Eight U.S. troops killed in E. Afghan battle

04 Oct 2009 04:52:57 GMT
Source: Reuters
KABUL, Oct. 4 (Reuters) - Eight U.S. troops were killed in day of fighting in the remote east of Afghanistan near the Pakistan border, after fighters launched a "complex" attack, a military spokeswoman said on Sunday.

Captain Elizabeth Mathias said fighting raged through Saturday in Nuristan province after the attack.

By Amin Jalali

ASADABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Insurgents stormed remote Afghan outposts near the Pakistani border, killing eight U.S. troops and cutting off scores of Afghan police, officials said on Sunday, in the deadliest battle in more than a year.

NATO said at least two Afghan soldiers died along with the eight Americans. Afghan provincial authorities said they had lost contact with scores of Afghan policemen after the day-long attack and did not know whether they were dead or alive.

The fighting took place in Nuristan province's Kamdesh district in high mountains along the eastern border with Pakistan on Saturday but was not reported until Sunday.

The battle showed the ferocity of the insurgency in a part of the country that U.S. forces have decided to abandon after years of heavy fighting. The troops had already announced plans to withdraw from the area as part of commander General Stanley McChrystal's strategy to focus his forces on population centers.

Militia from a local mosque and a nearby village launched the attacks on two joint NATO and Afghan outposts, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said. The NATO troops in the area are American.

"My heart goes out to the families of those we have lost and to their fellow soldiers who remained to finish the fight," Colonel Randy George, commander of the U.S. force in the eastern mountain area bordering Pakistan, said in the statement.

"This was a complex attack in a difficult area. Both the U.S. and Afghan soldiers fought bravely together. I am extremely proud of their professionalism and bravery."

As the battle raged, foreign troops sent in F-16 jet fighters and Apache helicopter gunships to help the forces caught in the battle, a spokeswoman for the U.S. military said.

A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said the movement was behind the attack. He claimed that dozens of Afghan soldiers and police were killed along with Western troops.

Fighters captured 35 police during the battle and their fate would be decided by the movement's provincial council, he added.

Because of the loss of contact, Afghan authorities could give no firm figures for the number of their police who were killed.

The province's deputy police chief Mohammad Farooq said the fate of an entire 90-strong police force in the Kamdesh district was unknown. Hundreds of militants, including foreign nationals based in Pakistan, were involved in the attack, Farooq said.

NATO said its troops had inflicted heavy casualties on the attackers, but did not say how many.

Mujahid said seven Taliban were killed as a result of an air attack summoned by foreign troops during the 13 hours of battle. He said the Taliban attack included several suicide bombers, explosions and fighters storming the posts.

NEW STRATEGY

The attack was the deadliest for U.S. forces since nine were killed in a July 2008 battle in nearby Kunar province, which the U.S. military is investigating as a debacle that will teach its forces how to understand the demands of combat in Afghanistan.

U.S. forces have suffered some of their worst casualties in the east, where they have tried to control remote mountain passes used by Taliban fighters as infiltration routes from Pakistan.

Separately in the east, one U.S. service member died of wounds suffered from a bomb on Saturday, NATO said.

Nearly 400 Western troops have died this year in Afghanistan, by far the deadliest year of the war launched in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. More Western troops have died this year than in the entire period from 2001-2005.

Under McChrystal's new counter-insurgency strategy they are supposed to move into more heavily populated areas to protect the population and reduce the influence of insurgents, while abandoning efforts to defend remote locations.

Saturday's attack would not alter NATO forces' plans to leave the area, the alliance said.

The war in Afghanistan has reached its most violent phase, with attacks by fighters spreading from traditional strongholds in the south and east to the once-peaceful west and north.

McChrystal, who now commands more than 100,000 troops, two thirds of them American, has requested tens of thousands more to implement his new strategy, warning that without them, the eight-year-old war will probably be lost.

(Additional reporting by Hamid Shalizi, Peter Graff and Sayed Salahuddin in KABUL; Writing by Peter Graff and Sayed Salahuddin; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)

Iraqi PM ditches old Shi'ite allies for Jan polls

01 Oct 2009 16:45:58 GMT
Source: Reuters
* Iraqi PM's new coalition to compete against former allies

* Leaves door open to working with other political groups

(Adds analyst comments in paragraph 18)

By Suadad al-Salhy and Muhanad Mohammed

BAGHDAD, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced on Thursday a new coalition that will run against former Shi'ite Muslim allies in January's national elections, raising the prospect of intra-sectarian strife.

