TheUnjustMedia.Com
| Home | archive | America | Banking | capitalism | corporations | CIA |
| Darwinism refuted | Freemasons & NWO | Islam | Media | Propaganda |
Today's News From Around The World Monday 12 March 2007
‘Ameer al-Mu`mineen Mullah Omar Mujahid is in Afghanistan’ Ameer al-Mu`mineen Mullah Omar Mujahid Taliban leader is in Afghanistan and leading the battle against the government and its international allies, said Mullah Dadullah Taliban commander. Mullah Dadullah rejected speculation that Ameer al-Mu`mineen, Mullah Omar Mujahid was in Pakistan. Asked in a telephone interview where Ameer al-Mu`mineen, Mullah Omar Mujahid is, he said: “I won’t tell you that. But one thing I can tell you is that if he was in Pakistan, he would have been captured just like many others.”
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military
bombardment martyrs 5 more civilians
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military martyred five
more Afghan civilians in an air strike in the southern province of Helmand, a
tribal elder said on Monday. The elder, Meera Jan, said civilian houses were hit
in the bombardment by
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military, which
martyred five civilians and wounded four, he said.
Afghanistan: The invasion and occupation
The United
States, though, was in an entirely unique position. Alone among the countries of
the world, it had the military means to reach out across thousands of kilometres
to carry out an assault on remote Afghanistan. By deciding on a military
invasion as the American response to the terror attacks, the Bush administration
was raising the stakes enormously.
This was no mere police action. The invasion would turn out the regime in power
and replace it with another. And by declaring that the action in Afghanistan was
only one front in a much wider War on Terror in which the whole world was
involved, the Bush administration was raising the stakes much further still. The
United States was pledging to deliver its version of liberty to humanity and to
rid the world of a dark menace.
From the beginning, the Afghan mission, Enduring Freedom, was cast in
ideological terms. Its authors would not be satisfied with success against the
Taliban and the Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. They were determined to use the
provocation of September 11 to change the world and to increase the power of the
United States throughout the globe.
Bush seeks 3,500 more troops for Afghanistan US President George W. Bush has decided to send another 3,500 troops to Afghanistan, the White House announced, raising the number of US forces there to 27,000 -- the highest level since the US-led invasion in 2001.
Afghanistan's 'Hard Mission' Slips Away
The 16-page Canadian Senate report, entitled
“Taking a Hard Look at a Hard Mission,” foresees a conflict that could drag on
for generations and might well fail unless NATO significantly increases its
commitment of money and troops.
“It is in our view doubtful that this mission can be accomplished given the
limited resources that NATO is currently investing in Afghanistan,” said the
report by the Standing Committee on National Security and Defence. “The current
NATO contingent doesn’t have enough troops to go toe-to-toe with the Taliban.”
Former Canadian Ambassador to Afghanistan Chris Alexander told the committee
that it would take five generations to “make a difference in Afghanistan,” while
Land Forces Commander Andrew Leslie estimated that it would take at least two
decades to complete the mission.
Public Torture: Preparing the Audience The United States tortures prisoners. This is official policy under the Bush administration. There is some coyness about it, but the pathetic legalisms and non-denial denials fool only those who want to be fooled. What we do to prisoners now was plainly called torture less than ten years ago. While we still have some qualms about some methods, we are willing to hand prisoners over to countries that have less qualms, even countries we treat as enemies, like Syria. Of course, what makes even tortured denials possible is the fact that we torture in private. But many signs point to torture becoming the high-tech method of crowd control in the 21st Century. How will the public react? Is what passes for TV entertainment today getting us ready for what we will see as TV news very soon, torture in the name of public order?
Iraqi Mujahideen attacks against the enemies of Islam for Sunday Three American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military troops reported killed in double Mujahideen bombing near Hit Sunday afternoon. Mujahideen sharpshooter reportedly kills American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military Marine in western Baghdad Sunday afternoon. Mujahideen bomb reportedly kills two American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers near al-Latifiyah early Sunday. British Christian kafir terrorists occupation military troops kill Iraqi man and his son near al-Basrah airport Saturday night.
Five more American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers killed in Iraq violence The American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military reported the deaths of five more American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military troops in Iraq, three of them in fighting with the Mujahideen and two in non-combat incidents. One soldier was killed by a roadside bomb attack while fighting in support of an air assault on Mujahideen targets southwest of Baghdad, and another "died as a result of injuries sustained from an explosion" in northern Iraq. In the third incident, a soldier from Task Force Lightning, based in the northern city of Tikrit died "in a non-combated related incident, which is currently under investigation".
US military plans Iraq pullout in case 'surge' fails: report Pentagon planners have begun work on a fallback position for Iraq that includes a phased pullout of US troops in case the current “surge” strategy of sending 21,500 additional combat troops fails or is undercut by Congress, The Los Angeles Times reported Monday. A drawdown of forces in Iraq, The Times said, would be in line with comments made last month by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group.
CNN Sold Us The War. Now It Sells Us The Heartbreak With Unctuous Consoling, "Heroic! Brave!" CNN sold us on the War, and no matter how often CNN praises our dead and wounded as brave and heroic, we remember that CNN sold us the war on Iraq.
Thousands of US Soldiers Have Mental
Disorders A study published Monday revealed that a quarter of US
war veterans who sought medical care in government-funded health care centers
were diagnosed with a mental disorder. AFP reported that an even higher number
of veteran soldiers were left with psychosocial disorders including domestic
violence upon returning home from the occupied lands of Iraq and Afghanistan. A
study published last year, which examined active duty forces, indicated that
mental illness among recently discharged US forces and members of the National
Guard has at the very least doubled in one year.
Doctor Karen Seal, a researcher at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical
Center responsible for the study, stated that the study found that only a third
of all the US troops returning home from the occupied countries were accessing
mental health services. Seal warned that 56 percent of the war veterans
diagnosed were suffering from more than one mental illness. The most common
diagnosis among the American occupation soldiers found in the study was
post-traumatic stress disorder, followed by anxiety disorder, adjustment
disorder, depression and substance abuse.
Former UN Chief Weapons Inspector Slams Blair, Bush Former United Nations chief weapons inspector Hans Blix says British Prime Minister Tony Blair has replaced "question marks with exclamation marks" in intelligence dossiers used to justify the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. Blix, who led the UN search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq until June 2003, said a later discredited dossier on Iraq's weapons programs had deliberately embellished the case for war. Blix said in an interview with Britain's Sky News television broadcast on Monday: "I do think they exercised spin. They put exclamation marks instead of question marks.'' According to interview excerpts released in advance, Blix said Blair and US President George W. Bush had "lost a lot of confidence'' once failures in intelligence were exposed. He said that intelligence officials would likely have drawn the eventual conclusion that Iraq had no weapons stockpiles and that their sources were providing poor quality information.
