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URGENT MEETING: ROLE OF MUSLIMS IN
AMERICA
DURING WAR TIME:
Activists, community leaders are invited.
When: February 8
Where: Greensboro, North Carolina
Time: 1 to 8 PM
Purpose: Resolution on Role, Direction,
Participation
For Invitation and Directions: email:
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or call: 410-638-5965
Sponsored by
Jamaat al-Muslimeen
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Powerful Voice from
Africa:
NELSON MANDELA BLASTS
GEORGE BUSH
What do Africans think of Bush's plans for war on
Iraq?
The answer came
in a devastating indictment of Bush by the South
African leader Nelson
Mandela. Bush is seen here as a racist and a
warmonger who is about to
inflict incalculable harm not only on the people
of Iraq but on the whole
world.
The moral position of Bush has been destroyed by
the powerful voice of
Mandela. Hail Mandela!
Hail the unity of Africa and Islam
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DEMONSTRATIONS IN EVERY PAKISTANI CITY AGAINST
U.S. War Plans
On Friday, January 31, Pakistanis held
rallies in Lahore, Karachi,
Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Multan, Sukker, Quetta, and
many other towns to condemn
U.S. war plans against Iraq. Most of the rallies
were organized by the
Islamic coalition known as MMA.
The rallies were peaceful. In some rallies
there was a call for Jihad
against the U.S.
A surprise this time was that anti-U.S.,
anti-war rallies were also
organized by Muslim League led by the exiled
Nawaz Sharif in its stronghold
in Lahore. [Another "Muslim League" was also
fabricated by General but the
original one is led by Nawaz Sharif.]
This time anti-U.S., anti-war rallies on a
small scale were also
organized by the Insaf (Justice) movement led by
Imran Khan. During the fake
"referendum" held by General Musharraf, Imran
made the mistake of siding with
the general. Since then, he has cleared himself
of the taint of Musharraf and
has come out with far reaching criticism of the
corrupt military government.
He has spoken out strongly against U.S.
interference in Pakistan. Many people
suspect him because he was a secularist and had
married a Jewish woman in
England. Gradually people are realizing his
sincerity and that his wife's
conversion to Islam is genuine. He is also known
for his Cancer hospital and
other medical facilities set up to help the poor.
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PAKISTANIS TO
BOYCOTT
U.S., BRITISH PRODUCTS to
protest ANTI-MUSLIM POLICIES:
January 29: The Islamic coalition known as
MMA has called on all imams
and prayer leaders to prepare the masses of
Pakistan to carry out a
comprehensive boycott of U.S. and British goods
to protest the anti-Muslims
policies of these two countries. The decision was
made by the supreme council
of MMA attended by the entire Islamic spectrum
involved in politics (not the
Jihad movement). The leaders who made the
decision were: Allama Shah Ahmad
Noorani, Maulana Sami'ul Haq, Qazi Hussain Ahmad,
Maulana Fazlur Rahman,
Allama Sajid Naqvi and Prof. Sajid Mir.
Delegates of MMA will meet ambassadors of
countries who are members of
the Security Council to urge them to advise the
U.S. to stop its war plans.
The MMA also urges Islamic movements around
the world to raise their
voices against America.
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"PAKISTANI RULERS HAVE BECOME SLAVES OF AMERICA":
Nawaz Sharif
January 30: In a telephone message from
his exile in Jeddah, Muslim
League leader Nawaz Sharif gave this message to
Syed Mushtaq Hussain Shah,
General Secretary of the labor wing of Muslim
League in Sheikhupura,
Pakistan: "Pakistan's rulers have become the
slaves of America and are
willing to go to any extent to please their
masters. However, these toadies
and bootlickers will not escape the wrath of the
people. The dummy new
leadership (of Prime Minister Jamali) has emerged
from the womb of
dictatorship and will reach its natural downfall.
Jamali cannot even stop the
acts of sabotage which are going on in his home
province of Baluchistan, let
alone provide security and stability to the
people of Pakistan."
[Nawaz Sharif was the last democratically
elected prime minister of
Pakistan and was removed in a coup engineered by
General Musharraf. The
general cooked up a weird story about how Nawaz
Sharif was trying to get rid
of him.]
