inside the Sabra and Chatila Palestinian refugee camps, up to 600 massacre victims rotted in the sun, the stench of decomposition drifting over the prisoners and their captors
H-Net* Robert Fisk: We are the war criminals now
by the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and the civilised world. We are the masters of human rights, the Liberals, the great and good who can preach to the impoverished masses. But when our people are murdered when our glittering buildings are destroyed then we tear up every piece of human rights legislation, send off the B-52s in the direction of the impoverished masses and set out to murder our enemies. Winston Churchill took the Bush view of his enemies. In 1945, he preferred the straightforward execution of the Nazi leadership. Yet despite the fact that Hitler's monsters were responsible for at least 50 million deaths 10,000 times greater than the victims of 11 September the Nazi murderers were given a trial at Nuremberg because US President Truman made a remarkable decision. Undiscriminating executions or punishments, he said, without definite findings of guilt fairly arrived at, would not fit easily on the American conscience or be remembered by our children with pride. No one should be surprised that Mr Bush a small-time Texas Governor-Executioner should fail to understand the morality of a statesman in the Whitehouse. What is so shocking is that the Blairs, Schröders, Chiracs and all the television boys should have remained so gutlessly silent in the face of the Afghan executions and East European-style legislation sanctified since 11 September. There are ghostly shadows around to remind us of the consequences of state murder. In France, a general goes on trial after admitting to torture and murder in the 1954-62 Algerian war, because he referred to his deeds as justifiable acts of duty performed without pleasure or remorse. And in Brussels, a judge will decide if the Israeli Prime Minister, Arial Sharon, can be prosecuted for his personal responsibility for the 1982 massacre in Sabra and Chatila. Yes, I know the Taliban were a cruel bunch of bastards. They committed most of their massacres outside Mazar-i-Sharif in the late 1990s. They executed women in the Kabul football stadium. And yes, lets remember that 11 September was a crime against humanity. But I have a problem with all this. George Bush says that you are either for us or against us in the war for civilisation against evil. Well, I'm sure not for bin Laden. But I'm not for Bush. I'm actively against the brutal, cynical, lying war of civilisation that he has begun so mendaciously in our name and which has now cost as many lives as the World Trade Centre mass murder. At this moment, I can't help remembering my dad. He was old enough to have fought in the First World War. In the third Battle of Arras. And as great age overwhelmed him near the end of the century, he raged against the waste and murder of the 1914-1918 war. When he died in 1992, I inherited the campaign medal of which he was once so proud, proof that he had survived a war he had come to hate and loathe and despise. On the back, it says: The Great War for Civilisation. Maybe I should send it to George Bush. ( Melanggan ? To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] pada body : SUBSCRIBE HIZB) ( Berhenti ? To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] pada body: UNSUBSCRIBE HIZB) ( Segala pendapat yang dikemukakan tidak menggambarkan ) ( pandangan rasmi bukan tanggungjawab HIZBI-Net ) ( Bermasalah? Sila hubungi [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Pengirim: Mohd Bazil Badrul Jam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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---BeginMessage--- Assalamu'alaikum, Americas Disgraceful History Of Military Trials by Thomas J. DiLorenzo Nov 15, 2001 http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo9.html The latest assault on the civil liberties of the American people in the name of fighting terrorism is President Bushs recent decision to use U.S. military tribunals to try foreigners accused of terrorist attacks and to decide on sentences, including the death penalty. This is a horrible idea with a horrible precedent: the largest mass execution in U.S. history. In 1851 the Santee Sioux Indians in Minnesota sold twenty-four million acres of land to the federal government for $1.4 million. By August of 1862 thousands of white settlers continued to pour into the Indian lands even though none of the money had been paid to the Santee Sioux. There was a crop failure that year, and the Indians were starving. The Lincoln administration refused to pay them the money they were owed, breaking yet another Indian treaty, and the starving Sioux revolted. A short war ensued, with Lincoln putting one of his favorite generals, General John Pope, in charge of federal forces in Minnesota. Pope announced that It is my purpose to utterly exterminate the Sioux . . . . They are to be treated as maniacs or wild beasts, and by no means as people with whom treaties or compromise can be made. (Similar statements were being made at the time by General William Tecumseh Sherman, who said that to all Southern secessionists, why, death is mercy). The Santee Sioux were overwhelmed by the federal army by October of 1862, at which time General Pope held hundreds of Indian men, women, and children who were considered to be prisoners of war. The men were all herded into forts where military trials were held, each of which lasted about ten minutes according to David A. Nichols in Lincoln and the Indians. They were all found guilty of murder and sentenced to death even though the lack of hard evidence was manifest and they were not given any semblance of a proper defense. Most were condemned to death by virtue o the fact that they were merely present during a battle, during a declared (by the Indians) war. Minnesota political authorities wanted the federal army to immediately execute all 303 of the condemned men. Lincoln, however, was concerned that such a mass execution of so many men who had so obviously been railroaded would be looked upon in a bad light by the European powers who, at the time, were threatening to support the Confederate cause in the War for Southern Independence. His compromise was to pare the list of condemned down to 39, with a promise to the Minnesota political establishment that the federal army would eventually kill or remove every last Indian from the state. As a sweetener to the deal Lincoln also offered Minnesota $2 million in federal funds. On December 26, 1862, Abraham Lincoln ordered the largest mass execution in American history in which the guilt of the executed could not be positively determined beyond reasonable doubt. (The cartel of Lincoln scholars actually praises Lincoln for this act, claiming that it is yet another example of his humanitarianism and his culture of life. He may well have killed 39 innocent people, they say, but it could have been much worse). This is not to suggest that the Bush administration, with its decision to use military tribunals instead of civil courts to try suspected terrorists, will exercise the kind of tyrannical behavior that occurred during the Lincoln administration, but it could. Military men who are influenced by the passions of war are not suitable as unbiased judges. The administration should use the current crisis as an opportunity to speed up our sclerotic legal system and prosecute accused terrorists under the normal rules of trials that are consistent with the U.S. Constitution. November 15, 2001 Thomas J. DiLorenzo [send him mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED]] is professor of economics at Loyola College in Maryland. His book, The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War, will be published in February. ININ List Archives Found Here: http://www.egroups.com/messages/inin TO SUBSCRIBE: To subscribe please e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body type: subscribe inin-net TO UNSUBSCRIBE: To unsubscribe please e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body type in: unsubscribe inin-net ISLAMIC NEWS AND INFORMATION NETWORK: HTTP://WWW.ININ.NET VISIT: HTTP://WWW.MEDIAMONITORS.NET WE AFFIRM THAT INJUSTICE ANYWHERE IS A THREAT TO JUSTICE EVERYWHERE O you who believe, fasting is made obligatory on you as it was made for those before you, so that you may achieve Taqwa (God Consciousness).
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US, Alliance in no mood to spare Taliban
Reported by: Naveed Miraj
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan , 11/27/2001 (Frontier Post) :: The
massacre of
prisoners in Mazar-e-Sharif on Sunday is an indication
that Northern Alliance
and USA are not in any mood to spare non Afghan
supporters of Taliban and
Qandhar may become yet another bloody battle ground.
Sources in diplomatic sources said that they had
confirmed reports that in
Mazar-e- Sharif the drama of uprising of prisoners was
stage managed by
Northern Alliance Forces.
These sources said that this was done in full knowledge
of the US forces.
It was necessary for Northern Alliance forces to give
positive hints that foreign
fighters wont be massacred to secure a surrender of
Konduz these sources
said an added once that was managed foreign fighters had
to meet the fate as
was feared before their surrender.
Analysts believe that USA and its military strategists
were in no mood to let
foreign supporters of Taliban to slip away or escape
unhurt.
They (US) believes that all of these foreign fighters
are Al Qaeda supporters
and must be dealt with accordingly.
USA does not want to spend time to sift through many
hundreds of these
people to check which ones are hardcore and which ones
are only naiave
volunteers, sources added.
Once US forces move into Qandahar, as their intention is
that, more such
massacres are expected.
US ground forces have started landing in large numbers to
take over the last
stronghold of Taliban in Afghanistan.
In Mazar-e-Sharif General rahsid Dostum is known for his
butchery and his
love for launching mass scale massacres of opponents.
The question is who will do it for USA in Kandahhar?
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---BeginMessage--- Assalamu'alaikum, Swept Up in a Dragnet, Hundreds Sit in Custody and Ask, 'Why?' By JODI WILGOREN http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/25/national/25DETA.html?ei=1en=5cef1803fc919ad3ex=1007720228pagewanted=all Osama Elfar was dozing on a hard bench under the ever-present drone of the prison television set when a guard's voice crackled over the intercom, Happy birthday. Otherwise, Nov. 9 would have passed without Mr. Elfar even noticing he had turned 30. When you're here, you don't know day from night, Thursday from Friday it's all the same, Mr. Elfar said in a telephone interview from the Mississippi County Correctional Facility in Charleston, Mo. A new decade start for me. Unfortunately, I was locked up. An Egyptian who came to the United States five years ago to attend a Florida flight school, Mr. Elfar recently worked as a mechanic for a small airline in St. Louis. He has been in jail for two months and began a hunger strike on Friday to protest his incarceration. Mr. Elfar is among hundreds of little- known foreigners swept up in a vast dragnet after the terrorist attacks some of whom have rsums suspiciously like those of the 19 hijackers, and others who have spent days, weeks and now months in prison for immigration violations that before Sept. 11 would probably have been ignored or resolved with paperwork. Government officials say that the aggressive response is warranted by the extraordinary situation, and that they are simply enforcing longstanding laws. Sept. 11 has forced the entire government to change the way we do business, said Mindy Tucker, a spokeswoman for the Justice Department. Our No. 1 priority right now is to prevent any further terrorist attacks. Part of that entails identifying those who may have connections to terrorism who are here in America and making sure they're not in a position to carry out any further terrorism. Over all, more than 1,200 people have been detained as part of the sweeping investigation, including men traveling the country with large amounts of cash and box cutters, and those who sought information on crop-dusters and flying lessons on large jets. But a senior law enforcement official said for the first time last week that just 10 to 15 of the detainees are suspected as Al Qaeda sympathizers, and that the government has yet to find evidence indicating that any of them had knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks or acted as accomplices. While most members of this small group are being held in New York on material witness warrants, some 500 others almost twice as many as previously believed are in federal custody on immigration charges for violations like overstaying their visas or lying on documents. A handful of those arrested are believed to have known some of of the suspected hijackers. Osama Awadallah, for instance, wrote about one of them in a college exam book, prosecutors say. Another student, Mohdar Abdallah, is in jail because his name was found on a slip of paper in a rental car one of the hijackers parked at Dulles International Airport in Washington before his suicide mission. Others seem to have drawn suspicion for more coincidental reasons. An Egyptian antiques dealer from Arkansas named Hady Hassan Omar made plane reservations on a Kinko's computer around the same time one of the hijackers did so at the same place; he spent two months in jail before being released on Friday. A Pakistani gas station attendant was just a few minutes ahead of Mohammed Atta, the suspected ringleader, in the line to renew his driver's license; he was denied bail by a Miami judge. Of those snared in the government's net, many have cooperated with the F.B.I., admitted that they violated their visa agreements and agreed to leave the country. But they remain in jail. Now, as the Justice Department seeks to interview 5,000 young men who have arrived here from the Middle East on temporary visas in the past two years, immigration attorneys and Arab-American community leaders are worried that cooperation may lead to the same fate as that of those already detained. The impact of all this is alienating the very community whose confidence and support is critical to a successful investigation, said Lucas Guttentag, director of the immigration rights project of the American Civil Liberties Union. The F.B.I. has so far denied a Freedom of Information Act request filed by a coalition of 21 Arab-American and human rights groups demanding a list of who is jailed, where and why. Earlier this month, six members of Congress made a similar request. Ms. Tucker said that the department was prevented from releasing some information because judges have sealed criminal cases, and that some information has been given to Congress. People don't want to step forward to help with bail, said Randall Hamud, a San Diego lawyer who represents three detained students, one of whom has been released. They're afraid if they give money, they'll be put on an F.B.I. hit list.
