New Trend Magazine (Incisive analysis on Islamic issues: 
www.NewTrendMag.org)
(Commentary by Buut Shikan, Idol Breaker)
What is the truth about 9/11?: Conspiracy theories on both sides 
rebutted.
Defeated U.S. forces Withdrawing from Gardez Battlefield ("It's too 
cold")
Palestine: First Kill them, then send Arafat to Plead for peace (piece) 
of Pie
[America's "justice" System: Jamaat al-Muslimeen's Shoora is studying 
new 
strategies following shocking guilty verdict on Imam Jamil al-Amin. It 
seems 
that big African American Muslim leaders played waiting role and took 
no 
decisive action to stop the injustice. One report says, defense counsel 
made 
a blunder. Jury was loaded against the Imam. (Report being prepared.) ]
Sis. Haila Gabr's case: REMEMBER THE YEMENI SISTER WHO KILLED HER 
RAPIST? 
More than 2 years later, she has not even been brought to trial, has 
been 
placed in extended lockdown and is being administered sedative drugs, 
Sis. 
Eileen reports. More later.
AMERICAN TALIBAN Br. Sulayman (Walker) did not go to Afghanistan to 
fight 
America. We must stop his scapegoating. A protest RALLY is planned for 
MARCH 
29, at 4 pm in Alexandria, Virginia, starting 520 King street. 
Confirmed, 
committed, serious volunteers are invited.]
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WAR NEWS: U.S. started withdrawing, after being beaten back, in Shahi 
Kot 
battle area near Gardez on March 10. By the end of the day, most U.S. 
troops 
had been withdrawn in a surprise move which puzzled the American public 
still 
unaware of the defeat. In an interview with ABC on March 10, Gen. Tommy 
Franks was evasive and could not pinpoint any achievement of Operation 
Anaconda (March 1-10).
The U.S. claims it lost only 9 killed and 40 injured plus 7 Afghan 
mercenaries killed. Pakistani observers say U.S. losses were probably 
nearer 
a hundred killed. They point to the fact that the U.S. admits 6 
helicopters 
hit by ground fire and these were packed with troops. A U.S. soldier in 
the 
second phase of the offensive (March 6) referred to his troops "taking 
casualties." {The 9 killed 40 injured were only during phase I, March 
1-4.}
The U.S. media are still repeating stories about "hundreds" of Al-Qaida 
and 
Taliban killed but by some inner sense of lack of credibility have 
brought 
down the "600-700 killed" to about "500." NOT ONE body has been seen, 
though 
there is a claim that FIVE defenders were captured.
THE DEFENDERS, 100 strong, have suffered. Twenty five Afghan mujahideen 
and 
12 Chechens are reported martyred and their bodies have been brought 
for 
burial to Afghan villages below the mountain range. This is a heavy 
loss for 
a small force and came from the severe bombing: 1350 bombs were 
dropped.
Meanwhile, there is a split in the Afghan mercenary forces. Those who 
saw the 
U.S. troops withdrawing have demanded that they be pulled out too.
U.S. forces seem to have lost morale in the fighting. They are 
complaining of 
severe cold ("water froze in canteens"), high altitude and "maniacal" 
Islamic 
defenders who come out of defensive positions to LAUGH at the U.S. 
forces 
when the U.S. gunfire misses. [LAUGHING MUJAHIDS who long for 
al-Jannah: 
That's quite demoralizing.]
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IN PALESTNE, Sharon's plan seems to be working. After slaughtering 
defenseless people in a refugee camp, he's decided to let Arafat go and 
talk 
to other Arab "leaders". Arafat is part of the Mubarak, Saudi Abdullah, 
Jordanian Abdullah, Syrian Bashar clique which wants to create a rump 
state, 
demilitarized and at Israel's mercy, to be called "PALESTINE."
The smooth transition was messed up by a martyrdom operation in 
occupied 
Jerusalem which killed 11 Jews and wounded 50. {The TV stations keep 
calling 
occupied Jerusalem, "Jerusalem" or even "Jerusalem in Israel." So much 
for 
accuracy in journalism!
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MARCH 11 is the 6 month anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. America's 
trauma is 
not going away  with time. A nation which has never been attacked 
continues 
to count its wounds. It was a totally new experience.
THERE ARE TWO EXTREME VIEWS PREVALENT ABOUT 9/11. One comes from the 
Muslim 
world. It was started by Iranian al-Manar TV to the effect that the 
attacks 
were carried out by the Jews and that 4000 Jews did not turn up at WTC 
on 
that day. This story is very popular in the Muslim world. It amounts to 
a 
Muslim rejection of America as enemy. The Muslims do not want to hurt 
America 
and are shocked that America is blaming them for the attacks.