Analysts said Maliki's State of Law coalition appeared more inclusive of Iraqi minorities than a rival alliance headed by other powerful Shi'ite parties, and would be a strong contender in what are expected to be hotly contested polls.

"The birth of State of Law represents an historic milestone and development in establishing a modern Iraq built on peaceful, nationalist principles," Maliki said.

Ambitions to bring about such a turning point for Iraq's fragile democracy will be tested in the first general election since 2005, which takes place just as U.S. troops prepare to withdraw and local forces seek to defeat a stubborn insurgency.

A smooth vote may help consolidate security gains, but many fear friction among Shi'ite parties may spark greater violence.

Maliki's Dawa party, which was part of a broad Shi'ite alliance that swept to power after 2005 polls and has dominated majority Shi'ite Iraq since, has chosen not to join the recently formed, mostly Shi'ite, Iraqi National Alliance (INA).

The INA is headed by the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (ISCI), a powerful Shi'ite party which has close ties to Iran.

Those close to the prime minister say Maliki, spurning calls to join the INA, wanted a broader coalition including a greater number of minority Sunni Arabs and Kurds, which might give him a better chance of winning a second term.

POST ELECTION ALLIANCE?

ISCI member Mohammed al-Bayati and analysts said there could be some form of partnership between the INA and State of Law after the election results are known.

"We wish them success ... A national front will be formed in the next parliament in participation with the INA," Bayati said.

Iraqi political groupings are fluid and alliances have shifted dramatically in the past.

"No side is likely to get a majority, and there will be a need for partnerships after the results. Such talk before then is difficult because I think there will be heated competition," said Hameed Fadhel, an analyst at Baghdad University.

Maliki, whose Shi'ite Islamist Dawa party was founded in the 1950s, is trying to rebrand himself as a nationalist and claim credit for a sharp drop in violence in Iraq.

Another reason Maliki may have spurned the INA is a belief it gave ISCI too much clout relative to the party's support, which has ebbed since 2005. Maliki also may have declined to join the INA because it refused to guarantee him a second term.

Analysts said Maliki's coalition of 40 groups, which appears to include more minorities than the INA, was a strong contender.

"This coalition will win if it runs alone, because the Sunnis have joined them in force ... Maliki's chances are strong in this coalition," said political analyst Mazin al-Shammari.

"SECOND-BEST LEFTOVERS"

However, in facing off against ISCI Maliki will battle a well-funded and well-organised party. His group also lacks several Iraqi political heavy-hitters who have not yet joined a coalition and whose support could be crucial.

"The roster of parties that were reported today as actually having signed up for the new State of Law coalition evinced a certain air of being second-best leftovers," analyst Reidar Visser of www.historiae.org said on his website.

Maliki, who has shaken off an image of weakness to emerge as a forceful figure in Iraq, alarmed his political partners when he made wide gains in provincial polls this past January.

The split in Maliki and ISCI's Shi'ite political bloc is likely to boost tensions in a country still plagued by violence.

Yet it could also mark a maturing of Iraq's democracy if there was a credible shift away from the sectarian and identity politics which has defined Iraq's legislative system to date.

The INA includes the movement of the fiery anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and a few Kurds and Sunnis.

The State of Law coalition includes Maliki's Dawa party, Shi'ite Kurds, Sunni tribal sheikhs and independents. (Additional reporting by Khalid al-Ansary, writing by Mohammed Abbas: Editing by Missy Ryan and Myra MacDonald)

Iran: Marriage for Politics?

By Fathi al-Maraghy
Tue. Sep. 1, 2009
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The daughters of Rafsanjani entered the political arena after getting married to the sons of Ayatollah Lahouti.
After the June 12 elections, politics in Iran has become such a complicated game, and the rift between what are known as Reformists and Conservatives has widened considerably.



However, members of Iran’s political elite have more in common than what can be noticed by political analysts, and perhaps that is why they do not fight each other till death. Marriage relations have been used by politicians in the Islamic Republic to strengthen their positions and to form alliances.



