In Israel, Obama is accused of ‘anti-Semitism’

 

[Obama is so "anti-Semitic" that he refuses to call the West Bank (or what remains of it) "Judea and Samaria"!]

In Israel, Obama is accused of ‘anti-Semitism’

 

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:32:47 GMT

 

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An Israeli parliamentarian accuses the Obama administration of ‘anti-Semitism’ ahead of a planned speech addressing the Muslim world.

Knesset (parliament) member Yaakov Katz, head of the National Union party, said Wednesday that US President Barack Obama’s repeated calls for halting the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank is “nothing less than anti-Semitism,” Israel’s Arutz Sheva reported.

He also accused the White House of following the path of his predecessors in stunting the growth of the population of Jewish people in the West Bank.

Katz says calling on Tel Aviv to freeze settlement activities means denying the Jewish people the right to give birth.

“If someone says you can’t add a room to a house, or build a kindergarten or a grocery or anything else, it means that 650,000 Jews in Jerusalem and elsewhere cannot grow, cannot give birth,” Katz told Israel’s national radio.

“I would just like to add that for the Obama Administration, there is no difference between Jerusalem and the rest of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank). In the Jerusalem neighborhoods, we have close to 300,000 Jews and we have another 350,000 Jews in Judea and Samaria,” he added. “For the Americans, all 650,000 are the same; they are all to be boycotted, discriminated against and told to stop building and stop growing. There is no difference for them.”

The Israeli parliamentarian also called on Christian and Jewish supporters of Israel to “get tough” with the Obama White House and not to accept his ‘discriminating policies’ against the Jewish people.

The US president, who is in Saudi Arabia on the first leg of his Middle East tour to build bridges between Washington and the Muslim world, has pressured the Netanyahu administration to completely halt settlement expansions in the occupied lands to push for the stalled peace process with the Palestinians.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far refused to endorse the creation of a Palestinian state and end settlement activities in the West Bank, which are seen vital for the resumption of peace talks to end the long running Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Bangladesh launches manhunt for Dawood Ibrahim’s men

Anisur Rahman, Press Trust Of India

Bangladesh police has launched a manhunt for members of Dawood Ibrahim’s network in the country following “significant” disclosures by one of his contract-killers nabbed here.

The manhunt was unleashed after Dawood Rauf Merchant, accused of killing Bollywood music baron Gulshan Kumar, told police that more than 150 “highly paid agents” of Dawood were active in Bangladesh, police said.

Merchant and another accomplice said their network here was being patronised by several influential people.

“In line with the information extracted from (detained) Dawood Merchant and Zahid Sheikh, we have launched a manhunt in the capital Dhaka and suburban districts to arrest the members of the Dawood Ibrahim’s network in our country,” a senior police official told PTI.

He also confirmed reports that two former ministers, three lawmakers and seven businessmen patronised the gang, but declined to disclose their names.

The network consists of some 300 people, 150 of them being highly paid agents of Dawood and his second-in-command Chhota Shakil manages their payments, it was revealed.

“We have obtained some significant information from the arrestees (who said) they had established their terror network in the country in late 1995 and started strengthening it after 2000 by recruiting 300 dedicated gangsters,” the New Age said quoting a high official of police’s Detective Branch.

Pakistan Should Exploit American Desperation

This is the time for Islamabad to exploit Washington’s desperation. SecDef Robert Gates is pleading Asia to support America’s failed Afghan project, while his colleague the U.S. Treasury Secretary is begging China to continue financing the U.S. government. The Americans are behind a Sunni militant group fighting for secession in Iran’s Balochistan and another ethnic militia in Pakistan’s Balochistan. The U.S. media leak on American weapons going to Afghan militants is a cover-up meant to hide what the Pakistani Army has discovered in Swat, that terrorists are using sophisticated American [and Indian] weapons to kill Pakistanis. Islamabad needs to end the American highhandedness, beginning with limiting CIA outposts in Pakistan.

By Ahmed Quraishi

Wednesday, 3 June 2009.

WWW.AHMEDQURAISHI.COM

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—The latest scare story on Pakistan’s nukes is a breath of fresh air. Instead of the unnamed sources, which have been the basis for the anti-Pakistan demonization campaign in the U.S. media, this time we have no less than President Obama’s point man on South Asia, M. Bruce Riedel, coming out with an op-ed that leaves little mystery in the debate over whether Washington is exploiting terrorism to target Islamabad’s nuclear weapons arsenal.

Mr. Riedel is one of the key proponents of the theory that the Pakistani military needs to be transformed into a little more than a glorified local police force watching out for U.S. interests. It is pointless to counter the arguments of such determined imperialists who are shamelessly interfering in Pakistan. What is more important at this stage is to understand how our supposed ally has taken us for a ride and how we need to exploit the new American desperation in the region to get a better deal than the one currently in hand.

There is a growing body of evidence that the U.S. is supporting terrorism in our region to further its strategic objectives. In Iran, a secretive sectarian group is trying to rally the people of Iran’s Sistan-Balochistan province for secession from Tehran. In Pakistan’s Balochistan, an ethnic group has risen from the dead to campaign for secession. The only thing common to both groups is that they emerged after the U.S. landed in Afghanistan and turned that poor country into a source of region-wide destabilization. So much for fighting terror.

The Pakistani military has also admitted over the weekend what Pakistan’s pro-U.S. government has been hiding for months. The weapons that the terrorists – the fake Pakistani Taliban – are using to kill Pakistanis are coming primarily from U.S. and India. The Pakistani military leadership first confronted Adm. Mullen and CIA Deputy Director Stephen Kappes about this in a secret meeting in Rawalpindi last July. As in all insurgencies, the terrorists in our northwestern belt are a mix of local elements bolstered by professional fighters from U.S.-controlled Afghanistan. The Pakistani military has squeezed these terrorists so hard now that there is little doubt where the support for this anti-Pakistan terror campaign is coming from.  To avoid embarrassment, Washington quickly ‘leaked’ a story that U.S. weapons meant for the Afghan army have reached insurgents. The timing of the leak conveniently coincides with the Pakistani army catching the American double game pants down.

