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Topics in this digest:
1. Wahid Qamber’s health deteriorated in jail
From: Mir Raza
2. Marta Harnecker: Ideas for the struggle #1 -- Insurrections or revol
From: glparramatta
3. (An Excellent Must Read) Fw: Secretary Doomsday and the Empathy Gap
From: Imran Majeed
4. Fw: [SindhPost] Cross Posting from SindhPost of Today
From: Imran Majeed
5. Enslave your husband, says Indian Supreme Court - It is your legal
From: Imran Majeed
6. Fw: Basic precepts of judicial reforms
From: Imran Majeed
7. Join Civil Lines Club
From: Mah Noor
8. A report on Abuses in Ireland
From: Imran Majeed
9. US wronged Pakistan for 30 years - Hillary Clinton
From: Mansoor Hallaj
10. AMN TEHREEK INVITATION
From: idrees kamal
11. Re: [PAF_OPENFORUM] Fw: [SindhPost] Cross Posting from SindhPost of
From: imran.majeed@yahoo.com
12. (A Must Read) Parental Alienation Syndrome Much Common Abuse of Non
From: Imran Majeed
13. IS THE GOVT OF PAKISTAN BLIND ?
From: barkat rizvi
14. Re: [pakibaba] Secret Of Israel Success...
From: Imran Majeed
15. Weekly Worker #770 (May 21) available online now
From: Steve Cooke
16. PRABHAKARAN DEATH Claimed, Long Live Tamil Ealam! India ACTION Plan
From: palashc biswas
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1. Wahid Qamber’s health deteriorated in jail
Posted by: "Mir Raza" mirsalimraza@yahoo.com mirsalimraza
Date: Thu May 21, 2009 11:36 am ((PDT))
Save the Life of a Brave Son of Baluchistan Wahid Qambar.. Please Raise your Voice NOW, before it is TOO LATE...
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--- On Tue, 5/19/09, Munir Mengal mengal_11@yahoo.com" <gary@citydesk.co.uk>
Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 7:15 AM
Respected all Individuals and Organizations, I request you all please on the humanitarian basis or being a supporter of Baloch strugle for freedom or being a son of Baloch soil and nation raise voice for Mr. Wahid Qamber's medication and basic facilities.
Regards,
Munir Mengal
The news is follows:
Subject: Wahid Qamber’s health deteriorated in jail
Quetta: Baluchistan’s local news papers and sources from the jail reported that Baloch leader Wahid Qamber is seriously ill from last few months. He has stopped eating food and the jail authorities are not providing him with any medicines. His health is deteriorating day by day. Reports said that he lost weight and is very weak. He has not yet been medically checked to diagnose his illness.Â
Source from the jail reported that Mr Qambar Baloch needs to be admitted in an outside hospital for proper treatment. His friend and family members are very concerned about his health. They said that Wahid Qamber must be given the opportunity for his treatment.
Warning the government and the jail authorities they said that looking after Mr Qambar’s health and safety is the responsibility of the jail authorities and the relevant government agencies who have arrested him. “if anything happened to Qambar in prison the provincial government and the personals of intelligence will be held responsibleâ€�, they warned.Â
They however appealed to the National and International human rights organizations to put pressure on Pakistani authorities to immediately release Wahid Qambar
                   news taken from http://www.facebook .com/l/;balochwa rna.com
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2. Marta Harnecker: Ideas for the struggle #1 -- Insurrections or revol
Posted by: "glparramatta" glparramatta@greenleft.org.au glparramatta
Date: Thu May 21, 2009 11:36 am ((PDT))
[This is the first in a series of regular articles.]
By *Marta Harnecker*, translated by *Federico Fuentes* for /Links
International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ <http://links.org.au>
1. The recent popular uprisings at the turn of the 21^st century that
have rocked numerous countries such as Argentina and Bolivia -- and,
more generally, the history of the multiple social explosions that have
occurred in Latin America and the rest of the world -- have undoubtedly
demonstrated *that the initiative of the masses, in and of itself, is
not enough to defeat ruling regimes. *
2. Impoverished urban and country masses, lacking a well-defined plan,
have risen up, seized highways, towns and neighbourhoods, ransacked
stores and stormed parliaments, but despite achieving the mobilisation
of hundreds of thousands of people, *neither the size nor their
combativeness have been enough to develop from popular insurrection into
revolution.* They have overthrown presidents, but they haven't been able
to conquer power and initiate a process of deep social transformations.
3. On the other hand, the history of triumphant revolutions clearly
demonstrates what can be achieved when there is *a political instrument
capable of raising an alternative national program that unifies the
struggles of diverse social actors behind a common goal*; that helps to
cohere them and elaborate a path forward for these actors based on an
analysis of the existent balance of forces. Only in this manner can
actions be carried out at the right place and right time, always seeking
out the weakest link in the enemy's chain.
Full article at http://links.org.au/node/1059
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3. (An Excellent Must Read) Fw: Secretary Doomsday and the Empathy Gap
Posted by: "Imran Majeed" imran.majeed@yahoo.com imran.majeed
Date: Thu May 21, 2009 11:36 am ((PDT))
If you also follow the given hyperlinks its a treasure trove on this and related issues....
Cheers! Â Imran Islamabad-44000
Pakistan
(Which World? First? Second or third?)
Planet Earth, Solar System, Universe!
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From: pet_lamb <pet_lamb@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Men's Issues Online] Re: [pakibaba] Secret Of Israel Success...
To: MensIssuesOnline@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009, 3:12 PM
refs:
http://www.tomdispa tch.com/post/ 175069/everyday_ is_doomsday_ in_washington
http://www.sjcite. info/popcontrol. html
Tomgram: Everyday is Doomsday in Washington
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Secretary Doomsday and the Empathy GapThe Everyday Extremism of
Washington
By Tom Engelhardt
A front-page New York Times headline last week put the matter
politely indeed: "In Pakistan, U.S. Courts Leader of Opposition." And nobody
thought it was strange at all.
In fact, it's the sort of thing you can read just about any time when it
comes to American policy in Pakistan or, for that matter, Afghanistan. It's just
the norm on a planet on which it's assumed that American civilian and military
leaders can issue pronunciamentos about what other countries must do;
publicly demand various actions of ruling groups; opt for specific leaders, and
then, when they disappoint, attempt to replace them; and use what was once
called "foreign aid," now taxpayer dollars largely
funneled through the Pentagon, to bribe those who are hard to convince.
Last week as well, in a prime-time news conference, President Obama said
of Pakistan: "We want to respect their sovereignty, but we also recognize that
we have huge strategic interests, huge national security interests in making
sure that Pakistan is stable and that you don't end up having a nuclear-armed
militant state."
To the extent that this statement was commented on, it was praised here for
its restraint and good sense. Yet, thought about a moment, what the president
actually said went something like this: When it comes to U.S. respect for
Pakistan's sovereignty, this country has more important fish to fry. A look at
the historical record indicates that Washington has, in fact, been frying those
"fish" for at least the last four decades without particular regard for
Pakistani sensibilities.
In a week in which the presidents of both Pakistan and Afghanistan
have, like two satraps, dutifully trekked to the U.S. capital to be called on
the carpet by Obama and his national security team, Washington officials have
been issuing one shrill statement after another about what U.S. media reports
regularly term the "dire
situation" in Pakistan.
Of course, to put this in perspective, we now live in a thoroughly ramped-up
atmosphere in which "American national security" -- defined to include just
about anything unsettling that occurs anywhere on Earth -- is the eternal
preoccupation of a vast national security bureaucracy. Its bread and butter
increasingly seems to be worst-case scenarios (perfect for our 24/7 media to
pounce on) in which something truly catastrophic is always about to happen to
us, and every "situation" is a "crisis." In the hothouse atmosphere of
Washington, the result can be a feeding frenzy in which doomsday scenarios pour
out. Though we don't recognize it as such, this is a kind of everyday extremism.
Being Hysterical in Washington
As the recent release of more Justice Department torture memos (which were
also, in effect, torture
manuals) reminds us, we've just passed through eight years of such obvious
extremism that the present everyday extremity of Washington and its national
security mindset seems almost a relief.
We naturally grasp the extremity of the Taliban -- those floggings,
beheadings, school burnings, bans on music, the medieval attitude toward women's
role in the world -- but our own extremity is in no way evident to us. So
Obama's statement on Pakistani sovereignty is reported as the height of
sobriety, even when what lies behind it is an expanding "covert"
air war and assassination
campaign by unmanned aerial drones over the Pakistani tribal lands, which
has reportedly killed hundreds of bystanders and helped unsettle the region.
Let's stop here and consider another bit of news that few of us seem to find
strange. Mark Lander and Elizabeth Bumiller of the New York Times offered
this tidbit out of an overheated Washington last week: "President Obama and his
top advisers have been meeting almost daily to discuss options for helping the
Pakistani government and military repel the [Taliban] offensive." Imagine that.
Almost daily. It's this kind of atmosphere that naturally produces the
bureaucratic equivalent of mass hysteria.
In fact, other reports indicate that Obama's national security team has been
convening
regular "crisis"
meetings and having "nearly
nonstop discussions" at the White House, not to mention issuing alarming and
alarmist statements of all sorts about the devolving situation in Pakistan, the
dangers to Islamabad, our fears for the Pakistani nuclear arsenal, and so on. In
fact, Warren Strobel and Jonathan Landy of McClatchy news service quote "a
senior U.S. intelligence official" (from among the legion of anonymous officials
who populate our nation's capital) saying:
"The situation in Pakistan has gone from bad to worse, and no one has any idea
about how to reverse it. I don't think 'panic' is too strong a word to describe
the mood here."
Now, if it were the economic meltdown, the Chrysler bankruptcy, the bank
stress tests, the potential flu pandemic, or any number of close-to-home issues
pressing in on the administration, perhaps this would make some sense. But
everyday discussions of Pakistan?
You know, that offensive in the Lower Dir Valley. That's near the Buner
District. You remember, right next to the Swat Valley and, in case you're still
not completely keyed in, geographically speaking, close to the Malakand
Division. I mean, if the Pakistani government were in crisis over the
deteriorating situation in Fargo, North Dakota, we would consider it material
for late night jokesters.
And yet, in the strange American world we inhabit, nobody finds these
practically Cuban-Missile- Crisis-style, round-the-clock meetings the least bit
strange, not after eight years of post-9/11 national security fears, not after
living with worst-case scenarios in which jihadi atomic bombs regularly
are imagined going off in American cities.
Keep in mind a certain
irony here: We essentially know what those crisis meetings will result in. After
all, the U.S. government has been embroiled with Pakistan for at least 40 years
and for just that long, its top officials have regularly come to the same policy
conclusions -- to support Pakistani military dictatorships or, in periods when
civilian rule returns, pour yet more money (and support) into the Pakistani
military. That military has long been a power
unto itself in the country, a state within a state. And in moments like
this, part of our weird extremism is that, having spent decades undermining
Pakistani democracy, we bemoan its "fragility" in the face of threats and
proceed to put even more of our hopes and dollars into its military. (As Strobel
and Landy report, "Some U.S. officials say Pakistan's only hope, and
Washington's, too, at this stage may be the country's army. That, another senior
official acknowledged Wednesday, 'means another coup.'")
In the Bush years, this support added up to at least $10
billion, with next to no idea what the military was doing with it. Another
$100
million went into making that country's nuclear-weapons program, about which
there is now such panic, safer from theft or other intrusion, again with next to
no idea of what was actually done with those dollars. And now the Obama
administration is rushing to create a new Pakistan Counterinsurgency Capability
Fund that will be controlled
by General David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command. If Congress agrees --
and in this panic atmosphere, how could it not? -- there will be an initial
rushed down payment of $400 million to train the Pakistani military, probably
outside that country, in counterinsurgency warfare. ("The fund would be similar
to those used to train and equip Iraqi and Afghan soldiers and police, Petraeus
said.")
Doomsday Scenarios
Oh, and speaking of extremism, the ur-extreme statement of the last few weeks
came from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and was treated like the most
ho-hum news here. In congressional testimony, she insisted
that the situation in Pakistan -- that Taliban thrust into Swat and the lower
Dir Valley -- "poses a mortal threat to the security and safety of our country
and the world."
Umm... Okay, the situation is unnerving -- certainly for the Pakistanis, the
large majority of whom have not the slightest love for the Taliban, have opted
for democracy and against military dictatorship with a passion, and yet strongly
oppose the destabilizing American air war in their borderlands. It could even
result in the fall of the elected government or of democracy itself -- not
exactly a rare event in the annals of recent Pakistani history. It's undoubtedly
unnerving as well for the
American military, intent on fighting a war in Afghanistan that has spilled
disastrously across the open border. (As Pakistan expert Anatol Lieven wrote
recently: "The danger to Pakistan is not of a Taliban revolution, but rather
of creeping destabilization and terrorism, making any Pakistani help to the U.S.
against the Afghan Taliban even less likely than it is at present.")
In other words, it's not a pretty picture. If you happen to live in the
tribal borderlands, or Swat, or the Dir Valley, squeezed between the Taliban,
the Pakistani Army, whose attacks cause great civilian harm, and those drones
cruising overhead, you may be in trouble, if not in flight --
or you may simply support the Taliban, as most of the rest of Pakistan does not.
If you happen to live in India, you might start working up a sweat over what the
future holds on the other side of the border. But all of this is unlikely
to be a "mortal threat" even to Islamabad, the Pakistani military, or that
nuclear arsenal American national security managers spend so much time fretting
about. It is certainly not a "mortal threat to the security and safety of our
country."
So here's a little common sense. If Pakistan poses a mortal
threat to you in New York, Toledo, or El Paso, well then, get in line. Believe
me, it will be a long one and you'll be toward the back. Despite constant
reports that lightly armed Taliban militants are only 60 miles from the
"doorstep" of Islamabad, Pakistan's national capital, and increasing
inside-the-Beltway invocations of Ayatollah Khomeini's 1979 revolution in Iran,
you're unlikely
to see a Taliban government in Islamabad anytime soon, or probably ever.
As one unnamed expert commented recently in the insider Washington newsletter,
the Nelson Report, "I find it troubling that we are hyping the 'security
situation' in Pakistan. Pakistan is not being taken over, the FATA [Federally
Administered Tribal Areas] is. This has been happening since 2004."
Mind you, when Vice President Joe Biden said something extreme about flu
precautions -- don't take the subway! -- the media didn't hesitate to laugh him off
stage. When Hillary Clinton said what should be considered the equivalent
about Pakistan, everyone treated it as part of a sober national-security
conversation.
Of course, when it comes to hysteria, nothing helps like a nuclear arsenal,
and in recent weeks nuclear doomsday scenarios
have broken
out like a swine flu pandemic, even though a victorious Taliban regime in
Islamabad with a nuclear arsenal would undoubtedly still find the difficulties
of planting and detonating such devices in American cities close to
insurmountable.
By the way, for all our kindly talk about how the poor Pakistanis just can't
get it together democracy-wise, the U.S. has a terrible record when it comes not
just to promoting democracy in that country, but to really giving much of a damn
about its people. In fact, not to put too kindly a point on things, Washington
has, over the past decades, done few favors for ordinary Pakistanis. Having
played our version of the imperial Great Game first vis-Ã -vis the Soviets and,
more recently, a bunch of jihadist warriors, we are now waging a most
unpopular and destabilizing air war without mercy in parts of that country, and
another deeply unpopular war just across its mountainous, porous border.
And this brings us to perhaps the most extreme aspect of the mentality of our
national security managers -- what might be called their empathy gap. They are,
it seems, incapable of seeing the situations they deal through the eyes of those
being dealt with. They lack, that is, all empathy, which means, in the end, that
they lack understanding. They take it for granted that America's destiny is to
"engineer" the fates of peoples half a world away and are incapable of imagining
that the United States could, in almost any situation, be part of the problem,
not a major part of its solution. This is surely folly of the first order and,
year after year, has only made the "situation" in Pakistan worse.
Closing the Empathy Gap?
To complete our picture of this over-the-top moment, we have to leave the
heated confines of Washington and head for California's China Lake. That's where
the U.S. military tests some of its advanced weapons.
On April 20th, Peter Pae of the Los Angeles Times reported
the following: "A 5-pound missile the size of a loaf of French bread is being
quietly tested in the Mojave Desert north of Los Angeles as the military
searches for more deadly and far more precise robotic weapons for modern
warfare."
This tiny missile called the Spike will someday replace the 100-pound
Hellfire missiles mounted on our Predator and more advanced Reaper unmanned
aerial drones flying those assassination missions over the tribal lands of
Pakistan. New weaponry like this is invariably promoted as being more "precise,"
and so capable of causing less "collateral damage," than whatever we've been
using; that is, as an advance for humanity. But in this case, up to 12 of these
powerful micro-weapons will someday replace the two Hellfires now capable of
being mounted on a Predator, which means a future drone will have to come home
far less often as it cruises the badlands of the planet looking for targets.
According to Pae, this new development is considered a "milestone" in
weaponizing robot planes. Chillingly, he quotes Steven Zaloga, a military
analyst with the Teal Group Corporation as saying, "We're sort of at the same
stage as we were in 1914 when we began to arm airplanes."
Not only that but the Spike may someday soon be mounted on a new generation
of more deadly drones, one of which, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems'
Avenger or Predator C, is already being
tested. It will be able to fly 50% faster than the Reaper and at up to
60,000 feet for 20 hours before returning to base.
In other words, the decisions to be made in future panicky "crisis" meetings
in Washington, when "American security" once again faces a "mortal threat," are
already being predetermined in the Mojave desert and elsewhere. In the
Pentagon's eternal arms race of
one, a major vote is being cast at China Lake for future Terminator wars. In
a crisis mood of desperation, we tend to fall back on what we know. This, too,
plays into Washington's national-security extremism.
By now it should be obvious enough that the military approaches to
Afghanistan and Pakistan (or the newly merged Af-Pak battlefield) have been in
the process of failing for years. Take just our drone wars: they are not only
killing significant numbers of civilians, but also destabilizing Pakistan's
tribal lands -- military and civilian officials there have long begged
us to ground them -- and so creating an anti-American atmosphere throughout
that country. Recently, former advisor to Gen. David Petraeus and
counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen told
Congress:
"We need to call off the drones... Since 2006, we've killed 14
senior Al Qaeda leaders using drone strikes; in the same time period, we've
killed 700 Pakistani civilians in the same area. The drone strikes are highly
unpopular. They are deeply aggravating to the population. And they've given rise
to a feeling of anger that coalesces the population around the extremists and
leads to spikes of extremism... The current path that we are on is leading us to
loss of Pakistani government control over its own population."
Sage advice. If President Obama temporarily suspended the Bush-era drone war,
which his administration has recently escalated, it would represent a start down
a different path, one not already strewn with the skeletons of failed policies.
And while he's at it -- and here's a little touch of extremism by American
standards -- why not declare a six-month moratorium on all drone research of any
sort, a brief period to reconsider whether we really want to pursue such
"solutions" ad infinitum?
Why not, in fact, call for a six-month moratorium on all weapons research? A
long Pentagon holiday. Militarily, the U.S. is in no danger of losing
significant military ground globally by shutting down its R&D machine for a
time, while reconsidering whether it actually wants to lead the planet into a
future filled with Spikes and Avengers.
If, however, nothing else was done, at least the president should order his
national security team to calm down, skip those crisis meetings on Pakistan,
tamp down the doomsday scenarios, and try to take a few minutes to imagine what
the world looks like if you're not in Washington or the skies over our planet.
Are there really no solutions anywhere that don't need to be engineered first in
our national capital?
Tom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project,
runs the Nation Institute's TomDispatch. com. He is the author of The
End of Victory Culture, a history of the Cold War and beyond, as well as of
a novel, The
Last Days of Publishing. He also edited The
World According to TomDispatch: America in the New Age of Empire (Verso,
2008), an alternative history of the mad Bush years.
[Note: You could easily drown in the tsunami of recent semi-hysterical
pieces about the Pakistan or Af-Pak situation. Fortunately, I have Juan Cole's
Informed Comment, Paul Woodward's The War in Context, and Antiwar.com to depend on to help me sort
through the crucial reportage of this moment. What would I do without them? Let
me thank as well Christopher Holmes, TomDispatch Tokyo bureau chief, whose keen
eye keeps these posts relatively free of goofs. Note as well the appearance of
the first TD author photo in this piece. Site photographer Tam Turse took it.
We'll probably be phasing in more of her author photos over the coming months.]
Copyright 2009 Tom Engelhardt
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4. Fw: [SindhPost] Cross Posting from SindhPost of Today
Posted by: "Imran Majeed" imran.majeed@yahoo.com imran.majeed
Date: Thu May 21, 2009 11:36 am ((PDT))
Ist plz see this article....i would also welcome comments on this from all perspectives, information and angles....and by the way even here this lady seems to be concerned mostly for little girls...thats alright but other victims like boys and men in such conflicts too should be kept in mind....
http://rubinafaisal.com/SUNDAY/T0083.html
Also plz see this (i have no comments but would like to know more and other perspectives...)
Stop The Rot In Pakistan
If the political parties are unable to produce leaders, we cannot wait
for them forever to do so. We in Pakistan do not have the luxury of
time. The military can and will prevail over the threats facing us for
the time being, but who will assume the challenge of making Pakistan an
attractive place for its citizens? Pakistan’s existing ‘national
leadership has been a failure in the best of times. Our challenges are
tall and our leaders are pygmies. To move forward, Pakistan needs a new
deal for the 21st century. And this deal cannot come through the ballot
for the foreseeable future. Our best chance is for Pakistan’s best and
brightest â€" outside the realm of our failed parties and a failed system
â€" to step forward with a plan to remodel the state.
By Ahmed Quraishi
Tuesday, 19 May 2009.
WWW.AHMEDQURAISHI. COM
ISLAMABAD, Pakistanâ€"The worst part of the continuing instability in
Pakistan since 2007 is that it is fast pushing this nation’s best and
brightest to lose hope. The doomsday reporting on Pakistan in the
Am-Brit [American-British] media â€" which appears more like a war
campaign than reporting â€" is devastating the national psyche. But this
would not have been problematic had our national leadership been up to
the challenge. This leadership has been a failure in the best of times.
Now our challenges are tall and our leaders are pygmies by comparison.
I know Pakistani businessmen who made fortunes out of providing
uninterrupted high-value services to the banking industry who are
forced now to contemplate migration because they are losing hope. Their
incomes are intact but it is the quality of their lives in Pakistan’s
biggest city that they are concerned about.
The military institution is strong and is capable of holding Pakistan’s
stability and integrity despite the alarm and the unanswered questions
over how our situation deteriorated over the past four years and how
our homeland has become exposed to multiple foreign players wreaking
havoc here, not to mention why we have allowed ourselves to blindly
trust one superpower with our interests.
The military can and will prevail over the threats facing us for the
time being, but who will assume the challenge of reviving the national
spirit, remodeling national politics and initiate the hard task of
making Pakistan an attractive place for its citizens?
The political parties are unmitigated failures and cannot run a
democracy. None of these parties today has a national agenda. Most of
them have shrunk into narrow regional or ethnic interests. None of them
has a working party system that produces leaders since most of these
parties operate as one-man shows or as family-run businesses in their
most primitive forms. If handed over power tomorrow morning, there is
hardly any party out there that can come up with better plans or
policies than the one currently in office.
And while this failure continues, the ethnic-based provincial division
of the state is turning every administrative issue into an ethnic
flashpoint. Some politicians and political parties are manufacturing
ethnic tensions for political gain. Foreign players are exploiting this
and courting separatism in Pakistan as a vehicle for pushing their own
interests. It is an irony that there isn’t a single political party in
Pakistan today that raises the flag of Pakistani nationalism. There was
a time when India, our perennial enemy-friend, used to be the only
bastion of advocates of separatism in Pakistan. But today we see the
center of gravity of this trend moving to Washington, for various
reasons.
But these are fallouts. The strings are still in our hands and no one
can mess with us if we put our house in order. But who will do it in
Pakistan?
If the political parties are unable to produce leaders, we cannot wait
for them forever to do so. We in Pakistan do not have the luxury of
time. The time for this was the 20th century when nations took their
time to develop their national systems. We wasted that opportunity.
Both an elected civilian leader and a military ruler â€" Zulfiqar Ali
Bhutto and Ayub Khan â€" made good starts but messed up in the end.
To move forward, Pakistan needs a new deal for the 21st century. And
this deal cannot come through the ballot for the foreseeable future.
Our best chance is for Pakistan’s best and brightest â€" outside the
realm of our failed parties and a failed system â€" to step forward with
a plan to remodel the state, change the constitution and create an
environment for real political parties to grow and prosper. This is the
only way left to bring capable and creative civilian administrators to
power. Such a civilian administration can and must borrow the support
of the military institution for such a grand project of national
rebuilding.
As we make a final push to expel America’s failed war encroaching into
our territory in our northern and western regions, the wider national
perspective must not be missed. A vibrant, creative and emerging
Pakistan is still possible. But for this to happen, Pakistan’s thinking
classes, the media and the public opinion will have to support creative
out-of-the-box thinking.
The time to stop the rot is here. Let’s not become the worst managers of one of the world’s best pieces of real estate.
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Then see this piece on atomic bombs too:
A Tale of Two Cities: â€Å"Original Child Bomb� An extraordinary
documentary looks at the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki By RAYMOND
A. SCHROTH National Catholic Reporter, July 29, 2005
â€Å"It is a thing of beauty to behold,� wrote The New York Times’
William L. Laurence of the atomic bomb nestled in the belly of the
B-29, Aug. 9, 1945, on the way to Nagasaki. Did he feel any pity or
compassion for the â€Å"poor devils about to die�? Not when he thought
â€Å"of Pearl Harbor or the Death March on Bataan.�
Awestruck, he watched the black object fall and the ball of fire rise.
His imagination struggled to match metaphors to what he saw: It was a
â€Å"new species� being born, a flower, a mushroom 45,000 feet high
topped by creamy foam, a thousand Old Faithfuls, a decapitated monster
growing a new head.
When the first bomb hit Hiroshima three days before, my family was on
vacation on a farm in Pennsylvania. When we heard the news on the
radio, I remember looking up â€Å"atomic� in the dictionary. That night
on a horseback ride I saw a comet course across the sky. Was this an
omen of world peace? I was 12 years old.
It was not until I read John Hersey’s Hiroshima, with its description
of the 20 men whose faces had been turned upward when the bomb
exploded, that I knew what happened to those â€Å"poor devils� below:
Their eyeballs had melted and run down their cheeks. Around 1949, Fr.
Schiffer, a Jesuit who had survived Hiroshima, addressed our high
school, St. Joe’s Prep. I remember the scars from the shattered glass
on his bony face.
â€Å"Original Child Bomb,� first released in 2004, is an extraordinary
documentary on the moral impact of dropping the first atom bombs.
Directed by Carey Schonegevel and produced by Mary Becker, it is, in a
sense, made to educate â€Å"children� like me. The American and
Japanese generation with any memory of August 1945 is dying out. We
turn to the visual arts, to its graphic depiction of human suffering,
to render today’s viewers more compassionate.
Ms. Becker’s father was a U.S. sailor in the Pacific when the bomb
dropped. Inspired by Thomas Merton’s poem â€Å"Original Child Bomb,�
haunted by her visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the
9/11 images of the planes hitting the Twin Towers and bodies tumbling
through the air, she has moved toward this documentary for more than 20
years. She has woven together long-suppressed film footage and photos,
drawings and animation, interviews with survivors and contemporary
teenagers, statistics on the carnage, and Merton’s text.
The film opens with old color footage of pre-bomb Hiroshima and
Nagasaki street life in 1945. Children exercise, play baseball and
dance. Men and women circulate in the outdoor market, cut wheat, eat
lunch. A plane appears in the sky. The screen erupts in an animated
blast. A woman’s body flies through the air. America celebrates. WAR
IS OVER. President Truman proclaims the â€Å"biggest achievement of
organized science in history.�
Then -- red, withered faces; chests, backs, breasts, legs blistered,
torn, gone. A witness told Ms. Becker her friend had looked like â€Å"a
fish on a charcoal grill.� In a few days came the effects of
radiation -- vomiting blood, diarrhea, paralysis.
By the 1960s, a cloistered Trappist monk, writing daily in his cell,
had become the religious voice of the antiwar movement. Merton’s
prose-poem, a 41-stanza narrative, moves from President Truman’s
first learning about the project in April to the 70,000 killed by the
first bomb, which the Japanese called â€Å"original child� because it
was the first of its kind. The poet’s brutal ironies illuminate the
moral madness behind the decision: Many advisers opposed its use, yet
some insisted that using it just once or twice â€Å"would produce eternal
peace.� The president’s committee picked Hiroshima because â€Å"it
had not been bombed at all. Lucky Hiroshima! What others had
experienced over a period of four years would happen to Hiroshima in a
single day! Much time would be saved, and ‘time is money.’ �
In a classroom discussion among American students who have viewed the
Hiroshima pictures, one asks, when will the blind cycle of Pearl Harbor
to Hiroshima -- they BOOM us, we BOOM them -- stop? Another concludes:
â€Å"Americans have a hard time feeling compassion for people other than
themselves.�
In a creative riff, the producers send a present-day Hiroshima teenager
in a backward baseball cap and earphones on a walk through the modern
city, leading into the wreckage of 1945. He hears the voices of victims
pleading with a woman with milk in her breasts to share it with
another’s starving baby.
The film ends too quickly with its warning that the Bush administration
has not learned the futility of atomic war: While the United States
threatens Iran and Korea lest they develop nuclear capabilities, we
order a whole new family of tactical nuclear weapons we are all too
ready to use.
â€Å"Original Child Bomb� will be shown on the Sundance TV Channel Aug. 6 and 7.
and lastly to end it on a lighter note see this:
Q: Why men walk more
and women talk more?
A: Coz men have three legs
and women have four lips!
Wives r Incoming Calls
Lovers r Outgoing Calls
Aunties r Tollfree Calls
Callgirls r Roaming Calls
Neighbour Girls r Missed Calls
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A man stands nude in front
of a mirror n examins
himself n says: 2 inches more
& I'll be a king.
His wife sitting behind says:
2 inches less & you'll be
a queen.
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Why do women wear flowered panties?
A: Cuz its their way of saying,
'In memory of those who were buried
here!
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3 guys were introduced 2 a girl,
hi I'm Peter not a saint,
hi I'm Paul not a pope,
I'm john not a baptist,
the girl said hi
I'm mary not a virgin!
Wife asked her husband how
many women he had slept with.
Husband proudly replies, only
you darling, with others
I was awake!!!
Cheers! Â Imran Islamabad-44000
Pakistan
(Which World? First? Second or third?)
Planet Earth, Solar System, Universe!
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nishan e haider..link to new article .
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pix and P.R from balti of Nawaz Sharif
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worship ALLAH only
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Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
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Celebrating Anniversary of Hari Leader Comrade Haider Bakhsh Jatoi
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The Rot In Pakistan
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Touching Moment
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Re: Touching Moment
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An Important Message from Nihad Awad
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A report on Abuses in Ireland
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Imran Majeed
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The American War On Wana
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'Third Jihad' Tied to Far-Right Groups / FBI, MN Somalis Hope to Reb
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(A Must Read) Parental Alienation Syndrome Much Common Abuse of Non
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Re: [PAF_OPENFORUM] Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
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Wahid Qamber’s health deteriorated in jail
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21.
Fw: SGA in Daily Awami Awaz - Article on Hepatitis B & C
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Mir Raza
22.
US wronged Pakistan for 30 years - Hillary Clinton
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4 Indian spies arrested in Lahore
Posted by: "Khan Arif"
ank2000pk@yahoo.com
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Tue May 19, 2009 6:34 pm (PDT)
The fifth columnists have been active in Pakistan
since 1947 fanning ethnic and sectarian hatred
and hiring terrorists. The performance of Law
Enforcement in tracking them down needs to
be improved as there are clear indications
that Hindu Zinonist cabal wants to destabilize
the only Muslim state with nuclear power.
Arif
4 Indian spies arrested in Lahore
19 May, 2009, 3:58 pm Source: The News
LAHORE: Intelligence agencies are reported to have arrested four
persons on suspicion of working for Indian spy agency Research and
Analyst Wing (RAQ) during raids at different places of the
provincial capital on Tuesday.
http://thecurrentaf fairs.com/ index.php/ 4-indian- spies-arrested- in-lahore/
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Re: Take action for Burma's most famous prisoner of conscience, Aung
Posted by: "Jimmy Jumshade"
jimmybug@rocketmail.com
Tue May 19, 2009 7:01 pm (PDT)
Nopes, first take action for Dr AAFIA....... .......Political Prisoner in today's NAZI USA......... ......... ...Burma' s prisoner is living in fame & luxury...made into a celebrity for no reason, fully supported by the West. Dr Aafia is a true victim of the gone crazy West........ ....& true face of the barbaric West.
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Subject: [IHRO] Take action for Burma's most famous prisoner of conscience, Aung San Suu Kyi
To: IHRO@yahoogroups. com
Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 5:19 PM
Mary Shaw Take action for Burma's most famous prisoner of conscience, Aung San Suu Kyi
Take Action Online | Amnesty International USA | Human Rights Action
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Amnesty International USA, Action for Human Rights
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Tue May 19, 2009 9:17 pm (PDT)
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110 - Say (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم): "I am only a man like you. It has been revealed to me that your Ilah (God) is One Ilah (God - i.e. Allah). So whoever hopes for the Meeting with his Lord, let him work righteousness and associate none as a partner in the worship of his Lord."
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Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
Posted by: "Imran Majeed"
imran.majeed@yahoo.com
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Wed May 20, 2009 12:57 am (PDT)
hmmm.....cant help about your bitching and whining...afterall a bitch can only do that what can one expect from her anyways!!! its the same syndrome of our paki girls since long now that they have always been pampered...pumped. ...eulogized adnauseam... .given all kinds of preferences and privileges from upbringing to education to job opportunities in all kinds of best companies and organizations and then they mostly whine and act as though they are the master of all and accountable to none!!! can venture to demolish anything for the sake of their egos which have over the decades have been noirished deliberately. ....
well on the one hand you mention the independence year and then 1990 in the same vein and then ask for comparoson in the sme vein and i do not think i ever wrote anything offensive ...just pointed out an apparent inconsistency and out of place references and wow...rather "WAW" i got this vitriolic diatribe from you ...what for ...may be you afterall proved yourself that what you really are.....just another bitch in the guise of a bloated ego a "good" "eduction" a "good" job" etc. etc.......alas our so many good organizations are infested with females with a mindsets like you....God save our country and our systems...its already too late by the way!!!
Cheers!  Imran Islamabad-44000
Pakistan
(Which World? First? Second or third?)
Planet Earth, Solar System, Universe!
--- On Sun, 5/17/09, Sofia Alam khan <sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Sofia Alam khan <sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
To: riskmanagers@ yahoogroups. com
Cc: amjsbp@gmail. com
Date: Sunday, May 17, 2009, 1:49 PM
Imran,
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you send loads of junk mails and then your competence level is of a 4th grade kid. Read Again!!!!!
Compare India with Pak since 1990?.... Compare the IT boom in India and Pak Since 1990!!!! Now try to read some good newspapers and be well informed.
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 Same independence year, 1947!!!!!
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Take some english lessons too.
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Thanks
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From: Imran Majeed <imran.majeed@ yahoo.com>
To: riskmanagers@ yahoogroups. com
Cc: sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com; amjsbp@gmail. com
Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 2:00:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
although i already commented i was also wondering in what state of mind she composed here email....see some of those references like say same independence year of 1990!
Cheers!
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Imran
Islamabad-44000
Pakistan
(Which World? First? Second or third?)
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From: Amjad Ali Imran <amjsbp@gmail. com>
Subject: Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
To: riskmanagers@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Friday, May 15, 2009, 3:57 PM
Ms Sofia
Well said but atleast you may suggest what sort of action we can initiate keeping in view current scenario
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On 5/12/09, Sofia Alam khan <sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com> wrote:
Beautiful words only make beautiful people happy. The truth is always ugly.
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"We should be cognizant of the fact that Pakistan is no less than any country in risk management processes. Keeping in view the depth of financial products, we are ahead of the required competencies. "
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Dont mind but once Mr. Prince (Ex Citibank CEO) said: "lets dance till the music is playing". That is how the 2008 crisis started. I'm not of the opinion to make general comments, People who know ABC of Risk Management in Pak leave for better jobs in Middle East.
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So we should avoid making general observations rather be more specific in discussing problems that entail governing dynamics.
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That is what we are good at "Discuss, discuss, discuss" Who will take the ACTION!!!!! our local TV channels show millions of talk shows for what?
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it is just the talk, so lets do the talk and till the talk ends, lets talk.
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Thanks.
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Sofia A. Khan
Karachiiiiii
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From: FAHAD HUSSAIN <phahadhussain@ yahoo.com>
To: riskmanagers@ yahoogroups. . com
Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2009 11:28:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
Hi to All,
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I'm new to the risk management group. Though dont have enough time to spur on issues being discussing in the group, yet feel inevitable to reply on comments cited. We should be cognizant of the fact that Pakistan is no less than any country in risk management processes. Keeping in view the depth of financial products, we are ahead of the required competencies. So we should avoid making general observations rather be more specific in discussing problems that entail governing dynamics.
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Fahad
Karachi
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From: Sofia Alam khan <sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com>
To: Group <riskmanagers@ yahoogroups. com>
Sent: Monday, May 4, 2009 1:05:52 PM
Subject: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
Arif good comments!!!! !
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Glad to see that people show keen interest and give precious suggestions. Last but not least, If everything is impossible then why do risk management.. Data extraction, updation,authentici ty are problems for most of the credit bureaus but we should start taking the first step to climb the ladder or stand on the ground fearing that it is impossible to climb the ladder.
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Angels did not help western countries to build credit bureaus. It might take us more time compared to west but "better late than never".
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Compare India with Pak since 1990? Same independence year, same issues, Where do they stand? Where do we stand? For countries prosperous growth, you make a long term plan and achieve it with short term plans, unfortunately we dont have any plan at all in place.
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Information is the most valuable commodity in the world.
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Thanks.
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Sofia A. Khan
Karachi.
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Celebrating Anniversary of Hari Leader Comrade Haider Bakhsh Jatoi
Posted by: "Mir Raza"
mirsalimraza@yahoo.com
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Wed May 20, 2009 4:08 am (PDT)
Celebrating Anniversary of Hari Leader Comrade Haider Bakhsh Jatoi
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Sindh Hari Porhiat Council (SHPC) has planned different programmes in context with Anniversary of Hari Leader Comrade Haider Bakhsh Jatoi.