Playing Monopoly With Iraqi Money The biggest
transfer of cash in history took place from May 2003 to June 2004 when the U.S.
Federal Reserve of New York shipped $12 billion in bills of various
denominations to war-torn Iraq. Over the course of one year, a fleet of C-130s
carried, from New York to Baghdad, 484 pallets weighing a total of 363 tons and
holding 281 million bank notes. This is not an advertisement for a new board
game but the summary of a memorandum prepared for a meeting of the House
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, chaired by Rep. Henry Waxman,
which is examining the "reconstruction" of Iraq under Paul Bremer.
No proper record of the funds, which were distributed by the Coalition
Provisional Authority, is available. They seem to have been disbursed like
Monopoly money. Contractors were paid in cash from the back of pickup trucks;
thousands of "ghost employees," people enlisted in ministerial jobs that did not
exist, were paid salaries with bundles of currency; $1 million was stolen from
the CPA vault and nobody seemed to be bothered; $500 million was disbursed under
the heading "TBD" ("to be determined"). An obscure consulting firm from San
Diego was in charge of certifying the distribution of the money, yet it never
conducted any review of internal controls, as was contractually required.
9 Russian invaders are destroyed near Tsa-Vedeno As the edition of Alkavkaz reported (on March,10th), near the village of Tsa-Vedeno (Vedenskiy district of CRI), a convoy of Russian occupational forces, consisted from 8 vehicles, was attacked. In result of this attack 9 unbelievers were destroyed, and 2 military lorries were damaged. 1 Chechen Mujahid became Shahid (Insha'Allah). Sources kazkav centre
Industrialization Without A Human Face Part II If something (energy and resource-intensive industrialization) was once good for the presently enriched nations it does not imply that it would be good for the impoverished nations and for the world as a whole. There may not be a world left to experience the benefit! Meanwhile, we must all agree to consume, obey and shut up, in keeping with the expectations of a cramped democracy under siege from corporate totalitarianism.
The Church Of Business
Right now your national
business organizations, your manufacturing, mining or chemical industry
associations, Chamber of Commerces, CEO clubs and other business lobbying
organizations are planning environmental containment strategies similar to the
disinformation war that the tobacco industry waged against cancer agencies and
government. Disinformation campaigns which were in turn used as a template by
the major energy companies and their lobbying organizations to wrong foot
citizens and governments globally about the reality and danger of climate change
over the past several decades. If you could gain access to their meetings,
minutes and e-mails (as happened over time to both the previous tobacco and
climate change denial campaigns) you would find little concern about how climate
change is already severely impacting people today.
Lawyers boycott courts across Pakistan Pakistani lawyers boycotted court proceedings, clashed with riot police, and burned an image of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf on Monday in a countrywide protest against the removal of Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry. Information Minister Mohammed Ali Durrani said the Supreme Judicial Council would hear the case against Chaudhry at a ‘closed session’ on Tuesday. Durrani said Musharraf would abide by the council's findings. At the Supreme Court in Islamabad, a group of lawyers chanted “Shame, shame, shame” outside a courtroom where acting chief judge Javed Iqbal was to hear a case but was forced to adjourn the proceedings because no counsel for the petitioners appeared. In Lahore, police stopped hundreds of lawyers from marching toward the provincial assembly, sparking a clash in which about 20 lawyers were injured in a scuffle. In Karachi, hundreds more lawyers staged a peaceful sit-down protest in a street near the main court complex. Lawyers in Peshawar rallied in front of the provincial governor's residence.
NATO Chief Warns of Split in Europe
over Planned US Missile Base Secretary-General of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has warned that the
alliance risks being split between countries that would be covered by the US'
controversial missile defence program and other member states left exposed to
missile threats. The NATO chief's comments open a new front in the debate about
the US plans to establish a missile defence system, which has been dominated by
Russia's objections to the Bush regime’s request to install bases in Poland and
the Czech Republic. Several western European countries have expressed
reservations, given that the scheme antagonizes Moscow. Last week, French
President Jacques Chirac declared that the US initiative risked returning Europe
to the tensions of the Cold War.
Arabs Call Israel-US Biggest Threat
The results of a recent poll in Arab states showed that the
majority of Arabs consider the illegal Zionist entity and the US as the biggest
danger. The Lebanese al-Balad daily said Sunday that "based on the poll, carried
out by the American Meriland University, 85 percent of the Arab people call the
Zionist entity the biggest danger facing them." According to the poll, 72
percent of Arabs consider America as the biggest danger. Concerning the issue
that the overall figure out of these two percentages goes beyond hundred
indexes, it becomes obvious that most of the participants have chosen both the
Zionist regime and America in the options.
It's Israel that incites hate: Blame Israel, not Palestinian textbooks,
for hatred in the Holy Land I spent three months in
Palestine and Israel. I have been a witness to injustice that rarely makes it to
mainstream news in the U.S.
I have spent time with families whose houses have been demolished; families who
are left with no means of income after their fields have been destroyed; men who
have been tortured in prison and who are nevertheless seeking a nonviolent way
to resist; children who have been shot while playing; children who have been
beaten by soldiers; and children whose siblings are in jail simply for being
members of a political party.
The lives of Palestinians are devalued at the expense of Israelis. Palestinian
children have little or no access to play areas, because of Israeli building
restrictions and continued confiscation of land. While settlements atop hills in
Palestine use water for swimming pools, gardens, and open spaces, Palestinians
must pay four times as much to Israel for water.
Jews 'partly responsible' for their troubles: Churchill The Second World War prime minister Winston Churchill argued that Jews were "partly responsible for the antagonism from which they suffer" in an article publicised for the first time Sunday.
China asks US, Europe to cut agriculture subsidy
China blames Europe, U.S. for failure to revive world trade talks
US And Britain Asked Poland To Host Secret CIA Gulag
March 11 2007
The Sword of the Hijab
Sister Hawaa'
Barayeva Launched Martyrdom Attack That Destroyed Russian Military Building
To all Muslims!
To all those who failed to fulfill their duties to their brothers and sisters in
Chechnya,
To all those who waste their time with worldly exploits while Muslims are
slaughtered in Chechnya and other parts of the world...
Take heed of the message issued by a young Muslim woman who wore the Hijab and
was not even 20 years old, whose final words were: "I know what I am doing;
Paradise has a price and I hope this will be the price for Paradise."
Moments later, sister Hawaa' Barayeva drove a car laden with explosives through
the streets of Alkhan Kala and into a building that was used by the leadership
of Russian Special Forces in Chechnya. Russian troops unleashed a hail of fire
in an attempt to stop sister Hawaa', but Allah had chosen to give victory to her
and to her message. She drove the car through the gates and into the centre of
the building. The explosives detonated ripping through the structure and causing
heavy damage.