Some members of the Karzai puppet regime have privately confirmed to Pakistani officials that they are incapable of stopping Indian terrorist activities on Afghan soil.

None of this will stop unless Pakistan firmly puts the leash on CIA outposts inside Pakistan. There is no question that CIA and Pakistani spy agencies were allies during the 1980s. But let us not forget that the CIA station in Pakistan recruited twelve insiders and used them to plan sabotage from within before being busted by chance in 1978.

Now the U.S. strategic interest in the region is largely divergent from that of Pakistan’s. U.S. officials, like Mr. Riedel, have little respect or appreciation for Pakistan’s right to have its own national security perspective and not rely on U.S. think tanks to adopt one. Today, Pakistan is paying for the blank check that our government and intelligence agencies gave the Americans on the ground in Balochistan and the tribal belt.

America is desperate in Afghanistan. U.S. officials have launched a fresh charm offensive to pacify the alienated Pakistanis. A panicked and bankrupt Washington is also trying to scare Asia into doling out money to save America’s failed occupation in Afghanistan. This is the time for Islamabad to demand Washington cease all the propaganda about Pakistan’s nukes, about the fabled ten billion dollars in aid, and stop turning the world against Pakistan. The elected government needs to muster some guts to confront Washington on this instead of leaving all the tough talk to Pakistani military leadership.

There is a golden opportunity out there to put a leash on CIA activities in Pakistan which we had consented to after 9/11. The American goal posts have shifted. Pakistan is no longer bound by the same deal.

© 2007-2009. All rights reserved. The News International & AhmedQuraishi.com & PakNationalists

Mitchell: Israel’s Been Lying to US but This is Over

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04/06/2009 The Israeli Maariv daily quoted US special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, as saying that “Israel has been lying on the US for the past years,” and that “it’s time to stop this.” According to Maariv, Mitchell was speaking in Washington during a meeting with a ‘prominent Jewish official in the US.” The Israeli daily added the the main focus during the meeting was on “growing confrontation” between President Barack Obama’s administration and the Israeli government. “Our policy is simple. The Israelis have lied to us all the time in the past years, but this is over now.” Mitchell is expected in Tel Aviv in the coming days and will set an office in occupied Jerusalem comprising an expanded team, that will–according to Maariv- be worrisome for PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

Text of Obama’s speech in Cairo

The Associated Press
5:47 AM PDT, June 4, 2009

Text of President Barack Obama’s speech at Cairo University, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions.

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I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt’s advancement. Together, you represent the harmony between tradition and progress. I am grateful for your hospitality, and the hospitality of the people of Egypt. I am also proud to carry with me the goodwill of the American people, and a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country: assalaamu alaykum.

We meet at a time of tension between the United States and Muslims around the world – tension rooted in historical forces that go beyond any current policy debate. The relationship between Islam and the West includes centuries of coexistence and cooperation, but also conflict and religious wars. More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations. Moreover, the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam.

Violent extremists have exploited these tensions in a small but potent minority of Muslims. The attacks of September 11th, 2001 and the continued efforts of these extremists to engage in violence against civilians has led some in my country to view Islam as inevitably hostile not only to America and Western countries, but also to human rights. This has bred more fear and mistrust.

So long as our relationship is defined by our differences, we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace, and who promote conflict rather than the cooperation that can help all of our people achieve justice and prosperity. This cycle of suspicion and discord must end.

I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles – principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

I do so recognizing that change cannot happen overnight. No single speech can eradicate years of mistrust, nor can I answer in the time that I have all the complex questions that brought us to this point. But I am convinced that in order to move forward, we must say openly the things we hold in our hearts, and that too often are said only behind closed doors. There must be a sustained effort to listen to each other; to learn from each other; to respect one another; and to seek common ground. As the Holy Quran tells us, Be conscious of God and speak always the truth. That is what I will try to do – to speak the truth as best I can, humbled by the task before us, and firm in my belief that the interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.

Part of this conviction is rooted in my own experience. I am a Christian, but my father came from a Kenyan family that includes generations of Muslims. As a boy, I spent several years in Indonesia and heard the call of the azaan at the break of dawn and the fall of dusk. As a young man, I worked in Chicago communities where many found dignity and peace in their Muslim faith.

As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. It was Islam – at places like Al-Azhar University – that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe’s Renaissance and Enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed. Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation. And throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America’s story. The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco. In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President John Adams wrote, The United States has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims. And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. They have fought in our wars, served in government, stood for civil rights, started businesses, taught at our Universities, excelled in our sports arenas, won Nobel Prizes, built our tallest building, and lit the Olympic Torch. And when the first Muslim-American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Quran that one of our Founding Fathers – Thomas Jefferson – kept in his personal library.

So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed. That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

But that same principle must apply to Muslim perceptions of America. Just as Muslims do not fit a crude stereotype, America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal, and we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words – within our borders, and around the world. We are shaped by every culture, drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept: E pluribus unum: Out of many, one.

Much has been made of the fact that an African-American with the name Barack Hussein Obama could be elected President. But my personal story is not so unique. The dream of opportunity for all people has not come true for everyone in America, but its promise exists for all who come to our shores – that includes nearly seven million American Muslims in our country today who enjoy incomes and education that are higher than average.

Moreover, freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one’s religion. That is why there is a mosque in every state of our union, and over 1,200 mosques within our borders. That is why the U.S. government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab, and to punish those who would deny it.

