The military sources based in Angoor Adda, a border town between Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal region and Afghanistan’s Paktika province, also said they had also heard similar reports of shooting down of the US chopper by Taliban just across the border. >>>>>
Taliban Kill Dozens in Bus Ambush, Officials Say
October 20, 200820afghan01-190 The attack was on the main road running from the southern city of Kandahar to the western town of Herat, General Qati said. It took place in Maiwand District, which is known as an area with a significant Taliban presence, where attacks on military convoys are frequent. The road is also the main route for British and Afghan army troops traveling to Helmand Province, where the insurgency is strongest. >>>>>
Not denying its authenticity, it would have been more credible if there were something more concrete from the side of the Taliban to verify such a claim. It would not be the first time that friendly fire on suspected Taliban recruits or prisoner releases is set up where the massacre is blamed on the other side. It would serve the purpose of the killers on many levels, to include offsetting the propaganda gains the Taliban may have had in the taking down of the U.S. chopper. Even Sun Tzu writes about this tactic in the ‘Art of War’.
The reason for the hesitation in accepting this article as truth is that the War on Terror has been fought with many lies. Even the ‘inadvertent’ mass killing of innocent civilians is denied by the West and the Afghan forces, until the evidence is overwhelmingly undeniable.
Israel not among nations getting visa waiver from U.S.
October 20, 2008President George W. Bush announced a decision over the weekend to exempt the citizens of seven more countries from the need to apply for U.S. visas; Israel was not among the seven.
The U.S. is also supporting the same measure for an additional six countries - Israel, again, is not one of them. The countries that received the exemptions are Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and South Korea. >>>>>
This piece is designed to make Israel, therefore Israelis, seem like victims or having been left out. However, Israelis enjoy far greater privileges than countries of Muslim nations, before and post 9/11. Israeli citizenship, unlike one from Saudi Arabia, also seems not to be something to preclude dual-citizenship holders of Israeli-US, for example, of holding high-level governmental jobs and posts. This is clearly not the case with other countries.
There may be other arguments to the reason for this. Since Israel wants Jews to return to Israel, maybe they lobbied against this privilege. Israel has produced many fake passports, to include European, in order to operate in foreign countries. There is nothing stopping them from continuing this effort and getting into the US to do something dastardly, while leaving the name Israel out of loop. If someone gets caught, they were ‘not’ Israeli, but rather Latvian, for example.
But if there is doubt or the consideration that I am just speculating; then I’ll settle for the argument that the best friend of Israel (US) is simply aware of their participation in 9/11 and frankly are tightening the screws a little to have greater control.
Muqtada al-Sadr urges rejection of US-Iraqi pact
October 19, 2008APTopix Iraq Anti US Protest Waving Iraqi flags and green Shiite banners, protesters chanted slogans condemning the pact. The demonstration in the mostly Shiite eastern part of Baghdad was staged under tight security, with soldiers and police manning checkpoints along the route.
“I am with every Sunni, Shiite or Christian who is opposed to the agreement … and I reject, condemn and renounce the presence of occupying forces and bases on our beloved land,” al-Sadr said in a message read to the crowd by a senior aide. >>>>>
This demonstration is in Baghdad; where the US has purportedly given them freedom. There are many in the West who don’t believe that Christians are opposed to anything related to the U.S. occupation. Very few asked the Christians in Iraq or anti-War activists of the West.
‘Muslim’ shouldn’t be a slur
October 15, 2008In a “don’t worry, be happy” tone, I breezily noted that although the stoking of racial fear and xenophobia was a cherished tradition of American politics, I really didn’t think that this time around the candidates would permit the wholesale slander of Islam or Muslims.
Apparently, I was wrong. The undertones have become screaming overtones. And it is past time to object. >>>>>
This is by design, in order to help keep the excuse(s) to continue the war on terror alive. It helps that even the opposing party’s candidate also reject any future potential of exonerating Muslims in the public eye while at the same time, forcing the hand of democrats to continue to maintain their position on the Islamophobic bandwagon.
Pak warns US against border violations
October 14, 2008drone Pakistani Government sources were quoted by the Dawn News channel on Monday as saying that Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari had told British officials on the same day that violations of Pakistan’s frontiers would not be tolerated...
Islamabad says the strikes are an infringement of its sovereignty and are counterproductive in the battle against militants. Pakistani civilian and military leaders have frequently protested over the US incursions into Pakistan’s tribal region, with Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani terming the attacks as an ‘act of terrorism’. >>>>>
Britain withdraws terror detention law after defeat
October 13, 2008brown The British government on Monday withdrew a plan to extend the time suspected violent extremists can be held without charge after the House of Lords voted against it.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she would remove plans to extend the limit from 28 to 42 days from a proposed counter-terrorism bill, but could re-introduce the measure in a separate law at a later date. >>>>>
It seems like they are stuck with only four weeks for torturing and conjuring up phony charges to continue justifying their participation in this War on Terror.
Young U.S. Muslims Shift to Democrats This Election
October 13, 2008The Pew study shows that older Muslim Americans support the military fight against terrorism, especially in Afghanistan, more often than younger Muslim Americans. Duke professor Jen’nan Ghazel Read says this divide is normal. Her research shows that the majority of Muslim Americans, who were born in the Middle East or Southeast Asia, still have a strong connection to their native homelands, despite years of being in this country. >>>>>
I guess that still makes me young….yippeee!!!
