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Human Rights Watch urges Israel to grant Palestinian
residency rights
Associated press/haaretz.com: 05.02.12: Israeli government says in response that it has granted residency to tens of
thousands of Palestinians over the years, and accuses HRW of anti-Israel bias.
An international human rights group has urged Israel to lift what it says are arbitrary restrictions on Palestinian residency
in the West Bank and Gaza.The New York-based group Human Rights Watch said in a 90-page report released Sunday that
such restrictions have denied thousands of Palestinians living outside the territories the ability to live in them, or to travel
to and from them.Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War, and has since then
maintained final say over who is a legal resident in those areas.Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev responded to
the report by saying Israel has granted tens of thousands of Palestinians residency over the years, and accused Human
Rights Watch of anti-Israel bias.
The Human Rights Watch recently released its annual report, in late January, citing serious violations in Israel and the
Palestinian territories ongoing in 2011. It listed Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, ongoing settlement expansion in the
West Bank and home demolitions in East Jerusalem. But it also noted Palestinian rocket and mortar fire from Gaza at
southern Israeli population centers, and condemned Hamas, the radical Islamist movement ruling Gaza, for carrying out
three judicial executions, and for allegedly torturing scores of Palestinian detainees, some of whom died.The Palestinian
Authority was criticized for its part in arbitrarily detaining hundreds of Hamas supporters.
Israel has eased the entry of goods into Gaza, but continued to block exports, hindering the rebuilding of the coastal
enclave's devastated economy. Construction materials are still barred because Israel says they can be used by militants
and Gaza still had an estimated shortage of some 250 schools and 100,000 homes.In the West Bank and East Jerusalem,
Israel had demolished (by November 1) some 467 Palestinian homes and other buildings, displacing 869 people, the
highest number in five years, the report said."Israel usually carries out demolitions on the grounds that the structures
were built without permits, but in practice such permits are almost impossible for Palestinians to obtain in Israelicontrolled
areas," read the report.
The report also sharply criticized Israel for detaining 164 Palestinian minors. It also mentioned settler violence and
vandalism and what it said was lack of action by Israeli authorities against it. The United Nations reported 377 attacks by
settlers last year that damaged Palestinian property, including almost 10,000 olive trees.The annual report also mentioned
new legislation passed by the Israeli parliament, including one law making "calls for boycotts of Israeli settlements" as a
civil offense, and another which "penalizes cultural, academic, or other institutions or municipalities that commemorate
the Nakba (catastrophe)" - the Palestinian term for the dispersal of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians as refugees in
the 1948-49 war that broke out after Israel was established. ===========================
And when World Zionist Congress Oligarchy would order the Anglo-Amrerican rulers to say:
“ ISRAEL, THE ONLY DEMOCRACY IN A SEA OF DICTATORSHIP, A MEMBER OF THE UNO WHOSE
SECURITY IS OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE IS RIGHT TO CRITICISE THE HRW FOR SHOWING
ITS BIAS AGAINST ISRAEL”.
Canada, Australia and EU would line up as usual and repeat the same ‘mantra’ parrot fashion to silence the
critics. And this tactic has been continuing for the last 63 odd years! -Omar Abdur Rahman: Dohaa
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UFree Network | Media Centre .media@ufree-p.net .www.UFree-p.net
UFree is an independent European-wide human rights network; set up to defend the rights of Palestinian
prisoners and detainees
International strategy for Palestinian prisoners needed
By Joe Catron
Political prisoners, their families, and their concerns and causes enjoy massive support in Palestinian society. Palestinians
who may have never joined a boycott campaign or acted to break the siege of Gaza routinely demonstrate for the rights of
detainees and contribute to support their families. Among political factions, the liberation of all prisoners is a clear point of
consensus. Competing parties demand and celebrate the return of each others’ imprisoned members as a matter of
course.Political Prisoner Ameer Makhoul argues that the PLO’s official position on prisoners is, “a recipe for delaying and
deferring the liberation of the prisoners indefinitely.”In addition, he says that, “marginalizing the issue within the overall
Palestinian agenda” fails to reflect this overwhelming sentiment.Unfortunately, the same can be said of the global
movement in solidarity with Palestinians and their struggle. Too often, it has treated a concern at the forefront of the
Palestinian movement as an inconsequential afterthought, when it has mentioned it all.
Huge mobilizations by detainees, like the October hunger strike that, at its peak, included 3,000 people (and galvanized
Palestinian society in support), received only a minimal amount of responses from overseas. Also, the daily struggles of
individual prisoners, like the current hunger strike of administrative detainee Khader Adnan, barely elicit any notice.Why
does this matter? Aside from a basic principle of solidarity – backing the priorities of the people we support – these
prisoners remind us, and the world, of “the Palestinians’ right, and duty, to resist occupation, colonization and
displacement employing all means of struggle,” in Makhoul’s words.Their perseverance, inside and outside prison walls,
testifies to the fact that Palestine needs neither our charity nor our sympathy, but rather deserves our solidarity as it
struggles to free itself.
The “internationalization” of prisoner support Makhoul advocates could renew the solidarity movement’s focus on this
Palestinian agency. While Israel’s apartheid system includes too many shocking injustices to count, the prisoners are also
an electrifying and radicalizing force, whose very existence defies attempts to depoliticize their struggle or reduce it to a
humanitarian concern. A mobilized, energized and expanded worldwide solidarity movement would also offer muchneeded
political backing to them, and the families and communities that regularly mobilize for them. Many organizations,
both Palestinian and international, work to educate a global audience about these issues. Addameer, the Campaign to Free
Ahmad Saadat, Defence for Children International, the International Campaign for Releasing the Abducted Members of
Parliament, Samidoun, Sumoud, and the UFree Network, as well as media like the Electronic Intifada and the Middle East
Monitor, generate tremendous amounts of high-quality information. But while information is a necessary prerequisite, it is
ultimately from mobilization that public awareness, as well as political change, emerges.
Putting information to use – building a global campaign to free Palestinian prisoners – will require a strategy to build these
organizations and expand their activities, while also engaging broader solidarity networks. Makhoul proposes a National
Coordinating Committee, akin to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) National Committee, to oversee these
efforts. In the meantime, international solidarity activists can and should respond to the current “steadfastness, defiance
and struggle” of Palestine and its prisoners.Recurring popular mobilizations, like Palestinian Prisoners’ Day (April 17) and
Gaza’s weekly occupation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), could be replicated, on similar or more
modest scales, in cities from New York to Islamabad. (Of course Gaza lacks explicitly Zionist institutions, which might
prove to be more opportune targets elsewhere.) Rapid response networks could answer detentions, repression, and
resistance by protesting Israeli Embassies, consulates, and missions, as well as foreign governments and international
organizations collaborating with Israel.
The prisoners’ struggle can also invigorate existing campaigns. It overlaps neatly with the three demands of the BDS
movement: An end to occupation and colonization (including detentions), full equality for Arab and Palestinian citizens (in
judicial and correctional matters as well as all others), and the right of return for Palestinian refugees (like those expelled
from their homes following release from prison). BDS organizers have pursued prison profiteers like G4S, JC Bamford
Excavators, the Israeli Medical Association, and the Volvo Group. Anti-siege efforts like the Free Gaza Movement and Viva
Palestinia, too, could highlight Israel’s prison apparatus as an essential part of the system of militarized apartheid they
oppose – and one explicitly intended to crush legitimate resistance.
Being proactive should be the core principle on every front. Many solidarity activists have complained of the
disproportionate media attention lavished on Gilad Shalit and his family, but few have taken the time to investigate the
global networks built to support them, or to learn the many lessons they have to offer. Giving Palestinian prisoners
meaningful solidarity will ultimately require a similar movement focused on making their lives and struggles unavoidable
topics of any informed conversation on Palestine.The Israeli government oversees the world’s most militarized society,
and one that cannot sustain itself without massive, ongoing repression, from its border walls to its isolation units. The
prisoners illuminate the ugly face of this 21st-century apartheid, while offering a glimpse of the decolonized society that
will inevitably replace it. Their struggles stand at the core of the broader movement for a free Palestine. All of us who join
their struggle should acknowledge their leadership, appreciate their sacrifice, and offer them our full support. http://ufreep.
net/Details.aspx?Type_ID=1&Rotator_ID=111 dated, 06.02.12
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Pak Muslims urged to shun blasphemous Facebook in favour of Millat alternative
Pakistan News.Net.Monday 6th February, 2012 (ANI) .Intellectuals and scholars have urged Muslims to use Millat
Facebook, a Muslims alternative to the US Facebook, saying they should boycott products of the countries and
organizations involved in blasphemy of the Holy Prophet (SAW). Muslim leaders at a round table conference have claimed
that the social networking website, Facebook, which had been adamant on hosting a blasphemous page in the name of
freedom of speech, was callously ignoring the annoyance of the whole Muslim world, The News reports. Speaking at the
conference "Blasphemy by Facebook and the Role of Muslim Youth on Social Media", hosted by owners of Millat
Facebook, a Muslim alternative to the US Facebook at Hamdard center on Saturday, the speakers slammed the country's
pseudo intellectuals and TV analysts who, they said, had been following the footsteps of Facebook by advocating the
abolishment or amendment to the country's Blasphemy laws.
Millat Facebook owners told the participants that their website had received huge success soon after it was launched in
May 2010 in response to the deliberate blasphemy of the Prophet of Islam (SAW) as Muslim masses across the globe had
joined it in large numbers. However, it had been suffering the hostilities from the authorities in the US, Europe and
Pakistan, which had created hurdles in its functioning by closing its hosting or denying it any place on the world wide web.
Umar Mir, the CEO of MFB, said unnamed US officials had forced its closure within few months by threatening the hosts in
the US and Europe. What was more hurting was that Pakistan's national ISP, the PTCL had not only refused to host the site
for unknown reasons, but also refused to give their denial in writing, he added. He further alleged that several Jewish and
Christian groups had made organized attacks to hack MFB for which they had invited all of their likeminded people from all
over the world by posting appeals and invitations on the internet calling to block "Muslims' alternative to FB" on different
agreed upon dates. However, the MFB team had thwarted their malicious designs. (ANI)
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Over Rs 8,500 bn corruption has taken place during Gilani's tenure: Transparency
Pakistan has lost over 8,500 billion rupees in corruption, tax
evasion and bad governance during the last four years of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's tenure, Transparency
International Pakistan (TIP) has claimed. The News quoted TIP advisor Adil Gillani as saying that the real impact of
corruption in the country's economy is far more than what is estimated. He believes Pakistan could become self-dependent
in terms of money if it effectively checks corruption and ensures good governance. It is believed that the four years of the
present regime under Gilani had been the worst in terms of corruption and bad governance in the country's history. Past
records of corruption were broken and Pakistan started rising in the ranks of the most corrupt nations of the world.
There has been no check on corruption as the anti-corruption institutions like the National Accountability Bureau and the
Federal Investigation Agency (FBI) have reportedly been favouring the corrupt, instead of dealing with corruption. TIP
representative Gilani, who too has been targeted by the government for producing reports on corruption, explained that
the TIP pointed out corruption of 390 billion rupees in 2008, 450 billion rupees in 2009, 825 billion rupees in 2010 and 1,100
billion rupees in 2011 under the present regime. The total of these identified cases of corruption is 2,765 billion rupees. In
addition, he claimed that Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Sheikh had confirmed corruption in the FBR of over 500 billon
rupees per year. The Auditor General of Pakistan pointed out 315 billion rupees corruption in 2010, while the Public
Accounts Committee said it had recovered 115 billion rupees in 30 months till 2011.
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Jew York New York Facebook billionaire Jew boy Mark Zuckerman calls himself a “hacker”
www.Geo Tv News:06.l02.12:For most people, that word means something malicious — shady criminals who listen in on private
voicemails, or anonymous villains who cripple websites and break into email accounts.For Facebook, though, "hacker" means
something different. It's an ideal that permeates the company's culture. It
explains the push to try new ideas (even if they fail), and to promote new
products quickly (even if they're imperfect). The hacker approach has made
Facebook one of the world's most valuable Internet companies.Hackers
"believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever
complete," Zuckerberg explains. "They just have to go fix it — often in the
face of people who say it's Zuckerberg penned those words in a 479-word
essay called "The Hacker Way", which he included in the document the
company filed with government regulators about its plans for an initial
public offering. The company is seeking $5 billion from investors in a deal
that could value Facebook at as much as $100 billion.The 27-year-old, who
has a $28.4 billion stake in the stock deal, uses the H-word 12 times in the
essay; "shareholder" appears just once. Should Zuckerberg have left those
references out of his IPO manifesto, knowing full-well it could scare off
potential investors? He could easily have described Facebook as "nimble"
or "agile" instead.
"Symbolically, it doesn't bode well to Facebook and to potential investors," says Robert D'Ovidio, an associate professor of criminal
justice at Drexel University in Philadelphia who studies computer crime. "I think it shows maybe an immaturity on his part. He should
definitely know better."By using the word, Zuckerberg is also trying to reclaim it. To him, Steve Jobs and the founders of many of the
world's biggest technology companies were hackers."The word 'hacker' has an unfairly negative connotation from being portrayed in
the media as people who break into computers," Zuckerberg writes. "In reality, hacking just means building something quickly or
testing the boundaries of what can be done."====================================
Facebook unsafe for kids?
www.Ynet news/Israel News:06.02.12:Education Ministry urges parents to forbid children under 13 from
using social networks
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AND YET THE WORLD ZIONIST CONGRESS OLIGARCHY CONTROLLED YANKEE WAR
CRIMINALS HAVE THE AUDACITY TO ENQIRE, “ WHY THE WORLD HATES US”?
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US Drone Strikes Destabilize Pakistan
Fred Branfman: US policy should be to help develop Pakistan
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Fred Branfman is an American anti-war activist and author of a number of books about the Indochina War. Once working
as the Director of Project Air War in 1969, he wrote about the U.S. bombing in Indochina. He also worked as a policy
advisor for former California governors Jerry Brown, Gary Hart and Tom Hayden. He currently writes for TrulyALive.org, a
web based community about death awareness. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post,
Harper's and the New Republic.
Transcript
PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Washington.
In the early 1970s, Fred Branfman, a journalist, exposed the American secret war in Laos. His articles appeared in The New
York Times, The Washington Post, Harpers, The New Republic. He's now been writing recently on U.S. policy towards
Pakistan in places like Salon and Truthdig and AlterNet. And he now joins us from Santa Barbara to discuss U.S. policy
towards Pakistan. Thanks for joining us, Fred.
FRED BRANFMAN, JOURNALIST: Thank you.
JAY: So, Fred, when President Obama, near the beginning of his presidency, and whenever he would talk about his grand
strategy for solving the Afghan War, it all was based on better relations with Pakistan, a civilian surge in Afghanistan, but
also in Pakistan, where more focus would be put on bettering peoples lives in the border areas with Afghanistan. It was
also about developing more friendship between Pakistan and India and engaging Pakistan in solving the Afghan crisis.
How's that working for him?
BRANFMAN: It's proven a disaster. President Obama is more hated in Pakistan than was President Bush. Right now the
Pew poll shows that 69 percent of the people in Pakistan regard us as their enemy primarily because President Obama has
quadrupled or quintupled the drone strikes and has also been pushing the Pakistani army to take on more offensives. And
this has made us hated in Pakistan.
JAY: And of course there was the recent incident of the Pakistani soldiers that were killed by American aircraft and a very
profound deterioration of the relations. What is happening recently in terms of this?
Well, the fundamental problem is that these drone strikes have alienated the population of Pakistan, as I said.