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to prevent foreign correspondents witnessing in Kandahar the kind of war crimes committed by Britain's friends in the Northern Alliance at the fall of Mazar-i-Sharif. As for Mullah Najibullah, the Taliban's only foreign ministry representative this side of Kandahar, he looked tired and deeply depressed, admitting he had left Spin Boldak the previous night and had not slept since. But Kandahar was calm, he claimed. The Taliban's Islamic elders continued to stay there. Later, he admitted that all Taliban men had been ordered to leave Spin Boldak on Saturday night for fear that Alliance gunmen would invade the camps disguised as refugees. Only God Almighty has allowed the Muslims to continue to fight the great armed might of the United States,'' he added. If he had looked out the window, he would have seen the contrails of the bomber streams heading for Kandahar. It was an eerie phenomenon. Taliban men rifles over their shoulders stared into the sun, up high into the burning light through which four white columns of smoke burnt from jet engines across the sky. I stood behind them and wondered at the battle I had watched for 20 years: a swaying host of eighth-century black turbans and, just behind them, the contrails of a B-52 heading in from Diego Garcia. God against technology. ( Melanggan ? To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] pada body : SUBSCRIBE HIZB) ( Berhenti ? To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] pada body: UNSUBSCRIBE HIZB) ( Segala pendapat yang dikemukakan tidak menggambarkan ) ( pandangan rasmi bukan tanggungjawab HIZBI-Net ) ( Bermasalah? Sila hubungi [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Pengirim: Mohd Bazil Badrul Jam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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---BeginMessage--- Assalamu'alaikum Sikhs Narrate N. Alliance's atrocities (Dawn Islamabad, Pakistan Page: 18: Metropolitan: Saturday 24th November 2001 By Our Correspondent) Taxila, Nov 23:Over 150 Sikhs living in Afghanistan fled different parts of the country and took shelter in Hassanabdal, their religious center. Talking to Dawn the Sikhs refugees, included elderly women and children, said they were settled in Jalalabad and doing business there, but the uncertainty forced them to leave their home and business. They said they posed as pro-Taliban and left their homes to save their lives from Northern Alliance's excesses and high handedness. They admitted that Taliban were peace-loving people and protected the lives and property of the minorities. It was the Western media, that portrayed them as inhuman and rude but they respected every citizen, except those who took law into their hands. They crossed borders through unmanned routes of Khyber Agency to avoid being caught. The Sikh refugees disclosed that following entry of Northern Alliance in the cities, their life and property were endangered as their men looted and plundered in the cities where they occupied. The fleeing Sikhs said that if a broad based government comprising all the groups particularly Pakhtoons were not immediately formulated, Afghans will not accept the domination of Northern Alliance. This will only add to the miseries of the already worn-torn country. A Sikh refugee said that the US should intervene in Afghanistan to halt the massacre of Pakhtoon community which could end up in another civil war ININ List Archives Found Here: http://www.egroups.com/messages/inin TO SUBSCRIBE: To subscribe please e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body type: subscribe inin-net TO UNSUBSCRIBE: To unsubscribe please e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body type in: unsubscribe inin-net ISLAMIC NEWS AND INFORMATION NETWORK: HTTP://WWW.ININ.NET VISIT: HTTP://WWW.MEDIAMONITORS.NET WE AFFIRM THAT INJUSTICE ANYWHERE IS A THREAT TO JUSTICE EVERYWHERE O you who believe, fasting is made obligatory on you as it was made for those before you, so that you may achieve Taqwa (God Consciousness). (Fasting) for a fixed number of days; but if any of you is ill, or on a journey, the prescribed number (Should be made up) from days later. For those who can do it (With hardship), is a ransom, the feeding of one that is indigent. But he that w ill give more, of his own free will,- it is better for him. And it is better for you that ye fast, if ye only knew. Ramadhan is the (month) in which was sent down the Qur'an, as a guide to mankind, also clear (Signs) for guidance and judgment (Between right and wrong). So every one of you who is present (at his home) during that month should spend it in fas ting, but if any one is ill, or on a journey, the prescribed period (Should be made up) by days later. God intends every facility for you; He does not want to put to difficulties. (He wants you) to complete the prescribed period, and to glorify Him in that He has guided you; and perchance ye shall be grateful. (Holy Qur'an 2:183-185) Information on Fasting In Islam: http://www.inin.net/fasting.htm ---End Message---
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---BeginMessage--- Assalamu'alaikum, Afghanistan: US sets stage for a massacre in Kunduz By Peter Symonds - 22 November 2001 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/nov2001/afgh-n22.shtml The conditions are being established for a slaughter at Kunduz, in northern Afghanistan. Up to 20,000 Taliban fighters, including several thousand of the Talibans foreign supporters, are trapped in the citymany of them fled there last week after neighbouring cities such as Mazar-e-Sharif and Taloqan fell to the US-backed Northern Alliance. Apart from the southern city of Kandahar, it is the last significant Taliban stronghold. According to Pakistani newspapers, Taliban leaders inside Kunduz indicated on Monday their willingness to surrender but not to the Northern Alliance, which has already carried out the summary execution of prisoners elsewhere. Taliban commanders indicated that they were prepared to lay down their arms before a UN observer team or a multinational coalition force and hand over the city in return for safe passage. The US quickly stepped in to scotch any such plan. US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he would do everything he could to prevent a negotiated deal to end the stalemate in Kunduz. Referring to the foreign Taliban fighters, he said: My hope is that they will either be killed or taken prisoner. Theyre people who have done terrible things. He left any talks up to the Northern Alliance, saying that the US was not inclined to negotiate a surrender. The UN rapidly followed suit, washing its hand of any involvement in a surrender. Special representative to Afghanistan Lakhdar Brahimi acknowledged that the UN had been contacted by Taliban leaders in Kunduz but was not in a position to agree as it had no forces in the area. He told the press that he would ask his deputy Francesc Vendrell to ask the Northern Alliance to treat this situation with as much humanity as possible. As a result, the Northern Alliance will decide the fate of thousands of Taliban fighters. General Mohammed Daud, the Northern Alliance commander on the Kunduz front, has already made his attitude clear. He is prepared to negotiate a deal with Afghan Taliban leaders but has ruled out any talks with foreign terrorists. He declared last week: We will not deal with them, they are killers... The foreigners are living between life and death. Another Northern Alliance commander Pir Muhammad was even more explicit: These foreigners have killed thousands of civilians. Their hands are covered with the blood of our people. We will avenge this. He said the Northern Alliance would have no trouble picking out the terrorists and foreigners among the thousands of other troops in Kunduz. We know who the criminals are, he said. Daud has issued an ultimatum to the Taliban to surrender by Friday or face the consequences. Negotiations are still underway but only with Afghani representatives of the Taliban. Sketchy details from refugees fleeing Kunduz, which had a population of around 100,000, paint a picture of chaos. The US is continuing to heavily bomb the city on a daily basis. A number of civilians have been killed and injured, including three children who were playing when a bomb hit a nearby house. One refugee, who made clear she did not support the Taliban, said: People are not happy with the bombing... They say the Americans should bomb the front lines [rather than the city] because our children are being killed. The international media have highlighted reports that foreign Taliban supporters in Kunduz are preparing to fight to the death and have executed hundreds of Afghani deserters. The press routinely identifies all foreigners with Osama bin Laden, the alleged perpetrator of the September 11 attacks, and his Al Qaeda network. Within Afghanistan, US propaganda transmitted in local languages by radio from US planes reinforces the same message, exhorting Afghanis to drive the foreign terrorists out of the country. The majority of foreigners fighting alongside the Taliban, have not, however, been recruited by bin Laden. Many are supporters of Islamic fundamentalist parties in Pakistan. Some are not even trained fighters but raw recruits who joined in recent weeks after being incensed by the US attacks on Afghanistan. Mahsood Ali, 22, held prisoner by the Northern Alliance in a squalid jail in Taloqan is one such foreign terrorist. He came to Afghanistan from Peshawar three weeks ago with three of his friends. They are all dead and, clearly fearing for his own life, he told a Time reporter: I think I made a mistake coming to Afghanistan. The exact composition of Taliban forces in Kunduz is unclear. Even General Daud, however, who claims that there are more than 10,000 foreign fighters in the city, says that only 1,000 are connected to Al Qaeda network. According to him, at least two-fifths are Pakistanis and the remainder are from Central Asia and the Middle East. The purpose of branding all foreign Taliban as terrorists is
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---BeginMessage--- Assalamu'alaikum, JOHN PILGER: THIS WAR OF LIES GOES ON Legendary foreign correspondent argues the conflict is a sham.. not one terrorist has either been caught or killed http://mirror.icnetwork.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=11427607method=full There is no victory in Afghanistan's tribal war, only the exchange of one group of killers for another. The difference is that President Bush calls the latest occupiers of Kabul our friends. However welcome the scenes of people playing music and shaving off their beards, this so-called Northern Alliance are no bringers of freedom. They are the same people welcomed by similar scenes of jubilation in 1992, who then killed an estimated 50,000 in four years of internecine feuding. The new heroes so far have tortured and executed at least 100 prisoners of war, and countless others, as well as looted food supplies and re-established their monopoly on the heroin trade. This week, Amnesty International made an unusually blunt statement that was buried in the news. It ought to be emblazoned across every front page and television screen. By failing to appreciate the gravity of the human rights concerns in relation to Northern Alliance leaders, said Amnesty, UK ministers at best perpetuate a culture of impunity for past crimes; at worst they risk being complicit in human rights abuse. The truth is that the latest crop of criminals to liberate Kabul have been given a second chance by the most powerful country on earth pounding into dust one of the poorest, where people's life expectancy is just over 40. And for what? Not a single terrorist implicated in the attacks on America has yet to be caught or killed. Osama bin Laden and his network have almost certainly slipped into the tribal areas of the North-West Frontier of Pakistan. Will Pakistan now be bombed? And Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, where Islamic extremism and its military network took root? Of course not. The Saudi sheikhs, many of them as extreme as the Taliban, control America's greatest source of oil. The Egyptian regime, bribed with billions of US dollars, is an important American proxy. No daisy cutters for them. There was, and still is, no war on terrorism. Instead, we have watched a variation of the great imperial game of swapping bad terrorists for good terrorists, while untold numbers of innocent people have paid with their lives: most of one village, whole families, a hospital, as well as teenage conscripts suitably dehumanised by the word Taliban. It is perfectly understandable that those in the West who supported this latest American tenor from the