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Today's News From Around The World Wednesday 14 March 2007

More Than Fifteen Russian Soldiers Killed In Separate Attacks Of Mujahideen More than fifteen Russian soldiers were killed in the past few days in separate operations against Russian occupation forces, and of the most prominent of those operations: The Destruction of a Personnel Carrier (BTR) in Urus-Martan, killing all of the eight soldiers, and was executed by Commander Basayev's Unit.

Open letter to the opponents of Russian politics We, Caucasus Forum carrying out civil politics and activities, are writing to you so as to share our concerns regarding the future of Caucasia, Russia and humanity on account of the circumstances of the murders of opposing voices in Russia. As the descendants of the Caucasians who were forced to leave their homelands due to Russia's imperial policies and activities, we are both alerted to any conflicts arised following the collapse of the Soviet Union and concerned about any losses inflicted on all parties in the aftermath of these conflicts.

Videos of Iraqi Mujahideen operations against American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers

Mujahideen take out Afghan governor in an ambush Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

attacked a convoy carrying American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military puppet Afghan officials Wednesday in northern Afghanistan, killing a district chief and wounding two other people. The attack on the two-vehicle convoy happened in Qaramqol district of Faryab province.

Mujahideen destroys American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military puppet Afghan police checkpoint On Wednesday Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan attacked a police checkpoint. In the ensuing gun battle Mujahideen killed 5 American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military puppet Afghan policemen and wounded many, the checkpoint was destroyed.

"American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military spy" beheaded Mujahideen beheaded a man who was spying for American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military in a tribal agency, sources said on Tuesday. The headless body of a man was found late Monday in a sack on a roadside in Jandola, a town bordering the troubled South Waziristan tribal region. The severed head was placed near the sack and a note near his body read "US spy" and "Rawalpindi", he said. Rawalpindi is the city where the Army headquarters are situated. Local residents failed to identify the man -- who appeared to be in his mid-40s -- after which the body was buried, the sources said.

Security Meet Ends, Insecurity Does Not The conference, which was attended by representatives from 13 countries including Syria, Iran and the United States, was held inside the heavily fortified "green zone" in central Baghdad. Representatives from Iraq's six neighbouring countries (Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Kuwait and Syria) and delegates from the five permanent UN Security Council countries (the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France) were present along with several Arab representatives.

'THE MIDEAST MAY SOON FEEL INDIA’S GROWING POWER' The Bush Administration’s serial blunders in the Mideast have not only seriously undermined American influence over the region, they have opened the way for new, emerging superpowers to vie for its energy resources. Energy security has become the primary and most immediate strategic concern of Asia’s two rising giants, India and China. The Middle East will soon feel the full force of this growing competition. China’s and India’s blazing 9% plus economic growth rate has pushed them well beyond their original estimates of energy needs, and is even causing tightening supplies in certain sectors. As a result, alarm bells are ringing in Delhi and Beijing and an urgent, often unseemly scramble for new sources of oil is under way.

The North American Union ID: The Database The new ID cards come with a gigantic database that keeps track of all your personal information and biometric data. How secure are these databases? Lets first look at how well the government currently protects your data.

Armed Natives Set Up Quebec Roadblock A group of armed aboriginals blockaded a Quebec highway Monday, stopping traffic to protest forest management by the province. “The protest is about the government of Quebec, the Liberals, lying to us,” said Guillaume Carle, chief of the recently formed Confederation of Aboriginal People of Canada. “As soon as we lifted the barricades (last time) they turned on us,” Mr. Carle said in an interview.

Revolutionary Anarchy I'm not talking about just where I live--I'm talking about all across the country. We live in dictatorships run by federal government band-elected Band Chiefs, [and] Councilors. We survived for 50,000 years under a chief who looked after all his people, or her people, depending on where you lived. Everything was considered: environment, the people, everything. They had a beautiful system and it was a good life until Europeans came. Their idea was to civilize us and make us Christians, actually it was a process to take us away from the land. They took children at five years of age away from their families, housed them in huge Residential Schools--impersonal places--they taught us a little ABC, just a little of that, but they trained us for servitude, this was to serve the white people.

Israel recalls 'naked ambassador': Israel recalls its envoy in El Salvador after he is found outside by police, drunk, wearing only bondage gear

The UN Anti-Racism Committee questons Israel's policy of apartheid

Hamas, Fatah to present unity government to parliament on Saturday Political rivals Hamas and Fatah will present a national unity government to parliament for approval Saturday, capping months of stop-and-go negotiations interspersed by periods of deadly factional fighting, officials from both sides said. The decision to set a date was made in a meeting Wednesday between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas. The two were to meet again later Wednesday to wrap up loose ends in coalition talks, including who will be named to the key position of interior minister and take control of the security forces. Abbas and Haniyeh were to make a formal announcement on the formation of the coalition after their evening meeting, Abbas aides said.