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1.                 flower showering on the grave of Comrade Haider Bakhsh Jatoi under the leadership of Comrade Punhal Sario, President Sindh Hari Porhiat Council on 21st May 2009 at 9:00am.
2.                 Jalsa-e-Aam at Badah Taluka Dokri, native town of Comrade Haider Bakhsh Jatoi is planned on 21st May 2009 at 6:00pm . Comrade Punhal Sario, Taj Marri, Comrade Ramzan Memon, Dr. Zulfiqar Rahujo, Moula Bakhsh Junejo and others will address the Jalsa.
3.                 Whereas on 23rd May 2009 at 6:00pm , The Anniversary of Comrade Haider Bakhsh Jatoi will be celebrated at Chambar which happen to be central point of Hari Struggle. The programme will be presided by Comrade Punhal Sario, President, SHPC, and the Chief Guest of the programme will be well-knon Political Leader Mr. Qadir Bakhsh Jatoi who returned his homeland after almost 29 years in exile. Whereas Sathi Photo Rustmani, Comrade Ahmed Laghari, comrade Ramzan Memon, Siddique Solangi, Netraj Kolhi, Veerji Kolhi, Akber Manganhar and others will address on the occasion.
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Asghar Laghari
Hyderabad Sindh
Plot No. H/12, Azizabad near Chandia Goth,
Qasimabad Hyderabad Sindh
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Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 6:07 AM
Celebrating Anniversary of Hari Leader Comrade Haider Bakhsh Jatoi
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Sindh Hari Porhiat Council (SHPC) has planned different programmes in context with Anniversary of Hari Leader Comrade Haider Bakhsh Jatoi.
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1.                 flower showering on the grave of Comrade Haider Bakhsh Jatoi under the leadership of Comrade Punhal Sario, President Sindh Hari Porhiat Council on 21st May 2009 at 9:00am.
2.                 Jalsa-e-Aam at Badah Taluka Dokri, native town of Comrade Haider Bakhsh Jatoi is planned on 21st May 2009 at 6:00pm . Comrade Punhal Sario, Taj Marri, Comrade Ramzan Memon, Dr. Zulfiqar Rahujo, Moula Bakhsh Junejo and others will address the Jalsa.
3.                 Whereas on 23rd May 2009 at 6:00pm , The Anniversary of Comrade Haider Bakhsh Jatoi will be celebrated at Chambar which happen to be central point of Hari Struggle. The programme will be presided by Comrade Punhal Sario, President, SHPC, and the Chief Guest of the programme will be well-knon Political Leader Mr. Qadir Bakhsh Jatoi who returned his homeland after almost 29 years in exile. Whereas Sathi Photo Rustmani, Comrade Ahmed Laghari, comrade Ramzan Memon, Siddique Solangi, Netraj Kolhi, Veerji Kolhi, Akber Manganhar and others will address on the occasion.
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The Rot In Pakistan
Posted by: "PakNationalists"
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Wed May 20, 2009 7:35 am (PDT)
The first thing I heard from my millionaire Karachi-based friend is: Should we live here or migrate
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Stop The Rot In Pakistan
If the political parties are unable to produce leaders, we cannot wait for them forever to do so. We in Pakistan do not have the luxury of time. The military can and will prevail over the threats facing us for the time being, but who will assume the challenge of making Pakistan an attractive place for its citizens? Pakistan’s existing ‘national leadership has been a failure in the best of times. Our challenges are tall and our leaders are pygmies. To move forward, Pakistan needs a new deal for the 21st century. And this deal cannot come through the ballot for the foreseeable future. Our best chance is for Pakistan’s best and brightest â€" outside the realm of our failed parties and a failed system â€" to step forward with a plan to remodel the state.
By Ahmed Quraishi
Tuesday, 19 May 2009.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistanâ€"The worst part of the continuing instability in Pakistan since 2007 is that it is fast pushing this nation’s best and brightest to lose hope. The doomsday reporting on Pakistan in the Am-Brit [American-British] media â€" which appears more like a war campaign than reporting â€" is devastating the national psyche. But this would not have been problematic had our national leadership been up to the challenge. This leadership has been a failure in the best of times. Now our challenges are tall and our leaders are pygmies by comparison.
I know Pakistani businessmen who made fortunes out of providing uninterrupted high-value services to the banking industry who are forced now to contemplate migration because they are losing hope. Their incomes are intact but it is the quality of their lives in Pakistan’s biggest city that they are concerned about.
The military institution is strong and is capable of holding Pakistan’s stability and integrity despite the alarm and the unanswered questions over how our situation deteriorated over the past four years and how our homeland has become exposed to multiple foreign players wreaking havoc here, not to mention why we have allowed ourselves to blindly trust one superpower with our interests.
The military can and will prevail over the threats facing us for the time being, but who will assume the challenge of reviving the national spirit, remodeling national politics and initiate the hard task of making Pakistan an attractive place for its citizens?
The political parties are unmitigated failures and cannot run a democracy. None of these parties today has a national agenda. Most of them have shrunk into narrow regional or ethnic interests. None of them has a working party system that produces leaders since most of these parties operate as one-man shows or as family-run businesses in their most primitive forms. If handed over power tomorrow morning, there is hardly any party out there that can come up with better plans or policies than the one currently in office.
And while this failure continues, the ethnic-based provincial division of the state is turning every administrative issue into an ethnic flashpoint. Some politicians and political parties are manufacturing ethnic tensions for political gain. Foreign players are exploiting this and courting separatism in Pakistan as a vehicle for pushing their own interests. It is an irony that there isn’t a single political party in Pakistan today that raises the flag of Pakistani nationalism. There was a time when India, our perennial enemy-friend, used to be the only bastion of advocates of separatism in Pakistan. But today we see the center of gravity of this trend moving to Washington, for various reasons.
But these are fallouts. The strings are still in our hands and no one can mess with us if we put our house in order. But who will do it in Pakistan?
If the political parties are unable to produce leaders, we cannot wait for them forever to do so. We in Pakistan do not have the luxury of time. The time for this was the 20th century when nations took their time to develop their national systems. We wasted that opportunity. Both an elected civilian leader and a military ruler â€" Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Ayub Khan â€" made good starts but messed up in the end.
To move forward, Pakistan needs a new deal for the 21st century. And this deal cannot come through the ballot for the foreseeable future. Our best chance is for Pakistan’s best and brightest â€" outside the realm of our failed parties and a failed system â€" to step forward with a plan to remodel the state, change the constitution and create an environment for real political parties to grow and prosper. This is the only way left to bring capable and creative civilian administrators to power. Such a civilian administration can and must borrow the support of the military institution for such a grand project of national rebuilding.
As we make a final push to expel America’s failed war encroaching into our territory in our northern and western regions, the wider national perspective must not be missed. A vibrant, creative and emerging Pakistan is still possible. But for this to happen, Pakistan’s thinking classes, the media and the public opinion will have to support creative out-of-the-box thinking.
The time to stop the rot is here. Let’s not become the worst managers of one of the world’s best pieces of real estate.
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Touching Moment
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Wed May 20, 2009 7:37 am (PDT)
PUNJAB POLICE -
WHAT A TOUCHING MOMENT !!!
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Re: Touching Moment
Posted by: "Syed Hassan Tanwir Wasti"
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Wed May 20, 2009 7:43 am (PDT)
Is it East Punjab or West Punjab or??? Punjab is like that eat and enjoy, care free.
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PUNJAB POLICE -
WHAT A TOUCHING MOMENT !!!
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Re: Touching Moment
Posted by: "Lal Gehi"
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Wed May 20, 2009 9:35 am (PDT)
YES, THE MOMENT IS TOUCHING. !!
Good Picture. !! Good comment.
Lal
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Re: Touching Moment
Posted by: "Lal Gehi"
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Wed May 20, 2009 10:11 am (PDT)
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Q: Why men walk more
and women talk more?
A: Coz men have three legs
and women have four lips!
Wives r Incoming Calls
Lovers r Outgoing Calls
Aunties r Tollfree Calls
Callgirls r Roaming Calls
Neighbour Girls r Missed Calls
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of a mirror n examins
himself n says: 2 inches more
& I'll be a king.
His wife sitting behind says:
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a queen.
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A: Cuz its their way of saying,
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An Important Message from Nihad Awad
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Wed May 20, 2009 10:42 am (PDT)
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15.
A report on Abuses in Ireland
Posted by: "Imran Majeed"
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Wed May 20, 2009 11:11 am (PDT)
Well plz see this report at :
http://news. yahoo.com/ s/ap/20090520/ ap_on_re_ eu/eu_ireland_ catholic_ abuse
Alas such reports only come out long after what has already happened and carried out even with the advent of modern media and communications! !! very funny indeed....and while we rountinely lament and malign our own madressahs see such kind of spate of reports which keep on coming from one part of western and free world and another on a routine basis regarding churches, church run institutions. ....
and more importantly in view of such and similar reports we should bring out a truthful picture (no matter what it is) and state of affairs of our own madressahs, educational institutes, orphanages, darul amans, jails, various kinds of shelter houses and vocational and skill and industrial training schools and institutes, etc.
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press Writer Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated
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DUBLIN – A fiercely debated, long-delayed investigation into Ireland's
Roman Catholic-run institutions says priests and nuns terrorized
thousands of boys and girls in workhouse-style schools for decades �
and government inspectors failed to stop the chronic beatings, rapes
and humiliation.
Nine years in the making,
Wednesday's 2,600-page report sides almost completely with the horrific
reports of abuse from former students sent to more than 250 church-run,
mostly residential institutions. But victims' leaders said it didn't go
far enough � particularly because none of their abusers were identified
by name.
The report concluded that church
officials always shielded their orders' pedophiles from arrest to
protect their own reputations and, according to documents uncovered in
the Vatican, knew that many pedophiles were serial attackers.
The
investigators said overwhelming, consistent testimony from
still-traumatized men and women, now in their 50s to 80s, had
demonstrated beyond a doubt that the entire system treated children
more like prison inmates and slaves than people with legal rights and human potential.
"A
climate of fear, created by pervasive, excessive and arbitrary
punishment, permeated most of the institutions and all those run for
boys. Children lived with the daily terror of not knowing where the
next beating was coming from," the final report of Ireland's Commission
to Inquire Into Child Abuse concluded.
The leader of Ireland's 4 million Catholics, Cardinal Sean Brady, and religious orders at the center of the scandal offered immediate apologies.
"I
am profoundly sorry and deeply ashamed that children suffered in such
awful ways in these institutions. Children deserved better and
especially from those caring for them in the name of Jesus Christ," Brady said.
The Sisters of Mercy,
which ran several refuges for girls where the report documented chronic
brutality, said in a statement its nuns "accept that many who spent
their childhoods in our orphanages or industrial schools were hurt and damaged while in our care."
"There
is a great sadness in all of our hearts at this time and our deepest
desire is to continue the healing process for all involved," the Sisters of Mercy said.
And the Rev. Edmund Garvey, spokesman for the Christian Brothers order
that once ran dozens of boys' schools, said that reading the report's
"presentation of the history of our institutions, it is hard to avoid
feeling shame."
More than 30,000 children deemed to be petty thieves, truants or from dysfunctional families � a category that often included unmarried mothers
� were sent to Ireland's austere network of industrial schools,
reformatories, orphanages and hostels from the 1930s until the last
church-run facilities shut in the 1990s.
The report, unveiled by High Court Justice Sean Ryan, found that molestation and rape were "endemic" in boys' facilities, chiefly run by the Christian Brothers,
and supervisors pursued policies that increased the danger. Girls
supervised by orders of nuns, chiefly the Sisters of Mercy, suffered
much less sexual abuse but frequent assaults and humiliation designed
to make them feel worthless.
"In some schools a
high level of ritualized beating was routine. ... Girls were struck
with implements designed to maximize pain and were struck on all parts
of the body," the report said. "Personal and family denigration was
widespread."
Victims of the system have long demanded that the truth of their experiences be documented and made public.
But
several victims � who were prevented from attending Wednesday's report
launch and scuffled with police outside a central Dublin hotel � said
the report didn't go far enough and rejected the church leaders'
apologies as insincere.
"Victims will feel a
small degree of comfort that they've been vindicated. But the findings
do not go far enough," said John Kelly, a former inmate of a Dublin
industial school who fled to London and today leads a pressure group
called Irish Survivors of Child Abuse.
Kelly
said the report should have examined how children like himself were
taken away from parents without just cause, and demanded more answers
from Irish governments
that ceded control over their lives to the church. He said any
apologies offered now were "hollow, shallow and have no substance or
merit at all. We feel betrayed and cheated today."
The
report proposed 21 ways the government could recognize past wrongs,
including building a permanent memorial, providing counseling and
education to victims and improving Ireland's current child protection services.
But its findings will not be used for criminal prosecutions � in part because the Christian Brothers
successfully sued the commission in 2004 to keep the identities of all
of its members, dead or alive, unnamed in the report. No real names,
whether of victims or perpetrators, appear in the final document.
Irish church leaders and religious orders all declined to comment Wednesday, citing the need to read the massive document first. The Vatican also declined to comment.
The Irish government already has funded a parallel compensation
system that has paid 12,000 abuse victims an average of euro65,000
($90,000). About 2,000 claims remain outstanding.
Victims receive the payouts only if they waive their rights to
sue the state and the church. Hundreds have rejected that condition and
taken their abusers and those church employers to court.
Wednesday's report said children had no safe way to tell
authorities about the assaults they were suffering, particularly the
sexual aggression from church officials and older inmates in boys'
institutions.
"The management did not listen to or believe children when they
complained of the activities of some of the men who had responsibility
for their care," the commission found. "At best, the abusers were
moved, but nothing was done about the harm done to the child. At worst,
the child was blamed and seen as corrupted by the sexual activity, and
was punished severely."
The commission dismissed as implausible a central defense of
the religious orders � that, in bygone days, people did not recognize
the sexual abuse of a child as a criminal offense, but rather as a sin
that required repentance.
In their testimony, religious orders typically cited this as
the principal reason why sex-predator priests and brothers were
sheltered within the system and moved to new posts where they could
still maintain daily contact with children.
But the commission said its fact-finding � which included
unearthing decades-old church files, chiefly stored in the Vatican, on
scores of unreported abuse cases from Ireland's industrial schools � demonstrated that officials understood exactly what was at stake: their own reputations.
It cited numerous examples where school managers told police about
child abusers who were not church officials � but never did when one of
their own had committed the crime.
"Contrary to the congregations' claims that the recidivist
nature of sexual offending was not understood, it is clear from the
documented cases that they were aware of the propensity for abusers to
re-abuse," it said.
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In this insightful article, American journalist Peter Chamberlin presents a compelling narrative, explaining how CIA planners, in "Operation Enduring Turmoil," have been busy using some of the Northern Alliance's most ruthless men, along with a sizeable force of Uzbeks, to destabilize Pakistan's Federally Administrated Tribal Areas and the North West Frontier Province. Pakistan, Chamberlin writes, is the keystone in an American strategic move that stretches in an arc across the entire Middle East and southern central Asia. If Pakistan is not totally under American control then the plan cannot work. The existence of this plan accounts for the brazenness shown in American actions taken in Pakistan that are in direct contravention of the expressed will of the Pakistani people and their leaders, actions clearly intended to undermine Army and governmental authority.
By PETER CHAMBERLIN
Wednesday, 20 May 2009.
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WASHINGTON, D.C.-We are fighting a war that is like no other. The illusion is made as real; the real is made as dust. Nothing is as it seems in this war, even though this is the era of instant news. This alteration of our very understanding of reality has been necessary for us to pursue a war policy of pure evil, even though we have paraded ourselves before the world as warriors in defense of truth and light. The human race is begging for an end to the path of destruction that trusted American leaders have steered the world onto., longing to turn onto a permanent path of Light. It is high time the United States either showed the world the way into the Light, or got out of the way of those who can.
Our new president has made a great show of being the man with the hope of "change" in his hand, but in the cold light of day he is readying massive doses of change for the worse. The world was begging for American leadership to undo what the last "mis-leader" has done, but the economic powers that rule America have produced another charlatan bearing nothing more than a nice smile, to bind us to the path of escalation that leads to the Empire's goal of permanent war.
A great sickness of mind has inflicted the people of this Nation, filling our thoughts with bloodlust and heroic visions of victory over savage hordes who are bent on our destruction. The "al Qaida" and Taliban who have been cast as classic movie villains who prefer a world ruled by death and despair, answer to strange gods and display bizarre customs. American soldiers were cast in the hero's role, standing tall in their glorious image of the lone eagle warriors holding-back the swelling tides of Asia and Africa, defending our lovingly constructed towers of glory that surely elevate us that much closer to our Creator even as they set us above our fellow man. This is the Hollywood image of America that has been carefully constructed by our leaders and powerhouses of influence, the "Zion" of Matrix fame. "Zion" America, the hero nation of warriors, defending precious civilization, under siege by armies of darkness and inhumanity.
The "war on terror" is much like a movie, in that it was definitely developed according to some sort of script, enormous investments were made in its production, while it waited many years in development. The first step in understanding is realizing that the attacks of September 11, 2001 were not the opening act, neither was the first Trade Center bombing in 1993.
The second step in understanding the "war on terror" is accepting the fact that nothing is as it seems; there are no "good guys," but there are plenty of bad guys, and an unlimited supply of innocents. The United States and its allies cannot wear the white hats in this bad "spaghetti western," the second act of which is being stage-managed now in Western Pakistan, that is, unless there is no morality. Unless the foundation of the entire American legal system is suddenly without merit, the United States also be seen as some of the worst bad guys in this violent international travesty of justice.
We have forced our war that we wage in the name of vengeance, out of our sense of righteous indignation, for an attack that killed thousands of innocent civilians, blamed on an ill-defined enemy, offering no evidence of their guilt, killing over one million innocent civilians and turning five times that amount into refugees in the process.
Now, our new president, the one elected on a promise to "change" (one of those changes being the salvation of the first war in Afghanistan, by winding-down the second war in Iraq), is the latest facilitator of the Empire's plans, a marionette, dancing to the "New World Order blues," as he "song and dances" us around these first two wars and into a third unwinnable war in Pakistan. The third step in understanding the truth about the terror war is to realize that the American government has not been trying to end these two wars, it has been using every means at its disposal to prolong the first two wars while it frantically sought a way to start a third. America is not really losing either war, but it has never had any intentions of winning them either.
Obama continues the presidential tradition of deceiving the world about American intentions, present facts backwards-preservin g capitalism will not salvage the war effort, but military action is planned, to acquire the means to avert any economic emergency, the resources of the underdeveloped region . Pakistan is the keystone in an American strategic move that stretches in an arc across the entire Middle East and southern central Asia. If Pakistan is not totally under American control then the plan cannot work. The existence of this plan accounts for the brazenness shown in American actions taken in Pakistan that are in direct contravention of the expressed will of the Pakistani people and their leaders, actions clearly intended to undermine Army and governmental authority.
The Obama Administration is expanding the war on the strength of this statement:
"to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and to prevent their return to either country in the future."
Every action that our government takes in Pakistan and Afghanistan, under the pretense of eliminating "al Qaida" is a fraud. Whatever is left of bin Laden's organization (he never called it "al Qaida," it was the "World Islamic Front for Jihad Against the Jews and Crusaders"), most of the terrorist acts that have been blamed on the legendary group were either the work of other terrorists [like Khalid Sheikh Mohamed and Ramsey Yousef], CIA/Special Forces operations or attacks by mercenary proxies hired by the CIA network). The Arabic expression,' Q eidat il Mu'ti'aat', meaning "the database," is the source of the term ascribed to the legendary terrorist outfit.
The term "al Qaida" was never used before the "war of terror" was dreamed-up in the sick minds of the neocon spooks who ran the Bush/Cheney political team in the 2000 campaign. The only proof given to the contrary came from an Israeli source, claiming to be copied text from an American embassy press release. World renowned expert on bin Laden, Yossef Bodansky, never used the term "al Qaida" even once in his opus volume of research entitled, "Bin Laden: the Man Who Declared War on America," published in 1999. Bodansky was Director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the US House of Representatives from 1988 to 2004, so if there was an "al Qaida" terrorist organization before 1999 he would have known about it.
The concept of the "global war on terror" has served as an excuse for turning reality on its head and the implementation of the full war agenda of the radical American right wing. Bin Laden's organization, "World Islamic Front for Jihad" is a spent force. The promise to chase a generic tag that is made to fit any enemy is a ruse intended to gain the consent of the American people for creating a state of permanent war.
In a war based entirely on manufactured delusions, the allied nations took a small expeditionary force of mercenaries and the amplifying device of the corporate media and created the illusion of "al Qaida." The Muslim and Arab militants used in the attacks blamed on them throughout the world were military/intelligen ce agency assets, "patsies" to take the fall for a series of attacks upon American interests. The corporate masters of America ordered their secret "al Qaida" army, compromised mostly of retired military and intelligence officers, to initiate a series of well-timed and expertly advertised attacks. This successful application of the "strategy of tension" had the desired effect of deceiving the democratic masses into giving the government permission to start world war III.
This secret network of rogue "retired" intelligence agents and military officers has been a key element of American covert policies since Vietnam and has become an active tool of every American president since it was organized into a private secret army under Ronald Reagan. They probably killed Kennedy and numerous other key American and allied world leaders. Their secret machinations were brought to light by the missteps of rogue official Oliver North, revealing for the first time the depths of their plans in the "Rex 84" program of civilian internment camps, intended to accommodate the human bi-products of future plans for martial law.
In their most blatant attack upon Americans on September 11, they ("al Qaida") used their Saudi patsies to launch the biggest psychological warfare operation of all time, which was ultimately intended to bring-about an American dictatorship that would extend all the way to Central and Southern Asia. They needed the help of their Saudi collaborators, as well as that of the Pakistanis, to create the illusion of a terrorist menace growing out of the Middle East that would open the door for unbridled American aggression and the plans for permanent limited world war.
The Saudis offered-up their limitless supply of Wahabbi jihadis to serve as cannon-fodder in America's terror war, Pakistan had the network of jihadi training camps built for them by the Americans, using mostly Saudi money, and the thousands of veteran militants trained in those camps, represented by the Taliban and the Kashmiri groups. Wherever the Saudi militants were used in the Middle East to create the impression of "al Qaida," their actions were usually traced back to the Taliban and their friends usually with information supplied by CIA or Mossad, in order to legitimize the sweep of American/NATO troops out of Afghanistan, through Pakistan, into Central Asia.
The great production, a.k.a. "the war on terror," is the largest, most ambitious construction project in history, the construction of the world's biggest inter-continental oil and gas pipeline system, with the lion's share of it working its way towards the ports of Israel. Israel has a huge stake in seeing this project succeed, that's why they are in charge of overseeing so much of the preliminary demolition of the houses and towns occupied by the current "useless eaters," who stand in the way of the latest scheme for certain individuals to reap ultimate profits. Another player who has a major stake in seeing the project succeed is Iran. They are planned to be a major provider and transit route. Between Israel and Iran, they carry-out the majority of the ongoing demolition projects in the Middle East, from Lebanon to Gaza, from Gaza to Egypt, from Egypt to Somalia, from everywhere to Iraq, from Iraq to Pakistan, from Pakistan to Uzbekistan and
Western China. For Western powers the Iran/Israeli conflict is stage-managed to magnify popular tension, even though most Zionist leaders are dead serious about eliminating Iran.
Iran runs the public terror operations (in a covert manner), while Mossad has the franchise for the covert ops that are coordinated with other intelligence agencies. Wherever you find an active "al Qaida" cell you are witnessing the handiwork of Israel's finest dirty fighters. All known "al Qaida" or "al Q linked" networks uncovered invariably lead back to Mossad, or the Saudis, Brits, or Americans. In Pakistan, Mossad's influence is manifested through shared missions with India's RAW spy agency, mostly in the form of terror attacks blamed on the Pakistani Taliban. Israeli arms sales throughout this troubled region add fuel to the fire and ensure that Iran's arms sales are matched, in order to produce long bloody stalemates between targeted groups. While Iran's sales and training programs have created Hezbollah's formidable force and empowered Hamas, Israel's arms sales have gone to clients who were either schooled to serve as an imaginary enemy, or
to those seeking to defend themselves from the cardboard armies.
The war in AfPak is based on multiple deceptions by numerous interested parties. The US brashly demands that Pakistan give-up its deceptions concerning the Taliban, in order to defend the central US deception, that "al Qaida" is a potent international organization of terrorists, that is locked in a war to the death with the US military.
CIA forces are pounding Pakistani targets almost on a daily basis, saying that it is time to come clean about ISI support for Taliban militants, trying by every available means to persuade the government to come around to our point of view. Our point of view is a fairy tale, concocted for maximum propaganda effect-Pakistan is a "state sponsor of terrorism," while the United States is coming-off practically blameless for having had thousands of "Islamic" militants trained in radical Saudi-supplied madrassas and CIA-supplied paramilitary camps. So far, the CIA has managed to pull-off a world-class propaganda coup by making Pakistan the scapegoat for problems it has created.
The CIA has controlled the direction of this covert operation from the beginning, just as it has been in command of the successful intelligence operation that created the greater war and the events of 911. The CIA, on orders from Bush Sr., did not abandon Afghanistan. , to the sole discretion of the Pakistanis, as contended by many researchers. The proof of this is found in the revelations made by several notable researchers (here, here, and here), that the Taliban won the Afghan civil war because of the sudden serendipitous "discovery" of "800 truckloads worth of arms and ammunition in a cave near Spinbaldak, information that could only have been obtained with the use of powerful spy satellites.
In "Operation Enduring Turmoil," CIA planners were limited at first to leading a mercenary army in Afghanistan of Northern Alliance proxy forces. Since then, besides administering the massive "cluster-f** k" known as the Afghan war, it has been busy using some of the Northern Alliance's most ruthless men, along with a sizeable force of Uzbeks to destabilize Pakistan's Federally Administrated Tribal Areas and North West Frontier Provinces.
Confusion in the war zone and the lid that has been clamped on news coming-out of the area has made it possible to introduce all sorts of sundry militant outfits into the area under the one all-inclusive rubric of "Taliban," just as conditions have allowed for the branding of multiple unaffiliated groups under the chosen talisman of evil, "al Qaida."
At the end of the Afghan invasion, after the bulk of the Taliban and bin Laden's forces were reduced and contained to Eastern Afghanistan, the CIA took steps to prevent the elimination of entire group, specifically holding-back Northern Alliance forces and American bombers until the trapped fighters could escape to Pakistan, by both land and air (the "Kunduz airlift" involved CIA intervention on behalf of ISI, to relocate Taliban and Army advisors who were under heavy seige). They relocated to the area around Chitral in the north of Pakistan and returned to Wana in droves. These were the radicals and foreign "al Qaida" that have since then proceeded to create a reign of terror in Pakistan, as they began to force their radical Wahabbi "jihadi" religious practices on the locals, many of whom are illiterate, with no base of formal knowledge with which to combat their poisonous interpretations of Islam.
The radicals who were bombing, kidnapping and be-heading local tribal leaders by the hundreds were mostly Uzbeks from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) who had come from Afghanistan. They were the "al Qaida" killers who were being reported on the American "nightly news." Sightings of "al Qaida" in FATA or Swat invariably refer to this group, or other Uzbeks who came in a second wave, with Northern Alliance Afghans, as they accompanied Guantanamo alumnus Abdullah Mehsud.
The Uzbeks and Afghans who accompanied Abdullah Mehsud into Pakistan began a series of terror attacks against Pakistanis, claiming to be fighting for Mullah Omar. Mehsud's fighters brought heat from the Army down upon the region, ignited intra-tribal warfare with forces led by Maulvi Nazir, and eventually aligned themselves with Baitullah Mehsud and Maulana Fazlullah, providing a base in the north for Shariah-enforcing attacks. These are the "Taliban" forces who wage war on local Shiites and government forces, blowing-up girls schools, CD shops, etc.
The Mehsud/Uzbek operation was a CIA operation that was kept completely separate and secret from Pakistan's ISI, since the Army was the intended target of the group. The joint American/Afghan/ Indian operation, to create chaos in Pakistan's tribal region by the infusion of "fake Taliban" into Pakistan, has been made possible because of Karzai's spy agency (NDS) director, thirty-six-year- old Amrullah Saleh, who once boasted:
"Insurgency is like grass. Two ways to destroy it: You cut the upper part, and after four months, you have it back. You poison the soil where that grass is, then you eliminate it forever."
The fake "Taliban" has very effectively poisoned the soil of northern and western Pakistan. The war that Pakistan has been forced to fight against them is a "detoxification" operation, to destroy the noxious weeds that have been transplanted into the fertile soil of the Frontier Region.
Their attacks, coupled with the constant haranguing and threats coming from Bush and Cheney, have compelled the Army to fight a series of mini-wars against the fake Taliban, or "al Qaida," who had taken advantage of Muslim customs to gain shelter among the local Pashtun population from the storm blowing-away across the Durand Line. Each time the Army ended the mini-war by signing treaties with militant leaders like Mullah Dadullah or Baitullah Mehsud, a new series of attacks would erupt elsewhere. The collateral damage inflicted upon the local tribes in these attacks and the Army's counter-attacks then, as now, was massive. This suffering and violence breathed new life into the local Taliban movement, motivating thousands to take-up arms against the Americans and the Pakistani government.
Into this confusing, boiling cauldron of inter-tribal and inter-agency warfare the British and American forces introduced another wild card, the "Taliban split," orchestrated around the killing on May 13 of Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Dadullah. British and Afghan agencies used his brother Mansoor to introduce the idea of "reconciliation" and double-cross into the minds of both the Afghan and the Pakistani Taliban. British assets associated with Mansoor began to perpetuate mistrust and suspicion of Afghan double-agents, especially those who had been associated with Abdullah Mehsud and his Uzbeks.
Out of this British/American operation emerged an organization that was called "Taliban," but what came forth was not Taliban, but "anti-Taliban, " the "Tehreek e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)."
December 14, 2007, the formation of the Taliban Movement of Pakistan (TTP).
On December 27 Benazir Bhutto was killed.
Dec. 29, 2007, Taleban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed read to AFP over the telephone a statement issued by Omar that said Mullah Mansoor Dadullah was sacked
The Sararogha Fort raid occurred on 15-16 January 2008.
The commander of the Pakistani Special Forces (SSG) who led the operation which retook the fortress from the militants led by Baitullah Mehdud, Gen. Alavi, was brutally gunned-down after approaching a British reporter with a story about other Pakistani generals who were dealing with local militants, instead of seriously eliminating them, as claimed. Two lower-ranking officers, turned "Islamists" have since been charged in his killing, which produced other news reports linking the two with a Taliban assassination ring based in Waziristan and having had contacts with local foe of Baitullah Mehsud, Maulvi Nazir. The two officers were believed to be associated with Sheikh Omar, the killer of Daniel Pearl, whose phone records show that he had placed calls to Gen. Alavi's phone from his jail cell
Waziri tribal leader Mullah Nazir is the most dangerous man in all of Pakistan, threatening to blow the lid off America's secret plans for Pakistan. He alone holds the keys to war and peace in S. Waziristan. Nazir represents America's ultimate failure in Pakistan so far, even though he had formerly been a shining example of "reconciliation" and cooperation with Pakistan Army initiatives. Thanks to the campaign of repeated assassination attempts by terminator drones which have stalked him over the past year, he has moved himself firmly into the camp of Baitullah Mehsud, even though they have been bitter rivals until now.
Maulvi Nazir had led his Waziri tribe to form a Lashkar (militia) group which expelled the trouble-making Uzbeks and all foreign "al Qaida" from around the town of Wana, after they had killed over three hundred tribal elders (maliks). The campaign of tribal defense which he initiated has worked wherever it has been applied, perhaps explaining why he has been the constant target of both "al Qaida" and US guns since then. His reward for having championed the cause of self-defense against American plans for domination has been given in the form of Hellfire missiles delivered by Predator drones over the past year.
After a full year of this, on February 14, 2009 Obama attacked Baitullah Mehsud's forces in the village of Shrawangai Nazarkhel. This change in strategy came just two days after the targeting situation in Pakistan was openly discussed on an Internet podcast. This particular airstrike caused the reunification of the two marked leaders and the splitting-off of another fairly powerful ally of Maulvi Nazir in his struggle against Mehsud and the violent Uzbeks, the inheritor of Abdullah Mehsud's Pakistani soldiers, Zainuddin Shimankhel. Since February, Shimankhel and tribal leader Turkistan Bittani have openly waged war against Mehsud, in S. Waziristan.
Thus the latest deception campaign of the new American administration, focused on driving the two feuding militants back together to create a common enemy instead of taking advantage of the natural split that was there, made possible by one Predator attack.
A recent series of news reports and interviews with militant leaders in early April confirmed Pakistani/American collaboration in these targeted killings of Taliban leaders.
"In mid-March, the American military in Afghanistan flew a demonstration mission of a Predator drone along a stretch of the Afghanistan- Pakistan border to show the kind of imagery and communications information the Predator could provide. The Americans transmitted the information to a border coordination center near the Khyber Pass operated by American, Pakistani and Afghan personnel, and the information was sent through Pakistani security databases.
The test run went well enough that Pakistan subsequently requested a small number of additional Predator reconnaissance flights to support their operations in the border tribal areas.
But American officials said the requests for additional surveillance missions ended suddenly in early April."
On one of those flights took place on Mar.13, when an unmanned US drone killed at least 12 people in Kurram district, associates of Mehsud's brother. On 25 March 2009 seven were killed in the Makin area, Mehsud's home town.
After these attacks, the collaboration suddenly ended in early April, after Taliban leader Maulvi Nazir gave an interview with As-Sahab on April 7, and the appearance of this article on April 10, which highlighted Nazeer's charges that Pakistani Army sources had planted the homing devices on local militant leaders, which the Predator flights zeroed in on. On April 14, this article in the Lebanese Daily Star revealed that Amb. Holbrooke and Adm. Mullen had secretly met with Taliban leaders, one of them probably infamous Afghan leader and former sweetheart of the CIA, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
Today, the CIA is continuing to push the Pakistani government to the wall today with its provocative Predator and counter-insurgency attacks that drive the tribal militants to wage war in the Frontier Region, in order to force the ISI to change its ways. The ploy, that the US is waging war to eradicate its successful CIA operation to create a phantom militant army, a.k.a. "al Qaida" (which is allegedly giving orders to the Pakistani Taliban), is being used as a cover to force the ISI to reveal its own successful militant project, the "Taliban." Regardless of American wishes to the contrary, Pakistan still has the option of negotiations with its own Taliban in Waziristan, even though has to wage war to eliminate the American "Taliban" from NWFP.
Pakistan has to choose to accept America's point of view, that all Taliban are and were a project of the ISI, if it wants to obtain the windfall represented by the PEACE treaty. Pakistan has to agree to seriously fight total civil war against the Taliban, from Kashmir to Balochistan, if it is to receive the funds that the American warlords are dangling before them. Pakistan's problems with militancy now all arose because of past mini-wars launched against their own people at Bush's insistence. Obama is intent on taking it a step further than even Bush and Cheney dared to dream.
Pakistan has to seriously fight a war against the Taliban, pretending that they are fighting an imaginary "al Qaida" hierarchy which survived the Afghan war by fleeing to FATA and NWFP. Pakistan has to decimate its population with war and refugee problems, under American direction, in the pretense of fighting a military "force" that consists of no more than a token remnant; it is not any kind of "force" at all.
If the news leaking out is true, that the Pakistani Army is planning an offensive against Baitullah Mehsud in S. Waziristan next month, and it is not just more American propaganda, like the "failed state" "Taliban takeover" hysteria, then we will be witnessing a remarkable event in the history of dumb mistakes. If the Army folds under the pressure and opens a real civil war throughout the entire Frontier Region, then it will be sealing Pakistan's fate to be dismembered and dominated. This is insane.
It has become apparent that regardless of what the Pakistani Army does, a major war escalation has been scheduled by the American military, beginning in June. The planned "surge" of possibly 24,000 troops, is just the start. The present commander of US forces in Afghanistan is being replaced with a specialist in counter-insurgency strategy, Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal. Reports on the Pentagon website InsideDefense. com,, reveal that a major "irregular warfare" air capability will be called on in June:
"AIR FORCE PREPPING FOR MAJOR IRREGULAR WARFARE DECISIONS IN JUNE."
The new "Pakistan Counterinsurgency Capability Fund" has been created, with $400 million for Pakistan's counter-insurgency needs for their escalation.
Pakistan's leaders continue to go through this painfully slow dance to the death with their American employers, disrupting life in the tribal regions, pretending to be locked in to a battle to the death with a few thousand militants, while they prepare an all too real escalation of Obama/Bush's war, all for the sake of maintaining the greater illusion of fighting "al Qaida." Pakistan's leaders are playing a very deadly game here with Obama, betting the survival of their precious nation that the United States warlords will blink first.
In order to gain access to the promised PEACE funds, Pakistan is ready to jump through any hoop. "PEACE" is a restraining pay-off, designed by full-time "friend of Israel" US Congressman, Howard Berman. His bill binds Pakistan to cut its own throat, by opening a full-scale civil war in its western regions, while simultaneously surrendering to India's good intentions in the east, in exchange for billions. Israeli watchdog Berman is once again carrying water for the Zionist state, by enforcing the nuts and bolts of the public relations "course change" spelled-out recently by radical new spokesman Avigdor Lieberman. Lieberman's opinion, that "Pakistan is the greatest threat to the world," is way out of character for Israel. Israel's American allies in Congress are effectively taking the focused public eye away from Israel's war crimes in Gaza, while simultaneously laying the groundwork for the next anti-Islamic invasion of Iran. Berman's PEACE bill
is just like the "Iran war resolution" he co-authorized with fellow-traveller Rep. Ackermen. Like that bill which was nearly rammed through the last congress, it seeks to create a set of conditions in the Middle East region that will facilitate the commitment of US forces to new military actions against a major military power. Israel is desperately trying to rehabilitate its public image, which lay in ruins after attempting to exterminate a sizeable portion of the Palestinian population of Gaza.
Intensive US actions will begin in Pakistan next month, one way or another. Even if, by some miracle, Pakistan stood-up for its citizens and refused the PEACE pay-off, American military actions will be triggered when the Pakistani Army either fails to ignite civil war in S. Waziristan or fails to convince US leaders that they are sincerely locked in a land struggle to eliminate the Pakistani Taliban. The generals will not be able to fool American satellites without totally destroying the area under surveillance. Is this the process that is underway now in Buner and Swat, the leveling of the communities for the sake of the show?
