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Safar 27, 1429/ March 5, 2008  #15
Rushdie's Direct Connection with Israel and 
American Jews
He Insulted the Prophet, pbuh, was honored by Jews.
[From Nadrat Siddique]
Here is a rather interesting clip I found from a September 
2006 AJC (American Jewish Congress) awards ceremony, where 
Rushdie is flanked by the Israeli flag as he accepts 
a "Profile in Courage" award from them:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=W6Wy88tAfWA
(During the same ceremony, Wafa Sultan and Salim Mansour were 
also presented awards.)
In a few words, Palestinian intellectual sums it up
Letter:
Re: Making Baltimore History: vs Rushdie
Dear brother Kaukab:
This is great effort. We need more Baltimores.
[Dr.] Ismail Zayid
Nova Scotia, Canada
Letter: Re: Making Baltimore History: vs Rushdie: 
[Ecologist's Letter]
Respected Kaukab saheb,
May Allah bless you with more power of communication and may 
many more men and women who are enemy of the word of Allah 
and its communicators get the guidance. I appreciate your 
efforts for organizing the Muslims for non-violent democratic 
communication in U.S.
With salam,
[Dr.] Muhammad Mukhtar Alam 
http://muhammad_mukhtar_alam.tigblog.org
Letter: Latest Discovery of Massive Jewish 
Holocaust Fakery
Misha Defonseca's book, "Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust 
Years," was translated into 18 languages and made into a 
feature film in France.
http://news.yahoo.com:80/s/ap/20080229/ap_on_en_ot/holocaust_book_hoax;_ylt=Ar_3ytuq08gJLER_hI1Gxv5w24cA 
"The Painted Bird" by Jerzy Kosinski, which I vaguely 
remember being all the rage during my college years, was also 
a bestseller and a fake (see Finkelstein, "Holocaust 
Industry"). Makes you wonder if the folks who claim "The 
Diary of Anne Frank" is a fake might be on to something.
Ken Meyercord
Virginia
Letter: Re: Nuremburg [NT #14]: Saddam's "Trial" was 
no Different
The trial of Saddam Hussein was no different than the 
Nuremberg trials in that they violated "fundamental 
principles of justice ...via prosecutor, judge and 
executioner". They should have aired his trial on TV and let 
the American people hear what he had to say. Boy, could he 
have exposed our government and its fickle foreign policy in 
the Middle East. Perhaps he would have discussed the old days 
when V.P. George Bush, Sr., and Donald Rumsfeld used to visit 
his country selling weapons, in the 1980's during the 
Iraq/Iran war. (They were all good buddies.) At the same 
time, the American terrorist group, the Contras, led by 
Oliver North, were selling weapons to Iran via Israel. There 
is always the same common denominator when it comes to 
foreign policy, especially in the Middle East– Israel.
Carolyn Johnson
Florida
Jamaat al-Muslimeen [News] [3 items only]
P.O. Box 10881
Baltimore, MD 21234
Dr. Sami al-Arian Facing Indefinite Delay in his Release: 
Begins Hunger Strike
[Courtesy Washington Report.]
On Monday, March 3, 2008, Dr. Sami Al-Arian began a hunger 
strike for justice to protest continued government 
harassment. Earlier in the day, Dr. Al-Arian was informed 
that he would be called to testify before a third grand jury 
in Virginia, only weeks before his scheduled release date. 
Under his plea agreement, Dr. Al-Arian should have been 
released last April at the latest. However, because he has 
not testified, his sentence was suspended as he served one 
year for civil contempt.
Dr. Al-Arian's current release date is April 7, 2008, but it 
will likely be pushed back indefinitely when he is called 
before a grand jury.
Muslim Woman Shot Dead by Policeman, War Veteran 
from Iraq
In its March 4 issue, the Las Vegas Sun noticed the 
funeral services for a Muslim woman from Albania, Deshira 
Selimaj, who was shot and killed by a police officer in the 
town of Henderson. The officer, a veteran from the Iraq war, 
claimed that he was threatened by the woman. The memorial, 
February 29, was attended by the Albanian community in the 
Las Vegas area. These are people who are loyal to the U.S. to 
the point of being flag-waving.