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BLINDED CYCLOPS HURTING ITS BEST FRIENDS:
25 Pakistanis arrested
On January 30, while the Pakistani foreign
minister Khurshid Qasuri was
addressing a joint press conference with Colin
Powell, urging the U.S. to be
kind to its best friends, Pakistanis in USA, the
FBI raided Pakistani
businesses and travel agencies in Virginia, just
outside Washington.
The FBI arrested 25 Pakistanis. The companies
targeted are reported by
U.S. authorities as: Metro International travel
of Alexandria and Super
Travel Agency of Arlington. Metro also publishes
the two language Pakistani
newspaper called EASTERN TIMES.
According to news reports, the U.S.
authorities are alleging that those
arrested are involved in credit card fraud and
their leader, Shah Nawaz, has
fled to Pakistan and the group's profits have
been transferred to Canadian
and Pakistani banks.
BROOKINGS INSITUTE fellow ARRESTED: In an
even more bizarre incident,
Aijaz Haider, a fellow of the Brookings Institute
was arrested by armed
immigration agents while he was walking down a
street in Washington, DC.
Aijaz is a news editor of the staunchly pro-U.S.
and anti-Islam weekly FRIDAY
TIMES (a major source of Pak news for
NPR).
He is also a friend of the
Pakistani foreign minister Qasuri.
Aijaz was taken to the same detention center in Alexandria where the
American Taliban
(Walker Lindh)
was kept. He was finger printed twice,
photographed, told to post bond and that he would
have to stay in prison
overnight.
Fortunately Brookings Institute found out
and pleaded for his release
and he was let go. Foreign Minister Qasuri is
shocked.
[Brookings Institute helps the power
structure to investigate the Muslim
world and gather information against Islam.
Aijaz's supervisor is a Jew named
Cohen]
Observers say that after the
attacks
on September 11 which destroyed
the symbols of American power, the Bush
administration has been behaving like
a blinded cyclops. Unable to find the real
culprits (who probably perished in
the attacks), it is flailing around like the
cyclops blinded by Ulysses,
hurting its own friends in the process.
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IRRITATED PAKISTANIS SEND BACK FOUR AMERICANS:
On January 29, Pakistani immigration
officers at Lahore's international
air port sent back four Americans who had arrived
without visas from Bangkok to go to
Afghanistan.
The four are named as:
David Kenneth, Desenz Eberd, Tom
Byrd and A. Byrd. They arrived by Thai airlines
flight EG 506 and were not
permitted to go outside the lounge before they
were sent back.
[Pakistan's visa office in Washington has
raised the cost of a visa for
American citizens from $50 to $78.]
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SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT IN AFGHANISTAN.
Reports say that according to Roger King,
spokesman of U.S. occupation
forces in Afghanistan, three Afghans who were
planning to blow up American
installations in Kabul have been arrested. A
fourth person escaped.
Explosives and mines were recovered from the
three.
What's shocking about this development is
that the THREE WERE SOLDIERS
IN THE NEWLY FORMULATED AFGHAN ARMY BEING TRAINED
BY THE U.S. As New Trend
pointed out earlier, history is repeating itself.
The Soviets too had trained
an "Afghan army" against the Afghan people. Many
of its troops deserted or
joined the mujahideen when the fightng began.
FRUSTRATED AMERICAN TROOPS ARREST 17 AFGHAN
REFUGEES
On January 30, more than 300 U.S. troops
barged into the refugee camp
known as "Awami" at Spin Boldak (on the Afghan
border with Pakistan). The
camp is located 20 kilometers from Addi Nahr
where the battle between 350
troops of the U.S. 82nd air borne and 80 Taliban
took place.
The troops arrested 17 Afghan refugees.
Those arrested were not
identified and there does not seem to be any
indication that they are Taliban.
[Pakistani sources are now conservatively
putting the number of U.S.
troops killed in the fighting at 16.]
BLACK HAWK DOWN: 4 Special Forces troops Killed
The helicopter went down near Bagram air
base outside Kabul on January
30. The U.S. immediately claimed that it was an
accident. The Black Hawk is a
sturdy helicopter and is not known to go down in
calm weather.