After the dust settled, 27 Russian soldiers, many of them senior Special Forces
officers, lay dead. The building used by the Russian Special Forces was severely
damaged, and a Russian army of 270,000 Russians watched helplessly as a female
warrior of Allah drove a knife through the heart of the leadership of Russia's
‘elite' forces. The massive damage to the building and the hundreds of panicky
Russian soldiers who surrounded the structure after the attack belied official
statements that only few soldiers were killed or wounded in the attack.
Sister Hawaa's sacrifice for the sake of Allah and the Muslims is a warning to
the unbelievers not only in Chechnya, but across the world, that the people of
Allah will no longer accept the tyranny of infidels. It is a warning to all
those who think they can commit crimes against Muslim women and children without
being accountable for such crimes; Hawaa' Barayeva taught the enemies of Allah
that they will be held accountable and will be hunted down by the soldiers of
Allah; Hawaa' Barayeva taught the enemies of Allah that the Ummah of Islam still
has, and will always have, mothers who give birth to Mujahideen, men and women,
who will defend the faith and honor of Muslims everywhere.
Will those Muslims who are sitting in the comfort of their homes learn the
lessons taught to the world by Hawaa' Barayeva; will you follow in her example
of unquestioning faith and heroic selflessness? Will you support your brothers
and sisters in Chechnya with your strength, political and financial? Will you at
least remember your brothers and sisters in Chechnya in your prayers?
This operation has added a new dimension to the guerilla war that the Mujahideen
are undertaking as part of their effort to exterminate the presence of Russian
forces in Chechnya. May Allah increase the number and scope of such operations,
and may He grant His Infinite Mercy to our beloved sister and martyr of the
Ummah, Hawaa, for truly is He the Most Gracious and Most Merciful, and we do not
sanctify anyone above Him.
Shortly after news of the operation spread, Field Commander Ramadan Ahmadov
commented: "The men of Chechnya who are sitting at home and doing nothing can no
longer look at the faces of their women any more; may Allah have mercy on sister
Hawaa'."
Hawaa' Barayeva is the first woman to launch such a martyrdom operation in
Chechnya. She is not the first woman martyr in Chechnya, for there have been
many of our sisters who have died at the hands of the Russian cowards. However,
sister Hawaa' has set a precedent with her actions; not only has she followed in
the footsteps of her elder cousin, the brilliant field commander, Arbi Barayeva,
she has also reinforced the determination of the Mujahideen to live, fight and
die for the sake of Allah Most High.
May Allah grant His Victory to the Mujahideen in Chechnya, and may He reserve
for them a lofty position in the highest levels of Paradise and in the shade of
His Glorious Throne. May one of these Mujahideen be our sister and martyr of
this Ummah and may her words be embedded in the hearts of Muslims everywhere:
"I know what I am doing; Paradise has a price and I hope this will be the price
for Paradise." Hawaa' Barayeva, The Sword of the Hijab.
Sources
kazkav centre
March 10 2007
With Smiles On Their Faces and With Songs On Their Lips…
…‘By Way of Deception Thou Shalt Do War…’
It is no wonder that
their history has been what it has been. Driven from their ‘promised’
land of milk and honey. Banished. Kicked out of every respectable
country in the world. Their ghettos burned down. Their property taken
away and re-distributed to those from whom it was stolen in the first
place.
The patience of decent people can only go so far. You can only kick a
dog so many times before he eventually bites you back in self-defense.
Therefore, when you are dealing with a group of people who will lie to
you, over and over again, with smiles on their faces and songs on
their lips and do so UNREPENTANTLY it can only go on so long before
the magic spell eventually wears off and the dog begins to bite back.
Video: Interview with child taken as human shield in Nablus On 28 February 2007, during the Israeli invasion of Nablus, the IOF kidnapped 11-year-old Jihan Tahdush from her home in the Old City of Nablus. She was used as a human shield while Israeli forces conducted door-to-door searches in the Old City. Jihan says of the incident: "They gave me biscuits to persuade me to talk to them, but I didn't tell them anything. When I brought them to the house they told me not to be afraid because they were with me. When I asked to go back to my mom, they said, 'We have to keep you a bit longer.'"
Israeli Backlash to Olmert Comments The Zionist regime’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's admission that last summer's onslaught against Lebanon was pre-planned has provoked anger among Israeli officials. Al-Manar TV reported: Olmert's admission confirms Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah's earlier claims. Senior Israeli officers expressed anger before the Winograd Commission, which is investigating the war. Labor Party ministers have also lashed out at Olmert's testimony before the commission. They demanded to know why, "if the prime minister had considered war a possibility, he never bothered to inform them of this until the day the war began."
Israeli PM says Lebanon war was pre-planned
Twenty Palestinians Wounded
in Ramallah The Zionist troopers attacked the
Palestinian demonstrators, west of Ramallah, wounding 20 Palestinians.
According to news sources, after holding Friday Prayers in the village
of Balain, west of Ramallah, Palestinians staged a demonstration in
protest to the construction of the Zionists wall. Meanwhile, the
Zionist troopers attacked the Palestinians protestors with tear gas
and plastic bullets, injuring at least 20 people.
The "Invisible" Canadian Muslim? Muslims have now replaced Blacks as the group most likely to suffer from discrimination, racial profiling, or stereotyping.
New Zealand prides itself on human rights, social compassion and political “neutrality”. Moreover, New Zealanders pride themselves on being “peace loving” people. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. These images are a distortion of reality. New Zealand is a fully-fledged member of America’s war on Muslims.
India, US at the business endof their nuclear deal Representatives of 38 major American companies of a US-India business lobby are in New Delhi to "keep the ball rolling" on the civilian nuclear pact between the countries. With an estimated US$100 billion of foreign investment at stake, the incentives are high.
Private property under forcible occupation of army in Doda district In occupied Kashmir while demilitarisation is being hotly discussed by politicians and common citizens alike the Indian army continues to occupy vast swathes of private land and other property beside government buildings and educational institution.
Protest against custodial disappearances A protest demonstration was held against custodial disappearances in Srinagar, today. The demonstration was organized by Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons at Pratap Park, Srinagar.
Scripted Libby Trial Ends on Cue- What Can Happen Next? The Prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, crafted the “Scooter” Libby case to protect the Bush-Cheney Gang. Even the members of Libby’s jury knew something was missing. Now, it’s time for the House’s Judiciary Committee to pick up the baton. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NEV) said Libby manipulated “intelligence” to get us into the war and that the case revealed “deeper truths” about VP Dick Cheney. I say: “Bring Cheney to the Bar of Justice!”