The Pakistani Army leaders refuse to take the proper stand that would instantly correct the international opinion of the people and its leaders-tell the truth about the Taliban and "al Qaida." Anything less than openly, in the press, revealing the complete dirty truth about the "epicenter of terror" created in your Frontier Region will NOT stay the executioner' s hand. Tell the world that "al Qaida" is an intelligence operation of the US government, which Pakistan's secret service participated in. The Taliban is the product of a successful intelligence operation, while "al Q" is the operation. The CIA's "mujahedeen" program created a lot of militant jihadis, among them, the Taliban, at least some of them. The camps and the radical madrassas were the mujahedeen program, the Taliban were some of the militants who graduated from that program in the late eighties and early nineties.
American military and civilian leaders should know the facts about "al Qaida" and the Taliban better than anyone else, but Gen. Petraeus, the highest military officer in the Nation, seems to be the head disinformer of the American and Pakistani people. Calling Pakistan the "nerve center" of al Qaeda's global operations and "the headquarters of the al Qaeda senior leadership," Petraeus built the case to the American people and their Congress for decimating the Pakistani population with war and refugeeism, using maximum possible force (overkill), for the sake of pursuing no more than a handful of foreign terrorists who could otherwise be captured by less destructive means. Petraeus couldn't have risen to his high rank without knowing the truth about this vaporous enemy that Washington has chosen to stand-up for the sake of an arranged "fight." He knows that there has never been an "al Qaida," and that Osama bin Laden is long since dead.
In the following quote from the general, if you substituted the word CIA or agency for al Qaida, you would have an accurate statement on Pakistan's terrorist problem:
'There's no question that Al Qaeda's senior leadership has been there and has been in operation for years,' said the general when asked if he knew where they were hiding. 'We had to contend with its reach as it sought to facilitate the flow of foreign fighters, resources, explosives, leaders and expertise into Iraq, as you'll recall, through Syria.
'We see tentacles of Al Qaeda that connect to Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen, the elements Al-Shabab in Somalia, elements in north central Africa, and that strive to reach all the way, of course, into Europe and into the United States."
The "Islamist" jihadis who are spread throughout the named countries all have one thing in common, they are all driving their particular conflict country in America's direction. They are steering their country's fate on a course intended to provoke and justify American intervention and validate the concept that "Islamists" are murderous, radical cut-throats. They are all in energy producing states, or key countries on pipeline pathways.
In order for the great fiction known as the "war on terror" to continue, everyone has to agree to pretend that people like Gen. Petraeus and Barack Obama are telling the truth when they talk about the "great global threat," that we like to call "al Qaida." All of America's leaders, just like all of Pakistan's leaders know that there is no "al Qaida," except in the minds of the great war planners and psy-operators.
There is an international network of spies and mercenary agents, but it is an arm of the CIA and Western intelligence agencies. This nameless network, dubbed "al Qaida" by Cheney and Bush, has operated out of western Pakistan for thirty years, where the CIA planted it. Created by Reagan and Bush's father, the militant network is 100% "made in America." Clinton used it as his secret army. Bush pretended that it was an Islamic organization, headed by a radical Saudi militant, Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden headed a second rate Arab terrorist outfit that was primarily concerned with removing the Americans from Islamic "holy lands" and freeing Palestine. The commander of one of the assassination units, Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, has been nominated to be the new commanding general in Afghanistan.
The official history of "al Qaida" is told in the stories of one or two actual terrorists, Ramsey Yousef and Khalid Sheikh Mohamed, whose terror attacks are attributed to "al Qaida," even though, they were not members of "al Qaida" at the time of their attacks (and there was no organization by that name in existence until 1999-2000). Since their capture and the elimination of bin Laden's actual outfit (Islamic Front for Jihad Against Crusaders and Jews") in the mountains of Tora Bora, other shadowy groups, such as Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
Obama and Petraeus, like the unfortunate Zardari and Kayani, are fully prepared to take military actions which will bring an end to both nations, as the New World Order of permanent limited war they help to usher in erases both nations. Perhaps there will be some homogenized version of Pakistan or America left after the conflagration lit by the suicidal nations subsides.
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'Third Jihad' Tied to Far-Right Groups / FBI, MN Somalis Hope to Reb
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AMERICAN MUSLIM NEWS BRIEFS 5/20/09
* Hadith: Do Not Abuse Those Who Abuse You
* CAIR-MN: FBI, Somalis Hope to Rebuild Relationship
* CAIR-LA: Protocols of the Elders of Islam?
- 'Third Jihad' Tied to Far-Right European Groups
- CA: Wiesenthal Center Screens Islamophobic Film
- Prof Draws Parallels Between Shariah, Constitution
* KY: County Judge Favors Christians for Elected Office
* TX House Passes Bill Allowing Muslim Family's Abuse Lawsuit
* Hawaii Passes Islam Day Resolution, Haters Call for Boycott
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HADITH OF THE DAY: DO NOT ABUSE THOSE WHO ABUSE YOU TOP
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) once said: "Can't anyone of you be like Abu Damdam?" His companions asked: "Who is Abu Damdam, O Messenger of God?" The Prophet replied: "When he gets up in the morning he says, 'O God, I offer my honor and life to You,' so that he would not abuse those who abused him, nor would he wrong those who wronged him, or hit those who hit him."
Fiqh-us-Sunnah, Volume 4, Number 115
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FBI, TWIN CITIES SOMALIS HOPE TO REBUILD RELATIONSHIP - TOP
Laura Yuen, Minnesota Public Radio
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The head of the Minneapolis FBI office is asking for the Somali community's trust as investigators continue to look into the disappearances of a number of young Twin Cities men who are believed to be fighting along with hard-line Islamists in Somalia's civil war.
St. Paul, Minn. -- Special Agent in Charge Ralph Boelter appeared Monday night on the weekly KFAI radio show "Somali Community Link." He acknowledged that the investigation has stirred up fears in the community, but said some of those fears are overblown.
"We've heard in the community (that) people have advised all residents, 'Don't talk to law enforcement. Don't talk to the FBI about this case,'" he said. "That's not going to solve this problem. ... The FBI can't solve this problem alone. We need to solve it in concert, in cooperation, with the community."
An attorney with the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations who also appeared on the show urged the FBI to examine its tactics. Young Somali-Americans say they have been randomly approached for questioning at malls and on college campuses...
Boelter was joined on the radio show by Taneeza Islam, the civil rights director for the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Islam urged the Somali community to cooperate with investigators -- and also to know their rights to have a lawyer present during questioning.
Islam also invited Boelter to begin a dialogue with her group. The national FBI severed its relationship with CAIR earlier this year after allegations that the Muslim civil-rights group had ties to supporting Hamas.
Islam praised Boelter for reaching out to Somalis and other Muslims in Minnesota by granting interviews with a number of ethnic-media outlets over the past several weeks. But she also said that the FBI's approach to interrogations has created more anxiety in a community already distrustful of government.
"It's a difficult time to start outreach now," Islam said. "I would like to have seen this relationship and trust built before a contentious issue arises. Without that trust, it's hard to work together when the times are hard, and that's kind of where we are right now."
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PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ISLAM? - TOP
Nick Schou, OC Weekly, 5/19/09
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As its name suggests, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance in LA is supposed to promote the kind of cultural dialog that brings people together rather than pushes them apart. So it's more than a little bit odd that the center showed a movie last weekend that has been compared to the gold-standard of anti-Semitic propaganda: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
The latter tome was supposedly written by the Jews who secretly want to take over the world. Actually it's pure fiction, but the book nonetheless helped pave the way for Russian pogroms in the 19th Century and the Nazi-era holocaust. The film in question, "The Third Jihad," was screened at the Museum of Tolerance last Sunday. Like the book before it, the film claims to provide evidence of a global plot of subversion, in this case a plot to subvert America by blood-thirsty terrorists posing as regular-guy American Muslims.
"The Third Jihad" begins with a disclaimer saying that most Muslims are okay folks, and that this movie only talks about the ones that want to kill all Americans. It was produced by a shadowy outfit called the Clarion fund, which according to an Institute for Policy Studies report has ties to right-wing supporters of Israel who oppose all talks with the Palestinians. 28 million copies were distributed to voters in 14 swing states just before last November's presidential election, perhaps to inflame fears that Barack HUSSEIN Obama might be part of this purported Muslim takeover plot...
On May 15, Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations' Greater Los Angeles Area chapter, sent a letter asking the Simon Wiesenthal Center to call of its showing of the film. "As an institution that claims as its goal battling hatred and bigotry across the world, I am disappointed to see the Wiesenthal Center engage in promoting hatred and bigotry against another minority--American Muslims," Ayloush wrote...
"Claiming that American Muslims are part of some world-wide conspiracy to take over America is nothing short of concerted hateful fear mongering that intends to build animosity and even eventual violence against Muslims," he argues. "The Holocaust in Europe and the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda did not happen in a vacuum. They were preceded with such baseless hateful material that dehumanized the intended targeted community and were promoted by many enablers who falsely hid behind the claim of "generating discussion and sharing views."
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BIGGER, BADDER JIHAD PLOT IN 'OBSESSION' REBOOTED - TOP
By Ali Gharib and Eli Clifton, IPS, 5/19/09
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WASHINGTON, May 19 (IPS) - A new documentary from a shadowy non-profit, the Clarion Fund, has ties to groups widely accused of Islamophobia.
"The Third Jihad" purports to educate U.S. citizens about the threat of a "cultural Jihad" by the country's own Muslim-American population. The film goes to great lengths to define itself as an expose of radical Muslim elements, not the faith at large.
But a group called the International Free Press Society (IFPS), which attended the Washington premiere of the film and documented the screening on behalf of the production company on a social media website, has some dubious affiliations.
Two months ago, IFPS heavily promoted Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, a widely-known Islamophobe who has been tied to far-right European political parties.
An IPS investigation linked both Wilders and some of his U.S. and international supporters, including members of IFPS, with the Vlaams Belang (VB), or Flemish Interest. Vlaams Belang is a nationalist Flemish party that has demanded amnesty for Nazi collaborators in Belgium.
Wilders is known for campaigning to ban the Koran, Islamic attire and Islamic schools from the Netherlands, and for proclaiming that "moderate Islam does not exist". His views have even drawn fire from the strongly pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League, which described Wilders's rhetoric as "inflammatory, divisive and antithetical to American democratic ideals".
Wilders has been brought up on charges in the Netherlands and banned from Britain on the grounds that he incites hate.
That view doesn't jibe with the slickly produced "Third Jihad" film...
Sharia, or Islamic law, has come into the spotlight as one of the principal goals of radical Islamists.
"Sharia is no different than Jewish law or Christian law," said CAIR communications director Ibrahim Hooper. "When he prays, Jasser is following Sharia; when he doesn't drink alcohol, he's following Sharia." (More)
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SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER TO SCREEN ISLAMOPHOBIC FILM "THE THIRD JIHAD" - TOP
Beliefnet.com, 5/19/09
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I've argued in the past that Muslims and Jews in the West should make common cause in fighting against prejudice and tolerance - and in doing so, lead by example in terms of demonstrating the value of tolerance and respect based on our shared Abrahamic heritage. One ideal joint project would be for the ADL and CAIR to join forces and compile a national database of anti-semitic and Islamophobic incidents and hate crimes, for example, and perhaps start a group blog project discussing various issues.
Unfortunately, despite many previous examples of common cause that move such a vision forward, sometimes the innate prejudices of both groups moves the process backwards. Case in point - the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles will screen the grotesquely Islamophobic film The Third Jihad. As CAIR's Los Angeles chapter explains in a letter to the SWC, The Third Jihad is the equivalent of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as far as its intention in portraying muslims in the United States and Islam as a whole as a fifth column, a Dolchstoßlegende for the modern era. (More)
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LAW PROFESSOR DRAWS PARALLELS BETWEEN SHARI'AH, CONSTITUTION - TOP
Katie Glueck, Daily Northwestern, 5/20/09
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A Harvard law professor who provides analysis on CNN has a lot in common with a scholar of Islamic law, said the Muslim-cultural Student Association' s spring speaker Asifa Quraishi on Tuesday night. The University of Wisconsin law professor spoke to an audience of about 55 in Fisk Hall, drawing parallels between the U.S. Constitution and Islamic law.
"These two legal worlds are usually described as completely alien to each other, but as an American Muslim, I'm completely comfortable looking at similarities, " Quraishi said. "We're at a place in the world's lifetime that it might help looking at similarities. "
Azam Siddiqui, the co-president of McSA, said he hopes Quraishi could make Islamic law seem less foreign to Northwestern students.
"We're trying to clear up misconceptions about Shariah," the Weinberg junior said. "It's not what the media portrays, or how certain extremists have altered its meanings overseas. It was written 500-600 years ago, but it's relevant to our Constitution. " (More)
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KY: COUNTY JUDGE ROBERTS FAVORS CHRISTIANS FOR OFFICE - TOP
Emily Hagedorn, Courier-Journal, 5/20/09
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At a recent National Day of Prayer event, Bullitt County's judge-executive said Christians need to be put in office.
"We need to start putting Christians -- not Buddhists, not Muslims, not whatever -- in elected office," said Judge-Executive Melanie Roberts at the May 7 Shepherdsville event. "And I will preach that until the day I die."
When asked to elaborate after the event, Roberts said she prefers Christians to be in elected offices because "Jesus preaches to love one another, and that love is the answer to all of our social ills."
Also, "America was founded on Christian principles, and Christianity provides us our freedom."
She said she realizes that other people might not agree with her opinion.
Peter Anik, community-relations director for the Jewish Community Association of Louisville, called her comments "somewhat offensive" and objected to Roberts using religion as a "litmus test" for political office.
"I think it's understandable that people want to elect other people who reflect their own social values," said Anik, who was not at the event. "But I would hope that the American public would be tolerant enough to accept the fact that people approach the understanding of God in a variety of ways.
"Religious minorities have something positive to add," Anik said. "To suggest that they don't -- it seems to be at least contrary to the principles of the Constitution. " (More)
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HOUSE PASSES FORT WORTH MEMBER'S BILL ALLOWING LAWSUIT AGAINST DENTON STATE SCHOOL - TOP
Anna M. Tinsley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5/20/09
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Nearly seven years ago, Haseeb Chishty checked into the Denton State School -- a mentally disabled man hoping to work on his behavioral skills.
One month later, Chishty, a 27-year-old Muslim American, was found lying in a pool of his own blood and urine, a victim of what his family believes was a hate attack.
Farhat Chishty, Haseeb's mother, said her son was beaten so badly that he was left paralyzed and unable to eat on his own. A caregiver there, who admitted to hitting and kicking Chishty more than 20 times, was indicted by a Denton County jury, legislative records show.
"The culprit is doing prison time, but the family .?.?. they need their day in court," Rep. Lon Burnam, D-Fort Worth, told the House of Representatives on Tuesday. "I'm asking that you allow this."
The House did, voting 139-0 to give the Chishty family permission to sue the Denton State School, the Department of Aging and Disability Services, and the state.
Many members applauded after the vote. (More)
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HAWAII PASSES ISLAM DAY RESOLUTION, HATERS CALL FOR BOYCOTT - TOP
Pam Mandel, World Hum, 5/19/09
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High on the list of reasons I lost my heart so completely to Hawaii?
The diversity. You've got your Pinoys, your Japanese, your mainland surfers, your Native Hawaiians, your Portuguese and Spaniards, the descendants of European shippers and missionaries, a whole mess of "hapa" types who are half one thing, half something else, be it Scottish, Korean, Hawaiian, Jewish ... If you're looking for a slice of world culture, you're as likely to find it in Hawaii as anywhere. All those cultures make for a lively and appealing place.
But a few spoilsports are calling for a boycott of travel to the islands because the Hawaii state Legislature recently passed a resolution recognizing "Islam Day." (More)
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(A Must Read) Parental Alienation Syndrome Much Common Abuse of Non
Posted by: "Imran Majeed"
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Wed May 20, 2009 12:14 pm (PDT)
Another eye opening case in this age of modernism, civil rights, justice, freedom and fundamental, basic and natural rights...seems like these are mere words in situations like these even in so called most civilized and developed countries what to speak of lesser countries... .see this case summed up in following excerpts:
Family courts are not supposed to reward abusive parents, and punish
parents who play by the rules. They are not supposed to allow an abusive
parent to nullify the responsible parent's role in a child's life. But
that is exactly what an Ontario court has done in a case of parental
alienation. It has, in effect, disposed of the child's father, perhaps
permanently.
If those
accusations were true, asked Mr. Justice Leonard Ricchetti, why then did
she agree, in a formal, court- approved settlement, to allow him any
access to their daughter? And why, he asked, make that settlement if she
never intended to comply with its terms? (She was found in contempt of
court for taking her child to Saudi Arabia.)
Children are entitled to have as much contact as possible with both
their parents. But that principle of law was knocked easily aside by an
abusive parent. (Denying a child contact with another parent is deemed
abuse in Ontario child-protection law.) Is it more important for a girl
to have "a seven-bedroom home with two nannies" or a father, even if he
is a hospital chaplain of limited means? One wonders whether a court, if
the situation were reversed, would dispose so readily of a responsible
mother of limited means.
Mr. Justice Ricchetti expressed frustration
that Tasnim Elwan beat the system by flagrantly violating court
orders, spiriting Ihsan out of the country, and taking every measure
possible to keep them apart.
Mr. Al-Taher is blameless, Judge Ricchetti
said. Nonetheless, he said Ihsan has been so thoroughly alienated
that granting her father any form of access would be harmful to her.
"I cannot state strongly enough
the court's condemnation of the mother's lack of
consideration for Ihsan's interest that she have a
relationship with her biological father, and the actions
she has taken towards the father," Judge Ricchetti said.
In his ruling, Judge Ricchetti branded
Ihsan's mother, Tasnim Elwan, a mischief-maker, a liar and a
manipulator who has systemically thumbed her nose at the court and
at common decency.
He said Ms. Elwan falsely
accused Mr. Al-Taher of being a Jew-hating member of
Hamas who trained in al-Qaeda terrorist camps and who is
mentally ill.
"It is difficult to conceive of
a more vicious attack on an individual on every basis
conceivable, " Judge Ricchetti said.
Mr. Al-Taher and Ms. Elwan were
married in 1998 and separated on Feb. 14, 2005. They
reached a settlement granting Ms. Elwan custody of Ihsan
and permission to move to Vancouver. In return, she was
to provide Mr. Al-Taher generous access, particularly
during vacation periods.
Upon arriving in Vancouver, Ms.
Elwan cut off all communication with Mr. Al-Taher and
then surreptitiously moved to Saudi Arabia, where she
married a wealthy man and immersed Ihsan in local
culture.
Prof. Bala said the case also
shows that it is urgent for the justice system to
respond rapidly when an alienation case surfaces.
"With hindsight we can see that
once the mother was able to move with the child and
effectively prevent her from seeing her father and him
from seeking legal redress, she was able to change her
child's perception of reality and destroy the child's
relationship with her father," he said.
Prof. Bala said rigorous therapy is
sometimes necessary to break a parent's hold over a child.
"There are programs in the
United States - such as that of Dr. Richard Warshak -
that have had some success in restoring a child's
relationship with even a severely alienated parent," he
said. "But this would require giving the father custody
and suspending contact with the mother. This was not an
option in this case due to expense and the father's
limited means."
"The Mother clearly has done everything she
can against the Father to prevent the relationship between the
Father and Ihsan, without regard to the fact it would be in the best
interests of Ihsan to have a relationship with her biological
father."
Cheers!  Imran Islamabad-44000
Pakistan
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From: Grant Wilson <yahoogroups@ canadiancrc. com>
Subject: [Men's Issues Online] PAS - Globe and Mail Editorial condeming judge's decision on PAS case
To: "Men's Issues Online" <MensIssuesOnline@ yahoogroups. com>
Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 9:54 PM
Success, in contempt PAS
Globe Editorial
The Globe and Mail ( Canada's largest national daily newspaper ), 20 May 2009
Family courts are not supposed to reward abusive parents, and punish
parents who play by the rules. They are not supposed to allow an abusive
parent to nullify the responsible parent's role in a child's life. But
that is exactly what an Ontario court has done in a case of parental
alienation. It has, in effect, disposed of the child's father, perhaps
permanently.
http://www.canadian crc.com/Newspape r_Articles/ Globe_and_ Mail_Success- in_contempt_ Parental_ Alienation_ Tasnim_Elwan_ 20MAY09.aspx
Also see the case at:
JUSTICE / 'IT IS DIFFICULT TO CONCEIVE OF A MORE VICIOUS ATTACK'
Blameless father a victim in brainwashing case
Judge lets mother move child away, but condemns her tactics in denying father access
The Globe and mail, by KIRK MAKIN, JUSTICE REPORTER, May 19, 2009
The family law system has failed Ayman Al-Taher, leaving him just one sustaining force as he battles for his severely alienated daughter: his faith.
A Muslim chaplain at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, Mr. Al-Taher's last hope of seeing his 10-year-old child Ihsan slipped away last week, after Ontario Superior Court Judge Leonard Ricchetti permitted her mother to move their daughter to Saudi Arabia.
Mr. Justice Ricchetti expressed frustration that Tasnim Elwan beat the system by flagrantly violating court orders, spiriting Ihsan out of the country, and taking every measure possible to keep them apart.
http://www.canadian crc.com/Newspape r_Articles/ Globe_and_ Mail_Blameless_ father_a_ victim_in_ brainwashing_ case_Parental_ Alienation_ 19MAY09.aspx
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Re: [PAF_OPENFORUM] Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
Posted by: "Imran Majeed"
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imran.majeed
Wed May 20, 2009 12:54 pm (PDT)
Mr. Nasir
You are needlessly indulging in further pampering her ....nothing else....its the same mindless over pampering of females like these that has been brainwashed in majority of this nation and world over...see her email first that prompted and rather necessitated in a spontaneous way to show her what she really is....see this and decide if that was warranted... if you still side with her then well i can say with total conviction that darkness is light and light is darkness.... ....finished and period...(do not waste anymore of my time on this)
see what she came up with (with her description that i already pointed out!!!)
Imran,
ÂÂ
you send loads of junk mails and
then your competence level is of a 4th grade kid. Read Again!!!!!
Compare India with Pak
since 1990?.... Compare the IT
boom in India and Pak Since 1990!!!! Now try to read some good newspapers
and be well informed.
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 Same independence year, 1947!!!!!
ÂÂ
Take some english lessons too."
now tell me if we were talking about IT boom here or banking??? and well making reference to common independence year and then starting comparing with 1990? does that makes sense? does that makes sense to say "Prince" to Citibank CEO???? and well bnakers dancing ....was that a proper description here??? and well citibank only had and have a very minuscule interest in Pakistani banking system....its reference even otherwise is of not much relevance... .and well while our current privatization, deregulation and free market drive did started in early 1990s but except for nationalization of bhutto years in 1970s we earlier too had a free market capiotalisitc economy....and talking of independence comparison is supposed to be since independence. ....
so yeah while we all love to see males ridiculed, pounded, insulted, admonished, punished, etc. etc. even for wrong reasons for a female even if she is taken to task justifiably it can arouse a storm and never ending spates of defensive reflex actions and deep seated apologistic attitude and behavior.... where in evolutionaly and civilizational and societal development we have reached ...Oh God Save this planet of the feminists and their henchmen.... .or takle me away from rthis world!!!!!
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and didn't it was a clarification :
although i already commented i was also wondering in what state
of mind she composed here email....see some of those references like
say same independence year of 1990!
Cheers!  Imran Islamabad-44000
Pakistan
(Which World? First? Second or third?)
Planet Earth, Solar System, Universe!
--- On Thu, 5/21/09, Muhammad A Nasir <muh.nasir@gmail. com> wrote:
From: Muhammad A Nasir <muh.nasir@gmail. com>
Subject: RE: [PAF_OPENFORUM] Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
To: PAF_OPENFORUM@ yahoogroups. com, sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com
Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009, 12:29 AM
Perhaps it is quoted for providing some context. If you did
not understand it, you could have simply asked for a clarification.
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The 90s comparison is a valid one; as India communist
economy (well at-least socialist) moved to free-market (with exceptions); the
two countries have been on an exponentially divergent economic paths. So a
comparison from that point forward is a valid, if not fully fair metric to
measure progress.
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You do remember that the bankers did dance till the runs
started on the banks.
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Look, I am not taking sides; I just think that this could
have been handled more delicately.
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I think calling someone a â€Å"bitch� is hitting below the belt.
I had written about this particular word that this is one of the more lopsided
gender specific smears; even an SOB is directed at the mother and not the offspring.
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Now, I am all for using â€Å"beeyatch� and other terms of
endearment contained in the inner city and urban lexicon; but the way it is
used is not the same way, sometimes â€Å"bitch� can mean a woman or a man (respectable)
when translated to the urban lingo.
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However, your use was not a play on the language; in my
opinion, it was unquestionably used as a get-even below-the-belt shot which was
meant to hurt.
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However, pontificating on verbal niceties is not in my bailiwick;
I feel extremely hypocritical giving advice when I myself license with the
language; now the contexts I use then in is somewhat of nitpicking and can be construed
as rationalizing.
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Anyway, as Forest Gump would say, â€Å"that is all I have to say
on that…�
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Please play nice!
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Your friend,
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Nasir
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From:
PAF_OPENFORUM@ yahoogroups. com [mailto:PAF_ OPENFORUM@ yahoogroups. com] On
Behalf Of Imran Majeed
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 11:56 AM
To: PAF_OPENFORUM@ yahoogroups. com; sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com
Subject: RE: [PAF_OPENFORUM] Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
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and what about these comments
of her:
"Dont mind but once Mr. Prince (Ex
Citibank CEO) said: "lets dance till the music is playing". That is
how the 2008 crisis started."
does anyone has an idea what she is talking about here?????
Cheers!
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Imran
Islamabad-44000
Pakistan
(Which World? First? Second or third?)
Planet Earth, Solar System, Universe!
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--- On Wed, 5/20/09, Imran Majeed <imran.majeed@ yahoo.com>
wrote:
From: Imran Majeed <imran.majeed@ yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: [PAF_OPENFORUM] Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
To: PAF_OPENFORUM@ yahoogroups. com, sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com
Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 9:48 PM
Nope man..not at all....."Compare since 1990??? why
since 1990??? why not since indepoendence ...why the reference of same
independence year then??? and well i didn;t crossed any line if you read
prev. discussion.. ..infact it was she who showed here true colors ona very
mild and completely inoffensive comment pointing out this....so thats clear
from me....and religiously following punctuations is mindless.... better
thing is to communicate and write and speak effectively and convey your
message...in approporiate words, sentences and style, accent and
context.....
Cheers!
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Imran
Islamabad-44000
Pakistan
(Which World? First? Second or third?)
Planet Earth, Solar System, Universe!
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--- On Wed, 5/20/09, Muhammad A Nasir <muh.nasir@gmail. com>
wrote:
From: Muhammad A Nasir <muh.nasir@gmail. com>
Subject: RE: [PAF_OPENFORUM] Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
To: PAF_OPENFORUM@ yahoogroups. com, sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com
Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 6:39 PM
Dude, not nice! I read her mail, and she had not said that the
independence year was 1990.
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She says, â€Å"Compare India
with Pak since 1990? Same independence year, same issues, Where do
they stand? Where do we stand? For countries prosperous growth, you make a
long term plan and achieve it with short term plans, unfortunately we dont
have any plan at all in place.�
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I think if you read it critically, there is no confusion about what
she wrote.  You could have taken up the argument from â€Å"same issues …�
and taken it apart. That would have been a meaningful discussion.
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Now, being the worst offender of the language; I have learned a thing
or two from my mentors on this group. Fareed Bhai, in particular has been
very helpful in softly pointing out the error of my ways.
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I told him that perhaps one day I will return the favor. That one day
came sooner than I expected.
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Although, it might seem like pot calling the kettle black; I think I
will not be too out of line to point out that there was no need to engage
in verbal abuse. Not because she is a woman, but because she was not at
fault.
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I think she raises several valid points which could be explored
further, they might actually prove useful in adjusting the mindset of the
educated people in Pakistan�so that they understand the value of self-help
instead of depending on government planning. India was producing banking
software, in 1980s, and they have a chokehold on it since then. IIT was
also did not materialize overnight in the 90s.
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I think you own an apology.
ÂÂ
She writes well, so I am going to invite her to our FORUM; perhaps we
will have some lively discussions.
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Your friend,
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Nasir
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PS: She was right about your writing, you need to punctuate better
;-) But since we love you over here, we put in extra effort to read your
unpunctuated stuff!
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From: PAF_OPENFORUM@ yahoogroups. com [mailto:PAF_
OPENFORUM@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of Imran Majeed
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 2:58 AM
To: sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com; riskmanagers@ yahoogroups. com
Cc: amjsbp@gmail. com
Subject: [PAF_OPENFORUM] Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
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hmmm.....cant help about your bitching and whining...afterall a
bitch can only do that what can one expect from her anyways!!! its the
same syndrome of our paki girls since long now that they have always been
pampered...pumped. ...eulogized adnauseam... .given all kinds of
preferences and privileges from upbringing to education to job
opportunities in all kinds of best companies and organizations and then
they mostly whine and act as though they are the master of all and
accountable to none!!! can venture to demolish anything for the sake of
their egos which have over the decades have been noirished deliberately.
....
well on the one hand you mention the independence year and then 1990 in
the same vein and then ask for comparoson in the sme vein and i do not
think i ever wrote anything offensive ...just pointed out an apparent
inconsistency and out of place references and wow...rather
"WAW" i got this vitriolic diatribe from you ...what for ...may
be you afterall proved yourself that what you really are.....just another
bitch in the guise of a bloated ego a "good"
"eduction" a "good" job" etc. etc.......alas our
so many good organizations are infested with females with a mindsets like
you....God save our country and our systems...its already too late by the
way!!!
Cheers!
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Imran
Islamabad-44000
Pakistan
(Which World? First? Second or third?)
Planet Earth, Solar System, Universe!
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--- On Sun, 5/17/09, Sofia Alam khan <sofialamkhan@
yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Sofia Alam khan <sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
To: riskmanagers@ yahoogroups. com
Cc: amjsbp@gmail. com
Date: Sunday, May 17, 2009, 1:49 PM
Imran,
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you send loads of junk mails and
then your competence level is of a 4th grade kid. Read Again!!!!!
Compare India with Pak
since 1990?.... Compare the IT
boom in India and Pak Since 1990!!!! Now try to read some good newspapers
and be well informed.
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 Same independence year, 1947!!!!!
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Take some english lessons too.
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Thanks
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From: Imran Majeed <imran.majeed@ yahoo.com>
To: riskmanagers@ yahoogroups. com
Cc: sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com; amjsbp@gmail. com
Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 2:00:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
although i already commented i was also wondering in what state
of mind she composed here email....see some of those references like
say same independence year of 1990!
Cheers!
ÂÂ
Imran
Islamabad-44000
Pakistan
(Which World? First? Second or third?)
Planet Earth, Solar System, Universe!
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--- On Fri, 5/15/09, Amjad Ali Imran <amjsbp@gmail. com>
wrote:
From: Amjad Ali Imran <amjsbp@gmail. com>
Subject: Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
To: riskmanagers@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Friday, May 15, 2009, 3:57 PM
Ms Sofia
Well said but atleast you may suggest what sort of action we can
initiate keeping in view current scenario
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On 5/12/09, Sofia Alam khan
<sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com> wrote:
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Beautiful words only make
beautiful people happy. The truth is always ugly.
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"We should be cognizant
of the fact that Pakistan is no less than any country in risk
management processes. Keeping in view the depth of financial products,
we are ahead of the required competencies. "
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Dont mind but once Mr. Prince (Ex
Citibank CEO) said: "lets dance till the music is playing".
That is how the 2008 crisis started. I'm not of the opinion to make
general comments, People who know ABC of Risk Management in Pak leave
for better jobs in Middle East.
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So we should avoid making
general observations rather be more specific in discussing problems
that entail governing dynamics.
ÂÂ
That is what we are good at
"Discuss, discuss, discuss" Who will take the ACTION!!!!! our
local TV channels show millions of talk shows for what?
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it is just the talk, so lets do
the talk and till the talk ends, lets talk.
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Thanks.
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Sofia A. Khan
Karachiiiiii
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From: FAHAD HUSSAIN <phahadhussain@
yahoo.com>
To: riskmanagers@ yahoogroups. . com
Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2009 11:28:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
Hi to All,
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I'm new to the risk management group. Though dont have enough
time to spur on issues being discussing in the group, yet feel
inevitable to reply on comments cited. We should be cognizant of the
fact that Pakistan is no less than any country in risk management
processes. Keeping in view the depth of financial products, we are
ahead of the required competencies. So we should avoid making general
observations rather be more specific in discussing problems that entail
governing dynamics.
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Fahad
Karachi
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From: Sofia Alam khan <sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com>
To: Group <riskmanagers@ yahoogroups. com>
Sent: Monday, May 4, 2009 1:05:52 PM
Subject: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
Arif good comments!!!! !
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Glad to see that people show keen
interest and give precious suggestions. Last but not
least, If everything is impossible then why do risk management..
Data extraction, updation,authentici ty are problems for most of the
credit bureaus but we should start taking the first step to climb the
ladder or stand on the ground fearing that it is impossible to climb
the ladder.
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Angels did not help western
countries to build credit bureaus. It might take us more
time compared to west but "better late than never".
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Compare India with Pak since
1990? Same independence year, same issues, Where do they stand? Where
do we stand? For countries prosperous growth, you make a long term plan
and achieve it with short term plans, unfortunately we dont have any
plan at all in place.
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Information is the most valuable
commodity in the world.
ÂÂ
Thanks.
ÂÂ
Sofia A. Khan
Karachi.
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Wahid Qamber’s health deteriorated in jail
Posted by: "Mir Raza"
mirsalimraza@yahoo.com
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mirsalimraza
Wed May 20, 2009 12:59 pm (PDT)
Save the Life of a Brave Son of Baluchistan Wahid Qambar.. Please Raise your Voice NOW, before it is TOO LATE...
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--- On Tue, 5/19/09, Munir Mengal mengal_11@yahoo. com" <gary@citydesk. co.uk>
Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 7:15 AM
Respected all Individuals and Organizations, I request you all please on the humanitarian basis or being a supporter of Baloch strugle for freedom or being a son of Baloch soil and nation raise voice for Mr. Wahid Qamber's medication and basic facilities.
Regards,
Munir Mengal
The news is follows:
Subject: Wahid Qamber’s health deteriorated in jail
Quetta: Baluchistan’s local news papers and sources from the jail reported that Baloch leader Wahid Qamber is seriously ill from last few months. He has stopped eating food and the jail authorities are not providing him with any medicines. His health is deteriorating day by day. Reports said that he lost weight and is very weak. He has not yet been medically checked to diagnose his illness.ÂÂ
Source from the jail reported that Mr Qambar Baloch needs to be admitted in an outside hospital for proper treatment. His friend and family members are very concerned about his health. They said that Wahid Qamber must be given the opportunity for his treatment.
Warning the government and the jail authorities they said that looking after Mr Qambar’s health and safety is the responsibility of the jail authorities and the relevant government agencies who have arrested him. â€Å"if anything happened to Qambar in prison the provincial government and the personals of intelligence will be held responsible�, they warned.ÂÂ
They however appealed to the National and International human rights organizations to put pressure on Pakistani authorities to immediately release Wahid Qambar
                   news taken from http://www.facebook .com/l/;balochwa rna.com
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Fw: SGA in Daily Awami Awaz - Article on Hepatitis B & C
Posted by: "Mir Raza"
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Wed May 20, 2009 1:23 pm (PDT)
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Dear All,
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Attached herewith the Article Published in Daily Awami Awaz regarding Hepatitis B & C on occasion of World Hepatitis Day being celebrated on May 19, 2009
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Shaukat Memon
Manager Projects SGA
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22.
US wronged Pakistan for 30 years - Hillary Clinton
Posted by: "Mansoor Hallaj"
tarot66@yahoo.com
Wed May 20, 2009 2:03 pm (PDT)
US wronged Pakistan for 30 years - Hillary Clinton
http://chagataikhan .blogspot. com/2009/ 05/us-wronged- pakistan- for-30-years. html
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US Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton http://www.hillaryc linton.com/
The US secretary of state acknowledged on Tuesday that Washington had not been consistent in its dealings with Islamabad. Talking to reporters at the Foreign Press Centre and the White House, Hillary Clinton said â€Å"it is fair to say that our policy towards Pakistan over the last 30 years has been incoherent. I don’t know any other word�. US wronged Pakistan for 30 years, admits Hillary By Anwar Iqbal Wednesday, 20 May, 2009 06:53 AM PST http://www.dawn. com/wps/wcm/ connect/dawn- content-library/ dawn/the- newspaper/ front-page/ us-wronged- pakistan- for-30-years% 2C-admits- hillary-059
Let me help you Ms. Hillary Clinton by taking back you to very not too distant History that USA not only wronged Pakistan but almost every nation in the World particularly in the Third World, and Yankees didn't even spare their own citizens what to talk of Children of Lesser god i.e. Third World...
In the best-selling version of popular myth as history, U.S. "goodness" peaked during World War II (aka America's War Against Fascism). Lost in the din of trumpet sound and angel song is the fact that when fascism was in full stride in Europe, the U.S. government actually looked away. When Hitler was carrying out his genocidal pogrom against Jews, U.S. officials refused entry to Jewish refugees fleeing Germany. The United States entered the war only after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour. Drowned out by the noisy hosannas is its most barbaric act, in fact the single most savage act the world has ever witnessed: the dropping of the atomic bomb on civilian populations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The war was nearly over. The hundreds of thousands of Japanese people who were killed, the countless others who were crippled by cancers for generations to come, were not a threat to world peace. They were civilians. Just as the victims of the World Trade Center
and Pentagon bombings were civilians. Just as the hundreds of thousands of people who died in Iraq because of the U.S.-led sanctions were civilians. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a cold, calculated experiment carried out to demonstrate America's power. At the time, President Truman described it as "the greatest thing in history". Is this what you called Democracy???