The nations of West Asia in general and Iranians in particular deal with marriage as a family’s rather than an individual’s decision. There is no much difference between men and women in this regard as both of them act upon the collective desire of the family. And the more religious the family is, the more such a tradition is honored. Consequently, marriages in Iran resemble strategic plans, in which individual desires are rarely taken into consideration.



Marriages in Khomeini’s Family



Although no member of Khomeini’s family occupies a political position in the Iranian system’s power hierarchy, being related to the family of the founder of the Islamic Republic through a marriage relationship affects a politician’s political weight considerably.



The family of Iran’s former president Mohamed Khatami has the strongest marriage relations with Khomeini’s family, and they take both direct and indirect forms.



Mohamed Khatami’s wife is Zahra Sadeqi, the niece of Imam Mousa Al-Sadr, the famous Lebanese scholar who disappeared mysteriously in Libya; therefore, Mohamed Khatami is known as the in-law of Lebanon. And the wife of Ahmed Khomeini is the other niece of Imam Mousa Al-Sadr.



On the other hand, Mohamed Reza Khatami, the brother of the former president, is married to Zahra Ishraqi, the granddaughter of Imam Khomeini and the daughter of Ayatollah Ishraqi.



Interestingly, marriages of the Khomeinis have affected the political inclination of the family in general, drawing it closer to the Reformist side of the political spectrum.



Hassan Khomeini is married to the daughter of Ayatollah Mousavi Bojnordi, one of the prominent figures in Ruhaniyun-e Mobarez – the most distinguished group in the Reformist movement. Furthermore, Yasser Khomeini, son of Hassan Khomeini, is married to the daughter of Mohamed Sadr, the Reformist candidate in the eighth parliamentary elections.



The Reformist inclination of the Khomeini family were clearly manifested in the refusal of the Guardian Council to approve the candidacy of Shihab Ishraqi, the grandson of Khomeini, in the ninth parliamentary elections. Such a refusal deeply angered the late Imam’s family, which urged the Guardian Council to reconsider its decision.



The only exception in the marriage relations in Khomeini’s family is the marriage of Khomeini’s granddaughter Zahra Ishraqi to the son of Mohsen Rezaei, the former head of the Revolutionary Guards and the losing candidate in the tenth presidential election.



Khamenei’s Family



One of the most important marriage relations in Khameini’s family is the marriage of his son Mojtaba to the daughter of Ghulam Ali Haddad, the former parliament speaker. Mojtaba, who supports Ahmadinejad, proved his ability to influence the Iranian political scene during the last presidential election as he was in control of the anti-protest militia.



Masoud, the second son of Khamenei, is married to the daughter of Ayatollah Kharazi, the sister of Sadiq Kharazi, who served as an advisor for former president Mohamed Khatami. Also, Sadiq Kharazi’s son is married to the daughter of Khatami’s brother.



Thus, Masoud’s marriage to a member of a Reformist family counterbalances his brother’s marriage and his Conservative inclinations. Yet, Khamenei’s eldest son Moustafa is married to the daughter of Ayatollah Khoshoqt, one of the leaders of the Sweet Scent of Service group, the main supporter of Ahmadinejad.



It can be argued that Khamenei’s family has a fair share of political division. Just like his sons, the Supreme Leaders’s brothers and sisters also have varying political affiliations.



Badri, the sister of the Supreme Leader, is married to Sheikh Ali Tehrani, a member of Mujahedeeni-e-Khalq (MEK). Badri and her family fled to Iraq in the early 1980s while her brother was president. Badri and her husband did not return to Iran till 1995 after receiving a covenant of security from the Supreme Leader.



Hadi Khamenei, a cleric himself, joined the Reformist movement in the 1990s and campaigned for Khatami. The younger brother of the Supreme Leader a pro-reform newspaper known as Hayat-e No, but the publication was banned in 2000 by a religious court. The former member of parliament was jailed several times.



The Khatami family is the luckiest in terms of the number of marriage relations it has with prominent families. Beside the family of Imam Mousa Al-Sadr and that of Khomeini, they are connected to Rafsanjani’s family through marriage relations. In addition, the Khatami family is connected to Khamenei’s family through his son Masoud who is married to one of the in-laws of Khatami’s family.



What is most interesting about Rafsanjani’s family, however, is that his daughters, Faezeh and Fatemeh, are the politically active members of the family.