The Israeli "art student" mystery In January 2001, the security branch of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency began to receive a number of peculiar reports from DEA field offices across the country. According to the reports, young Israelis claiming to be art students and offering artwork for sale had been attempting to penetrate DEA offices for over a year. The Israelis had also attempted to penetrate the offices of other law enforcement and Department of Defense agencies. Strangest of all, the "students" had visited the homes of numerous DEA officers and other senior federal officials. As a pattern slowly emerged, the DEA appeared to have been targeted in what it called an "organized intelligence gathering activity." But to what end, and for whom, no one knew. Reports of the mysterious Israelis with an inexplicable interest in peddling art to G-men came in from more than 40 U.S. cities and continued throughout the first six months of 2001.
Chavez Leads Rally against
Bush Visit Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez launched
another verbal assault on US President George W. Bush Friday as he led
some 20,000 supporters in an anti-American rally, calling the U.S.
leader a "political dead body" and blasting his policies as
"imperialist." Alluding to Bush's waning years in office, Chavez said:
"The U.S. president today is a true political cadaver," adding, "What
the little gentleman from the north now exudes is the smell of
political death and in a very short time he will be converted into
cosmic dust and disappear from the stage." In Uruguay, a group of
anti-American demonstrators scuffled with bystanders and shattered
windows at an American fast-food restaurant in an incident
underscoring tensions there as Bush arrived Friday night from Brazil
and was driven to his hotel. In Buenos Aires, Chavez said Bush's
five-nation swing would fail to improve America's image and dismissed
his pledges of U.S. aid as a cynical attempt to confuse Latin
Americans. Anti-American and anti-Bush sentiments run high in the
countries on Bush's tour, particularly over the war in Iraq and U.S.
trade negotiations.
One million Iraqi deaths The latest 2006
Johns Hopkins data ( indicating 13.3 deaths annually per 1,000 people
and an annual Iraqi pre-invasion death rate of 5.5 deaths per 1,000)
yields an annual excess death rate of 7.8 per 1,000 i.e. 7,800 per
million. Assuming an average population of 27 million this yields
post-invasion excess deaths = 7,800 x 27 x 4 = 842,000 i.e. 0.8
million.
However taking the 2006 Johns Hopkins data but using a Jordan/Syria
comparative baseline of 4 deaths per 1,000 per year (as opposed to a
baseline of 5.5 deaths per 1,000 per year for pre-invasion Iraq after
12 years of crippling Sanctions) gives an annual excess death rate of
9.3 per 1,000 i.e. 9,300 per million and post-invasion excess deaths
totalling 9,300 x 27 x 4 = 1,004,400 i.e. 1.0 million as of March
2007.
The UN estimates that there are 3.8 million Iraqi refugees and WHO
estimates that the “total annual per capita medical expenditure” in
Occupied Iraq is merely $64 - as compared to $23 for Occupied
Afghanistan, $2,389 (UK), $2,874 (Australia) and $5,711 (US) (2003
figures).
The 1 million post-invasion Iraqi excess deaths constitutes an Iraqi
Holocaust largely due to Coalition violation of the Geneva Conventions
that demand that Occupiers keep their conquered subjects ALIVE.
Wall Street drools over prospect of capturing
Iraq oil wealth
The most important aspect of the bill is that it revives a
semi-colonial form of oil contract called a “production-sharing
agreement,” which would give foreign companies first claim on any oil
they help Iraq’s nationalized industry extract from the country’s
enormous reserves, estimated at 115 billion barrels.
Production-sharing agreements were devised by the multinational
(mainly US, British, French and Dutch) oil companies in response to
the efforts of the bourgeoisie in the OPEC nations—Iran, the Gulf
sheikdoms, Libya and Venezuela—to establish national oil companies and
negotiate more favorable terms.
The Cost of War: $2.5 TRILLION – Accrual Cost of Bush War on Women & Children A major long-term cost is due to the death and injury of US soldiers. Thus the article states that “for every soldier dying in Iraq or Afghanistan today, 16 are being wounded”; that “611,729 veterans from the first Gulf war are now receiving disability benefits; a large proportion are suffering from psychiatric illnesses, including post-traumatic stress disorder and depression”; and that “Bilmes and Stiglitz estimate the additional cost to the economy of the death of a young soldier - typically 25 years old - to be $6.5m”. A horrifying aspect of the New Statesman story was Veteran’s Administration (VA) reactions after Professor Bilmes went public: thus “the number of wounded listed on the VA website dropped from 50,508 to 21,649”. The Bush Administration has also evidently made VA economics expert Professor Bilmes persona non grata ( details ).
Guantánamo Is Not a Prison
"The A/C had been turned off, making the temperature in the
unventilated room probably well over 100 degrees. The detainee was
almost unconscious on the floor, with a pile of hair next to him. He
had apparently been literally pulling his own hair out throughout the
night."
Or this:
''I saw another detainee sitting on the floor of the interview room
with an Israeli flag draped around him, loud music being played, and a
strobe light flashing."
Or this:
"On a couple of occasions, I entered interview rooms to find a
detainee chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, with
no chair, food or water. Most times they had urinated or defecated on
themselves, and had been left there for 18, 24 hours or more."
Just Look What "Your Country" Did To You Have I mentioned the spirits of 30 million slain Native Americans reaching through the TV sets to choke Boobus Americanus on his livingroom sofa? Or the ghosts of 100 million-plus African slaves tearing down the buildings they were forced to erect.
Development Through Industrialization- Or Environmental Colonialism Leading To Catastrophe? In times of corporate totalitarianism such as ours, when the media – with visibly noble exceptions – is merely the obedient tail of the capitalist canine, the impression that is sought to be created is that in “the world’s largest democracy” there is an unchallenged consensus that India needs economic development, that rapid economic growth is the most reliable way to achieve it (through the infamous “trickle-down” effect), that this in turn is best achieved through break-neck industrialization and that anyone who stands in the way of such “development” needs to have her patriotic credentials (read: “head”) examined. This may include, for instance, those who (following the latest warnings of the IPCC) are pointing to dangerously threatened, rapidly melting Himalayan glaciers.
Pentagon Struggles to Find Fresh Troops US Military leaders are struggling to choose Army units to stay in Iraq and Afghanistan longer or go there earlier than planned, but five years of war have made fresh troops harder to find. Faced with a military buildup in Iraq that could drag into next year, Pentagon officials are trying to identify enough units to keep up to 20 brigade combat teams in Iraq. A brigade usually has about 3,500 troops. The likely result will be extending the deployments of brigades scheduled to come home at the end of the summer, and sending others earlier than scheduled. Final decisions — which have not yet been made — would come as Congress is considering ways to force President Bush to wind down the war, despite his vow that he would veto such legislation. Meanwhile, combat troops are coming to realize that the Pentagon can't fulfill its commitment to give soldiers two years at home for every year they spend deployed.