U.S. Muslims urge United Stance Against Israel's Holocaust 
of Palestinians.
Dismantle Israel Thru Systematic Peaceful Means on a 
Global Level
February 27-March 3, 2008: More than 100 Palestinians, 
defenseless and helpless. were slaughtered by Israeli Jews 
using the latest helicopter gunships, jet fighters and late 
model tanks. Among those killed were 22 children, including 7 
babies. The others were all young men who do not accept 
Israeli hegemony. More than 200 Palestinians were wounded.
The Palestinians showed that they are good fighters when they 
repulsed the Israeli military column trying to enter northern 
Gaza, killing 2 Israeli troops and wounding 5. However, it 
was a pathetic sight to see Palestinian children hurling 
stones at the invaders. GAZA STANDS DEFIANT and ISLAMIC but 
lacking weaponry
We urge the Muslims to wake up and help defeat the Zionist 
monster seated in the heartland of Islam. Organized effort 
can help dismantle the terrorist entity. Here is 
our proposal:
- 
Palestine is central to Islam and affects every Muslim 
globally. All dictatorial regimes in Muslim countries are 
supported by Israel [often indirectly through the U.S.]
 - 
Every time Iran or Saudi Arabia or Libya use pro-Palestinian 
rhetoric, ask their representatives to arm the Palestinians 
or shut up.
 - 
Ask Hizbullah why it is inactive when the Palestinians are 
being killed?
 - 
Urge the Egyptian, Jordanian and United Arab Emirates regimes 
to cut their relations with Israel. [Muslims who are not from 
these countries should carry out these communications.]
 - 
All groups in the U.S. who claim to be Muslim or Islamic must 
proclaim in public on their web sites that Israel is an 
illegitimate, terrorist entity. The Islam of those who want 
to be friendly with Israel must be questioned.
 - 
Cut off all ties with American Jews who are funding Israel. 
[Almost all of them are.]
 - 
Boycott businesses which support Israel or are doing business 
with Israel, such as Coca-Cola, Starbucks, McDonalds, 
Nestles, Disney [etc]. Do your research. Don't kill your 
people with your own money.
 - 
Stop [peacefully] those collaborators within the U.S. Muslim 
community who have been visiting Synagogues, inviting Rabbis 
into mosques and supporting pro-Israel 
presidential candidates.
 - 
Open up the discussion of the Jewish "Holocaust" story. 
Remember this is the Jewish-Israeli mainline fundraiser for 
Zionism. Jews did suffer but so did Germans.
 - 
Call for the release of critics of the Jewish Holocaust 
story. Imprisonment of scholars like Germar Rudolf shows that 
the truth is too much for the supporters of the H story.
 - 
Study the Jewish hand behind the occupation of Iraq 
and Afghanistan.
 - 
Oppose the "Darfur Genocide" story. This is a Zionist myth 
aimed at undermining the premier African nation of Sudan. 
Call for an end to the occupation of Somalia.
 - 
Pakistanis should put Musharraf in trial for his secret links 
with Israel.
 - 
Saudi Arabia must withdraw its proposal to recognize Israel 
in return for a Palestinian state. Any recognition of Israel 
is treachery.
 
[Press release from Jamaat al-Muslimeen. Contact person: Imam 
Badi Ali, National Islamic Shoora.]
War News [from our Iraq observer]
Ahmedinejad Visit Protested by Iraqis: Rallies and Attacks 
Censored by U.S. Media
March 2, 2005: According to Reuters, demonstrations against 
the visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took place 
in the cities of Samarra, Mosul, Falluja and Baghdad, police 
and witnesses said. [However the reports were censored by ALL 
the U.S. media.]
Also, according to wire services, the resistance carried out 
bomb attacks within Baghdad while the Iranian President was 
visiting, inflicting heavy casualties in two of the attacks, 
in spite of intensive security precautions for the 
Iranian's visit.
In MOSUL, U.S. forces with Shi'ite military support are 
carrying out a house-to-house battle to kill Iraqis 
supporting al-Qaida and other insurgent groups. More than 200 
supporters of the resistance have been killed but the U.S. 
said, March 3, that it will take a long time to be successful 
against the mujahideen in Mosul.
U.S. losses for February were put at 29 killed and 79 
wounded but no details were given.