air, or hedged their bets, should now seek to cover the blood on their reputations with absurd claims that bombing works. Tell that to grieving parents at fresh graves in impoverished places of whom the sofa bomb-aimers know nothing. The contortion of intellect and morality that this triumphalism requires is not a new phenomenon. Putting aside the terminally naive, it mostly comes from those who like to play at war: who have seen nothing of bombing, as I have experienced it: cluster bombs, daisy cutters: the lot. How appropriate that the last American missile to hit Kabul before the liberators arrived should destroy the satellite transmitter of the Al-Jazeera television station, virtually the only reliable source of news in the region. For weeks, American officials have been pressuring the government of Qatar, the Gulf state where Al-Jazeera is based, to silence its broadcasters, who have given a view of the war against terrorism other than that based on the false premises of the Bush and Blair crusade. The guilty secret is that the attack on Afghanistan was unnecessary. The smoking gun of this entire episode is evidence of the British Government's lies about the basis for the war. According to Tony Blair, it was impossible to secure Osama bin Laden's extradition from Afghanistan by means other than bombing. Yet in late September and early October, leaders of Pakistan's two Islamic parties negotiated bin Laden's extradition to Pakistan to stand trial for the September 11 attacks. The deal was that he would be held under house arrest in Peshawar. According to reports in Pakistan (and the Daily Telegraph), this had both bin Laden's approval and that of Mullah Omah, the Taliban leader. The offer was that he would face an international tribunal, which would decide whether to try him or hand him over to America. Either way, he would have been out of Afghanistan, and a tentative justice would be seen to be in progress. It was vetoed by Pakistan's president Musharraf who said he could not guarantee bin Laden's safety. But who really killed the deal? The US Ambassador to Pakistan was notified in advance of the proposal and the mission to put it to the Taliban. Later, a US official said that casting our objectives too narrowly risked a premature collapse of the international effort if by some luck chance Mr bin Laden was
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Opposition admits to massacre of 520 soldiers
Reported by: Anne Penketh
11/18/2001 (The Indepedent) :: War on Terrorism: Victims
Northern Alliance soldiers admitted yesterday they had
killed hundreds of
pro-Taliban fighters holed up in a school, providing the
first direct evidence of
massacres by the victorious opposition forces.
An ITN journalist went to the school in the northern city
of Mazar-i-Sharif where
the bodies of 520 mostly Pakistani fighters were still
being brought out from
the rubble yesterday three days after the massacre.
The stand-off between the forces of the veteran Uzbek
commander Abdul
Rashid Dostum and more than 700 fighters lasted all
weekend, after the
Alliance forces captured the strategic city on Friday.
According to the
Alliance, the fire-fights at the school intensified when
the pro-Taliban fighters
refused to surrender.
Andrea Catherwood, a reporter, said: They claim they
sent elders into the
school to try and persuade them to give themselves up.
When they wouldn't,
the Northern Alliance went in with tanks.
General Dostum's forces, reputed for their brutality from
their previous spells in
power in Mazar, crushed the resistance. I saw those
tanks today and they
demolished most of the school, Ms Catherwood said.
The Red Cross was bringing out bodies on stretchers from
the ruins of the
school yesterday. Reports had circulated since Monday
that Pakistani fighters
had been massacred after surrendering, but the British
television crew was the
first to confirm what happened by talking to the
soldiers.
Theydid not deny having killed the 520 fighters, but
refused to describe their
actions as a massacre. They are saying that they were,
in fact, trying to
make these men give up, Ms Catherwood said.
Human Rights Watch pointed out yesterday that it had to
be established
whether the Pakistani fighters were killed after
surrendering or not. If they were
already prisoners or had expressed their intention to
surrender, this would
constitute a war crime by the Northern Alliance, the
organisation said.
In a further chilling move, the Alliance troops based in
a building across the
street from the school, displayed 42 Taliban prisoners
who had been kept
inside a freight container in the dark traditionally
the Alliance's detention
centre of choice for Taliban prisoners.
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Chaos rules Afghan roads
11/18/2001 (Sydney Morning Herlad) :: Efforts to supply
aid to Afghanistan
have been severely hit by the return of anarchy on the
highways which plagued
the country before the Taliban came to power.
Companies that have ferried aid and commercial goods into
Afghanistan since
the collapse of Taliban rule have cut back operations
after being forced to hand
over much of their cargo amid fears for their drivers'
safety.
The UN High Commission for Refugees suspended its convoys
into the
northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif last week after fears
that two drivers of a private
haulage company had been killed.
Before the Taliban came to power, Afghanistan's roads
were notorious for their
roadblocks with local warlords forcing companies to hand
over much of their
cargo or large amounts of cash.
Most of the drivers based in Pakistan are ethnic Pashtuns
who were
supportive of the Taliban.
Karim Agha, a director of Agha Goods, which has driven
convoys of aid for
agencies such as the UNHCR and the UN's children's fund,
said he was only
allowing his drivers to go as far as the southern city of
Kandahar, where the
Taliban was still struggling to retain power.
I am worried for my drivers outside Kandahar. There are
many thieves on the
roads. I am worried for their safety, he said.
There was no crime during the Taliban.
Aziz Khan, manager of Green Ziarat Goods, said he had
decided to halt any
further trips to Afghanistan after some of his drivers
had been victims of
highway robbery.
When they tell you to stop, you stop. They have guns and
they may torture
you, he said.
Before with the Taliban, there was not any problems.
With the Taliban
government gone, we have decided not to go into
Afghanistan.
We are sitting still until a new government appears and
brings back security.
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---BeginMessage--- Assalamu'alaikum, IS OIL THE REAL TARGET IN AFGHANISTAN? http://www.iacenter.org/nowar_oil.htm For more analysis, visit http://www.iacenter.org/warcrisis.htm Why are the Bush Administration and the Pentagon so intent on invading Afghanistan? If Bush has the evidence he claims, why not bring Bin Laden before the World Court? Are they really just interested in bringing down the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden? After all, it was the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, along with Pakistan's intelligence forces who helped establish the Taliban as a base of power in Afghanistan in the first place. As recently as May 2001, George W. Bush sent the Taliban $43 million allegedly to aid in the fight against drugs in northern Afghanistan, the one part of the country controlled by opposition forces. Now Congress is allocating billions more dollars for America's new war. There's not much new about it, however. U.S. bombs and missiles have killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Sudan, Somalia and Afghanistan in the past two decades alone. More often than not the aim has been to secure U.S. control over the oil rich resources of the Middle East and southern Asia, and this latest war drive, with the pretext of revenge for September 11, may be no different. Ever since the fall of the former Soviet Union ten years ago, Exxon, Mobil, Chevron and the other big oil monopolies have been scheming to get their hands on the vast oil and gas wealth around the Caspian Sea, just north of Afghanistan. This region's oil reserves may reach more than 60 billion barrels -- enough to service Europe's oil needs for 11 years. Some estimates are as high as 200 billion barrels. The Caspian Sea reserves are 10 percent of the world's known supply -- worth about $5 trillion at today's prices. In February 1998, Unocal Corporation testified to the House Committee on Internal Relations Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific that the Taliban government in Afghanistan is an obstacle to having an oil pipeline from the Caspian region to the Indian Ocean -- that is, through Afghanistan. In 1997, Unocal even tried to woo the Taliban with billions of dollars to support the proposed pipeline through their country. The unrecognized Taliban government, however, was a set back to their plans. Having a government in Afghanistan that is beholden to U.S. interests, along with stationing U.S. troops in the former Soviet Republics of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan, would secure the region and allow this project to proceed. And just in time, as far as the U.S. oil companies are concerned, because there is international competition for the Caspian Sea oil resources. Russia and German companies had been trying to establish a pipeline from the Caspian Sea through Eastern Europe, but U.S. bombing of Yugoslavia blocked this plan. Russia, however, also brokered a treaty with Iran for a pipeline route. China also began negotiating to build oil and gas pipelines from Kazakhstan. In January 2001, oil industry journals lamented that any chance the U.S. had of cementing alliances in the region seemed doomed. They noted, however, that the incoming Bush administration, heavy in oil and related interests, would likely try to reverse this trend (www.caucasuswatch.com). The U.S. has it's own oil reserves, and does not need to rely on oil from abroad. However, Europe, Japan and Asia are dependent on oil from the Middle East (oil that is controlled by U.S. and British companies) and they are eager for alternative and cheaper sources. The continuous U.S. bombing of Iraq has kept oil prices high enough to make construction of a U.S.-owned pipeline seem possible. The profits to be made from controlling the flow of oil are the issue at stake in America 's new war. Issued by Philadelphia International Action Center, 813 S. 48th St., Philadelphia, PA 19143, 215-724-1618, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted 10/14/01 International Action Center 39 West 14th Street, Room 206 New York, NY 10011 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] En Espanol: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.iacenter.org CHECK OUT SITE http://www.mumia2000.org phone: 212 633-6646 fax: 212 633-2889 To make a tax-deductible donation, go to http://www.peoplesrightsfund.org ININ List Archives Found Here: http://www.egroups.com/messages/inin TO SUBSCRIBE: To subscribe please e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body type: subscribe inin-net TO UNSUBSCRIBE: To unsubscribe please e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body type in: unsubscribe inin-net ISLAMIC NEWS AND INFORMATION NETWORK: HTTP://WWW.ININ.NET VISIT: HTTP://WWW.MEDIAMONITORS.NET WE AFFIRM THAT INJUSTICE ANYWHERE IS A THREAT TO JUSTICE