Freed Sudanese Detainee Tells of Torture at Guantanamo
October 10, 2008mustafa At a press conference he held Thursday at the premises of the International Civil Aid Organisation in Khartoum, Mr Mustafa said that he went to Pakistan for education and trade, but he and others were arrested after the incidents of September 11 by local elements in Pakistan and were handed over to the American forces.
He said that they were then transported to Guantanamo prison where several aspects of torture had been inflicted on them, adding that no one can avoid torture unless he says that he had participated in the war against the Americans. >>>>>
French army chief rules out military victory in Afghanistan
October 9, 2008french PARIS (AFP) — The head of the French military General Jean-Louis Georgelin on Wednesday backed comments by a senior British military officer’s view that the war in Afghanistan was unwinnable.
A British officer “was saying that one cannot win this war militarily, that there is no military solution to the Afghan crisis and I totally share this feeling,” Georglin told French television channel Public Senat. >>>>>
Bush, McCain abuse their legacy
October 9, 2008I am not a conventionally religious man, or even a very superstitious one, but I do wish George W. Bush would stop asking God to bless America. Every time he does, we seem to be visited with another plague, suggesting divine wrath over our president’s evil ways. How else to explain the persistent calamity that has marked this administration: a pointless but very costly war over nonexistent Iraqi WMD, the destruction by flood of New Orleans, the betrayal of the nation by the moneychangers - from Enron to Goldman Sachs - who Bush welcomed into the temple of the White House? >>>>>
Oil, war, lies and bulls**t
October 9, 2008There’s hardly any doubt that the George W Bush administration lied rather consciously about the cause of invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq. President George W Bush also has been deliberately untruthful to the American public on a number of domestic issues, such as illegal, indiscriminate wiretapping of US citizens, torture of foreign detainees and American political prisoners, and limitless encroachment on civil, human, and legal rights of the American citizenry at large. >>>>>
US, Pakistan torn apart over terror
October 8, 2008Commencing with the enormous backlash in Pakistan in the aftermath of the raid by US special forces on Angoori Ada in the tribal area of South Waziristan on September 3; the disclosure by the New York Times that President George W Bush issued secret orders allowing US special forces to undertake operations inside Pakistan without prior notice; and the aggressive statements of several Pakistani leaders, the entire country has been gripped by a wave of anti-American sentiment which the country’s top civilian and military leadership has also been quick to echo. >>>>>
Yemen says arrests militants with links to Israel
October 7, 2008SANAA, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Monday authorities had arrested a group of Islamic militants which he said had links to Israeli intelligence.
The group, which had contacts with the Jewish state “despite raising the slogan of Islam”, would be brought to trial, the official news agency Saba quoted Saleh as saying without giving further details.
Israel is considered an enemy by Islamist militants. It was not immediately clear if Saleh was referring to militants belonging to a group calling itself Islamic Jihad, who were arrested last month. A Yemeni security official told Reuters on Monday that authorities had found evidence of contacts by those militants with Israelis. >>>>>
With each piece of evidence that is gathered, the world still ignores the truth more fiercely.
Seven Years in Afghanistan: From “War on Terror” to “War of Terror”
October 7, 2008October 7, 2008. Seven years ago today the U.S. began the assault on Afghanistan that toppled the Taliban regime and produced the present mess. Abetted by U.S. bombing and commando operations, the Northern Alliance took Kabul on November 13, 2001. This was the initial U.S. response to 9-11, an assault on the U.S. by Saudi Islamist fanatics based in Afghanistan. The al-Qaeda attacks killed 3000 people. By March 2002 the U.S. bombing had produced that many Afghan civilian fatalities. This was just the beginning. >>>>>
Sources: Taliban split with al Qaeda, seek peace
October 6, 2008abdullah The talks — the first of their kind aimed at resolving the lengthy conflict in Afghanistan — mark a significant move by the Saudi leadership to take a direct role in Afghanistan, hosting delegates who have until recently been their enemies.
They also mark a sidestepping of key “war on terror” ally Pakistan, frequently accused of not doing enough to tackle militants sheltering on its territory, which has previously been a conduit for talks between the Saudis and Afghanistan. >>>>>
This story actually legitimizes the notion that Al-Qaeda and the Taliban had a marriage. In effect, there is no al-Qaeda. There is merely a response to an invasion, ethnic cleansing, torture and other horrors against humanity. These very same people who have been defending their own homeland, have been conveniently lumped together to be identified by the West as Al-Qaeda.
The Taliban, or the government of Afghanistan at the time of that country’s invasion and occupation, are a group of people whom have been focusing internally - and simply desire to live out their own culture, under their own sovereignty.
The continued connection between the two groups, with Osama bin Laden purported to be acting as liaison, is something that the West needs in order to continue its marching orders on the War on Terror. Interestingly enough, Pakistan and Afghanistan are commencing to ‘flip-flop’ on roles that neither wanted to take on, regardless of which side of the spectrum they fall on.
Iraq to Give 82% of Proven Oil Reserves to International Oil Companies
October 5, 2008A new decision by the Iraqi parliament leaves Iraqi minorities with no representation in the country’s provincial councils as well as the legislature, Nidhal al-Laithi reports for Azzaman. By an overwhelming majority, the parliament early this week revoked paragraph 50 from the constitution under which Iraqi minorities were assigned a set of seats in legislative and municipal councils. The revocation has sparked mass demonstrations in areas where these minorities live, particularly in the northern Province of Nineveh of which Mosul is the capital. >>>>>