So let there be no doubt: Islam is a part of America. And I believe that America holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share common aspirations – to live in peace and security; to get an education and to work with dignity; to love our families, our communities, and our God. These things we share. This is the hope of all humanity.

Of course, recognizing our common humanity is only the beginning of our task. Words alone cannot meet the needs of our people. These needs will be met only if we act boldly in the years ahead; and if we understand that the challenges we face are shared, and our failure to meet them will hurt us all.

For we have learned from recent experience that when a financial system weakens in one country, prosperity is hurt everywhere. When a new flu infects one human being, all are at risk. When one nation pursues a nuclear weapon, the risk of nuclear attack rises for all nations. When violent extremists operate in one stretch of mountains, people are endangered across an ocean. And when innocents in Bosnia and Darfur are slaughtered, that is a stain on our collective conscience. That is what it means to share this world in the 21st century. That is the responsibility we have to one another as human beings.

This is a difficult responsibility to embrace. For human history has often been a record of nations and tribes subjugating one another to serve their own interests. Yet in this new age, such attitudes are self-defeating. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail. So whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners of it. Our problems must be dealt with through partnership; progress must be shared.

That does not mean we should ignore sources of tension. Indeed, it suggests the opposite: we must face these tensions squarely. And so in that spirit, let me speak as clearly and plainly as I can about some specific issues that I believe we must finally confront together.

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Pakistan and America

—Brian Cloughley

Pakistan and America have different problems concerning terrorism. And one of the greatest problems is the arrogant presumption by Washington that Islamabad must do as it is told

The American General David Petraeus said last week that “anti-US sentiment has been increasing in Pakistan”, and that if more of the appalling photographs of torture of US-held prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan were released by the Pentagon to be seen by the world, then loathing would become even more intense.

He is right about the level of anti-American feeling, and acknowledged that “63 percent of Pakistanis still oppose cooperating with US counter-terror operations”. It is doubtful, however, that release of another batch of pictures showing American soldiers subjecting people to the most hideous indignities would raise that percentage by much.

But nobody can blame anyone in Pakistan for objecting strongly to the fact that American “counter-terror operations” involve illegal attacks on the sovereign territory of Pakistan that have killed so many women and children.

US Predator or Reaper drones firing Hellfire missiles (what saliva-dribbling, wild-eyed, mentally warped whiz kid thinks up these names?) have eradicated a dozen or so militant leaders. Some of the hundreds killed were foot soldiers, and probably included some apprentice boy-bombers being instructed in the irreligious art of killing by committing suicide, and other people without whose presence the world will certainly benefit. But by far the greatest number killed were ordinary tribesmen and members of their families. Scores of women and children have died. Nobody can deny that America was responsible for their deaths.

Naturally, the indignation of the citizens of Pakistan has been increased by the manner in which their country is treated by Washington. Let us face the fact that the average educated Punjabi (or Sindhi, Kashmiri or Baloch) doesn’t care greatly about the inhabitants of the tribal areas. And the average illiterate citizen, of whom there are far too many, doesn’t care, either, because he or she has quite enough personal problems, involving day-to-day survival, to even think about affairs in the northwest of the country.

But both educated and illiterate citizens of Pakistan are now aware that Americans have been killing innocent Pakistanis.

Is it surprising that they disapprove of the fact that their fellow citizens are being blown to pieces by foreigners?

America was grief-stricken and furious following the death of some 3000 people in the terror attacks in New York and Washington in September 2001. This was understandable. It was reasonable that US citizens would be vehemently resentful of the brutal assault on their nation, and most other countries joined them in their anger, because they considered that such atrocities were horrific, and understood America’s reaction.

But the understanding stops there — because Washington doesn’t, won’t or can’t understand that when nationals of a country other than America are killed in attacks by a foreign power then there is valid reason for that nation’s citizens to detest the country that attacks them.

The author Steve Coll, writing in the New Yorker last week, pronounced that “Pakistan’s government, although it apparently facilitates the drone attacks in private finds it necessary to vocally oppose them in public, knowing how unpopular they are.”

Mr Coll then delivered a penetrating observation about this state of affairs, in that “Opportunism and hypocrisy hardly seem the foundation for a sustainable political-military partnership [in Pakistan] that breaks with the unhappy past.”

Quite so: if it is indeed a fact that the US has successfully pressured the government of Pakistan to accede without objection to Predator attacks and cross-border forays by US special forces in Afghanistan, then there are some points to be considered.

If the government of Pakistan has colluded with Washington in killing Pakistani citizens, this would raise the question of whether or not it can properly claim to be representative of the people. The Constitution, after all, states that “no action detrimental to the life, liberty, body, reputation or property of any person shall be taken except in accordance with the law.” And it is clear that the killing of Pakistani citizens on their own soil by foreigners is illegal.

Not only that, but it is against the letter and spirit of the United Nations Charter, which is be regarded by some as a quaint and old-fashioned document but is, nevertheless, the nearest this horrible world has come to an international Constitution aimed at limiting conflict.

If India had attacked madrassas in eastern Pakistan with drone missiles or conventional air strikes, as appeared possible immediately after the Mumbai atrocities last year (and thank goodness Dr Manmohan Singh was prime minister; it might have been disastrous otherwise), there would have been furious reaction in Pakistan. There is little doubt that there would have been war. Pakistan could not have accepted an attack on its territory, no matter if the result had been eradication of some very nasty people.

Why accept attacks by US missiles when similar attacks by India would be regarded as supremely hostile action?

General Petraeus says that Pakistanis are angered by “cross-border operations and reported drone strikes” that they believe “cause unacceptable civilian casualties”. But if he considers this to be such a grave matter, why doesn’t he say that the drone attacks must stop?

