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NEWS FROM
KASHMIR:
Wire service reports, mentioned marginally on
major
U.S.
TV channels on
June 28, indicate that two
mujahideen
(perhaps
from Lashkare Taiba), launched
an audacious attack on an
INDIAN
ARMY CAMP in
occupied Kashmir. The Indian
troops seem to have suffered heavily at the hands
of the two freedom fighters:
Reuters
is reporting 13 Indian troops killed. The
liberators used grenades and
automatic rifles.
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Allegations of Support for Lashkare Taiba's Jihad
Against India:
Listened to Tapes and Lectures on Jihad, Played
a Game Called "Paintball"
with Fake Guns
Eight American Muslims Arrested on the Flimsiest
of Charges
Hammad Abdur-Raheem is an outstanding citizen
of the United States. When
New Trend spoke to his wife on June 27 (evening),
she wept as she stated what
had happened. At six in the morning "law
enforcement" had entered their
apartment and arrested Hammad. "You are a
terrorist"
they told him as they arrested
him. His wife, a Muslimah from
Indonesia,
is left
without an income and with
two children, one year old and two year old.
Why would Hammad be arrested when he has
never broken the law and there
is absolutely no proof (even an allegation) from
the prosecution that he
planned to break the law? It appears that he used
to go with some other Muslims to
the Virginia countryside to play a game called
"paintball" in which players
shoot colored water at each other with fake guns.
The government is bringing
this up as if it was preparation for Jihad
because one of the participants in
the games went to
Pakistan
to help Lashkare Taiba
set up its web site. Although,
this was before Lashkare Taiba was declared
"terrorist" by President
Bush
to
please India, the government is trying to use the
ruling retroactively to hunt
those who oppose India's occupation of Kashmir.
Muslims arrested in the FBI raids on June
27 are:
Randall Todd Royer, 30, of Falls Church, Virginia
Masoud Ahmad Khan, 31, of Gaithersburg, Maryland
Yong Ki Kwon, 27, of Fairfax, Virginia
(Muslim from Korea, naturalized citizen)
Hammad Abdur-Raheem, 35, Falls Church, Virginia.
Mohammad Aatique, 30, of Norristown, Pennsyvania
(Pakistani national)
Donald Surrat, 30, of Suitland, Maryland
Caliph Basha, 29, of Arlington, Virginia
Ibrahim Ahmed al-Hamdi, of Alexandria, Virginia
(Yemeni citizen)
It appears from the report on the arrests
in the
Washington Times,
that the U.S. government wants to invoke an
obscure Neutrality Act against those
arrested. The act forbids people from leaving the
U.S. to fight against a
country with which the U.S. is at peace.
According to the Washington Post report on
the arrests, part of the
"crime" these Muslims committed was as follows:
"The men also are accused of
gathering at the Dar el Arkum mosque on South
Washington street in Falls Church 'to
hear lectures on the righteousness of violent
jihad in Kashmir,
Chechnya
and
other places and to watch videotapes of
mujahideen engaged in jihad.'"
Thus the government story seems to be
that if a person listens to
lectures on jihad, he can be arrested as a
potential threat to the U.S.!
As far as helping Lashkare Taiba, Royer
appears to have acknowledged that
he used to write news releases in 1999 or 2000
for the Lashkar. Yong Ki Kwon
visited the Lashkar after September 2001 but
before the group was labeled
"terrorist" by the State Department.
Thus Jihad against India, even by writing a
press release for the
mujahideen, has been made into an indictable
offense against the United States. Why
is Lashkare Taiba a problem for the U.S.? The
answer lies in the description
of the Lashkar in the Washington Times of June
28:
"Lashkar-e-Taiba, which means 'army of the
righteous,' is the armed wing
of the Pakistan-based religious organization
Markaz-ud-Dawa-wal-Irshad, a Sunni
anti-U.S. missionary organization formed in 1989
and led by Abdul Wahid
Kashmiri. It is one of the three largest and
best-trained groups fighting in
Kashmir against Indian rule."
In plain language, the Lashkar is an
effective Jihad movement which India
cannot defeat. The U.S. policy now seems to be to
help India suppress the
Lashkar.
[Before his arrest, Br. Hammad told New
Trend, in summary: They want us
to "cooperate" with them, to become snitches
(spies) for the FBI in the Muslim
community. All these raids and arrests are meant
to intimidate us for this
purpose.]
Along with the arrests, "law enforcement"
raided the home of Islamic
scholar Ali Timimi in Fairfax (originally from
Iraq).
He was not arrested but
his life has been turned upside down. He is the
scholar who used to preach at
the mosque mentioned in the report above. He is
alleged to have told these
Muslims to travel overseas because America was
going to increase its oppression of
Muslims after
9.11.
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