And according to the Long War Journal, which is a right-wing operation very close to the Pentagon, we've only killed 68 al-
Qaeda and Taliban leaders who we can name out of the 2,400 people we've killed there through our drone strikes, which
means that only 97 percent of the people we've killed with the drone strikes we cannot name. The drone operators refer to
them as squirters. In return for killing only 68 senior al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders, who of course can be easily replaced
out of a population of 27 million Pashtuns in Pakistan alone, often with more competent leaders, we've managed to alienate
the population of Pakistan, as I mentioned, which ambassador Anne Patterson, our former U.S. ambassador, gave as the
main reason why the Pakistani government is refusing to cooperate with us on either nuclear proliferation or safeguarding
their nuclear materials. Their nuclear stockpile is the world's fastest-growing and the least secure, according to the
Harvard Belfer Center and former U.S. Senators Sam Nunn's nuclear threat initiative. And Patterson specifically said that
she's very worried that nuclear materials could fall into the hands of terrorists. But because of the drone strikes, because
of our killing Pakistani citizens, the government is refusing to cooperate with us. Not only that, but as a result of our drone
strikes, we are destabilizing the government of Pakistan to the point where The New York Times has speculated that it
could be a military coup by anti-U.S. junior military officers in Pakistan, which, as I mentioned, has nuclear weapons. We're
so worried about Iran someday requiring nuclear weapons, but in Pakistan we're running the risk that people who hate us
could take over the government there. Thirdly, as a result of our drone strikes, our enemies are actually increasing in
number. The Pakistan Taliban is not only four to five times larger, but the Pakistani intelligence agency about a year ago
issued a report saying that there were bigger threat to Pakistan than ever. And, of course, as a result of our alienating the
people of Pakistan, they are slowing down our ability to supply our troops in Afghanistan. This is a major strategic
catastrophe on the order of our support of the Shah of Iran. So to sum it up, on the one hand, we justify killing several
thousand people in Pakistan with our drones, with our ground assassinations, with our troops, on the grounds of national
security. But the truth is that the people running our foreign-policy—I would include president Obama, Hillary Clinton, our
Secretary of State—have no idea what they are doing. They are actually harming U.S. national security. They are
exponentially increasing the numbers of people who want to kill Americans. They're destabilizing the critical country
Pakistan. And they're making cooperation on Afghanistan or securing nuclear weapons or anything else impossible.
JAY: Now, Pakistan's hands aren't completely clean in all of this—I should say the Pakistan military, which is pretty close
to a military dictatorship with a civilian cover, anyway. But the accusations that have been made that Pakistan's think I've
doubled in here, which is, you know, to some extent cooperating with the U.S. On the other hand, the Taliban historically
was a tool of the ISI in Afghanistan, and as many people think, still part of the strategy of Pakistan to maintain its influence
in Afghanistan. But I guess if your starting point is you've got to have U.S. troops in Afghanistan, you're left with a bunch
of lousy choices. I guess the real question is: was the U.S. doing in Afghanistan now?
BRANFMAN: Exactly. Sen. John Kerry, the head of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, properly called
Afghanistan a sideshow. And what we are allowing—Afghanistan has only 30 million people. Pakistan has 180 million
people. Afghanistan has no nuclear weapons. Pakistan has many nuclear weapons. What we are allowing is the Afghan tail
to run with the Pakistani dog. And our priorities are exactly opposite. We should never—we should have pulled out of
Afghanistan long ago if we want to wage our war in Afghanistan. We certainly should not have extended it into Pakistan.
And the main architect of that policy was General Petraeus, who is still enjoying a lot of credit in the U.S. because of the
perceived success of his Iraqi surge. What is not—has been discussed is that he's been a catastrophe as a military
commander in both Pakistan and Afghanistan. And the basic problem of our foreign policy today is that those running it—
and, by the way, as bad as the Democrats are, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney would make it even worse. They want to—
news has already said he would appoint John Bolton as Secretary of State, who has been fomenting war against Iran and
certainly wants to expand what we are doing in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as result of this policy, we are far weaker. Much
more likely that there's going to be the more 9/11s in the U.S. over the next decade because of the irrationality of the United
States government taking on the entire Muslim world. Basically we not only extended these drone strikes into Afghanistan,
but we are now conducting them in Yemen and Somalia. We have the first time in our history a team of 75,000 U.S.
assassins, called the Joint Special Operations Command, who are operating in 75 countries, conducting illegal and
criminal assassinations, and all of this is making us less secure.
JAY: How do we know those numbers to be true?
BRANFMAN: Well, it's been reported in The Wall Street Journal. It's been reported in The Guardian. It's been widely
reported that there are 75,000 members of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command. And you'll remember that when we
killed Osama bin Laden, it was these people, the Joint Special Operations Command, that conducted the assassination.
And a New Yorker story about two months later, discussing the operation, a senior U.S. Defense Department official said,
you got to understand, the Osama bin Laden assassination attracted a great deal of publicity, but we killed over 2,000
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people, we've assassinated over 2,000 people with the Joint Special Operations Command. The quote was, "it's like
mowing the lawn", unquote.
JAY: So briefly, what should U.S. policy be toward Pakistan?
BRANFMAN: Very simple. Prime Minister Gillani has said that his top priority for his country is extending the grid to give
electricity to every Pakistani. Most Pakistanis to this date do not have electricity in the rural areas. We should stop our
drone strikes immediately. We should stop our incursions into Pakistani territory, and we should make a major focus on
extending the electric grid and other key infrastructure investments. If sixty-nine percent of the Pakistani people regard us
as their friend instead of their enemy, then their government would be able to cooperate with us on safeguarding their
nuclear materials, and they would also be much more willing to help us go after al-Qaeda and other terrorists who are
generally threatening the United States.
JAY: Thanks for joining us.
BRANFMAN: My pleasure.
JAY: And thank you for joining us on The Real News Network.
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Report: Top Iran military official aiding Assad's crackdown on Syria opposition
Prominent Syrian lawmaker says the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's elite Quds Force has
recently arrived in the country to help manage Assad's regime brutal suppression of a 11-month-long popular
unrest. www.haaretz.com:06.02.12==============
Abdal Karim el Ansari, an Iran-watcher said, But the “Report” has not disclosed if Al Qaida or Taliban were
also helping the Syrian regime. Also the “Report” did not say via which country “ELITE QUDS FORCE”
entered Syria. Or they went by air or warship?
Would USA,Uk,France, Germany, Canada, Australia & EU follow Netanyahu?
Unity among the Palestinians, Arabs & Muslims is not helpful for Israel’s
security or world peace!!
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Israel condemns Palestinian reconciliation deal
Mahmoud Abbas to head Palestinian unity government
6 February 2012 / AP. /MNA/Todays zaman.com/Press TV/www.haaretz.com JERUSALEM
Israel's prime minister says it will be impossible to hold peace talks if the Palestinians go through with a new reconciliation
deal. He says Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has chosen to "abandon the way of peace" by reaching a powersharing
deal with the Hamas militant group.Israel and the Palestinians last month held their first peace talks in more than a
year. Without any breakthroughs, Abbas has not decided whether to continue those talks.Israel considers Hamas a
terrorist group. In a statement Monday, Netanyahu said: "It is either peace with Hamas or peace with Israel. You can't have
them both."
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He also noted that statistics about immigrants in the country were being changed to present a negative picture of them. A
former Daily Star journalist has repeated accusations that a number of British daily newspapers put pressure on
journalists to fabricate anti-Muslim stories.Richard Peppiatt, who worked as a full-time freelance journalist at the Daily Star
for two years, claimed that editors forced journalists to fabricate news that suggested Muslims and immigrants were
threatening national security. He said the fabricated stories were mainly related to Muslims, depicting them as a threat to
British society. The defamatory stories became more widespread after the bombings in London on June 7, 2005 -- often
referred to as 7/7 -- and the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the United States.
“Especially since 7/7 and, to a degree, since 9/11, Muslims have certainly been painted as the ‘cartoon baddy.' Definitely in
the tabloids. Someone always has to be blamed, you can't just leave it up in the air when something happens; somebody
always needs to take the blame. Sadly it's the Muslims that have been chosen to be portrayed as the ‘baddies',” he told
Cihan in a phone interview.Peppiatt noted that it was not possible for Muslims to take action against the publication of
derogatory articles because it is only possible for an individual who has been mentioned by name to make a complaint to
the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), the regulatory body for UK magazines and newspapers. However, if a group or a
religion is targeted it is difficult to file a complaint.
“It was therefore challenging for Muslims to complain as there was no one individual being affected by the articles.
However, it clearly does affect individuals as it affects the way people behave towards each other in society. I certainly
came to understand that what we print in the media has a direct effect on the lives of individuals; this can lead to violence
on the streets, based on what we write,” Peppiatt told Cihan.He also noted that statistics about immigrants in the country
were being changed to present a negative picture of them.“[There was fabrication in the Daily Star] regarding the number
of jobs immigrants are taking and the numbers arriving in Britain. It is in stories about that where the statistics were decontextualized
and sensationalized to make the scenario look much worse than it actually it is.
They will mention how many come and not how many have left. There have been cases in which there has been a net drop
in immigration figures, but that was never mentioned as it did not fit the narrative of painting immigrants in a bad light.
There was no fair perspective and no consideration that immigrants are trying to get a better life. This was done on
purpose, as the editors wanted to present a negative perspective on immigration,” he said.Peppiatt made his first
confessions on the issue last November when he spoke to the Leveson Inquiry, chaired by Lord Justice Leveson at the
Royal Courts of Justice in London, which is currently looking at the culture, practices and ethics of the British press in
general. The inquiry was launched following the News International phone hacking scandal.
“…This naturally led to fabrication in order to fulfill an unrealistic quota. Much more insidious was when this same
philosophy was applied to stories involving Muslims and immigrants, when yet again a top down pressure to unearth
stories which fitted within a certain narrative (immigrants are taking over, Muslims are a threat to security) led to casual
and systemic distortions. In short, ethical concerns were always subservient to financial ones,” Peppiatt told the Leveson
Inquiry.Regarding the reasons why he made the confessions, Peppiatt told Cihan that for a long time he had not been
happy about the stories he was asked to write. “The only way to combat what the sensationalists were writing was to be
sensationalist myself, to embarrass them publically. Leaving quietly would not have made a difference. It was a gamble
that may have embarrassed them into changing their behavior a little bit,” he added.: Cihan/www.world Bulletin:06.02.12
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British judge orders release on bail of radical cleric An image released by the SITE Intelligence Group in 2009 shows Abu Qatada al-
Filistini (the Palestinian), a jihadist ideologue. A British judge on Monday ordered the
release on bail within days of the radical cleric, described as a one-time aide of Al-
Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, despite concerns he poses a security risk.A British
judge on Monday ordered the release on bail of radical cleric Abu Qatada, allegedly a
former top aide of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, despite government concerns he
poses a security risk. The interior ministry condemned the decision, saying the 51-
year-old is "a dangerous man who we believe poses a real threat to our security and
who has not changed in his views or attitude to the UK."Britain has been trying to
deport Qatada to Jordan for the past six years but its efforts were blocked last month
by the European Court of Human Rights, which said evidence against him may have
been obtained through torture.Following the European ruling, Qatada applied to the
Special Immigration Appeals Commission in Britain to be released from the highsecurity
Long Lartin jail in Worcestershire, central England.
Lawyer Ed Fitzgerald told the commission that Qatada's detention for six and a half
years while fighting deportation "has now gone on for too long to be reasonable or
lawful"."However the risk of absconding, however the risk of further offending, there comes a point when it's just too
long."But Keith Vaz, a lawmaker who chairs parliament's Home Affairs Select Committee, said most people would be
"astonished by this decision considering Abu Qatada is wanted on terrorism charges in eight countries"."The only way to
avoid the situation occurring again is a fast-tracked system in the UK and EU courts so that those who pose a threat to the
British public are deported as swiftly as possible."Judge John Mitting ruled that Qatada should be set free under "highly
prescriptive terms" for the next three months.
After that the judge indicated he may release Qatada altogether unless the government had made progress in trying to
deport him. "The time will arrive quite soon when continuing detention or deprivation of liberty could not be justified,"
Mitting said. Qatada, a Jordanian of Palestinian origin who is also known as Omar Mohammed Othman, was once labelled
bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe by a Spanish judge.The father-of-five, who arrived in Britain in 1993 claiming asylum,
has been in and out of prison for the past decade and has thwarted numerous attempts by the authorities in London to
deport him.The cleric has been convicted in his absence in Jordan of involvement in two attacks and Amman has
repeatedly urged London to extradite him.
The European court said however that it "finds that there is a real risk that the applicant's retrial would amount to a flagrant
denial of justice" -- a violation of Article 6 of the Convention on Human Rights.Interior minister Theresa May is now
seeking assurances from Jordan that evidence gained through torture would not be used against Qatada.A spokesman for
the interior ministry, known as the Home Office in Britain, added: "This is not the end of the road and we are continuing to
consider our legal options in response to the European Court's ruling."The judge said it would take "between a few days
and about a week" for Britain's domestic intelligence service MI5 to check Qatada's proposed bail address, which was not
revealed in court, before he could be released.The cleric will subsequently be under a 22-hour curfew, prohibited from
using the Internet or any electronic communications and he will be electronically monitored.His visitors and movements
will also be restricted.
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Empire strikes back [Opinion]
By-Munir Akram : http//www.dawn.com/2012/02/05/empire-strikes-back.html
February 5, 2012 (2 days ago)IN the current US presidential election campaign, President Obama has been accused by his
Republican rivals of being “weak” on foreign policy and presiding over America’s decline.Empirical evidence indicates that
Obama is more of a warrior than a wimp. The Obama administration has pursued a tough external policy seeking to
reassert US interests simultaneously on several fronts.Obama has sought to contain China’s growing economic and
political power energetically. He warned that China’s military modernisation posed a threat to Asia; declared that the US
will remain a Pacific power; and secured American involvement in China’s maritime disputes with Southeast Asian states.
Australia recently accepted the stationing of US troops on its territory.
The Philippines is reportedly discussing the revival of US naval bases. India continues to be courted by Washington
through all manner of incentives, including support for its quest for permanent membership of the Security Council.Today,
around its periphery, China can count only two friends —Pakistan and North Korea. Myanmar dropped out of China’s circle
into the western camp two months ago. Pakistan is under intense pressure to align itself with US strategic priorities.North
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Korea, in the midst of a delicate transition, remains under Security Council sanctions.The US (and Israeli) moves against
Iran are even more open and forceful: Security Council sanctions, electronic and political disruption of its nuclear
programme, military and political support to Arab adversaries across the Gulf, progressive exclusion from the international
banking system, an impending European oil embargo.
Tehran has accused the US and Israel of fomenting subversion in Iranian Baluchistan and assassinating several of its
nuclear scientists. The Israelis openly debate the option of military strikes against the ‘existential’ threat of a nuclear Iran.
Washington refuses to rule out the use of force against Iran.In Afghanistan, despite the talk about talks with the Taliban,
the US strategy remains one of force. The favoured tactics are the ‘night raids’ which have killed numerous civilians and
the internationally illegal US drone attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan (and increasingly elsewhere).Considerations of
legal or diplomatic norms have been even more absent in America’s recent dealings with Pakistan — as evidenced by the
persistent drone strikes, the Davis affair, the clandestine raid to kill Osama bin Laden, the public allegations against the
Pakistan Army and the ISI and the aerial shooting of Pakistani border
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Russia too is now the object of coercive diplomacy, despite the ‘reset’ button. An externally well-funded ‘democracy’
movement, exploiting the heavy-handed Putin-Medvedev switch, has heightened pressure on this hitherto impervious
team.The consequences of this new friction with Moscow are already evident in the Security Council.Like others, the US
was caught off guard by the popular revolts in Tunisia and Egypt and remained on the sidelines. But,evidently, the
apparent success of the ‘lead from behind’ strategy in Libya has whet the appetite for indirect intervention. In Syria, the
regime change that is being attempted involves strategic stakes that are even higher than Libya. There are, however, two
instances in which vigour has deserted the Obama foreign policy. Despite US diplomatic genuflection,
India has not, as Washington expected, purchased American fighter jets or nuclear power plants; nor has it, so far, openly
aligned against China, or adopted economic reforms to accommodate US multinationals. Quite the contrary, even while
humming along with America’s love songs, India has joined China, Russia, Brazil and South Africa to resist the US on a
number of global issues.The only state leader to have publicly faced down President Obama is Prime Minister Netanyahu
of Israel, refusing to meet Obama’s minimalist plea to freeze Israeli settlements and openly challenging him in a joint
session of the US Congress.Obama’s ‘robust’ external policy has scored one visible success: the virtual destruction of Al
Qaeda in Afghanistan-Pakistan.This ‘success’ would not have been possible without the cooperation of the Pakistan Army
and, in particular, the ISI.