[Readers should look at reports of
journalists visiting the northern
alliance by helicopter. Even these rickety,
falling apart, helicopters have
not crashed "by accident" in Afghanistan. How a
Black Hawk could go down
without being shot down is difficult to
understand. TWO U.S. drones have also
crashed in Pakistan near Jacobabad, one in
December and one in January. In
each case it was an "accident." Observers say,
such explanations don't make
sense. More likely the drones were hit by
Taliban fire while on operations
in Afghanistan and then tried to make it back to
their base in Pakistan.]
[Musharref claims there is NO U.S. base in
Pakistan!]
The U.S., observers say, admitted the crash
of the Black Hawk because it
came down very visibly just outside Kabul and was
difficult to hide.
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Taking issue with the New Trend article
criticizing the slogan "No blood for
oil".
(by Shaikh Mohommed, London, England)
It is the American agenda that we are talking
about. Is the attack on Iraq
for oil? Is the attack on Iraq on the basis that
the country is a Muslim
country? We can only surmise because the
American agenda is only known to
the clique surrounding Bush.
However, the war on Iraq is perceived by many as
unjust and un-called for and
without any valid reasons and will undoubtedly
result in death and
destruction of Iraq and Iraqis. The people of
the world have now come out of
their closet and are demanding that untold
sufferings to ordinary people
should be stopped. And their perception of what
is happening may differ from
But Shaken's. Nevertheless what is important is
that the people are against
the policies pursued by US. Shouldn't we focus
and spend our energy in
preventing US to have a field day and destroy
what little peace we have in
this world? If, however, we try to air our
differences then, we will be
helping US in its aim – whatever that might be.
Here I give a report appearing in the Daily
Independent London (UK) about a
demonstration which I and my family participated.
"The voice of middle-class England was how Debbie
Mainwaring described
herself yesterday as she stood amid the clamour
of one of the biggest
anti-war demonstrations ever, and it was clear
that she was not alone. The
sheer numbers who turned out to express
vociferous opposition to military
action in Iraq – between 150,000 and 350,000 on
the central London march –
meant there was no way they could be dismissed as
'the usual suspects' of the
hard left."
Led by the Stop The War Coalition and the Muslim
Association of Great
Britain, protesters marched from the Embankment,
made their way past the
Houses of Parliament and through Piccadilly to
Hyde Park.
Biggest protest in a generation hears calls for
peace with Iraq By Andrew
Johnson and Jonathan Thompson 29 September 2002
Independent on Sunday
Coming to the central theme of blood for oil
slogan. Is it an accurate
description? I for one think that US is out to
grab the resources of the
world whether they are in Muslim countries or
non-Muslim countries.
Regarding Iraq, I quote from an article appearing in the
Daily Guardian
, London (UK).
The US military has drawn up detailed plans to
secure and protect Iraq's
oilfields to prevent a repeat of 1991 when
President Saddam set Kuwait's
wells ablaze.
The US state department and Pentagon disclosed
the preparations during a
meeting in Washington before Christmas with
members of the Iraqi opposition
parties.
Iraq has the second biggest known oil reserves in
the world producing, in
their current run-down state, about 1.5m barrels
a day. But experts contacted
by the Guardian predict this could rise to 6m
barrels a day within five years
with the right investment and control.
At the meeting, on the future of a post-Saddam
Iraq - details of which have
been disclosed to the Guardian - the state
department stressed that
protection of the oilfields was "issue number
one".
One of those at the meeting said the military
claimed that a plan to protect
the multibillion oil wells was "already in
place", hinting that special
forces will secure key installations at the start
of any ground campaign.
As well as immediate concern about the
environmental impact of having
hundreds of Iraqi wells on fire, US, British,
Russian, French and other
international oil companies are already taking
soundings about Iraq's
multibillion pound oil supply.
The companies are reluctant to mention oil in
public, fearing it will feed
Arab suspicion that it is the main factor in the
confrontation with Iraq.
US begins secret talks to secure Iraq's oilfields
Fears that wells will be torched if regime falls
Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow, Julian Borger in
Washington, Terry Macalister and
Ewen MacAskill
Thursday January 23, 2003
The Guardian
In this very turbulent times, we must show unity
of purpose – viz simply to
stop US wage war against Iraq and any other
country for that matter for
whatever reason it might be.
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