The daughters of Iran’s prominent politician entered the political arena after getting married to the sons of Ayatollah Lahouti, a close companion of Khomeini and one of the ideologues of the Islamic Revolution.



On the contrary, Hashemi Rafsanjani’s sons have stayed away from politics, and both of them got married to women who do not belong to political families.



Ahmadinejad’s In-Laws



Perhaps all these marriage relationships seem normal because the founding fathers of all these families were religious scholars who accompanied Khomeini in his revolutionary struggle.



However, Ahmadinjad’s emergence on the Iranian political scene has produced a new phenomenon; family members and in-laws of politicians are being appointed to government positions, without any justification other than having family relations with the president.



Ahmadinejad’s decision to appoint his father-in-law, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei as a vice-president angered all Iran’s political forces. Last year, Mashaai issued a number of provocative statements, describing the Israeli people as the friends of Iranians. Also, he attended a party in Turkey, during which dancers held copies of the Holy Qur’an on their heads. The controversial figure also has called for turning the Pilgrimage Institution in Iran into a part of the tourism agency.



All this urged the Supreme Leader to overturn the president’s decision. Ahmadinejad, however, tarried in implementing the Supreme Leader’s order, then announced later that Mashaai resigned. After some time, the hard-line president appointed his father-in-law as the head of his office and offered him all the vice-president’s privileges.



Although the media does not put Ahmadinejad’s wife Fakhr Al-Sadat in the limelight, her brothers are appointed to important governmental positions. For instance, Ismail Ahmadi, Ahmadinejad’s brother-in-law, is the head of Iran’s police force, and Alireza Ahmadi was the education minister during Ahmadinejad’s first term.



Other members of Fakhr Al-Sadat’s family were appointed to key positions.



Masoud Zaribafan was the cabinet secretary, and Mehrdad Bazrpash, the son-in-law of Alireza Ahmadi, is the Managing Director of Saipa – Iran’s auto manufacturer and one of the biggest industrial entities in the country. It is important to note that Bazrpash’s appointment was met by much criticism from Iranian politicians.



Furthermore, members of Ahmadinejad’s own family were appointed to senior government positions.



Dawood Ahmadinejad, the eldest brother of the president, was the head of the president’s inspectors office. Also, Hussain Shebeiry, Ahmadinejad’s brother-in-law, is head of the Reza Endowment.



On the other hand, Ahmadinejad’s sister is the chairman of the Women Affairs Center, which is affiliated to the president’s office, and her son, Ali Akbar Mehrabian, was the industry minister during her brother’s first term.



It is as if Ahmadinejad is telling Iran’s political elite that what he is doing is not a precedent and that they have been monopolizing power for three decades through a spider’s web of marriages. In such a context, what really matters is the ability of each politician to strengthen his position by appointing his relatives and allies to key positions in the system.



What still needs to be mentioned is that besides these major families, there are other important families, such as the family of Ayatollah Mousavi Ardebeli and the Larijani family. The Larijani family is in control of the Judiciary through its esteemed figure Sadiq Larijani.



Also, Ali Larijani was appointed to several key positions, including the Islamic guidance minister, the secretary of Iran’s National Security Council, and the representative of Qom. Also, Mohamed Larijani was the deputy minister of foreign affairs.

Members of the Larijani family have a fair share of power because of the marriage of Ali Larijani to the daughter of Ayatollah Motahhari, one of the closest companions of Khomeini.



The abovementioned applies also to the families of junior government employees, which turns marriage in Iran into a deal that should be planned carefully in order for the families to reap the benefits.



During the Shah’s time, there was one thousand privileged family because of their contribution to laying the foundations of the monarchy. And it seems that the situation under the Islamic system has not changed much.