At least 14 of the Shi'ite military were also killed in Mosul 
and their bodies dumped in a mass grave.
On March 2, fighting erupted in Tal Afar [northeastern Iraq, 
near Syria]. Fighting is also reported from Fallujah with 
success for the insurgents.
War News from Pakistan: From our Urdu Language 
Media Monitor
Series of Attacks against Pak. Generals' Supporters 
Inflict Heavy Losses
March 4, 2008: Lahore: Two martyrdom operators on a motor 
bike attacked security inside the Navy's War College situated 
on Mall Road opposite Aitchison college. The powerful 
explosions could be heard for miles and terrified people in 
this upscale area. At least 7 Navy personnel were killed and 
18 wounded. A dozen cars and two buses caught fire and 
exploded along with fuel tanks in the area. The military 
sealed off the area.
U.S. Top Brass Confers with Musharraf and Kayani: Offers 
Direct Military Help.
March 4: Rawalpindi: Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the 
U.S. military's Joint Chief of Staff met General [ret.] 
Musharraf and Gen. Kayani [separately] and was apprised of 
the strategic Pakistani moves against the forces of Islam as 
well as the security situation in the battle areas.
The Admiral offered direct U.S. military force action to help 
defeat the "terrorists." The U.S. carried out two missile 
attacks on Pakistani villages this year killing scores of 
civilians along with a prominent Libyan Islamic refugee known 
as "The Libyan" and several Pakistani Taliban.
Military's Leading Tribal Supporters Wiped out by 22 Year 
old Bomber
March 2: In the Darra Adam Khel, in the Zarghon Khel area, 
evacuated by Pakistani Taliban after they decided not to risk 
damaging a tunnel in the area, a council of pro-military 
tribal chiefs was held, at a paramilitary post, to plan 
action against "foreigners." The term is used by General 
Musharraf's men for Islamic refugees and fighters from 
Chechnia, Uzbekistan and various Arab countries. The council 
[jirga] consisting of ultra pro-regime war lords announced 
that "the house of anyone giving refuge to any foreign 
trouble maker will be burned to the ground" and a heavy fine 
would be imposed on any supporter of "foreigners." Further, 
the tribal chiefs, representing the extreme of Pakistan's war 
lords and conservative religious bosses, united to order the 
"expulsion of all [Islamic] militants."
As the gathering was dispersing, a martyrdom operator, 
estimated by witnesses to be about 17 to 22 years old, strode 
across the field, entered the crowd of war lords and 
exploded. Forty six people were killed in the huge explosion 
and more than 100 wounded. [Thirty six, including security 
forces, died on the spot and ten died in hospitals.] The 
regime declared emergency in the entire area and is trying 
to take care of the wounded.
Police Force Sent by Musharraf to Occupy Swat Hit Hard: 
Curfew Imposed on Area
February 29-March 1: It all began on Friday morning in Lakki 
Marwat when a remote controlled bomb ambush killed a senior 
police officer [a Deputy Superintendent of police] along with 
three of his troopers. Later that night a grand funeral 
ceremony for the officer was held in Mingora, the capital of 
Swat, which is under Pakistani military occupation. [Readers 
might remember that the leader of the Islamic resistance in 
Swat, Maulvi Fazlullah, withdrew from Swat after a powerful 
Pakistani military column entered the state.]
After the funeral, "when policemen were giving a final honor 
salute to their officer" a martyrdom operator hit the 
assembled police officers and their friends. At least 50 
people, "among them a large number of policemen" were killed 
and another 50, mostly police, were wounded.
It is feared that a Jamaat-e-Islami official who had gone to 
condole with the police officer's family was also killed. 
[Daily Jasarat]
Viewpoint
The Left was with Bush!
"Democracy Now!" "Move-On" and other Left Groups 
Participated in Demonization Campaign Against 
Saddam Hussain.
Al-Kurdi uses Haifa Zangana as an Example.
Haifa Zangana, "Left" Wing Iraqi Traitor in Exile
By Husayn Al-Kurdi
A cottage industry of self-appointed Liberal and Progressive 
self-styled "advisers" to the Occupation forces in Iraq has 
been growing as disgust with the war and disgruntlement with 
the government grows in America and Britain.