LETS GO BACK TO HISTORY
WHAT KIND OF DEMOCRACY THE USA PRACTICED INSIDE THE USA
Paul Wolf, Attorney at Law P.O. Box 11244 Washington DC 20008 http://www.icdc. com/~paulwolf/ pakistan/ pakistan. htm, http://www.icdc. com/~paulwolf/
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http://www.icdc. com/~paulwolf/ cointelpro/ cointel.htm
COINTELPRO is an acronym for a series of FBI counterintelligence programs designed to neutralize political dissidents. Although covert operations have been employed throughout FBI history, the formal COINTELPRO's of 1956-1971 were broadly targeted against radical political organizations. In the early 1950s, the Communist Party was illegal in the United States. The Senate and House of Representatives each set up investigating committees to prosecute communists and publicly expose them. (The House Committee on Un-American Activities and the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, led by Senator Joseph McCarthy). When a series of Supreme Court rulings in 1956 and 1957 challenged these committees and questioned the constitutionality of Smith Act prosecutions and Subversive Activities Control Board hearings, the FBI's response was COINTELPRO, a program designed to "neutralize" those who could no longer be prosecuted. Over the years, similar programs were
created to neutralize civil rights, anti-war, and many other groups, all said to be "communist front organizations. " As J. Edgar Hoover, longtime Director of the FBI, put it
The forces which are most anxious to weaken our internal security are not always easy to identify. Communists have been trained in deceit and secretly work toward the day when they hope to replace our American way of life with a Communist dictatorship. They utilize cleverly camouflaged movements, such as peace groups and civil rights groups to achieve their sinister purposes. While they as individuals are difficult to identify, the Communist party line is clear. Its first concern is the advancement of Soviet Russia and the godless Communist cause. It is important to learn to know the enemies of the American way of life.
The United States and Middle East: Why Do "They" Hate Us? by Stephen R. Shalom www.zmag.org/ , December 12, 2001
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Stephen R. Shalom http://www.wpunj. edu/hmss/ polisci/faculty/ shalom/shalom. htm
http://www.thirdwor ldtraveler. com/Why_They_ Hate_Us/US_ Middle_East_ WDTHU.html
The list below presents some specific incidents of U.S. policy in the Middle East. The list minimizes the grievances against the United States in the region because it excludes more generalized long_standing policies, such as U.S. backing for authoritarian regimes (arming Saudi Arabia, training the secret police in Iran under the Shah, providing arms and aid to Turkey as it ruthlessly attacked Kurdish villages, etc.). The list also excludes many actions of Israel in which the United States is indirectly implicated because of its military, diplomatic, and economic backing for Israel. Whether any of these grievances actually motivated those who organized the horrific and utterly unjustified attacks of September 11 is unknown. But the grievances surely helped to create the environment which breeds anti-American terrorism.
1947-48: U.S. backs Palestine partition plan. Israel established. U.S. declines to press Israel to allow expelled Palestinians to return.
1949: CIA backs military coup deposing elected government of Syria.1
1953: CIA helps overthrow the democratically_ elected Mossadeq government in Iran (which had nationalized the British oil company) leading to a quarter_century of repressive and dictatorial rule by the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi.
1956: U.S. cuts off promised funding for Aswan Dam in Egypt after Egypt receives Eastern bloc arms.
1956: Israel, Britain, and France invade Egypt. U.S. does not support invasion, but the involvement of its NATO allies severely diminishes Washington's reputation in the region.
1958: U.S. troops land in Lebanon to preserve "stability".
early 1960s: U.S. unsuccessfully attempts assassination of Iraqi leader, Abdul Karim Qassim.2
1963: U.S. supports coup by Iraqi Ba'ath party (soon to be headed by Saddam Hussein) and reportedly gives them names of communists to murder, which they do with vigor.3
1967_: U.S. blocks any effort in the Security Council to enforce SC Resolution 242, calling for Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in the 1967 war.
1970: Civil war between Jordan and PLO. Israel and U.S. discuss intervening on side of Jordan if Syria backs PLO.
1972: U.S. blocks Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat's efforts to reach a peace agreement with Israel.
1973: Airlifted U.S. military aid enables Israel to turn the tide in war with Syria and Egypt.
1973_75: U.S. supports Kurdish rebels in Iraq. When Iran reaches an agreement with Iraq in 1975 and seals the border, Iraq slaughters Kurds and U.S. denies them refuge. Kissinger secretly explains that "covert action should not be confused with missionary work."4
1975: U.S. vetoes Security Council resolution condemning Israeli attacks on Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.5
1978_79: Iranians begin demonstrations against the Shah. U.S. tells Shah it supports him "without reservation" and urges him to act forcefully. Until the last minute, U.S. tries to organize military coup to save the Shah, but to no avail.6
1979_88: U.S. begins covert aid to Mujahideen in Afghanistan six months before Soviet invasion in Dec. 1979.7 Over the next decade U.S. provides training and more than $3 billion in arms and aid.
1980_88: Iran_Iraq war. When Iraq invades Iran, the U.S. opposes any Security Council action to condemn the invasion. U.S. soon removes Iraq from its list of nations supporting terrorism and allows U.S. arms to be transferred to Iraq. At the same time, U.S. lets Israel provide arms to Iran and in 1985 U.S. provides arms directly (though secretly) to Iran. U.S. provides intelligence information to Iraq. Iraq uses chemical weapons in 1984; U.S. restores diplomatic relations with Iraq. 1987 U.S. sends its navy into the Persian Gulf, taking Iraq's side; an overly_aggressive U.S. ship shoots down an Iranian civilian airliner, killing 290.
1981, 1986: U.S. holds military maneuvers off the coast of Libya in waters claimed by Libya with the clear purpose of provoking Qaddafi. In 1981, a Libyan plane fires a missile and U.S. shoots down two Libyan planes. In 1986, Libya fires missiles that land far from any target and U.S. attacks Libyan patrol boats, killing 72, and shore installations. When a bomb goes off in a Berlin nightclub, killing three, the U.S. charges that Qaddafi was behind it (possibly true) and conducts major bombing raids in Libya, killing dozens of civilians, including Qaddafi's adopted daughter.8
1982: U.S. gives "green light" to Israeli invasion of Lebanon,9 killing some 17 thousand civilians.10 U.S. chooses not to invoke its laws prohibiting Israeli use of U.S. weapons except in self_defense. U.S. vetoes several Security Council resolutions condemning the invasion.
1983: U.S. troops sent to Lebanon as part of a multinational peacekeeping force; intervene on one side of a civil war, including bombardment by USS New Jersey. Withdraw after suicide bombing of marine barracks.
1984: U.S._backed rebels in Afghanistan fire on civilian airliner.11
1987-92: U.S. arms used by Israel to repress first Palestinian Intifada. U.S. vetoes five Security Council resolution condemning Israeli repression.
1988: Saddam Hussein kills many thousands of his own Kurdish population and uses chemical weapons against them. The U.S. increases its economic ties to Iraq.
1988: U.S. vetoes 3 Security Council resolutions condemning continuing Israeli occupation of and repression in Lebanon.
1990_91: U.S. rejects any diplomatic settlement of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait (for example, rebuffing any attempt to link the two regional occupations, of Kuwait and of Palestine). U.S. leads international coalition in war against Iraq. Civilian infrastructure targeted.12 To promote "stability" U.S. refuses to aid post_war uprisings by Shi'ites in the south and Kurds in the north, denying the rebels access to captured Iraqi weapons and refusing to prohibit Iraqi helicopter flights.13
1991_: Devastating economic sanctions are imposed on Iraq. U.S. and Britain block all attempts to lift them. Hundreds of thousands die. Though Security Council had stated that sanctions were to be lifted once Saddam Hussein's programs to develop weapons of mass destruction were ended, Washington makes it known that the sanctions would remain as long as Saddam remains in power. Sanctions in fact strengthen Saddam's position. Asked about the horrendous human consequences of the sanctions, Madeleine Albright (U.S. ambassador to the UN and later Secretary of State) declares that "the price is worth it."14
1991-: U.S. forces permanently based in Saudi Arabia.
1993_: U.S. launches missile attack on Iraq, claiming self_defense against an alleged assassination attempt on former president Bush two months earlier.15
1998: U.S. and U.K. bomb Iraq over the issue of weapons inspections, even though Security Council is just then meeting to discuss the matter.
1998: U.S. destroys factory producing half of Sudan's pharmaceutical supply, claiming retaliation for attacks on U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya and that factory was involved in chemical warfare. Evidence for the chemical warfare charge widely disputed.16
2000-: Israel uses U.S. arms in attempt to crush Palestinian uprising, killing hundreds of civilians.
Notes
1. Douglas Little, "Cold War and Covert Action: The United States and Syria, 1945_1958," Middle East Journal, vol. 44, no. 1, Winter 1990, pp. 55_57.
2. Thomas Powers, The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA, New York: Knopf, 1979, p. 130.
3. Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn, Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein, New York: Harperperennial. 1999, p. 74; Edith and E. F. Penrose, Iraq: International Relations and National Development, Boulder: Westview, 1978, p. 288; Hanna Batatu, The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq, Princeton: Princeton UP, 1978, pp. 985_86.
4. U.S. House of Representatives, Select Committee on Intelligence, 19 Jan. 1976 (Pike Report) in Village Voice, 16 Feb. 1976. The Pike Report attributes the quote only to a "senior official"; William Safire (Safire's Washington, New York: Times Books, 1980, p. 333) identifies the official as Kissinger.
5. UN Doc. # S/11898, session # 1862. For a full list of U.S. vetoes in the Security Council on Middle East issues, along with full text of the draft resolutions, see the compilation by David Paul at http://www.salam. org/policy/ veto.html.
6. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser, 1977-1981 (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983), pp. 364-64, 375, 378-79; Gary Sick, All Fall Down: America's Tragic Encounter with Iran (New York: Penguin, 1986), pp. 147-48, 167, 179.
7. Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Le Nouvel Observateur (France), Jan 15-21, 1998, p. 76.
8. See the sources in Stephen R. Shalom, Imperial Alibis (Boston: South End Press, 1993, chapter 7.
9. Ze'ev Schiff, "Green Light, Lebanon," Foreign Policy, Spring 1983.
10. Robert Fisk, "The Awesome Cruelty of a Doomed Poeple," Independent, 12 Sept. 2001, p. 6. Fisk is one of the most knowledgeable Westerners reporting on Lebanon.
11. UPI, "Afghan Airliner Lands After Rebel Fire Hits It," NYT, 26 Sept. 1984, p. A9.
12. See, for example, Barton Gellman, "Allied Air War Struck Broadly in Iraq; Officials Acknowledge Strategy Went Beyond Purely Military Targets," Washington Post, 23 June 1991, p. A1. See also Thomas J. Nagy, "The Secret Behind the Sanctions," Progressive, Sept. 2001.
13. Cockburn and Cockburn, Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein, chap. 1.
14. Cockburn and Cockburn, Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein, chap. 5. Albright quote is from CBS News, 60 Minutes, 12 May 1996.
15. On the dubious nature of the evidence, see Seymour Hersh, New Yorker, Nov. 1, 1993.
16. See Seymour Hersh, New Yorker, Oct. 12, 1998.
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A Tale of Two Cities: â€Å"Original Child Bomb� An extraordinary documentary looks at the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki By RAYMOND A. SCHROTH National Catholic Reporter, July 29, 2005
â€Å"It is a thing of beauty to behold,� wrote The New York Times’ William L. Laurence of the atomic bomb nestled in the belly of the B-29, Aug. 9, 1945, on the way to Nagasaki. Did he feel any pity or compassion for the â€Å"poor devils about to die�? Not when he thought â€Å"of Pearl Harbor or the Death March on Bataan.�
Awestruck, he watched the black object fall and the ball of fire rise. His imagination struggled to match metaphors to what he saw: It was a â€Å"new species� being born, a flower, a mushroom 45,000 feet high topped by creamy foam, a thousand Old Faithfuls, a decapitated monster growing a new head.
When the first bomb hit Hiroshima three days before, my family was on vacation on a farm in Pennsylvania. When we heard the news on the radio, I remember looking up â€Å"atomic� in the dictionary. That night on a horseback ride I saw a comet course across the sky. Was this an omen of world peace? I was 12 years old.
It was not until I read John Hersey’s Hiroshima, with its description of the 20 men whose faces had been turned upward when the bomb exploded, that I knew what happened to those â€Å"poor devils� below: Their eyeballs had melted and run down their cheeks. Around 1949, Fr. Schiffer, a Jesuit who had survived Hiroshima, addressed our high school, St. Joe’s Prep. I remember the scars from the shattered glass on his bony face.
â€Å"Original Child Bomb,� first released in 2004, is an extraordinary documentary on the moral impact of dropping the first atom bombs. Directed by Carey Schonegevel and produced by Mary Becker, it is, in a sense, made to educate â€Å"children� like me. The American and Japanese generation with any memory of August 1945 is dying out. We turn to the visual arts, to its graphic depiction of human suffering, to render today’s viewers more compassionate.
Ms. Becker’s father was a U.S. sailor in the Pacific when the bomb dropped. Inspired by Thomas Merton’s poem â€Å"Original Child Bomb,� haunted by her visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the 9/11 images of the planes hitting the Twin Towers and bodies tumbling through the air, she has moved toward this documentary for more than 20 years. She has woven together long-suppressed film footage and photos, drawings and animation, interviews with survivors and contemporary teenagers, statistics on the carnage, and Merton’s text.
The film opens with old color footage of pre-bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki street life in 1945. Children exercise, play baseball and dance. Men and women circulate in the outdoor market, cut wheat, eat lunch. A plane appears in the sky. The screen erupts in an animated blast. A woman’s body flies through the air. America celebrates. WAR IS OVER. President Truman proclaims the â€Å"biggest achievement of organized science in history.�
Then -- red, withered faces; chests, backs, breasts, legs blistered, torn, gone. A witness told Ms. Becker her friend had looked like â€Å"a fish on a charcoal grill.� In a few days came the effects of radiation -- vomiting blood, diarrhea, paralysis.
By the 1960s, a cloistered Trappist monk, writing daily in his cell, had become the religious voice of the antiwar movement. Merton’s prose-poem, a 41-stanza narrative, moves from President Truman’s first learning about the project in April to the 70,000 killed by the first bomb, which the Japanese called â€Å"original child� because it was the first of its kind. The poet’s brutal ironies illuminate the moral madness behind the decision: Many advisers opposed its use, yet some insisted that using it just once or twice â€Å"would produce eternal peace.� The president’s committee picked Hiroshima because â€Å"it had not been bombed at all. Lucky Hiroshima! What others had experienced over a period of four years would happen to Hiroshima in a single day! Much time would be saved, and ‘time is money.’ �
In a classroom discussion among American students who have viewed the Hiroshima pictures, one asks, when will the blind cycle of Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima -- they BOOM us, we BOOM them -- stop? Another concludes: â€Å"Americans have a hard time feeling compassion for people other than themselves.�
In a creative riff, the producers send a present-day Hiroshima teenager in a backward baseball cap and earphones on a walk through the modern city, leading into the wreckage of 1945. He hears the voices of victims pleading with a woman with milk in her breasts to share it with another’s starving baby.
The film ends too quickly with its warning that the Bush administration has not learned the futility of atomic war: While the United States threatens Iran and Korea lest they develop nuclear capabilities, we order a whole new family of tactical nuclear weapons we are all too ready to use.
â€Å"Original Child Bomb� will be shown on the Sundance TV Channel Aug. 6 and 7.
Jesuit Fr. Raymond A. Schroth teaches journalism ethics at St. Peter’s College in Jersey City.
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Headlines like â€Å"Jap City No More� soon brought the news to a joyous nation. Crowds gathered in Times Square to celebrate; there was less of the enemy left. Rarely are victors encumbered by remorse. President Harry Truman declared: â€Å"When you have to deal with a beast you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.�[ii] Not surprisingly, six decades later, even American liberals remain ambivalent about the morality of nuking the two Japanese cities. The late Hans Bethe, Nobel Prize winner in physics of Manhattan Project fame and a leading exponent of arms control, declared that â€Å"the atom bomb was the greatest gift we could have given to the Japanese�[iii].
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A New Look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 06, 2005 By Frank Brodhead
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For the last 60 years we have been taught that the atomic bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended World War II. To be sure, there has been an intense debate about whether the bombs were necessary to end the war, or whether there were alternatives. Now a new study argues that not only were there alternatives to using the atomic bombs, but that the atomic bombs were essentially irrelevant in ending the war.
This argument is presented in Tsuyoshi Hasegawa's meticulously researched study, Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan. While building on an immense amount or research by many historians, Hasekgawa uses U.S., Japanese, and (for the first time) Soviet archives to take a new look at the Japanese decision making process that culminated in Emperor Hirohito's "sacred decision" to "bear the unbearable" and surrender to the allies. This hour-by-hour examination of why and how the Japanese leadership decided to surrender finds that it was the Soviet declaration of war on August 8th – and not the Hiroshima bomb on August 6th or the Nagasaki bomb on August 9th – that led to surrender. As Hasegawa notes in his conclusion, "Justifying Hiroshima and Nagasaki by making a historically unsustainable argument that the atomic bombs ended the war is no longer tenable" (pp. 299-300).
Why the Soviet declaration of war, and not the atomic bombs, was the critical event leading to surrender will be discussed shortly. But it is worth noting at the outset that Hasegawa's chronology and his interpretation of the U.S. government's diplomacy toward Japan in July and August of 1945 leads to some very disturbing conclusions.
The first conclusion largely supports the so-called "revisionist" interpretation of why the atomic bombs were used. Where the "traditional" interpretation argues that the bombs were used to end the war before an invasion of the Japanese home islands was necessary, and that there were no realistic alternatives to using nuclear weapons, the "revisionist" interpretation argues that there were additional factors or motives within U.S. policy making circles that were pressing for their use. According to the "revisionist" argument, Truman and his advisers did not consider alternatives to the bombs because, in addition to ending the war against Japan, they wanted to demonstrate the power of the bomb– and thus the greatly increased military power of the United States – to the Soviet Union. In using atomic bombs against Japan, therefore, the United States not only ended the war and opened the "Nuclear Age," but it also opened the era of "atomic
diplomacy" and
gave a powerful boost to the emerging Cold War.
Secondly, Hasegawa makes a strong case that Truman was so determined to use the atomic bomb on Japan that that he rejected alternatives that might end the war before the bomb was available. In addition to the factor of "atomic diplomacy" noted above, Truman also wanted to revenge Pearl Harbor and the special savagery with which the Pacific war was fought. Any possible modification of the demand that Japan surrender "unconditionally, " therefore, was rejected not only for objections to any particular modification – for example, that the safety of Emperor Hirohito be guaranteed – but because there was the danger that Japan might accept such terms and the opportunity to use the atomic bomb on Japanese cities would be lost.
As Hasegawa notes, the responsibility of Japanese leaders, including the Emperor, for the tragedy of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was very large. Their continuation of the war after the loss of Okinawa was totally irresponsible and demonstrates how little the well being of their countrymen counted against the mystifications of preserving the Emperor system and the virtues of military glory. But the declaration by the Japanese government on August 10th that the United States was guilty of a "crime against humanity" is surely accurate, and judgment should be rendered, at least in our understanding of the tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan
The use of the atomic bombs in the context of the US-Soviet rivalry at the end of the Pacific war has been explored by many historians. At the Yalta conference in February 1945, the Soviet Union reaffirmed its earlier pledges to enter the Pacific war three months after the end of the war in Europe. At the Potsdam conference in July 1945, Stalin told Truman and Churchill that the Soviet Union would declare war on Japan shortly after August 15th.
Once information about the power of the atomic bomb test in New Mexico reached Truman in Potsdam on July 21st, observers reported that Truman appeared very energized and became more aggressive toward the Soviets in negotiating the many outstanding issues on the table regarding especially the postwar settlements in Europe and Asia.
In addition to Truman's "atomic diplomacy," the atomic bomb appeared to offer the Americans a way to end the Pacific war before the Soviets could enter it. Truman immediately authorized the use of two atomic bombs against a short list of Japanese cities that included Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombs were to be used as soon as possible; the understanding was that this would be on August 3rd or as soon as weather conditions over Japan permitted. Truman hoped, and expected, that the bombs would force Japan to surrender before the Soviets could enter the war.
For their part, the Soviet Union planned to declare war according to the timetable noted above in part to secure the territorial concessions that it had been promised by Roosevelt and Churchill at the Yalta conference in February. This was mostly territory seized from Russia by Japan at the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5. As the relations between the United States and the Soviet Union deteriorated after the death of Roosevelt in April, the Soviets saw their entry into the Pacific war as increasingly urgent, no longer trusting the United States to fulfill its earlier pledges. Stalin also expected to be included in the postwar settlement and administration of Japan, along the lines of the four-power occupation of Germany that accompanied the end of the war in Germany.
Throughout the war in Europe, the Soviet Union had a Neutrality Treaty with Japan, though they had given the Japanese notice in April 1945 that it would be terminated in 1946. As Japan's military prospects collapsed in 1945, keeping the Soviets out of the Pacific war became the main focus of Japanese diplomacy. In addition to not wanting the power of the Soviet military brought to bear against the Japanese forces in Manchuria and Korea, the Japanese Foreign Office somewhat ludicrously hoped that the Soviets would agree to broker or mediate a peace treaty with the United States and Britain that would be less severe than "unconditional surrender." Because it had broken the Japanese diplomatic code, the "Magic intercepts," the United States was aware of these diplomatic moves; and Japan's offers were also communicated to the Allies by the Soviets.
But the importance of this diplomacy to the Japanese "peace party" has not been thoroughly explored until now. Realistically or not, the Japanese leaders maintained the hope that the Soviets would save them right up to the declaration of war by the Soviets on August 8th. It was only at that point that they realized that all was lost. Similarly, the Japanese military's unrealistic belief that it could achieve consolation and glory by one final battle against the invaders of the home islands could not stand up to the prospect of a Soviet invasion of Manchuria and the northernmost home island of Hokkaido. And finally, the great fear shared by all the Japanese leaders that domestic unrest would overthrow their leadership from within was amplified by the prospect of communist armies on their soil.
By contrast, records of the Japanese government deliberations show that the military leaders appeared unfazed by the bombing of Hiroshima, and the bombing of Nagasaki was barely mentioned in the cabinet discussions of that day. Indeed, regarding the bombing of Hiroshima, Hasegawa observes that, "If anything, the atomic bomb on Hiroshima further contributed to their desperate effort to terminate the war through Moscow's mediation" (p. 186).
The Potsdam Proclamation and the Japanese Surrender
According to Hasegawa, the United States constructed its end-game diplomacy with Japan not to seek its surrender, but to justify using the atomic bomb. This was the import of the Potsdam Proclamation and the US insistence on retaining the stance of "unconditional surrender."
The allied conference at Potsdam began on July 7th and ended on August 2nd. Both the United States and the Soviets brought to the conference the draft of a proclamation calling on Japan to surrender. Both of them contained the demand for unconditional surrender. The American draft promised that if Japan did not surrender, it would be met with "prompt and utter destruction. " This was the only "reference" to the atomic bomb in the proclamation, though it obviously could not be understood by the Japanese to refer to such weapons.
The original plans for a joint proclamation demanding Japan's surrender envisioned that it would be issued at the time of the Soviet declaration of war on Japan. Once the news from New Mexico had been received that the atomic bomb test was successful, and the United States could attempt to end the war by using the atomic bomb before the Soviets could declare war on Japan, it became vital that the Soviets be excluded from being a signatory to the proclamation. The British and Americans accomplished this essentially by lying to the Soviets, hoping in this way to exclude the Soviets from the postwar settlement if the war ended quickly. Ironically, by excluding Stalin's signature from the proclamation, the Japanese were misled to believe that there was a division between Stalin and Truman and Churchill. This encouraged them to continue their diplomatic strategy with the Soviets for a mediated settlement, and lessened the pressure within Japan's leadership
circles to consider the proclamation as the basis of surrender negotiations.
But the most important point about the Potsdam proclamation, according to Hasegawa, was that it was drafted with the intention of being rejected, and thus justifying using the atomic bombs. Referring to James Byrnes, Truman's Secretary of State, Hasegawa summarizes his stance at Potsdam thusly:
In Byrnes's mind the atomic bomb ... would force Japan to surrender and forestall Soviet entry into the war. The atomic bomb had to be used. In order to drop the bomb, the United States had to issue the ultimatum to Japan, warning that the rejection of the terms specified in the proclamation would result in â€ËÅ"prompt and utter destruction. ' And this proclamation had to be rejected by the Japanese in order to justify the use of the atomic bomb. The best way to accomplish all this was to insist upon unconditional surrender... . Byrnes knew even before the Japanese responded to the Potsdam Proclamation that the document was the prelude to the bomb. (158)
The proclamation was "issued" by broadcasting it over the radio. When the Japanese government did not directly respond to the proclamation – intensifying its diplomacy with the Soviets, as noted above – the Japanese press stated that the government had chosen to "ignore" the proclamation. On the basis of such press reports, Truman maintained then and to his dying day that the Japanese had rejected the allies' ultimatum. As one conservative US diplomat put it, "There seemed to be an eagerness for grasping at any excuse for dropping the bomb" (170).
Conclusion
Though Truman maintained that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were military targets, the bombs killed 110,000 civilians and 20,000 military personnel instantly. Tens of thousands more died later from radiation sickness. Many historians reasonably argue that the fire-bombing of Tokyo, Dresden, and other cities had so eroded the protections that the laws of war were supposed to extend to noncombatants that the atomic bombings were simply more of the same. Others note that the loss of so many lives in a single instant, and the lingering deaths suffered by so many thousands who fell victim to radiation poisoning, marked the atomic bomb as a qualitatively new kind of weapon of mass destruction. In either case, the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki opened an age of terror that is still with us. But it can no longer be maintained that the bombs helped to end World War II and in saving many lives by shortening the war were therefore justified.
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5. Enslave your husband, says Indian Supreme Court - It is your legal
Posted by: "Imran Majeed" imran.majeed@yahoo.com imran.majeed
Date: Thu May 21, 2009 11:36 am ((PDT))
See this...how utterly nonsensical and whimsical...and this passing out as justice from the highest (read apex) justice dispensing organizational facade.....so the result too is facade isn't it???
Cheers! Â Imran Islamabad-44000
Pakistan
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Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 11:10 PM
Read article at,
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6. Fw: Basic precepts of judicial reforms
Posted by: "Imran Majeed" imran.majeed@yahoo.com imran.majeed
Date: Thu May 21, 2009 11:36 am ((PDT))
A really nice article on timely move by supreme court to do its own bit for near impossible task of dispensing justice in this society and country!!! plz also see my comments in bracketed CAPS...
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Subject: Basic precepts of judicial reforms
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Basic precepts of judicial
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Huzaima Bukhari and Dr. Ikramul
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In a
society, administration and dispensation of justice should be the top most
priority as without it ‘representative democracy’ cannot be established. A
society without a trustworthy and speedy judicial system, which does not
ensure effective dispensation of justice, cannot survive for long.
Administration and dispensation of justice in Pakistan need serious
attention. There is an urgent need to ensure justice, rule of law,
fairness, equity and independence of judiciary. The right of access to
justice to all is a well-recognized inviolable right enshrined in the
Constitution of Pakistan. Justice therefore can only be done if there is
an independent judiciary which shall be separate from executive and not at
its mercy or depend on it. A significant initiative towards this goal was
taken by the National Judicial Policy Making Committee (NJPMC) by
announcing a policy that will be enforced from June 1, 2009. In its
concluding session on May 17, 2009, held under the chairmanship of Chief
Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, the NJPMC approved the National
Judicial Policy containing various short-term and long-term measures for
early disposal of cases.
The following are significant steps
proposed by the NJPMC:
All pre/post-arrest bail applications will
be decided within seven days. Criminal cases, punishable with imprisonment
up to seven years registered after January 1, 2009, would be decided in
the shortest period, which should not exceed six months and cases
punishable with imprisonment exceeding seven years, including punishment
of death, should be decided within one year.
Special steps are
suggested for improving the plight of prisoners. Provincial governments
are directed to establish new jails at district level or enhance the
capacity of existing jails by constructing new barracks. A High Court
judge, along with District and Sessions judge, will carry out inspection
of prisons periodically for ensuring compliance within prison rules and
giving on the spot remedy/relief to the prisoners according to the
law.
In civil matters, all writ petitions under the Article 199 of
the Constitution should be fixed for preliminary hearing on the next date
of its institution and disposed of as quickly as possible. Writ petitions
involving the service matters, including promotion, transfer and
admissions of students in professional colleges and allied matters, should
be decided within 60 days. All stay matters under Order 39 Rule 1 & 2
read with Section 151 CPC should be decided within 15 days of grant of
interim injunction and in case of delay the reasons should be furnished to
the high court.
Rent cases should be decided within four months in
trial courts and appeals should be decided within two months. Family
cases, including custody of minors, succession certificate, letter of
administration, insolvency and maintenance, should be decided within six
months. Civil appeals arising out of family cases, custody of minors and
against interim order should be decided within 30 days.
Cases
filed under Order 37 of CPC regarding suits upon bill of exchange, hundies
or promissory notes shall be decided through summary procedure within 90
days.
Cases relating to banking and different taxes and duties such
as income tax, property tax, etc., should be decided within six
months.
Labour and environmental cases should also be decided
through fast track. Judges of labour courts and tribunals should be
appointed amongst the lawyers qualified for appointment to be a district
and sessions judge.
Priority should be given to quick disposal of
women cases, (I SURE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT LIKE MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF OTHER MEN...THIS PREFERENCE TREATEMENT HAS BEEN GOING ON SINCE AGES NOW AND ITS TIME TO STOP IT AND REALLY TREAT THESE WOMEN EQUAL IN ALL RESPECTS NOT JUST IN MATTERS OF REWARDS BUT ALSO IN MATTERS OF RISK WITHOUT ANY PREFERENCE...LETS STOP ANY KID OF GENDER TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE AND LETS SUBJECT WOMEN TO SAME KIND OF PUNISHMENTS AND TREATEMENTS AS MEN ARE SUBJECTED TO AND LETS STOP EQUATING WOMEN WITH JUVENILES, CHILDREN AND MINOR IN SUCH ADVERSE SITUATIONS... IF THAT BE SO THEN ALL THEIR LIFE THEY SHOULD ALSO BE TREATED AS JUVENILES WITH SAME KIND OF RIGHTS AS OF JUVENILES, CHILDREN AND MINORS..)juvenile cases, rent cases, stay orders, bail matters, small
claims and minor offences under the Small Claims and Minor Offences Courts
Ordinance 2002. The power of small claims and minor offences court may be
conferred to all civil judges.
For clearing backlog under different
categories, special benches will be constituted for each category on the
principal seat and branch registry of the Supreme Court and high courts.
There will be commitment of judges to decide the old civil and criminal
cases up to 2008 within one year. District judges will also adopt such
measures that ensure handling of 50 percent of cases from backlog (filed
on or before Dec 31, 2008) and 50 percent from current cases.
For
conducting elections, the services of judiciary in future will not be
available. The focus of judiciary will be on disposal of cases to redress
grievances of the people by dispensation of justice. If the government
feels that the election should be held under the supervision of the
judiciary, then a request may come and the NJPMC would decide as to what
extent and in what form help can be extended in the conduct of
elections.
The above decisions, if implemented, will certainly
clear the existing back log and improve the working of traditional court
system. But, the real need is total reformation process. If causes for
litigation in society are not removed, the system will remain choked. More
and more judges will be required to coping with the ever increasing number
of cases at all levels. Everybody is totally dissatisfied with the
existing socio-economic structure, which is the main root-cause of
litigation. Those imparting justice complain of lack of facilities and
huge number of cases, the complainants crying for early orders but have to
wait for years (sometimes decades), and the Government keeps on worrying
about the blockade of colossal amount of money in litigation process.
The first and foremost need is liberating judiciary completely
from administrative interference or control. The Chief Justice of Pakistan
has reemphasized this point in NJPMC knowing that till today there is
“independence� (sic) only on paper and in reality the separation of
judiciary from administration has not taken place. Political motives
dominate appointment of judges, and this destroys the very working of the
system.
The honourable apex court of Pakistan way back in 1993
elaborated in great detail the principle of separation of judiciary from
executive in Government of Baluchistan versus Azizullah Memon PLD 1993 SC
31 holding that “separation of judiciary from executive is the cornerstone
of independence of judiciaryâ€�. But practically, every regime â€" civil and
military alikeâ€"has always violated this principle. The recent appointments
of judges under the present regime speak for themselves. It was openly
said in the internal party meetings that “all appointments in judiciary,
executive posts, Federal Tax Ombudsman, chairman and members of the
federal service and other tribunals will be made on the recommendations of
the party leadership�. The same was the declared policy of the previous
government (see Press statement of October 7, 2004 of then Federal Law
Minister Wasi Zafar).
The right of access to justice to all is a
well-recognized inviolable right enshrined in the Constitution of
Pakistan. It concludes “the right to be treated according to law, the
right to have a fair and proper trial and the right to have an impartial
court or tribunal. Justice therefore can only be done if there is an
independent judiciary which shall be separate from executive and not at
its mercy or depending on itâ€� â€" PLD 1982 SC 146. It is a matter of record
that none of the governments in Pakistan, military or civilian, has ever
followed the directions of the honourable apex court. In the given
Pakistani political milieu, it is imperative that all the judicial and
quasi-judicial authorities should be regulated and supervised by
independent Commission and/or House Select Committee of Parliament. This
is the only way to ensure independence of judiciary in its true substance
and constitutional requirement.
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7. Join Civil Lines Club
Posted by: "Mah Noor" zafarsb@yahoo.com zafarsb
Date: Thu May 21, 2009 11:36 am ((PDT))
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8. A report on Abuses in Ireland
Posted by: "Imran Majeed" imran.majeed@yahoo.com imran.majeed
Date: Thu May 21, 2009 11:36 am ((PDT))
Well plz see this report at :
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090520/ap_on_re_eu/eu_ireland_catholic_abuse
Alas such reports only come out long after what has already happened and carried out even with the advent of modern media and communications!!! very funny indeed....and while we rountinely lament and malign our own madressahs see such kind of spate of reports which keep on coming from one part of western and free world and another on a routine basis regarding churches, church run institutions.....
and more importantly in view of such and similar reports we should bring out a truthful picture (no matter what it is) and state of affairs of our own madressahs, educational institutes, orphanages, darul amans, jails, various kinds of shelter houses and vocational and skill and industrial training schools and institutes, etc.
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press Writer Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated
Press Writer
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15 mins ago
DUBLIN â€" A fiercely debated, long-delayed investigation into Ireland's
Roman Catholic-run institutions says priests and nuns terrorized
thousands of boys and girls in workhouse-style schools for decades â€"
and government inspectors failed to stop the chronic beatings, rapes
and humiliation.
Nine years in the making,
Wednesday's 2,600-page report sides almost completely with the horrific
reports of abuse from former students sent to more than 250 church-run,
mostly residential institutions. But victims' leaders said it didn't go
far enough â€" particularly because none of their abusers were identified
by name.
The report concluded that church
officials always shielded their orders' pedophiles from arrest to
protect their own reputations and, according to documents uncovered in
the Vatican, knew that many pedophiles were serial attackers.
The
investigators said overwhelming, consistent testimony from
still-traumatized men and women, now in their 50s to 80s, had
demonstrated beyond a doubt that the entire system treated children
more like prison inmates and slaves than people with legal rights and human potential.
"A
climate of fear, created by pervasive, excessive and arbitrary
punishment, permeated most of the institutions and all those run for
boys. Children lived with the daily terror of not knowing where the
next beating was coming from," the final report of Ireland's Commission
to Inquire Into Child Abuse concluded.
The leader of Ireland's 4 million Catholics, Cardinal Sean Brady, and religious orders at the center of the scandal offered immediate apologies.
"I
am profoundly sorry and deeply ashamed that children suffered in such
awful ways in these institutions. Children deserved better and
especially from those caring for them in the name of Jesus Christ," Brady said.
The Sisters of Mercy,
which ran several refuges for girls where the report documented chronic
brutality, said in a statement its nuns "accept that many who spent
their childhoods in our orphanages or industrial schools were hurt and damaged while in our care."
"There
is a great sadness in all of our hearts at this time and our deepest
desire is to continue the healing process for all involved," the Sisters of Mercy said.
And the Rev. Edmund Garvey, spokesman for the Christian Brothers order
that once ran dozens of boys' schools, said that reading the report's
"presentation of the history of our institutions, it is hard to avoid
feeling shame."
More than 30,000 children deemed to be petty thieves, truants or from dysfunctional families â€" a category that often included unmarried mothers
â€" were sent to Ireland's austere network of industrial schools,
reformatories, orphanages and hostels from the 1930s until the last
church-run facilities shut in the 1990s.
The report, unveiled by High Court Justice Sean Ryan, found that molestation and rape were "endemic" in boys' facilities, chiefly run by the Christian Brothers,
and supervisors pursued policies that increased the danger. Girls
supervised by orders of nuns, chiefly the Sisters of Mercy, suffered
much less sexual abuse but frequent assaults and humiliation designed
to make them feel worthless.
"In some schools a
high level of ritualized beating was routine. ... Girls were struck
with implements designed to maximize pain and were struck on all parts
of the body," the report said. "Personal and family denigration was
widespread."
Victims of the system have long demanded that the truth of their experiences be documented and made public.
But
several victims â€" who were prevented from attending Wednesday's report
launch and scuffled with police outside a central Dublin hotel â€" said
the report didn't go far enough and rejected the church leaders'
apologies as insincere.
"Victims will feel a
small degree of comfort that they've been vindicated. But the findings
do not go far enough," said John Kelly, a former inmate of a Dublin
industial school who fled to London and today leads a pressure group
called Irish Survivors of Child Abuse.
Kelly
said the report should have examined how children like himself were
taken away from parents without just cause, and demanded more answers
from Irish governments
that ceded control over their lives to the church. He said any
apologies offered now were "hollow, shallow and have no substance or
merit at all. We feel betrayed and cheated today."
The
report proposed 21 ways the government could recognize past wrongs,
including building a permanent memorial, providing counseling and
education to victims and improving Ireland's current child protection services.
But its findings will not be used for criminal prosecutions â€" in part because the Christian Brothers
successfully sued the commission in 2004 to keep the identities of all
of its members, dead or alive, unnamed in the report. No real names,
whether of victims or perpetrators, appear in the final document.
Irish church leaders and religious orders all declined to comment Wednesday, citing the need to read the massive document first. The Vatican also declined to comment.
The Irish government already has funded a parallel compensation
system that has paid 12,000 abuse victims an average of euro65,000
($90,000). About 2,000 claims remain outstanding.
Victims receive the payouts only if they waive their rights to
sue the state and the church. Hundreds have rejected that condition and
taken their abusers and those church employers to court.