Refugees pour into east Sri
Lanka camps Schools became makeshift refugee camps in
eastern Sri Lanka on Saturday to handle an influx of more than 30,000
civilians fleeing fighting between the army and Tamil Tigers,
officials and aid workers said. The military, which is fighting
sporadic artillery and mortar battles with Tiger rebels in the eastern
district of Batticaloa, estimated around 32,000 civilians had poured
into army-held territory from rebel areas. The Tigers say closer to
40,000 civilians have fled -- but because of army shelling.
The exodus piled further strain on a district already housing nearly
90,000 people displaced by fierce fighting. "Now they are opening some
schools again for the IDPs (displaced people), public buildings," said
Marcal Luethi, a protection officer with the International Committee
of the Red Cross in Batticaloa. "If in the next few days several other
thousands are coming, then of course we have a problem," Luethi said.
Water supplies were a major issue. Refugees flooded out of Tiger-held
territory in the east this week as the military drove the rebels out
and overran camps in a repeat of an offensive and exodus further north
in December.
N Korea warns counter steps
if U.S. fails to drop sanctions North Korea expects
the United States to lift financial sanctions as part of a nuclear
disarmament deal and will retaliate if the U.S. fails to do so, a
senior North Korean official said Saturday. Kim Kye Gwan, the North's
envoy to the disarmament talks, said Pyongyang is carefully watching
to see if the United States fulfills its pledge to end the
restrictions. “The U.S. has promised the North it would scrap
financial sanctions,'' Kim told South Korean and Japanese reporters at
Beijing's Capital Airport before taking a plane to Pyongyang. If
Washington fails to do so, Kim said, North Korea ``will be forced to
take corresponding steps.'' Kim did not elaborate on Pyongyang's
options. But North Korea could delay implementation of the disarmament
deal should it feel that the U.S. or other parties _ China, Japan,
Russia and South Korea _ were not meeting their commitments. The
agreement, reached last month after three years of tortuous
negotiations, sets out a schedule for North Korea's phased disarmament
in return for inducements along the way. One of the first commitments
was the U.S. pledge to resolve the fate of the frozen North Korean
funds within 30 days of the agreement. That deadline falls next
Thursday.
Richest donors neglect global
emergency fund: Oxfam A global emergency fund set up
to get aid to disaster zones more quickly has received "exceptionally
poor support" from some of the richest donors, hurting relief efforts
around the world, aid agency Oxfam said. The UN Central Emergency
Response Fund (CERF) entered its second year with international
pledges of $342 million. The United Nations wants $450 million from
donors, on top of $50 million it already has in the fund's coffers, to
reach an overall target of $500 million. The fund was set up to allow
cash to flow after a disaster without aid agencies having to wait for
donations to roll in. A third of the money is spent on "forgotten
emergencies" that struggle to attract international attention. The
United States, Canada, Japan, Italy, Austria and Greece have yet to
commit any cash at all for 2007.
China to build 37
airports in remote west: report China plans to invest
52 billion yuan (6.7 billion dollars) in building 37 new airports and
expanding 31 others in the west of the country over the next four
years, the People's Daily said Saturday.
Bangladesh launches massive demolition drive Bangladesh authorities have launched a massive demolition drive in Dhaka to ease the capital's chronic traffic congestion, an official said Saturday. Thousands of illegally constructed buildings in upmarket areas of the city are being reduced to rubble by bulldozers and hundreds of workers with pickaxes. The drive began late last month but demolition crews had now moved into high gear, officials said. “Already we have demolished thousands of illegal structures. We will clear all the roads in the city in a bid to ease traffic congestion,” said the chief of the capital's development authority, K.A.M. Harun.“Any building which is constructed contravening our guidelines will also be demolished. We will not spare it, even if it is a 15- or 20-storey building,” he said.
Martin Luther founder of Protestant Church "the Jews and their lies"
Heraclius invitation to Islam
Abu Sufyan bin Harb informed me that Heraclius had sent a messenger to
him while he had been accompanying a caravan from Quraish. They were
merchants doing business in Sham (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon and
Jordan), at the time when Allah's Apostle had truce with Abu Sufyan
and Quraish infidels. So Abu Sufyan and his companions went to
Heraclius at Ilya (Jerusalem). Heraclius called them in the court and
he had all the senior Roman dignitaries around him. He called for his
translator who, translating Heraclius's question said to them, "Who
amongst you is closely related to that man who claims to be a
Prophet?" Abu Sufyan replied, "I am the nearest relative to him
(amongst the group)."
Heraclius said, "Bring him (Abu Sufyan)
close to me and make his companions stand behind him." Abu Sufyan
added, Heraclius told his translator to tell my companions that he
wanted to put some questions to me regarding that man (The Prophet)
and that if I told a lie they (my companions) should contradict me."
Abu Sufyan added, "By Allah! Had I not been afraid of my companions
labeling me a liar, I would not have spoken the truth about the
Prophet. The first question he asked me about him was:
March 9 2007
Jewish controlled mainstream media
distortion & propaganda Exposed
Hezb-i-Islami Mujahideen leader Gulbaddin Hekmatyar denies parting
ways with Taliban and offering unconditional talks to
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military
puppet Karzai
A statement attributed to former Afghan Mujahideen
leader Gulbaddin Hekmatyar in which he reportedly made an
unconditional offer for peace talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai
has been denied. His spokesman, Haroon Zarghoon, told The News that
the Western television news service that used the interview only
carried selected portions to give the impression as if Hekmatyar had
changed his political stance. “This was done deliberately to malign
the leader of Hezb-i-Islami. We strongly refute the statement and
condemn such distortions,” he stressed. The interview was widely
carried by the print and electronic media on Thursday and was seen as
politically significant. Analysts described it as a victory for
President Karzai and a setback for all the Afghan groups fighting his
government and the US-led foreign forces in Afghanistan.
But Haroon Zarghoon was quick to deny that Hekmatyar had changed his
views about the prevailing situation in Afghanistan and was ready to
shake hands with Karzai and close all channels of communication with
the Taliban. Speaking from an unknown local, he said Hekmatyar’s full
statement contained the proviso that talks could be held with Karzai,
once he demands and ensures the withdrawal of all foreign occupying
forces from Afghanistan. “The said television news service carried
only one part of Hekmatyar’s reply to the question. It reported that
Hekmatyar was ready for talks with Karzai and deleted the portion in
which he made it clear that this could happen once the foreign troops
occupying our homeland start leaving in accordance with an agreed
timetable,” he argued. Haroon Zarghoon pointed out that Hekmatyar has
repeatedly said that the Karzai regime was no real government as it
was standing on the crutches of Western forces. “That has been the
stand of Hekmatyar and Hezb-i-Islami and there has been no change in
that,” he maintained.
The Hezb-i-Islami spokesman also explained the remarks attributed to
Hekmatyar about his stance with regard to the Taliban. “Hekmatyar
reminded that he had sought cooperation with the Taliban time and
again for a joint struggle against the US-led occupying forces. He
said he sent a number of delegations to Taliban leaders to fight our
common enemy. Hekmatyar complained that he received no positive reply
and was, therefore, stopping more contacts with the Taliban,” he said.