It is obvious to the general, and now to the US Congress to whom he was testifying, that severe damage has been done to US-Pakistan relations. If this is not to become even more counter-productive to the wars being waged by the US in Afghanistan and by Pakistan against fundamentalist loonies in its own country, then they must be stopped.

Make no mistake: the Pakistan Air Force is more than capable of shooting down drones, be they US or of any other nationality. The PAF has not been given orders to do so, although its radars automatically detect airspace violations. Is the government of Pakistan content to accept the continuing intrusion of drones that kill its citizens?

Pakistan and America have different problems concerning terrorism. And one of the greatest problems is the arrogant presumption by Washington that Islamabad must do as it is told.

The writer can be found on the web at http://www.beecluff.com

The war on terror

[SEE: Keeping the Myth of al Qaeda Alive]

The war on terror

By Ghulam Asghar Khan | Published: June 4, 2009

Peace is more than just killing and silencing the guns, it is elimination of the injustice that has compelled the men to reach for guns to defend their honour, respect, culture and above all their liberty. The concurrent global war on terror is based on lies and deceptions so cleverly fabricated by the CIA to identify and eliminate all the people who believe in self-defence.
Bush launched his Armageddon after 9/11 and declared an all out war on Afghanistan in October 2001 for its failure to apprehend and surrender Bin-Laden to Washington. It became a mantra for Bush to use Bin-Laden’s name whenever he was in a crisis situation; and in every self-created-crisis, he always was the beneficiary.
The question, is Osama bin-Laden still alive? In his New book, “Osama Bin Laden: Dead or Alive” David Ray Griffin examines the whole range of evidence bearing on this question. Griffin strikes at the root of this pretext for war by closely probing all the evidence that has come out since 9/11, either indicating that Bin-Laden was still alive or that he was in fact dead. His conclusion is that Bin-Laden is certainly dead, and that in all likelihood he died in very late 2001. Griffin shows that many US experts in counterterrorism and counterinsurgency came to this very conclusion long ago, but their views, which do not support the continuation of what President Obama, borrowing the term from Dick Cheney, calls “the long war,” have received very little media attention. Were they to do so, one of the main props for the war regime would have been undermined.
Griffin has surveyed in detail the many different indications published in the media in early 2002 that Bin-Laden had been very ill and had died. These included a December, 2001 video in which he appeared to be at death’s door (as admitted by a Bush administration spokesman), analyses by medical experts of the grave state of his health, the sudden and total cessation in December 2001 of any surveillance intercepts of communication from him, and even some reports of his funeral.

The two fake bin-Laden videos in 2001, purportedly showed him taking credit for the 9/11 attacks, were not only very conveniently timed for Bush/Blair administrations’ legislative and military agendas, but were also highly suspected for other reasons. One of them was never actually released, but simply claimed by Blair government. The second showed a bin-Laden, who did not physically resemble the genuine Bin-laden of earlier videos, in which he had denied any role in the 9/11 carnage. Writer Griffin presents strong arguments that both the videos were fake and cites likely motivations behind such a risky undertaking and quotes the opinions of experts (including the FBI), who came to this conclusion long ago.
Yet, in subsequent years, a long series of such dubious bin-Laden messages were released. Griffin gives an exhaustive survey of 19 of these from an e-mail message of March, 2002 to the bin-Laden audiotape of January 14, 2009. For each and every one, he identifies key indications of fakery or strong reasons to be suspicious of its authenticity. For there to be peace in the midst of a war engineered by Bush junta, the cold penetrating light of reality must emasculate the acceptable lies agreed to in secret back-room meetings that allowed sheer gangsterism and extortion from weaker adversaries to masquerade as “diplomacy and negotiations.” The incessant lies emanating from the White House, the Pentagon and especially from the CIA have to be silenced, if the global war on terror, based on lies is to be turned into world peace.
The question; “Who could have been motivated to fabricate such “big lies?” The US forces in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq employed a psychological operations unit to produce bogus evidence of a link between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda as a pretext for the invasion. The “Psyop Unit” produced a letter from a Jordanian in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to Al-Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan that was supposedly intercepted en-route. The psyop was advanced after the invasion by the New York Times reporter Dexter Filkins, who wrote front-page stories that the evidence was genuine. Journalists at other organisations, including Newsweek magazine and the Daily Telegraph of London, however, thought the letter was bogus.
Almost, a similar situation prevails on the Pakistani side of the Durand Line. History stands a witness that it is not possible to subjugate these warrior tribes with the force of arms. The danger to Pakistan is not of a Taliban revolution, but rather of creeping destabilisation and terrorism, which the Zardari government with all the US help and military support has miserably failed to control. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn says, “You can only have power over people so long as you do not take everything away from them. But, when you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power.” The only lasting solution is that we ourselves should gradually find way to an internal equilibrium without depending upon American help or interference. The object of the government is not the glory of the rulers, but the happiness of common man.

War in Waziristan

Thursday, June 04, 2009
The militants have made it quite obvious the war that is being fought in Malakand and elsewhere must be extended to Waziristan. Indeed, the daring kidnapping of dozens of pupils of the Razmak Cadet College may even have been an attempt to force the military to open up a new front, before it had finished off the battle in Swat, thus hoping to stretch it to the maximum, and by doing so trip it up. There is still confusion over how many students and staff members were kidnapped. Numbers range from around 100 to over 500. But it is now clear not all have been recovered. Accounts from law enforcers say 71 out of 122 victims have been retrieved; the ISPR says 80 were recovered and 15 are still missing; some of those who have returned home after their ordeal say the number is higher. But somewhere in the lawless realms of South Waziristan, a number of terrified boys and possibly their teachers are in the hands of the Taliban. Some reports even suggest they may have been taken to Baitullah Mehsud himself. Certainly, that wily veteran of battle seems to be preparing for a new – and we hope final – confrontation.