Apart from this, Obama’s forceful ways have neither resolved any ongoing crises nor reversed the relative decline of
American global power and dominance. A conflict with Iran will be a regional and a global disaster, not least for the US and
its allies. It is clear that the US will leave Afghanistan much as it was before 2001. Pakistan, gravely destabilised, will
struggle for years to control militancy. The Arab Spring is likely to become an Islamic summer. China will continue its rise
to global power status. India’s power graph will also rise, though more uncertainly. Russia will remain a formidable force
for the foreseeable future. America will have to adjust to a complex multilateral world. But history attests that it is as
difficult to deal with declining powers as with ascendant states. Both transitions can be long and painful. The Empire will
continue to strike back.The writer is a former Pakistan ambassador to the UN.
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NATO exit to lead Afghanistan to civil war: Imran
Monday February 06, 2012: Sally Arthy, in Islamabad: www.sky.com.news.
Imran Khan, the former Pakistan cricket captain turned politician, says he fears
Afghanistan could slide into civil war once Nato forces leave for good.Mr Khan says a
coalition government must be set up in Kabul or there will be more bloodshed when
Western troops pull out."My fear is that they are going to leave a far bigger mess than
was left by the Soviets when they left because there could be a civil war there now," he
told Sky News."The army now is well armed and from the Northern Alliance. The
Pashtuns with the Taliban are not armed... they are with the majority."Once they (Nato)
leave there is going to be a civil war, a power struggle there exactly like what happened
after the Russians left. Hundreds of thousands of people died."
Mr Khan is now considered a serious player in Pakistani politics after more than a
decade on the fringes.Recent rallies in Lahore and Karachi have attracted massive
crowds and his popularity is soaring in a nation disillusioned by established
politicians.Mr Khan believes his Movement for Justice party can win enough seats in
the next election to propel him into power as Prime Minister.Some political observers think that is optimistic and he will
win 40 parliamentary seats at most in polls that could be held later this year.Mohammad Malick, the influential editor of The
News, says: "I think he is cutting across and touching a cord. The word change is being associated with him in Pakistan
the way you saw the word change happening with Obama."But it's a mixture of desperate repulsion at the government and
opposition and a desperate sense of optimism attached to it… Whether he can deliver is something different."Mr Khan
says his "tsunami" of support is unstoppable."We have reached the point that all the opposition parties together are not
going to stop us. If we get ourselves organised... if we select the right candidates, nothing can stop us," he claimed.But it
is not without risk. The intelligence services have warned Mr Khan there have been threats on his life but he shrugs them
off. He says it is his moral duty to save Pakistan."If I want to live here, I have to fight for my country. We are going down.
Pakistan is going down rapidly. Unless people like me who don't need politics, unless people come forward like me, we
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The Most Forgotten Issue
By-Firoz Mahboob Kamal
http://www.drfirozmahboobkamal.com/english-articles/815-the-most-forgotten-issue.html
The Most Crippling Disability: The most crippling disability of a man is not physical, rather intellectu and moral. The
people with physical disabilities -like broken arm, missing leg or blind eye, canal incredibly cope with day-to-day
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difficulties. The insight of such men remains intact; therefore can still live a life as a sensible and responsible man in a
society. But people with moral blindness or intellectual debility can cause massive destruction: can even wreck the
whole moral, social and political fabrics of a country. Civilisations, countries and societies get their demise not due to
shortage of food or wealth, but due to the works of these morally sick people.
There are natural diseases that can also cause awful depletion of mental abilities. These are called old-age dementia or
Alzheimer’s disease. Such diseases take away the intellectual and societal skills, and make the victims incompatible with
self-respect and dignity. Due to loss of their basic cognitive power, they fail to differentiate right from wrong, good from
bad and friends from foes. These people are not only intellectually incompetent; they are also physically feeble due to
their advanced age and other illnesses. So they possess little mental instinct and physical power to do harms to others.
But the people with moral illness may have dangerous motive with its destructive consequences.
The Curse of Selective Amnesia : In case of dementia, the memory loss is global and the cause is mostly unknown. But in
moral sickness, the loss of memory is selective; and the cause is known. It is caused by man’s deliberate attempts to
selectively forget or ignore some specific truths or issues in life. Such people grow up with a restrictive focus only on
issues of their own interest, and disregard others. Due to such selective amnesia, the most important issue in human life
goes to oblivion; it may even nullify the very purpose of man’s creation. These people fail to align with the vision of their
own Creator –the Almighty Allah; and they exclusively take their personal lust or vision as the sole purpose of their
survival. Truth is accepted or discarded on the criteria of its compatibility with their personal agenda or whims. Such
selective and active amnesia of truths is indeed the root cause of humans’ failure as the best creation on earth, and
frustrates Allah’s vision of whelming the world with His Divine Truth. Indeed, this is the core crime of the kuffars in all
ages. In the holy Qur’an, Allah SWT repeatedly tells the story how people deliberately forgot His revealed truth that was
sent down through the Divine prophets. In Islam, such a self-inflicted memory loss is indeed an act of great wrongdoing: it
takes people away from the right path. It makes them forgetful of their divinely assigned role and responsibility. It is itself
a robust arrogance to shun off the Divine project of humans’ salvation.
What’s the most forgotten issue in life? Is it the belief in Allah - the Almighty? How Allah (SWT) can be most forgotten?
Even the non-believers of Mokkah didn’t forget Him. Even in those days of pre-Islamic jaheliya (ignorance), not only the
belief in Allah (SWT) was alive, but also was alive the tradition of naming the most beloved son as AbdAllah –the slave of
Allah. Even the modern secular Americans write on their currency notes, “We trust in God”. So, forgetting Allah (SWT) is
not a decisive issue. Have any of the basic pillars of Islam -like salah, fasting, haj and jakat been forgotten? The crowded
mosques, the sea of haji in Mokkah, the fasting millions in Ramadan give the testimony that none of these pillars has been
forgotten. Even many dishonest men and women believe in Allah; they offer prayers, keep fasting, and even go for haj.
Siratul Mustaqeem: The Most Forgotten : In fact, the most forgotten issue is not the belief in Allah (SWT), but siratul
mustaqeem –the right path shown by Him through His prophets and the Divine books. Creation of right path is not within
the bounds of humans’ talent. In fact, the most crucial inadequacy of humans lies here, not in scientific discovery. So
Allah (SWT) takes showing the right path as His own responsibility; and to address this crucial need, sent down more than
hundred thousand prophets to the earth. So in holy Qur’an, Allah (SWT) says, “Inna alainal huda” (certainly showing path
is my task). It is indeed the best blessing of Allah (SWT) on humans. Allah (SWT) wants humans to succeed in this world
as well as in the Hereafter. To ensure their success, He sends down prophets like Nuhu (AS), Ibrahim (AS), Musa (AS), Isa
(AS), Muhammad (SAWS) and others of the same Divine chain with the same siratul mustaqeem – the Divine roadmap. But
their followers made history in forgetting as well in disobeying or concealing the Divine path. In Islam, such acts are
perfect expression of kufr. Allah (SWT) considers such self-inflicted amnesia and arrogance as a great crime against the
Divine truth; and a sure precursor of bringing down the Divine curse. The holy Qur’an gives vivid descriptions of such
crimes of the arrogant people through different ages: especially that of the Bani Israil (the people of Israil). In their
collective memory, only the name of Allah (SWT) and some prophets survived, but not the revealed path. The right path of
Allah (SWT) –siratul mustaqeem went into oblivion. Likewise, only the name of Allah (SWT) and the names of Ibrahim and
his son Ismail survived among their Makkan descendants, but not their deen-e-haneef -the Ibrahimic way of life. As the
part of the same Divine chain, the holy Qur’an came as the last revelation of siratul mustaqeem. But its fate hasn’t been
different either. In the Muslims’ memory, though the names of Allah (SWT) and His prophets still survive, but not the
Qur’anic road-map.
The Qur’anic road-map takes man from his worldly abode to a destination in the Jannah. It is all inclusive: not only shows
the right way in the performance of salah, fasting, zakat, haj and other forms of ibadah, but also prescribes the right type
of foods and drinks, judiciary, politics, economics, culture, statehood, warfare and other aspects of life. One cannot think
of any success in this life and in the hereafter without strict adherence to this Divine road-map –the siratul mustaqeem.
But unfortunately, this is the most missing element in the Muslims’ life today. The Muslims’ statehood, trade, dresses,
culture, morality, politics, rules and laws and economics do not match with that of the prophet. The way they lead their life
every day follow is different. Their constitution, laws, politics, economics, culture are not based on submission to
prophetic tradition, rather based on the deviation and rebellion against Allah. They invest their intellect, energy, wealth
and even life to fulfil their secular, national or tribal aspirations, not an Islamic one.
Between two predestined destinations there cannot be more than one straight line. But the deviations may be in millions.
This is why siratul mustaqeem is only one: connecting this earthen life with the heavenly one. The Qur’anic road-map
does not show different maps for different groups of the same people –the ummah. Overwhelming disunity, disaffection
and conflicts in the Muslim world are the products of such diverse deviations. Due to such deviations, the Muslims are the
most divided people on earth. The Christians, the Hindus, and the Chinese –each could build their own united states;
previously, the Muslims could do that too. But now the Muslims cannot even think of that, let alone achieve that. In early
days of Islam, Muslims built such a state with the civilizational purpose: it was based on Divine faith, values, and vision. In
fact, building such a state is an Islamic obligation on every believing man and woman, otherwise Islam cannot achieve its
civilizational objectives and neither can man ensure the growth of his whole creative potentials. Major efforts and
sacrifices of the Muslims in the early days were made to fulfil that goal. Indeed, the Qur’anic road-map cannot move
further towards the Divine aim without establishing such a civilizational state; secular or anti-Islamic state stands as a
stumbling block against such move. This is why the early Muslims could go incredibly high to make a glorious impact on
human history, but today’s Muslims are making history in decadence and failures. In those days the states of Arabs, the
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Persian, the Kurds, the Levants, the Turks, the Barbars, the Moors, the Tatars -all formed a united states with a single
Qur’anic vision. But now they are broken apart, and deviated to national, tribal or secular objectives.
Every sensible man or woman, prior to making a footstep, firstly knows the road-map of the planned journey. Otherwise
the journey may end up in a wrong way. But Muslims’ journey towards jannah is not a simple tour, rather the most
important event in life. So the road-map needs to be known by heart by every Muslim man and woman. Otherwise, how
one can attain the Divine goal? The Qur’anic road-map (siratul mustaqeem) -with all its all signals and signs, is not hidden
or kept in the custody of a few, rather made known to all in all possible ways. Whoever reads the holy Qur’an, whoever
studies the life of the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and whoever explore his sayings (hadees), he will get the
elaborate guidance on the road of his Divine journey. He will receive clear signals on what to do and what not to do, and
where to take the turn and where to restrain. To become a Muslim, it is a religious obligation to follow it. But the real
picture in the Muslim world is different: the pursued path is different from that of the prophet. Their politics and policies,
education and culture, courts and laws, economics and banking do not follow that Divine guidance, rather they follow the
road of the deviants. In fact, they deliberately pursue such clear deviation to fulfil their personal, national or tribal
objectives.
The most important issue: What is the important issue in life? Is it good food, good house, good wife, good children, good
job, good profession, good money, and other worldly successes or pleasures? The humans are usually at crossroads on
these issues. Most crucial mistakes are done at this juncture, and people get lost on a wrong track. Success depends on
picking up the right path at this crossroads. Humans’ real intelligence and wisdom is judged here. Mistake done here can
never be compensated by other gains. The Quran not only shows the most important issue in life, but also guides on the
most forgotten issue. Allah SWT is fully aware of his own creation’s inadequacies. Who knows better than Him? Man
believes that worldly gains and achievements are the real markers of success of life. But Allah SWT says otherwise. In the
Quran it is revealed, “(O Muhammad!) Tell them, should I inform you about them who are ultimate looser in their deeds?
They are people whose whole efforts in this world have gone in the wrong way, and they think they are doing
professionally well.” (Sura Ayat )
But, it is the saddest reality that most people fail to identify the most important issue in the life. Man’s such ignorance is
very devastating: in fact, the great deviation in life starts here. Civilizations collapsed and nations perished -not due to
lack of foods or drinks, but due to such deviations. If wealth, wife, children, business, professions, political power and
other worldly pleasures get priority in one’s life, and ignore the hereafter, he will definitely miss the Divine path. Allah
(SWT)’s greatest gift comes not as foods, drinks or other assets of livelihood –these come to animals too. His greatest
blessing comes as the guidance on the most important issue in life; and He shows us the devises to constantly focus our
attention on that; and it is through salah (namaj). Allah (SWT) wants our success, and salah attaches our attention to the
path of that success: especially the supplication in sura fatiha is indeed the most important tool to fix our mind on that.
Allah (SWT) shows the Priority : Knowing the life’s priority is crucial; without its understanding, one cannot fix his or her
goal. Allah (SWT) opens Qur’an with that issue. The opening chapter –the sura Fatiha –the first fully revealed verse, has
been dedicated to address this subject. Allah (SWT) wants humans to be focussed on the important issue throughout the
whole span of life; and it should not go out of our mind’s radar at any point of time. Man’s highest priority is expressed in
his prayer. If the summit of ambition is to have a good business, a good job, a professional success or higher power in
politics, then the man will repeatedly ask Allah (SWT) for that in his every prayer. He may even invite his friends and
others to his house or he himself goes to priests or asking them to make a supplication for that.
Dowa or supplication is indeed the expression of man’s supreme desire; it is the revelation of his inner faith. A man who
has no belief in the hereafter cannot be concerned with the Divine path. His path, his character, his believer are
understandably different from a true believer. Man’s daily activities indeed bear imprints of his supreme desire. So the
moulding of faith, the correction of his deeds, and the purification of his soul, indeed starts from that inner longing. Such
longing in fact works as the guiding compass. So Allah SWT addresses that issue in the Qur’an, and that starts from sura
Fatiha. So it is rightly named as fatiha -the beginning.
The Divine Way : Surah Fateha gives clear guidance on what must get importance in his dowa or supplication. This is
why this surah is so important in the whole holy Qu’ran. According to prophet’s saying, it is the best surah in the holy
Qur’an. In saheeh hadees, it is also called “Ummul Qur’an” (the mother of Qur’an), “Ummul Kitab” (the mother of the
Book) and also “Qur’anul azeem”. The surah is not a big surah, but teaches fundamentals of success of this life. Here,
Allah (SWT) teaches how a believer should formulate his most importanct supplication. He also teaches the basic
etiquettes of dowa. One should appreciate Allah (SWT)’s great mercy. He should pray only to Him and seek help only
from Him. Then teaches what should be his most important wish in life. It should be, “(Oh Allah) show me the right path
(ih dinas siratul mustaqeem) and protect me from the path of the deviated – the cursed”. If anyone fails to understand
the main philosophy of this supplication, he will definitely fail to understand the message and teachings of the whole
holy Qur’an.
It is indeed the wish of Allah (SWT) that the issue of adhering to siratul mustaqeem – the Divinely assigned right path,
and avoidance of the path of cursed deviants should be kept ever alive in believers mind. For that, Allah (SWT) made it
compulsory to recite surah Fatiha in every unit (rakah) of salah: no unit (rakah) of salah can be made perfect and
acceptable to Allah (SWT) without its recitation. So a Muslim must recite it at least 17 times in his or her compulsory
prayers, and the number is much bigger if the sunna and the nafal prayers are included. Indeed, this is the most
important Qur’anic intervention to mould humans’ aim of life, his way of life, his lifelong priority, his culture and his
politics: thus nurtures a life-long habit of remaining ever focussed on the Qur’anic right path.