But Haroon Zarghoon added that Hekmatyar had made it clear in the same
interview that contacts with the Taliban ‘Jihad’ against the Western
armies in Afghanistan.
Truth Trickles Out- The Gujarat Pogrom Five Years Later I was uncertain if the ghazal concert by Jagjit Singh would still be held in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on that fateful day, February 27, 2002. I had reason to believe otherwise: just a few hours earlier, I received a call while working in a Hindu slum in Ahmedabad that communal violence had erupted. Apparently a train of Hindu pilgrims was attacked somewhere, I was told, and that I should immediately return home. An American Hindu colleague of mine and I both waited for the bus to take us across town to the Hindu host family with whom I was staying. But as my Hindu friend in the slum community received text messages about what was really ensuing, he ran out and said, "No Zahir, you specifically have to leave." I was eager to know why but he never budged. "Its for your safety," he kept imploring. It was only on the rikshaw ride home that the picture emerged: our Hindu driver carefully skirted all the Muslim majority locales in Ahmedabad as off in the distance, we could see fires flaring up in only Muslim populated areas. As we drove through a mixed Hindu-Muslim neighborhood, we found ourselves stuck in a massive traffic jam, only later to learn that just a few hundred yards ahead of us a Hindu mob had stopped a car full of Muslims, removed them from their vehicle, and burned them alive. Atrocities Committed By Hindu Terrorists In Gujurat
Interview with Dokka Umarov
First, using the case, I would want to send best wishes to the
Ukrainian people, which today survives the complex period of they
history, and which, (although not at this degree as in Chechnya)
pressure from the side of Kremlin regime is experienced. As for the
situation at home, also, in the North Caucasus as a whole is
concerned, in spite of the assertions of Putin and his marionettes in
Chechnya, war continues. Information blockade can create temporary
illusion in those, who want to believe in the lie of Moscow about the
fact that the war ended, but it can't change the real state of the
matters. Again I declare, that the war continues.
Putin's back to the future It is becoming increasingly dangerous to be a critic of Vladimir Putin, the elected dictator of Russia. That is, as KGB thugs like Putin used to say during the Soviet era, "no accident, comrade." The most recent authority on the subject of Putin's increasingly ominous behavior at home and abroad to have met an unpleasant fate is Paul Joyal. He is an internationally renowned expert on the former Soviet Union who had the temerity last week to accuse the Russian government on the NBC TV program "Dateline" of murdering Alexander Litvinenko.
The Condition of the Dollar First on our list is China. They have now announced that they are refusing to accept American Corporations purchasing into their stock market any longer as they did in the past. China also said that they are no longer going to be purchasing our securities as they have in the past, including bonds and T-bills. China's decisions and subsequent announcements at the beginning of the week has sent a panic across the World's markets.
13
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers
killed
Iraqi Mujahideen attacks against the enemies of Islam for
Thursday Mujahideen
car bomber blasts into
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military
checkpoint in al-Qa’im, reportedly killing or wounding nine
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military
Thursday night.
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military,
puppet forces arrest more than 50 men and boys in raids in Thursday
afternoon raids in ar-Ramadi. Four
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military
Marines reported killed in Mujahideen bomb attack in Abu Ghurayb
Thursday afternoon. Mujahideen ambushes
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military
column in ad-Dulu‘iyah, sparking fierce battle Thursday afternoon.
The war at home The Deserter's Tale succeeds stunningly on the first count – his claims make Abu Ghraib look like a garden party. His main job as a soldier in Iraq, he says, was to raid and rob apparently innocent Iraqis in their homes, arresting the men and sending them off to prison while beating or otherwise terrorizing the women. He claims to have been ordered to stand guard outside a home while – he believes – four higher-ranked American soldiers raped a houseful of Iraqi civilian women. He claims an Iraqi civilian protesting the US troops by giving them the equivalent of the finger was shot summarily. He claims to have witnessed four unarmed Iraqi civilians decapitated by machine gun fire; their heads then used by American soldiers to play soccer. He claims to have seen a seven-year-old girl who made a habit of begging the soldiers for food killed for sport. Before reading his book, most thinking people agree that the war in Iraq is unjust – fought incompetently on false pretenses at a huge and unnecessary human cost. If even one quarter of what Key says is true, the war is a far worse crime than even its fiercest critics have suspected – the US military on the ground have entered the heart of darkness.
Bush would veto withdrawal plan: White House US President George W. Bush would veto legislation, crafted by Democrats, calling for a withdrawal of US troops from Iraq by late 2008, the White House said. "Obviously, the administration would vehemently oppose and ultimately veto any legislation that looks like what was described today," senior Bush adviser Dan Bartlett told reporters as the president traveled to Brazil. Earlier, Democrats directly challenged Bush on the strategy for the war, outlining a plan to pull US troops out by late 2008 or much sooner if progress is not made in the violence-wracked country. The bill requires Bush to certify Iraq has made meaningful and substantial progress in meeting benchmarks by July 1, and October 1, this year.
Ex-CIA Agent Plame to Testify to Congress on Leak Valerie Plame, the former covert CIA agent whose cover was blown after her husband charged the White House with manipulating prewar intelligence, will testify before a congressional committee next week. Chairman Henry Waxman said in a statement on Thursday: Plame will testify about the disclosure and how the White House handled it in an appearance before the House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, was found guilty on Tuesday of lying and obstructing the investigation into who blew Plame's cover. The statement said: Waxman's panel is looking into whether White House officials followed appropriate procedures for safeguarding Plame's identity. Plame's identity was divulged publicly in 2003 after her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, charged the Bush administration in a New York Times column of manipulating intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to build its case for war.
FBI Underreported Use of USA Patriot Act According to a US Justice Department audit, the FBI underreported its use of the USA Patriot Act to force businesses to turn over customer information in suspected terrorism cases. One government official familiar with the report said shoddy bookkeeping and records management led to the problems. The official said: The FBI agents appeared to be overwhelmed by the volume of demands for information over a two-year period. The FBI in 2005 reported to Congress that its agents had delivered a total of 9,254 national security letters seeking e-mail, telephone or financial information on 3,501 U.S. citizens and legal residents over the previous two years. According to the officials, Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine's report says that number was underreported by 20 percent. Fine conducted the audit as required by Congress and over the objections of the Bush administration.
Chavez Charges Bush with hypocrisy Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Thursday George W. Bush should be given "the gold medal for hypocrisy" as the U.S. president embarked on a tour of Latin America. Chavez is on a one-day visit to Buenos Aires, where he will lead thousands of leftists on Friday in a soccer stadium rally that will coincide with Bush's arrival in neighboring Uruguay. Chavez told reporters soon after landing in Buenos Aires, "You've got to give the U.S. president the gold medal for hypocrisy, because he said now he's worried about poverty in Latin America." Chavez said: "Now he's discovering ... after so many years that there's poverty in Latin America, precisely when the U.S. empire is the principal culprit."
