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Ramadan 24, 1426/October 28, 2005 #81
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Please scroll way down. Huge sentence Imposed by U.S. Court on Muslim American doctor of Iraqi origin. Shame, Shame America. [taken over by Zionists.]
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Latest News:
October 26-27-28: Israel launched air attacks in Gaza and invaded parts of the West Bank after a resistance fighter carried out an attack in Hadera [occupied Palestine] killing 5 Jewish immigrants from Russia and wounding 13. Seven Islamic Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air attacks. The Hadera attack was in response to the murder of an Islamic commander by the Jews.
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Fighting has resumed in Occupied Kashmir. Indian troops killed 5 unarmed Kashmiris. They were then hit by a martyrdom operator who killed 5 Indian troops and wounded 30.
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Pakistan : Frontier Province and Kashmir. Two million homeless people are facing a cold winter and disease as an aftermath of the earthquake. Saudi Arabia has set up an air bridge sending thousands of tents, stacks of medicine and quantities of clothing to the stricken population. Tens of thousands of people are still cut off from relief in far away villages. Pakistanis are urging General Musharraf to bring in the full force of the army to rescue the people. This is the biggest tragedy in Pakistan's history and General Musharraf's American agenda has deprived the victims of the huge resources of the armed forces. [Most Pakistani troops are on the Afghan border trying to help America to stop the Jihad being waged by the Taliban. 500 Pakistani troops placed to stop mujahideen movement into occupied Kashmir were killed by the quake. Two hundred Indian troops are also reported killed by the quake.]
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The Best of Women
Ramadan 17, 1426 was the anniversary of 'Ayesha Siddiqa, radi Allah unha, daughter of Abu Bakr, r.a., and wife of Muhammad, pbuh. Chapter 24 of the Qur'an was revealed to give women their rights and honor when the hypocrites tried to slander 'Ayesha, r.a. Her contributions include the process of interpretation of the Qur'an and narration of Hadith as key to understanding the Qur'an.

'Ayesha [r.a.] narrates: The messenger of Allah [pbuh] said: One who faces difficulties owing to his daughters and treats them well, will find that they will screen him fom the Fire [of hell]. [Hadith, Sahih Muslim]
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Pages of the Qur'an Used to Clean Boots by U.S. Troops

A report has surfaced from the attorneys of a Muslim prisoner from Bahrain that U.S. troops desecrated the Qur'an and used its pages to clean their shoes.
[See full report below.] We urge Muslims of America to boycott the U.S. administration. Any Muslim who attends White House functions, Pentagon meetings, State Department activities should be seen as a Munafiq.
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Non-Muslims Urged to Join Fast on November 1 to Support Hunger Strike by Guantanamo Bay Prisoners[Appeal from Center for Constitutional Rights.]

Dear Friend,

Since early 2002, the men held at Guantánamo Bay have waged desperate and at times life-threatening hunger strikes to protest their detention without trial and the conditions under which they have been kept.. The current hunger strike, which began in August 2005, has involved the participation of over half of the estimated 540 prisoners still there. Many are now prepared to die if they do not receive a fair hearing or humane treatment. Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights in a Fast for Justice on November 1, 2005 to show your solidarity with those being kept out of the public eye and to raise awareness for their plight . Click here to let the U.S. Government know that you support fundamental human rights and do not believe that the Bush Administration is above the law.

During the month of Ramadan (early October - early November), Muslims around the world fast from sunrise to sunset. CCR is asking people of good conscience, regardless of your background or affiliation, to join in the fast on November 1, 2005. We will also hold a vigil in Washington, D.C., to protest the dire plight of the men illegally imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay and call on the Administration and Congress to deal clearly and honorably with the issues at Guantánamo. Please join us in the fast and vigil on November 1st and show your support for this effort by wearing your "Hungry for Justice: Nov. 1" sticker on that day (check our website in the coming week to download the image and print it out). Click here and make your voice heard by demanding that the Department of Defense take the following steps to bring torture, abuse and inhumane treatment to an end at Guantánamo: The Fast for Justice, like all of CCR's campaigns, can only be a success with your help. Please join us in standing up to the Bush Administration and making sure that human rights are protected at Guantánamo Bay.

Sincerely,

Edget Betru
CCR Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative
Organizer
212-614-6477
ebetru@ccr-ny.org
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WHITE HOUSE HOSTED IFTAR! [From our Media Monitor.]
Dear Muslim. Can you believe this? According to the White House, President Bush hosted Iftar (!) and a whole bunch of Muslims were in attendance. How can anyone claim to be a Muslim and still go to the White House. Can these people be called Muslims? Now read below what Bush's men are doing to Islam and Muslims.
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"U.S. soldiers cleaned their boots with Qur'an pages"

10/22/2005 (aljazeera.com)

http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=9888

A Bahraini detainee held at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba revealed more sexual abuses by the American soldiers there and confirmed Qur'an desecration.

Jumah Al-Dossary, one of six Bahraini detainees the U.S. holds in Guantanamo prison said he was subject of sexual abuse. He also confirmed desecration of the Qur'an, Islam's Holy Book, by U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, The Associated Press reported.