Lets Analyze Tsunami & Earthquakes in the light of Quran

33. Surat Al-Ahzab, Medinan,11 of 73 verses

هُنالِكَ ابتُلِىَ المُؤمِنونَ وَزُلزِلوا زِلزالًا شَديدًا ﴿١١﴾

هُنالِكَ ابتُلِىَ المُؤمِنونَ وَزُلزِلوا زِلزالًا شَديدًا ﴿١١﴾ وَإِذ يَقولُ المُنٰفِقونَ وَالَّذينَ فى قُلوبِهِم مَرَضٌ ما وَعَدَنَا اللَّهُ وَرَسولُهُ إِلّا غُرورًا ﴿١٢﴾ وَإِذ قالَت طائِفَةٌ مِنهُم يٰأَهلَ يَثرِبَ لا مُقامَ لَكُم فَارجِعوا ۚ وَيَستَـٔذِنُ فَريقٌ مِنهُمُ النَّبِىَّ يَقولونَ إِنَّ بُيوتَنا عَورَةٌ وَما هِىَ بِعَورَةٍ ۖ إِن يُريدونَ إِلّا فِرارًا ﴿١٣﴾ وَلَو دُخِلَت عَلَيهِم مِن أَقطارِها ثُمَّ سُئِلُوا الفِتنَةَ لَءاتَوها وَما تَلَبَّثوا بِها إِلّا يَسيرًا ﴿١٤﴾

(11) there it was that the believers were tried, and shaken most mightily. (12) And when tile hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is sickness, said, 'God and His Messenger promised us only delusion.' (13) And when a party of them said, 'O people of Yathrib, there is no abiding here for you, therefore return!' And a part of them Were asking leave of the Prophet, saying, 'Our houses are exposed'; yet they were not exposed; they desired only to flee. (14) And if entrance had been forced against them from those quarters, and then they had been asked to apostatise, they would have done so, and but tarried about it briefly.


99. Surat Az-Zalzalah, Medinan, 1 of 8 verses
بِسمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحمٰنِ الرَّحيمِ

إِذا زُلزِلَتِ الأَرضُ زِلزالَها ﴿١﴾

بِسمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحمٰنِ الرَّحيمِ
إِذا زُلزِلَتِ الأَرضُ زِلزالَها ﴿١﴾ وَأَخرَجَتِ الأَرضُ أَثقالَها ﴿٢﴾ وَقالَ الإِنسٰنُ ما لَها ﴿٣﴾ يَومَئِذٍ تُحَدِّثُ أَخبارَها ﴿٤﴾ بِأَنَّ رَبَّكَ أَوحىٰ لَها ﴿٥﴾ يَومَئِذٍ يَصدُرُ النّاسُ أَشتاتًا لِيُرَوا أَعمٰلَهُم ﴿٦﴾ فَمَن يَعمَل مِثقالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيرًا يَرَهُ ﴿٧﴾ وَمَن يَعمَل مِثقالَ ذَرَّةٍ شَرًّا يَرَهُ ﴿٨﴾

(1) When earth is shaken with a mighty shaking (2) and earth brings forth her burdens, (3) and Man says., 'What ails her?' (4) upon that day she shall tell her tidings (5) for that her Lord has inspired her. (6) Upon that day men shall issue in scatterings to see their works, (7) and whoso has done an atom's weight of good shall see it, (8) and whoso has done an atom's weight of evil shall see it.


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The earthquake in Indonesia: Help is also there for the region around Padang. Aktion Deutschland Hilft appeals for additional donations
02 Oct 2009 15:11:00 GMT
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Bonn, Germany, 02.10.2009- Support members of the alliance partners of the relief organisation "Aktion Deutschland Hilft" are reporting tremendous damage in individual districts of Padang on Sumatra, which not long ago was shook by a violent earthquake. "The earthquake has also caused a tremendous amount of damage outside of Padang and claimed many victims: Schools and hospitals have collapsed. Up until now hardly any humanitarian measures have been initiated," says an employee of World Vision about the situation.

The city of Pariaman lies closer to the epicentre of the earthquake than Padang. The first images shown on Indonesian television showed a kilometre long row of houses which were destroyed. For this reason, alliance partners such as World Vision and Malteser International are organising, along with their local partner Yakkum Emergency Service, to help in the city which is to the north of Padang. Medical teams are being made available and families are being provided with "family kits" which contain cooking utensils, plastic sheeting, mats, clothes, blankets, nappies and baby care products. "In order to be able to cover the immense needs of the people, we are desperately in need of donations from the German public," Manuela Ro�bach, manager of Aktion Deutschland Hilft appealing to the German public.

The alliance partners of Aktion Deutschland Hilft are in constant contact via telephone conferences, in order to coordinate the measures being taken with the needs of those on the ground. Due to this, the Worker Samaritan Association is preparing the deployment of a medical ambulance, arche noVa are planning the construction of drinking water treatment facilities whilst World Vision is erecting child care centres in order to treat traumatic cases. Four so-called health kits from action medeor are underway for the members of the organisations the Worker Samaritan Organisation, HELP and Johanniter, with which the alliance partners can guarantee the supply of medical supplies in Padang.