Wednesday's report said children had no safe way to tell
authorities about the assaults they were suffering, particularly the
sexual aggression from church officials and older inmates in boys'
institutions.
"The management did not listen to or believe children when they
complained of the activities of some of the men who had responsibility
for their care," the commission found. "At best, the abusers were
moved, but nothing was done about the harm done to the child. At worst,
the child was blamed and seen as corrupted by the sexual activity, and
was punished severely."
The commission dismissed as implausible a central defense of
the religious orders â€" that, in bygone days, people did not recognize
the sexual abuse of a child as a criminal offense, but rather as a sin
that required repentance.
In their testimony, religious orders typically cited this as
the principal reason why sex-predator priests and brothers were
sheltered within the system and moved to new posts where they could
still maintain daily contact with children.
But the commission said its fact-finding â€" which included
unearthing decades-old church files, chiefly stored in the Vatican, on
scores of unreported abuse cases from Ireland's industrial schools â€" demonstrated that officials understood exactly what was at stake: their own reputations.
It cited numerous examples where school managers told police about
child abusers who were not church officials â€" but never did when one of
their own had committed the crime.
"Contrary to the congregations' claims that the recidivist
nature of sexual offending was not understood, it is clear from the
documented cases that they were aware of the propensity for abusers to
re-abuse," it said.
Cheers! Â Imran Islamabad-44000
Pakistan
(Which World? First? Second or third?)
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9. US wronged Pakistan for 30 years - Hillary Clinton
Posted by: "Mansoor Hallaj" tarot66@yahoo.com tarot66
Date: Thu May 21, 2009 11:36 am ((PDT))
US wronged Pakistan for 30 years - Hillary Clinton
http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/05/us-wronged-pakistan-for-30-years.html
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US Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton http://www.hillaryclinton.com/
The US secretary of state acknowledged on Tuesday that Washington had not been consistent in its dealings with Islamabad. Talking to reporters at the Foreign Press Centre and the White House, Hillary Clinton said “it is fair to say that our policy towards Pakistan over the last 30 years has been incoherent. I don’t know any other word�. US wronged Pakistan for 30 years, admits Hillary By Anwar Iqbal Wednesday, 20 May, 2009 06:53 AM PST http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/us-wronged-pakistan-for-30-years%2C-admits-hillary-059
Let me help you Ms. Hillary Clinton by taking back you to very not too distant History that USA not only wronged Pakistan but almost every nation in the World particularly in the Third World, and Yankees didn't even spare their own citizens what to talk of Children of Lesser god i.e. Third World...
In the best-selling version of popular myth as history, U.S. "goodness" peaked during World War II (aka America's War Against Fascism). Lost in the din of trumpet sound and angel song is the fact that when fascism was in full stride in Europe, the U.S. government actually looked away. When Hitler was carrying out his genocidal pogrom against Jews, U.S. officials refused entry to Jewish refugees fleeing Germany. The United States entered the war only after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour. Drowned out by the noisy hosannas is its most barbaric act, in fact the single most savage act the world has ever witnessed: the dropping of the atomic bomb on civilian populations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The war was nearly over. The hundreds of thousands of Japanese people who were killed, the countless others who were crippled by cancers for generations to come, were not a threat to world peace. They were civilians. Just as the victims of the World Trade Center
and Pentagon bombings were civilians. Just as the hundreds of thousands of people who died in Iraq because of the U.S.-led sanctions were civilians. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a cold, calculated experiment carried out to demonstrate America's power. At the time, President Truman described it as "the greatest thing in history". Is this what you called Democracy???
LETS GO BACK TO HISTORY
WHAT KIND OF DEMOCRACY THE USA PRACTICED INSIDE THE USA
Paul Wolf, Attorney at Law P.O. Box 11244 Washington DC 20008 http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/pakistan/pakistan.htm, http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/
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COINTELPRO is an acronym for a series of FBI counterintelligence programs designed to neutralize political dissidents. Although covert operations have been employed throughout FBI history, the formal COINTELPRO's of 1956-1971 were broadly targeted against radical political organizations. In the early 1950s, the Communist Party was illegal in the United States. The Senate and House of Representatives each set up investigating committees to prosecute communists and publicly expose them. (The House Committee on Un-American Activities and the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, led by Senator Joseph McCarthy). When a series of Supreme Court rulings in 1956 and 1957 challenged these committees and questioned the constitutionality of Smith Act prosecutions and Subversive Activities Control Board hearings, the FBI's response was COINTELPRO, a program designed to "neutralize" those who could no longer be prosecuted. Over the years, similar programs were
created to neutralize civil rights, anti-war, and many other groups, all said to be "communist front organizations." As J. Edgar Hoover, longtime Director of the FBI, put it
The forces which are most anxious to weaken our internal security are not always easy to identify. Communists have been trained in deceit and secretly work toward the day when they hope to replace our American way of life with a Communist dictatorship. They utilize cleverly camouflaged movements, such as peace groups and civil rights groups to achieve their sinister purposes. While they as individuals are difficult to identify, the Communist party line is clear. Its first concern is the advancement of Soviet Russia and the godless Communist cause. It is important to learn to know the enemies of the American way of life.
The United States and Middle East: Why Do "They" Hate Us? by Stephen R. Shalom www.zmag.org/, December 12, 2001
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http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Why_They_Hate_Us/US_Middle_East_WDTHU.html
The list below presents some specific incidents of U.S. policy in the Middle East. The list minimizes the grievances against the United States in the region because it excludes more generalized long_standing policies, such as U.S. backing for authoritarian regimes (arming Saudi Arabia, training the secret police in Iran under the Shah, providing arms and aid to Turkey as it ruthlessly attacked Kurdish villages, etc.). The list also excludes many actions of Israel in which the United States is indirectly implicated because of its military, diplomatic, and economic backing for Israel. Whether any of these grievances actually motivated those who organized the horrific and utterly unjustified attacks of September 11 is unknown. But the grievances surely helped to create the environment which breeds anti-American terrorism.
1947-48: U.S. backs Palestine partition plan. Israel established. U.S. declines to press Israel to allow expelled Palestinians to return.
1949: CIA backs military coup deposing elected government of Syria.1
1953: CIA helps overthrow the democratically_elected Mossadeq government in Iran (which had nationalized the British oil company) leading to a quarter_century of repressive and dictatorial rule by the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi.
1956: U.S. cuts off promised funding for Aswan Dam in Egypt after Egypt receives Eastern bloc arms.
1956: Israel, Britain, and France invade Egypt. U.S. does not support invasion, but the involvement of its NATO allies severely diminishes Washington's reputation in the region.
1958: U.S. troops land in Lebanon to preserve "stability".
early 1960s: U.S. unsuccessfully attempts assassination of Iraqi leader, Abdul Karim Qassim.2
1963: U.S. supports coup by Iraqi Ba'ath party (soon to be headed by Saddam Hussein) and reportedly gives them names of communists to murder, which they do with vigor.3
1967_: U.S. blocks any effort in the Security Council to enforce SC Resolution 242, calling for Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in the 1967 war.
1970: Civil war between Jordan and PLO. Israel and U.S. discuss intervening on side of Jordan if Syria backs PLO.
1972: U.S. blocks Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat's efforts to reach a peace agreement with Israel.
1973: Airlifted U.S. military aid enables Israel to turn the tide in war with Syria and Egypt.
1973_75: U.S. supports Kurdish rebels in Iraq. When Iran reaches an agreement with Iraq in 1975 and seals the border, Iraq slaughters Kurds and U.S. denies them refuge. Kissinger secretly explains that "covert action should not be confused with missionary work."4
1975: U.S. vetoes Security Council resolution condemning Israeli attacks on Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.5
1978_79: Iranians begin demonstrations against the Shah. U.S. tells Shah it supports him "without reservation" and urges him to act forcefully. Until the last minute, U.S. tries to organize military coup to save the Shah, but to no avail.6
1979_88: U.S. begins covert aid to Mujahideen in Afghanistan six months before Soviet invasion in Dec. 1979.7 Over the next decade U.S. provides training and more than $3 billion in arms and aid.
1980_88: Iran_Iraq war. When Iraq invades Iran, the U.S. opposes any Security Council action to condemn the invasion. U.S. soon removes Iraq from its list of nations supporting terrorism and allows U.S. arms to be transferred to Iraq. At the same time, U.S. lets Israel provide arms to Iran and in 1985 U.S. provides arms directly (though secretly) to Iran. U.S. provides intelligence information to Iraq. Iraq uses chemical weapons in 1984; U.S. restores diplomatic relations with Iraq. 1987 U.S. sends its navy into the Persian Gulf, taking Iraq's side; an overly_aggressive U.S. ship shoots down an Iranian civilian airliner, killing 290.
1981, 1986: U.S. holds military maneuvers off the coast of Libya in waters claimed by Libya with the clear purpose of provoking Qaddafi. In 1981, a Libyan plane fires a missile and U.S. shoots down two Libyan planes. In 1986, Libya fires missiles that land far from any target and U.S. attacks Libyan patrol boats, killing 72, and shore installations. When a bomb goes off in a Berlin nightclub, killing three, the U.S. charges that Qaddafi was behind it (possibly true) and conducts major bombing raids in Libya, killing dozens of civilians, including Qaddafi's adopted daughter.8
1982: U.S. gives "green light" to Israeli invasion of Lebanon,9 killing some 17 thousand civilians.10 U.S. chooses not to invoke its laws prohibiting Israeli use of U.S. weapons except in self_defense. U.S. vetoes several Security Council resolutions condemning the invasion.
1983: U.S. troops sent to Lebanon as part of a multinational peacekeeping force; intervene on one side of a civil war, including bombardment by USS New Jersey. Withdraw after suicide bombing of marine barracks.
1984: U.S._backed rebels in Afghanistan fire on civilian airliner.11
1987-92: U.S. arms used by Israel to repress first Palestinian Intifada. U.S. vetoes five Security Council resolution condemning Israeli repression.
1988: Saddam Hussein kills many thousands of his own Kurdish population and uses chemical weapons against them. The U.S. increases its economic ties to Iraq.
1988: U.S. vetoes 3 Security Council resolutions condemning continuing Israeli occupation of and repression in Lebanon.
1990_91: U.S. rejects any diplomatic settlement of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait (for example, rebuffing any attempt to link the two regional occupations, of Kuwait and of Palestine). U.S. leads international coalition in war against Iraq. Civilian infrastructure targeted.12 To promote "stability" U.S. refuses to aid post_war uprisings by Shi'ites in the south and Kurds in the north, denying the rebels access to captured Iraqi weapons and refusing to prohibit Iraqi helicopter flights.13
1991_: Devastating economic sanctions are imposed on Iraq. U.S. and Britain block all attempts to lift them. Hundreds of thousands die. Though Security Council had stated that sanctions were to be lifted once Saddam Hussein's programs to develop weapons of mass destruction were ended, Washington makes it known that the sanctions would remain as long as Saddam remains in power. Sanctions in fact strengthen Saddam's position. Asked about the horrendous human consequences of the sanctions, Madeleine Albright (U.S. ambassador to the UN and later Secretary of State) declares that "the price is worth it."14
1991-: U.S. forces permanently based in Saudi Arabia.
1993_: U.S. launches missile attack on Iraq, claiming self_defense against an alleged assassination attempt on former president Bush two months earlier.15
1998: U.S. and U.K. bomb Iraq over the issue of weapons inspections, even though Security Council is just then meeting to discuss the matter.
1998: U.S. destroys factory producing half of Sudan's pharmaceutical supply, claiming retaliation for attacks on U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya and that factory was involved in chemical warfare. Evidence for the chemical warfare charge widely disputed.16
2000-: Israel uses U.S. arms in attempt to crush Palestinian uprising, killing hundreds of civilians.
Notes
1. Douglas Little, "Cold War and Covert Action: The United States and Syria, 1945_1958," Middle East Journal, vol. 44, no. 1, Winter 1990, pp. 55_57.
2. Thomas Powers, The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA, New York: Knopf, 1979, p. 130.
3. Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn, Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein, New York: Harperperennial. 1999, p. 74; Edith and E. F. Penrose, Iraq: International Relations and National Development, Boulder: Westview, 1978, p. 288; Hanna Batatu, The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq, Princeton: Princeton UP, 1978, pp. 985_86.
4. U.S. House of Representatives, Select Committee on Intelligence, 19 Jan. 1976 (Pike Report) in Village Voice, 16 Feb. 1976. The Pike Report attributes the quote only to a "senior official"; William Safire (Safire's Washington, New York: Times Books, 1980, p. 333) identifies the official as Kissinger.
5. UN Doc. # S/11898, session # 1862. For a full list of U.S. vetoes in the Security Council on Middle East issues, along with full text of the draft resolutions, see the compilation by David Paul at http://www.salam.org/policy/veto.html.
6. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser, 1977-1981 (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983), pp. 364-64, 375, 378-79; Gary Sick, All Fall Down: America's Tragic Encounter with Iran (New York: Penguin, 1986), pp. 147-48, 167, 179.
7. Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Le Nouvel Observateur (France), Jan 15-21, 1998, p. 76.
8. See the sources in Stephen R. Shalom, Imperial Alibis (Boston: South End Press, 1993, chapter 7.
9. Ze'ev Schiff, "Green Light, Lebanon," Foreign Policy, Spring 1983.
10. Robert Fisk, "The Awesome Cruelty of a Doomed Poeple," Independent, 12 Sept. 2001, p. 6. Fisk is one of the most knowledgeable Westerners reporting on Lebanon.
11. UPI, "Afghan Airliner Lands After Rebel Fire Hits It," NYT, 26 Sept. 1984, p. A9.
12. See, for example, Barton Gellman, "Allied Air War Struck Broadly in Iraq; Officials Acknowledge Strategy Went Beyond Purely Military Targets," Washington Post, 23 June 1991, p. A1. See also Thomas J. Nagy, "The Secret Behind the Sanctions," Progressive, Sept. 2001.
13. Cockburn and Cockburn, Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein, chap. 1.
14. Cockburn and Cockburn, Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein, chap. 5. Albright quote is from CBS News, 60 Minutes, 12 May 1996.
15. On the dubious nature of the evidence, see Seymour Hersh, New Yorker, Nov. 1, 1993.
16. See Seymour Hersh, New Yorker, Oct. 12, 1998.
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A Tale of Two Cities: “Original Child Bomb� An extraordinary documentary looks at the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki By RAYMOND A. SCHROTH National Catholic Reporter, July 29, 2005
“It is a thing of beauty to behold,� wrote The New York Times’ William L. Laurence of the atomic bomb nestled in the belly of the B-29, Aug. 9, 1945, on the way to Nagasaki. Did he feel any pity or compassion for the “poor devils about to die�? Not when he thought “of Pearl Harbor or the Death March on Bataan.�
Awestruck, he watched the black object fall and the ball of fire rise. His imagination struggled to match metaphors to what he saw: It was a “new species� being born, a flower, a mushroom 45,000 feet high topped by creamy foam, a thousand Old Faithfuls, a decapitated monster growing a new head.
When the first bomb hit Hiroshima three days before, my family was on vacation on a farm in Pennsylvania. When we heard the news on the radio, I remember looking up “atomic� in the dictionary. That night on a horseback ride I saw a comet course across the sky. Was this an omen of world peace? I was 12 years old.
It was not until I read John Hersey’s Hiroshima, with its description of the 20 men whose faces had been turned upward when the bomb exploded, that I knew what happened to those “poor devils� below: Their eyeballs had melted and run down their cheeks. Around 1949, Fr. Schiffer, a Jesuit who had survived Hiroshima, addressed our high school, St. Joe’s Prep. I remember the scars from the shattered glass on his bony face.
“Original Child Bomb,� first released in 2004, is an extraordinary documentary on the moral impact of dropping the first atom bombs. Directed by Carey Schonegevel and produced by Mary Becker, it is, in a sense, made to educate “children� like me. The American and Japanese generation with any memory of August 1945 is dying out. We turn to the visual arts, to its graphic depiction of human suffering, to render today’s viewers more compassionate.
Ms. Becker’s father was a U.S. sailor in the Pacific when the bomb dropped. Inspired by Thomas Merton’s poem “Original Child Bomb,� haunted by her visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the 9/11 images of the planes hitting the Twin Towers and bodies tumbling through the air, she has moved toward this documentary for more than 20 years. She has woven together long-suppressed film footage and photos, drawings and animation, interviews with survivors and contemporary teenagers, statistics on the carnage, and Merton’s text.
The film opens with old color footage of pre-bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki street life in 1945. Children exercise, play baseball and dance. Men and women circulate in the outdoor market, cut wheat, eat lunch. A plane appears in the sky. The screen erupts in an animated blast. A woman’s body flies through the air. America celebrates. WAR IS OVER. President Truman proclaims the “biggest achievement of organized science in history.�
Then -- red, withered faces; chests, backs, breasts, legs blistered, torn, gone. A witness told Ms. Becker her friend had looked like “a fish on a charcoal grill.� In a few days came the effects of radiation -- vomiting blood, diarrhea, paralysis.
By the 1960s, a cloistered Trappist monk, writing daily in his cell, had become the religious voice of the antiwar movement. Merton’s prose-poem, a 41-stanza narrative, moves from President Truman’s first learning about the project in April to the 70,000 killed by the first bomb, which the Japanese called “original child� because it was the first of its kind. The poet’s brutal ironies illuminate the moral madness behind the decision: Many advisers opposed its use, yet some insisted that using it just once or twice “would produce eternal peace.� The president’s committee picked Hiroshima because “it had not been bombed at all. Lucky Hiroshima! What others had experienced over a period of four years would happen to Hiroshima in a single day! Much time would be saved, and ‘time is money.’ �
In a classroom discussion among American students who have viewed the Hiroshima pictures, one asks, when will the blind cycle of Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima -- they BOOM us, we BOOM them -- stop? Another concludes: “Americans have a hard time feeling compassion for people other than themselves.�
In a creative riff, the producers send a present-day Hiroshima teenager in a backward baseball cap and earphones on a walk through the modern city, leading into the wreckage of 1945. He hears the voices of victims pleading with a woman with milk in her breasts to share it with another’s starving baby.
The film ends too quickly with its warning that the Bush administration has not learned the futility of atomic war: While the United States threatens Iran and Korea lest they develop nuclear capabilities, we order a whole new family of tactical nuclear weapons we are all too ready to use.
“Original Child Bomb� will be shown on the Sundance TV Channel Aug. 6 and 7.
Jesuit Fr. Raymond A. Schroth teaches journalism ethics at St. Peter’s College in Jersey City.
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Headlines like “Jap City No More� soon brought the news to a joyous nation. Crowds gathered in Times Square to celebrate; there was less of the enemy left. Rarely are victors encumbered by remorse. President Harry Truman declared: “When you have to deal with a beast you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.�[ii] Not surprisingly, six decades later, even American liberals remain ambivalent about the morality of nuking the two Japanese cities. The late Hans Bethe, Nobel Prize winner in physics of Manhattan Project fame and a leading exponent of arms control, declared that “the atom bomb was the greatest gift we could have given to the Japanese�[iii].
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A New Look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 06, 2005 By Frank Brodhead
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For the last 60 years we have been taught that the atomic bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended World War II. To be sure, there has been an intense debate about whether the bombs were necessary to end the war, or whether there were alternatives. Now a new study argues that not only were there alternatives to using the atomic bombs, but that the atomic bombs were essentially irrelevant in ending the war.
This argument is presented in Tsuyoshi Hasegawa's meticulously researched study, Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan. While building on an immense amount or research by many historians, Hasekgawa uses U.S., Japanese, and (for the first time) Soviet archives to take a new look at the Japanese decision making process that culminated in Emperor Hirohito's "sacred decision" to "bear the unbearable" and surrender to the allies. This hour-by-hour examination of why and how the Japanese leadership decided to surrender finds that it was the Soviet declaration of war on August 8th â€" and not the Hiroshima bomb on August 6th or the Nagasaki bomb on August 9th â€" that led to surrender. As Hasegawa notes in his conclusion, "Justifying Hiroshima and Nagasaki by making a historically unsustainable argument that the atomic bombs ended the war is no longer tenable" (pp. 299-300).
Why the Soviet declaration of war, and not the atomic bombs, was the critical event leading to surrender will be discussed shortly. But it is worth noting at the outset that Hasegawa's chronology and his interpretation of the U.S. government's diplomacy toward Japan in July and August of 1945 leads to some very disturbing conclusions.
The first conclusion largely supports the so-called "revisionist" interpretation of why the atomic bombs were used. Where the "traditional" interpretation argues that the bombs were used to end the war before an invasion of the Japanese home islands was necessary, and that there were no realistic alternatives to using nuclear weapons, the "revisionist" interpretation argues that there were additional factors or motives within U.S. policy making circles that were pressing for their use. According to the "revisionist" argument, Truman and his advisers did not consider alternatives to the bombs because, in addition to ending the war against Japan, they wanted to demonstrate the power of the bombâ€" and thus the greatly increased military power of the United States â€" to the Soviet Union. In using atomic bombs against Japan, therefore, the United States not only ended the war and opened the "Nuclear Age," but it also opened the era of "atomic diplomacy" and
gave a powerful boost to the emerging Cold War.
Secondly, Hasegawa makes a strong case that Truman was so determined to use the atomic bomb on Japan that that he rejected alternatives that might end the war before the bomb was available. In addition to the factor of "atomic diplomacy" noted above, Truman also wanted to revenge Pearl Harbor and the special savagery with which the Pacific war was fought. Any possible modification of the demand that Japan surrender "unconditionally," therefore, was rejected not only for objections to any particular modification â€" for example, that the safety of Emperor Hirohito be guaranteed â€" but because there was the danger that Japan might accept such terms and the opportunity to use the atomic bomb on Japanese cities would be lost.
As Hasegawa notes, the responsibility of Japanese leaders, including the Emperor, for the tragedy of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was very large. Their continuation of the war after the loss of Okinawa was totally irresponsible and demonstrates how little the well being of their countrymen counted against the mystifications of preserving the Emperor system and the virtues of military glory. But the declaration by the Japanese government on August 10th that the United States was guilty of a "crime against humanity" is surely accurate, and judgment should be rendered, at least in our understanding of the tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan
The use of the atomic bombs in the context of the US-Soviet rivalry at the end of the Pacific war has been explored by many historians. At the Yalta conference in February 1945, the Soviet Union reaffirmed its earlier pledges to enter the Pacific war three months after the end of the war in Europe. At the Potsdam conference in July 1945, Stalin told Truman and Churchill that the Soviet Union would declare war on Japan shortly after August 15th.
Once information about the power of the atomic bomb test in New Mexico reached Truman in Potsdam on July 21st, observers reported that Truman appeared very energized and became more aggressive toward the Soviets in negotiating the many outstanding issues on the table regarding especially the postwar settlements in Europe and Asia.
In addition to Truman's "atomic diplomacy," the atomic bomb appeared to offer the Americans a way to end the Pacific war before the Soviets could enter it. Truman immediately authorized the use of two atomic bombs against a short list of Japanese cities that included Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombs were to be used as soon as possible; the understanding was that this would be on August 3rd or as soon as weather conditions over Japan permitted. Truman hoped, and expected, that the bombs would force Japan to surrender before the Soviets could enter the war.
For their part, the Soviet Union planned to declare war according to the timetable noted above in part to secure the territorial concessions that it had been promised by Roosevelt and Churchill at the Yalta conference in February. This was mostly territory seized from Russia by Japan at the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5. As the relations between the United States and the Soviet Union deteriorated after the death of Roosevelt in April, the Soviets saw their entry into the Pacific war as increasingly urgent, no longer trusting the United States to fulfill its earlier pledges. Stalin also expected to be included in the postwar settlement and administration of Japan, along the lines of the four-power occupation of Germany that accompanied the end of the war in Germany.
Throughout the war in Europe, the Soviet Union had a Neutrality Treaty with Japan, though they had given the Japanese notice in April 1945 that it would be terminated in 1946. As Japan's military prospects collapsed in 1945, keeping the Soviets out of the Pacific war became the main focus of Japanese diplomacy. In addition to not wanting the power of the Soviet military brought to bear against the Japanese forces in Manchuria and Korea, the Japanese Foreign Office somewhat ludicrously hoped that the Soviets would agree to broker or mediate a peace treaty with the United States and Britain that would be less severe than "unconditional surrender." Because it had broken the Japanese diplomatic code, the "Magic intercepts," the United States was aware of these diplomatic moves; and Japan's offers were also communicated to the Allies by the Soviets.
But the importance of this diplomacy to the Japanese "peace party" has not been thoroughly explored until now. Realistically or not, the Japanese leaders maintained the hope that the Soviets would save them right up to the declaration of war by the Soviets on August 8th. It was only at that point that they realized that all was lost. Similarly, the Japanese military's unrealistic belief that it could achieve consolation and glory by one final battle against the invaders of the home islands could not stand up to the prospect of a Soviet invasion of Manchuria and the northernmost home island of Hokkaido. And finally, the great fear shared by all the Japanese leaders that domestic unrest would overthrow their leadership from within was amplified by the prospect of communist armies on their soil.
By contrast, records of the Japanese government deliberations show that the military leaders appeared unfazed by the bombing of Hiroshima, and the bombing of Nagasaki was barely mentioned in the cabinet discussions of that day. Indeed, regarding the bombing of Hiroshima, Hasegawa observes that, "If anything, the atomic bomb on Hiroshima further contributed to their desperate effort to terminate the war through Moscow's mediation" (p. 186).
The Potsdam Proclamation and the Japanese Surrender
According to Hasegawa, the United States constructed its end-game diplomacy with Japan not to seek its surrender, but to justify using the atomic bomb. This was the import of the Potsdam Proclamation and the US insistence on retaining the stance of "unconditional surrender."
The allied conference at Potsdam began on July 7th and ended on August 2nd. Both the United States and the Soviets brought to the conference the draft of a proclamation calling on Japan to surrender. Both of them contained the demand for unconditional surrender. The American draft promised that if Japan did not surrender, it would be met with "prompt and utter destruction." This was the only "reference" to the atomic bomb in the proclamation, though it obviously could not be understood by the Japanese to refer to such weapons.
The original plans for a joint proclamation demanding Japan's surrender envisioned that it would be issued at the time of the Soviet declaration of war on Japan. Once the news from New Mexico had been received that the atomic bomb test was successful, and the United States could attempt to end the war by using the atomic bomb before the Soviets could declare war on Japan, it became vital that the Soviets be excluded from being a signatory to the proclamation. The British and Americans accomplished this essentially by lying to the Soviets, hoping in this way to exclude the Soviets from the postwar settlement if the war ended quickly. Ironically, by excluding Stalin's signature from the proclamation, the Japanese were misled to believe that there was a division between Stalin and Truman and Churchill. This encouraged them to continue their diplomatic strategy with the Soviets for a mediated settlement, and lessened the pressure within Japan's leadership
circles to consider the proclamation as the basis of surrender negotiations.
But the most important point about the Potsdam proclamation, according to Hasegawa, was that it was drafted with the intention of being rejected, and thus justifying using the atomic bombs. Referring to James Byrnes, Truman's Secretary of State, Hasegawa summarizes his stance at Potsdam thusly:
In Byrnes's mind the atomic bomb ... would force Japan to surrender and forestall Soviet entry into the war. The atomic bomb had to be used. In order to drop the bomb, the United States had to issue the ultimatum to Japan, warning that the rejection of the terms specified in the proclamation would result in ‘prompt and utter destruction.' And this proclamation had to be rejected by the Japanese in order to justify the use of the atomic bomb. The best way to accomplish all this was to insist upon unconditional surrender.... Byrnes knew even before the Japanese responded to the Potsdam Proclamation that the document was the prelude to the bomb. (158)
The proclamation was "issued" by broadcasting it over the radio. When the Japanese government did not directly respond to the proclamation â€" intensifying its diplomacy with the Soviets, as noted above â€" the Japanese press stated that the government had chosen to "ignore" the proclamation. On the basis of such press reports, Truman maintained then and to his dying day that the Japanese had rejected the allies' ultimatum. As one conservative US diplomat put it, "There seemed to be an eagerness for grasping at any excuse for dropping the bomb" (170).
Conclusion
Though Truman maintained that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were military targets, the bombs killed 110,000 civilians and 20,000 military personnel instantly. Tens of thousands more died later from radiation sickness. Many historians reasonably argue that the fire-bombing of Tokyo, Dresden, and other cities had so eroded the protections that the laws of war were supposed to extend to noncombatants that the atomic bombings were simply more of the same. Others note that the loss of so many lives in a single instant, and the lingering deaths suffered by so many thousands who fell victim to radiation poisoning, marked the atomic bomb as a qualitatively new kind of weapon of mass destruction. In either case, the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki opened an age of terror that is still with us. But it can no longer be maintained that the bombs helped to end World War II and in saving many lives by shortening the war were therefore justified.
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10. AMN TEHREEK INVITATION
Posted by: "idrees kamal" idrees_6@hotmail.com
Date: Thu May 21, 2009 11:36 am ((PDT))
INVITAION
A Grand Amn conference will be held in Nishtar Hall Peshawar to build a peace movement to resist ongoing Talibnization, kidnapping, sectarianism in the province and to bring peace to this war hit region. You are invited to this conference to participate and contribute to eliminate this menace from our society which has been eating us like termites for the last several decades. This is an invitation from the members of Steering committee of Amn Tehreek which comprises of High Court Bar Association, Anjumne Tajran, Tajir Ittehad, Hotels and Bakers Association, Labour Unions, Anjuman-e-Kashtkaran, Kissan Board, Anjumne Tarqi Passand Musannifeen, Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industries SCCI Alami Pukhtu Congress, Alami Pushtu Conference, AIRRA, SAFMA, PUTA ( Peshawar University Teachers Association) , Districts Bar, , Students Unions, Students Societies, Leading NGOs, SNI, PNF, SPO, SUNGI, Aurat Foundation, Shirkat Gah, Khwendo Kor, Humanitarian Network, AWAZ, Doctors Forums, Lawyers Forum, Teachers Association IDPs from DIR, Buner Swat, Mohmand, FATA, Peshawar Press Club, Khyber Union of Journalists, Paramedical and clerk associations, Puhtun Institue Canada Employees coordination Council, Pakistan Workers Confederation, Mutahida Labour federation, Wapda Hydro Union, ANP, PPPP, Pukhtoon Khwa Milli Awami Party (PMAP), National Party (Dr. Malik Baloch). PAM (Pukhtoon Awareness Movement), Pashtun Democratic Council (PDC) and others organizations.
Program:
Date: Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
Venue: Nishtar Hall Peshawar
Time: 2.00 PM (PST)
M. IDREES KAMAL
Convenor Amn Tehreek
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11. Re: [PAF_OPENFORUM] Fw: [SindhPost] Cross Posting from SindhPost of
Posted by: "imran.majeed@yahoo.com" imran.majeed@yahoo.com imran.majeed
Date: Thu May 21, 2009 11:36 am ((PDT))
well i never took him seriously too and consider him as another propagandist...but sometimes you get some insights from him too....and i woul also like to know about your views on Mr. Zaid Hamid....
and treating good and bad in the context of sending money can be contrived, whimsical, relative and as we know from our history and experience good can be very easily labelled bad and vice versa.....many a times its done deliberately to attain certain desired ends rather than to leave it on mere good or bad....but i agree with your assessment on AIML and fear mongering thing...
and i tried to search that LIFE magazine article from Fall 1947 issue in files section of this group but could not find it....also this group is not retaining message archives so it cant be accessible from there....from which issue is that anyway from this link? and can you send me a copy?
http://www.2neatmagazines.com/life/1947cover.html
and while going through the files section as i also earlier did some months back i came across this attached piece which i loved to read.....infact i was making this same point regarding greek heroes with someone in 1999 or 2000 that see anyone can be a heroe if his or her life is covered in such a way instead of our make believe "making" of heroes....and well there is quite interesting stuff in files section like a report on household income levels...like interpretation on ayah 2:256 of Quran which i liked ...like similar interpretation on evolution which seemed to be balancing the argument between the two extremes.....also the video on 9/11 was interesting and isn't it that actually the defense and security establishments of both Pakistan (of Pervez Musharaf's era of 1999-2001) and USA was behind it to protect, promote and further their own interests and those of their support and sustenance base and lobbies and in this they only used lesser players or
was it the other way around??? atleast i strongly suspected that in those years after some time of these events...and i still suspect it....instead of blaming all on Israel and zionist lobby which only seems a joke....and by the way much of the stuff in the name of islamic banking and primers on it only seem propagandist and conspiracy theory oriented designed to create doubts about the present monetary system.....while there are flaws in the interest based complex products with layers and layers of interest and many unnecessary chains in the financial system the current banking system and monetary system cant be dismissed like this....
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and while i agree with the gist of your arguments in the last two paragraphs i am unable to understand same societal conceit and maligning of political leadership....blasting Zardari at this hour wont do us any good....has any of his ill gotten wealth ever been proved by Pervez Mush and his NAb in all these 8 years...and even much before NRO he was cleared in most cases and was on bail and out of the country and cam back on his own volition....now if we are in the habit of creating and setting in motion our own systems parallel to the state's and governments and even susbsystems and at critical junctions withdraw cooperation and support rather pull the carpet from under their feet (as we have become adept at these games in all these past decades) no government or state can fucntion properly if its not proerly supported and gets cooperation from society, administration, people and all state institutions.....now how do we propose to run the system where
one ste of institutions are just facades and others are running the show in collusion of many others in the society? how can it work without proper hierarchy and structures and coordination and should not the power really flow from the ones (both individuals as well as institutions within the bounds of constitution and rule of law and justice) and it should also be shown to flow from them ....instead of invisible (as well as some visible) states within state....
Cheers! Â Imran Islamabad-44000
Pakistan
(Which World? First? Second or third?)
Planet Earth, Solar System, Universe!
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From: Muhammad A Nasir <muh.nasir@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: [PAF_OPENFORUM] Fw: [SindhPost] Cross Posting from SindhPost of Today
To: PAF_OPENFORUM@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, May
21, 2009, 7:51 AM
Ahmad Qureshi, is a Pakistan hating sell-out. His logic is
usually twisted, his premises are usually fabricated canards, and he pulls out
his arguments form the unmentionable place.
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Here is the simple truth about Pakistan, “you do not send
good money after bad money!� It was doomed for failure, as it did not have the
welfare and prosperity of its future citizens in its agenda; it was abdication of
power through fear-mongering by AIML, which promised nothing, except some
notion safety through segregation.
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If you look at the cover story of LIFE which was published
sometime in the fall of 1947 and posted here on this FORUM, once can easily see
why I was a no-win situation, other than a handful of people. And those who
think they were so called winners; are the real winners? Accumulation of wealth
through sleight of hand is not same as making money; when you create something
from nothing using your imagination, innovation, intelligence, and elbow grease;
it is called as making money, I do not think any other language has an
equivalent word for it.
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When you make money, you create jobs and rising water lifts
all boats; when you accumulate money, it does no good to any person including
yourself. Take the case of Zardari; maybe he succeeded in accumulating wealth;
but what about him as a person? Does he have any class, any sophistication, and
skill? On the ladder of human evolution, he solidly occupies the lowest rung. I
wonder if he is even able to read a book and appreciate it. This goes for most
of what passes for leaders in Pakistan. There is no satisfaction have accomplished
anything tangible. Remember this dude spend years in prison, perhaps servicing
Bubba. Money is no substitute for self-respect and the confidence in your
ability to accomplish things by fair means.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 5:36 PM
To: undisclosed recipients:
Subject: [PAF_OPENFORUM] Fw: [SindhPost] Cross Posting from SindhPost of
Today
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Ist plz see this article....i would also welcome comments on this from all
perspectives, information and angles....and by the way even here this lady
seems to be concerned mostly for little girls...thats alright but other
victims like boys and men in such conflicts too should be kept in mind....
http://rubinafaisal .com/SUNDAY/ T0083.html
Also plz see this (i have no comments but would like to know more and other
perspectives. ..)
Stop The Rot In Pakistan
If the political parties are unable to produce leaders, we cannot wait for
them forever to do so. We in Pakistan do not have the luxury of time. The
military can and will prevail over the threats facing us for the time being,
but who will assume the challenge of making Pakistan an attractive place for
its citizens? Pakistan’s existing ‘national leadership has been a failure in
the best of times. Our challenges are tall and our leaders are pygmies. To
move forward, Pakistan needs a new deal for the 21st century. And this deal
cannot come through the ballot for the foreseeable future. Our best chance is
for Pakistan’s best and brightest â€" outside the realm of our failed parties
and a failed system â€" to step forward with a plan to remodel the state.
By Ahmed Quraishi
Tuesday, 19 May 2009.
WWW.AHMEDQURAISHI. COM
ISLAMABAD, Pakistanâ€"The worst part of the continuing instability in Pakistan
since 2007 is that it is fast pushing this nation’s best and brightest to
lose hope. The doomsday reporting on Pakistan in the Am-Brit
[American-British] media â€" which appears more like a war campaign than reporting
â€" is devastating the national psyche. But this would not have been
problematic had our national leadership been up to the challenge. This
leadership has been a failure in the best of times. Now our challenges are
tall and our leaders are pygmies by comparison.
I know Pakistani businessmen who made fortunes out of providing uninterrupted
high-value services to the banking industry who are forced now to contemplate
migration because they are losing hope. Their incomes are intact but it is
the quality of their lives in Pakistan’s biggest city that they are concerned
about.
The military institution is strong and is capable of holding Pakistan’s
stability and integrity despite the alarm and the unanswered questions over
how our situation deteriorated over the past four years and how our homeland
has become exposed to multiple foreign players wreaking havoc here, not to
mention why we have allowed ourselves to blindly trust one superpower with
our interests.
The military can and will prevail over the threats facing us for the time
being, but who will assume the challenge of reviving the national spirit,
remodeling national politics and initiate the hard task of making Pakistan an
attractive place for its citizens?
The political parties are unmitigated failures and cannot run a democracy.
None of these parties today has a national agenda. Most of them have shrunk
into narrow regional or ethnic interests. None of them has a working party
system that produces leaders since most of these parties operate as one-man
shows or as family-run businesses in their most primitive forms. If handed
over power tomorrow morning, there is hardly any party out there that can
come up with better plans or policies than the one currently in office.
And while this failure continues, the ethnic-based provincial division of the
state is turning every administrative issue into an ethnic flashpoint. Some
politicians and political parties are manufacturing ethnic tensions for
political gain. Foreign players are exploiting this and courting separatism
in Pakistan as a vehicle for pushing their own interests. It is an irony that
there isn’t a single political party in Pakistan today that raises the flag
of Pakistani nationalism. There was a time when India, our perennial
enemy-friend, used to be the only bastion of advocates of separatism in
Pakistan. But today we see the center of gravity of this trend moving to
Washington, for various reasons.