Al-Dossary, 30, said he witnessed U.S. soldiers at Kandahar Air Base in Afghanistan cleaning their boots with pages they had ripped from the Holy Qur'an.

According to the recently declassified documents issued by his lawyer Joshua Colangelo-Bryan Al-Dossary, the Bahraini detainee was beaten and stamped on by eight U.S. soldiers, as he was recovering from an earlier stomach operation.

Sexual abuse In September 2002, Al-Dossary was taken to an interrogation room where he found four MPs, one carrying a video camera. Al-Dossary said he was shackled to the floor, stripped naked on orders from a female interrogator, who stripped and squatted over his genitals, chest, and face smearing him with her menstrual blood to force him admit having links to Al-Qaeda network.

On a later occasion Al Dossary says he was forced to watch naked man and woman having sex, then offered sex with the woman if he co-operated with the interrogators, Gulf Daily News reported.

Al Dossary's accusations of being harshly beaten and stamped on by U.S. guards have been widely reported already.

Now Al Dossary suffers heart problems, and he wakes up screaming from nightmares. He fears he has been driven to mental illness, the paper reported.

After visiting all six Bahraini detainees at Guantanamo jail, Colangelo-Bryan, who has just arrived in the U.S., says the six men fear they will stay there for the rest of their lives.

Force-fed torture

Hunger-strikers at Guantanamo jail accused U.S. guards of repeatedly inserting and removing dirty feeding tubes until the detainee would vomit blood.

According to declassified documents recently released by defense lawyers for three men held at the U.S. detention center in Cuba, the guards used feeding tubes as thick as a finger, as objects of torture.

"They were forcibly shoved up the detainees' noses and down into their stomachs," the lawyers reported to a federal judge in August. "No anesthesia or sedative was provided."

The force feedings resulted in prisoners "vomiting up substantial amounts of blood. When they vomited up blood, the soldiers mocked and cursed at them, and taunted them with statements like `look what your religion has brought you.'"

Yousef al Shehri, a 21 year-old Saudi detainee held at Guantanamo, said guards removed a nasal feeding tube from one prisoner and inserted it into another without cleaning.

Another detainee said that a military doctor put a tube in his nose, down his throat and "kept moving the tube up and down" until he finally "started violently throwing up blood."
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[From New American Century site.] [Way before 9.11]
Who is Zalmay Khalilzad?
As Far back as 1998, he Conspired with Neocons to Start War Against Iraq on Excuse of "WMDs." Now he is U.S. "Ambassador" to "Iraq"
[Neocons wrote this letter to Clinton in January 1998!]
[The "black babies abortion" man was a signatory.]

January 26, 1998

The Honorable William J. Clinton
President of the United States
Washington, DC

Dear Mr. President:

We are writing you because we are convinced that current American policy toward Iraq is not succeeding, and that we may soon face a threat in the Middle East more serious than any we have known since the end of the Cold War. In your upcoming State of the Union Address, you have an opportunity to chart a clear and determined course for meeting this threat. We urge you to seize that opportunity, and to enunciate a new strategy that would secure the interests of the U.S. and our friends and allies around the world. That strategy should aim, above all, at the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power. We stand ready to offer our full support in this difficult but necessary endeavor.

The policy of "containment" of Saddam Hussein has been steadily eroding over the past several months. As recent events have demonstrated, we can no longer depend on our partners in the Gulf War coalition to continue to uphold the sanctions or to punish Saddam when he blocks or evades UN inspections. Our ability to ensure that Saddam Hussein is not producing weapons of mass destruction, therefore, has substantially diminished. Even if full inspections were eventually to resume, which now seems highly unlikely, experience has shown that it is difficult if not impossible to monitor Iraq's chemical and biological weapons production. The lengthy period during which the inspectors will have been unable to enter many Iraqi facilities has made it even less likely that they will be able to uncover all of Saddam's secrets. As a result, in the not-too-distant future we will be unable to determine with any reasonable level of confidence whether Iraq does or does not possess such weapons.

Such uncertainty will, by itself, have a seriously destabilizing effect on the entire Middle East. It hardly needs to be added that if Saddam does acquire the capability to deliver weapons of mass destruction, as he is almost certain to do if we continue along the present course, the safety of American troops in the region, of our friends and allies like Israel and the moderate Arab states, and a significant portion of the world's supply of oil will all be put at hazard. As you have rightly declared, Mr. President, the security of the world in the first part of the 21st century will be determined largely by how we handle this threat.

Given the magnitude of the threat, the current policy, which depends for its success upon the steadfastness of our coalition partners and upon the cooperation of Saddam Hussein, is dangerously inadequate. The only acceptable strategy is one that eliminates the possibility that Iraq will be able to use or threaten to use weapons of mass destruction. In the near term, this means a willingness to undertake military action as diplomacy is clearly failing. In the long term, it means removing Saddam Hussein and his regime from power. That now needs to become the aim of American foreign policy.