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---BeginMessage--- Assalamu'alaikum, Americas Disgraceful History Of Military Trials by Thomas J. DiLorenzo Nov 15, 2001 http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo9.html The latest assault on the civil liberties of the American people in the name of fighting terrorism is President Bushs recent decision to use U.S. military tribunals to try foreigners accused of terrorist attacks and to decide on sentences, including the death penalty. This is a horrible idea with a horrible precedent: the largest mass execution in U.S. history. In 1851 the Santee Sioux Indians in Minnesota sold twenty-four million acres of land to the federal government for $1.4 million. By August of 1862 thousands of white settlers continued to pour into the Indian lands even though none of the money had been paid to the Santee Sioux. There was a crop failure that year, and the Indians were starving. The Lincoln administration refused to pay them the money they were owed, breaking yet another Indian treaty, and the starving Sioux revolted. A short war ensued, with Lincoln putting one of his favorite generals, General John Pope, in charge of federal forces in Minnesota. Pope announced that It is my purpose to utterly exterminate the Sioux . . . . They are to be treated as maniacs or wild beasts, and by no means as people with whom treaties or compromise can be made. (Similar statements were being made at the time by General William Tecumseh Sherman, who said that to all Southern secessionists, why, death is mercy). The Santee Sioux were overwhelmed by the federal army by October of 1862, at which time General Pope held hundreds of Indian men, women, and children who were considered to be prisoners of war. The men were all herded into forts where military trials were held, each of which lasted about ten minutes according to David A. Nichols in Lincoln and the Indians. They were all found guilty of murder and sentenced to death even though the lack of hard evidence was manifest and they were not given any semblance of a proper defense. Most were condemned to death by virtue o the fact that they were merely present during a battle, during a declared (by the Indians) war. Minnesota political authorities wanted the federal army to immediately execute all 303 of the condemned men. Lincoln, however, was concerned that such a mass execution of so many men who had so obviously been railroaded would be looked upon in a bad light by the European powers who, at the time, were threatening to support the Confederate cause in the War for Southern Independence. His compromise was to pare the list of condemned down to 39, with a promise to the Minnesota political establishment that the federal army would eventually kill or remove every last Indian from the state. As a sweetener to the deal Lincoln also offered Minnesota $2 million in federal funds. On December 26, 1862, Abraham Lincoln ordered the largest mass execution in American history in which the guilt of the executed could not be positively determined beyond reasonable doubt. (The cartel of Lincoln scholars actually praises Lincoln for this act, claiming that it is yet another example of his humanitarianism and his culture of life. He may well have killed 39 innocent people, they say, but it could have been much worse). This is not to suggest that the Bush administration, with its decision to use military tribunals instead of civil courts to try suspected terrorists, will exercise the kind of tyrannical behavior that occurred during the Lincoln administration, but it could. Military men who are influenced by the passions of war are not suitable as unbiased judges. The administration should use the current crisis as an opportunity to speed up our sclerotic legal system and prosecute accused terrorists under the normal rules of trials that are consistent with the U.S. Constitution. November 15, 2001 Thomas J. DiLorenzo [send him mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED]] is professor of economics at Loyola College in Maryland. His book, The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War, will be published in February. ININ List Archives Found Here: http://www.egroups.com/messages/inin TO SUBSCRIBE: To subscribe please e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body type: subscribe inin-net TO UNSUBSCRIBE: To unsubscribe please e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body type in: unsubscribe inin-net ISLAMIC NEWS AND INFORMATION NETWORK: HTTP://WWW.ININ.NET VISIT: HTTP://WWW.MEDIAMONITORS.NET WE AFFIRM THAT INJUSTICE ANYWHERE IS A THREAT TO JUSTICE EVERYWHERE O you who believe, fasting is made obligatory on you as it was made for those before you, so that you may achieve Taqwa (God Consciousness).
H-Net* [Fwd: FISK: No surprise at rumours of new atrocities by our 'foot-soldiers']
---BeginMessage--- Assalamu'alaikum, No surprise at rumours of new atrocities by our 'foot-soldiers' War on terrorism By Robert Fisk 13 November 2001 http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=104632 The Northern Alliance's sudden victories in Afghanistan may be good news for the West but the bad news is not far behind. The Uzbek, Tadjik and Hazara gunmen who make up this rag-tag army have a bloody reputation for torturing and executing prisoners which if resumed in the coming days will plunge America and Britain into a moral abyss. Chilling stories of more than 100 pro-Taliban Pakistani fighters shot dead after their surrender in Mazar-i-Sharif and of Alliance gunmen roaming the streets'' of the abandoned city will not come as a surprise to those who are aware of the atrocities committed by America's new allies during the 1992-96 fighting in Kabul. For the Americans and for the minuscule British component of the West's military forces inside Afghanistan the behaviour of the Northern Alliance presents a grave problem. As our foot-soldiers are in Afghanistan, we cannot disclaim responsibility for human rights abuses by the Alliance's gunmen; yet neither the Americans nor the British appear to have tried to control the army they are now helping. Indeed, it seems they may not even be able to prevent the Alliance from entering Kabul. The massacres committed by malicious fighting in the name of outside powers have regularly brought shame upon their more powerful allies. The Contras in Nicaragua and the Phalangist militiamen in Lebanon contaminated their respective American and Israeli masters the latter in the notorious Palestinian camp massacres of Sabra and Chatila in 1982. A glance at the Alliance's track record of rape, pillage and street executions in Kabul between 1992 and 1996 suggests that the so-called Allies America, Britain and just about anyone else who wants to join in have good reason to exert their influence over the newly victorious militiamen from the north of Afghanistan. In Mazar-i-Sharif and Herat there are comparatively few Pashtun communities, which traditionally favour the Taliban. A bit further south the Alliance will find itself among its ethnic enemies. In 1997, Mazar's Hazara defenders killed more than 600 Taliban militiamen who had taken over the city and then massacred dozens of Pakistani students who had accompanied the Taliban into the region. In later bloodbaths, thousands of Taliban prisoners were shot into mass graves, with dozens more Pakistanis. A Northern Alliance turncoat, General Pahlawan Malik, subsequently executed 2,000 Taliban prisoners of war who had been tortured and starved before being put to death. Many were drowned in wells. Others met a more carefully planned death. One of General Malik's generals recalled: At night when it was quiet and dark we took about 150 Taliban prisoners, blindfolded them, tied their hands behind their backs and drove them in truck containers out to the desert. We lined them up 10 at a time, in front of holes in the ground, and opened fire. It took about six nights.'' On other occasions Taliban prisoners were locked inside containers in mid-summer; 1,250 were deliberately asphyxiated in this way, their corpses dragged from the containers, blackened by the heat. Could it happen again? There is no reason to believe the Alliance has been taking lessons in human rights. It has been receiving ammunition from Russia and logistics from the United States. Photographs in yesterday's Pakistani papers showed Alliance gunmen leading a small party of Western troops through the terrain of northern Afghan-istan. But our soldiers are highly unlikely to have been distributing copies of the Geneva Convention to their new friends. ININ List Archives Found Here: http://www.egroups.com/messages/inin TO SUBSCRIBE: To subscribe please e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body type: subscribe inin-net TO UNSUBSCRIBE: To unsubscribe please e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body type in: unsubscribe inin-net ISLAMIC NEWS AND INFORMATION NETWORK: HTTP://WWW.ININ.NET VISIT: HTTP://WWW.MEDIAMONITORS.NET WE AFFIRM THAT INJUSTICE ANYWHERE IS A THREAT TO JUSTICE EVERYWHERE First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me. - Pastor Martin Niemoller regarding the Nazi reign. ---End Message---
H-Net* [Fwd: Many Afghans haunted by Northern Alliance's past (because they areblood thirsty murderers)]
---BeginMessage--- Assalamu'alaikum, Many Afghans haunted by Northern Alliance's past by DAN CHAPMAN The Atlanta Journal and Constitution November 12, 2001 http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/ Chaman, Pakistan --- Haji Abdul Ghani placed a forefinger in his mouth, and cocked his thumb like a pistol. They put the nozzle of the gun in the baby's mouth, said Ghani, an Afghan refugee. The baby began sucking it like the nipple of his mother's breast. Then they fired. Ghani, a truck driver, swore his story was true. It happened, he said, three weeks ago in Central Afghanistan. A fighter with the Northern Alliance pulled the trigger, he added. Beyond its abject horror, the story told by Ghani --- who has no love for the Taliban either --- illustrates the anger and fear many Afghans harbor for the Northern Alliance. Far from the underdog militia trying to overthrow the despotic Taliban regime, Northern Alliance troops are reviled across much of Afghanistan for their brutality. They are also despised because they are primarily Uzbeks, Hazaras, Tajiks. Pashtuns comprise the main Afghan ethnic group in a country whose ethnic stew never stops boiling. Strange bedfellows The United States is the Northern Alliance's main benefactor, providing materiel, advisers and an intensive bombing campaign aimed at weakening Taliban resistance. The Northern Alliance has taken advantage of heavy bombardments to advance into the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif, a key military target. Kabul would be next in Northern Alliance sights. While the United States, at Pakistani insistence, suggests that the Northern Alliance won't be allowed to single-handedly run Afghanistan, refugees and others remain wary of any leadership role for the mujahedeen. We have lived under them before and they were not good rulers, said Sayed Noor, an Afghan farmer who arrived last week at Killi Faizo refugee camp along Pakistan's border. They cannot rule Afghanistan again because we had such bitter experiences with them. They are vicious. Many of the mujahedeen, or holy warriors, now fighting for the Northern Alliance are war veterans who served in the decadelong battle against the Soviets. Northern Alliance commanders also filled key government positions after the Soviets withdrew in 1989. General Abdul Rashid Dostum was --- and is again today --- a top mujahedeen leader. The Uzbek warlord's mutiny in 1992 led directly to the downfall and execution of Najibullah, the last Communist ruler. It also ensured the mujahedeen would roll into Kabul. Michael Griffin, in his book Reaping The Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan, labeled Dostum a backwater Saddam Hussein . . . ruthless . . . cunning. Return from exile Although included in a succession of Afghan governments, Dostum never garnered the power he so coveted. Ethnic hatred between Uzbeks, Hazaras, Tajiks and the majority Pashtun also scuttled any chance at real peace. In January 1994, Dostum's 20,000-man strong militia laid siege to Kabul. Two months of back-and-forth rocket and artillery fire led to the deaths of 4,000 Kabul residents and the exodus of 200,000 more. Of Dostum's troops, Griffin wrote: These Uzbek fighters inspired even greater fear among civilians who named them galamjam --- or carpet-thieves --- a term that Afghans diversified to embrace anyone with bad intentions. Dostum eventually retreated to Mazar-e-Sharif, until losses to the Taliban pushed him over the border and eventually into exile in Turkey. But Dostum returned this year to lead one of the main Northern Alliance factions. Listen to me carefully, warned Haji Abdul Ghani. Those opposed to the Northern Alliance are not on the side of the Taliban or al-Qaida. We just want our children's survival, our women's survival. If the Northern Alliance comes, we will all be killed. Ghani and other Afghans also fear a return to lawlessness. When the mujahedeen ran Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996, life was cheap. Rape was common. Truckers like Ghani paid tolls to bandits on virtually every roadway. The horror of the past The Taliban's Pashtun rulers restored order to Afghanistan, albeit a harsh and twisted Islamic version of order. A Northern Alliance victory, even with the United States looking over its shoulder, scares many Afghans. The Americans can't save us from the Northern Alliance, said Noor, 25, the farmer. I'm from northern Afghanistan and I've seen Dostum rule. His brand of justice [favored] the people of his tribe and everyone else was neglected, beaten or killed before the Taliban came. Noor threw a pebble he was fingering into the sand. I have no doubt it will be no different if the Northern Alliance comes to power again. ININ List Archives Found Here: http://www.egroups.com/messages/inin TO SUBSCRIBE: To subscribe please e-mail