The fate of the missing cadets and staff members of the college is an issue that has drawn attention to the extent of the risk posed by the militants. Their threat radiates far beyond the mountains and rocky gullies of the north. In Punjab, the government has ordered all schools to close down promptly; summer camps have been stopped. The security situation is the prime reason behind this move. Newspaper reports maintain suicide bombers have entered cities; others hold more acts of audacious terrorism may be seen over the coming days. The situation is a hair-raising one. The authorities must of course make it a priority to rescue the remaining victims of the Razmak kidnapping. The agony of their families is unimaginable. The confusion over their numbers needs also to be removed. The fact that there have been such huge differences in the figures put out by the school, by the military and by local authorities raises awkward questions about credibility. Such perceptions can be damaging at a time when the nation needs to stand resolutely together.

The security lapses that allowed militants to vanish into the hills with up to ten vehicles and over 100 hostages need also to be investigated. But this is not enough. It is becoming quite obvious Waziristan will soon turn into a zone of war. The military has indeed moved already to set up agreements with anti-Mehsud tribals. Planning for fighting in an area where the military has struggled in the past is on at the highest levels. The war will undoubtedly be a destructive one; we must also hope it is also decisive. Through their latest act of abduction, the militants have made it clear that we as a state have no option but to physically eliminate them. The fact that there seems to have been a realization of this at the GHQ and in government is to be welcomed. But it would be a mistake to believe the war can end in the north. The terrorists have rooted themselves in our cities; their presence can be perceived everywhere. There must therefore also be removed from these places and the centres their have established in Southern Punjab and other places closed down. Only then can we be assured our children are safe and that we do not need to live in daily dread of terrorists whisking them away, as happened to those returning home as they do each year for the summer break from Razmak.

Keeping the Myth of al Qaeda Alive

Submitted by Riskability

If you know the Arabic language you will be shocked with the volume of Al-Qaeda Media Production (Videos in general); it’s daily , high-quality with specific instructions to make it easy to download, copy and spread
The Men behind this project succeed in infusing the every day politics with Al-Qaeda Myth; especially in the Arab world and the Arabic discourse , but they still had a problem in the availability of Al-Qaeda No. 1 and Al-Qaeda No. 2 when they are needed
What happen today June 3,2009 is significant in this aspect, and must be the base of demolishing Al-Qaeda Myth at the same speed that the three trade center buildings had been demolished in New York :
1) We all acknowledge that the last video appearance of “Bin Laden” was in (9/11) anniversary 2007 , although this video serve it’s political purpose , it create a storm of legitimate doubts , while in the west the focus was on the Fake picture , also in the Arab world there was a significant contribution like Dr. Hussian Mahmud whom found an Arabic grammar mistake almost in every sentence which contradict the well known fact about the real Bin Laden whom had strong language and grammar and you can’t detect a single mistake in his pre (9/11) speeches
and this was the END of “Bin Laden” picture (real or fake) to continue as “audio” only now on.

http://drhusseinmahmud.jeeran.com/archive/2007/11/392823.html
2) On the other hand No. 2 Al-Zawahiri is very active in this Media Production and had a chip in every slut of any event in the Muslim World, further more he had Q&A and at one time he launch a project to answer the Fans question in which he receive 12,000 question and answer 20% of them? in general he had more than two media appearances every month , and he never mention any thing related to the “existence” of his Boss No. 1 , he quoted him few times in the term “as he said” related to a published video or audio.

3) Every thing for the project went fine so far until the last presidential elections and the need for No. 1 to have a say, on Nov 15, 2008
The US spy agency’s director Michael Hayden step forward to say “bin Laden was putting a lot of energy into his own survival , In fact, he appears to be largely isolated from the day-to-day operations of the organization he nominally heads” , two days later the stage was prepared for Al-Zawahiri to deliver his “house Negro” speech welcoming Obama
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24652710-663,00.html

4) Today President Obama in a significant visit to Egypt to speak from there to the Muslim world and Al-Qaeda Media will not let it go untouchable, No. 2 Al-Zawahiri is always available and made it on time and on the subject , but this time they forget to cover No. 1 , which Aljazeera “Arabic” (much different than the English one, it’s the big mouth for Al-Qaeda) take care off by broadcasting three hours later a No. 1 audio , which the US main stream media echo and made it the headline, now it look like the two men had something to say about Obama visit and it make sense to put Bin Laden in the head line and to depend on Al-Zwahiri speech in the contant, but what they drop and can’t ignore is that “Bin Laden” didn’t mention Obama by his name ; but by “The president whom will replace Bush” the CNN inelegant, subjective coverage predicted that “Bin Laden” message recorded in early may 2009?!

US should disclose civilian safeguards

in drone attacks, says UN expert
GENEVA: A UN human rights expert on Wednesday called on the United States to disclose safeguards it has put in place to avoid civilian casualties during “deeply troubling” air attacks by remote-controlled drones.

“Targeted killings carried out by drone attacks on the territory of other states are increasingly common and remain deeply troubling,” said Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on extra-judicial killings. “The US government should disclose the legal basis for such killings and identify any safeguards designed to reduce collateral civilian casualties and ensure that the government has targeted the correct person.” Drones have been used in missile attacks in several US military operations, notably in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Remaining Razmak students recovered

PESHAWAR: The remaining students of Razmak Cadet College have been recovered, the government sources said Thursday.

The sources said all these freed hostages including 46 students and two teachers will be handed over to the jirga today.

The security and government officials said Taliban militants released to tribal elders all remaining staff and students unconditionally kidnapped three days ago.

The jirga belonging to Utmanzai and Tauri tribes reached Razmak to receive the students and teachers of Razmak Cadet College.

