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For April 25:
JAMAAT al-MUSLIMEEN
URGES ALL IMAMS
of JUMA' PRAYERS to CONDEMN
the BURNING OF THE
QUR'AN
LIBRARY in BAGHDAD
which was done under
U.S.
occupation of the city. Dear Imams, this is a
test of your faith. Hundreds of
Qur'ans were burned. Those who do not speak out
against the burning of the
Qur'an, including rare, centuries old,
manuscripts, cannot be called Muslims.
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April 20.
ISRAELI
TANK COLUMNS have entered Rafah
refugee camp.
Palestinians
armed with rifles are resisting
Jewish
thugs in
late model tanks. Israeli
forces have also re-entered
Jenin.
Israeli Jews
are indulging in an orgy of
terror against Palestinians, in an attempt to
break an entire nation and
install a puppet regime.
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The anniversary of Allama Iqbal, poet of the
East, is here. He spoke very
strongly against the western way of life. He also
warned Muslims of the 'idol
worship' hidden below their own Islamic
exteriors. In one verse he wrote:
"Jo main sur basajda huwa kabhi, to zamin say anay
lagi sada/
tera dil tow hay sanam ashna, tujhay kia milay ga
namaz main."
[Translation: Once when I went into prostration,
a voice came from the earth
saying:/ your heart loves idols, what will you
get out of prayer (to the One
God)?]
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U.S. Forces Withdrawing from Afghanistan in Face
of Classic
Guerrilla Warfare
Taliban Pin Pricks, almost every day, make life
Miserable for Occupation
Forces
U.S. Warns
Pakistan:
Threat to Karzai will be
seen as Anti-U.S. Move:
Pakistani troops clash with Karzai's
March 20, 2003 along with the invasion of
Iraq, the U.S. launched a
lightning sweep in southeastern Afghanistan with
2000 troops covered by
helicopter gunships. The objective was to destroy
the Taliban's new
deployment. A week later the U.S. offensive
ended. NOT ONE OF THE TALIBAN HAD
BEEN found.
A few days later, the U.S. withdrew its
troops from an important staging
area in eastern Afghanistan and replaced them
with Italian troops.
Three weeks later, April 20, the news is
that most U.S. troops are to be
withdrawn and replaced by NATO forces. It's not
clear on what basis NATO can
occupy Afghanistan. It could be a public
relations disaster because the
Afghans will see this as step two in a crusade
with ALL of EUROPE invading a
Muslim country.
The slow but steady U.S. withdrawal comes in
the backdrop of the
RESURGENCE OF THE TALIBAN. Pakistani observers
say that most of eastern,
southeastern and southwestern Afghanistan, all
along the Pakistani border, is
now informally controlled by the Taliban. In
Zabol province, three areas are
formally controlled by the Taliban.
The TALIBAN's TACTICS: NO LOSSES plus Pin
Prick Attacks on Daily
Basis:
The Taliban methodology seems to as follows:
1. Great respect for U.S. firepower. Following
the sweep which turned up no
none, U.S. bomber aircraft dropped more than
13,000 tons of bombs on an area
of suspected Taliban deployment. There were no
Taliban losses but one bomb
went off course and killed 11 Afghan civilians.
2. Taliban hit U.S. troops only when they are
totally without cover and
almost helpless. In one such attack, after the
U.S. offensive ended, the
Taliban killed two U.S. troops and wounded a
third.
3. Attacks on the mercenary army built with U.S.
funds by the Karzai
"government." These attacks are growing to about
two or three every week,
with losses inflicted on the mercenaries and
minimal Taliban losses.
4. Attacks on Karzai regime's officials who have
U.S. support. The most
sinister of these happened on April 13 when
relatives of Kandahar's corrupt
governor Gul Agha Sherzai who were visiting
Chaman in Pakistan were attacked.
Gul Agha's cousin was killed along with his
bodyguard while his nephew was
wounded along with his two soldiers. [The nephew
is notorious for his
escapades with women, including a woman living in
America.]
5. Explosions in cities controlled by U.S. backed
forces. In the middle of
the night, almost every week, there are huge
explosions in major cities,
particularly Kabul and Jalalabad, near U.S. camps
or Karzai "government"
installations. Till now such explosions have
caused little bodily harm but
they keep American troops awake at night and
create an atmosphere of lurking
danger "just around the corner." The whole city
hears the explosion and knows
that all is not well. The explosions, observers
say, are not directly Taliban
related but are probably being set off by
Hikmatyar's forces working with the
Taliban. U.S. troops are suffering acute lack of
sleep, near Kabul and in the
Khost area.
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PAKISTANIS GETTING IRRITATED WITH U.S.-KARZAI
INCURSIONS
April 18 there was an incident on the
Pakistan-Afghanistan frontier in
which Pakistani frontier militia known as Tochi
scouts (mainly Pashtun)
exchanged fire with Afghan "government" troops
who had U.S. special forces
with them. Both Pakistan, Karzai's regime and the
U.S. have issued statements
on this incident which are mutually
contradictory. From a careful reading of
these reports, the following seems to have
happened:
The Karzai forces, with U.S. dollars,
crossed Pakistan's border and
entered a Pakistani village to induce the
villagers to handover the Taliban
in their area. The villagers refused. The Afghan
"government" forces then ran
into the Pakistani border militia, Tochi Scouts,
who chased them into
Afghanistan. The mercenaries, with U.S. special
forces, retreated but were
pursued by the Pakistanis five kilometers into
Afghanistan.
The U.S. considers this incident a serious
setback. The U.S.
representative in Kabul,
CIA
agent Khalilzad, has
WARNED PAKISTAN that any
moves against the Karzai "government" would be
seen as a threat to U.S.
interests.
Musharraf's regime is working frantically
to repair the damage done in
this incident. Karzai was set to visit Musharraf
when the clash occurred
Observers say that Karzai's regime is so weak
that a Pakistani military
column or a Taliban Jihad group could easily move
to Kabul if the U.S. air
threat were not there.
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SPLIT BETWEEN JAMIATE ISLAMI and DOSTUM in
Northern Afghanistan
After serious clashes, lasting over a week,
a cease fire has been
established in the northern area of Maimana.
Jamiate Islami elements have
fought Dostum's communist forces with heavy
losses on both sides. The
"northern alliance" forged with U.S. dollars has
fallen apart. Jamiate Islami
and Taliban should have patched up their
differences long ago to stand united
against Dostum's armed gangs but serious errors
on both sides kept them
suspicious and hostile to each other.
[A commander of Dostum's militia has been
killed in an ambush in Mazare
Sharif.]
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INDIA
DISTURBED: India's Foreign Minister,
Yaswant Sinha, has expressed great
concern over the RETURN OF THE TALIBAN (April
19). He tried to connect the
resurgence to Pakistani support. Pakistan has
rejected such insinuations.
[The masses of Pakistanis in Frontier and
Baluchistan provinces support the
Taliban. There is little General Musharraf can do
about it, although he
tries.]
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