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[Info Sent by Sis. Hamdiyeh, South Carolina.]
AND NOW A RAID ON HOLY CITY OF
MAKKA...
ONLY THREE MILES FROM MASJID al-HARAM!
A report just received from the Associated
Press [June 15, 11 AM Easter
Standard Time] indicates that Saudi troops
(trained and armed by the
U.S.)
carried out a raid in the holy city of MAKKA only
THREE MILES from the masjid
al-Haram, the holiest mosque in Islam. The Saudi
are trying to crush
anti-American resistance forces. The Saudis seem
to sense that their regime has no
legitimacy other than American support. If the
anti-American movement develops, the
Saudi regime's existence would be in danger.
It appears that the Saudis have killed at
least five Islamic activists
in the attack and arrested a number of others.
The Saudis claim that it was
actually a clash with
"terrorists"
and two Saudi
security were also killed.
However, Saudi claims are difficult to verify
because the media are tightly
controlled by the ruling dynasty and criticism of
Saudi-U.S. links is not permitted.
[NEW TREND SUGGESTS THAT ISLAMIC LEADERS
WORLDWIDE SEND A DELEGATION TO
INVESTIGATE THE SITUATION IN ARABIA, the LAND OF
THE PROPHET (pbuh). If the SAUDIS
CONTINUE TRYING TO CRUSH ANTI-AMERICAN
RESISTANCE, soon WE COULD HAVE SAUDI
FORCES ATTACKING THE MASJID AL-HARAM and the
KA'ABA itself. It is not beyond
imagination for the
Zionists
controlling America
to claim that "terrorists" are
hiding in the Ka'aba itself. MUSLIM WORLD MUST
TAKE EARLY ACTION BEFORE THE
HOLY PLACES ARE ATTACKED.]
In the absence of independent sources, here
is the news of the attack
in Makka as it has appeared in Saudi controlled
sources as reported by
AP
"At least five people were arrested in the raid,
including two Chadians, an
Egyptian
and a Saudi, a Saudi interior ministry
official said."
"The unidentified official, whose remarks were
carried by the official Saudi
Press Agency and state television, said a number
of other suspects also were
arrested in Mecca, Islam's holiest city, 450
miles west of the capital,
following the raid. He did not elaborate."
"At about 9:30 p.m., Saudi security agents broke
into an apartment in
al-Khalidiya district about three miles from
Mecca's main mosque, where "a group of
terrorists ... were preparing an imminent
terrorist act," the official said. He
did not say what the intended target was and gave
no other details on the
alleged plot."
"Security was unusually tight in Mecca on Sunday,
with troops stopping cars
for searches and to check drivers' identification
on the outskirts and at
checkpoints scattered throughout the city. A
number of police patrolled inside and
outside Mecca's Al-Nur hospital, where those
wounded Saturday were taken."
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CIA
BEHIND DEMONSTRATIONS IN TEHRAN?
Hundreds of Iranian students from the
westernized North Tehran area
have demonstrated against the Islamic government
for three straight days. They
called for the downfall of Iran's supreme Islamic
leader Ali Khamene'i. On
the second day, pro-Islamic youths, clearly
provoked by the challenge to the
Islamic legitimacy of the state, attacked the
demonstrators and injured a number
of them. Police then moved in and arrested 50 of
the attackers.
All part of expected turmoil in a society in
transition? That's what it
seemed. But now there are indications that the
CIA is stoking the demonstrations.
The U.S. is openly interfering in the internal
issues facing Iran. Note the
following comment from the U.S. State
Department:
"It's our hope that the voice of the Iranian
people and their call for
democracy and the rule of law will be heard and
transform Iran into a force for
stability in the region," State Department
spokesman Richard Boucher said on
Thursday.
Iran has been steadily moving closer to the
U.S. but it appears that Zionists in Mr.
Bush's
administration think that
"disaffection" among the new
generation of Iranians is so high that a quick
fix might be possible.
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[Again, with thanks to Sis. Hamdiyeh.]
Rome Mosque removes Imam over khutba: Censorship
of Islamic Expression
Call to Remove him Came from Simon Wiesenthal
Center, Got Saudi Support
14-06-2003
ROME (AP) -- The main mosque in Rome suspended
its imam after he delivered a
sermon praising
Palestinian
fighters and calling
for the destruction of
Islam's enemies, officials said Saturday.
The decision by the mosque's administrators to
remove Abdel-Samie Mahmoud
Ibrahim Moussa capped a week of debate about the
sermon, delivered during Friday
prayers June 6 and published, in part, by the
Rome daily La Repubblica a day
later.
'Allah, let the Islamic fighters in Palestine,
Chechnya and elsewhere be
triumphant!' La Repubblica quoted Moussa as
saying in Arabic.
'Allah, destroy the houses of the enemies of
Islam! Allah, help us crush the
enemies of Islam! Allah ensure the victory of the
nation of Islam!' the imam
said in quotes that were confirmed Saturday by
Mario Scialoja, head of the
World Muslim League in Italy, which is affiliated
with the mosque.
Italy's interior minister, Giuseppe Pisanu,
expressed outrage at the imam's
call, saying Italy's mosques 'must be completely
free of preachers of
violence, recruiters for holy war and agents of
foreign interests in Italy.'
Jewish groups including the Simon Wiesenthal
Center urged the imam be
replaced and expressed concern for the safety of
Italy's Jewish community following
what it said was Moussa's 'religious validation
of terrorism.'
On Friday, the administrative council of the
Islamic Cultural Center, made up
of the ambassadors of Saudi Arabia,
Pakistan,
Bangladesh and other Muslim
countries, decided to suspend him, Scialoja said
Saturday.
'We cannot allow the mosque to be used to
espouse violence the way the young
imam did,' he said Saturday.
He said the majority of Rome's 90,000 Muslims are
'quite peaceful and
serene' and didn't share Moussa's message and
that the Muslim community's relations
with the Italian government are good.
It wasn't clear what would become of the
32-year-old Moussa, who is Egyptian
and was named to head Rome's main mosque five
months ago by Cairo's Al-Azhar
university, Sunni Islam's highest authority.
Scialoga said it would take some
time for a permanent replacement to be named.
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