There's the crypto-Baha'i Juan Cole who expatiates 
anti-Ba'ath vitriol under the banner of "Global Americana". 
Actually, Cole was a hanger-on in the openly pro-Zionist 
Baha'i Shi'ite offshoot sect and specialized in Iranian and 
Baha'i studies during his academic career, before he launched 
himself as an instant expert on Iraq and all that US Foreign 
Policy should and should not do. His "proof" that Saddam was 
an undesirable? "He looks crazy".
There's "Captain" Kurt Nimmo, another self-appointed USA 
adviser, aptly dubbed "John Le Carre" by Leila Anwar, one of 
a very few writers in the English language on the subject of 
Iraq who knows what she is talking about. He has bruited 
about the old saw that Iraq was an artificial creation, 
therefore does not need to be recognized as an entity, 
therefore can cease to exist and be broken up into three or 
more pieces, cohering with the old Israeli plan which has 
been around since the 1950s, and which pushes for 
ethnically-driven breakup of all Arab and Muslim-based 
nations in the Middle East and North Africa.
Then there's "Code Pink" and "Global Exchange" and the rest 
of the "Peace" apparatus which is joining with others in an 
effort to "Save the Republic", as are virtually all of the 
9/11 "conspiracy" theorists who refuse to admit that nineteen 
Arab Muslim guys could achieve what they did on that 
fateful date.
One salutary thing about "9/11": it brought out the abject, 
servile true essence and the rotten political character of 
almost everybody in America as well as many others elsewhere. 
The war in Iraq has carried the process of outing the phony 
"oppositionists" even further.
Thus the spectacle of moveon.org and all the 
"anti-war.coms" plumping for the Democratic Party 
(which has long proven to be at least as pro-Jewish power and 
anti-Arab and anti-Muslim as their GOP counterparts) to come 
to the rescue.
A broad coalition, incorporating what was once "the Left", 
has formed. Its salient features are anti-Saddamism, 
anti-Ba'athism and anti-Arabism, all wrapped in a "peace" 
package. It is explicitly against anything Arab that does not 
make nice with the imperialism which oppresses them, and 
particularly against national liberation movements which 
insist on fighting their oppressors until they are out of 
their countries and out of their lives, refusing anyone's 
tutelage in pursuing their paths to self-determination.
Among the denizens of the anti-Saddam "Left" camp is one 
Haifa Zangana. At first blush, she evokes the "do-gooder" 
maternalist-paternalist soup-kitchen approach, concerned with 
the living conditions of the people, especially women.
She tries to create the impression of recent involvement as 
an Iraqi on the ground in Iraq, trying to address the 
problems which that country faces as a result of invasion 
and occupation.
Actually, she has been an exile from Iraq for over 35 years. 
She was briefly imprisoned but then released, as were many 
others, although they were engaged in activities detrimental 
to the welfare of the people of Iraq, including efforts to 
overthrow and undermine the Ba'ath's efforts to transform 
Iraq into a bastion of Arab liberation and a strong force 
standing up to the American-British-Jewish-Pharisee Christian 
Axis of Evil. She has since embellished her story and let 
others add that she "escaped execution under Saddam".
Actually, the Ba'ath repeatedly tried to get the CP of Iraq 
to mend its treacherous ways, but to no avail. It is the 
"Leftist" sectarians who were and are traitors to Iraq, as 
their presence at the feet of the occupier in the Green 
Zone demonstrates.
Haifa Zangana has attached herself to the dastardly 
"Progressive Community" by playing the put-upon victim of 
Ba'ath repression who still hates Saddam so much that she 
pretends that there is a national resistance but it has 
nothing to do with the Ba'ath Party!
Zangana (name of a Kurdish clan which has covered itself in 
shame and treason from San Diego to Suleimaniya and back) 
spilled her guts to the false-flag Pacifica Foundation 
"Democracy Now!" radio program, approving the removal of 
Saddam and the Ba'ath but disapproving of the Occupation and 
then lying repeatedly through her teeth with comments like 
"We fought against Saddam's regime, continuously, all Iraqis 
did that" (no doubt from her exile in London along with such 
as Ahmad Chalabi) and "I never thought I would live to hear 
some Iraqis regretting getting rid of Saddam Hussein". If 
this person had been present in Iraq anytime in the last 
three decades, she would certainly know better. Her punch 
line on "Democracy Now!"? "I hate everything Saddam has 
done." One wonders, does that include releasing her from 
jail those many years ago?