This CONSPIRACY THEORY was reinforced by White Supremacist groups who 
spread 
the idea that the attack was carried out by "remote controlled" planes 
and 
that explosives were placed within the WTC to implode the towers.
THE OTHER EXTREME is that of the Bush administration which claims that 
OSAMA 
BIN LADEN's people did it and the Islamists want to hurt AMERICA IN ITS 
TOTALITY, that they want to kill and destroy at random, and that 
BIOLOGICAL, 
CHEMICAL and even NUCLEAR attacks are being planned by Al-Qaida. Every 
American has to become aware of the impending danger and human and 
civil 
liberties have to be diluted and if necessary eliminated to save 
America from 
great danger, according to Bush and Ashcroft with Wolfowitz, 
Krauthammer and 
other Jews in the woodworks. [These are the arguments for the rapid 
rise of 
fascism.]
The truth is probably between the two extremes. Though no definitive 
evidence 
is available, it appears circumstantially that:
1. The attacks were carried out by an autonomous Islamic cadre. Their 
secrets 
went with the attackers to the Hereafter. After 6 months of 
multi-million 
dollar investigations, only ONE person (Massaoui) has been indicted and 
he 
was in immigration prison before and during the attack. He is not much 
of a 
catch for this huge operation.
2. The attacks were well planned. They struck precisely at American 
economic 
and military power.
2a. These were not random attacks aimed at creating death and 
destruction in 
the general population.
2b. There was enough time between the first and the second plane which 
hit 
the WTC for most people to escape the towers.
3. The most tragic losses were those of the firemen and policemen who 
rushed 
in to help the victims. Such bravery must be respected and honored.
4. The attackers did not use any weapons to carry out the attacks. They 
used 
themselves.
4a. Hence the search for weapons of MASS DESTRUCTION does not relate to 
the 
facts of the case.
5. Did Osama bin Laden do it? If evidence is available, it should be 
taken to 
a World Court acceptable to the U.S. and independent Islamic scholars. 
Video 
tapes can easily be doctored and war time braggadocio cannot be 
accepted as 
evidence.
THE MUSLIM SIDE IS WRONG TOO, as far as we can see. If the Muslims do 
not 
want to fight USA, it does not mean that the U.S. and Israel (its 
forward 
bloc) will not try to destroy and/or enslave the Muslims. The people of 
Africa did not want to fight White people but they were enslaved and 
brought 
by the millions to USA. Nearly one fourth died on the way and were 
thrown 
overboard.
POWER has its own imperative. The U.S., with its Jewish component, sees 
ANY 
organization based on Islam as its enemy. The TALIBAN, however flawed, 
were 
creating an Islamic power structure. They, as any independent nation 
would, 
wanted to see evidence in the charges against Osama Bin Laden. The U.S. 
decided to use 9/11 as an excuse to dismantle the Islamic state created 
by 
the Taliban.
The Muslims are blind sided in their conspiracy theory that the "Jews 
did 
it." New York is a Jewish power base and the WTC was the hub of their 
economic activity. Nobody would attack his own power base to create a 
pretext. It's absurd to think that such a massive attack was needed to 
prod 
U.S. into an anti-Islam position. Much smaller incidents have been used 
in 
history as pretexts. {The murder of ONE leader before World WAR I, the 
attack 
on ONE Israeli diplomat which was used as pretext for the 1982 invasion 
of 
Lebanon and the killing of 10,000 Muslims.}
The WTC attack has been very severe for the U.S. economy. The losses 
are in 
the billions and have been in the upper levels of society.
The focus on the WTC leaves out the fact that the symbol of worldwide 
U.S. 
military power, the Pentagon was attacked. The President of the U.S. 
was seen 
as in great danger and the V.P was placed in concealment. 
The U.S. response by way of the assault on Afghanistan and the 
hysterical 
revision of civil liberties can also be seen as the anger of a blinded 
cyclops hurling boulders at a fleeing enemy.
WHAT WAS THE MOTIVATION OF MOHAMMED ATTA and the 18 with him? Why did 
they do 
it? No one can find out because they did not even tell their families, 
as far 
as we know. Could it be that they were taking revenge for 1,000,000 
Iraqi 
children? Could it be that they were taking revenge for the occupation 
of 
Palestine and the genocide which has made 700,000 Palestinians 
homeless? Did 
they want America to withdraw from the holy land of Arabia? We don't 
know and 
we might never know.
We hope and pray for peace. Unfortunately, without withdrawal of U.S. 
support 
for Zionism and the security the U.S. provides for anti-Islam 
dictatorships 
everywhere, the chances for peace are very slim, particularly because 
the 
Muslim world is not about to accept slavery.
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