AIPAC -- The One Thing Both Parties Can Agree On No offense but I hardly think I’m a racist because I disapprove of Israeli politics. Two wrongs don’t make it right, what Israel is doing is wrong and you can’t argue the “but they did it too” scenario. It has to end, and how does it end? you cut all funding to Israel until they comply with every U.N. resolution and give up their nukes. How come we haven’t slapped sanctions on Israel for not detailing their nuclear program to the IAEA but we are demanding that Iran do just that. The hypocrisy fuels the hatred and gets our kids killed in the process.

I don’t think it’s right that any foreign entity has this kind of influence of our politics. So stop the bait and switch here. Do you approve or disapprove that we give Israel enough money every year that it equals $5,000 for every Israeli? That’s every man woman and child in Israel. Think they need it? Nope. We turn our backs on their nuclear weapons program at the same time stating that we want a nuclear free middle east. Do you think that is right?

How frighteningly well AIPAC is doing its job After hearing Dick Cheney drone through a half-hour long exposition on the danger that a premature American pullout from Iraq poses to Israel, I realized that my disgust from the previous night was probably misdirected. A conference with 6,000 attendees and Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Dick Cheney on its schedule obviously isn't that concerned with pleasing everyone, so a bombastic John Hagee can be understood as a means to a greater end: if he can share the stage with the top Democrats in Congress then there's no reason for anybody in Congress not to show up.

Olmert's Testimony Reveals The Real Goal Of The War In Lebanon According to the leaks, Olmert first discussed the preparations for a war against Lebanon in January and then asked for detailed plans in March. Understandably given the implications, Olmert's account has been decried by leading Israeli politicians. Effi Eitam has pointed out that Olmert's version echoes that of Hizbullah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, who claims his group knew that Israel wanted to attack Lebanon.

Dead Russian Spy was Israeli Double Agent

For signs of peace, look out for vultures A cursory look at the bouquet of issues broached at the joint commissions meeting in Delhi resembles subjects that are more appropriate for countries in the European Union or APEC. What is on the table are issues like environmental concerns and education and not the tired problems of territorial disputes and basic freedoms that are the typical concerns of South Asia, issues that should have been resolved years ago but have lingered for decades. Therefore, the question arises whether the problem areas outlined under the joint commissions mandate have an urgency of their own, or would they be taken up earnestly only after the core issues enshrined in the composite dialogue are first resolved. The question is tricky but the solutions are not intractable.

What does the joint commission mandate the two countries to do?

Unfortunately, in the hurly burly of headline-grabbing stories that followed the joint declaration on nuclear risk reduction, which came in tandem with the press release on the joint commission, it was natural that the so-called softer issues got buried. So what were the issues apart from the shared concern about missing vultures? The list is really impressive and should enthuse a lot of people. If the leaders of the two countries are true to their salt they should facilitate and not impede the agenda that they have themselves agreed to pursue.

It's expensive to ignore global warming Some leaders -- notably President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney -- have stated they will do nothing to stem global warming if it will harm our economy. Let's examine two examples of what would happen to our economy if we follow their advice and do nothing. Note that predictions of climate change have been quite accurate, so a high degree of confidence exists (and, in fact, a growing degree of confidence) that future predictions will be borne out. Look at the consequences of rising sea levels. If the oceans rise 20 feet, much of our coastal land would be imperiled. What would that mean?

A Brief Chronology of Muslim History

US, Musharraf and the miscarriage of justice The only institution that has benefited from the billions of dollars of American aid and has undergone robust reformation is the Pakistani military. Musharraf has embarked on an ambitious programme to secularise the army, isolate and purge Islamists, buy the loyalty of officers with plots of land, accelerate the promotion of pro-US officers, inculcate a close-knit of commanders who owe their allegiance to him. Those that have resisted have not stayed long enough to incite opposition against their commander in chief--they are unceremoniously rotated to occupy benign posts and eventually succumb to retirement. This has not only permitted Musharraf to maintain a unified command structure within the armed forces, but more importantly enabled him to control civil life in Pakistan. The armed forces routinely intervene in Pakistan’s civil life under the pretext of ‘democracy’ or ‘doctrine of necessity’ to keep Musharraf in power and America’s policies alive in Pakistan.