This is the lying twaddle which is getting her favorable 
recognition and a starring role in something called "Act 
Together", an outfit sponsored by Code Pink, Global Exchange 
and Amnesty International, the false-flag "human rights" 
outfit that tipped the scales for the invasion of Iraq by 
spreading the lies about incubator babies being murdered and 
similar fabrications. The AI intervention was decisive in 
shifting the few Senators over to vote for war and tipping 
the scales in the US Congress to pass the resolution 
authorizing the invasion of Iraq in 1991.
Who the hell she thinks the "Resistance" is that is 
"defending Iraqi women" is beyond anyone's guess. The 
Resistance does have a broad range of component parts, but to 
deny that the Ba'ath is at the heart and head of it is 
patently absurd. But that is good enough for the "Citizens 
for a United Nations People's Assembly", one of her hangouts, 
whose logo is "Empower the UN" and whose on-site stars 
include longtime Ahmad Chalabi supporter and bad actor Noam 
Chomsky, the incredibly moronic Australian peacenik Helen 
Caldicott who comes out every four years to insist that we 
are all doomed unless we elect a Democrat and...Al Gore, one 
of the "saviors" she has so endorsed in the past.
Somehow, Zangana has no idea who is killing all of the 
academics and others on a daily basis in Iraq. She is muddled 
in her comments on the "Civil War" which the Occupiers have 
attempted to use to displace and defeat the Resistance and 
further degrade Iraq.
One does not have to be a scumbag if one is an exile. I cite 
Leila Anwar as an example of this. She lives in the vicinity 
of Haifa Zangana (in England) yet has been a staunch and 
passionate defender of Iraq and admirer of Saddam. I cite 
Ibrahim Ebeid and Salah al-Mukhtar, in exile from Palestine 
and Iraq respectively, but firm stalwarts of the Iraqi and 
Arab cause nevertheless.
What kind of "Arabs" turn on THE Party of Arabism and 
anti-Imperialist and anti-Zionist struggle? What makes them 
all too ready to sign on to what has long been in actuality 
the "Left Wing" of Imperialism as well as a backdoor Jewish 
colonialist entree into the Arab nation?
Nothing new for Iraq: it was the "Communists" who egged on 
the lunatic Abdul Karim Kassem in his persecution of the 
Ba'ath. The heroic Ba'athists turned the tables on their 
persecutors at their show trials, standing up to them in the 
face of actual death in their own jerry-rigged courts, 
thereby winning millions over to the cause.
As authentic Iraq expert Malcolm Lagauche has pointed out, 
when it comes to the "Progressive Community", "What you see 
isn't real". They're not REALLY challenging the system, but 
providing fodder to fill the minds of the unsuspecting 
consumers of their products.
All Americans in this great "Democracy" are entitled to 
receive the mushroom treatment: to be sh.t on and left in 
the dark.
Haifa Zangana and the "Progressive Community" play their part 
in this mushroom processing of unsuspecting and 
misinformed minds.
Husayn Farajallah Zaki Al-Kurdi is a writer, professor, 
lecturer, TV/video producer, reporter and journalist. He is 
founder and president of News International (1983), adviser 
to the North American Committee Against Zionism and 
Imperialism (NACAZAI) and associate course developer to Dr. 
June C. Terpstra, Chicago-area educator. Born in Berkeley, 
California of mixed-race and multi-national parents, Al-Kurdi 
grew up in Tripoli, Libya, participated in a plethora of 
social justice and liberation movements, lived in the San 
Diego area for over 17 years and now resides in Chicago, 
Illinois, where he is also a world champion senior sportsman, 
most notably in basketball. He has long been a collaborator 
with Jeff Archer (Malcolm Lagauche), with whom he recently 
conducted a lengthy interview on the subject of Iraq. He has 
written for more than 100 publications worldwide, including 
The Alternative, Final Call, The Spotlight, Toward Freedom, 
SD Review, LNS and NLNS, Progressive, Hawa'ai Review, 
Portland Free Press, North Coast XPress and many more.