But these are fallouts. The strings are still in our hands and no one can
mess with us if we put our house in order. But who will do it in Pakistan?
If the political parties are unable to produce leaders, we cannot wait for
them forever to do so. We in Pakistan do not have the luxury of time. The
time for this was the 20th century when nations took their time to develop
their national systems. We wasted that opportunity. Both an elected civilian
leader and a military ruler â€" Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Ayub Khan â€" made good
starts but messed up in the end.
To move forward, Pakistan needs a new deal for the 21st century. And this
deal cannot come through the ballot for the foreseeable future. Our best
chance is for Pakistan’s best and brightest â€" outside the realm of our failed
parties and a failed system â€" to step forward with a plan to remodel the
state, change the constitution and create an environment for real political
parties to grow and prosper. This is the only way left to bring capable and
creative civilian administrators to power. Such a civilian administration can
and must borrow the support of the military institution for such a grand
project of national rebuilding.
As we make a final push to expel America’s failed war encroaching into our
territory in our northern and western regions, the wider national perspective
must not be missed. A vibrant, creative and emerging Pakistan is still
possible. But for this to happen, Pakistan’s thinking classes, the media and
the public opinion will have to support creative out-of-the-box thinking.
The time to stop the rot is here. Let’s not become the worst managers of one
of the world’s best pieces of real estate.
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com & PakNationalists
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Then see this piece on atomic bombs too:
A Tale of Two Cities: â€Å"Original Child Bomb�
An extraordinary documentary looks at the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
By RAYMOND A. SCHROTH National Catholic Reporter, July 29, 2005
â€Å"It is a thing of beauty to behold,�
wrote The New York Times’ William L. Laurence of the atomic bomb nestled in
the belly of the B-29, Aug. 9, 1945, on the way to Nagasaki. Did he feel any
pity or compassion for the â€Å"poor devils about to die�? Not when he
thought â€Å"of Pearl Harbor or the Death March on Bataan.�
Awestruck, he watched the black object fall and the ball of fire rise. His
imagination struggled to match metaphors to what he saw: It was a â€Å"new
species�
being born, a flower, a mushroom 45,000 feet high topped by creamy foam, a
thousand Old Faithfuls, a decapitated monster growing a new head.
When the first bomb hit Hiroshima three days before, my family was on
vacation on a farm in Pennsylvania. When we heard the news on the radio, I
remember looking up â€Å"atomic�
in the dictionary. That night on a horseback ride I saw a comet course across
the sky. Was this an omen of world peace? I was 12 years old.
It was not until I read John Hersey’s Hiroshima, with its description of
the 20 men whose faces had been turned upward when the bomb exploded, that I
knew what happened to those â€Å"poor devils�
below: Their eyeballs had melted and run down their cheeks. Around 1949, Fr.
Schiffer, a Jesuit who had survived Hiroshima, addressed our high school, St.
Joe’s Prep. I remember the scars from the shattered glass on his bony face.
â€Å"Original Child Bomb,�
first released in 2004, is an extraordinary documentary on the moral impact
of dropping the first atom bombs. Directed by Carey Schonegevel and produced
by Mary Becker, it is, in a sense, made to educate â€Å"children� like me. The
American and Japanese generation with any memory of August 1945 is dying out.
We turn to the visual arts, to its graphic depiction of human suffering, to
render today’s viewers more compassionate.
Ms. Becker’s father was a U.S. sailor in the Pacific when the bomb dropped.
Inspired by Thomas Merton’s poem â€Å"Original Child Bomb,� haunted by her
visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the 9/11 images of the
planes hitting the Twin Towers and bodies tumbling through the air, she has
moved toward this documentary for more than 20 years. She has woven together
long-suppressed film footage and photos, drawings and animation, interviews
with survivors and contemporary teenagers, statistics on the carnage, and
Merton’s text.
The film opens with old color footage of pre-bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki
street life in 1945. Children exercise, play baseball and dance. Men and
women circulate in the outdoor market, cut wheat, eat lunch. A plane appears
in the sky. The screen erupts in an animated blast. A woman’s body flies
through the air. America celebrates. WAR IS OVER. President Truman proclaims
the â€Å"biggest achievement of organized science in history.�
Then -- red, withered faces; chests, backs, breasts, legs blistered, torn,
gone. A witness told Ms. Becker her friend had looked like â€Å"a fish on a
charcoal grill.�
In a few days came the effects of radiation -- vomiting blood, diarrhea,
paralysis.
By the 1960s, a cloistered Trappist monk, writing daily in his cell, had
become the religious voice of the antiwar movement. Merton’s prose-poem, a
41-stanza narrative, moves from President Truman’s first learning about the
project in April to the 70,000 killed by the first bomb, which the Japanese
called â€Å"original child�
because it was the first of its kind. The poet’s brutal ironies illuminate
the moral madness behind the decision: Many advisers opposed its use, yet
some insisted that using it just once or twice â€Å"would produce eternal
peace.�
The president’s committee picked Hiroshima because â€Å"it had not been
bombed at all. Lucky Hiroshima! What others had experienced over a period of
four years would happen to Hiroshima in a single day! Much time would be
saved, and ‘time is money.’ �
In a classroom discussion among American students who have viewed the
Hiroshima pictures, one asks, when will the blind cycle of Pearl Harbor to
Hiroshima -- they BOOM us, we BOOM them -- stop? Another concludes:
â€Å"Americans have a hard time feeling compassion for people other than
themselves.�
In a creative riff, the producers send a present-day Hiroshima teenager in a
backward baseball cap and earphones on a walk through the modern city,
leading into the wreckage of 1945. He hears the voices of victims pleading
with a woman with milk in her breasts to share it with another’s starving
baby.
The film ends too quickly with its warning that the Bush administration has
not learned the futility of atomic war: While the United States threatens
Iran and Korea lest they develop nuclear capabilities, we order a whole new
family of tactical nuclear weapons we are all too ready to use.
â€Å"Original Child Bomb�
will be shown on the Sundance TV Channel Aug. 6 and 7.
and lastly to end it on a lighter note see this:
Q: Why men walk more
and women talk more?
A: Coz men have three legs
and women have four lips!
Wives r Incoming Calls
Lovers r Outgoing Calls
Aunties r Tollfree Calls
Callgirls r Roaming Calls
Neighbour Girls r Missed Calls
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A man stands nude in front
of a mirror n examins
himself n says: 2 inches more
& I'll be a king.
His wife sitting behind says:
2 inches less & you'll be
a queen.
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Why do women wear flowered panties?
A: Cuz its their way of saying,
'In memory of those who were buried
here!
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3 guys were introduced 2 a girl,
hi I'm Peter not a saint,
hi I'm Paul not a pope,
I'm john not a baptist,
the girl said hi
I'm mary not a virgin!
Wife asked her husband how
many women he had slept with.
Husband proudly replies, only
you darling, with others
I was awake!!!
Cheers!
Â
Imran
Islamabad-44000
Pakistan
(Which World? First? Second or third?)
Planet Earth, Solar System, Universe!
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4
Indian spies arrested in Lahore
Posted
by: "Khan Arif" ank2000pk@yahoo. com  ank2000pk
Tue
May 19, 2009 6:34 pm (PDT)
The fifth columnists have been active in Pakistan
since 1947 fanning ethnic and sectarian hatred
and hiring terrorists. The performance of Law
Enforcement in tracking them down needs to
be improved as there are clear indications
that Hindu Zinonist cabal wants to destabilize
the only Muslim state with nuclear power.
Arif
4 Indian spies arrested in Lahore
19 May, 2009, 3:58 pm Source: The News
LAHORE: Intelligence agencies are reported to have arrested four
persons on suspicion of working for Indian spy agency Research and
Analyst Wing (RAQ) during raids at different places of the
provincial capital on Tuesday.
http://thecurrentaf fairs.com/ index.php/ 4-indian-
spies-arrested- in-lahore/
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Re:
Take action for Burma's most famous prisoner of conscience, Aung
Posted
by: "Jimmy Jumshade" jimmybug@rocketmail .com
Tue
May 19, 2009 7:01 pm (PDT)
Nopes, first take action for Dr AAFIA....... .......Political Prisoner in
today's NAZI USA......... ......... ...Burma' s prisoner is living in fame
& luxury...made into a celebrity for no reason, fully supported by the
West. Dr Aafia is a true victim of the gone crazy West........ ....& true
face of the barbaric West.
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Subject: [IHRO] Take action for Burma's most famous prisoner of conscience,
Aung San Suu Kyi
To: IHRO@yahoogroups.
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Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 5:19 PM
Mary Shaw Take action for Burma's most famous prisoner of conscience,
Aung San Suu Kyi
Take Action Online | Amnesty International USA | Human Rights Action
Source: takeaction.amnestyu sa.org
Amnesty International USA, Action for Human Rights
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nishan
e haider..link to new article .
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pix
and P.R from balti of Nawaz Sharif
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Lahore, May 19, 2009: Memember National Assembly Hamza Shahbaz addresses
during a meeting of PML-N Relief Committee for Internally Displaced Persons
(IDPs).
Lahore, May 20, 2009: Former Prime Minister & PML-N Quaid Muhammad Nawaz
Sharif shakes hands with former Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali
who called on him.
Lahore, May 20, 2009: Former Prime Minister & PML-N Quaid Muhammad Nawaz
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worship
ALLAH only
Posted
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Wed
May 20, 2009 12:02 am (PDT)
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Al-Kahf | 110 verses | The cave | Sura #18 | Makkah
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In The Name Of ALLAH, The Most Beneficent, The Most Merciful
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110 - Say (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم):
"I am only a man like you. It has been revealed to me that your Ilah
(God) is One Ilah (God - i.e. Allah). So whoever hopes for the Meeting with
his Lord, let him work righteousness and associate none as a partner in the
worship of his Lord."
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May Allah save us from the inteeha pasand so-called ulama, who extreemly,
forcly wanna apply hindu phenomenon in the name of their cool
ISLAM(shirk, biddah & emphasis on creation worshipping then the
ONLY creator!).
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للهم صليعلى Ù…ØÂمد Ùˆ على آل Ù…ØÂمد ÙÆ'ما صليت
على إبراهيم Ùˆ على أل إبراهيم ا Ù†ÙÆ' ØÂميد مجيد
اللهم بارÙÆ' على Ù…ØÂمد Ùˆ على آل Ù…ØÂمد ÙÆ'ما بار
ÙÆ'ت على إبراهيم Ùˆ على أل إبراهيم ا Ù†ÙÆ' ØÂميد
مجيد
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7a.
Re:
[Risk Managers] non performing assets
Posted
by: "Imran Majeed" imran.majeed@ yahoo.com  imran.majeed
Wed
May 20, 2009 12:57 am (PDT)
hmmm.....cant help about your bitching and whining...afterall a bitch can
only do that what can one expect from her anyways!!! its the same syndrome of
our paki girls since long now that they have always been pampered...pumped.
...eulogized adnauseam... .given all kinds of preferences and privileges from
upbringing to education to job opportunities in all kinds of best companies
and organizations and then they mostly whine and act as though they are the
master of all and accountable to none!!! can venture to demolish anything for
the sake of their egos which have over the decades have been noirished
deliberately. ....
well on the one hand you mention the independence year and then 1990 in the
same vein and then ask for comparoson in the sme vein and i do not think i
ever wrote anything offensive ...just pointed out an apparent inconsistency
and out of place references and wow...rather "WAW" i got this
vitriolic diatribe from you ...what for ...may be you afterall proved
yourself that what you really are.....just another bitch in the guise of a
bloated ego a "good" "eduction" a "good"
job" etc. etc.......alas our so many good organizations are infested
with females with a mindsets like you....God save our country and our systems...its
already too late by the way!!!
Cheers!  Imran Islamabad-44000
Pakistan
(Which World? First? Second or third?)
Planet Earth, Solar System, Universe!
--- On Sun, 5/17/09, Sofia Alam khan <sofialamkhan@
yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Sofia Alam khan <sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
To: riskmanagers@
yahoogroups. com
Cc: amjsbp@gmail.
com
Date: Sunday, May 17, 2009, 1:49 PM
Imran,
ÂÂ
you send loads of junk mails and then your competence level is of a 4th grade
kid. Read Again!!!!!
Compare India with Pak since 1990?.... Compare the IT boom in India and
Pak Since 1990!!!! Now try to read some good newspapers and be well informed.
ÂÂ
 Same independence year, 1947!!!!!
ÂÂ
Take some english lessons too.
ÂÂ
Thanks
ÂÂ
From: Imran Majeed <imran.majeed@ yahoo.com>
To: riskmanagers@ yahoogroups. com
Cc: sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com; amjsbp@gmail. com
Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 2:00:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
although i already commented i was also wondering in what state of mind she
composed here email....see some of those references like say same
independence year of 1990!
Cheers!
ÂÂ
Imran
Islamabad-44000
Pakistan
(Which World? First? Second or third?)
Planet Earth, Solar System, Universe!
--- On Fri, 5/15/09, Amjad Ali Imran <amjsbp@gmail. com> wrote:
From: Amjad Ali Imran <amjsbp@gmail. com>
Subject: Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
To: riskmanagers@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Friday, May 15, 2009, 3:57 PM
Ms Sofia
Well said but atleast you may suggest what sort of action we can initiate
keeping in view current scenario
ÂÂ
On 5/12/09, Sofia Alam khan <sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com> wrote:
Beautiful words only make beautiful people happy. The truth is always ugly.
ÂÂ
"We should be cognizant of the fact that Pakistan is no less than any
country in risk management processes. Keeping in view the depth of financial
products, we are ahead of the required competencies. "
ÂÂ
Dont mind but once Mr. Prince (Ex Citibank CEO) said: "lets dance till
the music is playing". That is how the 2008 crisis started. I'm not of
the opinion to make general comments, People who know ABC of Risk Management
in Pak leave for better jobs in Middle East.
ÂÂ
So we should avoid making general observations rather be more specific in
discussing problems that entail governing dynamics.
ÂÂ
That is what we are good at "Discuss, discuss, discuss" Who will
take the ACTION!!!!! our local TV channels show millions of talk shows for
what?
ÂÂ
it is just the talk, so lets do the talk and till the talk ends, lets talk.
ÂÂ
Thanks.
ÂÂ
Sofia A. Khan
Karachiiiiii
ÂÂ
From: FAHAD HUSSAIN <phahadhussain@ yahoo.com>
To: riskmanagers@ yahoogroups. . com
Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2009 11:28:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
Hi to All,
ÂÂ
I'm new to the risk management group. Though dont have enough time to spur on
issues being discussing in the group, yet feel inevitable to reply on
comments cited. We should be cognizant of the fact that Pakistan is no less
than any country in risk management processes. Keeping in view the depth of
financial products, we are ahead of the required competencies. So we should
avoid making general observations rather be more specific in discussing
problems that entail governing dynamics.
ÂÂ
Fahad
Karachi
ÂÂ
From: Sofia Alam khan <sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com>
To: Group <riskmanagers@ yahoogroups. com>
Sent: Monday, May 4, 2009 1:05:52 PM
Subject: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
Arif good comments!!!! !
ÂÂ
Glad to see that people show keen interest and give precious suggestions.
Last but not least, If everything is impossible then why do risk
management.. Data extraction, updation,authentici ty are problems for most of
the credit bureaus but we should start taking the first step to climb the ladder
or stand on the ground fearing that it is impossible to climb the ladder.
ÂÂ
Angels did not help western countries to build credit bureaus. It might take
us more time compared to west but "better late than never".
ÂÂ
Compare India with Pak since 1990? Same independence year, same issues,
Where do they stand? Where do we stand? For countries prosperous growth, you
make a long term plan and achieve it with short term plans, unfortunately we
dont have any plan at all in place.
ÂÂ
Information is the most valuable commodity in the world.
ÂÂ
Thanks.
ÂÂ
Sofia A. Khan
Karachi.
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Celebrating
Anniversary of Hari Leader Comrade Haider Bakhsh Jatoi
Posted
by: "Mir Raza" mirsalimraza@ yahoo.com  mirsalimraza
Wed
May 20, 2009 4:08 am (PDT)
Celebrating Anniversary of Hari Leader Comrade Haider Bakhsh Jatoi
ÂÂ
Sindh Hari Porhiat Council (SHPC) has planned different programmes in context
with Anniversary of Hari Leader Comrade Haider Bakhsh Jatoi.
ÂÂ
1.                ÂÂ
flower showering on the grave of Comrade Haider Bakhsh Jatoi under the
leadership of Comrade Punhal Sario, President Sindh Hari Porhiat Council on
21st May 2009 at 9:00am.
2.                ÂÂ
Jalsa-e-Aam at Badah Taluka Dokri, native town of Comrade Haider Bakhsh Jatoi
is planned on 21st May 2009 at 6:00pm . Comrade Punhal Sario, Taj Marri,
Comrade Ramzan Memon, Dr. Zulfiqar Rahujo, Moula Bakhsh Junejo and others
will address the Jalsa.
3.                ÂÂ
Whereas on 23rd May 2009 at 6:00pm , The Anniversary of Comrade Haider Bakhsh
Jatoi will be celebrated at Chambar which happen to be central point of Hari
Struggle. The programme will be presided by Comrade Punhal Sario, President,
SHPC, and the Chief Guest of the programme will be well-knon Political Leader
Mr. Qadir Bakhsh Jatoi who returned his homeland after almost 29 years in exile.
Whereas Sathi Photo Rustmani, Comrade Ahmed Laghari, comrade Ramzan Memon,
Siddique Solangi, Netraj Kolhi, Veerji Kolhi, Akber Manganhar and others will
address on the occasion.
ÂÂ
Asghar Laghari
Hyderabad Sindh
Plot No. H/12, Azizabad near Chandia Goth,
Qasimabad Hyderabad Sindh
Phone (Cell): +92 333 265 2785
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Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 6:07 AM
Celebrating Anniversary of Hari Leader Comrade Haider Bakhsh Jatoi
ÂÂ
Sindh Hari Porhiat Council (SHPC) has planned different programmes in context
with Anniversary of Hari Leader Comrade Haider Bakhsh Jatoi.
ÂÂ
1.                ÂÂ
flower showering on the grave of Comrade Haider Bakhsh Jatoi under the
leadership of Comrade Punhal Sario, President Sindh Hari Porhiat Council on
21st May 2009 at 9:00am.
2.                ÂÂ
Jalsa-e-Aam at Badah Taluka Dokri, native town of Comrade Haider Bakhsh Jatoi
is planned on 21st May 2009 at 6:00pm . Comrade Punhal Sario, Taj Marri,
Comrade Ramzan Memon, Dr. Zulfiqar Rahujo, Moula Bakhsh Junejo and others
will address the Jalsa.
3.                ÂÂ
Whereas on 23rd May 2009 at 6:00pm , The Anniversary of Comrade Haider Bakhsh
Jatoi will be celebrated at Chambar which happen to be central point of Hari
Struggle. The programme will be presided by Comrade Punhal Sario, President,
SHPC, and the Chief Guest of the programme will be well-knon Political Leader
Mr. Qadir Bakhsh Jatoi who returned his homeland after almost 29 years in
exile. Whereas Sathi Photo Rustmani, Comrade Ahmed Laghari, comrade Ramzan Memon,
Siddique Solangi, Netraj Kolhi, Veerji Kolhi, Akber Manganhar and others will
address on the occasion.
ÂÂ
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Hyderabad Sindh
Plot No. H/12, Azizabad near Chandia Goth,
Qasimabad Hyderabad Sindh
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The
Rot In Pakistan
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Wed
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The first thing I heard from my millionaire Karachi-based friend is: Should
we live here or migrate
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Stop The Rot In Pakistan
If the political parties are unable to produce leaders, we cannot wait for
them forever to do so. We in Pakistan do not have the luxury of time. The
military can and will prevail over the threats facing us for the time being,
but who will assume the challenge of making Pakistan an attractive place for
its citizens? Pakistan’s existing ‘national leadership has been a failure in
the best of times. Our challenges are tall and our leaders are pygmies. To
move forward, Pakistan needs a new deal for the 21st century. And this deal
cannot come through the ballot for the foreseeable future. Our best chance is
for Pakistan’s best and brightest â€" outside the realm of our failed parties
and a failed system â€" to step forward with a plan to remodel the state.
By Ahmed Quraishi
Tuesday, 19 May 2009.
WWW.AHMEDQURAISHI. COM
ISLAMABAD, Pakistanâ€"The worst part of the continuing instability in Pakistan
since 2007 is that it is fast pushing this nation’s best and brightest to
lose hope. The doomsday reporting on Pakistan in the Am-Brit
[American-British] media â€" which appears more like a war campaign than
reporting â€" is devastating the national psyche. But this would not have been
problematic had our national leadership been up to the challenge. This
leadership has been a failure in the best of times. Now our challenges are
tall and our leaders are pygmies by comparison.
I know Pakistani businessmen who made fortunes out of providing uninterrupted
high-value services to the banking industry who are forced now to contemplate
migration because they are losing hope. Their incomes are intact but it is
the quality of their lives in Pakistan’s biggest city that they are concerned
about.
The military institution is strong and is capable of holding Pakistan’s
stability and integrity despite the alarm and the unanswered questions over
how our situation deteriorated over the past four years and how our homeland
has become exposed to multiple foreign players wreaking havoc here, not to
mention why we have allowed ourselves to blindly trust one superpower with
our interests.
The military can and will prevail over the threats facing us for the time
being, but who will assume the challenge of reviving the national spirit,
remodeling national politics and initiate the hard task of making Pakistan an
attractive place for its citizens?
The political parties are unmitigated failures and cannot run a democracy.
None of these parties today has a national agenda. Most of them have shrunk
into narrow regional or ethnic interests. None of them has a working party
system that produces leaders since most of these parties operate as one-man
shows or as family-run businesses in their most primitive forms. If handed
over power tomorrow morning, there is hardly any party out there that can
come up with better plans or policies than the one currently in office.
And while this failure continues, the ethnic-based provincial division of the
state is turning every administrative issue into an ethnic flashpoint. Some
politicians and political parties are manufacturing ethnic tensions for
political gain. Foreign players are exploiting this and courting separatism
in Pakistan as a vehicle for pushing their own interests. It is an irony that
there isn’t a single political party in Pakistan today that raises the flag
of Pakistani nationalism. There was a time when India, our perennial
enemy-friend, used to be the only bastion of advocates of separatism in
Pakistan. But today we see the center of gravity of this trend moving to
Washington, for various reasons.
But these are fallouts. The strings are still in our hands and no one can
mess with us if we put our house in order. But who will do it in Pakistan?
If the political parties are unable to produce leaders, we cannot wait for
them forever to do so. We in Pakistan do not have the luxury of time. The
time for this was the 20th century when nations took their time to develop
their national systems. We wasted that opportunity. Both an elected civilian
leader and a military ruler â€" Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Ayub Khan â€" made good
starts but messed up in the end.
To move forward, Pakistan needs a new deal for the 21st century. And this
deal cannot come through the ballot for the foreseeable future. Our best
chance is for Pakistan’s best and brightest â€" outside the realm of our failed
parties and a failed system â€" to step forward with a plan to remodel the
state, change the constitution and create an environment for real political
parties to grow and prosper. This is the only way left to bring capable and creative
civilian administrators to power. Such a civilian administration can and must
borrow the support of the military institution for such a grand project of
national rebuilding.
As we make a final push to expel America’s failed war encroaching into our
territory in our northern and western regions, the wider national perspective
must not be missed. A vibrant, creative and emerging Pakistan is still
possible. But for this to happen, Pakistan’s thinking classes, the media and
the public opinion will have to support creative out-of-the-box thinking.
The time to stop the rot is here. Let’s not become the worst managers of one
of the world’s best pieces of real estate.
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13a.
Touching
Moment
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Wed
May 20, 2009 7:37 am (PDT)
PUNJAB POLICE -
WHAT A TOUCHING MOMENT !!!
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Re:
Touching Moment
Posted
by: "Syed Hassan Tanwir Wasti" supplychain4u@ hotmail.com
Wed
May 20, 2009 7:43 am (PDT)
Is it East Punjab or West Punjab or??? Punjab is like that eat and enjoy,
care free.
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PUNJAB POLICE -
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Re:
Touching Moment
Posted
by: "Lal Gehi" lalhgehi@yahoo. com  lalhgehi
Wed
May 20, 2009 9:35 am (PDT)
YES, THE MOMENT IS TOUCHING. !!
Good Picture. !! Good comment.
Lal
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Re:
Touching Moment
Posted
by: "Lal Gehi" lalhgehi@yahoo. com  lalhgehi
Wed
May 20, 2009 10:11 am (PDT)
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Wives r Incoming Calls
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Neighbour Girls r Missed Calls
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A man stands nude in front
of a mirror n examins
himself n says: 2 inches more
& I'll be a king.
His wife sitting behind says:
2 inches less & you'll be
a queen.
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Why do women wear flowered panties?
A: Cuz its their way of saying,
'In memory of those who were buried
here!
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3 guys were introduced 2 a girl,
hi I'm Peter not a saint,
hi I'm Paul not a pope,
I'm john not a baptist,
the girl said hi
I'm mary not a virgin!
Wife asked her husband how
many women he had slept with.
Husband proudly replies, only
you darling, with others
I was awake!!!
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14.
An
Important Message from Nihad Awad
Posted
by: "Nihad Awad" info@cair.com
Wed
May 20, 2009 10:42 am (PDT)
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15.
A
report on Abuses in Ireland
Posted
by: "Imran Majeed" imran.majeed@ yahoo.com  imran.majeed
Wed
May 20, 2009 11:11 am (PDT)
Well plz see this report at :
http://news. yahoo.com/ s/ap/20090520/ ap_on_re_
eu/eu_ireland_ catholic_ abuse
Alas such reports only come out long after what has already happened and
carried out even with the advent of modern media and communications! !! very
funny indeed....and while we rountinely lament and malign our own madressahs
see such kind of spate of reports which keep on coming from one part of
western and free world and another on a routine basis regarding churches,
church run institutions. ....
and more importantly in view of such and similar reports we should bring out
a truthful picture (no matter what it is) and state of affairs of our own
madressahs, educational institutes, orphanages, darul amans, jails, various
kinds of shelter houses and vocational and skill and industrial training
schools and institutes, etc.
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press Writer Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated
Press Writer
–
15 mins ago
DUBLIN – A fiercely debated, long-delayed investigation into Ireland's
Roman Catholic-run institutions says priests and nuns terrorized
thousands of boys and girls in workhouse-style schools for decades �
and government inspectors failed to stop the chronic beatings, rapes
and humiliation.
Nine years in the making,
Wednesday's 2,600-page report sides almost completely with the horrific
reports of abuse from former students sent to more than 250 church-run,
mostly residential institutions. But victims' leaders said it didn't go
far enough � particularly because none of their abusers were identified
by name.
The report concluded that church
officials always shielded their orders' pedophiles from arrest to
protect their own reputations and, according to documents uncovered in
the Vatican, knew that many pedophiles were serial attackers.
The
investigators said overwhelming, consistent testimony from
still-traumatized men and women, now in their 50s to 80s, had
demonstrated beyond a doubt that the entire system treated children
more like prison inmates and slaves than people with legal rights and human
potential.
"A
climate of fear, created by pervasive, excessive and arbitrary
punishment, permeated most of the institutions and all those run for
boys. Children lived with the daily terror of not knowing where the
next beating was coming from," the final report of Ireland's Commission
to Inquire Into Child Abuse concluded.
The leader of Ireland's 4 million Catholics, Cardinal Sean Brady, and
religious orders at the center of the scandal offered immediate apologies.
"I
am profoundly sorry and deeply ashamed that children suffered in such
awful ways in these institutions. Children deserved better and
especially from those caring for them in the name of Jesus Christ,"
Brady said.
The Sisters of Mercy,
which ran several refuges for girls where the report documented chronic
brutality, said in a statement its nuns "accept that many who spent
their childhoods in our orphanages or industrial schools were hurt and
damaged while in our care."
"There
is a great sadness in all of our hearts at this time and our deepest
desire is to continue the healing process for all involved," the Sisters
of Mercy said.
And the Rev. Edmund Garvey, spokesman for the Christian Brothers order
that once ran dozens of boys' schools, said that reading the report's
"presentation of the history of our institutions, it is hard to avoid
feeling shame."
More than 30,000 children deemed to be petty thieves, truants or from
dysfunctional families � a category that often included unmarried mothers
� were sent to Ireland's austere network of industrial schools,
reformatories, orphanages and hostels from the 1930s until the last
church-run facilities shut in the 1990s.
The report, unveiled by High Court Justice Sean Ryan, found that molestation
and rape were "endemic" in boys' facilities, chiefly run by the
Christian Brothers,
and supervisors pursued policies that increased the danger. Girls
supervised by orders of nuns, chiefly the Sisters of Mercy, suffered
much less sexual abuse but frequent assaults and humiliation designed
to make them feel worthless.
"In some schools a
high level of ritualized beating was routine. ... Girls were struck
with implements designed to maximize pain and were struck on all parts
of the body," the report said. "Personal and family denigration was
widespread."
Victims of the system have long demanded that the truth of their experiences
be documented and made public.
But
several victims � who were prevented from attending Wednesday's report
launch and scuffled with police outside a central Dublin hotel � said
the report didn't go far enough and rejected the church leaders'
apologies as insincere.
"Victims will feel a
small degree of comfort that they've been vindicated. But the findings
do not go far enough," said John Kelly, a former inmate of a Dublin
industial school who fled to London and today leads a pressure group
called Irish Survivors of Child Abuse.
Kelly
said the report should have examined how children like himself were
taken away from parents without just cause, and demanded more answers
from Irish governments
that ceded control over their lives to the church. He said any
apologies offered now were "hollow, shallow and have no substance or
merit at all. We feel betrayed and cheated today."
The
report proposed 21 ways the government could recognize past wrongs,
including building a permanent memorial, providing counseling and
education to victims and improving Ireland's current child protection
services.
But its findings will not be used for criminal prosecutions � in part
because the Christian Brothers
successfully sued the commission in 2004 to keep the identities of all
of its members, dead or alive, unnamed in the report. No real names,
whether of victims or perpetrators, appear in the final document.
Irish church leaders and religious orders all declined to comment Wednesday,
citing the need to read the massive document first. The Vatican also declined
to comment.
The Irish government already has funded a parallel compensation
system that has paid 12,000 abuse victims an average of euro65,000
($90,000). About 2,000 claims remain outstanding.
Victims receive the payouts only if they waive their rights to
sue the state and the church. Hundreds have rejected that condition and
taken their abusers and those church employers to court.
Wednesday's report said children had no safe way to tell
authorities about the assaults they were suffering, particularly the
sexual aggression from church officials and older inmates in boys'
institutions.
"The management did not listen to or believe children when they
complained of the activities of some of the men who had responsibility
for their care," the commission found. "At best, the abusers were
moved, but nothing was done about the harm done to the child. At worst,
the child was blamed and seen as corrupted by the sexual activity, and
was punished severely."
The commission dismissed as implausible a central defense of
the religious orders � that, in bygone days, people did not recognize
the sexual abuse of a child as a criminal offense, but rather as a sin
that required repentance.
In their testimony, religious orders typically cited this as
the principal reason why sex-predator priests and brothers were
sheltered within the system and moved to new posts where they could
still maintain daily contact with children.
But the commission said its fact-finding � which included
unearthing decades-old church files, chiefly stored in the Vatican, on
scores of unreported abuse cases from Ireland's industrial schools �
demonstrated that officials understood exactly what was at stake: their own
reputations.
It cited numerous examples where school managers told police about
child abusers who were not church officials � but never did when one of
their own had committed the crime.
"Contrary to the congregations' claims that the recidivist
nature of sexual offending was not understood, it is clear from the
documented cases that they were aware of the propensity for abusers to
re-abuse," it said.
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16.
The
American War On Wana
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May 20, 2009 11:22 am (PDT)
The American War On Wana
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In this insightful article, American journalist Peter Chamberlin presents a
compelling narrative, explaining how CIA planners, in "Operation
Enduring Turmoil," have been busy using some of the Northern Alliance's
most ruthless men, along with a sizeable force of Uzbeks, to destabilize
Pakistan's Federally Administrated Tribal Areas and the North West Frontier
Province. Pakistan, Chamberlin writes, is the keystone in an American
strategic move that stretches in an arc across the entire Middle East and
southern central Asia. If Pakistan is not totally under American control then
the plan cannot work. The existence of this plan accounts for the brazenness
shown in American actions taken in Pakistan that are in direct contravention
of the expressed will of the Pakistani people and their leaders, actions
clearly intended to undermine Army and governmental authority.
By PETER CHAMBERLIN
Wednesday, 20 May 2009.
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WASHINGTON, D.C.-We are fighting a war that is like no other. The illusion is
made as real; the real is made as dust. Nothing is as it seems in this war,
even though this is the era of instant news. This alteration of our very
understanding of reality has been necessary for us to pursue a war policy of
pure evil, even though we have paraded ourselves before the world as warriors
in defense of truth and light. The human race is begging for an end to the
path of destruction that trusted American leaders have steered the world
onto., longing to turn onto a permanent path of Light. It is high time the
United States either showed the world the way into the Light, or got out of the
way of those who can.
Our new president has made a great show of being the man with the hope of
"change" in his hand, but in the cold light of day he is readying
massive doses of change for the worse. The world was begging for American
leadership to undo what the last "mis-leader" has done, but the
economic powers that rule America have produced another charlatan bearing
nothing more than a nice smile, to bind us to the path of escalation that
leads to the Empire's goal of permanent war.
A great sickness of mind has inflicted the people of this Nation, filling our
thoughts with bloodlust and heroic visions of victory over savage hordes who
are bent on our destruction. The "al Qaida" and Taliban who have
been cast as classic movie villains who prefer a world ruled by death and
despair, answer to strange gods and display bizarre customs. American
soldiers were cast in the hero's role, standing tall in their glorious image
of the lone eagle warriors holding-back the swelling tides of Asia and
Africa, defending our lovingly constructed towers of glory that surely
elevate us that much closer to our Creator even as they set us above our
fellow man. This is the Hollywood image of America that has been carefully
constructed by our leaders and powerhouses of influence, the "Zion"
of Matrix fame. "Zion" America, the hero nation of warriors,
defending precious civilization, under siege by armies of darkness and
inhumanity.
The "war on terror" is much like a movie, in that it was definitely
developed according to some sort of script, enormous investments were made in
its production, while it waited many years in development. The first step in
understanding is realizing that the attacks of September 11, 2001 were not
the opening act, neither was the first Trade Center bombing in 1993.
The second step in understanding the "war on terror" is accepting
the fact that nothing is as it seems; there are no "good guys," but
there are plenty of bad guys, and an unlimited supply of innocents. The
United States and its allies cannot wear the white hats in this bad
"spaghetti western," the second act of which is being stage-managed
now in Western Pakistan, that is, unless there is no morality. Unless the
foundation of the entire American legal system is suddenly without merit, the
United States also be seen as some of the worst bad guys in this violent
international travesty of justice.
We have forced our war that we wage in the name of vengeance, out of our
sense of righteous indignation, for an attack that killed thousands of innocent
civilians, blamed on an ill-defined enemy, offering no evidence of their
guilt, killing over one million innocent civilians and turning five times
that amount into refugees in the process.
Now, our new president, the one elected on a promise to "change"
(one of those changes being the salvation of the first war in Afghanistan, by
winding-down the second war in Iraq), is the latest facilitator of the
Empire's plans, a marionette, dancing to the "New World Order
blues," as he "song and dances" us around these first two wars
and into a third unwinnable war in Pakistan. The third step in understanding
the truth about the terror war is to realize that the American government has
not been trying to end these two wars, it has been using every means at its disposal
to prolong the first two wars while it frantically sought a way to start a
third. America is not really losing either war, but it has never had any
intentions of winning them either.
Obama continues the presidential tradition of deceiving the world about
American intentions, present facts backwards-preservin g capitalism will not
salvage the war effort, but military action is planned, to acquire the means
to avert any economic emergency, the resources of the underdeveloped region .
Pakistan is the keystone in an American strategic move that stretches in an
arc across the entire Middle East and southern central Asia. If Pakistan is
not totally under American control then the plan cannot work. The existence
of this plan accounts for the brazenness shown in American actions taken in
Pakistan that are in direct contravention of the expressed will of the
Pakistani people and their leaders, actions clearly intended to undermine
Army and governmental authority.
The Obama Administration is expanding the war on the strength of this
statement:
"to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan,
and to prevent their return to either country in the future."
Every action that our government takes in Pakistan and Afghanistan, under the
pretense of eliminating "al Qaida" is a fraud. Whatever is left of
bin Laden's organization (he never called it "al Qaida," it was the
"World Islamic Front for Jihad Against the Jews and Crusaders"),
most of the terrorist acts that have been blamed on the legendary group were
either the work of other terrorists [like Khalid Sheikh Mohamed and Ramsey
Yousef], CIA/Special Forces operations or attacks by mercenary proxies hired
by the CIA network). The Arabic expression,' Q eidat il Mu'ti'aat', meaning
"the database," is the source of the term ascribed to the legendary
terrorist outfit.
The term "al Qaida" was never used before the "war of
terror" was dreamed-up in the sick minds of the neocon spooks who ran
the Bush/Cheney political team in the 2000 campaign. The only proof given to
the contrary came from an Israeli source, claiming to be copied text from an
American embassy press release. World renowned expert on bin Laden, Yossef
Bodansky, never used the term "al Qaida" even once in his opus
volume of research entitled, "Bin Laden: the Man Who Declared War on
America," published in 1999. Bodansky was Director of the Congressional
Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the US House of
Representatives from 1988 to 2004, so if there was an "al Qaida"
terrorist organization before 1999 he would have known about it.
The concept of the "global war on terror" has served as an excuse
for turning reality on its head and the implementation of the full war agenda
of the radical American right wing. Bin Laden's organization, "World
Islamic Front for Jihad" is a spent force. The promise to chase a
generic tag that is made to fit any enemy is a ruse intended to gain the
consent of the American people for creating a state of permanent war.
In a war based entirely on manufactured delusions, the allied nations took a
small expeditionary force of mercenaries and the amplifying device of the
corporate media and created the illusion of "al Qaida." The Muslim
and Arab militants used in the attacks blamed on them throughout the world
were military/intelligen ce agency assets, "patsies" to take the
fall for a series of attacks upon American interests. The corporate masters
of America ordered their secret "al Qaida" army, compromised mostly
of retired military and intelligence officers, to initiate a series of
well-timed and expertly advertised attacks. This successful application of
the "strategy of tension" had the desired effect of deceiving the
democratic masses into giving the government permission to start world war
III.