Loss of memory on important information leads to awful catastrophes, the same fate can happen when one forgets the
right path in leading the life. People then get deviated to the wrong way. More than hundred thousand prophets came to
the world to show the right path, but people forgot Allah and His path and got deviated to the Satanic ways. People then
became worshiper of snakes, cows, stones, idols or turned to be an atheist. So the presence of Divine Book of guidance
is not the only issue, the issue of keeping focused on the Divine path is also very crucial. To meet that end, Allah (SWT)
not only sends down the prophets with Divine books, but also made it an obligation to pursue a procedure to keep them
in the Divine track. Man must understand that inventing a road-map is not his job, neither is he capable of doing that. His
duty is to submit to Allah’s prescribed way. Anything opposing to that Divine prescription is a rebellious arrogance:
tantamount to sheer kufr. To abate such arrogance and kufr, Allah (SWT) made it an obligation to recite sura fatiha at
least 17 times a day -so that the people can know his humility and the priority.
The Great Betrayal : Mere recitation of a road-map doesn’t help; it needs to be properly understood and followed. The
great betrayal of the Muslims is not in disbelief in the holy Qur’an, but in their non-adherence to its guidance. While
driving a car, if one fails to comprehend and follow the road signs, he may fall into deep ditches. But Qur’an tells not
only about the road signs, but also inspires hearts and minds to follow those road signs. Without such inspiration one
cannot engage in understanding and following the road map. In early days, Muslims’ heart and mind were so much
inspired that the understanding of the holy Qur’an got the highest priority. For the sake of understanding Qur’an, they
even ignored and gradually forgot their own mother tongue, and learned Arabic instead. The people of Egypt, Sudan,
Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Iraq, Tunisia and many other countries were not Arab, but they become Arab only due to their
deep inspiration of understanding the holy Qur’an. But such inspiration is missing in today’s Muslims. Millions of
Muslims spends billions of hours to learn other foreign languages, but not Arabic. So the Qur’an has become a book of
mere recitation, not a book of practical guidance. The Muslims are taking guidance from nationalists, secularists and
socialists, atheists and other deviated people. So the people -who were designated as khalifa (viceroy) of Allah to show
the right path to others, have turned to be the deviants themselves. They are now the slavish camp-followers of the
established wrongdoers. So Allah (SWT)’s plan of guiding the people through His revealed Book has been frustrated by
the Muslims themselves. The people who are supposed to show the light of Qur’an to others, they have indeed stand
before this Divine light as a big barrier.
The Uncovered Part : To reach the destination, it needs to be fully travelled. Even few meters are left uncovered; it does
not help reaching the goal. A long road passes not only through beautiful plains or valleys, but also through tough
mountains, deserts and forests, and also crosses rivers and seas. Successful travellers are those who remain steadfast
amidst all hardships. In the same way, the Qu’ranic road map does not remain confined only in mosques, or in fasting;
and not only in haj and jakat. Its crucial part crosses through field of jihad. Jihad is the testing ground of Allah (SWT). So
Allah (SWT) says, “Do men think that they will be left alone on saying that we believe, and not be tried? And certainly we
tried those before them, so Allah will certainly know those who are true and He will certainly know the liars.” -(Sura
Ankaboot, Verse 2-3). In early days of Islam there was no misunderstanding on this issue of siratul mustaqeem. As an
ummah they traversed every segments of thise path, they were no confinement in only one or two or three segment.
Today, siratul mustaqeem is considered to be a path of salah, fasting, haj and jakah, therefore it generates no desire to
engage in dawah, jihad and other indispensable segments of the Divine path. Some do engage in tabligh with their
distorted perspectives, and think these are enough to please Allah (SWT). This owes to inaccurate understanding of
siratul mustaqeem.
Iman, salah, fasting, haj and jakah are the five pillars of Islam. But only the pillars cannot protect people from torching
heat, freezing cold, heavy rain or storms. For full protection, it needs to build a strong house. And for protecting the
Muslim ummah and Islam, the job is much harder; it requires making a strong Islamic state. Such efforts in the pursuit of
establishing Islamic state and protecting the Muslims is called jihad. This hard part is also an indispensable part of
siratul mustaqeem. The early Muslims crossed that part too; in fact, more than 60% companions sacrificed their lives
while covering that most difficult part. And those who were alive, they were no less ready to make similar sacrifices
either. But today, this is the most forgotten part of the Divine road-map. So it mostly stays uncovered. Therefore,
Muslims have more than 50 states, but not a single Islamic state.
The Living Example: Absence of an Islamic state and non-implementation of sharia is indeed an eye-catching marker of
deviation from the siratul mustaqeem. Where ever there is adherence to siratul mustaqeem, there must come a stage of
jihad, establishment of Islamic state and implementation of sharia. These are important milestones. There exists no
siratul mustaqeem without those milestones. Neither there exists any point to jannah without jihad. If these are missing,
despite all its Islamic names or colours it is undoubtedly fake But where are those milestones in Muslim life today? Does
it require further evidence that they are pursuing none-else but the way of duallin (divaints)? In fact, they betray their
own prayer. In each rakat of salah -in surah Fatiha, they not only pray for siratul mustaqeem, but also seek protection
from adherence to siratut duallin –the path of the deviants. But by their passionate adherence to the way of duallin
(established deviants), how they can expect the blessing from Allah here and in the hereafter? And path of the duallins -
the deviants, does not come to Muslim countries alone. It also brings curse of Allah: sura Fatiha gives that message too;
here maghdub (cursed) and duallin (deviation) are paired together. How does non-adherence to Allah’s revealed path
bring curse, the holy Qur’an gives ample historical evidences of that. The children of Israil (Bani Israil) are the victims of
such Divine curse. But today’s Muslims -with so much occupation by internal and external enemies of Islam, and so
much deaths, rapes, sufferings and defenceless humiliation are the perfect living examples. -(05/02/12)
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Debate on religion takes over politics in Ankara
ANKARA - Hürriyet Daily News .02.02.2012: In response to criticism by the main opposition Republican People’s
Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kblbçdarodlu, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdodan asks Kblbçdarodlu if he wants to
‘raise atheist generations’
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdodan speaks yesterday
during a meeting of his ruling Justice and Development
Party that brought together the party’s provincial heads.
DAILY NEWS photo, Selahattin SÖNMEZ
Political squabbles over religion simmered in Ankara
yesterday as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdodan
asserted that raising devout generations was part of his
Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) mission.
“Do you expect the conservative democrat AK Party to
raise atheist generations? This may be your business and
objective but not ours. We will raise a generation that is
conservative and democratic and embraces the values and
historical principles of its nation,” Erdodan said at an AKP
gathering.
His remarks came in response to criticism by Republican
People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kblbçdarodlu, who had
called the premier a “religion-monger” and accused him of
fomenting divisions among people along religious lines. The row was triggered by the application of a CHP deputy to the
Council of State seeking the cancelation of a regulation that put graduates of imam-hatip religious high-schools on equal
par with others at university entrance exams.Brushing aside CHP accusations that the judiciary had become a government
puppet, Erdodan said constitutional amendments approved at a referendum in 2010 had marked a “turning point” in
reforming the judiciary. “The judiciary is not under government command. It is being purified from your militant mentality,”
he said.In a bizarre remark to Kblbçdarodlu, he added: “You are now under the magnifying glass. Every step you make and
even every breath you take is monitored by the nation.”
Erdodan’s comments triggered an angry response from the CHP, with the party’s Deputy Group Chair Emine Ülker Tarhan
suggesting Erdodan’s “anger fits” could be the side effect of his health problems. “Those are fascist views. He is talking
total nonsense and should change his advisers,” Tarhan told the Hürriyet Daily News.“He has a society pattern on his
mind. They are trying to design society according to their despotic mentality. Designing the judiciary, the military and now
designing family life – that’s too much, too much even for the prime minister,” she said. Tarhan insisted the judiciary had
become “an army with a chain of command” under government control. “But this army will one day hit them as well. They
will lose control of the monster they created.” A former judge, Tarhan said she was proud to be “a militant of democracy
and judicial independence.”In further comments yesterday, Erdodan hailed a move by French parliamentarians to appeal a
law that would outlaw the denial of Armenian “genocide” but raised alarm over “the sly rise of racism, xenophobia and
Islamophobia” in Europe.He argued the bill was the product of this phenomenon and called on the European Union to act.
“The European Union must take measures as a top priority on its agenda,” he said.
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JAMIATUL ULAMA KZN DAILY Q&A
&ua For Shifa is requested for Brother Dawood Pathai who has suffered from a heart attack and is in a critical condition.
May Allah Ta'ala grant him complete Shifa, Ameen. Nasihah (Advice): Practicing on the Sunnah is the best way of
expressing love for Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) During this blessed month of Rabi-ul-Awwal, Muslims
throughout the world express their love for Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) in different ways. It is important to note
that the best way of expressing one’s love for Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) is to express it in the way He himself
has prescribed; i.e.; practicing on the Sunnah. Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) said to Anas bin Malik: “The person
who revives my Sunnah is the one who truly loves me; and whoever loves me will be with me in Jannah” (Tirmizi, Hadith #:
2678). We should always keep a check on our actions and ensure that they are in accordance to the Sunnah.
Question and Answer:
Q. As Salaamu Alaikum. Is permanent eye make up acceptable according to the shariah? Jazakallah
A. Permanent eye makeup is not permissible as it entails tattooing. Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) has cursed the
one who has his/her skin tattooed. It is narrated on the authority of Ibn Mas’ood (Radiallahu Anhu) that he said, May Allah
curse those who tattoo, have (their bodies) tattooed, those who request their eyebrows to be plucked and those who create
gaps between their teeth. They are changing what Allah has created. Why should I not curse those whom Nabi (Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam) has cursed whilst it has been recorded in the Qur’aan? (Sahih al-Bukhari, Hadith #: 5943). And Allah
Knows Best: Mufti Suhail Tarmahomed : Confirmation: Mufti Ebrahim Desai
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Steve Richards: Will nobody challenge the Falklands War myths?
Leaders insist on the islands' right to self-determination. Scotland's right to it is less clearly stated
Steve Richards Tuesday 07 February 2012 .http://www.independentco.uk.opinion/commentators/steve-richards
At a time when many assumptions formed in the 1980s are being challenged, the Falklands is the source of renewed
tension, another issue that can't just be confined to the recent past. The Falklands War was a defining event during that
decade, the subject of instant mythologising and one of the few episodes in Margaret Thatcher's career highlighted in the
film The Iron Lady.What it defined is no longer quite so clear. As the ongoing economic crisis places an intense critical
spotlight on the light regulation that began in the Thatcher era, there is a sudden wariness about the Falklands. What
seemed to be a decisive military triumph for the Iron Lady is not so decisive as it seemed.The tensions arise partly
because the 30th anniversary of the conflict is only a few months away. In Argentina, the planned events here are seen as
an act of provocation, so much so that the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, has stressed they are a commemoration
rather than a celebration. But in Argentina, other initiatives, such as the assignment of Prince William to the Falklands, are
seen as part of a pattern in which the UK becomes more assertive while Argentina – with indications of robust support
from nearby countries – feels the need to renew its claims to the islands .
Britain's victory, always more ambiguous than it seemed, leads to uncertainty now, raising questions about entitlement
and legitimacy that appeared to be wiped away by Thatcher's will. She had no choice but to be wilful. The Falklands War
began as a cock-up and had grave consequences for domestic politics. The Conservative cabinet in 1982 was much more
experienced and substantial than their counterparts today, but made the same mistake of hailing spending cuts in general
without always thinking through the specific consequences. Strains on the defence budget led to significant cuts in
defending the Falklands at a point when ministers were proposing a leaseback arrangement to Argentina. Sensing an
opening, the ruling dictatorship made its move.Thatcher was not heroic. She had heroism thrust upon her. The only
alternative to military action would have been her resignation.
Another powerful myth, often repeated, is that the victory in the Falklands helped her win a landslide in the subsequent
1983 election. She would have won anyway, and by as big a margin. Her opponents were split in two. Neither the SDP nor
Labour was in a position to win. That left only her. In the immediate aftermath of British politics, the Falklands was
irrelevant.But the distorting sense that she was "strong" on defence and Labour was "weak" had consequences. Tony
Blair was Labour's candidate in Beaconsfield, the first by-election to be fought after the Falklands. He was slaughtered.
Robin Cook told me later that he believed the post-Falklands popularity of Thatcher in that by-election, and Labour's nearfatal
unpopularity, was part of Blair's calculations as he headed towards Iraq. There is much evidence to suggest Cook was
right.
Does anyone remember the "Baghdad Bounce" – the comically fleeting attempt to portray Blair as the popular, brave war
leader in the immediate aftermath of Iraq, the equivalent of seeking a "Falklands Factor"? Take out the Falklands War from
the UK's recent history and Blair would have felt less pressure to appear "strong" as he stood (weakly) "shoulder to
shoulder" with President Bush.Now Britain's claim to sovereignty over the Falklands is called into question by the
arguments that rage over independence for Scotland, a debate that highlights how complex and awkward are issues
relating to legitimacy and power. No one in favour of the union can argue that England and Scotland are close politically or
culturally. The arguments in favour have more to do with geography – that a united island pulls more weight than a
formally divided one.But over the Falklands, no one in the UK can claim geographical ties. Instead, leaders here insist that
the islanders have the right to self-determination, however much that impacts on the UK. In contrast, Scotland's right to
self-determination is not as clearly stated. The impact on the rest of the UK is much more part of the story and perhaps a
defining one.
Britain will celebrate its recent past in several forms over the next few months, while current events act as a potent counter
to the indiscriminately euphoric raising of glasses. As Nick Clegg rightly pursues his attempts to reform the House of
Lords, there will be endless vacuous tributes to the Queen and her Diamond Jubilee. The non-elected Lords appear
threatened as reform is attempted once more. The non-elected monarch, who few know and who never utters a significant
public word, will be hailed with an uncritical deference.At the same time, Westminster-based leaders will defend the
geographical entity known as the UK while celebrating the recapture of islands thousands of miles away that the
Government at the time had contemplated handing over. The early plans of the Thatcher government to lease back the
islands were sensible. The current government should take a look at them or find an alternative of its own, but will not do
so. The whirl of events challenges the mythologies of the Falklands War but no party leader would dare to do so.
s.richards@independent.co.uk
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Web Is 'Fertile Breeding Ground For Terror' 06 Feb 2012 The internet has become the most significant vehicle in promoting
extremism, according to a report released by the Home Affairs Committee. The report says the internet has become a "fertile
breeding ground" for terror and is more involved in radicalisation than prisons, universities or places of worship. A Home Office
spokesman said: "Prevent [the counter-radicalisation strategy] is an integral part of our counter-terrorism strategy and aims to stop
people from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism... Above all, it tackles the threat from home-grown terrorism on and off line.
We are working closely with the police and internet service providers to take internet hate off the web." [Start with the
governments of the US, UK, and Israel - and 99 percent of your work will be done.]
Terrorists 'R Us: US-made bomb killed Iran expert: Report 06 Feb 2012 The United States provided an anti-Iran terrorist group
with the bomb used to assassinate Iranian scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan last month, a report has revealed. Two bombs were
handed over to the Party for Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) in the Iraqi city of Arbil by the Americans, the Resalat daily reported on
Monday. The first bomb killed Ahmadi Roshan, but the second one was discovered by intelligence and security personnel around
Resalat Square in the capital Tehran, the report said. On January 11, Ahmadi Roshan was killed after a motorcyclist attached a
magnetic bomb to his car in Tehran.
Iran to strike back if attacked 05 Feb 2012 Iran will strike back at any location from where attacks against it are mounted, Fars
news agency quoted a senior military commander as saying Sunday. "Any location which is used by the enemy for raids against the
Islamic republic will be targeted by the IRGC forces," Xinhua quoted Fars citing Hossein Salami, the deputy head of Iran's Islamic
Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC). Salami made the remarks during IRGC's ongoing military drills near Iran's southern waters.
'Israeli attack will prompt Pakistani response' 05 Feb 2012 Is the world counting down to "D-Day"? After US Secretary of
Defense Leon Panetta estimated that Israel would attack Iran by June, and Prime Minister [sociopath] Benjamin Netanyahu warned
government officials against "Iran chatter," a European diplomat based in Pakistan said that if Israel attacks, Islamabad will have no
choice but to support any Iranian retaliation. The diplomat's statement raised the specter of putting a nuclear-armed Pakistan at
odds with Israel, which is widely believed to have its own significant nuclear arsenal.