H-Net* Routed Taliban 'collapsing like dominos'
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H-Net* U.S. Counter-Insurgency School
U.S. Counter-Insurgency School Targeted By Watchdog Group LONDON, Oct 31 (IslamOnline News Agencies) The United States has been running a "terrorist training camp" for the last 55 years, whose victims massively outnumber the people killed by the attack on New York, the embassy bombings and the other atrocities laid, rightly or wrongly at al-Qaeda's door, The Guardian newspaper said Tuesday. Guardian writer, George Monbiot, spoke about the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC), formed in 1946 and based in Fort Benning, Georgia. It was formally known as the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA), whose graduates include 60,000 Latin American soldiers and policemen. Many of them have been accused of torturing and terrorizing civilians in several Latin American countries, Monbiot explained in his article. "Among its graduates are many of the continent's most notorious torturers, mass murderers, dictators and state terrorists. As hundreds of pages of documentation compiled by the pressure group SOA Watch show, Latin America has been ripped apart by its alumni," said Monbiot. In June of this year, Colonel Byron Lima Estrada, once a student at the school, was convicted in Guatemala City of murdering Bishop Juan Gerardi in 1998. Gerardi was killed because he helped write a report on the atrocities committed by Guatemala's D-2, the military intelligence agency run by Lima Estrada with the help of two other SOA graduates. D-2 coordinated the "anti-insurgency" campaign, which obliterated 448 Mayan Indian villages and murdered tens of thousands of their people. In 1993, the United Nations Truth Commission on El Salvador named the army officers who had committed the worst atrocities of the civil war. Two-thirds of them had been trained at the School of the Americas, said Monbiot. Among them was Roberto D'Aubuisson, the reputed leader of El Salvador's death squads. Also named were the men who allegedly killed Archbishop Oscar Romero, as well as 19 of the 26 soldiers who murdered Jesuit priests in 1989. In Chile, the school's graduates ran both Augusto Pinochet's secret police and his three principal concentration camps. One of them allegedly helped murder Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffit in Washington D.C. in 1976. Argentina's dictators, Roberto Viola and Leopoldo Galtieri, Panama's Manuel Noriega and Omar Torrijos, Peru's Juan Velasco Alvarado and Ecuador's Guillermo Rodriguez all benefited from the school's instruction. "All this, the school's defenders insist, is ancient history. But SOA graduates are also involved in the dirty war now being waged, with U.S. support, in Colombia," Monboit said. In 1999, the U.S. State Department's report on human rights named two SOA graduates as the murderers of the peace commissioner, Alex Lopera. Last year, Human Rights Watch revealed that seven former pupils are running paramilitary groups in Colombia and have commissioned kidnappings, disappearances, murders and massacres. In February of this year, a SOA graduate in Colombia was convicted of complicity in the torture and killing of 30 peasants by paramilitaries. The school is now drawing more of its students from Colombia than from any other country, Monbiot added. "The FBI defines terrorism as 'violent acts... intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policy of a government, or affect the conduct of a government', which is a precise description of the activities of SOA's graduates," he said. In his article, Monbiot elaborated on the effect of the school's education on how many of it's alumni are involved with torture practices. "How can we be sure that their alma mater has had any part in this? In 1996, the U.S. government was forced to release seven of the school's training manuals. Among other top tips for terrorists, they recommended blackmail, torture, execution and the arrest of witnesses' relatives," he said. Several U.S. Congressmen tried to shut the school down last year, says Monbiot, as a result of a campaign organized by School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch). The bid was defeated by ten votes. "Instead, the House of Representatives voted to close it and then immediately reopen it under a different name the School of the Americas washed its hands of the past by renaming itself WHISC." On its website, WHISC courses says it covers "a broad spectrum of relevant areas, such as operational planning for peace operations; disaster relief; civil-military operations; tactical planning and execution of counter drug operations." SOA Watch describes on its websites that despite the name change, the course catalog has had very minimal changes done to it. "On January 17, 2001, the U.S Army School of the Americas was re-named the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation [the Department of Defense refers to it as WHINSEC]. "The name change is part of an ongoing effort by the Department of Defense [DOD] to alter the school's image, which has been diminished by
H-Net* The Taliban proves a durable foe.
The New Rules of Engagement War always has surprises. As the Taliban proves a durable foe, TIME's Romesh Ratnesar tells us what to watch for BY ROMESH RATNESAR Sunday, Oct. 28, 2001 For anyone who has been clinging to the notion that America can win this war the easy way, the fate of Abdul Haq should serve as a powerful antidote. Few knew how to fight in the rugged Afghan steppes and summits better than Haq, a legendary mujahedin guerrilla who lost his right foot to a land mine while helping rout the Soviets. He left Afghanistan during the post-Soviet power struggle and renounced politics after his wife and son were murdered in his Peshawar, Pakistan, home. But he recently returned to the Afghan frontier, hoping to enlist defectors and warlords in an anti-Taliban southern alliance. Because he was Pashtun--the dominant tribe of southern Afghanistan and the Taliban itself--Haq was a precious asset to the U.S., which desperately wants an erosion of Taliban authority in the south and east, where American commandos have launched the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Last week Haq and 19 lightly armed aides slipped into Taliban territory to persuade fighters to rise up against the regime. But informers trailed him. For two days the Taliban staked out the home where Haq was staying. Early Friday morning Taliban troops surrounded him on three sides. Cut off in the Khyber Pass, Haq placed a call on his satellite phone to his nephew in Pakistan; word of Haq's distress soon reached the CIA. As Haq tried to escape on horseback, the U.S. sent an unmanned Predator surveillance plane to shoot a Hellfire missile at his pursuers. It missed. Soon after the Taliban captured Haq. He was taken to Kabul and executed as a U.S. spy. For the American military, Haq's demise was a humbling end to a humbling week. Since the beginning of the campaign, the President's men have reminded Americans that this "new" kind of conflict could end up being as protracted as the cold war. And yet for a while the war seemed to be following a faster script--precision bombs clearing the way for a quick ground operation. After less than two weeks, the Pentagon was claiming that its bombs had "eviscerated" the Taliban's military capability. But last week that optimism faded. Dreams of a hit-and-run war gave way to the reality of a long twilight struggle that seems sure to drag into the Afghan winter. After more than 3,000 American bombs, the Taliban still has plenty of fight left in it; Taliban troops have thwarted a Northern Alliance offensive at Mazar-i-Sharif; civilian deaths are climbing; and many coalition partners--most crucially Pakistan--have grown impatient. The war is only three weeks old, and U.S. and British officials insist things are going as expected. "You always hope for a lucky punch," says an Air Force commander. "But you usually don't get lucky, so you just keep pressing on." Pentagon officials have said some ground operations aimed at crushing the Taliban and al-Qaeda may not get under way until next spring. "We're not setting timetables," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday. In a remarkable admission, Rear Admiral John Stufflebeem said, "I am a bit surprised at how doggedly they're hanging onto power. We definitely need to have patience," he added. "This is going to be a long, long campaign." Even in a new kind of war against an elusive adversary, some basic rules of engagement have emerged. Knowing them won't guarantee victory, but it may help us get through the dangerous months ahead. Rule 1: Dig in--This Is Going to Take Some Time American air power can do plenty of damage, but Afghan experts say the Taliban's morale won't crack until it suffers heavy battlefield losses. So long as the U.S. limits its ground operations to commando raids, the job of inflicting those casualties lies with the Northern Alliance. Alliance commanders have provided their strategy for toppling the regime to anyone who will listen: once American bombs softened Taliban forces, the Alliance planned to make its move into the key northern outposts of Mazar-i-Sharif, Kunduz and Taliqan, cutting a swath through the heart of Taliban country. As the Alliance rolled back the Taliban in the north, the thinking went, the certainty of defeat would produce mass defections from the Taliban's ranks, and the regime would implode. Time for Plan B. The first major ground battle, near Mazar-i-Sharif, took place last Monday, when hundreds of Northern Alliance troops serving under two commanders, Uzbek warlord Rashid Dostum and Tajik general Mullah Ustad Mohammed Atta, swept toward the city and the 20,000 entrenched Taliban troops protecting it. The Alliance forces advanced to within 12 miles of Mazar, but a fierce Taliban counterattack led to savage street battles; Alliance forces managed to hold their front line but failed to advance much further. It's unlikely that the Alliance will march on Mazar anytime soon. The Taliban's antiaircraft weapons and control of the
H-Net* Haq 'received U.S. assistance'
Haq 'received U.S. assistance' October 28, 2001 Posted: 8:45 PM EST (0145 GMT) WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former Mujahedeen leader Abdul Haq requested and received U.S. assistance in his failed mission to convince several Taliban leaders to defect, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Sunday "The assistance, unfortunately, was from the air, and he was on the ground," Rumsfeld said on ABC's This Week. "And regrettably, he was killed." Rumsfeld would not specify what kind of assistance Haq received, but he said it was not from the U.S. military. "It was from another element of the government," he said. A former U.S. government official who helped Haq arrange and finance his return to Afghanistan told CNN that his trip was coordinated with U.S. intelligence agencies as part of the effort to improve the fighting capabilities and coordination of opposition forces, and to try to persuade some Taliban forces to lay down their arms or defect to the opposition. Haq was captured by the Taliban last week in Afghanistan and along with two others, was executed on Friday in Kabul, independent sources told CNN. CNN sources who spoke to the Taliban in Afghanistan said Haq was buried Sunday in the Afghan town of Surkhrud, about six miles west of Jalalabad. Kurt Lohbeck, a former colleague of the anti-Taliban leader, said Haq was in Afghanistan on a covert mission to convince several Taliban leaders to defect when he was captured and killed. Haq was traveling with a large contingent of his own men, including former Mujahedeen and three foreigners, Lohbeck said. "There was a double cross, apparently by one of the Taliban people, and they were surrounded," he said. "[Haq] and his intelligence chief, they were captured, put on a phony, mock trial. I'm sure Abdul Haq proudly stood up and said that he was guilty of treason against the Taliban." Lohbeck said after the trial, the Taliban shot and hanged Haq. Friday, the Taliban said they also executed Haq's nephew and anti-Taliban commander, Haji Dawran, after they were found guilty of spying for the United States. In the 1980s, Haq successfully led the Mujahedeen against the Soviets in Afghanistan. He split with the Taliban in the early 1990s and went into exile. He lived in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, for the past decade before returning to Pakistan in late September. "He was a devout Muslim, a dedicated patriot, but he also looked forward to a modern world for Afghanistan to enter the 21st century," Lohbeck said. "That's what he was working on when he was killed."