Further information can be found at http://www.aktion-deutschland-hilft.de Appeal for funds Keyword: Disasters South-East-Asia Donation account 10 20 30, Bank f�r Sozialwirtschaft, Sort Code 370 205 00 IBAN: DE29370205000008322501 BIC: BFSWDE33XXX Donation hotline: 0900 55 102030 or online https://ssl.aktion-deutschland-hilft.de/spenden/spenden.php Short profile of Aktion Deutschland Hilft e.V. Germany's Relief Coalition �Aktion Deutschland Hilft" was formed in 2001 by ten renowned German humanitarian aid organisations. The coalition's aim is to combine their members' individual knowledge, experience and resources to provide fast and more efficient relief after major disasters and emergencies. The association appeals for joint action in cases of catastrophes under the joint donation account 102030 at the Bank f�r Sozialwirtschaft in Cologne. Contact: Press office Aktion Deutschland Hilft e.V. Tel. +49 (0) 228/ 242 92 - 222 Fax: +49 (0) 228/ 242 92 - 199 E-mail: presse@aktion-deutschland-hilft.de

A very happy 60th Birthday to China!

On October 1st 1949, The People Republic of China (PRC) was founded. Over the years, and despite wars, civil unrest and American pressure and sanctions, the PRC survived to become a super power in every sense of the world. Prior to 1949, millions of Chinese were dying of hunger. Right now, China is a net exporter of food. The Chinese had closed their borders, put their house in order and came out flooding the world markets with all types of products. The current economic and financial crises did bankrupt America and its allies but not China. The Chinese GDP has grown 1000 folds in 30 years. If Marxism-Leninism chas failed in the Soviet Union, its Chinese version is definitely thriving in China. In its quest for economic and human development, the Chinese didn’t pay attention to Western-style manipulated democracy. However, corruption in China is as good as it is in most developing countries. The Chinese experiment may be applied to the development of impoverished and over-crowded India. There is an on-going Naxalite or Naxalvadi (Hindi) armed uprising trying to introduce Maoist-type Socialism to India.
From US-destroyed and occupied Iraq, I salute the Chinese people and their leadership for showing us the way to liberate our country, maximise the utilisation of our resources and to building a better future.

A multi-polar world following the collapse of USSR

Superpower China will defeintely help to create a multi polar world following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The USraelis had it too good during the last 20 years. I see clouds collecting over the head of Israeli Nazi Generals. They have been trying in vain to get a green light from their mentors the Americans to attack Iran.

The world was much better during the cold war!


Seeing what has happened since the collapse of the Soviet Union

any evil empire would be welcomed to break the domination of the USraeli criminals on world politics

Eastern neutralises Western hegemony!


It is difficult these days to have morals, ideal or principles in politics. We have witnessed how the USraeli criminals got away with Nazi-style crimes. What is needed is to change the present monopolisation of power by the uncivilised Americans and the Israeli killing machines.

Jews are the most hated people on earth!


Regardless whether Arab schools are good or aen't that good, but thanks to Israeli atrocities, the Jews are the most hated people on earth today.

It a Chinese version of workers paradise!


I do believe that the Chinese version of Marxism is no more than a restrained capitalism with a 'human' face.

Satire: America is not against Islam!!!!

The CIA has been pushing a number of its agents and TV stations on their payroll to promote a discussion on “America is not against Muslims or Islam”. This is to counter the perception that the current wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the threats against Iran are not an anti-Islamic crusade. I can tell these agents that “Only a fool thinks others are fools”. The humiliation a person receives with a Muslim name at the US border checkpoints pulls the rug from under the feet of all what the CIA is tying to promote. This has diverted thousands of Muslim students away from US high education institutions. I can reply to the CIA campaigners by asking the following questions:

1.Why the Americans are not imposing economic sanctions or invading Israel for being in breach of 39 UN Security Council resolutions the way they did to Muslim Iraq?

2.Why the Americans are not sending weapon inspectors to disarm Israel huge stockpile of all types of Weapons of Mass Destruction, including 400 nuclear war head, the way they disarmed Saddam and their current campaign against Muslim Iran.