Notice to demolish tribal property issued over delay in cadets’ recovery

Updated at: 0500 PST,  Thursday, June 04, 2009 BANNU: The political administration of Bannu district has issued notice ordering demolishment of property of two tribes over the delay in the recovery of the kidnapped cadets of Razmak Cadet College, Geo news reported in the wee hours of Wednesday. Talking to Geo news, the assistant political agent of Bannu district Nawaz Khan has said that Jani Khel and Baka Khel tribes have been issued notices to demolish all their property including buildings homes and other materials. He said that the notices have ordered both tribes to destroy their properties on their own in the Bannu district. “FR Bannu will take action in case both tribes failed to follow orders given to them through notices”, he vowed adding, “Security forces have been deployed on different locations in the areas of both the tribes to avert any kind of resistance”.

Amnesty International Report 2009 on Pakistan Reveals the Damages Caused by English Colonialism

Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis

June 03, 2009

The ongoing battles against those labeled as “Islamists”, the extreme fanaticism of the uneducated and uncultured masses who – correctly – consider themselves as unjustly and discriminatorily targeted, persecuted and victimized by the criminally Anti-Islamic and utterly inhuman policies of Colonial England for ca. 250 years, the ceaseless, perfidious, promotion of false debates within the Pakistani society by Colonial England, and the peremptory fabrication of an impossible country named Pakistan by the colonial trickery of the English have created an explosive mixture that will certainly determine critical developments of global dimension over the years ahead.

The chances to avoid an escalation simply do not exist; the only way to avert devastating wars in South Asia is to break down the fake entities, Pakistan and India, and help create real national states instead. Genuine nation building must in this case take place, and mistreatment of minorities must end with the formation of several – small – states to replace the colonial fabrications “Pakistan” and ´India”. However, these developments would not seem plausible.

In Southern Asia, Pakistan is not the only impossible country; India and Bangladesh are also fake compositions that represent nothing. There is no reason and there is no point for which a Muslim in Calcutta and a Muslim in Dacca do not live within the same state.

All conclusions drawn, the primary outcome of two centuries of criminal English colonialism in India is this: the English arrived when the Mogul Empire controlled the largest part of India, and before they left, they managed to create through much evildoing, crime and felony an unreasonably vast and definitely unrepresentative, pseudo-secular state that ended up to be a nationalistic Hindu state of Anti-Dravidian racism and Anti-Islamic hysteria.

The only way to ensure peace in troublesome South Asia is to eliminate the ruling elite of India which is responsible for a fake democracy that takes the form of terrible social oppression of India´s outright majority, Anti-Islamic bias, and Anti-Dravidian tyranny.

Before reproaching Pakistan for Islamic extremism, one has to castigate India that triggered the development, and – more importantly – one has to break all links between England and South Asia because the postcolonial relationship and the uninterrupted English involvement in all Southern Asiatic states´ affairs are at the origin of every negative development for the myriad of nations and ethno-religious groups of India who all deserve freedom, independence, national self-determination, cultural integrity, and socioeconomic progress.

The Amnesty International Report 2009 on Pakistan reveals part of the problems, and I therefore republish it herewith.

Amnesty International Report 2009 – Pakistan

http://thereport.amnesty.org/en/regions/asia-pacific/pakistan

Portrait

Head of state: Asif Ali Zardari (replaced Pervez Musharraf in September)

Head of government: Yousuf Raza Gilani (replaced caretaker prime minister Muhammadmian Soomro in March)

Death penalty: retentionist

Population: 167 million

Life expectancy: 64.6 years

Under-5 mortality (m/f): 89/99 per 1,000

Adult literacy: 49.9 per cent

Amnesty International Report 2009 – Pakistan

A civilian government was elected in February. The new government released prisoners detained during the November 2007 state of emergency but failed to fulfil many of its promises to ensure human rights protection. Torture, deaths in custody, attacks on minorities, enforced disappearances, “honour” killings and domestic violence persisted. After the new government announced that it would commute death sentences to life imprisonment, it executed at least 16 people; at least 36 were executed throughout the year. Violence in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan spilled over into other areas of Pakistan, as members of the Pakistani Taleban took hostages, targeted and killed civilians, and committed acts of violence against women and girls.

Background

Following general elections on 18 February, a civilian government took office on 31 March. However, the ruling coalition began to split when the parties could not reach agreement on how to reinstate the judges who had been unlawfully dismissed during the state of emergency in November 2007. President Musharraf resigned in August under threat of impeachment for violation of the constitution and misconduct. On 6 September, Asif Ali Zardari, Benazir Bhutto´s widower and Pakistan People´s Party leader, was elected President.

The majority of the deposed judges resumed office after taking a new oath. The lawyers´ movement objected stating that reappointment, under a new oath, amounted to endorsing the illegal imposition of the emergency and dismissal of judges in November 2007.

Faced with an escalation of armed attacks, including suicide bombings, the new government vacillated between military operations and accommodating tribal armed groups and Pakistani Taleban. On 22 October, both houses of parliament unanimously passed a resolution urging the government to replace military operations with civilian law in border areas with Afghanistan and to initiate dialogue with Taleban who are willing to forgo violence. On 9 December, President Zardari stated that 1,400 civilians, 600 security personnel and 600 militants were killed in military operations in the border areas over the past five years.

The Afghan and US governments repeatedly called on Pakistan to destroy bases from which the Taleban launch attacks in Afghanistan. Despite strong protest from Pakistan, US forces operating in Afghanistan increasingly fired missiles across the border into Pakistan.

India-Pakistan relations deteriorated after allegations by the Indian authorities that the November Mumbai attacks had been carried out by people or groups based in Pakistan.

Excerpt:

“Some 20,000 Pakistanis crossed the border to seek refuge in Afghanistan”

Legal and constitutional developments

Despite some positive efforts, Pakistan´s new civilian government failed to fulfil many of its promises to protect human rights. In March, the government released scores of political activists detained during the state of emergency and freed judges held under illegal house arrest. In April, Pakistan ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and signed the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as well as the UN Convention against Torture. In May, the government announced that Pakistan would accede to the International Convention on the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance but it did not do so by year end.

