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THE MUSLIM WORLD IS IN A STATE OF SHOCK THAT THE
QUR'AN
LIBRARY IN BAGHDAD,
including some of the oldest manuscripts of the
Qur'an, WAS BURNED TO ASHES
under
U.S.
occupation.
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On
IRAQ,
as on
Afghanistan
before it,
CNN
HAS GONE
to new LOWS of FALSEHOOD
AND PROPAGANDA. The following letter was sent to
CNN on April 17 and remains
unanswered.
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Producer CNN
CNN@CNN.COM
Dear Producer
Your report on Abbas Ali, during your program of
April 16, (morning), was not
only in bad taste but indicated poor standards of
journalism.
Abbas is the twelve year old Iraqi boy who lost
both his arms in a
U.S. bombing raid
on Baghdad. Fifteen of his
relatives, including his mother, were
killed in that attack.
Your report had some defects which would not be
acceptable in Journalism 101.
1. You did not report the U.S. bombing raid when
it took place. Your line
has been that the U.S. does not bomb civilians.
The raid in which Abbas lost
his arms was reported on
Al-Jazeera,
not on CNN.
2. In your April 16 program on Abbas, you did NOT
concede that CNN had not
reported the incident which was being discussed
and that pictures of Abbas,
with both arms cut off, had appeared on Arab TV
channels.
3. The tone of your report on Abbas was flippant.
For instance your
commentator said that Abbas is "lucky to be
alive." To use the word "lucky"
for a child traumatized by a bomb explosion, with
both his arms cut off and
15 members of his family dead, is surely in bad
taste.
4. Your report lacked basic honesty. For instance
your reporter pointed to
the child and said that he was hurt in the
"coalition bombing." Which
"coalition?" Who does not know that it was a U.S.
bombing raid. Are you
saying the British did it? There was no one else
in that "coalition."
5. Finally, you had to attempt to make propaganda
out of the suffering of the
child. Your reporter asked the doctor taking care
of the child: "DOES HE
UNDERSTAND
OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM?"
In other
words you wanted to know if the
doctor had explained to the child that his
suffering was part of a good cause.
Even the very accommodating physician,
Dr. Imad al-Najada, although a
Kuwaiti, was taken aback by CNN's question. He
pointed out that there was NO
MILITARY TARGET WITHIN FIVE KILOMETERS of where
Abbas and his family were
hit. The physician also wryly indicated that he
had not had the occasion to
discuss the question with the child.
I would suggest that CNN has lost the
ability to provide genuine
journalism because it never permits any Islamic
critique of the war to be
aired.
Sincerely
Kaukab Siddique, Ph.D
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How The
Zionist
Jews
Look
at
Islamic Resistance
Muslims should monitor the ideas spread by
Zionist Jews through their
think tanks in America. The attack on Islam is
coming from the most heavily
funded and prestigious American think tanks. [For
overseas readers, "think
tank" is an American term for organizations which
systematically collect
data, analyze it and come up with reports which
are then transmitted to
American policy makers and
media
people.]
On April 15,
C-Span
featured a program
organized by the Potomac
Institute for Policy Studies located in
Arlington, Virginia.
One of the main speakers was a Jewish man named
Ariel Cohen who works for a
right wing think tank known as the Heritage
Foundation. Cohen wanted to
explain why Islamic fighters are willing to carry
out martyrdom attacks
(which he called "suicide terrorist attacks").
[Thus for the zionists, the
martyrdom operations are a troubling force coming
from people who are
otherwise poorly armed.] Cohen connected the
martyrdom attacks to:
1. "Wahhabi" ideology. The "wahhabis" according
to Cohen include both Taliban
and
Chechens.
2. The "wahhabis" prepare their people by
stopping TV and banning dancing and
by not allowing the worship of saints.
New Trend comment: Cohen seemed to be quite
confused. He was not able to
explain what exactly is meant by "wahhabi." Also,
he contradicted himself by
claiming, on the one hand, that "suicide attacks"
get their support among
"jobless males" and on the other hand that
"alienated Arabs" living in the
U.S. support the attacks and have been raising
funds for Chechen fighters.
Our impression is that when Cohen and other
Zionist Jews refer to "wahhabis,"
they mean Muslims who follow only the Qur'an and
the authentic
Hadith.
The second main speaker was Yonah Alexander from
the International center for
Terrorism Studies. In his attack on Islam, he
targeted MADRESSAS. His
complaints were as follows:
1. Medressa textbooks are "educating 'suicide'
bombers.' All medressa
students are potential martyrs (or "suicides" in
his words.)
2. Medressa students, even very young ones, say
that their objective in life
is "victory or martyrdom."
The third speaker, Martha Olcott, from the
Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, attacked the Islamic
movement known as HIZBUT TAHRIR in
Uzbekistan. She considers them "terrorists"
because they are an international
movement. She also condemned the Islamic Movement
for Uzbekistan which had
joined the Taliban when the Americans attacked.
Comment by New Trend: Ms. Olcott's views are
especially interesting because
she considers the Islamic struggle against the
Stalinist autocrat of
Uzbekistan as "terrorism."