3.Why the Americans are not asking the Israeli to leave occupied Arab territories the way they did to free Kuwait from Saddam army?

4.Why the Americans are not insisting on Israel to free the 12500 prisoners currently languishing in Israeli desert concentration camps while campaigning to free the arrested dissidents in Muslim Iran?

5.Why the Americans are not asking the International court of justice to prosecute Israeli Nazi Generals for their crimes in Gaza, the way they prosecuted Muslim President Omar Al-Bashir for the crimes in Darfur?

The above issues clearly expose the American crusade against Muslims and Islam.

In todays satellite TV, the Israeli Goebels can't twist facts albeit being in control of the American Media. When Palestinian child Al-Durrah, was shot by Israeli IDF (SS) on the lap of his father on TV, the Israelis un-ashamedly claimed that the Palestinains have killed him. And when a brave Israeli IDF officer emtied his machine gun in the head of a 12-year old Palestinan school girl while on the ground, the Israelis irresponsibly stated that after through investigation they have found that the rules of engagement were observed in her killing. It reminds people of Goebel braying during the last days of the war while the Red army was pounding Berlin. The Israeli arrogance and lies are about to come to an end sooner than the German Goebels had thought.


It may sound odd that one can justify kidnapping people and detaining them against their will for years. But Hamas got a very valid justification for kidnapping and keeping Gilad Shalit since June 2006. As a political organisation that won the election of January 2006, Hamas is not asking for a ransom money but demands the release of 1000 Palestinians languishing in Israeli concentration camps and abused and tortured with impunity. If every Israeli soldier is worth 1025 Palestinian prisoners (25 for a video) then Hamas is justified and will receive the support of many in the world if it kidnaps an additional 11 Shalits. No need to mention here that Israel disregards international law as it kidnaps, detains, tortures and kills Palestinians with impunity, knowing that America and the UN are unable to raise a hair denouncing Israeli Nazi-type atrocities in the occupied Arab territories.


Israel has been a problem to all US administrations and to most European countries. The Jewish lobby invests on US politicians who in turn had to allocate highly-needed funds to Israeli war machines and to drag America and its allies into supporting Israeli crimes and atrocities. At this very moment, where America is with a budget deficit of $trillions it can’t possibly afford to finance Israel directly or indirectly through tax deductions. Furthermore, America and its allies need the Muslim world while their soldiers are at war in Iraq and Afghanistan. It would be cheaper and better for America and for the world if all Jews are moved from Israel to New York. This way, Jews will be forced on paying taxes to the US treasury so are the Jewish mafia that robbed Russia and is currently uses Israel as a tax haven. I can say with comfort that the world will be a much better place without this tiny rogue Jewish mouse of a state that keeps roaring.


Israel is a rogue, Nazi Jewish state in breach of scores of human right conventions and UN Security Council Resolutions. Like Nazi Germany, Israel detains, tortures and kills people with impunity. And ike Nazi Germany it occupies territories of neighbouring countries. Furthermore, the Jews believe that they are a superior race like the German Nazis. The world did benefit from the collapse of Nazi Germany and the trial and sentencing Hitler Nazi Generals. Similarly, the world will benefit from the collapse of this tiny criminal Nazi Jewish entity which depends on the American cowboys for support. One day the American wake up and defeat Jewish Nazism the way Roosvelt helped in the defeat of the German Nazi regime.


The Americans are credited with the defeat of Nazi Germany. They will also get credit if they help to defeat the Jewish Nazi stae and its criminal practices.

Lets expose the fangs and tantacles of the Jewish financial and political draculas.

The mighty US Jewish mafia has been corrupting American media, financial and political institutions. As a result, the highly-religious American nation is represented by a governemnt that blindly serves the immoral Israeli designy and the Jews who refuse to recognise Christianity or Jesus Christ. In reality, the American politicians are defending their own interests and not those of America; despite claiming the upper moral ground and monopolising patriotism.


Can you imagine a world without Israel? I can think of one million benefits some of which are:
1. There will be no Jewish lobby forcing US politicians to support Israeli crimes.
2. The Americans will not march on countries like Iraq to Israeli drums.
3. Saving $billions of American tax payer money which goes to Israel every year.
4. The international Jewsih crooks, fraudsters and criminals will lose a safe haven.
5. Al-Qaeda will disappear as it loses its main cause for fighting US and its allies.
6. The current American-led anti-Islamic crusade will stop.
7. The Americans will leave Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan.
8. It will be easy for the world to disarm as the Israeli Nukes will disappear.
9. It will be easy for the world to disamntle the current emergency measures.
10. Carter will be the happiest seeing America free from the Jewish shackles.
11. Jews can live and work in all Arab countries without fear.


