Iraqi Collaborator Ibrahim al-Jaafari's Visit with President Bush

• He is working "hand-in-glove" with the Bush administration. There is not the slightest hint of any independence in him.
• In some respects he is worse than Kabul's Karzai. He kept talking of U.S. led "democracy." He claims to be a Muslim devoted to Islam but did not talk with any Islamic references.
• Democracy is a meaningless word in Iraq where the U.S. has destroyed entire cities and killed tens of thousands of people. How can any decent person talk of democracy in Iraq, Iraqis say, when military operations are carried out every week with the full force of U.S. military power.
• Ibrahim al-Jaafari is a disgrace to Islam in general and to Shi'ism in particular. He should be judged from the point of view of Hazrat Ali, r.a., the fourth Caliph, of Imam Husain, the martyred grandson of the Prophet, of Imam Khomeini, the leader of modern Shi'ism, and even Moqtada al-Sadr, the leader of Shi'I resistance in Iraq. On all counts, he turns out to be ZERO.
• Al-Jaafari tried to prove that he is more extreme than President Bush himself. While Bush refers to the Iraqi resistance as "insurgents," Al-Jaafari insists that they are not insurgents but "terrorists." Thus Al-Jaafari is out of step with the entire world of Islam which is proud of the Islamic resistance in Iraq.

Why was Nothing done for 41 Years? Why this timing?
Will Killen's Sentencing Fool the African American Community?

• Almost every month young Black men are shot to death by police officers on "suspicion" of danger. No police officer has been brought to justice, other than a few "suspensions" and a couple of demotions. Police killings and serious beatings of young Black males are a countrywide phenomenon. Every young Black man in a fancy car faces profiling and potential arrest.
• In ever big city, drugs have been introduced into the Black community leading to the ongoing ugly situation of young Black men shooting each other to death over drug deals. A country which can send an armada of 150,000 troops to introduce "democracy" into Iraq cannot stop [or claims it cannot stop] the inflow of drugs into America's inner cities. Is this justice?
• AIDS has spread through the African-American community. Why is no major effort underway to stop this ongoing tragedy? If $87 BILLION can be spent to subdue Iraq and buy thousands of collaborators, why can't a few billions be spent on the health problems right here?
• Instead we see the systematic infusion of the idea by way of media that homosexuality is as "normal" as heterosexuality into the African-American communities. Isn't this a form of cultural genocide?
• To top it all, we have the drum beat of abuse and denigration aimed at the Black woman. Is it just a coincidence that the mainstay of the resistance to slavery, the BLACK MOTHER, is being destroyed by the use of the word "bitch" for just about every Black woman? Isn't every woman potentially also a mother, the cultural force which could survive slavery? Is it not true that the power structure is giving instant success to those who produce CDs which literally and metaphorically unclothe the African American woman?

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Media Reporting on the Return of the Taliban
U2s Do Not Crash by accident: It was returning from Afghanistan

• The attacks are being carried out by the Taliban with U.S. troops on the defensive.
• All the attacks are small scale but they have created a steady flow of U.S. casualties, with an average of one to three killed and 4 to 8 wounded.
• Suddenly, last week, the U.S. announced that it hit the Taliban twice by air, killing 40 in one attack and 60 in the other.
• These days the Taliban are openly commenting to Pakistani media on the fighting. Lutfullah Hakeemi, the Taliban spokesman, categorically denied that there had been any such incidents in which the U.S. claims it killed so many Taliban.
• Our analysts say that just about all reports indicate that the Taliban, like a practiced guerrilla force, do not travel in groups of more than 10 or maximum 20. Thus the U.S. claims are most probably the result of wish fulfilment concocted in Kabul and could well be civlian casualties resulting from U.S. air raids.
• U.S. media do not report losses inflicted on Afghan collaborators by the Taliban. For this New Trend depends on Pakistan's Urdu press. The boldest move by the Taliban was their swift takeover of a district heaquarter in the Kandahar area where they captured 31 police officers. Of these the district police chief Nanai and his 7 body guards, known for their atrocities against villagers, were tried by Sharia court and executed. The rest were released.
• Recently, U.S. media reported that a U2 spy plane crashed while landing at its air base in the United Arab Emirates. Most media did not note, with one exception, that the plane was returning from a mission in Afghanistan. The plane's pilot was killed in the crash, indicating that hostile fire might have been the cause.
• Some say that the Taliban are using the Stingers left over from the anti-Soviet war. Pakistani newspapers received a video from Al-Qaida which shows an F-16 being shot down by a stinger which the video claims was indigenously produced.
• Al-Qaida callng Pakistani papers also claims that the U.S. claim of killing Islamic leader Abul Haitham Yemeni inside Pakistan, using a pilotless plane, is false and Yemeni is alive. The drone did fire but missed its target, they say.
• On June 6, Pakistan handed over Maulvi Ahmed Talha, former Taliban governor of Paktia, to the U.S. He had taken refuge in Pakistan.
• June 15. In an "in-your-face" kind of interview with Pakistan's indeprendent Geo TV, Taliban military commander Mullah Akhtar Usmani said that BOTH Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden are alive and well and are living in areas of Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban. The interview, according to GEO, was carried out near Spin Voldak south of Kandahar.