H-Net* 93 killed in bombing of Kandahar village
93 killed in bombing of Kandahar village Air attacks hitting civilian districts in Kabul: UN DUBAI: Qatar's al-Jazeera television reported that US military strikes on Afghanistan on Tuesday had killed 93 civilians in a village near Kandahar, including 18 members of one family. The satellite channel said that at least 40 other civilians were wounded in the attack by US warplanes on the village some 60 km northeast of Kandahar, which it identified as Chukar. It said the 18 family members who died in the attack had fled Kandahar for safety in the village following US military strikes on the city, a Taliban stronghold. Jazeera broadcast videophone footage provided by its correspondent in Kandahar, Youssef al-Shouli, showing a row of corpses wrapped in white shrouds lined up against the wall inside a room. At least one of the corpses was that of a child and a second was of an elderly man. The television also broadcast footage of children, women and elderly men receiving treatment at a hospital in Kandahar. In a similar atrocity, fleeing refugees told Tuesday how 20 civilians, including nine children, were killed when a bomb from a US war plane hit a tractor. One survivor said refugees were on the back of a tractor at Tarin Kot village in southern Afghanistan on Sunday when it was hit by a bomb. Some of those who escaped managed to cross the border on Tuesday. Abdul Maroof, 28, said that after the bombings, injured people were left screaming for help with no hospitals nearby in the village, a six hour drive north of Kandahar, in Uruzgan province. After the initial bombing, 25 people decided to flee and climbed onto a trailer hitched to the back of a tractor. Faizul Mohammad said as the tractor was leaving Tarin Kot, US warplanes homed-in on the village and a bomb hit the tractor and trailer. Nineteen died in the strike. Mohammad lost a foot in the bombing and with six other survivors travelled to Kandahar in the back of pick-up trucks where they were told no treatment was possible. He said the injured then travelled to Chaman where Pakistan border guards allowed them to travel to Quetta for treatment. One of the injured, a women who had lost four children in the bombing later died, Mohammad said. The United Nations said Tuesday that US air attacks were hitting civilian districts in the Afghan capital, Kabul, because the Taliban was sending troops into those areas. "Reports are indicating that several bombs have hit residential areas in Khair Khana close to health and feeding centres," UN spokeswoman Stephanie Bunker told a press conference in Islamabad. "In addition a residential area called Macroyan has been hit. "Residential areas and some villages around Kabul are becoming more dangerous because Taliban troops are moving into those areas." It further said that a US bomb had destroyed an Afghan hospital as Taliban fighters resisted mounting attacks by US warplanes and opposition forces. The United States admitted at the same time that a missile had gone off target in an attack on the western city. "It was a military hospital in a military compound on the outskirts of the city," Bunker said, adding it was believed the bomb fell on Monday on the eastern outskirts of the city. Casualties were not known, she said. The Pentagon also acknowledged on Tuesday US bombs missed their targets in two separate incidents over the weekend, striking a residential area northwest of Kabul and an open area near a senior citizens home outside Herat Earlier in the day, a US-led bid to score quick wins over Taliban forces ahead of Afghanistan's winter snows met stiff resistance.US forces and their Afghan opposition allies pursued a three-pronged attack on Taliban frontline positions in the north, on the Islamic regime's southern power base of Kandahar and targets in and around the capital, Kabul. But an assault by opposition forces backed by US military advisers ran out of steam, while bombing north of Kabul failed to silence the Taliban missile batteries that killed at least two civilians in a rebel-held town. The defiant Taliban fighters repulsed an offensive by opposition troops during heavy fighting around their key northern stronghold of Mazar-i-Sharif. US fighter jets flew in support of an opposition force, which was accompanied by small teams of US commandos, but the rebels failed to capitalise on a three day bombardment and made no ground. US aircraft dropped at least seven bombs on Kabul late Tuesday as night attacks resumed, an AFP reporter said. One plane was heard in the night sky around 8.50 pm (1620 GMT), followed by the sound of a large explosion within the limits of the city and mild anti-aircraft fire from the Taliban militia's gunners. Three more explosions were heard to the north or northeast near the airport almost one hour later around 9.35 pm as one or more jets roared overhead, apparently at a high altitude. Anti-aircraft fire intensified during the second attack. US-led forces attacked Kabul twice before
H-Net* Islam Attracts Converts by the Thousands, Drawn Before
Islam Attracts Converts by the Thousands, Drawn Before and After Attacks "I'm asked to give up my religion for my kids," says Angela Davis, "but I won't do it." Ms. Davis discovered Islam this spring in an Internet chat room. Her estranged husband did not return the children after a visit. ALLWIN, Mo., Oct. 20 Since she became a Muslim six months ago, Angela Davis has given up many things. She stopped listening to music, started sleeping on the floor, put away her 100 Disney videos and traded her porcelain doll collection for velvet posters with verses from the Koran. Now, in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Ms. Davis may have to give up her children. After her photograph, in full veil, appeared in the local newspaper on Sept. 30, Ms. Davis's soon-to-be-ex- husband refused to return their children, 5 and 2, from a weekend visit. She has not seen them since. "It's a test that is given to me from Allah to see if my faith is strong enough," said Ms. Davis, 27, who discovered Islam in an Internet chat room this spring and now teaches pre-kindergarten at the Al-Salam Day School in this St. Louis suburb. "I'm asked to give up my religion for my kids, but I won't do it. On Judgment Day, as much as I love my kids, they won't be there with me." Though her situation is extreme, Ms. Davis is one of thousands of new Muslim converts struggling with their identities amid anti-Muslim fervor and declarations of an Islamic holy war being broadcast on television. Already estranged from relatives and friends, some of whom accuse them of joining a cult, these new Muslims face catcalls and fresh challenges to their faith Tim Parker for The New York Times -``Giving up the pork and the alcohol was the easy part,'' says Jim Hacking, a St. Louis lawyer who studied to be a Jesuit priest before choosing Islam. Many say the events of Sept. 11 only confirmed their commitment. Shannon Staloch is not sure why, but upon hearing of the hijackings, she immediately grabbed a book from her backpack and recited the Arabic declaration of belief; she made the conversion official 12 days later. "You know how the world changed when that happened and everyone was shaky?" Ms. Staloch said. "I wanted something steady." With some 6 million adherents in the United States, Islam is said to be the nation's fastest-growing religion, fueled by immigration, high birth rates and widespread conversion. One expert estimates that 25,000 people a year become Muslims in this country; some clerics say they have seen conversion rates quadruple since Sept. 11. Experts say Islam is attractive because of its universal message the faithful believe that everyone is born Muslim and thus call the transformation reversion, not conversion and because its teachings incorporate other traditions, honoring Jesus Christ, the Jewish patriarch Abraham and other Biblical figures as prophets. Though missionary work is rare in Islam, spreading the message is demanded by the Koran. Conversion is as simple as reciting one sentence "I bear witness that there is no deity except Allah and that Muhammad is his messenger" in front of witnesses, a ceremony known as Shahadah. "There's no class," said Khalid Yahya Blankinship, chairman of the religion department at Temple University. "There isn't really a formalized requirement, you don't have to be tested." Mr. Blankinship, who converted to Islam in 1973 and has since witnessed 100 Shahadahs, added: "It's very important that Islam should spread. The idea is that one should want other souls to be saved." The vast majority of converts are African-Americans, who make up about a third of Muslims in the United States. Thousands find Allah while in jail or in recovery from drug or alcohol addiction. Less familiar are the lapsed Catholics and lost Jews, often highly educated professionals, who come to the mosque. Many convert because they want to marry a Muslim who demands it, a common reason for conversions in any religion. "I would never have changed if it wasn't for Rania," David Nerviani, a St. Louis police officer, said of his Egyptian-born wife, a bartender he met on patrol. "It's probably not that deep for me." Others find Islam through friendships on college campuses, research papers on world religions or trolling the Internet. Some just feel called. Abdullah Reda of Reston, Va., said the news of Susan Smith, the South Carolina woman who drowned her two sons, brought him to Islam. A 13-year-old California girl had an epiphany during a sunset drive through the red rocks of Arizona. Katie Mathews, a graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis, who plans to make her Shahadah on her 23rd birthday in November, prayed for a sign and soon saw a license plate, "4 ALLAH." Nine years ago, Jim Hacking was in training to be a Jesuit priest. Now, he is an admiralty lawyer in St. Louis who has spent much of the last month explaining Islam at interfaith gatherings. Mr. Hacking's search began in the 12-step program
H-Net* Saudi Kingdom fights growing anger
Saudi Kingdom fights growing anger CAIRO - Saudi Arabia, home to a quarter of the world's oil reserves and the birthplace of Islam, faces growing popular opposition to the American campaign in Afghanistan - anxiety that could force the Saudi government to temper its crucial cooperation in the US pursuit of Osama bin Laden's network, analysts and diplomats say. In the past week, the powerful Saudi interior minister has warned his countrymen not to sympathize with bin Laden and his followers - an acknowledgment of the popularity the Saudi exile enjoys in his homeland. The religious affairs minister, meanwhile, has reminded the populace that no one other than the king could declare holy war, a move meant to head off such calls from popular and more radical preachers in the kingdom. Across the country, home to Islam's two holiest shrines, at Mecca and Medina, prayer leaders - with a rare forum for public expression in the restrictive kingdom - have dismissed the minister's warning and urged a holy war against ''the enemies of Islam.'' Others praised bin Laden as a ''true Muslim hero.'' Both calls were issued amid reports in an Arabic-language newspaper that Saudis were volunteering to fight in Afghanistan. Saudi Arabia's government has weathered such opposition before, most notably during the 1991 Gulf War when US troops were stationed on Saudi land. But the anxiety on the part of Saudi leaders over popular opposition to the US-led campaign in Afghanistan points to the delicate balancing act the Saudi government has faced for much of its history - a deep alliance with the United States that, in public, cannot appear so deep. ''The more they're seen as closely associated with the US, the more difficult for them to justify their own pronouncements that they have independence of decision making,'' said Aziz Abu Hamad, a Saudi analyst in Riyadh. The United States ''doesn't realize that if the government cooperates more they will jeopardize their own security.'' Saudi leaders, so far noticeably reluctant to endorse the US campaign, began this week to air their displeasure with the course of the attacks on a fellow Muslim country. Their messages, albeit subtle, suggested that Saudi Arabia is increasingly