The Taliban's brothers in alms The mosque and the women's seminary are run by two prominent religious personalities, Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and Maulana Abdul Aziz, the sons of slain religious leader Maulana Abdullah. Abdullah was close to the late dictator General Zia ul-Haq. His Friday sermons were popular among the military and the civilian bureaucracy, and he often preached the cause of jihad. Abdullah's sons have continued his legacy, both his calls for jihad and his mysticism, and they were the driving force behind a religious decree insisting that Pakistani army personnel killed while fighting against tribals in South Waziristan be denied a Muslim burial. The decree was signed by 500 clerics and scholars and led to open defiance within the Pakistani armed forces, which in turn contributed to their withdrawal.

Pakistan Countrywide lawyers boycotted courts for the third day Wednesday in protest at the suspension of the country's top judge by American Christian kafir terrorists puppet President Pervez Musharraf munafiq A complete strike was observed by lawyers throughout the country to condemn Friday's ouster of chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Pakistan Bar Council President Qazi Anwar told media. Lawyers also staged rallies in Karachi, and other urban centres, witnesses said. Anwar said lawyers would observe a token one hour strike daily from Thursday until the reinstatement of justice Chaudhry, while two lawyers at every bar in the country would observe a day-long hunger strike. "We will end the strike and protests the moment Musharraf withdraws the decision and admits he made a mistake. The sooner he realises it the better it would be for him," Anwar said. Hundreds of lawyers staged rowdy protests outside the Supreme Court in Islamabad on Tuesday when a judicial panel began hearing charges of misconduct laid against justice Chaudhry. The next hearing is on Friday.

Marlise Simons and the New York Times on the International Court of Justice Decision on Serbia and Genocide in Bosnia: A Further Study in Total Propaganda Service On many issues the New York Times serves as a propaganda organ of the state, latching onto a position that meets an ongoing state interest and then adhering undeviatingly to the party line that ensues. This was true on a stream of Cold War issues, including decades of inflated claims about the Soviet military threat, with the vastly greater U.S. military spending framed as if the U.S. were merely responding to a Soviet challenge;[1] the Times editors also swallowed whole and steadily propagandized the false claim of Soviet involvement in the shooting of Pope John II in 1981.[2] More recently, as is well known and even acknowledged by the Times editors, the paper played an important role in disseminating disinformation on Saddam's non-existent weapons of mass destruction (WMD), helping to set the stage for the U.S. invasion-occupation of Iraq.[3] For years now, the New York Times has been riding a similar propaganda bandwagon on the wars and dismantlement of the former Yugoslavia—but in contrast to its performance over Iraq's non-existent WMDs, once the Times climbed aboard this bandwagon, in the early 1990s, it never climbed back down again. Like the rest of the establishment media in this country and elsewhere, the dominant frame to which the Times subscribed was helpful to longstanding elite interest in a NATO bloc expansion into Central and Eastern Europe that was activated by the collapse of the Soviet bloc.

Globalization and the Struggle for Immigrant Rights in the United States The first is an upsurge in Latino immigration to the United States. Officially, there are 34 million immigrants in the U.S., 12-15 million of them undocumented, although we know that these are underestimates. Migration levels in recent years have surpassed those of the turn of the 19th century. Of these 24 million, 18-20 million are from Latin America, the majority from Mexico, but also from Central America, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, and elsewhere.

The second is the upsurge of repression, racism, and discrimination against immigrants – the minutemen, the denial of drivers licenses, attacks, evictions, escalating raids, public segregation and anti-immigrant jim crow, and so on. We are witnessing the criminalization of immigrants and the militarization of their control by the state.

Third is an unprecedented mass immigrant rights movement. We saw last Spring the largest demonstrations in U.S. history. They had the powers that be quite frightened. This is what poder popular looks like; what “power of the people” means.

This Alien Life- Privatized Prisons for Immigrants In the wake of the September 11th attacks, the U.S. government invoked national security to sweep up and jail an unprecedented number of immigrants. Companies like Corrections Corporation of America and Wackenhut, have reaped the benefits.

U.S. economy leaving record numbers in severe poverty The percentage of poor Americans who are living in severe poverty has reached a 32-year high.

As Resistance to Stryker Shipment Grows, Police Turn Violent on Peaceful Protesters Activists opposed to a military shipment bound for Iraq continued their week long campaign with a rally in downtown Tacoma and a demonstration at the Port of Tacoma. They are protesting the deployment of a Ft. Lewis-based Stryker brigade deploying to Iraq as part of the US escalation of the conflict. At an afternoon rally at the Federal Courthouse, anti-war activists from throughout Western Washington and Oregon held signs and listened to speakers denounce the US mission in Iraq and call for active resistance to the escalation.