This secret network of rogue "retired" intelligence agents and
military officers has been a key element of American covert policies since
Vietnam and has become an active tool of every American president since it
was organized into a private secret army under Ronald Reagan. They probably
killed Kennedy and numerous other key American and allied world leaders.
Their secret machinations were brought to light by the missteps of rogue
official Oliver North, revealing for the first time the depths of their plans
in the "Rex 84" program of civilian internment camps, intended to
accommodate the human bi-products of future plans for martial law.
In their most blatant attack upon Americans on September 11, they ("al
Qaida") used their Saudi patsies to launch the biggest psychological
warfare operation of all time, which was ultimately intended to bring-about
an American dictatorship that would extend all the way to Central and
Southern Asia. They needed the help of their Saudi collaborators, as well as
that of the Pakistanis, to create the illusion of a terrorist menace growing
out of the Middle East that would open the door for unbridled American
aggression and the plans for permanent limited world war.
The Saudis offered-up their limitless supply of Wahabbi jihadis to serve as
cannon-fodder in America's terror war, Pakistan had the network of jihadi
training camps built for them by the Americans, using mostly Saudi money, and
the thousands of veteran militants trained in those camps, represented by the
Taliban and the Kashmiri groups. Wherever the Saudi militants were used in
the Middle East to create the impression of "al Qaida," their
actions were usually traced back to the Taliban and their friends usually
with information supplied by CIA or Mossad, in order to legitimize the sweep
of American/NATO troops out of Afghanistan, through Pakistan, into Central
Asia.
The great production, a.k.a. "the war on terror," is the largest,
most ambitious construction project in history, the construction of the
world's biggest inter-continental oil and gas pipeline system, with the
lion's share of it working its way towards the ports of Israel. Israel has a
huge stake in seeing this project succeed, that's why they are in charge of
overseeing so much of the preliminary demolition of the houses and towns
occupied by the current "useless eaters," who stand in the way of
the latest scheme for certain individuals to reap ultimate profits. Another
player who has a major stake in seeing the project succeed is Iran. They are
planned to be a major provider and transit route. Between Israel and Iran,
they carry-out the majority of the ongoing demolition projects in the Middle
East, from Lebanon to Gaza, from Gaza to Egypt, from Egypt to Somalia, from
everywhere to Iraq, from Iraq to Pakistan, from Pakistan to Uzbekistan and
Western China. For Western powers the Iran/Israeli conflict is stage-managed
to magnify popular tension, even though most Zionist leaders are dead serious
about eliminating Iran.
Iran runs the public terror operations (in a covert manner), while Mossad has
the franchise for the covert ops that are coordinated with other intelligence
agencies. Wherever you find an active "al Qaida" cell you are
witnessing the handiwork of Israel's finest dirty fighters. All known
"al Qaida" or "al Q linked" networks uncovered invariably
lead back to Mossad, or the Saudis, Brits, or Americans. In Pakistan,
Mossad's influence is manifested through shared missions with India's RAW spy
agency, mostly in the form of terror attacks blamed on the Pakistani Taliban.
Israeli arms sales throughout this troubled region add fuel to the fire and
ensure that Iran's arms sales are matched, in order to produce long bloody
stalemates between targeted groups. While Iran's sales and training programs
have created Hezbollah's formidable force and empowered Hamas, Israel's arms
sales have gone to clients who were either schooled to serve as an imaginary
enemy, or to those seeking to defend themselves from the cardboard armies.
The war in AfPak is based on multiple deceptions by numerous interested
parties. The US brashly demands that Pakistan give-up its deceptions
concerning the Taliban, in order to defend the central US deception, that
"al Qaida" is a potent international organization of terrorists,
that is locked in a war to the death with the US military.
CIA forces are pounding Pakistani targets almost on a daily basis, saying
that it is time to come clean about ISI support for Taliban militants, trying
by every available means to persuade the government to come around to our
point of view. Our point of view is a fairy tale, concocted for maximum
propaganda effect-Pakistan is a "state sponsor of terrorism," while
the United States is coming-off practically blameless for having had
thousands of "Islamic" militants trained in radical Saudi-supplied
madrassas and CIA-supplied paramilitary camps. So far, the CIA has managed to
pull-off a world-class propaganda coup by making Pakistan the scapegoat for
problems it has created.
The CIA has controlled the direction of this covert operation from the
beginning, just as it has been in command of the successful intelligence
operation that created the greater war and the events of 911. The CIA, on
orders from Bush Sr., did not abandon Afghanistan. , to the sole discretion
of the Pakistanis, as contended by many researchers. The proof of this is
found in the revelations made by several notable researchers (here, here, and
here), that the Taliban won the Afghan civil war because of the sudden
serendipitous "discovery" of "800 truckloads worth of arms and
ammunition in a cave near Spinbaldak, information that could only have been
obtained with the use of powerful spy satellites.
In "Operation Enduring Turmoil," CIA planners were limited at first
to leading a mercenary army in Afghanistan of Northern Alliance proxy forces.
Since then, besides administering the massive "cluster-f** k" known
as the Afghan war, it has been busy using some of the Northern Alliance's
most ruthless men, along with a sizeable force of Uzbeks to destabilize
Pakistan's Federally Administrated Tribal Areas and North West Frontier
Provinces.
Confusion in the war zone and the lid that has been clamped on news
coming-out of the area has made it possible to introduce all sorts of sundry
militant outfits into the area under the one all-inclusive rubric of
"Taliban," just as conditions have allowed for the branding of
multiple unaffiliated groups under the chosen talisman of evil, "al
Qaida."
At the end of the Afghan invasion, after the bulk of the Taliban and bin
Laden's forces were reduced and contained to Eastern Afghanistan, the CIA
took steps to prevent the elimination of entire group, specifically
holding-back Northern Alliance forces and American bombers until the trapped
fighters could escape to Pakistan, by both land and air (the "Kunduz
airlift" involved CIA intervention on behalf of ISI, to relocate Taliban
and Army advisors who were under heavy seige). They relocated to the area
around Chitral in the north of Pakistan and returned to Wana in droves. These
were the radicals and foreign "al Qaida" that have since then
proceeded to create a reign of terror in Pakistan, as they began to force
their radical Wahabbi "jihadi" religious practices on the locals,
many of whom are illiterate, with no base of formal knowledge with which to
combat their poisonous interpretations of Islam.
The radicals who were bombing, kidnapping and be-heading local tribal leaders
by the hundreds were mostly Uzbeks from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
(IMU) who had come from Afghanistan. They were the "al Qaida"
killers who were being reported on the American "nightly news."
Sightings of "al Qaida" in FATA or Swat invariably refer to this
group, or other Uzbeks who came in a second wave, with Northern Alliance
Afghans, as they accompanied Guantanamo alumnus Abdullah Mehsud.
The Uzbeks and Afghans who accompanied Abdullah Mehsud into Pakistan began a
series of terror attacks against Pakistanis, claiming to be fighting for
Mullah Omar. Mehsud's fighters brought heat from the Army down upon the
region, ignited intra-tribal warfare with forces led by Maulvi Nazir, and
eventually aligned themselves with Baitullah Mehsud and Maulana Fazlullah,
providing a base in the north for Shariah-enforcing attacks. These are the
"Taliban" forces who wage war on local Shiites and government
forces, blowing-up girls schools, CD shops, etc.
The Mehsud/Uzbek operation was a CIA operation that was kept completely
separate and secret from Pakistan's ISI, since the Army was the intended
target of the group. The joint American/Afghan/ Indian operation, to create
chaos in Pakistan's tribal region by the infusion of "fake Taliban"
into Pakistan, has been made possible because of Karzai's spy agency (NDS)
director, thirty-six-year- old Amrullah Saleh, who once boasted:
"Insurgency is like grass. Two ways to destroy it: You cut the upper
part, and after four months, you have it back. You poison the soil where that
grass is, then you eliminate it forever."
The fake "Taliban" has very effectively poisoned the soil of
northern and western Pakistan. The war that Pakistan has been forced to fight
against them is a "detoxification" operation, to destroy the
noxious weeds that have been transplanted into the fertile soil of the
Frontier Region.
Their attacks, coupled with the constant haranguing and threats coming from
Bush and Cheney, have compelled the Army to fight a series of mini-wars
against the fake Taliban, or "al Qaida," who had taken advantage of
Muslim customs to gain shelter among the local Pashtun population from the
storm blowing-away across the Durand Line. Each time the Army ended the
mini-war by signing treaties with militant leaders like Mullah Dadullah or
Baitullah Mehsud, a new series of attacks would erupt elsewhere. The
collateral damage inflicted upon the local tribes in these attacks and the
Army's counter-attacks then, as now, was massive. This suffering and violence
breathed new life into the local Taliban movement, motivating thousands to
take-up arms against the Americans and the Pakistani government.
Into this confusing, boiling cauldron of inter-tribal and inter-agency
warfare the British and American forces introduced another wild card, the
"Taliban split," orchestrated around the killing on May 13 of
Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Dadullah. British and Afghan agencies used his
brother Mansoor to introduce the idea of "reconciliation" and
double-cross into the minds of both the Afghan and the Pakistani Taliban.
British assets associated with Mansoor began to perpetuate mistrust and
suspicion of Afghan double-agents, especially those who had been associated
with Abdullah Mehsud and his Uzbeks.
Out of this British/American operation emerged an organization that was
called "Taliban," but what came forth was not Taliban, but
"anti-Taliban, " the "Tehreek e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)."
December 14, 2007, the formation of the Taliban Movement of Pakistan (TTP).
On December 27 Benazir Bhutto was killed.
Dec. 29, 2007, Taleban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed read to AFP over the
telephone a statement issued by Omar that said Mullah Mansoor Dadullah was
sacked
The Sararogha Fort raid occurred on 15-16 January 2008.
The commander of the Pakistani Special Forces (SSG) who led the operation
which retook the fortress from the militants led by Baitullah Mehdud, Gen.
Alavi, was brutally gunned-down after approaching a British reporter with a
story about other Pakistani generals who were dealing with local militants,
instead of seriously eliminating them, as claimed. Two lower-ranking
officers, turned "Islamists" have since been charged in his
killing, which produced other news reports linking the two with a Taliban
assassination ring based in Waziristan and having had contacts with local foe
of Baitullah Mehsud, Maulvi Nazir. The two officers were believed to be
associated with Sheikh Omar, the killer of Daniel Pearl, whose phone records
show that he had placed calls to Gen. Alavi's phone from his jail cell
Waziri tribal leader Mullah Nazir is the most dangerous man in all of
Pakistan, threatening to blow the lid off America's secret plans for
Pakistan. He alone holds the keys to war and peace in S. Waziristan. Nazir
represents America's ultimate failure in Pakistan so far, even though he had
formerly been a shining example of "reconciliation" and cooperation
with Pakistan Army initiatives. Thanks to the campaign of repeated
assassination attempts by terminator drones which have stalked him over the
past year, he has moved himself firmly into the camp of Baitullah Mehsud,
even though they have been bitter rivals until now.
Maulvi Nazir had led his Waziri tribe to form a Lashkar (militia) group which
expelled the trouble-making Uzbeks and all foreign "al Qaida" from
around the town of Wana, after they had killed over three hundred tribal
elders (maliks). The campaign of tribal defense which he initiated has worked
wherever it has been applied, perhaps explaining why he has been the constant
target of both "al Qaida" and US guns since then. His reward for
having championed the cause of self-defense against American plans for
domination has been given in the form of Hellfire missiles delivered by
Predator drones over the past year.
After a full year of this, on February 14, 2009 Obama attacked Baitullah
Mehsud's forces in the village of Shrawangai Nazarkhel. This change in
strategy came just two days after the targeting situation in Pakistan was
openly discussed on an Internet podcast. This particular airstrike caused the
reunification of the two marked leaders and the splitting-off of another
fairly powerful ally of Maulvi Nazir in his struggle against Mehsud and the
violent Uzbeks, the inheritor of Abdullah Mehsud's Pakistani soldiers,
Zainuddin Shimankhel. Since February, Shimankhel and tribal leader Turkistan
Bittani have openly waged war against Mehsud, in S. Waziristan.
Thus the latest deception campaign of the new American administration,
focused on driving the two feuding militants back together to create a common
enemy instead of taking advantage of the natural split that was there, made
possible by one Predator attack.
A recent series of news reports and interviews with militant leaders in early
April confirmed Pakistani/American collaboration in these targeted killings
of Taliban leaders.
"In mid-March, the American military in Afghanistan flew a demonstration
mission of a Predator drone along a stretch of the Afghanistan- Pakistan
border to show the kind of imagery and communications information the
Predator could provide. The Americans transmitted the information to a border
coordination center near the Khyber Pass operated by American, Pakistani and
Afghan personnel, and the information was sent through Pakistani security
databases.
The test run went well enough that Pakistan subsequently requested a small
number of additional Predator reconnaissance flights to support their
operations in the border tribal areas.
But American officials said the requests for additional surveillance missions
ended suddenly in early April."
On one of those flights took place on Mar.13, when an unmanned US drone
killed at least 12 people in Kurram district, associates of Mehsud's brother.
On 25 March 2009 seven were killed in the Makin area, Mehsud's home town.
After these attacks, the collaboration suddenly ended in early April, after
Taliban leader Maulvi Nazir gave an interview with As-Sahab on April 7, and
the appearance of this article on April 10, which highlighted Nazeer's
charges that Pakistani Army sources had planted the homing devices on local
militant leaders, which the Predator flights zeroed in on. On April 14, this
article in the Lebanese Daily Star revealed that Amb. Holbrooke and Adm.
Mullen had secretly met with Taliban leaders, one of them probably infamous
Afghan leader and former sweetheart of the CIA, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
Today, the CIA is continuing to push the Pakistani government to the wall
today with its provocative Predator and counter-insurgency attacks that drive
the tribal militants to wage war in the Frontier Region, in order to force
the ISI to change its ways. The ploy, that the US is waging war to eradicate
its successful CIA operation to create a phantom militant army, a.k.a.
"al Qaida" (which is allegedly giving orders to the Pakistani
Taliban), is being used as a cover to force the ISI to reveal its own
successful militant project, the "Taliban." Regardless of American
wishes to the contrary, Pakistan still has the option of negotiations with
its own Taliban in Waziristan, even though has to wage war to eliminate the
American "Taliban" from NWFP.
Pakistan has to choose to accept America's point of view, that all Taliban
are and were a project of the ISI, if it wants to obtain the windfall
represented by the PEACE treaty. Pakistan has to agree to seriously fight
total civil war against the Taliban, from Kashmir to Balochistan, if it is to
receive the funds that the American warlords are dangling before them.
Pakistan's problems with militancy now all arose because of past mini-wars
launched against their own people at Bush's insistence. Obama is intent on
taking it a step further than even Bush and Cheney dared to dream.
Pakistan has to seriously fight a war against the Taliban, pretending that
they are fighting an imaginary "al Qaida" hierarchy which survived
the Afghan war by fleeing to FATA and NWFP. Pakistan has to decimate its
population with war and refugee problems, under American direction, in the
pretense of fighting a military "force" that consists of no more
than a token remnant; it is not any kind of "force" at all.
If the news leaking out is true, that the Pakistani Army is planning an
offensive against Baitullah Mehsud in S. Waziristan next month, and it is not
just more American propaganda, like the "failed state"
"Taliban takeover" hysteria, then we will be witnessing a
remarkable event in the history of dumb mistakes. If the Army folds under the
pressure and opens a real civil war throughout the entire Frontier Region,
then it will be sealing Pakistan's fate to be dismembered and dominated. This
is insane.
It has become apparent that regardless of what the Pakistani Army does, a
major war escalation has been scheduled by the American military, beginning
in June. The planned "surge" of possibly 24,000 troops, is just the
start. The present commander of US forces in Afghanistan is being replaced
with a specialist in counter-insurgency strategy, Lt. Gen. Stanley
McChrystal. Reports on the Pentagon website InsideDefense. com,, reveal that
a major "irregular warfare" air capability will be called on in
June:
"AIR FORCE PREPPING FOR MAJOR IRREGULAR WARFARE DECISIONS IN JUNE."
The new "Pakistan Counterinsurgency Capability Fund" has been
created, with $400 million for Pakistan's counter-insurgency needs for their
escalation.
Pakistan's leaders continue to go through this painfully slow dance to the
death with their American employers, disrupting life in the tribal regions,
pretending to be locked in to a battle to the death with a few thousand
militants, while they prepare an all too real escalation of Obama/Bush's war,
all for the sake of maintaining the greater illusion of fighting "al
Qaida." Pakistan's leaders are playing a very deadly game here with
Obama, betting the survival of their precious nation that the United States
warlords will blink first.
In order to gain access to the promised PEACE funds, Pakistan is ready to
jump through any hoop. "PEACE" is a restraining pay-off, designed
by full-time "friend of Israel" US Congressman, Howard Berman. His
bill binds Pakistan to cut its own throat, by opening a full-scale civil war
in its western regions, while simultaneously surrendering to India's good
intentions in the east, in exchange for billions. Israeli watchdog Berman is
once again carrying water for the Zionist state, by enforcing the nuts and
bolts of the public relations "course change" spelled-out recently
by radical new spokesman Avigdor Lieberman. Lieberman's opinion, that
"Pakistan is the greatest threat to the world," is way out of
character for Israel. Israel's American allies in Congress are effectively
taking the focused public eye away from Israel's war crimes in Gaza, while
simultaneously laying the groundwork for the next anti-Islamic invasion of
Iran. Berman's PEACE bill is just like the "Iran war resolution" he
co-authorized with fellow-traveller Rep. Ackermen. Like that bill which was
nearly rammed through the last congress, it seeks to create a set of
conditions in the Middle East region that will facilitate the commitment of
US forces to new military actions against a major military power. Israel is
desperately trying to rehabilitate its public image, which lay in ruins after
attempting to exterminate a sizeable portion of the Palestinian population of
Gaza.
Intensive US actions will begin in Pakistan next month, one way or another.
Even if, by some miracle, Pakistan stood-up for its citizens and refused the
PEACE pay-off, American military actions will be triggered when the Pakistani
Army either fails to ignite civil war in S. Waziristan or fails to convince
US leaders that they are sincerely locked in a land struggle to eliminate the
Pakistani Taliban. The generals will not be able to fool American satellites
without totally destroying the area under surveillance. Is this the process
that is underway now in Buner and Swat, the leveling of the communities for
the sake of the show?
The Pakistani Army leaders refuse to take the proper stand that would
instantly correct the international opinion of the people and its
leaders-tell the truth about the Taliban and "al Qaida." Anything
less than openly, in the press, revealing the complete dirty truth about the
"epicenter of terror" created in your Frontier Region will NOT stay
the executioner' s hand. Tell the world that "al Qaida" is an
intelligence operation of the US government, which Pakistan's secret service
participated in. The Taliban is the product of a successful intelligence
operation, while "al Q" is the operation. The CIA's
"mujahedeen" program created a lot of militant jihadis, among them,
the Taliban, at least some of them. The camps and the radical madrassas were
the mujahedeen program, the Taliban were some of the militants who graduated
from that program in the late eighties and early nineties.
American military and civilian leaders should know the facts about "al
Qaida" and the Taliban better than anyone else, but Gen. Petraeus, the
highest military officer in the Nation, seems to be the head disinformer of
the American and Pakistani people. Calling Pakistan the "nerve
center" of al Qaeda's global operations and "the headquarters of
the al Qaeda senior leadership," Petraeus built the case to the American
people and their Congress for decimating the Pakistani population with war
and refugeeism, using maximum possible force (overkill), for the sake of
pursuing no more than a handful of foreign terrorists who could otherwise be
captured by less destructive means. Petraeus couldn't have risen to his high
rank without knowing the truth about this vaporous enemy that Washington has
chosen to stand-up for the sake of an arranged "fight." He knows
that there has never been an "al Qaida," and that Osama bin Laden
is long since dead.
In the following quote from the general, if you substituted the word CIA or
agency for al Qaida, you would have an accurate statement on Pakistan's
terrorist problem:
'There's no question that Al Qaeda's senior leadership has been there and has
been in operation for years,' said the general when asked if he knew where
they were hiding. 'We had to contend with its reach as it sought to
facilitate the flow of foreign fighters, resources, explosives, leaders and
expertise into Iraq, as you'll recall, through Syria.
'We see tentacles of Al Qaeda that connect to Al Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula in Yemen, the elements Al-Shabab in Somalia, elements in north
central Africa, and that strive to reach all the way, of course, into Europe
and into the United States."
The "Islamist" jihadis who are spread throughout the named
countries all have one thing in common, they are all driving their particular
conflict country in America's direction. They are steering their country's
fate on a course intended to provoke and justify American intervention and
validate the concept that "Islamists" are murderous, radical
cut-throats. They are all in energy producing states, or key countries on
pipeline pathways.
In order for the great fiction known as the "war on terror" to
continue, everyone has to agree to pretend that people like Gen. Petraeus and
Barack Obama are telling the truth when they talk about the "great
global threat," that we like to call "al Qaida." All of America's
leaders, just like all of Pakistan's leaders know that there is no "al
Qaida," except in the minds of the great war planners and psy-operators.
There is an international network of spies and mercenary agents, but it is an
arm of the CIA and Western intelligence agencies. This nameless network,
dubbed "al Qaida" by Cheney and Bush, has operated out of western
Pakistan for thirty years, where the CIA planted it. Created by Reagan and
Bush's father, the militant network is 100% "made in America."
Clinton used it as his secret army. Bush pretended that it was an Islamic
organization, headed by a radical Saudi militant, Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden
headed a second rate Arab terrorist outfit that was primarily concerned with
removing the Americans from Islamic "holy lands" and freeing Palestine.
The commander of one of the assassination units, Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal,
has been nominated to be the new commanding general in Afghanistan.
The official history of "al Qaida" is told in the stories of one or
two actual terrorists, Ramsey Yousef and Khalid Sheikh Mohamed, whose terror
attacks are attributed to "al Qaida," even though, they were not
members of "al Qaida" at the time of their attacks (and there was
no organization by that name in existence until 1999-2000). Since their
capture and the elimination of bin Laden's actual outfit (Islamic Front for
Jihad Against Crusaders and Jews") in the mountains of Tora Bora, other
shadowy groups, such as Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
Obama and Petraeus, like the unfortunate Zardari and Kayani, are fully
prepared to take military actions which will bring an end to both nations, as
the New World Order of permanent limited war they help to usher in erases
both nations. Perhaps there will be some homogenized version of Pakistan or
America left after the conflagration lit by the suicidal nations subsides.
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AMERICAN MUSLIM NEWS BRIEFS 5/20/09
* Hadith: Do Not Abuse Those Who Abuse You
* CAIR-MN: FBI, Somalis Hope to Rebuild Relationship
* CAIR-LA: Protocols of the Elders of Islam?
- 'Third Jihad' Tied to Far-Right European Groups
- CA: Wiesenthal Center Screens Islamophobic Film
- Prof Draws Parallels Between Shariah, Constitution
* KY: County Judge Favors Christians for Elected Office
* TX House Passes Bill Allowing Muslim Family's Abuse Lawsuit
* Hawaii Passes Islam Day Resolution, Haters Call for Boycott
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HADITH OF THE DAY: DO NOT ABUSE THOSE WHO ABUSE YOU TOP
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) once said: "Can't anyone of you
be like Abu Damdam?" His companions asked: "Who is Abu Damdam, O
Messenger of God?" The Prophet replied: "When he gets up in the
morning he says, 'O God, I offer my honor and life to You,' so that he would
not abuse those who abused him, nor would he wrong those who wronged him, or
hit those who hit him."
Fiqh-us-Sunnah, Volume 4, Number 115
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FBI, TWIN CITIES SOMALIS HOPE TO REBUILD RELATIONSHIP - TOP
Laura Yuen, Minnesota Public Radio
http://crm.cair. com/site/ R?i=X7lFwyTVvt0E d8eI-E-E_ A..
The head of the Minneapolis FBI office is asking for the Somali community's
trust as investigators continue to look into the disappearances of a number
of young Twin Cities men who are believed to be fighting along with hard-line
Islamists in Somalia's civil war.
St. Paul, Minn. -- Special Agent in Charge Ralph Boelter appeared Monday night
on the weekly KFAI radio show "Somali Community Link." He
acknowledged that the investigation has stirred up fears in the community,
but said some of those fears are overblown.
"We've heard in the community (that) people have advised all residents,
'Don't talk to law enforcement. Don't talk to the FBI about this case,'"
he said. "That's not going to solve this problem. ... The FBI can't
solve this problem alone. We need to solve it in concert, in cooperation,
with the community."
An attorney with the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic
Relations who also appeared on the show urged the FBI to examine its tactics.
Young Somali-Americans say they have been randomly approached for questioning
at malls and on college campuses...
Boelter was joined on the radio show by Taneeza Islam, the civil rights
director for the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic
Relations. Islam urged the Somali community to cooperate with investigators
-- and also to know their rights to have a lawyer present during questioning.
Islam also invited Boelter to begin a dialogue with her group. The national
FBI severed its relationship with CAIR earlier this year after allegations
that the Muslim civil-rights group had ties to supporting Hamas.
Islam praised Boelter for reaching out to Somalis and other Muslims in
Minnesota by granting interviews with a number of ethnic-media outlets over
the past several weeks. But she also said that the FBI's approach to
interrogations has created more anxiety in a community already distrustful of
government.
"It's a difficult time to start outreach now," Islam said. "I
would like to have seen this relationship and trust built before a
contentious issue arises. Without that trust, it's hard to work together when
the times are hard, and that's kind of where we are right now."
-----
PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ISLAM? - TOP
Nick Schou, OC Weekly, 5/19/09
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As its name suggests, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance in LA
is supposed to promote the kind of cultural dialog that brings people
together rather than pushes them apart. So it's more than a little bit odd
that the center showed a movie last weekend that has been compared to the
gold-standard of anti-Semitic propaganda: The Protocols of the Elders of
Zion.
The latter tome was supposedly written by the Jews who secretly want to take
over the world. Actually it's pure fiction, but the book nonetheless helped
pave the way for Russian pogroms in the 19th Century and the Nazi-era
holocaust. The film in question, "The Third Jihad," was screened at
the Museum of Tolerance last Sunday. Like the book before it, the film claims
to provide evidence of a global plot of subversion, in this case a plot to
subvert America by blood-thirsty terrorists posing as regular-guy American
Muslims.
"The Third Jihad" begins with a disclaimer saying that most Muslims
are okay folks, and that this movie only talks about the ones that want to
kill all Americans. It was produced by a shadowy outfit called the Clarion
fund, which according to an Institute for Policy Studies report has ties to
right-wing supporters of Israel who oppose all talks with the Palestinians.
28 million copies were distributed to voters in 14 swing states just before
last November's presidential election, perhaps to inflame fears that Barack
HUSSEIN Obama might be part of this purported Muslim takeover plot...
On May 15, Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on
American-Islamic Relations' Greater Los Angeles Area chapter, sent a letter
asking the Simon Wiesenthal Center to call of its showing of the film.
"As an institution that claims as its goal battling hatred and bigotry
across the world, I am disappointed to see the Wiesenthal Center engage in
promoting hatred and bigotry against another minority--American
Muslims," Ayloush wrote...
"Claiming that American Muslims are part of some world-wide conspiracy to
take over America is nothing short of concerted hateful fear mongering that
intends to build animosity and even eventual violence against Muslims,"
he argues. "The Holocaust in Europe and the genocides in Bosnia and
Rwanda did not happen in a vacuum. They were preceded with such baseless
hateful material that dehumanized the intended targeted community and were
promoted by many enablers who falsely hid behind the claim of
"generating discussion and sharing views."
SEE ALSO:
BIGGER, BADDER JIHAD PLOT IN 'OBSESSION' REBOOTED - TOP
By Ali Gharib and Eli Clifton, IPS, 5/19/09
http://crm.cair. com/site/ R?i=mBpT77A03dK9 fppMD_qLOg. .
WASHINGTON, May 19 (IPS) - A new documentary from a shadowy non-profit, the
Clarion Fund, has ties to groups widely accused of Islamophobia.
"The Third Jihad" purports to educate U.S. citizens about the
threat of a "cultural Jihad" by the country's own Muslim-American
population. The film goes to great lengths to define itself as an expose of
radical Muslim elements, not the faith at large.
But a group called the International Free Press Society (IFPS), which
attended the Washington premiere of the film and documented the screening on
behalf of the production company on a social media website, has some dubious
affiliations.
Two months ago, IFPS heavily promoted Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, a
widely-known Islamophobe who has been tied to far-right European political
parties.
An IPS investigation linked both Wilders and some of his U.S. and
international supporters, including members of IFPS, with the Vlaams Belang
(VB), or Flemish Interest. Vlaams Belang is a nationalist Flemish party that
has demanded amnesty for Nazi collaborators in Belgium.
Wilders is known for campaigning to ban the Koran, Islamic attire and Islamic
schools from the Netherlands, and for proclaiming that "moderate Islam
does not exist". His views have even drawn fire from the strongly
pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League, which described Wilders's rhetoric as
"inflammatory, divisive and antithetical to American democratic
ideals".
Wilders has been brought up on charges in the Netherlands and banned from
Britain on the grounds that he incites hate.
That view doesn't jibe with the slickly produced "Third Jihad"
film...
Sharia, or Islamic law, has come into the spotlight as one of the principal
goals of radical Islamists.
"Sharia is no different than Jewish law or Christian law," said
CAIR communications director Ibrahim Hooper. "When he prays, Jasser is
following Sharia; when he doesn't drink alcohol, he's following Sharia."
(More)
---
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER TO SCREEN ISLAMOPHOBIC FILM "THE THIRD
JIHAD" - TOP
Beliefnet.com, 5/19/09
http://crm.cair. com/site/ R?i=nlOga1KzynGs H-ihT1Fwww. .
I've argued in the past that Muslims and Jews in the West should make common
cause in fighting against prejudice and tolerance - and in doing so, lead by
example in terms of demonstrating the value of tolerance and respect based on
our shared Abrahamic heritage. One ideal joint project would be for the ADL
and CAIR to join forces and compile a national database of anti-semitic and
Islamophobic incidents and hate crimes, for example, and perhaps start a
group blog project discussing various issues.
Unfortunately, despite many previous examples of common cause that move such
a vision forward, sometimes the innate prejudices of both groups moves the
process backwards. Case in point - the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles
will screen the grotesquely Islamophobic film The Third Jihad. As CAIR's Los
Angeles chapter explains in a letter to the SWC, The Third Jihad is the
equivalent of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as far as its intention in
portraying muslims in the United States and Islam as a whole as a fifth
column, a Dolchstoßlegende for the modern era. (More)
---
LAW PROFESSOR DRAWS PARALLELS BETWEEN SHARI'AH, CONSTITUTION - TOP
Katie Glueck, Daily Northwestern, 5/20/09
http://crm.cair. com/site/ R?i=pycHVectYluB exPlBxzQyA. .
A Harvard law professor who provides analysis on CNN has a lot in common with
a scholar of Islamic law, said the Muslim-cultural Student Association' s
spring speaker Asifa Quraishi on Tuesday night. The University of Wisconsin
law professor spoke to an audience of about 55 in Fisk Hall, drawing
parallels between the U.S. Constitution and Islamic law.
"These two legal worlds are usually described as completely alien to
each other, but as an American Muslim, I'm completely comfortable looking at
similarities, " Quraishi said. "We're at a place in the world's
lifetime that it might help looking at similarities. "
Azam Siddiqui, the co-president of McSA, said he hopes Quraishi could make
Islamic law seem less foreign to Northwestern students.
"We're trying to clear up misconceptions about Shariah," the
Weinberg junior said. "It's not what the media portrays, or how certain
extremists have altered its meanings overseas. It was written 500-600 years
ago, but it's relevant to our Constitution. " (More)
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KY: COUNTY JUDGE ROBERTS FAVORS CHRISTIANS FOR OFFICE - TOP
Emily Hagedorn, Courier-Journal, 5/20/09
http://crm.cair. com/site/ R?i=KIOeiimd2q3u sh7qz1ZanA. .
At a recent National Day of Prayer event, Bullitt County's judge-executive
said Christians need to be put in office.
"We need to start putting Christians -- not Buddhists, not Muslims, not
whatever -- in elected office," said Judge-Executive Melanie Roberts at
the May 7 Shepherdsville event. "And I will preach that until the day I
die."
When asked to elaborate after the event, Roberts said she prefers Christians
to be in elected offices because "Jesus preaches to love one another,
and that love is the answer to all of our social ills."
Also, "America was founded on Christian principles, and Christianity
provides us our freedom."
She said she realizes that other people might not agree with her opinion.
Peter Anik, community-relations director for the Jewish Community Association
of Louisville, called her comments "somewhat offensive" and
objected to Roberts using religion as a "litmus test" for political
office.
"I think it's understandable that people want to elect other people who
reflect their own social values," said Anik, who was not at the event.
"But I would hope that the American public would be tolerant enough to
accept the fact that people approach the understanding of God in a variety of
ways.
"Religious minorities have something positive to add," Anik said.
"To suggest that they don't -- it seems to be at least contrary to the
principles of the Constitution. " (More)
-----
HOUSE PASSES FORT WORTH MEMBER'S BILL ALLOWING LAWSUIT AGAINST DENTON STATE
SCHOOL - TOP
Anna M. Tinsley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5/20/09
http://crm.cair. com/site/ R?i=eu_DPYfwM43P zGPagJU8nw. .
Nearly seven years ago, Haseeb Chishty checked into the Denton State School
-- a mentally disabled man hoping to work on his behavioral skills.
One month later, Chishty, a 27-year-old Muslim American, was found lying in a
pool of his own blood and urine, a victim of what his family believes was a
hate attack.
Farhat Chishty, Haseeb's mother, said her son was beaten so badly that he was
left paralyzed and unable to eat on his own. A caregiver there, who admitted
to hitting and kicking Chishty more than 20 times, was indicted by a Denton
County jury, legislative records show.
"The culprit is doing prison time, but the family .?.?. they need their
day in court," Rep. Lon Burnam, D-Fort Worth, told the House of
Representatives on Tuesday. "I'm asking that you allow this."
The House did, voting 139-0 to give the Chishty family permission to sue the
Denton State School, the Department of Aging and Disability Services, and the
state.
Many members applauded after the vote. (More)
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HAWAII PASSES ISLAM DAY RESOLUTION, HATERS CALL FOR BOYCOTT - TOP
Pam Mandel, World Hum, 5/19/09
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High on the list of reasons I lost my heart so completely to Hawaii?
The diversity. You've got your Pinoys, your Japanese, your mainland surfers,
your Native Hawaiians, your Portuguese and Spaniards, the descendants of
European shippers and missionaries, a whole mess of "hapa" types
who are half one thing, half something else, be it Scottish, Korean,
Hawaiian, Jewish ... If you're looking for a slice of world culture, you're
as likely to find it in Hawaii as anywhere. All those cultures make for a
lively and appealing place.
But a few spoilsports are calling for a boycott of travel to the islands
because the Hawaii state Legislature recently passed a resolution recognizing
"Islam Day." (More)
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18.
(A
Must Read) Parental Alienation Syndrome Much Common Abuse of Non
Posted
by: "Imran Majeed" imran.majeed@ yahoo.com  imran.majeed
Wed
May 20, 2009 12:14 pm (PDT)
Another eye opening case in this age of modernism, civil rights, justice,
freedom and fundamental, basic and natural rights...seems like these are mere
words in situations like these even in so called most civilized and developed
countries what to speak of lesser countries... .see this case summed up in
following excerpts:
Family courts are not supposed to reward abusive parents, and punish
parents who play by the rules. They are not supposed to allow an abusive
parent to nullify the responsible parent's role in a child's life. But
that is exactly what an Ontario court has done in a case of parental
alienation. It has, in effect, disposed of the child's father, perhaps
permanently.
If those
accusations were true, asked Mr. Justice Leonard Ricchetti, why then did
she agree, in a formal, court- approved settlement, to allow him any
access to their daughter? And why, he asked, make that settlement if she
never intended to comply with its terms? (She was found in contempt of
court for taking her child to Saudi Arabia.)
Children are entitled to have as much contact as possible with both
their parents. But that principle of law was knocked easily aside by an
abusive parent. (Denying a child contact with another parent is deemed
abuse in Ontario child-protection law.) Is it more important for a girl
to have "a seven-bedroom home with two nannies" or a father, even
if he
is a hospital chaplain of limited means? One wonders whether a court, if
the situation were reversed, would dispose so readily of a responsible
mother of limited means.
Mr. Justice Ricchetti expressed frustration
that Tasnim Elwan beat the system by flagrantly violating court
orders, spiriting Ihsan out of the country, and taking every measure
possible to keep them apart.
Mr. Al-Taher is blameless, Judge Ricchetti
said. Nonetheless, he said Ihsan has been so thoroughly alienated
that granting her father any form of access would be harmful to her.
"I cannot state strongly enough
the court's condemnation of the mother's lack of
consideration for Ihsan's interest that she have a
relationship with her biological father, and the actions
she has taken towards the father," Judge Ricchetti said.
In his ruling, Judge Ricchetti branded
Ihsan's mother, Tasnim Elwan, a mischief-maker, a liar and a
manipulator who has systemically thumbed her nose at the court and
at common decency.
He said Ms. Elwan falsely
accused Mr. Al-Taher of being a Jew-hating member of
Hamas who trained in al-Qaeda terrorist camps and who is
mentally ill.
"It is difficult to conceive of
a more vicious attack on an individual on every basis
conceivable, " Judge Ricchetti said.
Mr. Al-Taher and Ms. Elwan were
married in 1998 and separated on Feb. 14, 2005. They
reached a settlement granting Ms. Elwan custody of Ihsan
and permission to move to Vancouver. In return, she was
to provide Mr. Al-Taher generous access, particularly
during vacation periods.
Upon arriving in Vancouver, Ms.
Elwan cut off all communication with Mr. Al-Taher and
then surreptitiously moved to Saudi Arabia, where she
married a wealthy man and immersed Ihsan in local
culture.
Prof. Bala said the case also
shows that it is urgent for the justice system to
respond rapidly when an alienation case surfaces.