In November, a separate Human Rights Ministry was established. On 15 October, the cabinet approved a draft bill to set up a national human rights commission but parliament did not pass it by year end.

Arbitrary arrests and detentions

Police continued holding detainees for long periods of time without bringing them before a magistrate as required by law.

In the wake of attacks in November on civilian targets in Mumbai, India, the UN Security Council imposed sanctions against the organization Jamaat-ud-Dawa and its leaders, leading to the detention of hundreds of its workers under preventive detention legislation in December.

Torture and other ill-treatment

Law enforcement and security agencies routinely used torture and other ill-treatment, including beating, prolonged standing, hanging by the ankles and rape. Several deaths in custody were reported.

Enforced disappearances

In April, Law Minister Farooq Naik promised the government would trace all people subjected to enforced disappearance. According to the government´s own figures, 1,102 people have disappeared in Balochistan province alone. In May, the government set up two committees to trace disappeared people. In June, the government stated that 43 disappeared persons had been traced in Balochistan, and had either been released or detained in an official place of detention.

Petitions relating to hundreds of cases of disappearances remained pending before the Supreme Court.

On 21 November, Human Rights Minister Mumtaz Alam Gilani announced that a new law was being prepared to facilitate the recovery of disappeared people and stated that his ministry had 567 documented cases of enforced disappearance.

On 25 November, the Senate Standing Committee on Interior reportedly acknowledged that intelligence agencies maintained “countless hidden torture cells” across the country. Despite these initiatives, new cases of enforced disappearance were reported.

Aafia Siddiqui, a neuroscientist, and her three small children were reportedly apprehended in Karachi by Pakistani intelligence in March 2003. However, according to US sources she was not apprehended until 17 July 2008 along with her 11-year-old son Mohammed Ahmed by Afghan police in Ghazni, Afghanistan. According to the US government, US officials shot her allegedly in self-defence as they took custody of her from Afghan officials on 18 July. She was transferred to a detention facility in New York, and charged with the attempted murder of US officials and employees in September, charges unrelated to the previous suggestion that she had allegedly collaborated with al-Qa´ida. Her son was returned to his family in Pakistan. US authorities repeatedly stated that her other children were not in their custody. Her fate and whereabouts between 2003 and July 2008 and that of her two younger children remained unclear. In December, a US federal court ordered further psychiatric evaluation of her competence to stand trial and postponed hearings to 23 February 2009.

On 22 September, Dr Abdur Razaq was apprehended in Rawalpindi on his return from hospital. His wife filed a habeas corpus petition in the Islamabad High Court. On 7 November, state representatives denied any knowledge of his whereabouts. On 17 December, the court´s chief justice Sardar Mohammad Aslam reportedly said that “everyone knows where the missing people are”, ordering that the doctor be brought to court forthwith. By year end, his whereabouts remained unknown. His lawyer said that the doctor may have been disappeared for treating “terrorists”.

Violations in the course of counter- insurgency

Pakistani security forces deployed in the tribal areas bordering Pakistan and adjacent areas of the North West Frontier Province (Swat) killed and injured civilians during operations against tribal armed groups and Pakistani Taleban.

On 19 October during an operation against Pakistani and foreign fighters, fighter jets bombed a village in Swat. Local residents reported that 47 people, including many civilians, were killed.

The government´s operations displaced hundreds of thousands of people. Many internally displaced persons remained without access to humanitarian assistance or adequate protection by the government. Some 20,000 Pakistanis crossed the border to seek refuge in Afghanistan.

Abuses by armed groups

Armed groups, many of them explicitly pro-Taleban, committed serious human rights abuses, including direct attacks on civilians, indiscriminate attacks, abduction, hostage-taking, torture and other ill-treatment, and killing captives.

In October, a Taleban suicide bomber killed more than 80 unarmed civilians and wounded almost 100 at a peace council in Orakzai Agency who were drawing up a strategy to decrease violence in the area.

Pakistani Taleban took dozens of hostages including an Afghan and an Iranian diplomat, a Pakistani and a Canadian journalist, and a Polish engineer. The Afghan diplomat was later released but the others remained missing.

In September, the Swat chapter of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (the Pakistani Taleban) took several foreigners hostage to force the release of their 136 jailed associates.

Local Taleban unlawfully assumed judicial functions and “tried” and “convicted” people they accused of having transgressed Islamic law or spying for the government. Dozens of people were unlawfully killed after such “trials”.

On 27 June, two Afghans were unlawfully killed in front of thousands of onlookers in Bajaur Agency after a council found them guilty of “spying” for US forces.

Violence against women and girls

Women and girls suffered human rights violations at the hands of the state and, in the absence of appropriate government action, in the community, including “honour” killings, forced marriages, rape and domestic violence. The Protection from Harassment at the Workplace Bill, approved by the cabinet in November, and the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Bill, submitted to the Ministry of Women Development in August, remained pending.

On 13 July, a girl, aged 16, and two women, aged 18 and 20, were reportedly abducted and taken in a car bearing a government number plate to Babakot, Jaffarabad district, Balochistan province, where they were killed apparently for wanting to marry men of their choice. A post-mortem examination revealed that two of the young women had died of head injuries inflicted with a blunt weapon. The third body was not found. A Baloch senator defended the killing as “tribal custom”; locally influential figures reportedly hampered the police investigation.

Girls were also handed over in marriage to settle disputes.

In October, three girls aged between 12 and 14 years, were forced into marriage by a jirga (informal tribal council) in Drighpur, Shikarpur district, Sindh province, to settle a dispute over an “honour” killing which had taken place two months earlier. No one was arrested.