Obama orders freezing of Iran's property under U.S. jurisdiction 07 Feb 2012 The White House said on Monday that President
Barack Obama has ordered the freezing of Iran's property under U.S. jurisdiction, including that of the country's central bank, as the
U.S. and its allies are pressing hard over the Islamic republic's [alleged] controversial nuclear program. The property of persons
determined to have links to those already under U.S. sanctions is ordered to be frozen as well.
Netanyahu to travel to US in March --Two weeks after Mossad chief meets CIA director in Washington, Prime Minister
Netanyahu set to visit US early march 05 Feb 2012 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the United States early next
month to address the annual convention of the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC in Washington, his bureau announced on Sunday. The Prime
Minister's bureau did not give further detail on whether Netanyahu will meet American officials during his visit. Two weeks ago,
Mossad Chief Tamir Pardo met in secret with CIA Director David Petraeus in Washington.
Netanyahu: Only Strength Guarantees Security 05 Feb 2012 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who yesterday announced
plans to visit the U.S. in March, said turmoil in neighboring Arab states and threats from Iran show that Israel must build up its
military. "In such a region, the only thing that ensures our existence, security and prosperity is our strength," Netanyahu told his
Cabinet in Jerusalem in remarks broadcast on Israel Radio. "We are obligated to continue to develop the military, economic and
social strength of the state of Israel." [Develop it without US tax dollars, dirt-bag.]
US closes embassy in Syria, UK recalls ambassador 06 Feb 2012 The United States has shut its embassy in Syria. The
announcement comes amid mounting reports of lethal government attacks. The UK has followed the suit, summoning their
ambassador from Damascus. UK Foreign Secretary William Hague says the British ambassador has been recalled from Syria for
consultations. The UK Foreign Secretary pledged to increase pressure on the Syrian government through the UN and other bodies.
Thousands of US Special Operations forces to remain in Afghanistan; their number may grow --No schedule set for
withdrawal pace for 68,000 American troops who will remain 05 Feb 2012 The United States' plan to wind down its combat role
in Afghanistan a year earlier than expected relies on shifting responsibility to Special Operations forces that hunt insurgent leaders
and train local troops, according to senior Pentagon officials and military officers. These forces could remain in the country well after
the NATO mission ends in late 2014. Under the emerging plan, American conventional forces, focused on policing large parts of
Afghanistan, will be the first to leave, while thousands of American Special Operations forces remain, making up an increasing
percentage of the troops on the ground; their number may even grow.
'US to boost elite forces in Afghanistan' 05 Feb 2012 The United States is planning to increase the number of its Army Special
Forces in Afghanistan, despite an earlier announcement by Washington and NATO that they would hand over security to Afghan
forces in 2014, a report says. The report published in the New York Times cited Pentagon officials, whose names it did not reveal,
as saying that the elite commando teams within the US Special Operations Forces will remain in the Asian country. The plan may
even demand the deployment of more elite forces to Afghanistan.
Record cargo delivered to Afghanistan in 2011 05 Feb 2012 Mobility airmen dropped a record amount of cargo last year in
Afghanistan, delivering about 80 million pounds of supplies across the west Asian country. The annual record marks an increase of
about 33 percent over 2010, when mobility airmen dropped about 60 million pounds of cargo to Afghanistan. "To put that in some
historical perspective, in the Korean War we only dropped a little over 30 million pounds total," said Maj. Tom Lankford, Air Mobility Command
Combat Tactics Branch chief and director of operations. "We nearly doubled that in 2010, and [this year] we dropped nearly 80 million pounds."
NATO copter crashes in Afghanistan [What a shame!] 06 Feb 2012 Another helicopter operated by the US-led NATO military
alliance has crashed in eastern Afghanistan, with no immediate reports of casualties. Although no deaths or injuries have been
reported, NATO says it has transferred the troopers to a nearby military base. It remains unclear whether the copter was attacked by
militants or crashed as a result of technical problems. The Taliban say they have shot down several aircraft and NATO choppers in
different parts of Afghanistan over the past few months.
Truth, lies and Afghanistan --How military leaders have let us down --'From time to time, I observed Afghan Security forces
collude with the insurgency.' By Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis 06 Feb 2012 I spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S.
troops and their Afghan partners. My duties with the Army's Rapid Equipping Force took me into every significant area where our
soldiers engage the enemy. Over the course of 12 months, I covered more than 9,000 miles and talked, traveled and patrolled with
troops in Kandahar, Kunar, Ghazni, Khost, Paktika, Kunduz, Balkh, Nangarhar and other provinces. What I saw bore no
resemblance to rosy official statements by U.S. military leaders about conditions on the ground. ...I witnessed the absence of
success on virtually every level.
Anonymous hacks lawyers for Marine accused of Iraq massacre [Awesome!] 03 Feb 2012 In a string of attacks today,
members of the digital activist group Anonymous apparently hacked into the Web site of defense lawyers for a U.S. Marine accused
of leading a civilian massacre in Iraq, and have reportedly acquired e-mails exchanged by attorneys in the case. The Web site of the
law firm Puckett & Faraj, which represented Marine Sgt. Frank Wuterich in his recent court martial, was inaccessible this morning.
Wuterich allegedly led a group of Marines in shooting 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in 2005. The original murder charges were reduced
and ultimately dropped entirely as part of an agreement last week in which Wuterich pled guilty to one count of negligent dereliction of duty.
Muslim businessman becomes 'terror suspect' after he texts staff he's going to 'blow away' the competition --Mr Allami
alleges that he was arrested with no prior warning and detained for more than a day while Quebec authorities searched his
house. 04 Feb 2012 A Moroccan-born Canadian businessman says he became a terror suspect because of a text message he sent
to sales staffers saying he was going to 'blow away' the competition. According to a religious association, Saad Allami, who is
Muslim, sent the message last month and was detained for more than a day while police searched his Quebec home. He filed a
lawsuit against the Quebec provincial police force and seeks $100,000 in damages.==============================
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Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012.To: badaruddin@hotmail.co.uk.From: info@email-new.labour.org.uk
Why I've stopped listening to the Today programme on Radio 4
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Dear All,Ed Miliband calls really early. Too early. These days I have to set my alarm for 6am in order to be fully awake before he starts chasing me.
Before Ed's calls, I listen to the depressing daily news on the Today programme. Unemployment sky rocketing, the economy flat-lining, more arrests
at News International. By the time Ed rings I'm usually ready to explode. The final straw came at 6.54am last Friday morning. Interviewed on Today,
Clare Gerada, the Chair of the Royal College of GPs, was asked about Lansley's Health Bill. I don't know Clare Gerada, but she was authoritative,
calm, thorough, and therefore devastating in her analysis. As the first coffee of the day was brewing, Clare patiently said the following words:
"I think the essence is this Bill is a burden. It makes no sense. It’s incoherent to anybody other than the lawyers. It won’t deal with the big issues that
we have to deal with such as the aging population and dementia. It will result in a very expensive health service and it will also result in a health
service that certainly will never match the health service that we have at the moment or at least had 12 months ago."
I couldn't stomach any more of this miserable truth about Cameron, Osborne and Lansley's Britain. I'm sick of starting every day like this. I re-tuned
to Smooth Radio. But re-tuning the radio isn't enough. What makes us Labour is that we don't just look away. We've got to stop them. We've got to
stop this Bill. It really will wreck the NHS in a way that hasn't been fully understood. It's a fight that patients can't afford for us to lose.Cameron is
determined to force these measures through. To defeat him, we have to build a coalition against the Bill that has never been seen before.We’re taking
a huge step today by pledging to protect 6,000 nurses jobs by ditching this Bill.But for Andy Burnham's "Drop the Bill" campaign to succeed, we have
to talk to people in our communities to get the message across. The divide is simple: David Cameron puts profits before patients. Ed Miliband will put
patients first. Why not try it now? Forward this email to your friends and ask them to sign the online petition.The purpose of this email is to ask you to
help build the coalition to drop the Bill, but I'd be negligent if I didn't ask you, once again, to help us fund the campaign. As you read this, we’re
getting ready to print thousands of leaflets to build that coalition, letting people know that we’ll drop the bill and protect 6,000 nurses' jobs. But we
need funds to print as many as we can.
Donate £10 or whatever you can and, if we raise enough, I'll personally hand them out in Andrew Lansley's constituency
And when you talk to the friends on your email list, remind them what Clare Gerada said would happen if Lansley and Cameron get their way. If the
Health Bill becomes law, the Chair of the Royal College of GPs said:
"It will turn one National Health Service into thousands of different health services, all competing for the same patients, the same knee, the same
brain, the same heart. What that will mean is that patients will find that their care will be fragmented. It will be on different sites, it won’t join up, it will
be difficult to hand over care and it will be phenomenally expensive to keep track of all those different parts of the competing health service"
Profits before patients. Same old Tories.
Best,Tom
PS: When it's coming at you from all sides. When the chips are down. When the newspapers are undermining what we do –
I turn to Billy Bragg. Don't lose your passion comrade. Keep faith
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As feared Anglo-American war criminal rulers illegal, criminal implantation of Zionist
poisonous plant in Palestinian peoples homeland producing its bitter fruit-Ammar Abbas
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Jewish-Arab school defaced in suspected 'price tag' attack
'Death to Arabs' and 'Kahane was right' daubed outside bilingual school; Christian monastery defaced with 'Death to
Christians' and 'price tag' inscriptions; Jerusalem police investigating both incidents.Get Haaretz on iPhone Get Haaretz
on Android A Jewish-Arab bilingual school and a Christian monastery in Jerusalem were defaced with graffiti on Tuesday
in suspected "price tag" attacks carried out by Jewish extremists."Death to Arabs" and "Kahane was right" was daubed in
Hebrew on a wall outside the bilingual school."Death to Christians" was written on the walls of the Greek monastery, an
11th-century fortress-like holy site situated in a valley overlooked by Israel's parliament. Moreover, the tires of two cars
outside the monastery were punctured.
Jerusalem police are investigating both incidents, and still unsure whether the two events are connected.The bilingual
school is a symbol of coexistence in Jerusalem, in which half the students are Jews and half are Arab who study together
in both languages.Nadia Knani, the principle of the elementary school, said, "It wasn't just written here, where young
children from the ages 3 to 18 study together in coexistence, for no reason. We are trying to digest these horrifying
inscriptions."Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the words "price tag" were also painted on the Christian monastery
overnight by vandals, in the rare attack on a Christian shrine in Jerusalem.The slogan, used by Jewish settlers in
vandalism attacks on mosques and Palestinian homes in the West Bank, refers to the retribution they say they will exact
for any attempt by the Israeli government to curb settlement in the territory."I am a priest and I forgive," Father Claudio of
the monastery, which is administered by the Greek Orthodox church, said.====================================
“FAULTS ARE THICK WHERE LOVE IS THIN” goes the Anglo-Saxon saying. Demonizing Dr
Khan even to the extent of calling him a “THIEF” had been (& Still remained) favourate topic and
passion of the Zionist infested section of the western media, particulasrly the Anglo-American
ones & their “PATRIOTIC” class of Muslim-bashing-journalists!- Syed Ibrahim Ali Pirzada,
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Dr AQ Khan blasts Atlantic mag report about his 'brazen act of illegality' over
Rawalpindi house
Pakistan News.Net.Tuesday 7th February, 2012 (ANI) .Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, the founding father of Pakistan's nuclear
programme blamed by the West for making Pakistan a nuclear power, has condemned inaccuracies in The Atlantic
magazine's November 2005 cover story, which he says falsely accused him of a 'brazen act of illegality' when it claimed
!
that his Rawalpindi house was "built in blatant disregard of the law."
The Express Tribune quoted Khan, as saying that the report in The Atlantic "is totally rubbish and based on lies by William
Langewiesche, who is a liar." The Bani Gala house in sight of Rawal Lake "is totally a legal construction and there are
dozens of houses in the row of my house," he added. Blaming the writer for harming his reputation, Khan said: "The court
has requested me not to indulge in such interviews and conflicting debates, but despite this I would like to say that the
writer, William Langewiesche, has been involved for a long time in my character assassination campaign."
Langewiesche's story sets up a dramatic opposition: the wealthy Khan, with the large country home, against Islamabad's
poor, who ultimately drink polluted water near the lake."The attraction was not in the setting on the lake (there are prettier
lakes nearby) but, rather, in the open defiance of the law - an opportunity for the display of personal power," the writer had
claimed. On June 25, 1992, Pakistan's Capital Development Authority and Islamabad police had launched an operation
against residents of Bani Gala to confront supposed encroachment on the lake. The police had arrested over 70 Bani Gala
residents, and during a seven-hour standoff, crossfire between the police and the villagers killed two men. The lake
development gained instant infamy.In 1998, Dr Khan was among the villagers who filed suits against the CDA, asking for
an end to the construction ban or for separate land on which they could build. On June 25, 1999, Justice Muhammad
Nawaz Abbassi gave a judgement in favour of Dr Khan and other petitioners, dismissing an order to bulldoze Khan's and
other villagers' homes. (ANI)
LAWLESSNESS IN BANGLADESH REMINDING THE SCARED PEOPLE THE SPECTRE OF 1972-
74 REVISITING THEM! Today Ruling Awami League party is led by Hasina being surrounded by
goons, thugs and sycophants as it was during 1972-74 when Hasina’s dictator father was ruling
the country. Oppressed people could take the oppression no longer. They rose up and killed the
dictator-Ghulam Murtaza Tarapdar, Sylhet:07.;l02.12. Education, Medication, and almost each and every
department/institution in the country has failed to
function. During the one party dictatorship of a
thoroughly corrupt & ineffiicient Indian poodle
Hasina government. extortion, abduction, killing
robbing people while going or coming out of banks,
looting of goldsmiths shop, collecting “DONATION”
from big and small “Business alike” on various
pretence are the only way for the millions of
educated unemployed people to earn a living.
And these are every day’s happenings in
Bangladesh. Most essential commodities are
beyond the reach of most people. Today nobody
is safe in Bangladesh from the hands of the
ruling party’s armed cadres, the CDHATRA-LEAGUE & the JULOLEAGUE and there has not been a single
Pakistani or their Bengali speaking COLLABORATOR present in Bangladesh since 1972!============
Families of the victims of secret killings and kidnapping addressing a press conference at Dhaka Reporters
Unity expressing their grief and demanding security to life and property.
Photo- www.thenewnationbd.com:Dhaka:07.02.2012
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bkYlkr gwkfk cko mkge Hgjge/ bkkxpkl Mkukhfx cko gfdk ygrge/xkfk xijkge gskguj aÌ ' ßxjkge /humsÅjÅj bkfkirk
gskguj gbïp ßxjkge/dwhlsk fk lÏk l'g'gn akhlgr hmgrge/ Abdul Awal Muktijudda Bir Uttam,
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MOST FARIDPURI WOMEN ARE WELL KNOWN FOR THEIR SHARP ABUSIVE
TONGUE: HASINA IS NO EXCEPTION: WHY MOST OF THE LAND-LORDS IN DHAKA
ARE FARIDPURI WHO DID NOT HAVE HOUSES IN DHAKA BEFORE 1971?
Foul mouth, abusive half educated historical Faridpuri lady Hasina has no cow, buffalo, horse or tractor to
plough the rough hard political soil of Bangladesh. She has gathered together some goats & sheep. Her
Sylheti Bungal Finance minister said, “ I DO NOT UNDERSTAND STOCK MARKET”, Her ex industry minister
said, “ IF PEOPLE EAT LESS THE PRICE OF ESSENTIAL COMMODITES WOULD COME DOWN”, Hasina
herself, the jack of all trade said, “ HOW CAN I REMOVE CORRUPTIUON BECAUSE THE MUSTARD SEED
ITSELF HAS GOT THE GHOST INSIDE IT WITH WHICH I AM TO REMOVE CORRUPTION”. Her Ignorant Law
minister Shafiq Ahmad knew not that Canada did not repatriate any person under sentence of death. But to
please India & Hasina he said, “ SOON CANADIAN AUTHRIRTIES WILL REPARTIATE THE KILLER OF THE
FATHER OF THE NATION LIVING IN CANADA. Sycophant Sahara Khatun recited the same MANTRA parrot
fashion. In came Srimoti Dipu Moni and joined the chorus!!! While Shafiq Ahmed stayed in Canadian luxury
hotel for long ten days on taxpayers expense and employed a Canadian Legal Firm spending a fortune of poor
Bangladeshi taxpayers borrowed money.