UNSC warns Iran over
ban violations United Nations Security Council has
warned that if didn’t refrain from piling up nukes, it should be ready
to face consequences. Russia and China have raised objections to
nearly every Western proposal for new U.N sanctions against Iran over
its nuclear ambitions except a banon arms exports, according to a
working paper. The document shows some Russian and Chinese
reservations about other proposals for a U.N. Security Council
resolution. These include a mandatory travel ban, financial and trade
restrictions and an expanded list of Iranian officials and firms whose
assets would be frozen, such as those controlled by Iran's
Revolutionary Guards and Iran's state-owned Bank already under U.S.
sanctions.
In an effort to break the logjam, senior foreign policy officials from
the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China held
another telephone conference, followed by a meeting of U.N.
ambassadors late in the day. The new resolution is a follow-up to one
adopted by theSecurity Council on Dec. 23 that imposed trade sanctions
on sensitive nuclear materials and technology and froze assets of key
Iranians individuals, groups and businesses. Iran was required to
suspend nuclear enrichment work, which can be used for peaceful
purposes or to make a bomb, but Tehran has refused to do so.
The similarity between the ethnic cleansing of The Indigenous Americans and Palestinian Arabs They, both the colonizers of Palestine and the Americans, like those of the rest of colonized world, grant themselves cart blanche to exterminate and/or transfer the respective indigenous populations of the targeted lands, because the colonizers consider them “barbarians” thus they are not worthy of own their lands. Zionist racist historian, Benny Morris, like the colonizers of the Americas, considers Arabs to be Barbarians. He replied to Ari Shavit’s question during an interview for the Zionist daily, Haaretz, entitled Survival of the Fittest? January 16, 2004: Are you a neo-conservative? Do you read the current historical reality in the terms of Samuel Huntington? Morris replied: “I think there is a clash between civilizations here [as Huntington argues]. I think the West today resembles the Roman Empire of the fourth, fifth and sixth centuries: The barbarians are attacking it and they may also destroy it." (Noting that those who attacked the Roman Empire are the Nordics who came from northern Europe to attack the Roman Empire, that is exactly like the European Zionists who came to Palestine to colonize it, both had no roots in the invaded lands.)
German Bishops See Racist Israel First Hand Cardinal Joachim Meisner, who served as bishop of Berlin when it was divided by the Communist-built Berlin Wall, commented when crossing a checkpoint into eastern Jerusalem, “This is something that is done to animals, not people.” He later explained to reporters, “I never thought I would see something like this again in my life.”
US refuses to join UN rights council, citing bias
against Israel
72 units of para-military force to be deployed in IHK India has decided to hand over six more areas in occupied Kashmir valley to Paramilitary force and to raise the total number of the force to 72 units.
Billionaire club membership jumps Almost 1,000 people can now lay claim to being members of the world's billionaire club, says Forbes magazine.
Climate Change Disrupting Life Cycles With Fatal Results The behaviour of Britain's wildlife is raising alarm about the seriousness of climate change as animals' breeding patterns are thrown into confusion. The second mildest winter on record has resulted in mammals, reptiles, birds and insects emerging from shelter far too early.They are getting caught out by cold snaps or wet weather and the young of many species are dying. Baby hedgehogs, baby squirrels, even baby grass snakes are being found in distress in many places.
Introduction: Christian Zionism Defined The term Zionism refers to a political Jewish movement for the establishment of a national homeland in Palestine for the Jews that have been dispersed. On the other hand, a Christian Zionist is a person who is more interested in helping God fulfil His prophetic plan through the physical and political Israel, rather than helping Him fulfil His evangelistic plan through the Body of Christ.
Darwinism Refuted This latest and greatest challenge to the propaganda theory of evolution. Anyone who seeks an answer to the question of how living things, including himself, came into existence, will encounter two distinct explanations. The first is "creation," the idea that all living things came into existence as a consequence of an intelligent design. The second explanation is the theory of "evolution," which asserts that living things are not the products of an intelligent design, but of coincidental causes and natural processes.
March 7 2007
Correction Theunjustmedia reported yesterday Mujahideen operation ....... American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led NATO terrorists soldiers killed and a tank destroyed On Tuesday Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led NATO terrorists soldiers plus Afghan National Army soldiers clashed as the kafirs and munafiqs launched "Operation Achilles" on Tuesday in the southern province of Helmand, a Taliban's strong hold. Some 4,500 NATO terrorists troops backed by nearly 1,000 Afghan munafiq security will be taking part in this operation against the Mujahideen. The first battle of this operation, took place this afternoon, when Mujahideen and the enemies of Islam clashed, Mujahideen killed 8 American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led NATO terrorists soldiers and wounded 10, also destroyed a tank, 3 Mujahideen were wounded in the clash. The number of kafir killed which we reported were 8 and 10 were wounded, this is incorrect the number of kafirs killed or wounded in this operation was not known.
In two explosions 3 tanks of British Christian kafir terrorists occupation military were destroyed in Kandahar Wednesday morning Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan blow up 2 tanks of British Christian kafir terrorists occupation military with a remote controlled landmines in Germawak area of Maywand district of Kandahar province. Also yesterday in the evening in another explosion in same area one tank of British Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers was destroyed too. In this attack a large number of British Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers were killed or wounded.
In explosions 2 vehicles of British Christian kafir terrorists occupation military and one vehicle of US puppet Afghan National Army were destroyed in Khost Wednesday at 11:30 am Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan blow up 2 vehicles of British Christian kafir terrorists occupation military and one vehicle of US puppet Afghan National Army with remote controlled landmines in Noray area of Back district of Khost province. In result 2 British Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers and 10 US puppet Afghan National Army soldiers were killed.
7
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military
led Afghan National Army
soldiers were killed in Zabul Wednesday
morning
Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate
of Afghanistan
attacked with heavy and light weapons
on a Check post of
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military
led Afghan National Army soldiers in
Spina Khola area near the capital of Zabul province. In a result 7
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military
led Afghan National Army soldiers were
killed and few were wounded and their weapons were Mujahideen booty.
A tank of British Christian kafir terrorists occupation military was exploded in Kajaki district of Helmand Tuesday afternoon Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan blow up a tank of British Christian kafir terrorists occupation military with remote controlled roadside landmine in Kajaki district of Helmand province. The result a number of British Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers were killed and wounded but there were no correct numbers of casualties to the enemies.