Threats by Pakistani Taleban prevented thousands of women from voting in the February elections.

Discrimination – religious minorities

The government failed to adequately protect religious minorities against widespread discrimination, harassment and targeted violence.

In September, two Ahmadi men, Abdul Manan Siddiqui, a doctor from Mirpurkhas, Sindh, and a 75-year-old trader, Sheikh Mohammad Yousaf from Nawabshah, Sindh, were shot dead by unknown persons days after a private TV channel had aired a contributor´s call to kill apostates and blasphemers as a religious duty. No investigation was known to have been initiated.

Seventy-six people were charged with blasphemy in 25 registered cases, including 17 people charged under section 295C Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) which carries the death sentence for insulting the name of the prophet Muhammad.

In June, 16 Ahmadis were charged with blasphemy in Nankana Sadar, Punjab, for allegedly taking down a poster that negatively depicted their religious leader.

Children´s rights

Recruitment of children by armed groups, trafficking of children, domestic violence against children, in particular girls, continued. According to the NGO Sahil, 992 children, 304 boys and 688 girls, were subjected to sexual abuse between January and June.

In July, authorities in Swat discovered Pakistani Taleban had recruited 26 boys aged between 13 and 18 for training.

Death penalty

At least 236 people were reportedly sentenced to death, mostly for murder. The total number of prisoners under sentence of death was at least 7,000.

On 21 June, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani announced that death sentences would be commuted to life imprisonment. However, President Zardari issued an ordinance in November that extended the death penalty to cyber crimes causing death.

At least 36 people were executed during the year, including 16 after the commutation announcement.

In December, Pakistan voted against a UN General Assembly resolution calling for a worldwide moratorium on executions.

Note

Picture: Zainab Khatoon, the mother of missing Faisal Faraz, with his children, Islamabad, 1 October 2006.

Land Grab: Settler Stephen Harper’s Mohawk ‘Palestinians’

Written by Mohawk News Network

Tuesday, 02 June 2009 05:27

CANADA KIDNAPS THE MOHAWKS – Bogus guns-at-the-border issue
by MNN

Bully Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, is trying to start an argument with the Mohawks to bring in paramilitary forces at Akwesasne.  On May 26, 2009 he signed into law the Shiprider Agreement, a cross border law between Canada and U.S.  The effect is those who stand up for their rights or criticize Canada are terrorists and the government can sue them and seize all their property.

This is meant for us.

A few years ago a plan was hatched.  Prime Minister Harper was friendly with the American real estate people in New York City.  They wanted him to change the laws so that Indigenous territories in Canada can be seized by outside interests for non-payment of false fines and criminal convictions.

Their interest is primarily in Iroquois territories in southern Quebec and southern Ontario.  They also wanted to seize Indigenous property and resources in Alberta and elsewhere.  A campaign to discredit us was started.

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A huge article appeared in the New York Times about us being terrorists.  Then the Center for Public Integrity of Washington DC published a series of 12 untruthful articles in the Montreal Gazette that hooked us up with bikers and other gangs.

Harper announced it on Sunday, May 31st, in Toronto to the Canadian Jewish Congress.  Opposition leader, Michael Ignatief, and many real estate promoters were there.  It was another piece of the puzzle being fitted together.  He will remove the protection so that his US friends and their Canadian partners can grab billions of dollars of prime Indigenous territories in urban Ontario and Quebec.  In exchange they will deliver Ontario to his party in the next election.

A Mohawk Band Council Resolution forbids guns at the border.  Peter Van Loan, Minister of Public Safety, said the guns are going to be given to the border guards.  So far they have not.

The border was shut down by the Cornwall city cops and NYS police, not the Mohawks.  We can’t drive on or off the Island.  If we do, we can’t go home.   Grandmothers, grandfathers and children have been branded as terrorists to force us to submit to their demands.

Who’s really behind this?  Are they foreign elements who have taken power over the military, para military and peacekeeping forces in Canada?

It seems decisions are being made by some secret entity with a totalitarian agenda.  Could it be the international banksters and multinational corporatists?

Why is a standoff being created between Canada and the U.S. with us in the middle?  Is there a rift between two long time allies, or is something else really going on?

It’s beginning to look more like a police state situation where more are going to be uniformed, carrying guns and deadly tasers.  Everyone coming from the US is going to be facing an armed guard at the border.  The U.S. citizens might think they are surrounded by enemies.  The police control the politicians in Canada and the US.   They are dictating their need for weapons.  Their hidden agenda is to transform these two colonies on Great Turtle Island into police states.

The US has always been worried that Canada was going to become an enemy and vice versa.  That’s why Fort Drum Army Base was put 40 miles south of the Canadian border with 90,000 soldiers ready to march in.  The Canadian police agencies have been undermined by somebody.  What about the Northcom Agreement which is integrating all policing in US and Canada?   They want to contain people and to stop freedom of travel.

There is no safety issue.  Terrorists will not come through the US to Canada.   The US is not threatening Canada.  In Akwesasne there are around 20 policing agencies.  There is no danger whatsoever.

Throughout history the Mohawks have always been the peace makers between all the competing parties.  We do not become involved in these conflicts between greedy colonial powers that are fighting for control of the world.  We learned how to be peacemakers from Dekanawida.

Peter Van Loan said, “It’s no use for the Mohawks to resist”.  A whole community being held hostage for being “Indian” hasn’t happened for a while.  In 1990 three Mohawk communities were surrounded for 78 days by the army.  This might go on indefinitely.  We are patient and always willing to talk.

514-269-1400.  Contact Chief Nona Benedict 613-551-5421 613-938-8145 nbenedict@akwesasne.ca, go to http://www.akwesasne.ca.  Chief Wesley Benedict 613-551-2573; Larry King 613-551-1930; Chief Joe Lazore 613-551-5292.

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