New Trend Magazine (195 articles under 46 headings:
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CARNAGE in PALESTINE: Method in Sharon's Madness
Second U.S. Offensive Stalled: Rumsfeld Admits, no Basis for Casualty
Figures
Mullah Omar's Companion Leads Defense in Battle near Gardez
{Local News: March 2, 2002 at a sold out Peace Conference in La Verne,
California, near Los Angeles, Dr. Kaukab Siddique denounced the charges
against Imam Jamil al-Amin and said an adverse verdict would traumatize
the
Islamic community. A report on this unique conference is being
prepared.}
PALESTINE: On March 8, Israeli tanks and armored units went on the
rampage in
Palestinian refugee camps. Even Red Crescent vehicles, protected under
international law in all conflicts, were shot up by the Israelis. No
complete
figures are available but the Zionist Jews killed at least 47
Palestinian
youths and children, according to data compiled by IAP.
In that context, President Bush has sent Gen. Zinni back to the area.
Thus the Sharon-Bush strategy is becoming clear even to those who see
the
U.S. as "honest broker." The process seems to be as follows:
Sharon wants a Palestinian entity which has been beaten to a
defenseless pulp. There should be no resistance worth the name.
Islamists are
the prime targets. Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hizbut Tahrir people are
assassinated in cold blood. Homes are demolished. Towns are sealed off,
roads
blocked, hospitals unapproachable. Israeli tanks rampage through
refugee
camps, killing one person here, two there.
Once the Palestinians are on their knees, then America will come
in as
"honest broker" and Sharon will "reluctantly" resume talks with Arafat.
Within that farcical context, Arafat will emerge as the hero of the
Palestinian people: see, he will say, your sacrifices have paid off. He
will
be given a puppet "state", defenseless and at the mercy of Israel.
ARAFAT HAS
ALREADY AGREED THAT THE PALESTINIAN STATE WILL BE DEMILITARIZED.
The problem Sharon, Bush and Arafat have is not with each other
or
with any nuances of the future Palestinian "state" but with the growing
power
of the Islamic movement. Arafat could not fulfill the Tenet and
Mitchell
plans to attack the Islamists because from within his support base, the
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade emerged which is morally aligned to the other
Islamic
groups.
CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH of Saudi Arabia seems to have come out with his
plan to
recognize Israel in return for Israeli withdrawals to the 1967 borders
owing
to the growing need to defuse the growing Islamic movement. Abdullah
has put
Saudis' Islamic legitimacy on the line because if the situation is not
stabilized, the Islamic movement could become a threat to the Saudi
dynasty
too.
Notice that Egypt's Mubarak endorsed the Saudi plan and Syria's Bashar
visited Saudi Arabia to carry out secret talks on how to hold back the
Islamic movement. NOTICE THAT IRAN-BACKED HIZBULLAH is very quiet at
this
time of tragedy and suffering in Palestine.
IRAN ARRESTED 150 people connected to Al-Qaida, repeatedly assured the
U.S.
of its opposition to the Taliban, and even ejected Hikmatyar from Iran
owing
to Hikmatyar's criticism of the Karzai regime. Karzai then visited Iran
and
was assured of full support.
RUMSFELD ADMITS: NO BASIS FOR AL-QAIDA LOSSES STATISTICS
After the first wave of Operation Anaconda was beaten back by
the
Islamic cadre of 100 mujahideen, the U.S. government worked hard to
assure
the American people that "we are (still) winning.". One aspect of this
propaganda was the daily issuance of figures for Al-Qaida fighters
killed,
ABOUT ONE HUNDRED A DAY. By March 7, the Zionist media were repeating
U.S.
figures of 450 to 600 to 700 Al-Qaida killed. Meantime, Rumsfeld had
"predicted" that the Al-Qaida defenders would be wiped out by the
"weekend"
(March 9 and 10).
However, many in the American public did not buy these claims.
Note this:
1. NOT ONE AL-QAIDA DEAD HAS BEEN SHOWN on TV.
2. THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE HILL THE U.S. CAN SHOW ON A MAP WHICH IT HAS
CONQUERED FROM AL-QAIDA.
Public cynicism created a big gulf between U.S. claims and the
on-ground
reporting by U.S. reporters themselves. Hence on March 8, Rumsefeld did
a
reality check. He admitted:
1. The chances of a U.S. victory by March 10 are remote.
2. There is no evidence for the statistics of 450 to 600 Al-Qaida
killed.
Rumsfeld admitted that these statistics are mere speculation (during
interview with CBS). In fact the CBS reporter nettled Rumsfeld by
pointing
out that the U.S. might be trying to counter the 9 U.S. killed and 40
injured
in the battle by claiming that the Islamists have lost 100s.
NEW TREND'S REPORTING, which has been correct in the past on this war,
indicates that the SECOND part of Operation Anaconda is stalled. There
have
been no American advances although the U.S. has dropped 1350 bombs on
the
Islamists.
Our sources indicate that only about 100 Al-Qaida and Taliban have been
involved in this battle which started on March 1.
The remaining Islamic cadres are in five other areas in the Khost and
Gardez
region and have not been engaged in the defeat of Operation Anaconda.
ONE MISTAKE. We erred by saying that only Pakistanis and Bangladeshis
were
part of the Taliban segment of the Islamic cadre. The fact is that
Afghan
mujahideen are equally involved and the entire defense is led by a
trusted
friend of Mullah Omar.
Three Islamists who were martyred in the fighting were brought to a
village
below the mountains for burial. The call for jihad is spreading among
the
villagers and food and supplies have been taken to the defenders by the
Afghans.
THE IMPACT OF THE ISLAMIC VICTORY can be seen on the Karzai coterie
which has
sent 1000 troops with several dozen tanks to help the Americans. It's
an
exercise in futility because the battle is taking place at 11,000 feet
where
tanks are inoperable.The force is probably aimed at the jihad movement
emerging in the Gardez-Khost area.
At the U.S. base outside Kandhar, caches of American weapons and
ammunition
blew up in a series of spectacular explosions, after an Islamist
infiltrator
successfully triggered a booby trap in which three Afghan mercenaries
were
killed.
Observers say that these little battles in the Gardez-Khost area are
probably
the beginning of the coming defeat of America at the military level.
Islam
has just begun to fight back. As the guerrilla warfare builds up, the
pressure on the murderous Zionist entity and the corrupt Muslim rulers
will
also increase.
When the Russians entered Afghanistan, they took Kabul in ONE DAY and
major
cities all over Afghanistan in three weeks. Less than nine years later,
they
withdrew unilaterally. Today, the Pakistani border is sealed, which
makes the
struggle more difficult, but the Islamic movement has support from
Pakistani
masses, as well as Islamists in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Chechnya
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