The 4th speaker, Jess Sadick from the State
Department's Bureau of
Intelligence and Research was happier than the
others. He felt that the blow
struck by the U.S. against Saddam will "thwart
Palestinian
suicides."
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A similar program was held on April 17,
2003 where the infiltration of
Pakistan
by these Think Tanks became apparent. A
Pakistani "fellow" of the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace spoke.
He is Husain Haqqani who
was employed by Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif for
similar purposes. Dressed nattily
like an American, he warned American policy
makers that "anti-U.S. Islamist
parties" are gaining ground in Pakistan and the
"hated" Taliban are trying to
make a come-back. He hailed the "liberation of
Baghdad" but expressed fears
about the emergence of what he called "retail
terrorism." He pointed to the
need to support those in the Muslim world who are
"thinking positively of
reform" without naming them He seemed to be the
kind of person who might have
mis-advised General Musharraf into thinking that
the Islamic coalition in
Pakistan represents only "five per cent" of the
people.
It's important to remember that the
distorted view of reality which
these "intellectuals" present is picked up and
repeated ad nauseum by the
Zionist
media
till it becomes part of American
perception of the world.
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COWARDS WHO HAVE NO IDEA THAT THEY ARE COWARDS:
From C-Span, April 16. Comment by Cholene
Espinoza, military correspondent
for Talk Radio News on the fighting in Iraq: "We
were firing tow missiles at
Iraqis with AK47s."
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A FEW NOTES ON IRAN's DEVELOPING RELATIONSHIP
WITH THE U.S.A.
1. Both the U.S. and Iran support the puppet
Karzai "government in
Kabul."
2. Both the U.S. and Iran support the
CIA
agent
General Musharraf of Pakistan.
3. Both Iran and the U.S. support the racist
Vajpayee government in
India.
4. Iran supported the U.S.-U.N. sanctions on IRAQ
which resulted in the death
of a
million Iraqi children.
5. Iran has built up an elaborate propaganda
story against the Taliban's
clashes with Shias. The Taliban defeated Iran's
attempts to take over Kabul
by arming one (out of several) Shia groups in
Afghanistan.
6. Iran assured the U.S. during the bombing of
Afghanistan that no Islamic
militant would be permitted to take refuge in
Iran.
7. Iran has assured the U.S. that any supporter
of Saddam seeking refuge in
Iran will be arrested.
Iran's main problem with the U.S. is the
pro-Palestinian rhetoric the
Iranian leaders use for the consumption of
pro-Khomeini elements in Iran.
This rhetoric is picked up by Zionists who attack
it to convince the U.S.
government that Iran is involved in "terrorism."
There is no evidence that
Iran has given any significant weaponry to the
Palestinians or even to
Hizbullah. [Hizbullah's outmoded katyushas do
little damage.]
During the invasion of Iraq, the U.S. showed
its SUPPORT FOR IRAN by
bombing the Shia rebels who had left Iran and
taken refuge in Iraq. After the
bombing, in which many were killed, the U.S. has
ordered the Shia rebels,
known as MKO, to surrender.
IRAN IS SILENT ON CHECHNIA because the
Chechen jihad is seen as
"wahhabi" by Iran.
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IRANIAN SHIA REBELS BOMBED BY U.S. [Excerpts from
N.Y. Times
.]
U.S. Bombs Iranian Guerrilla Forces
Based in Iraq
By DOUGLAS JEHL
WASHINGTON, April 16 — American
forces have bombed the bases of
the main armed Iranian opposition group in Iraq.
The group, the Mujahedeen Khalq, has
been labeled a terrorist
organization by the United States since 1997, and
Bush administration
officials said the group had supported Saddam
Hussein's military. Still, the
biggest beneficiary of the strikes will be the
Iranian government, which has
lost scores of soldiers in recent years to
cross-border attacks by the
guerrillas seeking to overthrow Iran's Islamic
government.
Defense department officials who
described the air attacks, which
have received scant public attention, said they
had been followed in recent
days by efforts by American ground forces to
pursue and detain members of the
group and its National Liberation Army. Some
members of the group were
expected to surrender soon, the officials said
today.
A senior American military officer
said the United States had
"bombed the heck" out of at least two of the
Mujahedeen group's bases,
including its military headquarters at Camp
Ashraf, about 60 miles north of
Baghdad.
The only public acknowledgment of the
attacks came on Tuesday,
when Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, met with
foreign reporters. In answer to a question,
General Myers acknowledged
bombing some camps, and said that American forces
were "still pursuing
elements" of the group inside Iraq.
"We're still interested in that
particular group," he said. "How
that will affect U.S.-Iranian relationships, I
think we're going to have to
wait until more time goes by.
....
the
Bush
administration has expressed relief at
what it has generally described as Iran's path of
noninterference in the
American war in Iraq. American officials are
believed to have met secretly
with Iranian officials in the months before the
war to urge Iran's government
to maintain its neutrality.
In a telephone interview from Paris,
Mohammad Mohaddessin, a top
official of an Iranian opposition coalition that
includes the Mujahedeen,
confirmed that the bases had been attacked by the
United States in what he
called "an astonishing and regrettable act."
"It is a clear kowtowing to the
demands of the Iranian regime,"
said Mr. Mohaddessin.
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