4
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military
led Afghan National
Army soldiers
were killed in Helmand
Tuesday at 12:00 am
Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate
of Afghanistan ambushed on a vehicle of
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military
led Afghan National Army soldiers
in Marja district of Helmand province. In result the vehicle was
destroyed and 4
American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military
led Afghan National Army soldiers
were killed and their weapons were Mujahideen booty.
In explosions 2 tanks of American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led NATO terrorists soldiers were destroyed in Kandahar Tuesday at 2:00 pm Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan blow up 2 tanks of American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led NATO terrorists soldiers with a remote controlled landmines in Germawak area of Maywand district of Kandahar province. In result the tanks were destroyed and the all American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led NATO terrorists soldiers were killed or wounded. Also three days back in in the same area a large number American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led Afghan National Army soldiers were killed or wounded. Also on Tuesday the American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led NATO terrorists soldiers came to this area which is controlled by Mujahideen and attacked Mujahideen.
British Christian kafir
terrorists occupation military
Suffers over 8,000 Casualties In Iraq, 7,700 Non-combat
According to
figures released by the British Ministry of Defence (MoD), the UK has
suffered from a disproportionately high number of non-combat
casualties among its troops deployed in Iraq. Centrally available
records list that there were 1,326 British military and civilian
personnel admitted to UK field hospitals suffering for disease or
non-battle injuries between January 1, 2006, and February 15 this
year. The number is equivalent to nearly one-in-five of the current
total deployment of 7,100 troops deployed in the Basra region of Iraq.
Figures also show that between the invasion in March 2003 and the end
of 2005, up to 4,000 British military and civilian personally were
evacuated from Iraq on medical grounds, pushing the total for the
four-year old war so far towards 5,000. British MoD also listed a
further 6,383 personnel being admitted to hospital for disease and
non-combat injuries before the end of 2005, making the total so far
during the war 7,709. Including wounded in action, the total is over
8,000.
The Anti-Fascist Wolf in Sheep's Clothing In what has become the normalcy of our modern schizophrenic approach to democracy, we believe we can force other nations to embrace the “democratic process,” but when they actually exercise those princliples and elect rulers our government doesn’t like, our government then believes the results should be null and void – in other words democracy is only good if the people democratically elect representatives our government approves of. If that isn’t a schizophrenic view, I don’t know what is.
US Normalizing relations with the Axis of Evil The ongoing negotiations between North Korea and the US, South Korea, and Japan will lead to normalization, only if the US is confident that it can continue using North Korea to destabilize China.
The Zionist Plan for the Middle East The vision of man's limitless aspirations and abilities shrinks in the face of the sad facts of life, when we witness the break-up of world order around us. The view which promises liberty and freedom to mankind seems absurd in light of the sad fact that three fourths of the human race lives under totalitarian regimes. The views concerning equality and social justice have been transformed by socialism and especially by Communism into a laughing stock. There is no argument as to the truth of these two ideas, but it is clear that they have not been put into practice properly and the majority of mankind has lost the liberty, the freedom and the opportunity for equality and justice. In this nuclear world in which we are (still) living in relative peace for thirty years, the concept of peace and coexistence among nations has no meaning when a superpower like the USSR holds a military and political doctrine of the sort it has: that not only is a nuclear war possible and necessary in order to achieve the ends of Marxism, but that it is possible to survive after it, not to speak of the fact that one can be victorious in it. The essential concepts of human society, especially those of the West, are undergoing a change due to political, military and economic transformations.
Most Common Questions by Non-Muslims about Islam
What would Prophet Muhammad say to
Prophet Jesus?
Dear Brother Jesus:
May God’s peace and blessings be upon you.
While you walked on Planet Earth you communicated - as I did - God’s
message, to "worship sincerely your Lord God Almighty, Who created you
and those who came before you, so that you may become righteous." But
today, your followers worship you as God’s "only begotten Son." Did
you ask people to believe that you, the Holy Spirit and your mother
Mary are all gods? I know you did not. You told people - as the One
God commanded us -- "to worship God, Who is my Lord and your Lord."
Dear Brother Jesus:
Your followers believe that God abandoned you and allowed your enemies
to kill you on the cross. But we know that God saved you and took you
to heaven. I pray that your followers will read the Qur’an, which is
also their book. For we know that all of God’s books are in reality
but One Book, the Book of all God’s Messengers and Prophets. My
followers love you as dearly as they love me. And they love your
mother Mary, for she was the only woman ever chosen by God to be a
virgin mother.
Dear Brother Jesus:
My followers believe in the miracles you performed, as reported in the
Qur’an; miracles that were witnessed from the time you were a baby and
all through your mission. You and I both know that your miracles were
performed entirely through the infinite power of our Almighty Creator.
My followers believe that you were a perfect being, but fully human
nevertheless. I spent many years warning people not to worship me and
telling them that God alone is worthy of worship, for He is the One
God, Perfect, Absolute and Infinite.
Dear Brother Jesus:
Here on Planet Earth people still kill innocent men, women and
children in your name, modeling themselves after the medieval
Crusaders. There are also those who, in the cause of Christian
Zionism, spread hate, oppression and injustice in your name. I
fervently hope they would read and follow your message -- sooner
rather than later -- and find true peace in their hearts.
Dear Brother Jesus:
Some of your followers smear my message, slander my name and propagate
hate against my Muslim brothers and sisters. I pray that they will
find enlightenment and spiritual guidance. You and I were used to
these kinds of people, but we never stopped praying for them.
Dear Brother Jesus:
We know that only a very few of your teachings survived in your mother
tongue down through the ages. But over time some people of the early
Church claimed to have had special communication, in which you told
them you are the Son of God. But I wish they had heard the Truth
instead and that their present-day successors will discover it.
Dear Brother Jesus:
On Planet Earth, there are people (the Jews) still waiting for you, a
Messiah, to come as a guide and Saviour. There others who believe you
never existed at all. And there are yet others who would sooner follow
the dictates of a hierarchical religious establishment called The
Church, rather than accept your teachings. Both of us must pray for
them all.
Dear Brother Jesus:
My true followers and your true followers must first love God more
than anyone or anything else; only then they will know how to love us
and love one another. My true followers and your true followers must
come to know that we preached the same message, from the same Source,
and that we had but one divine Book. The message was that of the
Almighty God; we were only His human messengers.
Dear Brother Jesus:
My true followers and your true followers must work together for peace
and justice. They must know that the One God will guide them to the
Truth and will welcome them to His Paradise. They must support the
poor, the oppressed, the elderly, the young, all who are weak or
defenseless. They must understand that although life on Planet Earth
can be abundant and good, it is also too short to waste through greed,
enmity and apathy. They must be fully engaged in living as workers for
God. My true followers and your true followers are many, but they have
also become a vast silent majority. They must learn to speak out for
the truth; only then will God’s peace prevail.
Dear Brother Jesus:
Let us pray for all fellow humans and let us ask God Almighty to guide
and bless them. Amen. By Mohamed Elmasry