What's Happening in Guantanamo Bay? Inside Information on 
Libyan Innocent al-Ghazzawi: Held Since 2002: No Evidence
[with thanks to Sis. Linda: Taliba al-Qur'an]
Background
Abdel Al-Ghazzawi was born on November 8, 1962. He is just 45 
years old, from Tripoli, Libya. He is married to an Afgan 
woman and has one daughter who does not remember him. He was 
trained as a meteorologist, but at the time of his arrest he 
and his wife ran a small shop in Jalalabad that sold honey 
and spices, and which they expanded to include a bakery.
In the fall of 2001 when U.S. Forces began bombing near his 
city, he took his wife and young child and fled their home 
and shop to go to seek safety in a rural area of Northwest 
Afghanistan where his in-laws lived. Not long after they 
arrived, around December of 2001 armed men came to his 
in-laws door and demanded the "Arab". Abdel A-Ghazzawi 
cooperated in order to avoid any harm toward his family. At 
that point he was sold to U.S. Forces in return for a bounty 
under a program that the U.S. Government commenced which 
provided large sums of money (bounty) for "terrorists 
and murderers".
Al-Ghazzari is neither a murderer nor a terrorist but was a 
victim of greed in an impoverished nation. He has been held 
in Guantanamo Bay since 2002.
He is in very poor health, which deteriorates day after day 
He has a family that is in desperate need of him." - from 
another detainee and the only word coming out of Guantanamo 
about Mr. Al-Ghazawwi in his first four years.
Urgent: An Innocent Man is Dying [Updated]
I cannot improve on what was written on this page. Please 
visit the page for the full story of Abdul Al-Ghazzawi.
Combatant Status Review Tribunal (From Wiki)
Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could 
withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to 
captives from the war on terror. This policy was challenged 
before the Judicial branch. Critics argued that the USA could 
not evade its obligation to conduct a competent tribunals to 
determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the 
protections of prisoner of war status.
Subsequently the Department of Defense instituted the 
Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The Tribunals, however, 
were not authorized to determine whether the captives were 
lawful combatants — rather they were merely empowered to make 
a recommendation as to whether the captive had previously 
been correctly determined to match the Bush administration'
s definition of an enemy combatant.
Al Ghazzawi's pro bono attorney, H. Candace Gorman, reports 
that Al Ghazzawi had two Combatant Status Review 
Tribunals.[2] According to Gorman, when she acquired a copy 
of his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, she learned
His first Tribunal unanimously determined there was no 
evidence that he had ever been an "enemy combatant".
A second Tribunal was convened in Washington DC, five weeks 
later, in the absence of Al Ghazzawi and his Personal 
Representative, which unanimously determined he was an 
"enemy combatant", based on secret evidence.
When Gorman visited the secure site where the attorneys of 
the Guantanamo detainees can review the classified evidence 
she found that his secure file did not contain any new 
evidence. All the documents in his classified file had 
already been made public. The only difference between the 
classified and unclassified versions was that names that had 
been redacted in the unclassified version, were in the clear 
in the classified version.
When captives participated in their Tribunals their 
transcripts were normally included among the body of 
documents that Department of Defense was under court order 
to release.
Earned mention in the "No-hearing hearings" study
According to the study entitled, No-hearing hearings, Al 
Ghazzawi was one of the captives who had new Tribunals 
convened, in his absence, when the initial Tribunals 
determined that they should never have been determined to 
have been enemy combatants".[3]
The study quoted from the Legal Sufficiency Review from James 
R. Crisfield, the Tribunal's legal advisor:
"On 24 November 2004, a previous Tribunal [unanimously] 
determined, by a preponderance of the evidence, that Detainee 
#654 was not properly designated as an enemy combatant.
On 25 January 2005, this Tribunal, upon review of all the 
evidence, determined that detainee #654 was properly 
[unanimously] designated as an enemy combatant.
URGENT NOTE: Mr. Al-Ghazawwi is suffering from Hepatitis B, 
Tuberculosis and needs proper medical treatment immediately.