uneasy with the duration and scope of the US campaign, both in its military attacks on Afghanistan as well as the less visible moves against financial sources of Osama bin Laden's network, many of which traditionally sprung from Saudi Arabia's elite. US officials have publicly said that they are satisfied with the support the Saudis are providing. ''The cooperation has been much better than the general public perception,'' said Robert H. Pelletreau, former assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs. But requests for more cooperation may be dangerous, Hamad said. So far, the Saudis have allowed the United States to use a sophisticated command and control system at Prince Sultan Air Base near Riyadh during the strikes. More help will be needed to crack down on funding believed headed for bin Laden's network - something the Saudi government has sought to do since 1993 - and in the investigation into those behind the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, analysts say. With Egypt and Israel, Saudi Arabia remains one of the pillars of US foreign policy in the Middle East, a strategic region in a world dependent on fossil fuels. The US-Saudi alliance dates to 1945, when President Roosevelt met King Abdul Aziz aboard the USS Quincy in the Suez Canal. It has weathered four Arab-Israeli wars, and it grew far deeper and more public after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, which led to the arrival of US troops on Saudi soil. But the relationship, bound by oil, remains sensitive. While the Cold War united them as opponents of the Soviet Union - the United States because of communism, Saudi Arabia because of atheism - the Saudi government has shied away from appearing too close in public to a country unpopular for its support of Israel and increasingly perceived as hostile in foreign policy and lifestyle to Islam. ''They have a lot of ambivalence toward us and we have a lot of ambivalence toward them, but our mutual interests are so strong, they've overridden the ambivalence,'' said David Long, a former US diplomat in Saudi Arabia. ''Our mutual interests are so close that the policies have stayed remarkably close for the last 60 years.'' The crisis today, analysts and diplomats say, has introduced a new and perhaps more dangerous element into that relationship. The test, they say, could prove as severe as the 1991 Gulf War, which gave rise to a dissident movement - both militant and peaceful - upset about the arrival of US soldiers on land considered by Muslims to be sacred. The challenge revolves around bin Laden himself, a Saudi exile who was long a hero in his country for fighting Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s. That campaign, backed by the United States in one of its biggest covert operations
H-Net* Islam Attracts Converts by the Thousands, Drawn Before
they bowed and knelt like old pros. They murmured bismillah (in the name of Allah) before starting a game, astaghfirullah (I beg Allah for forgiveness) after a misstep. But they say their father says their mother worships Satan. I got one person saying they want me to be Muslim and then I got my dad saying no Muslim, said Krashanna Agers, 9. I don't know, I'm not grown up yet. Source: NY Times ( Melanggan ? To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] pada body : SUBSCRIBE HIZB) ( Berhenti ? To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] pada body: UNSUBSCRIBE HIZB) ( Segala pendapat yang dikemukakan tidak menggambarkan ) ( pandangan rasmi bukan tanggungjawab HIZBI-Net ) ( Bermasalah? Sila hubungi [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Pengirim: Mohd Bazil Badrul Jam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
H-Net* Saudi Kingdom fights growing anger
Saudi Kingdom fights growing anger CAIRO - Saudi Arabia, home to a quarter of the world's oil reserves and the birthplace of Islam, faces growing popular opposition to the American campaign in Afghanistan - anxiety that could force the Saudi government to temper its crucial cooperation in the US pursuit of Osama bin Laden's network, analysts and diplomats say. In the past week, the powerful Saudi interior minister has warned his countrymen not to sympathize with bin Laden and his followers - an acknowledgment of the popularity the Saudi exile enjoys in his homeland. The religious affairs minister, meanwhile, has reminded the populace that no one other than the king could declare holy war, a move meant to head off such calls from popular and more radical preachers in the kingdom. Across the country, home to Islam's two holiest shrines, at Mecca and Medina, prayer leaders - with a rare forum for public expression in the restrictive kingdom - have dismissed the minister's warning and urged a holy war against ''the enemies of Islam.'' Others praised bin Laden as a ''true Muslim hero.'' Both calls were issued amid reports in an Arabic-language newspaper that Saudis were volunteering to fight in Afghanistan. Saudi Arabia's government has weathered such opposition before, most notably during the 1991 Gulf War when US troops were stationed on Saudi land. But the anxiety on the part of Saudi leaders over popular opposition to the US-led campaign in Afghanistan points to the delicate balancing act the Saudi government has faced for much of its history - a deep alliance with the United States that, in public, cannot appear so deep. ''The more they're seen as closely associated with the US, the more difficult for them to justify their own pronouncements that they have independence of decision making,'' said Aziz Abu Hamad, a Saudi analyst in Riyadh. The United States ''doesn't realize that if the government cooperates more they will jeopardize their own security.'' Saudi leaders, so far noticeably reluctant to endorse the US campaign, began this week to air their displeasure with the course of the attacks on a fellow Muslim country. Their messages, albeit subtle, suggested that Saudi Arabia is increasingly uneasy with the duration and scope of the US campaign, both in its military attacks on Afghanistan as well as the less visible moves against financial sources of Osama bin Laden's network, many of which traditionally sprung from Saudi Arabia's elite. US officials have publicly said that they are satisfied with the support the Saudis are providing. ''The cooperation has been much better than the general public perception,'' said Robert H. Pelletreau, former assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs. But requests for more cooperation may be dangerous, Hamad said. So far, the Saudis have allowed the United States to use a sophisticated command and control system at Prince Sultan Air Base near Riyadh during the strikes. More help will be needed to crack down on funding believed headed for bin Laden's network - something the Saudi government has sought to do since 1993 - and in the investigation into those behind the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, analysts say. With Egypt and Israel, Saudi Arabia remains one of the pillars of US foreign policy in the Middle East, a strategic region in a world dependent on fossil fuels. The US-Saudi alliance dates to 1945, when President Roosevelt met King Abdul Aziz aboard the USS Quincy in the Suez Canal. It has weathered four Arab-Israeli wars, and it grew far deeper and more public after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, which led to the arrival of US troops on Saudi soil. But the relationship, bound by oil, remains sensitive. While the Cold War united them as opponents of the Soviet Union - the United States because of communism, Saudi Arabia because of atheism - the Saudi government has shied away from appearing too close in public to a country unpopular for its support of Israel and increasingly perceived as hostile in foreign policy and lifestyle to Islam. ''They have a lot of ambivalence toward us and we have a lot of ambivalence toward them, but our mutual interests are so strong, they've overridden the ambivalence,'' said David Long, a former US diplomat in Saudi Arabia. ''Our mutual interests are so close that the policies have stayed remarkably close for the last 60 years.'' The crisis today, analysts and diplomats say, has introduced a new and perhaps more dangerous element into that relationship. The test, they say, could prove as severe as the 1991 Gulf War, which gave rise to a dissident movement - both militant and peaceful - upset about the arrival of US soldiers on land considered by Muslims to be sacred. The challenge revolves around bin Laden himself, a Saudi exile who was long a hero in his country for fighting Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s. That campaign, backed by the United States in one of its
H-Net* Saudi Kingdom fights growing anger
, they say, could prove as severe as the 1991 Gulf War, which gave rise to a dissident movement - both militant and peaceful - upset about the arrival of US soldiers on land considered by Muslims to be sacred. The challenge revolves around bin Laden himself, a Saudi exile who was long a hero in his country for fighting Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s. That campaign, backed by the United States in one of its biggest covert operations ever, joined bin Laden with many of the 6,000-strong Saudi royal family. Among his supporters were Prince Salman, the powerful governor of Riyadh, and Crown Prince Abdullah, all but certain to be the next Saudi king, who donated dozens of trucks in the war's early years. On his return to Saudi Arabia, bin Laden was in demand as a speaker in mosques and homes across the desert kingdom. More than 250,000 cassettes of his speeches are said to have been distributed, and they usually sold out as soon as they appeared. Bin Laden was forced into exile in Sudan in 1991 and his passport was revoked three years later when he refused to quiet his forceful opposition to the royal family. But he remains a symbol to the politically disenchanted in the country, particularly among religious youth, who face a future in which population growth isn't keeping up with the creation of jobs, in an economy that is still overwhelmingly dependent on oil. ''They always have to be careful because he's a very charismatic guy, and they have a partially marginalized younger generation,'' Long said. That popularity is not only among the young. A Saudi journalist said that some of his newsroom colleagues began crying as they listened to bin Laden's videotaped message and his denunciation of US policies on the night the US campaign started. Bin Laden's place in conservative Saudi society has merged with the unpopularity of those strikes. As in much of the Arab world, the campaign is seen as directed less at bin Laden's network and more at a fellow Muslim country. Images broadcast on Al-Jazeera last week inflamed viewers in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere with footage that graphically detailed an American strike on Kabul: crying and wounded civilians, houses pulverized in the attack. ''If you talk to anyone, even a secular Saudi while he is finishing his glass of whiskey, and you ask him about how does he feel about bombing Afghanistan, he will say this is harram[forbidden], this is wrong, this is ridiculous,'' said Jamal Khashoggi, deputy editor of the English-language Arab News. ''So, yes, there is a general unease. People are not comfortable with the bombing, especially the way it's turning out to be.'' Source: Daily Globe, Boston ( Melanggan ? To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] pada body : SUBSCRIBE HIZB) ( Berhenti ? To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] pada body: UNSUBSCRIBE HIZB) ( Segala pendapat yang dikemukakan tidak menggambarkan ) ( pandangan rasmi bukan tanggungjawab HIZBI-Net ) ( Bermasalah? Sila hubungi [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Pengirim: Mohd Bazil Badrul Jam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
H-Net* Taliban say American bombings have killed 1,000 civilians
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Taliban say American bombings have killed 1,000 civilians
Islamabad, Oct 21, IRNA -- The relentless American
bombardment in Afghanistan has so
far killed one thousands civilians, a senior
Taliban diplomat said Sunday.