Rabble rouser, Hasina-sycophant political novice Ashraful Islam had has no political experience. He was
chosen by Hasina because he was the son of an Indian agent whom patriotic army of Bangladesh executed for
high treason against the state. By appointing this absolutely ignorant person a minister she has compensated
his loss of father, as she has likewise compensated herself by inheriting her father’s heritage, the post of the
HEAD OF GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLES REPUBKLIC OF BANGLADESH!
Abdul Awal Muktijudda Bir Uttam, Sector 231:Dhaka:07.02.12:
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Minister Ashraf and the opportunity to talk nonsenseby-
Afsan Chowdhury: February 6, 2012
[ OPINION] Photo: bdnews24.com
So there we go again, Minister Syed Ashraful Islam adding to the
collection of brilliant quotes about life and death in Bangladesh. Nearly
immortalised for saying that Indian border killings are minor matters, he
has said that road deaths are accidents and one can do little about it. Of
course we can do little about it! When people are competent they don’t
give excuses as this minister has done. The only problem is to decide
whether to wail over the many deaths from road mishaps or wail over the
fact that such a person claims to serve the people.
Our ministers are mysterious beings from God and what they say is even
more so. The BNP home minister Altaf Hossain Chowdhury has also
been immortalised for saying (when a child was killed in crossfire of
criminals) that God had taken back a soul and nothing could be done
about it (Allar mal allah niyechey). Our Ashraf has now done better and
said that nothing can be done about mishaps as they are accidents. One must congratulate him for that because anything can be
passed off as an accident. From the share market crash to the arsenic pollution, are all accidents after all. I wonder if we need
politicians or pirs to run our governments.
I suppose better familiarity with English language terms is also an issue because the word in question is road mishap and not road
accidents. Neither MP Tarana Halim who raised the question nor Ashraf minister realised that what had got them in a verbal mess
was misuse of a term to describe ‘mishaps.’ Many words travel well between languages and some don’t and the word ‘accident’ is
one. But the Minister was not trying to make sense but give excuses and in this he was successful. But we are not impressed.
Since the Minister has made up his mind that he can’t do anything about it, we are providing some information for the general
readers that show how dangerous his words are as far as doing or not doing something is concerned.
Road mishaps cost at least Tk. 5,000 crore yearly which is roughly 1-3 percent of the GDP. Most mishaps occur – 70% – in rural
areas and over 80% of the victims are pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists. About 70% of the victims are between 16-50 years
says researcher Mohiuzzaman Quazi. Road mishaps claim an average of 4000 lives and injure another 5000 a year. Actual
estimated road fatalities each year are between 10,000 to 12,000 which is at least 50 times higher than the rates in Western Europe
and North America.
According to UNICEF, road mishaps are the 4th leading cause of permanent disability for children in Bangladesh and nearly 3500
children are killed in road accidents, the majority of whom are from poor families.Road accidents affect the poor most and many
families are driven into greater poverty by the loss of a breadwinner and the added burden of the disable members with 70%
reporting severe loss of income after a mishap.It’s not just the vehicles which cause mishaps but ignorance of the pedestrians as
well. Perhaps the Minister is not aware that several agencies have now undertaken projects to improve the situation. Nobody is
hiding behind the word ‘accident’ as Ashraf is.It is a complex problem and serious one which certainly doesn’t merit the levity with
which the Minister addressed the issue.
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Hunger strike highlights forgotten tragedy of Palestinian prisoners
By: Aziz Abu Sarah
Khader Adnan’s hunger strike reached its 52nd day with little international attention. Some might think this is due to his
association with the Islamic Jihad. However, the Israeli military has not presented any formal charges against him. Adnan
is one Palestinian prisoner among thousands, about whom little is known.In Israel, many simply brush away the issue of
Palestinian prisoners by declaring them all to be terrorists. However, they may be surprised to learn that Khader Adnan
has not been charged in court, but rather is presently in administrative detention.There are some 300 Palestinians in Israeli
jails under administrative arrest. This form of arrest can last for years without trial. The prisoners do not know what are
they suspected of. While holding prisoners indefinitely contravenes the 4th Geneva Convention, you won’t find
international leaders calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners, as they called to free Gilad Schalit from the hands of
the Hamas government in Gaza.
But even those who do end up in front of a judge find themselves in military courts where the judge, the prison guard and
the prosecutor wear the same uniform. They quickly learn there is no hope for justice.The story of Khader Adnan, who
launched his hunger strike in prison 52 days ago, is not unique. A hunger strike is one of the few tools that Palestinian
prisoners can use against the injustice they face in Israel’s penal system. Last October, 2,000 Palestinians launched a
hunger strike against prison conditions. Khader Adnan, however, has become the face of the Palestinian prisoners’
dignity. Posters of his likeness have become common, with statements like, “My dignity is more important than food,” or ”
For every gram you lose from your weight, we gain a thousand grams in our dignity.” Khader Adnan has become a
Palestinian symbol against administrative arrest and against the norm of humiliating Palestinian prisoners. However the
price for resisting the prison administration is high. Many times those who engage in hunger strikes are punished with
solitary confinement, through other physical means, or they are simply ignored.
What Khader Adnan is protesting brings painful memories to me. I remember Israeli soldiers breaking into my home to
arrest my older brother Tayseer (18 years old at the time) on suspicion of throwing stones. He was also held for
interrogation without anyone knowing his whereabouts until the Red Cross informed us 18 days later about his prison
location. A year later, Tayseer died as a result of torture in prison. I remember that I was allowed to visit him once before
being told that visitation is no longer allowed. The conditions in which Palestinian prisoners are held are inhumane and
unjust and the silence of the Israeli community and the international community is shameful.The Shin Bet has been
allowed by the Israeli High Court to use “moderate physical pressure” against Palestinian prisoners. In a paper written by
lawyer Allegra Pacheco, she details some of the physical pressure permitted for use against Palestinian prisoners.
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Twenty years after Tayseer’s murder, it hurts the same to see other families going through this experience. The conditions
that killed Tayseer are still in practice, and receive very little attention.Two days ago, Jalal Abu Khater published a call to
help Khader Adnan. This call is for all – Palestinians, internationals and Israelis alike. Tens of thousands of Israelis took to
the streets for abducted soldier Gilad Schalit’s freedom. It is time to open our eyes and bear witness to what many prefer
not to see. The solution to this conflict is not to close our eyes from what is depressing or hard to look at, but rather to be
willing to realize the gravity of the situation. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “In the end, we will remember not the words of our
enemies, but the silence of our friends.”I look at the Israeli community and see thousands who are willing to talk about
justice, peace and dialogue. They went out in droves to call for the right of one Israeli soldier to freedom. Now, I ask myself
– where are those Israelis when it comes to Palestinian freedom? Where are they when it comes to Palestinian rights in
their prisons? Where are the justice seekers and morality preachers?==============================
Aziz Abu Sarah is a Palestinian resident of Jerusalem who divides his time between Jerusalem and Washington D.C.
Aziz is a columnist with Al Quds newspaper and is the co-executive director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy
and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University. Aziz runs alternative tours to the Middle East with a focus on Israel
and the West-Bank through MEJDI a social enterprise he co-founded.
UFree Network | Media Centre .media@ufree-p.net .www.UFree-p.net
UFree is an independent European-wide human rights network; set up to defend the rights of Palestinian prisoners and
detainees
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RELUCTANT GOVERNMENT WITNESSES ARE COACHED YET THEY ARE
ARE WORRIED TO TELL LIE AGAINST THE ISLAMIC LEADER. SOME ALREADY
ABSCONDED, SOME HAD CRIMINAL RECORDS, SOME CONTRADICTED EACH
OTHERS STATEMENT, DESPITE GOVERNMENT PROSECUTORS PRODDINGS
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Hearing on Sayedee case deferred till Feb 13
Samachar/Barta/Daily Diganta/AAmardesh: bdnews24.com, Dhaka . www.newnationbd.com: 08.02.12
Faced with the prosecution's failure to produce witness, the war crimes tribunal on Tuesday adjourned hearing Jamaat
leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee's case after a witness testimony till Feb 13. The 24th prosecution witness, Mohammad
Hossain Ali, about 66or 67 years old, said in his brief testimony on Tuesday that he had seen Sayedee around Bagharpara
of Jessore when he was supposedly living at Rowshan Ali's house. According to the prosecution Rowshan Ali, a resident
of the area, had sheltered Sayedee after the Liberation War apparently when the Jamaat leader was in hiding as he was a
hunted man in his native Pirojpur."I had seen him around on the street. But I cannot remember anything more specific,"
said the sexagenarian witness sporting a milk white kurta and a matching beard. The witness could not confirm whether he
had seen Sayedee in his area before or after the war.But despite prosecutor Saidur Rahman's prodding about what else he
knew about Sayedee, the witness appeared reluctant and did not say anything more than pointing out that it was 40 years
and he could not quiterecollect.This brought an end to the testimony and the day's proceedings within barely a half hour
since it begun at 11am after a longadjournment on Feb 2.
Sayedee's is the first case to proceed to the trial stageat the tribunal. The prosecution on Sept 4 proposed framing of
charges againsthim on 31 counts for crimes against humanity and genocide. On Oct 3, the tribunal indicted Sayedee on
The tribunal also sent Jamaat's former chief Ghulam Azam tojail on Jan 11. His indictment hearing is scheduled for Feb
15.Besides Sayedee, Jamaat chief Matiur Rahman Nizami,secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed and assistant
secretaries generalMohammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Molla, and Bangladesh NationalistParty's standing
committee member and MP Salauddin Quader Chowdhury have beendetained on war crimes charges.The tribunal granted
conditional bail to former BNPlawmaker and minister Abdul Alim on March 31 last year. The bail was extendedfurther on
Jan 16, ordering him to be present in the court on Mar 15 when theprosecution has been directed to submit formal charges
against the BNP leader.
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http://www.nation.com:Islamabad: February 07, 2012: EDITORIAL
The UN mission in Afghanistan has reported that a record number of civilians were killed in the war-torn, foreign-occupied
country in 2011, marking the fifth consecutive year the death toll has risen. In its annual report, the mission revealed that
3021 civilians were killed in 2011, up eight percent from 2010. The report differed from the assessment of Nato forces that
the year was ’remarkably successful’. It is expected that Nato would try to sell it as such, for it is preparing to withdraw
combat troops from the region and hand over responsibility for security to the Afghan government. The first question,
raised even by the UN report, is who is doing the killing. The report blames the Taliban for 450 deaths. However, though
the report acknowledges that the Isaf has been responsible for civilian deaths, it does its best to defend it, stating that it
has reduced the number of deaths over the last two years. Most of the deaths attributed to Nato were due to air attacks, as
widely reported over even weddings and funerals. These deaths have provoked even the propped-up regime in Kabul to
protest.
The report noted that the geographic distribution of casualties had shifted, as the conflict lessened in intensity in the
south, and increased in the southeast, east and north. This also showed that the resistance to foreign occupation has
spread all over the country. It is unfortunate that the only sources of information about casualties, civilian and military
alike, are the US and UN. It is therefore of significance that Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has said that
Pakistan has not asked the USA to apologise for the Salalah incident, in which 26 Pakistani soldiers lost their lives.
Though the UN has been forced to report Nato excesses against Afghan civilians, Pakistan’s rulers seem to have learnt
nothing, and are working to restore Nato supply lines through Pakistan.
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Kashmiris to protest shifting of political detainees
01 February 2012 Wednesday .www.world Bulletin:
(File Photo) Kashmiri leader called for peaceful protests after Friday prayers on February 3, and complete shutdown on
February 7, Tuesday, against the shifting of political detainees from Srinagar Central Jail to the outside jails of Kashmir
valley. Kashmiri leader called for peaceful protests after Friday prayers on February 3, and complete shutdown on
February 7, Tuesday, against the shifting of political detainees from Srinagar Central Jail to the outside jails of Kashmir
valley.According to Kashmiri Media Service, the veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, in a statement, said,
“this is sheer violation of standing laws. There is Indian Supreme Court ruling that the prisoners should be lodged in jails
situated nearest to their residences."“There are prisoners who have served life imprisonment and whose cases are
pending disposal in local courts. These prisoners cannot be shifted to other places as per the law.”Gilani said that about
50 detainees lodged in Srinagar Central Jail were being shifted to Kathua, Hira Nagar and Kote Balwal Jails.Kashmiris see
India as an "occupier" and accuse the ruling of systematic violations, killing dozens of civilians in Himalayan region.Tens
of thousands of Muslims have been killed since pro-independent moves grew against Indian rule in 1989.In 1948, the
United Nations adopted a resolution calling for a referendum for Kashmir to determine whether the Himalayan region
should be part of India and Pakistan. But India has rejected to hold referendum in Kashmiri territory.
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Crying wolf, foreign agendas and Israel's role in destabilising Syria
Virginia Tilley :Feb 08.2012.http://www.Islam21c.com/politics/4345-crying-wolf-foreign-agendas-&-israels-rolein-
destabilising-syria-?utm_source=islam21c&wtn-campaign
Israel's track record of fostering regional unrest is an old story. It's now a well-worn observation that the US invasion and
occupation of Iraq - which dismayed the whole world and shattered US credibility in foreign affairs - was a splendid
success from the perspective of its pro-Israel architects. Their core goal in promoting the war was to eliminate Iraq as a
military threat to Israel and this miracle has been neatly accomplished. Oh, sure, Iraqi society is now a bomb-cratered
version of its former self, but that too is a friendly outcome - insurance against a strong Iraqi state ever rising again. It's
been a dismally predictable, transparent and nasty lie by regimes under assault in the Arab Spring that the mass uprisings
are being whipped up by foreign agitators - usually meaning Israel and the United States, maybe France, Europe generally,
now sometimes Turkey or, heaven forfend, Al Jazeera journalists. Only the most gullible swallow these claims: their
principal effect is to make the claimants look like buffoons.
Still, a government's crying wolf doesn't mean a wolf isn't around somewhere. It's equally gullible to assume that foreign
agendas have no role in Syria, for example.The flood of western money, supplies, intelligence agents, satellite and drone
monitoring and promises of every kind has been lavish everywhere in the Arab Spring. They have been serving outside
interests in the time-honoured way of all revolutions: identifying new clients for backroom deals, playing on big-man
ambitions, fostering cupidity where it was only a seed, manipulating jealousies and fears, playing off old internecine
vendettas and, the new favourite, heating up sectarian bigotry. If these machinations are more low-profile in Syria, this
doesn't mean they aren't operating.
Since the end of the Cold War, Western interests have focused almost exclusively on stability, that pillar of pax
economicus beloved by investment bankers, primary-product extractors and tourism developers everywhere - with one
exception: the Middle East. The hypocrisy of Western democracy promotion in the Middle East has been described too
much to need further mention here, but it does bear pointing out that instability is preferred by at least one key player:
Israel. The interests driving this foreign involvement haven't changed in decades: the geopolitics of oil and, as a related
but also self-standing issue, Israel. These are constants, and don't tell us much. Less obvious is the exact strategy serving
these goals, particularly the subtext of ostentatious calls for "democracy". Democracy became a foreign policy goal for
Western powers during the Cold War when inept dictator allies kept triggering revolutions against themselves and
toppling. The real goal of "democracy" was stability: instability served only where a great power wanted to pick a fight over
influence.Israel's track record of fostering regional unrest is an old story. It's now a well-worn observation that the US
invasion and occupation of Iraq - which dismayed the whole world and shattered US credibility in foreign affairs - was a
splendid success from the perspective of its pro-Israel architects. Their core goal in promoting the war was to eliminate
Iraq as a military threat to Israel and this miracle has been neatly accomplished. Oh, sure, Iraqi society is now a bombcratered
version of its former self, but that too is a friendly outcome - insurance against a strong Iraqi state ever rising
again.
Fomenting instability: And yes, it's a reckless strategy, as Iraq's splitting along ethnic and sectarian lines has created an
incubator for al-Qaeda. But security-services exporters like the US and Israel are raking up big bucks in the war on terror,
so a rosy aura of dollar signs hovers even over that grim prospect. Otherwise, any chance of Iraqi civil strife morphing into
an independent military role for Iraq on the regional stage is securely blocked by a thick net of US arms deals and private
contracts.