US Supreme Court rejects request for health files of ailing 
Guantanamo detainee
2008-01-29 23:26:56 -
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court turned 
down a lawyer's request Tuesday for immediate access to the 
medical files of a Guantanamo prisoner who says he has AIDS.
Chicago attorney H. Candace Gorman said she needs access to 
her client's records as she wages a legal fight to make sure 
he gets adequate medical treatment at the U.S. military 
prison in Guantanamo, Cuba.
The court rejected the request without comment. Gorman had 
said earlier this month that her client, Libyan prisoner 
Abdul Hamid Abdul Salam Al-Ghizzawi, told her in a letter 
that a Guantanamo doctor had diagnsed him with AIDS.
Gorman said Al-Ghizzawi, who has been held at Guantanamo 
without charges since June 2002, appeared seriously ill when 
she visited him in December but has not been able to confirm 
whether he has AIDS. She said she previously confirmed he had 
tuberculosis and Hepatitis B.
The U.S. military has declined to comment on Al-Ghizzawi's 
health, citing privacy restrictions, or to say whether any 
detainees have AIDS. Officials insist, however, that all 
prisoners have access to complete medical treatment.
The U.S. holds about 275 men at Guantanamo on suspicion of 
terrorism or links to al-Qaida or the Taliban and says it 
plans to prosecute about 80.
A 68-year-old Afghan detainee died from cancer at the prison 
Dec. 30, and four prisoners have committed suicide.
Montreal Perspectives
By Jalaluddin S.Hussain
Convicted Baron Flaunts his Power in Canada before 
Going off to U.S. Prison!
Grassroots Groups Active on Behalf of the People 
of Montreal
Strange are the ways of ultra-conservative and Zionist media. 
The coverage of the fraudulent Lord [Conrad Black] in The 
Gazette, Montreal has been that of a "hero" going defiantly 
to a U.S. prison, not far from his very own palatial mansion 
in the Palm Beach. Florida. The text of his news on page A10 
of this newspaper, in part, reads: "...I defy and deny unjust 
charges, not the practical difficulties I have faced for the 
last four years and am facing now...."
Strangely, in spite of his 6.5 years sentence and actual 
incarceration, in the Florida jail, the Lord had the 
temerity to still write a column for the National Post, 
Canada, pleading his innocence.
Have the pro-Lord and ultra-conservative media ever cared to 
highlight, in detail, the millions of dollars The Lord 
defrauded the Chicago-based Hollinger International Inc. now 
Sun-Times Media Inc.
It was right for the Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister, 
Maxime Bernier, to express his grave concern on March 2, 2008 
on "military operations that affect civilians" in the context 
of full-throttle and ruthless Israeli military invasion of 
the "imprisoned" Gaza Strip, mostly civilians, in the 
beginning of March! The United Nations Security Council also 
condemned the violence and urged both sides to respect their 
obligations under international law.
It is regretted, however, that whether it is the Canadian 
government or the international body like the UN, should 
equate the hapless Gazans and powerful military machine of 
Israel - the fourth biggest State arms-dealer of the world! 
The present Gaza Strip versus Israel conflict is a typical 
David versus Goliath confrontation and those commenting 
should fully realize this.
It will not be an exaggeration to say that Montreal, in terms 
of political movements, is becoming a metropolitan city of 
activists. To name only a few, there are self-explanatory 
organizations like the following:
- Solidarity Across Borders (SAB)
- No One Is illegal (NOII)
- Solidarity for Palestinians Human rights (SPHR)
- The March 8th Committee of Women of Diverse 
Origins (MCWDO)
- Coalition Justice for Adil Charkaoui (CJAC)
- Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC)
- Teesri Duniya Theatre (TDT)
All such organizations are doing highly productive jobs and 
that too on a grassroots level. However, it must be pointed 
out that Muslim organizations of Montreal, barring a few, 
have kept their hands off such activists organizations. This 
has given an unfortunate impression that Muslim organizations 
in general are not interested in resolving issues pertaining 
to human rights, women's rights and non-status immigrants' 
rights. Mainstream Muslims must realize that if they do not 
fight for other oppressed minorities, they will not get much 
support themselves, in the recognition of their own rights 
like following the Islamic teachings on dressing modestly for 
both men and women and for following Sharia laws in 
contemporary Canada.
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