The Americans are targeting civilians. Even today
(Sunday) Americans rained bombs on
civilians in Khair Khana locality of capital
Kabul, Taliban Deputy envoy Suhail Shaheen
said.
Why the so-called Western human rights groups are
silent over the brutal killings of the
Afghan civilians, Shaheen asked.
About the American ground attacks, he said Taliban
forces had laid down a siege around
the American invading ground forces in Kandahar,
forcing them to flee in frustration in the
darkness. He said that Taliban anti-aircraft guns
had hit and badly damaged a fighter plane,
which later landed in Pakistani territory.
The American fighter plane can not now take off
due to the severe damages, Shaheen
said.
About fighting near the northern city of
Mazar-e-Sharif, the Taliban diplomat said that the
opposition forces have been pushed back up-to 15
kilometers. A huge quantity of
weapons has also been seized from the fleeing
alliance forces, he said.
To a question, he said supreme leader Mulla
Mohammad Omar and Osama bin Laden are
safe.
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H-Net* Azhar scholars reject Islamic alliance with America
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Azhar scholars reject Islamic alliance with America
30-09-2001
Cairo- The Azhar Ulama Front has rejected Americas
calls for an international alliance to include Arab and
Islamic countries.
The Front, which consists of around 30,000 religious
scholars, urged the Arab and Islamic countries to keep
aloof from such an aggression against innocent people
whether Muslims or non-Muslims.
In a statement signed by 16 senior Ulama on behalf of
the 30,000 members, the Front denounced voicing
charges against Arabs and Muslims over the explosions
in America without any concrete proof given.
The statement said that terrorism should not be fought
by generalizing terrorism but rather by according
justice to the oppressed and respecting the peoples
rights in their countries.
Islam does not allow the shedding of innocent blood or
terrorizing people regardless of their creed or
affiliation
and incriminates attacking civilian targets even in
defensive wars as long as they are not directly linked
to war, the statement elaborated.
The Front underlined that Muslims were the target of
terrorism and cited many examples in Bosnia and
Palestine that were carried out and still are under the
very nose of the whole world, which remained silent.
It said that the Zionist entity's ongoing atrocious acts
against the Palestinians were no less terrible than what
happened in New York an Washington.
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H-Net* Israeli-American Writer Calls for Destruction Of Ka`ba
Israeli-American Writer Calls for Destruction Of Ka`ba CAIRO, Oct 1 (IslamOnline News Agencies) An Israeli-American writer invited the Western world to destroy the Ka`ba, the house of Allah, built by the Prophet Ibrahim and his son Isma`il, and to which Muslims turn to in times of prayer fives times a day. In an article entitled "Time to face Mecca," published in the Israeli Insider Online Magazine, Reuven Koret said, "Should the jihadists (Muslim strugglers) ever again dare to execute a genocidal assault on the people and symbols of Western civilization - let them know beyond any possible doubt that they will have no direction in which to turn when they bow and worship their deity of destruction." Commenting on the article, the Egyptian independent weekly Al-Usboo said, "Those who think that the upcoming war is not a crusade, or who claim that the comments expressed by U.S. President George W. Bush was just a slip of the tongue must think twice and be prepared for what's to come. This article is one of the mad calls that prove that we need to be prepared for the worst scenario." Koret said that the destruction of the World Trade Center complex and the Pentagon are a "great danger", claiming it would become a "precedent" for future outrages. "Within months or years, if not now, the fundamental Islamic states and terror groups will have at their disposal nuclear weapons to complement their existing stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons. As the abomination in New York proves, they will not hesitate to use genocide as a policy." Koret demanded "a new strategy of deterrence calculated to stop the momentum of radical Islam that is threatening the free world. The Islamic fanatics have declared jihad - [struggle] - against the West. An appropriate and immediate response is imperative." "Next in line, if the Jihadists have their way, will be the White House, the Statue of Liberty, the Golden Gate Bridge, Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower, the Kremlin. All are at immediate risk, everyone knows it, and the inspired followers of radical Islam have had their appetites opened," claimed Koret. The West, says Koret, must find ways to deter the "Jihadist", that is "by understanding and answering them in terms of their value system, not ours. Will it do anyone any good to bomb the airport of Kabul, or the military bases of the Taliban? Been there, done that. The concentrated efforts of the Western World did not bring Saddam Hussein to his knees. George Bush senior failed, and George Bush junior will be scorned at if that is the main approach." Instead, Koret's suggestion is, "In Mecca there are two tall towers, minarets that stand guard over a large black box that serves as the object of worship for the faithful, the destination of their holy pilgrimage. It is to this symbolic object to which all Moslems pray. "Americans, like Israelis, are distinguished among the nations in their respect for innocent human life. We will not as a policy target civilians, and if civilians are harmed as an unintended result of a military action, they will be genuinely sorry. "But the Western World must first protect its own people, and that means creating a deterrent policy that will make the next suicide bombers and their masters think twice. Whether it is publicly announced or merely communicated through quiet channels, the Jihadists must know with absolute certainty that the next outrage against a Western target will prompt an immediate and massive military strike against a prominent symbol of Islam. "No one can doubt that the destruction of one or more of the sacred symbols of Islam even without harming a single civilian - would send the Moslem world into an anti-Western frenzy." He added that the only solution is to attack Mecca, "The West must face Mecca now, dealing directly with the threat that the cowards of Jihad have forced us to confront, speaking to murderers in the only language they understand."
H-Net* Israeli-American Writer Calls for Destruction Of Ka`ba
announced or merely communicated through quiet channels, the Jihadists must know with absolute certainty that the next outrage against a Western target will prompt an immediate and massive military strike against a prominent symbol of Islam. No one can doubt that the destruction of one or more of the sacred symbols of Islam - even without harming a single civilian - would send the Moslem world into an anti-Western frenzy. He added that the only solution is to attack Mecca, The West must face Mecca now, dealing directly with the threat that the cowards of Jihad have forced us to confront, speaking to murderers in the only language they understand. ( Melanggan ? To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] pada body : SUBSCRIBE HIZB) ( Berhenti ? To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] pada body: UNSUBSCRIBE HIZB) ( Segala pendapat yang dikemukakan tidak menggambarkan ) ( pandangan rasmi bukan tanggungjawab HIZBI-Net ) ( Bermasalah? Sila hubungi [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Pengirim: Mohd Bazil Badrul Jam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
H-Net* Impact After Tragedy
http://www.iviews.com/scripts/articles/stories/default.cfm?id=12930category_id=39 Title: iviews.com Select Store: Audio Books Gifts Grocery Software Video Home Top News Articles Interactive Discussion Feedback COLUMN FEATURE ANALYSIS EDITORIAL Express your opinion on this article Readers' opinions on this article Arif Faridi The Fallout After the Attack (At the moment it is vital that Muslim governments especially in Egypt, Saudi Ar... catman thoughts The Fallout After the Attack There exists in the realm of all, two dimensions. One is the realm of the physic... Patrick Someguy The Fallout After the Attack "Not only because it's not allowed in Qur'an, our Holy Book." I don't underst... More ... Top News US push for terror coalition sparks rift with Israel Bush to visit Washington Islamic center Mosques targeted as anti-Muslim feeling surfaces in Europe New York's anxious Muslims reject terrorists and warmongers Taliban hopeful after meeting with Pakistan Iran opposes US revenge against Afghanistan, seeks Muslim consensus Internet privacy at threat after terror attacks, experts fear The Fallout After the Attack Copyright: http://www.iviews.com Published Wednesday September 12, 2001 By Muqtedar Khan What has happened Tuesday was catastrophic. It was even bigger than pearl harbor. Words cannot describe the magnitude of the human tragedy that has taken place. The consequences of this event will be far reaching and will necessarily have global as well as local impact on Muslims. If the perpetrators of this extremely horrible, senseless and inhuman act are Muslims, then it can be safely assumed that decades of work by scholars, groups and activists to improve relations between the US and the Muslim World has been severely reversed. The response to today's terrible tragedies will have an impact on the US role in world politics, and will effect US immigration policy. And now it seems unlikely that the secret evidence act will be repealed. In fact, one may expect more laws which will curtail the civil rights of all Americans to be passed. Muslims in America will be at the mercy of the wisdom of American leadership. Muslims must encourage the US government not to compromise American values of democracy because it would mean that the terrorists have succeeded in destroying the American way of life, and that would be their greatest victory. Muslims must encourage the US government not to compromise American values of democracy because it would mean that the terrorists have succeeded in destroying the American way of life, and that would be their greatest victory. _ This event will eventually strengthen the US both internally and externally. More and more countries traditionally aligned against the US, like India, Russia and China will enhance their cooperation with the US to fight international terrorism, global militancy from non-state actors and other forms of non-state violence. It may provide a rallying point around which the world may unite behind the US to more aggressively deal with global terrorism and conflicts. At the moment it is vital that Muslim governments especially in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Jordan, Iran and Iraq cooperate with US
H-Net* Islam Online- News Section
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