Rub hands together and smile.: Reducing Iraq to a bloody morass of sectarian vendettas was hardly the first such victory
for Israel. It's too often forgotten these days that Israel also stoked the bloody Lebanese civil war by funding and arming its
proxy Maronite Christian allies against the PLO and Sunni factions - pumping up old schisms that might otherwise have
resolved more quietly. The scars of that war, which still run deep for Lebanese, still secure benefits to Israel. Even the rise
of Hezbollah has not unparalysed Lebanon's foreign policy, securing Israel's northern border. And Lebanon was no
accident. It behooves us to recall also what was once a much-cited article by Israeli analyst Oded Yanon, "A Strategy for
Israel in the 1980s", whose gist was reproduced in that notorious 1996 neo-con manifesto, "A Clean Break" which framed
the war in Iraq. Writing in 1982, while the Lebanese civil war was still raging, Yanon outlined Israel's interests in whipping
up ethnic and sectarian conflict:
Lebanon's total dissolution into five provinces serves as a precedent for the entire Arab world, including Egypt, Syria, Iraq
and the Arabian Peninsula, and is already following that track. The dissolution of Syria and Iraq later on into ethnically and
religiously unique areas, such as in Lebanon, is Israel's primary target on the Eastern front in the long run, while the
dissolution of the military power of those states serves as the primary short term target.Syria will fall apart, in accordance
with its ethnic and religious structure... This state of affairs will be the guarantee for peace and security in the area in the
long run, and that aim is already within our reach today... Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation will assist us in the short
run and will shorten the way to the more important aim of breaking up Iraq into denominations as in Syria and in Lebanon.*
(emphasis added)Since Israel has followed this template ever since, remembering Yanon's piece lets us read some errant
tea leaves of the Syrian opposition's present debates. That opposition is a mixed bag, with sharp disagreements,
particularly about external intervention, as well as whether, when and how to negotiate with the government. These
disagreements are certainly sincere and most are principled. Left alone, consensus could gel. But Israel's interests, which
weave through them like a fog, run in a different direction: to steer Syrian events away from any process that will generate
a representative, stable and strong country in the long run.
Of course, Israel bases its whole existence ideologically on the premise that the Middle East and the world at large are
entirely steered by bigotry, but this worldview has also proved useful as realist foreign policy. It's always easy to turn idle
biases into rabid racism. The Mossad is also brilliant at infiltrating Arab movements, as Palestinians will bitterly attest, and
has been sending agents across the Syrian border to gather intelligence and stoke "tribal" divisions for decades. It can
certainly do this with much greater facility now that the country is in such upheaval.Far preferable for Israel is to keep
things polarised to ensure a catastrophic internal crisis that will dismantle Syria's security forces, permanently fragment
its political elite and paralyse domestic politics in bitter internecine squabbles (with rival foreign supporters), which as a
package will ensure that a strong state can't be rebuilt. Thus Syria's independent role in the region would evaporate and
Israel's foreign policy prerogatives will be secured.Even more perfect would be a Syrian collapse defined by sectarian
bigotry, a game at which Israel enjoys grand mastery.Hence it's only sensible to assume that Israeli plants are all over the
Syrian movement, among and within factions, playing off arguments about best ways forward. And as Israel's best
outcome is crisis, polarisation and violence that will generate a weak Syria in the end, those arguing about negotiating with
the regime must consider which of the voices rejecting negotiation are sincere and which are Israeli hand-puppets.
Destroy the whole political order: Israel's game would therefore find great advantages in the troubling tendency of the Arab
Spring to equate "regime change" with ejection of a hated head of state. It's the age-old passion of the oppressed to storm
the castle with pitchforks and eject the tyrant - the cruel duke, extortionist tax collector, kleptocratic mayor or feral queen -
and send him or her packing. Regime change in such revolts not usually the goal: satisfaction is gained by getting a
marginally more decent duke, tax collector, mayor or queen.If true regime change is desired - that is, change in the whole
political order - then fixating on removing one figure will expend a movement's energies on political drama yet leave the
regime intact, like waves crashing on rocks and sending up spray. To move the rocks, a different calculus must be made.
If a thuggish dictator rules through a powerful party with institutionalised monopolies over force and terror, as in
Saddam's Iraq, upon his removal, the regime may indeed crack and splinter, yet leave dangerously strong shards fighting
over a new order that may emerge as worse. (Of all the dreadful conditions that humanity invents for itself, the most likely
to favour the nefarious climbers is unpremeditated anarchy.)
If a dictator has avoided creating any party and kept the government institutionally weak in order to use private channels
to dispense favours and foster jealousies among the population in order to defuse any united opposition, as Gaddafi did in
Libya, then upon his removal, not only the government, but the nation itself (which was indeed prevented from properly
existing) may shatter into a thousand pieces.A quick look across the Arab world confirms that regime change faces very
different conditions. Yes, where state power and wealth are concentrated in a single venal family, as in Tunisia, whole
chunks of the regime can be forced onto a couple of planes and shipped out, leaving the power bloc sufficiently weakened
yet the shell of government sufficiently functional for reformers to wrangle real if tortuous change over months and years.
But this strategy can backfire elsewhere.In all these examples, the state is brittle and easily cracked; what varies is the
aftermath. By contrast, a more institutionally sophisticated and rugged regime, as in Egypt, can prove much more resilient.
Under Mubarak, security elites have become fused with economic elites: the state's diverse arms function like one
machine with big business.Hence its members do not rely on a figurehead but on each other, and will tend to close ranks
in a crisis.
This resilience explains why mass mobilisation in Egypt has not (yet) seriously dented the culture of state power: mass
revolt has no direct way to challenge the military's vast and iron grip on the national economy. Egypt even lacks an
independent business sector that might become alienated from the state and defect to use its economic clout on behalf of
the revolt. And since Egypt's ruling, generals enrich themselves by holding that clout themselves, they can hardly find
compensation in the dignity of returning to the barracks. They have everything to lose from democracy, and know it (as
Steven Walt has recently pointed out in Foreign Policy). Hence, the mistake of the January movement in focusing so
specifically on Mubarak. Yes, Mubarak built and ran Egypt's regime, but it can run just fine without him. In other words, it
was not "his" regime. Going by their frequent references to "the regime of President Bashir al-Assad", Syrians have not
quite grasped that they face the same dilemma. The Syrian regime is smaller and less wealthy, and now haemorrhaging
members and legitimacy daily, but it's still a regime durable enough to change leaders in a crisis.
With or without Assad: The durability of the regimes in Syria and Egypt does not mean that mass revolution is doomed or
should stop. On the contrary: only by making a country ungovernable can a democratic movement force a repressive state
elite to consider robust reform. Until elites are convinced of this, it is indisputably pointless, even ruinous, to negotiate
with a government that is still murdering and torturing its opponents with impunity. At best, the regime will negotiate only
to save its own skin and make as few reforms as possible, while awaiting its moment to regain the high seat and wreak
vengeance on those who dared to trust it, as we have seen in Egypt and Bahrain. The trick is to persuade those whose
main interest is their own wealth and privileges that the system which secured those privileges is unsustainable and
preserving them requires a new one. Truly convince state elites of this and they will suddenly show themselves willing to
discuss change on profound levels.But the plain truth is that mass street action alone can't dismantle the deeper structure
of power that makes up these regimes. To go after a whole regime, in a strong state like Syria, requires leveraging the
leadership into real negotiations toward staged reform. This calls for careful and sober political midwifery, rather than
grand gestures focussed on symbolic targets whose fall may only veil the regime's survival.
Such is the lesson from South Africa, anyway. Or they will be willing to ship themselves out - with amnesty, of course.
Amnesty is treated by activists in Egypt these days as a dirty word, but they can take a hint from Latin American
revolutionaries, who in several cases found it the best way to get the bastards out in the end without killing and maiming
yet more innocent people. This elite shift should be helped by a quantum change, already observable, in how power
politics will operate in the 21st century. Repressive states all around the world are already discovering that their old tactics
are not working - that they can no longer neutralise mass unrest through deceit, bribery, terror and local proxies with the
same facility - because cyberspace has wrecked their capacity freely to steal, cheat, terrorise and lie their way to public
passivity. Thus the Arab Spring is signalling an irrevocable change in how state power works.
Since the end of the cold war, trillions of dollars and euros have been spent in the Middle East and west Asia on war,
regime change, hearts-and-minds development projects, "Free This-or-That" broadcast media, winging and dining protoleaderships,
grooming activists in multi-million-dollar "democracy camps" - all the old Cold War methods, still lumbering
arthritically along, not to mention outright invasions or massive air campaigns at costs so stratospheric as to exceed
mortal imagination.In these new conditions, it isn't clear whether the old wolf pack of "foreign interests" can adapt. One of
the most fascinating aspects of the Arab Spring has been watching western powers slip and stumble around this new
environment. Yet, as western foreign policy instruments, evidence of success from this cornucopia is paltry, as the
assassinations, massacres, torture and general hypocrisy that have also been part of this package are exposed and
tweeted in seconds among millions.
Consider the results: say, Karzai's leadership in Afghanistan - not only limited, corrupt and inept, but peppered with
regular scathing denunciations of US military methods and presence. Or the Maliki government's chilly boycott of those
dour ceremonies marking the US military "withdrawal" from Iraq. Or serious dissent in now-fragmented Libya about
whether western powers should have the expected access to the country's wealth. Or the Egyptian military government's
actually attacking human rights offices funded by its US patron.Add to this the open sneers and hostile chants by millions
of pro-democracy demonstrators in the street disgusted with US and European "pro-democracy" hypocrisy. The cold war
never saw such graphic embarrassments follow great-power patronage so consistently and swiftly. Still, foreign
intervention is playing the game with frightening skill in one respect. Those seeking instability, as the ticket to weak states,
have proved expert at inflaming latent sectarian devils and turning once-tolerant societies into cauldrons of snarling ethnic
paranoias.So while we sneer at transparently bogus state claims that foreign agitators are the true moteurs of these mass
rebellions, we should still take heed: at least one wolf is prowling in the fold.
:NotesSource: Al-Jazeera
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Argentina to complain to UN in Falklands row
Tom Lawrence : www.independent.co.uk: Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Argentina is to make a formal complaint to the United Nations Security Council after accusing Britain of “militarising” their
long dispute over the Falkland Islands.President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said the UK's decision to send one of its
most modern navy warships to the South Atlantic and to post the Duke of Cambridge on military duty in the region posed a
risk to “international security”.Her announcement comes amid simmering tensions between London and Buenos Aires in
the run-up to the 30th anniversary of the 1982 Falklands war, which saw Argentinian forces invade the archipelago in a row
over its sovereignty.Speaking to an audience including Falkland war veterans and other politicians at Argentina's
presidential residence yesterday, Ms Kirchner said: “I have instructed our chancellor to present formally to the Security
Council of the United Nations and before the General Assembly of the United Nations this militarisation of the South
Atlantic which implies a great risk for international security.”
Following the speech, the UK government insisted that it would not enter into negotiations over the sovereignty of the
disputed islands.A Foreign Office spokesman said: “The people of the Falkland Islands are British out of choice. They are
free to determine their own future and there will be no negotiations with Argentina over sovereignty unless the islanders
wish it.”Relations between the UK and Argentina have been frosty in recent months.
In December, Prime Minister David Cameron accused the Buenos Aires administration of “colonialism” after the Mercosur
grouping of countries, which includes Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Paraguay, announced that it would ban ships sailing
under the Falkland Islands flag from docking at their ports.Last week Prince William began a six-week posting in the
Falklands region in his role as an RAF search and rescue pilot, while the Government has also revealed it is to send one of
its newest destroyers, HMS Dauntless, to the South Atlantic.The Type 45 destroyer is due to set sail for the region on her
maiden mission in the coming months to replace frigate HMS Montrose.In her speech, Ms Kirchner said it was difficult to
see how “the sending of an immense and modern destroyer accompanied by the Royal heir who we would have liked to
see in civilian clothes and not in military uniform” was not a show of purposeful military strength by the UK.She said
Argentina would be opposing “this militarisation of the South Atlantic” because it was a region where “peace reigns”.
Ms Kirchner added: “We are people who have suffered too much violence in our country. We are not attracted to armed
games, or wars, on the contrary.“No land, no place can be a spoil of war. We do not believe in the spoils of war.”She also
made clear her view that the British are occupying the Falklands, saying: “It is an anachronism that in the 21st Century that
there are still colonies: there are only 16 cases (of colonisation) in the whole world, 10 of them are English.”Towards the
end of her speech she made a direct plea to Mr Cameron, saying: “I want to simply ask the English (sic) Prime Minister that
he gives peace a chance, that some time he gives peace a chance.”British Falklands veteran Simon Weston, who was
badly injured during the conflict, described the Argentinian president as “a troubled woman”.
He told the BBC: “I don't know what she thinks she is going to gain by annoying everyone with these continuing
arguments.“Ultimately what are the UN going to do? Are they going to sign a sanction against Britain? I doubt it very
much.”William Hague has described the deployments of HMS Dauntless and Prince William as “entirely routine” and said
that commemorations would go ahead to mark the 30-year anniversary of the conflict in April.He also accused Argentina of
attempting to “raise the diplomatic temperature” on the Falklands issue.It has also been reported that The Royal Navy is
sending a nuclear submarine to the region to protect the islands from possible Argentinian military action. This has not
been confirmed by the Ministry of Defence.Britain has held the Falkland Islands, known as Las Malvinas in Argentina,
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This autumn edition of the Journal of Palestinian Refugee Studies (JPRS) was developed from the theme of our Palestine
memorial week 2011. Articles included in this edition focus on the ongoing Nakba (literally catastrophe, the term
Palestinians used to describe their exile in 1948). In its current form the Nakba manifest as a slow and silent ethnic
cleansing of Palestine. As everyone Palestinian knows, the Nakba never ended, it merely took different forms. Palestinians,
from the 1948lands to the occupied territory continue to be expelled and disposed in their hundreds. Not to mention the
many racist laws adopted by the Knesset to lock Palestinians into their exile. JPRS is produced by the Palestinian Return
Centre. We strive to bring news and analysis from the Middle East and around the world which impact on the plight of
Palestinian refugees. We are immensely grateful to all the contributors and we welcome experts, activists and
commentators to contribute to future editions.Read Full Magazine and articles below:JPRS 2nd Ed: Editorial
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The Palestinian struggle, stated Edward Said, is not about national anthems, national flags or national currency. The core
of the Palestinian cause is a struggle for basic human rights and freedom from occupation…JPRS 2nd Ed: End the Nakba
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The Palestinian Nakba is still ongoing and will continue to go on until we Palestinians have achieved our independence
and freedom. He history of the Nakba began with the emergence of Zionism as a colonial and imperial discourse and the
process of Judaization of Palestinian sites… JPRS 2nd Ed: Documenting the Ongoing Nakba
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The Palestinian-Israeli conflict remains a headline, or a dailystory, on TV channels and in newspapers. It seems to be the
most well-known case world-wide. Tens, if not hundreds, of films have been produced about Palestine, and plenty on the
Nakba in different languages…JPRS 2nd Ed: My story in Gaza
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witnessed this first hand during the 2008-9 Israeli invasion known as Operation Cast Lead. ..JPRS 2nd Ed: Forceful
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were hear about the ongoing displacement of Palestinians within Israel… JPRS 2nd Ed: Strategic outlines of a Palestinian
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represent the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and there is no one individual that does or even a few, it really doesn’t have
any unified leadership and it either has many leaders or no leaders, take your choice…JPRS 2nd Ed: Lobbying for Justice
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Israel itself; the continued denial of the right of Palestinians to self-determination, and the discrimination… JPRS 2nd
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international law. For far too long, these rights have been ignored. Not only have the Palestinians suffered injustice as a
people and as individuals, something that cries out to Heaven for recognition and compassion, but this denial of justice,
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Because Egypt signed a peace treaty with the Zionist terrorists, the Anglo-American rulers
implanted mercenaries in occupied Palestine, USA agreed to pay an annual Fee of $1.3 bn
+$249m. These fees are neither aid/ grant or loan: If its stopped the peace treaty would
invalidate itself according to the term of the agreement: Most educated Egyptian know that
but the patriotic American masses know not. - Dr Abdel Magid Al-Ani Cairo:08.02.12=====
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Wed Feb 8, 2012 .Press TV:About 7 in 10 Egyptians surveyed by Gallup in December 2011 oppose U.S. economic aid to
Egypt, and a similar percentage opposes the U.S. sending direct aid to civil society groups. Senior U.S. officials
announced in January at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that President Barack Obama plans to speed
up aid to Egypt as the nation transitions from the Mubarak era. Congress already approved $1.3 billion in military aid and
$250 million in economic aid for the current fiscal year. Some of the conditions attached to this aid, including that it may
not be spent unless Egypt meets all obligations under the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace treaty, may help explain its unpopularity
in certain Egyptian circles. Some Egyptian activists say such restrictions encroach upon Egypt's sovereignty. Gallup.com
The majority of Egyptians are against receiving aid from the United States, according to a recent poll, which highlights
increasing calls for transparency regarding the army budget, namely since it receives $1.3 billion annually in aid from the
U.S. thedailynewsegypt.com.The Gallup poll was released Monday, just as a number of NGOs came under fire from Egypt's
government, accusing them of illegally receiving foreign funding. U.S. officials have in turn criticized the crackdown and
floated threats about possibly withholding aid from Egypt. Thedailynewsegypt.com.Egyptians are nearly as likely to favor
aid from Arab governments as they are to oppose help from the U.S. Almost 7 in 10 favor aid from Arab governments. This
may in part reflect high-profile announcements by several of the country's Arab neighbors about their involvement in
projects to help rebuild Egypt's economy. hotair.com.As Egypt's new parliament begins its work and the country's citizens
prepare for presidential elections, many Egyptians are suffering from the day-to-day realities of unemployment and price
inflation. According to Gallup's most recent survey in December 2011, Egyptians are most likely to name inflation and lack
of money as the biggest problem facing their families; the second is lack of jobs. Gallup.com
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Muslim life has no value: Once the Zionists and the Yakees say SOME ONE IS AN ISLAMIC
TERRORISTS they do not need to prove it or anybody’s approval/confirmation. Straight away they
go for the kill!These Zion-Yankee terrorists are always above the law due to their possession of
undemocratic VETO at the UNOSC & the WMD- USA’s excuse is “ THE TERRORISTS WERE EITHER ARABS
(FOREIGNERS) OR CENTRAL ASIAN MUSLIMS”! SO IT IS LEGAL TO KILL THEM?!-Mubashir Akram Gaznavi
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ONCE AGAIN YANKEE DRONE ATTACK KILLED 10 MORE PAKISTANIS
Two missiles fired from unmanned US aircraft in North Waziristan tribal region, killing 10,
security officials say.