It was the Americans (Nixon-Kissinger) who established an air corridor expediting the delivery of ammunition and and equipment and the transport of personnel to save Israel and Golda Meir government. It didn't last long before the joint USraeli efforts bore fruit. Ariel Sharon crossed the Canal at Dafr Swar with US-manned tanks protected by US warplanes. The Americans have also used the A-6, to bust the Egyptian tanks. The rest was history. The Israelis were caught sleeping by the deception of the Egyptians who crossed the Suez Canal inflicting heavy losses on the Israelis. But that was history. The next wars will cripple the Israelis before they get a chance to deploy any of their nukes. In 2006, the Israelis, supportrd by the US and the UK, were unable to defeat Hezbullah. They had to leave Lebanon with a very bloody nose.

Adnan Darwash, Iraq Occupation Times

U.S. general: Taliban growing, Afghan outlook serious

By Luke Baker Luke Baker – 2 hrs 29 mins ago

LONDON (Reuters) – The insurgency in Afghanistan is growing and the success of the campaign against the Taliban cannot be taken for granted, General Stanley McChrystal, the head of U.S. and NATO troops, said on Thursday.

Delivering a grave and what he called honest assessment of the eight-year-old conflict, McChyrstal said the situation was serious and time was running out, although he also cautioned that moving too quickly without planning would be a mistake.

"The situation is serious and I choose that word very, very carefully," he told military and defense experts at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.

"Neither the success or failure for our endeavor there in support of the Afghan people and the government can be taken for granted," he said.

"My assessment, my best military judgment, is that the situation is in some ways deteriorating, but not in all ways."

He went on to say that violence across the country was up, and it was up "not only because there are more coalition forces, it is up because the insurgency is growing."

McChrystal has said previously that the mission in Afghanistan, involving 100,000 foreign troops of which around 60,000 are American, faces failure unless the strategy is shifted. He also believes, according to U.S. officials, that up to 40,000 more troops and trainers are needed for the war.

His recommendations on how to pursue the conflict have been handed to the Pentagon and the White House, and President Barack Obama is now carrying out a series of discussions with policy experts and analysts on how the strategy needs changing.

Once those discussions are complete, and U.S. officials have said that could take weeks, a decision is expected on whether more troops are required or not.

McChrystal would not be drawn on Thursday about how many more troops he wants, saying only that he believed "resources and goals" would be aligned in the end. But he said those fighting the war needed to be ready to do things differently.

"Whether we like it or not, we have a conventional warfare mentality," he said. "We must do things dramatically differently, even uncomfortably differently," he said, referring to the need to take risks to protect Afghan civilians.

"I discount immediately anyone who simplifies the problem or offers a solution...or says 'this is what you have got to do' because they absolutely have no clue about the complexity of what we are dealing with."

TALIBAN TALKS

Britain, which with 9,000 troops is the largest contributor to the 42-nation NATO coalition after the Americans, has suggested that it will only increase its commitment if the extra forces are used for training Afghan soldiers and police.

That line twins with the position of other major European powers with troops in the conflict, including Germany and France, who want to focus more on training than combat.

Britain's Defense Secretary Bob Ainsworth said on Thursday any increase in soldiers was some way off and not guaranteed.

"Before I agree to any increase in troop numbers, I must be sure that the balance of risks is acceptable by evaluating the capacity of the supply chain to properly equip an increased force," he told the Labour Party's annual conference.

Speaking at the same meeting, Foreign Secretary David Miliband repeated a call for talks with lesser elements of the Taliban if the poison was to be drawn from the insurgency.

"The way to defeat this enemy is to divide it -- separate the hardcore from the rest," Miliband said.

"Does that mean the Afghan government talking to the Taliban? Yes, with a simple message: Live within the constitution and you can come home to your communities and have a share of power, but stay outside, in hiding ... and you will face an unremitting military force."

(Additional reporting by Matt Falloon in Brighton; Editing by Elizabeth Fullerton)