China Returns Fire on U.S. Human Rights Abuses Governments behave much the same everywhere--they seek to expand their jurisdiction, authority, and resources with which to exercise it. What is supposed to make America unique is a government divided into independent branches, which scrutinize and constrain each other’s power. Unfortunately, that system of checks and balances has now been seriously eroded.

china- Reaching For the Moon

World powers isolated in nuclear standoff, says Ahmadinejad Iran Shia kafir President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday insisted Iran would not back down in the standoff over its nuclear programme, saying it was world powers, which were "isolated" and not Iran. "The Iranian people is standing up and will defend its rights as a single body," Ahmadinehad told crowds of supporters at a rally in the central city of Yazd. "They world powers said that they want to isolate the Iranian people. But it is the Iranian people who with the help of God have isolated you," he added. "It is world powers who are isolated and if you continue with these methods not only will you not be capable of harming the Iranian people but you will be even more isolated yourself."

German MEP Criticizes Western Hypocrisy towards Iran's Nuclear Program Highlighting media reports of US plans to produce new nuclear warheads, German member of the European Parliament (MEP) Tobias Pflueger, speaking in the European Parliament in Brussels Tuesday evening, criticized the hypocrisy of the West in trying to stop Iran from its nuclear rights. He said: "In the EU, British Prime Minister Tony Blair wants to spend 30 billion euros on modernization of Britain's nuclear capabilities. Such atomic production endangers the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the German Council Presidency must adopt a critical stance." The MEP, who belongs to the GUE/NGL or the European United Left/Nordic Green Left, said his party supports protests against the UK's military program. He said: "The Non-Proliferation Treaty means that all nuclear weapons must be dismantled. There are no good nuclear weapons; disarmament is the order of the day!"

Most Americans oppose additional troops for Iraq: poll Nearly six in 10 Americans want to see U.S. troops leave Iraq either immediately or within a year, according to a US TV poll released here. And 52 percent say Congress should block funding for U.S. President George W. Bush's plan to send additional troops to Iraq. The poll found those decisions are unpopular, with 59 percent opposing the president's plan. The latest survey also showed Americans are more receptive to having Congress take the lead, with 47 percent saying the lawmakers shall be "primarily responsible" for setting war policy. In comparison, only 33 percent said the president should be primarily responsible for setting the country's course.

Two F-16 planes crash in US A military pilot safely ejected from an F-16 fighter jet shortly before it crashed on a southern Nevada training range, Nellis Air Force Base officials said. It was the second F-16 training crash in a day. The cause of the last evening crash on the vast Nevada Test and Training Range north of Las Vegas was under investigation.

Democrats press Bush to reveal any role in prosecutor firings Democrats on Tuesday called on President George W. Bush to come clean about his possible role in the alleged politically motivated ouster of eight federal prosecutors -- a move they condemned as a blatant abuse of power. "The president must clarify his role in this whole matter," US Senator Charles Schumer said at a press conference. "The cloud over the US attorneys, the cloud over the Justice Department, is getting darker and darker, and only the president can dispel it," Schumer said. The Democratic senator said evidence suggests that Bush's top law enforcement official, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, "was carrying out the political wishes of the president in at least some of these firings." "All the evidence makes clear that this purge was based purely on politics: to punish prosecutors who were perceived to be too light on Democrats or too tough on Republicans," the Democrat said. Gonzales, whose chief of staff quit earlier Tuesday in the scandal, has faced calls for his own resignation in the wake of claims by the sacked prosecutors and others that they were forced out in a political purge.

US Corps Placed Faulty Pumps in New Orleans The US Army Corps of Engineers, rushing to meet President George W. Bush's promise to protect New Orleans by the start of the 2006 hurricane season, installed defective flood-control pumps last year despite warnings from its own expert that the equipment would fail during a storm. The 2006 hurricane season turned out to be mild, and the new pumps were never pressed into action. Corps officials said: The pumps are now being pulled out and overhauled because of excessive vibration. According to the documents obtained by the AP, other problems have included overheated engines, broken hoses and blown gaskets. Col. Jeffrey Bedey, who is overseeing levee reconstruction, insisted the pumps would have worked last year and the city was never in danger.

Mexicans Protest against Bush Thousands of demonstrators marched to the US embassy in Mexico City on Tuesday to protest the visit of President George W. Bush, attacking riot police with brickbats, metal bars and firecrackers, and tearing down barricades. Mexican police responded with tear gas, pepper spray, and baton charges, throwing back stones and clubbing demonstrators down. Several protesters were arrested or injured, one with blood pouring from his head. The demonstrators burned the US flag and waved banners denouncing the US president, "Bush you are not welcome in Mexico. Go to hell." During the demonstrations Bush was hundreds of kilometers away in the southeastern city of Merida meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon on the last stop of his tour of Latin America.Mass protests marred Bush's itinerary in all five Latin American countries, and was yet another indication of the failure of US policies.

March 12 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,10^th), 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.)