At least 10 people have been killed in another US drone attack in Pakistan's North
Waziristan tribal region.
Source-Hamara Watan/MNA/Urdu Digest/Al Jazeera.English :08.02.12:Pakistani security officials said the USA missile
strikes on Wednesday targeted a compound believed to belong to “SUSPECTED” anti-U.S. fighters in the northwest region
of Pakistan , nearing Afghan border.Two missiles hit the compound in Tappi, about 10km southeast of Miranshah, the main
town in North Waziristan."The attack triggered fire in the compound and 10 persons were killed," one official told the media
on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media. US President Barack Obama confirmed
last month for the first time that US unmanned drones have targeted Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters on Pakistani soil, a
programme that has escalated under his administration.Obama confirmed last month that US drones target Taliban and al-
Qaeda fighters in Pakistan [Al Jazeera]. Obama said the strikes were a "targeted focused effort at people who are on a list
of active terrorists". But Pakistan’s Human Rights Organisation said PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE TO KILL THE SUSPECT IS
ILLEGAL ACCORDING TO INTERNATIONAL LAWW!. US officials alleged that Pakistan's tribal belt provides sanctuary to
Taliban fighters waging war in Afghanistan against the American & NATO occupation force. Al Qaida also attacking the
foreign occupation troops under Anglo-American leadership using NATO. North Waziristan is the most dangerous of all
Pakistan's seven semi-autonomous tribal districts and has been a major focus of US pressure on the Islamabad
government to take sterner action against anti-American fighters crossing between Afghan and Pakistani
territory.However, the illegal drone programme run by the CIA has often been met with protests in Pakistan amid concerns
of civilian casualties. The Pakistani government publicly protests the operations, but is believed to support them.The New
America Foundation, a think tank in Washington, says drone strikes in Pakistan have killed between 1,715 and 2,680
people in the past eight years. According to the AFP news agency, the number of missiles that struck the tribal region went
down from 101 in 2010 to 64 in 2011.
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One Awami League leader on condition of anonymity told Al-Hilal, “We crippled Yahya
Khans government in Bangladesh in 1970-71 by civil disobedience. That time we had not the
police, Ansar, EPR, Soldiers, Courts in our hand, now we have everything and the surviving
Pakistani collaborators , the traitors, the war criminals and their supporters have no chance
of defeating us to save themselves”. Pro-Indian and anti-Islam ruling Awami League party’s
so called GRAND ALLIANCE (MOHAJUTT) have 14 parties of which only one party, the JP has
more than a dozen M.P.s, Workers’ party has 1 seat and the JSD only 2. (Ruling Awami
party’s traditional seats were given to the Worker party & the JSD to magnify the grandness of
the MOHAJUTT! Crafty Hasina’s strange“GRAND ALLIANCE” like her party’s Bengali
“INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL!) is nothing but but a propaganda ploy to dupe the
people and the international community.
But the Awami League leader failed to mention the killings of innocent Biharis, Bengali Pakistanis and West
Pakistanis in Adamjee Jute mills, Karnafuuly Paper mills, Kaptai, Khalispur, Jessore, Bhairab, Eshwardi,
Syedpur in a planned way forcing the Pakistani army to go out and save the innocent victims of Mujib’s Awami
League thugs who were armed by the Indian government and led by West Bengali RAW agents, pretending to
be Muktis!.Awami League, the party of the thugs, goons &, killers trying to do the same now. Intimidation,
killings and thereby causing panic, horror & terror among the population had been their policy all along.
Anwarul Azim Anwar: Dhaka:09.02.12 ===============
Current Hasina government won't allow rally in the capital Dhaka by the
main opposition and its allies
Dhaka:07.02.12:According to bdnews24.com, Barta/Samachar/Daily Diganta/Amardesh/ManabZamin.con and other
Bangladeshi media– Militant Home Minister Sahara Khatun thundered angrily that the proposed rally of the main
opposition BNP and its allies rally on March 12 in Dhaka is aimed at 'saving war criminals', so the government will 'thwart'
the bid 'peacefully and prevent it. Her Deputy Mr Tuku, the rabble rouser said, all the streets in the capital would be
occupied by our people.' "They (BNP) will not succeed at any cost, proclaimed a very robust, agitated Shahara Khatun.
“We will not allow them to save the war criminals who supported Pakistan in 1971 war, KILLED 3 MILLION Bengalis and
raped 300,000 Bengali women”.
Bd24 news writes, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia declared the programme 'to topple the government' from a rally at
Chittagong on Jan 9. Joining hands around 3pm, the ruling coalition supporters formed the chain It stretched through
Shyamoli, Asad Gate, Russell Square, Panthapath, Karwan Bazar, Shahbagh, National Press Club, Noor Hossain Square,
Gulistan, Tikatuli and Sayedabad. "BNP declared the Mar 12 programme to save war criminals. But, they will not succeed
at any cost. On that day, our leaders and activists will peacefully keep them [the opposition] off the streets," Shahara said
taking part in the programme at Gabtoli. Syed Ashraful Islam, the LGRD minister and Awami League general secretary, had
earlier announced the decision to form the 12-kilometre human chain between Gabtali bus terminal and Jatrabari crossing.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the leaders of the 14-party alliance at the Awami League president's political office
in Dhanmondi on Jan 29, he had
Ashraful had said that the human chain is an attempt to raise voice against a "conspiracy" at home and abroad to foil the
trial of war criminals. Among those who attended the meeting on Jan 29 were Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) president
Hasanul Haque Inu, Workers Party president Rashed Khan Menon and party member Shirin Akther, Ganotantri Party leader
Nurur Rahman Selim, Samyabadi Dal leader Harun Chowdhury and NAP leader Ismail Hossain. An Awami League media
release earlier in the said the party's leaders would take part in the human chain programme at different points of the city
on Tuesday.
Former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam, party's present chief Matiur Rahman Nizami, its secretary-general Ali Ahsan
Mohammad Mujaheed, central executive committee member Delwar Hossain Sayedee, and assistant secretaries general
Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and Quader Molla are facing charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, committed
during the 1971 war. They are all currently behind bars. Facing similar charges, senior BNP leader Salauddin Quader
Chowdhury is also in jail, pending trial, while former member of late president Ziaur Rahman's cabinet Abdul Alim is out on
conditional bail. bdnews24.com/sum/skb/ost/std/bd/nir/2126h
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“As the hanging of war criminals draws near Jamaat students were planning to held
protest march. We foiled their conspiracy”. Charta League leader
From Chittagong Abdur Rahman Patwary:09.02.12
TO STOP THE CERTAIN HANGING OF THE BENGALI WAR CRIMINALS AFTER LONG 40 YEARS STUDENT
WING OF THE JAMAAT-E-ISLAMI, CHATRA SHIBIR (THE STUDENT CAMP) IN CHITTAGING UNIVERSITY
WERE ATTACKED BY THE WELL-ARMED RULING PARTY THUGS, THE STUDENT LEAGUE HELPED BY THE
POLICE AND TWO JAMAAT STUDEHT LEADERS WERE MURDERED. NEARLY 22 WOUNDED, SOME
SERIOUSLY. HASINA POLICE DID NOT ARREST ANY OF HER STUDENT KILLERS, INSTEAD ARRESTED 11
JAMAAT STUDENTS:
Ruling party’s Chatra League thugs are seen with wooden sticks, being protected by the police. On the left
murdered Jamaat’s student leaders Mujahid Ullah and Masud bin Habib. picture Daily Sangram. Chittagong:
On the left Jamaat Student leaders laying in hospital after sustaining dagger’s wound Naim and Emdad.
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Money making inside jails
http://www.thenewnationbd.com:Dhaka:09.02.2012: Mamunur Rashid
Country's sixty seven prisons including the Dhaka Central Jail have become safe haven for criminals and some personnel
of jails for minting money through drugs trading, exploitation of ordinary prisoners and other illegal means. Some
hardened criminals serving long term jail are alleged to have been directing criminal operation at different places from
inside the jails allegedly with the full knowledge of a section of authorities. Many of the jail guards at different prisons
also exact money from ordinary prisoners by torturing them physically and mentally. To escape physical torture like
beating, prisoners bring money from their homes or relatives to bribe the corrupt prison guards, it is alleged.
Beating of the weak prisoners by the stronger ones for money and other benefits is also common practice in most of the
jails, insiders said. Overcrowding in jails, unhygienic condition, poor quality and inadequate diet and lack proper medical
and medicines have been telling heavily on the prisoners in jails. Malnourishment among the prisoners is clearly visible
in all jails. Adequate medicines, food and other facilities in jails are the privilege of the well-to-do prisoners, sources said.
The 67 prisons across the country have a capacity to accommodate 28,349 inmates only. But these are now jam packed
with 85,136inmates.The Dhaka Central Jail can accommodate only 2,682 inmates. But the number of inmates in this jail
now stands at 11,014 prisoners. There are 1,063children in 60 jails in the country. Ironically, these juveniles are made to
live with hardened adult criminals in jails in total violation of jail code. Many of the juvenile inmates and female prisoners
often victim to the sex hungry adult inmates, jail police and jail guards, according to reliable sources.
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairman Dr Mizanur Rahman on September 29 went to Sylhet to visit the Jail
and see for himself the human rights situation there following the complaints filed with NHRC.The authorities concerned
did not allow him to enter the jail, saying that the IG Prisons had ordered them not to allow anyone inside the jail without
prior permission from the home ministry. Some inmates, who recently got release from the central jail, alleged that illegal
drugs like yaba, phensidyle and hemp are traded inside the jail in collusion with some jail guards known as 'Mia
Saheb'.Such stimulating drugs are sold at exorbitant prices among the detainees, under-trial prisoners and convicts, they
informed…One inmate, wishing anonymity, said the drugs have different names inside the jail.A small sized round packet
of hemp, called 'marble' costs Tk 500 while each sex stimulating yaba tablet, known as 'baba', sells at Tk 2,000 and one
cup of phensidyle,known simply as syrup, sells between Tk 400 and Tk 500 inside jails, according to them.
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To punish “Disobedient” Pakistan World Zionist Congress Oligarchy’s infuriated Yankee
war criminals in the Whitehouse Den might intensify their illegal, criminal drone attacks to
create panic inside Pakistan by massacring unarmed ordinary Pakistani civilians in the
Pushtun belt of the country—Abdur Rashid Tabassam,:Peshawar>08.02.12 =============
Pakistan assures Iran on gas deal
08 February, 2012 .www.Pak Tribune.com: ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is committed to implementing the Iran-Pakistan Gas
Pipeline Project at the earliest in order to meet the ever-growing demand of the country for energy and power, President
Asif Ali Zardari said on Tuesday.He was talking to Iranian Vice President for International Affairs Ali Seedlou, who called
on him at the Presidency.Discussing the implementation of mutually agreed projects, the president said that besides
expeditious implementation of the gas pipeline project, Pakistan wanted to carry forward the proposed projects of 1000
megawatt Taftan-Quetta Power Transmission line and the 100 megawatt Gwadar power supply.The visiting vice president
said Iran had already laid gas pipeline on its side of the border, and was ready for realisation of the most important energy
project.
President Zardari said the government was also pursuing a trade liberalisation policy across the border, and proposed for
elimination of tariff and non-tariff barriers between the two countries to further boost trade ties.The president said that the
recent agreement between the two countries to work towards expanding the Pakistan-Iran Preferential Trade Agreement
(PTA) to include additional items form both sides and making it an agenda item for the next meeting of the trade committee
was a welcome move to enhance trade links between the two countries.He said that enhancing bilateral cooperation
particularly in energy, security, communication and infrastructure would help the two countries to overcome the
challenges in the way of realisation of full existing potential of their equation and to realise the goal of raising bilateral
trade to $5 billion from the current $1.5 billion, which he said was doable.
About cooperation in the banking sector, the president said the establishment of a joint working group and the proposed
visit of a delegation of Iranian banks to meet Pakistani counterparts would give impetus to the cooperation in the sector,
besides facilitating bilateral trade.The president said that facilitating export of meat and kinnow from Pakistan would help
the two countries enhance mutual trade. He said that opening of a new border crossing at Gabd-Reemdan would connect
southern parts of Balochistan and Karachi to Cha Bahar and Bandar Abbas through the coastal highway.He said Pakistan
was ready to grant multiple visas to the businessmen from Iran on a reciprocal basis."We look forward to welcoming
President Ahmedinejad for the 3rd Pakistan-Iran-Afghanistan Trilateral Summit," the president said, adding that the
forthcoming summit would hopefully prove to be an important milestone towards "our journey to find peace, stability and
Afghan-led conciliation process".
Speaking on the occasion, Iranian VP Ali Saeedlou said Pakistan and Iran had great potential to enhance their cooperation
in various fields, particularly in energy, trade and economy.He said Iran would help Pakistan in development projects,
adding that the gas pipeline project would help put the people on the road to progress and prosperity. He thanked the
president for meeting him and said Pakistan was an important neighbour for Iran. He assured the president of Iran's
continued support and assistance to the Pakistani government in all fields. He also announced $100 million assistance for
the development of flood-stricken people in Pakistan.Commerce Minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim, Adviser to PM on
Finance Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, Interior Minister Rehman Malik and other senior officials were also present on the
occasion. The Iranian vice president was accompanied by senior foreign office officials, while Iranian Ambassador to
Pakistan Alireza Haghighian was also present at the meeting.
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