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Remember Muslim political prisoners in the U.S.:
Imam Jamil al-Amin,
Dr. Omar 'Abdel Rahman,
Ahmed 'Abdel Sattar,
the Lackawanna Six,
Jose Padilla,
Victor Alvarez,
the Portland Four,
Ujamaa ....
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WE HAVE RECEIVED A REPORT PINPOINTING
ISRAELI
HAND BEHIND THE BLOODSHED IN
SUDAN.
See next issue.
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Strange! Our selection from Iqbal's poetry for
today points directly at the
Palestinian
martyr
who entered Tel Aviv today
(April 29). Iqbal, Poet of the
East,
Pakistani
visionary, wrote:
"Shahadat hay matlub-o-maqsood-e-momin
na mal-e-ghanimat, na kishwar kushai
khyaban main hay muntazar lala kub say
qaba chahiay us ko khun-e- arab say!"
Translation:
Martyrdom is the desire and the objective of the
true believer
not the spoils of war, nor the conquest of lands.
In the wilderness, the tulip has long awaited
it wants its garment from the blood of the Arab!
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The Only Hand-Written
Qur'an
Transcribed by
Hazrat Ali' Burned in Basra Under
British Occupation
It was rumored before but now it has been
confirmed by the spokeswoman
of the
Syrian
foreign ministry, Ms. Bouthena
Shaaban. After the fall of
Basra, the library there was burned and the only
surviving copy of the Qur'an
written by the Caliph Ali himself, Allah be
pleased with him, went up in
flames. Ali ibn abi Talib, cousin of the Prophet
(pbuh) was known for his
piety and closeness to the Prophet (pbuh).
A copy of the Qur'an, from the earliest days
of Islam, written in the
Caliph's own hand, was a priceless treasure which
cannot be replaced in any
way.
Observers say that the "coalition" occupation
of Iraq has been no
different from that of Halaku Khan. These are
barbarians who have devastated
all that is holy and invaluable for the Muslim
world.
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Fallujah, Iraq: 88 Iraqis shot by
U.S.
troops: 15
Fatally. (3 children under
11)
Villagers Wave Shoes at Withdrawing 82nd Airborne
Forces
April 29 can be written down as the date
on which the American claims
of "Liberation, not
occupation" ended. Troops from America's finest,
82nd airborne, fired into a
crowd of 200 Iraqis protesting against the troops
occupation of their school.
It was a massacre in which the Americans shot 88
Iraqis, of whom 13,
including THREE CHILDREN UNDER 11, died of their
wounds. The statistics were
provided by Dr. Ahmed Ghanim Al-Ali, director of
Fallujah General Hospital.
The doctor added that "his medical crews were
shot at when they went to
retrieve the injured." [Source Associated Press.]
The essential hospital report was confirmed
by the International
Committee of the Red Cross by the evening of
April 29 though it raised the
number of dead Iraqis to 15.
The 82nd Airborne's account of the incident
is that its troops were
fired on and fired back. The Americans refused to
confirm any deaths and
claimed that only seven Iraqis were hit.
The American story has become absurd for
Arab viewers of
Al-Jazeerah
which showed thousands of distraught people
attending the funerals of the
victims.
Observers say that the Americans are facing
opposition from the
defenseless people of Iraq. They know they are
not welcome and they are
definitely not seen as liberators. Hence, now
they are terrorizing the
population. My Lai is an old American tradition,
these observers say.
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