We urge you to articulate this aim, and to turn your Administration's attention to implementing a strategy for removing Saddam's regime from power. This will require a full complement of diplomatic, political and military efforts. Although we are fully aware of the dangers and difficulties in implementing this policy, we believe the dangers of failing to do so are far greater. We believe the U.S. has the authority under existing UN resolutions to take the necessary steps, including military steps, to protect our vital interests in the Gulf. In any case, American policy cannot continue to be crippled by a misguided insistence on unanimity in the UN Security Council.

We urge you to act decisively. If you act now to end the threat of weapons of mass destruction against the U.S. or its allies, you will be acting in the most fundamental national security interests of the country. If we accept a course of weakness and drift, we put our interests and our future at risk.

Sincerely, 
Elliott Abrams   Richard L. Armitage   William J. Bennett
Jeffrey Bergner   John Bolton   Paula Dobriansky
Francis Fukuyama   Robert Kagan   Zalmay Khalilzad
William Kristol   Richard Perle   Peter W. Rodman
Donald Rumsfeld   William Schneider, Jr.   Vin Weber
Paul Wolfowitz   R. James Woolsey   Robert B. Zoellick
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What is this country Coming to?

Dr. Rafil Dhafir Gets 22 Years on Fabricated Charges. U.S. Citizen Railroaded.

They Gave This Absurd Punishment and U.S. Media didn't even Report it!

US jails doctor for Iraq charity fraud

Friday 28 October 2005, 5:21 Makka Time, 2:21 GMT
[Al-Jazeerah]

A New York-based doctor who ran an unregistered charity has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for cheating donors and illegally sending some of the money to Iraq in violation of US sanctions.

During brief remarks to the court, Dr Rafil Dhafir on Thursday said prosecutors used "lies and misrepresentations" to build a fraud and tax evasion case against him when it could not link him to terrorism.

"It is my belief that my incarceration was, is and will always be political," said the Iraqi-born Dhafir, who has maintained all along that he was innocent and that the charges against him are politically motivated.

Prosecutors painted Dhafir, an oncologist, as a liar. While then-US attorney general John Ashcroft had described him as a terrorist, no terrorism charges were ever filed against him. The court had barred both sides from mentioning terrorism during the trial.

Stiff sentence

But the authorities, in pushing for a sentence of between 24 and 30 years, used a federal sentencing provision that allows for more stringent prison terms if a defendant is deemed a security risk.

"Dr Dhafir was not prosecuted because of who he is. He was prosecuted because of what he has done," said Assistant US Attorney Michael Olmsted. "He lied to donors. He lied to the government... He lied to banks. He lied to his friends."

Defence lawyer Deveraux Cannick said he will appeal Dhafir's case, arguing that "the sentence is totally inconsistent with the conduct alleged".

More than 100 of Dhafir's supporters packed the small 12th-floor courtroom, many sporting white "Justice for Dhafir" buttons. The sentencing, originally scheduled for June, was delayed a half-dozen times as prosecutors and defence lawyers exchanged legal papers.

Persecution alleged

"We don't see any kind of justice here. This is shocking," said Mohamed Khater, president of the Islamic Society of Central New York.

"The feeling in the Muslim community is that Dr Dhafir has been singled out because he is Muslim," Khater said, comparing Dhafir's sentence to those given in recent years to prominent Wall Street executives convicted of stealing billions of dollars.

Dhafir, 58, was convicted in February of 59 criminal counts, including money-laundering and conspiracy to violate the sanctions against Iraq. A jury found him guilty of misusing $2 million that donors gave to his unlicensed charity, Help the Needy, and spending $544,000 for his own purposes.

Prosecutors said Dhafir's Syracuse-based charity solicited more than $5 million over the internet and by mail between 1995 and February 2002, claiming it would help starving Iraqi orphans and poor children.

The government said it initially was able to trace only about $160,000 into Iraq. But US Attorney Glenn Suddaby said on Thursday that the authorities identified more money that made it to Iraq, although he declined to give an amount.

"It is my belief that my incarceration was, is and will always be political"

Dr Rafil Dhafir

Suddaby said the investigation is ongoing.

Dhafir had prepared a 46-page statement to read to US District Judge Norman Mordue, but instead gave an abbreviated 10-minute rendering because he said "the court's mind has already been set".

Five people, including Dhafir's wife, have pleaded guilty to charges related to the case. Ayman Jarwan, the charity's former executive director, is serving an 18-month prison term.

Illustrious doctor

Born in Baghdad, Dhafir has been a US citizen for the past 25 years. In 1993, he set up his charity to help children in Iraq suffering under sanctions imposed by the US and the UN. By independent estimates, 5 million Iraqi children died as a result of the sanctions.

His supporters say Dhafir had been singled out by the authorities for daring to violate US sanctions, though the intentions of his charity were noble.

Dhafir was arrested by federal agents in February 2003 and has been held in jail since. He requested bail four separate times, but his requests were turned down each time as the judge bought the prosecution claim that Dhafir could flee.
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