"With hindsight we can see that
once the mother was able to move with the child and
effectively prevent her from seeing her father and him
from seeking legal redress, she was able to change her
child's perception of reality and destroy the child's
relationship with her father," he said.
Prof. Bala said rigorous therapy is
sometimes necessary to break a parent's hold over a child.
"There are programs in the
United States - such as that of Dr. Richard Warshak -
that have had some success in restoring a child's
relationship with even a severely alienated parent," he
said. "But this would require giving the father custody
and suspending contact with the mother. This was not an
option in this case due to expense and the father's
limited means."
"The Mother clearly has done everything she
can against the Father to prevent the relationship between the
Father and Ihsan, without regard to the fact it would be in the best
interests of Ihsan to have a relationship with her biological
father."
Cheers!  Imran Islamabad-44000
Pakistan
(Which World? First? Second or third?)
Planet Earth, Solar System, Universe!
--- On Wed, 5/20/09, Grant Wilson <yahoogroups@
canadiancrc. com> wrote:
From: Grant Wilson <yahoogroups@ canadiancrc. com>
Subject: [Men's Issues Online] PAS - Globe and Mail Editorial condeming
judge's decision on PAS case
To: "Men's Issues Online" <MensIssuesOnline@
yahoogroups. com>
Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 9:54 PM
Success, in contempt PAS
Globe Editorial
The Globe and Mail ( Canada's largest national daily newspaper ), 20 May 2009
Family courts are not supposed to reward abusive parents, and punish
parents who play by the rules. They are not supposed to allow an abusive
parent to nullify the responsible parent's role in a child's life. But
that is exactly what an Ontario court has done in a case of parental
alienation. It has, in effect, disposed of the child's father, perhaps
permanently.
http://www.canadian
crc.com/Newspape r_Articles/ Globe_and_ Mail_Success- in_contempt_ Parental_
Alienation_ Tasnim_Elwan_ 20MAY09.aspx
Also see the case at:
JUSTICE / 'IT IS DIFFICULT TO CONCEIVE OF A MORE VICIOUS ATTACK'
Blameless father a victim in brainwashing case
Judge lets mother move child away, but condemns her tactics in denying father
access
The Globe and mail, by KIRK MAKIN, JUSTICE REPORTER, May 19, 2009
The family law system has failed Ayman Al-Taher, leaving him just one
sustaining force as he battles for his severely alienated daughter: his
faith.
A Muslim chaplain at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, Mr. Al-Taher's
last hope of seeing his 10-year-old child Ihsan slipped away last week, after
Ontario Superior Court Judge Leonard Ricchetti permitted her mother to move
their daughter to Saudi Arabia.
Mr. Justice Ricchetti expressed frustration that Tasnim Elwan beat the system
by flagrantly violating court orders, spiriting Ihsan out of the country, and
taking every measure possible to keep them apart.
http://www.canadian
crc.com/Newspape r_Articles/ Globe_and_ Mail_Blameless_ father_a_ victim_in_
brainwashing_ case_Parental_ Alienation_ 19MAY09.aspx
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19.
Re:
[PAF_OPENFORUM] Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
Posted
by: "Imran Majeed" imran.majeed@ yahoo.com  imran.majeed
Wed
May 20, 2009 12:54 pm (PDT)
Mr. Nasir
You are needlessly indulging in further pampering her ....nothing else....its
the same mindless over pampering of females like these that has been
brainwashed in majority of this nation and world over...see her email first
that prompted and rather necessitated in a spontaneous way to show her what
she really is....see this and decide if that was warranted... if you still
side with her then well i can say with total conviction that darkness is
light and light is darkness.... ....finished and period...(do not waste
anymore of my time on this)
see what she came up with (with her description that i already pointed
out!!!)
Imran,
ÂÂ
you send loads of junk mails and
then your competence level is of a 4th grade kid. Read Again!!!!!
Compare India with Pak
since 1990?.... Compare the IT
boom in India and Pak Since 1990!!!! Now try to read some good newspapers
and be well informed.
ÂÂ
 Same independence year, 1947!!!!!
ÂÂ
Take some english lessons too."
now tell me if we were talking about IT boom here or banking??? and well
making reference to common independence year and then starting comparing with
1990? does that makes sense? does that makes sense to say "Prince"
to Citibank CEO???? and well bnakers dancing ....was that a proper description
here??? and well citibank only had and have a very minuscule interest in
Pakistani banking system....its reference even otherwise is of not much
relevance... .and well while our current privatization, deregulation and free
market drive did started in early 1990s but except for nationalization of
bhutto years in 1970s we earlier too had a free market capiotalisitc
economy....and talking of independence comparison is supposed to be since
independence. ....
so yeah while we all love to see males ridiculed, pounded, insulted,
admonished, punished, etc. etc. even for wrong reasons for a female even if
she is taken to task justifiably it can arouse a storm and never ending
spates of defensive reflex actions and deep seated apologistic attitude and
behavior.... where in evolutionaly and civilizational and societal
development we have reached ...Oh God Save this planet of the feminists and
their henchmen.... .or takle me away from rthis world!!!!!
ÂÂ
and didn't it was a clarification :
although i already commented i was also wondering in what state
of mind she composed here email....see some of those references like
say same independence year of 1990!
Cheers!  Imran Islamabad-44000
Pakistan
(Which World? First? Second or third?)
Planet Earth, Solar System, Universe!
--- On Thu, 5/21/09, Muhammad A Nasir <muh.nasir@gmail.
com> wrote:
From: Muhammad A Nasir <muh.nasir@gmail. com>
Subject: RE: [PAF_OPENFORUM] Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
To: PAF_OPENFORUM@
yahoogroups. com, sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com
Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009, 12:29 AM
Perhaps it is quoted for providing some context. If you did
not understand it, you could have simply asked for a clarification.
ÂÂ
The 90s comparison is a valid one; as India communist
economy (well at-least socialist) moved to free-market (with exceptions); the
two countries have been on an exponentially divergent economic paths. So a
comparison from that point forward is a valid, if not fully fair metric to
measure progress.
ÂÂ
You do remember that the bankers did dance till the runs
started on the banks.
ÂÂ
Look, I am not taking sides; I just think that this could
have been handled more delicately.
ÂÂ
I think calling someone a â€Å"bitch� is hitting below the belt.
I had written about this
particular word that this is one of the more lopsided
gender specific smears; even an SOB is directed at the mother and not the
offspring.
ÂÂ
Now, I am all for using â€Å"beeyatch� and other terms of
endearment contained in the inner city and urban lexicon; but the way it is
used is not the same way, sometimes â€Å"bitch�
can mean a woman or a man (respectable)
when translated to the urban lingo.
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However, your use was not a play on the language; in my
opinion, it was unquestionably used as
a get-even below-the-belt shot which was
meant to hurt.
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However, pontificating on verbal niceties is not in my bailiwick;
I feel extremely hypocritical giving advice when I myself license with the
language; now the contexts I use then in is somewhat of nitpicking and can be
construed
as rationalizing.
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Anyway, as Forest Gump would say, â€Å"that is all I have to say
on that…�
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Please play nice!
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Your friend,
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Nasir
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From:
PAF_OPENFORUM@ yahoogroups. com [mailto:PAF_ OPENFORUM@ yahoogroups. com] On
Behalf Of Imran Majeed
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 11:56 AM
To: PAF_OPENFORUM@ yahoogroups. com; sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com
Subject: RE: [PAF_OPENFORUM] Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
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and what about these comments
of her:
"Dont mind but once Mr. Prince (Ex
Citibank CEO) said: "lets dance till the music is playing". That is
how the 2008 crisis started."
does anyone has an idea what she is talking about here?????
Cheers!
ÂÂ
Imran
Islamabad-44000
Pakistan
(Which World? First? Second or third?)
Planet Earth, Solar System, Universe!
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--- On Wed, 5/20/09, Imran Majeed <imran.majeed@ yahoo.com>
wrote:
From: Imran Majeed <imran.majeed@ yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: [PAF_OPENFORUM] Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
To: PAF_OPENFORUM@ yahoogroups. com, sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com
Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 9:48 PM
Nope man..not at all....."Compare since 1990??? why
since 1990??? why not since indepoendence ...why the reference of same
independence year then??? and well i didn;t crossed any line if you read
prev. discussion.. ..infact it was she who showed here true colors ona very
mild and completely inoffensive comment pointing out this....so thats clear
from me....and religiously following punctuations is mindless.... better
thing is to communicate and write and speak effectively and convey your
message...in approporiate words, sentences and style, accent and
context.....
Cheers!
ÂÂ
Imran
Islamabad-44000
Pakistan
(Which World? First? Second or third?)
Planet Earth, Solar System, Universe!
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--- On Wed, 5/20/09, Muhammad A Nasir <muh.nasir@gmail. com>
wrote:
From: Muhammad A Nasir <muh.nasir@gmail. com>
Subject: RE: [PAF_OPENFORUM] Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
To: PAF_OPENFORUM@ yahoogroups. com, sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com
Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 6:39 PM
Dude, not nice! I read her mail, and she had not said that the
independence year was 1990.
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She says, â€Å"Compare India
with Pak since 1990? Same independence year, same issues, Where do
they stand? Where do we stand? For countries prosperous growth, you make a
long term plan and achieve it with short term plans, unfortunately we dont
have any plan at all in place.�
ÂÂ
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I think if you read it critically, there is no confusion about what
she wrote.  You could have taken up the argument from â€Å"same issues
…�
and taken it apart. That would have been a meaningful discussion.
ÂÂ
Now, being the worst offender of the
language; I have learned a thing
or two from my mentors on this group. Fareed Bhai, in particular has been
very helpful in softly pointing out the error of my ways.
ÂÂ
I told him that perhaps one day I will return the favor. That one day
came sooner than I expected.
ÂÂ
Although, it might seem like pot calling the kettle black; I think I
will not be too out of line to point out that there was no need to engage
in verbal abuse. Not because she is a woman, but because she was not at
fault.
ÂÂ
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I think she raises several valid points which could be explored
further, they might actually prove useful in adjusting the mindset of the
educated people in Pakistan�so that they understand the value of self-help
instead of depending on government planning. India was producing banking
software, in 1980s, and they have a chokehold on it since then. IIT was
also did not materialize overnight in the 90s.
ÂÂ
I think you own an apology.
ÂÂ
She writes well, so I am going to invite her to our FORUM; perhaps we
will have some lively discussions.
ÂÂ
Your friend,
ÂÂ
Nasir
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PS: She was right about your writing, you need to punctuate better
;-) But since we love you over here, we put in extra effort to read your
unpunctuated stuff!
ÂÂ
From: PAF_OPENFORUM@ yahoogroups. com [mailto:PAF_
OPENFORUM@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of Imran Majeed
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 2:58 AM
To: sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com; riskmanagers@ yahoogroups. com
Cc: amjsbp@gmail. com
Subject: [PAF_OPENFORUM] Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
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hmmm.....cant help about your bitching and whining...afterall a
bitch can only do that what can one expect from her anyways!!! its the
same syndrome of our paki girls since long now that they have always been
pampered...pumped. ...eulogized adnauseam... .given all kinds of
preferences and privileges from upbringing to education to job
opportunities in all kinds of best companies and organizations and then
they mostly whine and act as though they are the master of all and
accountable to none!!! can venture to demolish anything for the sake of
their egos which have over the decades have been noirished deliberately.
....
well on the one hand you mention the independence year and then 1990 in
the same vein and then ask for comparoson in the sme vein and i do not
think i ever wrote anything offensive ...just pointed out an apparent
inconsistency and out of place references and wow...rather
"WAW" i got this vitriolic diatribe from you ...what for ...may
be you afterall proved yourself that what you really are.....just another
bitch in the guise of a bloated ego a "good"
"eduction" a "good" job" etc. etc.......alas our
so many good organizations are infested with females with a mindsets like
you....God save our country and our systems...its already too late by the
way!!!
Cheers!
ÂÂ
Imran
Islamabad-44000
Pakistan
(Which World? First? Second or third?)
Planet Earth, Solar System, Universe!
ÂÂ
--- On Sun, 5/17/09, Sofia Alam khan <sofialamkhan@
yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Sofia Alam khan <sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
To: riskmanagers@ yahoogroups. com
Cc: amjsbp@gmail. com
Date: Sunday, May 17, 2009, 1:49 PM
Imran,
ÂÂ
you send loads of junk mails and
then your competence level is of a 4th grade kid. Read Again!!!!!
Compare India with Pak
since 1990?.... Compare the IT
boom in India and Pak Since 1990!!!! Now try to read some good newspapers
and be well informed.
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 Same independence year, 1947!!!!!
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Take some english lessons too.
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Thanks
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From: Imran Majeed <imran.majeed@ yahoo.com>
To: riskmanagers@ yahoogroups. com
Cc: sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com; amjsbp@gmail. com
Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 2:00:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
although i already commented i was also wondering in what state
of mind she composed here email....see some of those references like
say same independence year of 1990!
Cheers!
ÂÂ
Imran
Islamabad-44000
Pakistan
(Which World? First? Second or third?)
Planet Earth, Solar System, Universe!
ÂÂ
--- On Fri, 5/15/09, Amjad Ali Imran <amjsbp@gmail. com>
wrote:
From: Amjad Ali Imran <amjsbp@gmail. com>
Subject: Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
To: riskmanagers@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Friday, May 15, 2009, 3:57 PM
Ms Sofia
Well said but atleast you may suggest what sort of action we can
initiate keeping in view current scenario
ÂÂ
On 5/12/09, Sofia Alam khan
<sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com> wrote:
ÂÂ
Beautiful words only make
beautiful people happy. The truth is always ugly.
ÂÂ
"We should be cognizant
of the fact that Pakistan is no less than any country in risk
management processes. Keeping in view the depth of financial products,
we are ahead of the required competencies. "
ÂÂ
Dont mind but once Mr. Prince (Ex
Citibank CEO) said: "lets dance till the music is playing".
That is how the 2008 crisis started. I'm not of the opinion to make
general comments, People who know ABC of Risk Management in Pak leave
for better jobs in Middle East.
ÂÂ
So we should avoid making
general observations rather be more specific in discussing problems
that entail governing dynamics.
ÂÂ
That is what we are good at
"Discuss, discuss, discuss" Who will take the ACTION!!!!! our
local TV channels show millions of talk shows for what?
ÂÂ
it is just the talk, so lets do
the talk and till the talk ends, lets talk.
ÂÂ
Thanks.
ÂÂ
Sofia A. Khan
Karachiiiiii
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From: FAHAD HUSSAIN <phahadhussain@
yahoo.com>
To: riskmanagers@ yahoogroups. . com
Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2009 11:28:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
Hi to All,
ÂÂ
I'm new to the risk management group. Though dont have enough
time to spur on issues being discussing in the group, yet feel
inevitable to reply on comments cited. We should be cognizant of the
fact that Pakistan is no less than any country in risk management
processes. Keeping in view the depth of financial products, we are
ahead of the required competencies. So we should avoid making general
observations rather be more specific in discussing problems that entail
governing dynamics.
ÂÂ
Fahad
Karachi
ÂÂ
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From: Sofia Alam khan <sofialamkhan@ yahoo.com>
To: Group <riskmanagers@ yahoogroups. com>
Sent: Monday, May 4, 2009 1:05:52 PM
Subject: [Risk Managers] non performing assets
Arif good comments!!!! !
ÂÂ
Glad to see that people show keen
interest and give precious suggestions. Last but not
least, If everything is impossible then why do risk management..
Data extraction, updation,authentici ty are problems for most of the
credit bureaus but we should start taking the first step to climb the
ladder or stand on the ground fearing that it is impossible to climb
the ladder.
ÂÂ
Angels did not help western
countries to build credit bureaus. It might take us more
time compared to west but "better late than never".
ÂÂ
Compare India with Pak since
1990? Same independence year, same issues, Where do they stand? Where
do we stand? For countries prosperous growth, you make a long term plan
and achieve it with short term plans, unfortunately we dont have any
plan at all in place.
ÂÂ
Information is the most valuable
commodity in the world.
ÂÂ
Thanks.
ÂÂ
Sofia A. Khan
Karachi.
ÂÂ
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20.
Wahid
Qamber’s health deteriorated in jail
Posted
by: "Mir Raza" mirsalimraza@ yahoo.com  mirsalimraza
Wed
May 20, 2009 12:59 pm (PDT)
Save the Life of a Brave Son of Baluchistan Wahid Qambar.. Please Raise your
Voice NOW, before it is TOO LATE...
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--- On Tue, 5/19/09, Munir Mengal mengal_11@yahoo.
com" <gary@citydesk. co.uk>
Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 7:15 AM
Respected all Individuals and Organizations, I request you all please on the
humanitarian basis or being a supporter of Baloch strugle for freedom or
being a son of Baloch soil and nation raise voice for Mr. Wahid Qamber's
medication and basic facilities.
Regards,
Munir Mengal
The news is follows:
Subject: Wahid Qamber’s health deteriorated in jail
Quetta: Baluchistan’s local news papers and sources from
the jail reported that Baloch leader Wahid Qamber is seriously ill from last
few months. He has stopped eating food and the jail authorities are not
providing him with any medicines. His health is deteriorating day by day.
Reports said that he lost weight and is very weak. He has not yet been
medically checked to diagnose his illness.ÂÂ
Source from the jail reported that Mr Qambar Baloch needs to be admitted in
an outside hospital for proper treatment. His friend and family members are
very concerned about his health. They said that Wahid Qamber must be given
the opportunity for his treatment.
Warning the government and the jail authorities they said that looking after
Mr Qambar’s health and safety is the responsibility of the jail authorities
and the relevant government agencies who have arrested him. â€Å"if
anything happened to Qambar in prison the provincial government and the
personals of intelligence will be held responsible�, they warned.ÂÂ
They however appealed to the National and International human
rights organizations to put pressure on Pakistani authorities to
immediately release Wahid
Qambar
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 news taken from http://www.facebook
.com/l/;balochwa rna.com
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21.
Fw:
SGA in Daily Awami Awaz - Article on Hepatitis B & C
Posted
by: "Mir Raza" mirsalimraza@ yahoo.com  mirsalimraza
Wed
May 20, 2009 1:23 pm (PDT)
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below]
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Dear All,
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Attached herewith the Article Published in Daily Awami Awaz regarding
Hepatitis B & C on occasion of World Hepatitis Day being celebrated on
May 19, 2009
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Shaukat Memon
Manager Projects SGA
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22.
US
wronged Pakistan for 30 years - Hillary Clinton
Posted
by: "Mansoor Hallaj" tarot66@yahoo. com
Wed
May 20, 2009 2:03 pm (PDT)
US wronged Pakistan for 30 years - Hillary Clinton
http://chagataikhan .blogspot. com/2009/ 05/us-wronged-
pakistan- for-30-years. html
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US Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton http://www.hillaryc
linton.com/
The US secretary of state acknowledged on Tuesday that Washington had not
been consistent in its dealings with Islamabad. Talking to reporters at the
Foreign Press Centre and the White House, Hillary Clinton said â€Å"it is fair
to say that our policy towards Pakistan over the last 30 years has been
incoherent. I don’t know any other word�.
US wronged Pakistan for 30 years, admits Hillary By Anwar Iqbal Wednesday, 20
May, 2009 06:53 AM PST http://www.dawn. com/wps/wcm/ connect/dawn- content-library/
dawn/the- newspaper/ front-page/ us-wronged- pakistan- for-30-years%
2C-admits- hillary-059
Let me help you Ms. Hillary Clinton by taking back you to very not too
distant History that USA not only wronged Pakistan but almost every nation in
the World particularly in the Third World, and Yankees didn't even spare
their own citizens what to talk of Children of Lesser god i.e. Third World...
In the best-selling version of popular myth as history, U.S.
"goodness" peaked during World War II (aka America's War Against
Fascism). Lost in the din of trumpet sound and angel song is the fact that
when fascism was in full stride in Europe, the U.S. government actually
looked away. When Hitler was carrying out his genocidal pogrom against Jews,
U.S. officials refused entry to Jewish refugees fleeing Germany. The United
States entered the war only after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour. Drowned
out by the noisy hosannas is its most barbaric act, in fact the single most
savage act the world has ever witnessed: the dropping of the atomic bomb on
civilian populations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The war was nearly over. The
hundreds of thousands of Japanese people who were killed, the countless
others who were crippled by cancers for generations to come, were not a
threat to world peace. They were civilians. Just as the victims of the World
Trade Center
and Pentagon bombings were civilians. Just as the hundreds of thousands of
people who died in Iraq because of the U.S.-led sanctions were civilians. The
bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a cold, calculated experiment carried
out to demonstrate America's power. At the time, President Truman described
it as "the greatest thing in history". Is this what you called
Democracy???
LETS GO BACK TO HISTORY
WHAT KIND OF DEMOCRACY THE USA PRACTICED INSIDE THE USA
Paul Wolf, Attorney at Law P.O. Box 11244 Washington DC 20008 http://www.icdc.
com/~paulwolf/ pakistan/ pakistan. htm, http://www.icdc.
com/~paulwolf/
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http://www.icdc. com/~paulwolf/ cointelpro/ cointel.htm
COINTELPRO is an acronym for a series of FBI counterintelligence programs
designed to neutralize political dissidents. Although covert operations have
been employed throughout FBI history, the formal COINTELPRO's of 1956-1971
were broadly targeted against radical political organizations. In the early
1950s, the Communist Party was illegal in the United States. The Senate and
House of Representatives each set up investigating committees to prosecute
communists and publicly expose them. (The House Committee on Un-American
Activities and the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, led by Senator
Joseph McCarthy). When a series of Supreme Court rulings in 1956 and 1957
challenged these committees and questioned the constitutionality of Smith Act
prosecutions and Subversive Activities Control Board hearings, the FBI's
response was COINTELPRO, a program designed to "neutralize" those
who could no longer be prosecuted. Over the years, similar programs were
created to neutralize civil rights, anti-war, and many other groups, all said
to be "communist front organizations. " As J. Edgar Hoover,
longtime Director of the FBI, put it
The forces which are most anxious to weaken our internal security are not
always easy to identify. Communists have been trained in deceit and secretly
work toward the day when they hope to replace our American way of life with a
Communist dictatorship. They utilize cleverly camouflaged movements, such as
peace groups and civil rights groups to achieve their sinister purposes.
While they as individuals are difficult to identify, the Communist party line
is clear. Its first concern is the advancement of Soviet Russia and the
godless Communist cause. It is important to learn to know the enemies of the
American way of life.
The United States and Middle East: Why Do "They" Hate Us? by
Stephen R. Shalom www.zmag.org/ , December 12, 2001
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Stephen R. Shalom http://www.wpunj. edu/hmss/ polisci/faculty/ shalom/shalom.
htm
http://www.thirdwor ldtraveler. com/Why_They_ Hate_Us/US_
Middle_East_ WDTHU.html
The list below presents some specific incidents of U.S. policy in the Middle
East. The list minimizes the grievances against the United States in the
region because it excludes more generalized long_standing policies, such as
U.S. backing for authoritarian regimes (arming Saudi Arabia, training the
secret police in Iran under the Shah, providing arms and aid to Turkey as it
ruthlessly attacked Kurdish villages, etc.). The list also excludes many
actions of Israel in which the United States is indirectly implicated because
of its military, diplomatic, and economic backing for Israel. Whether any of
these grievances actually motivated those who organized the horrific and
utterly unjustified attacks of September 11 is unknown. But the grievances
surely helped to create the environment which breeds anti-American terrorism.
1947-48: U.S. backs Palestine partition plan. Israel established. U.S.
declines to press Israel to allow expelled Palestinians to return.
1949: CIA backs military coup deposing elected government of Syria.1
1953: CIA helps overthrow the democratically_ elected Mossadeq government in
Iran (which had nationalized the British oil company) leading to a
quarter_century of repressive and dictatorial rule by the Shah, Mohammed Reza
Pahlevi.
1956: U.S. cuts off promised funding for Aswan Dam in Egypt after Egypt
receives Eastern bloc arms.
1956: Israel, Britain, and France invade Egypt. U.S. does not support
invasion, but the involvement of its NATO allies severely diminishes
Washington's reputation in the region.
1958: U.S. troops land in Lebanon to preserve "stability".
early 1960s: U.S. unsuccessfully attempts assassination of Iraqi leader,
Abdul Karim Qassim.2
1963: U.S. supports coup by Iraqi Ba'ath party (soon to be headed by Saddam
Hussein) and reportedly gives them names of communists to murder, which they
do with vigor.3
1967_: U.S. blocks any effort in the Security Council to enforce SC
Resolution 242, calling for Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in
the 1967 war.
1970: Civil war between Jordan and PLO. Israel and U.S. discuss intervening
on side of Jordan if Syria backs PLO.
1972: U.S. blocks Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat's efforts to reach a peace
agreement with Israel.
1973: Airlifted U.S. military aid enables Israel to turn the tide in war with
Syria and Egypt.
1973_75: U.S. supports Kurdish rebels in Iraq. When Iran reaches an agreement
with Iraq in 1975 and seals the border, Iraq slaughters Kurds and U.S. denies
them refuge. Kissinger secretly explains that "covert action should not
be confused with missionary work."4
1975: U.S. vetoes Security Council resolution condemning Israeli attacks on
Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.5
1978_79: Iranians begin demonstrations against the Shah. U.S. tells Shah it
supports him "without reservation" and urges him to act forcefully.
Until the last minute, U.S. tries to organize military coup to save the Shah,
but to no avail.6
1979_88: U.S. begins covert aid to Mujahideen in Afghanistan six months
before Soviet invasion in Dec. 1979.7 Over the next decade U.S. provides
training and more than $3 billion in arms and aid.
1980_88: Iran_Iraq war. When Iraq invades Iran, the U.S. opposes any Security
Council action to condemn the invasion. U.S. soon removes Iraq from its list
of nations supporting terrorism and allows U.S. arms to be transferred to
Iraq. At the same time, U.S. lets Israel provide arms to Iran and in 1985
U.S. provides arms directly (though secretly) to Iran. U.S. provides
intelligence information to Iraq. Iraq uses chemical weapons in 1984; U.S.
restores diplomatic relations with Iraq. 1987 U.S. sends its navy into the
Persian Gulf, taking Iraq's side; an overly_aggressive U.S. ship shoots down
an Iranian civilian airliner, killing 290.
1981, 1986: U.S. holds military maneuvers off the coast of Libya in waters
claimed by Libya with the clear purpose of provoking Qaddafi. In 1981, a Libyan
plane fires a missile and U.S. shoots down two Libyan planes. In 1986, Libya
fires missiles that land far from any target and U.S. attacks Libyan patrol
boats, killing 72, and shore installations. When a bomb goes off in a Berlin
nightclub, killing three, the U.S. charges that Qaddafi was behind it
(possibly true) and conducts major bombing raids in Libya, killing dozens of
civilians, including Qaddafi's adopted daughter.8
1982: U.S. gives "green light" to Israeli invasion of Lebanon,9
killing some 17 thousand civilians.10 U.S. chooses not to invoke its laws
prohibiting Israeli use of U.S. weapons except in self_defense. U.S. vetoes
several Security Council resolutions condemning the invasion.
1983: U.S. troops sent to Lebanon as part of a multinational peacekeeping
force; intervene on one side of a civil war, including bombardment by USS New
Jersey. Withdraw after suicide bombing of marine barracks.
1984: U.S._backed rebels in Afghanistan fire on civilian airliner.11
1987-92: U.S. arms used by Israel to repress first Palestinian Intifada. U.S.
vetoes five Security Council resolution condemning Israeli repression.
1988: Saddam Hussein kills many thousands of his own Kurdish population and
uses chemical weapons against them. The U.S. increases its economic ties to
Iraq.
1988: U.S. vetoes 3 Security Council resolutions condemning continuing
Israeli occupation of and repression in Lebanon.
1990_91: U.S. rejects any diplomatic settlement of the Iraqi invasion of
Kuwait (for example, rebuffing any attempt to link the two regional
occupations, of Kuwait and of Palestine). U.S. leads international coalition
in war against Iraq. Civilian infrastructure targeted.12 To promote
"stability" U.S. refuses to aid post_war uprisings by Shi'ites in
the south and Kurds in the north, denying the rebels access to captured Iraqi
weapons and refusing to prohibit Iraqi helicopter flights.13
1991_: Devastating economic sanctions are imposed on Iraq. U.S. and Britain
block all attempts to lift them. Hundreds of thousands die. Though Security
Council had stated that sanctions were to be lifted once Saddam Hussein's
programs to develop weapons of mass destruction were ended, Washington makes
it known that the sanctions would remain as long as Saddam remains in power.
Sanctions in fact strengthen Saddam's position. Asked about the horrendous
human consequences of the sanctions, Madeleine Albright (U.S. ambassador to
the UN and later Secretary of State) declares that "the price is worth
it."14
1991-: U.S. forces permanently based in Saudi Arabia.
1993_: U.S. launches missile attack on Iraq, claiming self_defense against an
alleged assassination attempt on former president Bush two months earlier.15
1998: U.S. and U.K. bomb Iraq over the issue of weapons inspections, even
though Security Council is just then meeting to discuss the matter.
1998: U.S. destroys factory producing half of Sudan's pharmaceutical supply,
claiming retaliation for attacks on U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya and
that factory was involved in chemical warfare. Evidence for the chemical
warfare charge widely disputed.16
2000-: Israel uses U.S. arms in attempt to crush Palestinian uprising,
killing hundreds of civilians.
Notes
1. Douglas Little, "Cold War and Covert Action: The United States and
Syria, 1945_1958," Middle East Journal, vol. 44, no. 1, Winter 1990, pp.
55_57.
2. Thomas Powers, The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA,
New York: Knopf, 1979, p. 130.
3. Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn, Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection
of Saddam Hussein, New York: Harperperennial. 1999, p. 74; Edith and E. F.
Penrose, Iraq: International Relations and National Development, Boulder:
Westview, 1978, p. 288; Hanna Batatu, The Old Social Classes and the
Revolutionary Movements of Iraq, Princeton: Princeton UP, 1978, pp. 985_86.
4. U.S. House of Representatives, Select Committee on Intelligence, 19 Jan.
1976 (Pike Report) in Village Voice, 16 Feb. 1976. The Pike Report attributes
the quote only to a "senior official"; William Safire (Safire's
Washington, New York: Times Books, 1980, p. 333) identifies the official as
Kissinger.
5. UN Doc. # S/11898, session # 1862. For a full list of U.S. vetoes in the
Security Council on Middle East issues, along with full text of the draft
resolutions, see the compilation by David Paul at http://www.salam.
org/policy/ veto.html.
6. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security
Adviser, 1977-1981 (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983), pp. 364-64, 375,
378-79; Gary Sick, All Fall Down: America's Tragic Encounter with Iran (New
York: Penguin, 1986), pp. 147-48, 167, 179.
7. Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Le Nouvel Observateur (France), Jan
15-21, 1998, p. 76.
8. See the sources in Stephen R. Shalom, Imperial Alibis (Boston: South End
Press, 1993, chapter 7.
9. Ze'ev Schiff, "Green Light, Lebanon," Foreign Policy, Spring
1983.
10. Robert Fisk, "The Awesome Cruelty of a Doomed Poeple,"
Independent, 12 Sept. 2001, p. 6. Fisk is one of the most knowledgeable
Westerners reporting on Lebanon.
11. UPI, "Afghan Airliner Lands After Rebel Fire Hits It," NYT, 26
Sept. 1984, p. A9.
12. See, for example, Barton Gellman, "Allied Air War Struck Broadly in
Iraq; Officials Acknowledge Strategy Went Beyond Purely Military
Targets," Washington Post, 23 June 1991, p. A1. See also Thomas J. Nagy,
"The Secret Behind the Sanctions," Progressive, Sept. 2001.
13. Cockburn and Cockburn, Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam
Hussein, chap. 1.
14. Cockburn and Cockburn, Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam
Hussein, chap. 5. Albright quote is from CBS News, 60 Minutes, 12 May 1996.
15. On the dubious nature of the evidence, see Seymour Hersh, New Yorker,
Nov. 1, 1993.
16. See Seymour Hersh, New Yorker, Oct. 12, 1998.
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A Tale of Two Cities: â€Å"Original Child Bomb�
An extraordinary documentary looks at the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
By RAYMOND A. SCHROTH National Catholic Reporter, July 29, 2005
â€Å"It is a thing of beauty
to behold,� wrote The New York Times’ William L.
Laurence of the atomic bomb nestled in the belly of the B-29, Aug. 9, 1945,
on the way to Nagasaki. Did he feel any pity or compassion for the â€Å"poor
devils about to die�? Not when he thought â€Å"of Pearl Harbor or the
Death March on Bataan.�
Awestruck, he watched the black object fall and the ball of fire rise. His
imagination struggled to match metaphors to what he saw: It was a â€Å"new
species� being born, a flower, a mushroom 45,000 feet high topped by creamy foam,
a thousand Old Faithfuls, a decapitated monster growing a new head.
When the first bomb hit Hiroshima three days before, my family was on
vacation on a farm in Pennsylvania. When we heard the news on the radio, I
remember looking up â€Å"atomic� in the dictionary. That night on a
horseback ride I saw a comet course across the sky. Was this an omen of world
peace? I was 12 years old.
It was not until I read John Hersey’s Hiroshima, with its description of
the 20 men whose faces had
been turned upward when the bomb exploded, that I knew what happened to those
â€Å"poor devils� below: Their eyeballs had melted and
run down their cheeks. Around 1949, Fr. Schiffer, a Jesuit who had survived
Hiroshima, addressed our high school,
St. Joe’s Prep. I remember the scars from the shattered glass on his bony
face.
â€Å"Original Child Bomb,� first released in 2004, is an
extraordinary documentary on the moral impact of dropping the first atom
bombs. Directed by Carey Schonegevel
and produced by Mary Becker, it is, in a sense, made to educate â€Å"children� like me. The American and Japanese
generation with any memory of August 1945 is dying out. We turn to the visual
arts, to its graphic depiction of human suffering, to render today’s viewers more compassionate.
Ms. Becker’s father was a U.S. sailor in the Pacific when the bomb dropped.
Inspired by Thomas Merton’s poem â€Å"Original Child Bomb,� haunted by her visit to the Hiroshima
Peace Memorial Museum and the 9/11 images
of the planes hitting the Twin Towers and bodies tumbling through the air,
she has moved toward this documentary for more than 20 years. She has woven
together long-suppressed film footage and photos, drawings and animation,
interviews with survivors and contemporary teenagers, statistics on the
carnage, and Merton’s text.
The film opens with old color footage of pre-bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki
street life in 1945. Children exercise, play baseball and dance. Men and
women circulate in the outdoor market, cut wheat, eat lunch. A plane appears
in the sky. The screen erupts in an animated blast. A woman’s body flies
through the air. America celebrates. WAR IS OVER. President Truman proclaims
the â€Å"biggest achievement of organized science in history.�
Then -- red, withered faces; chests, backs, breasts, legs blistered, torn,
gone. A witness told Ms. Becker her friend had looked like â€Å"a fish on a
charcoal grill.� In a few days came the effects of
radiation -- vomiting blood, diarrhea, paralysis.
By the 1960s, a cloistered
Trappist monk, writing daily in his cell, had become the religious voice of
the antiwar movement. Merton’s prose-poem, a 41-stanza narrative, moves
from President Truman’s first learning about the project in April to the
70,000 killed by the first bomb, which the Japanese called â€Å"original
child� because it was the first of its kind.
The poet’s brutal ironies illuminate the moral madness behind the decision:
Many advisers opposed its use, yet some insisted that using it just once or twice â€Å"would produce
eternal peace.� The president’s committee picked
Hiroshima because â€Å"it had not been bombed at all. Lucky Hiroshima! What
others had experienced over a period of four years would happen to Hiroshima
in a single day! Much time
would be saved, and ‘time is money.’ �
In a classroom discussion among American students who have viewed the
Hiroshima pictures, one asks, when will the blind cycle of Pearl Harbor to
Hiroshima -- they BOOM us, we BOOM them -- stop? Another concludes: â€Å"Americans have a hard
time feeling compassion for people other than themselves.�
In a creative riff, the producers send a present-day Hiroshima teenager in a
backward baseball cap and earphones on a walk through the modern city,
leading into the wreckage
of 1945. He hears the voices of victims pleading with a woman with milk in
her breasts to share it with another’s starving baby.
The film ends too quickly with its warning that the Bush administration has
not learned the futility of atomic war: While the United States threatens
Iran and Korea lest they develop nuclear capabilities, we order a whole new
family of tactical nuclear weapons we are all too ready to use.
â€Å"Original Child Bomb� will be shown on the Sundance TV
Channel Aug. 6 and 7.
Jesuit Fr. Raymond A. Schroth teaches journalism ethics at St. Peter’s
College in Jersey City.
http://briarholler. blogspot. com/2005/ 07/hiroshima-
at-60-children- of-bomb-speak. html
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Headlines like â€Å"Jap City No More� soon brought the news to a joyous
nation. Crowds gathered in Times Square to celebrate; there was less of the
enemy left. Rarely are victors encumbered by remorse. President Harry Truman declared:
â€Å"When you have to deal with a beast you have to treat him as a beast. It is
most regrettable but nevertheless true.�[ii]
Not surprisingly, six decades later, even American liberals remain ambivalent
about the morality of
nuking the two Japanese cities. The late Hans Bethe, Nobel Prize winner in
physics of Manhattan Project fame and a leading exponent of arms control,
declared that â€Å"the atom bomb was the greatest gift we could have given to
the Japanese�[iii].
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Pervez Hoodbhoy August 06, 2005 http://www.zmag.
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A New Look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 06, 2005 By Frank Brodhead
http://www.zmag.
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For the last 60 years we have been taught that the atomic bombs used on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended World War II. To be sure, there has been an
intense debate about whether the bombs were necessary to end the war, or
whether there were alternatives. Now a new study argues that not only were
there alternatives to using the atomic bombs, but that the atomic bombs were
essentially irrelevant in ending the war.
This argument is presented in Tsuyoshi Hasegawa's meticulously researched
study, Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan. While
building on an immense amount or research by many historians, Hasekgawa uses
U.S., Japanese, and (for the first time) Soviet archives to take a new look
at the Japanese decision making process that culminated in Emperor Hirohito's
"sacred decision" to "bear the unbearable" and surrender
to the allies. This hour-by-hour examination of why and how the Japanese
leadership decided to surrender finds that it was the Soviet declaration of
war on August 8th – and not the Hiroshima bomb on August 6th or the
Nagasaki bomb on August 9th – that led to surrender. As Hasegawa notes in
his conclusion, "Justifying Hiroshima and Nagasaki by making a
historically unsustainable argument that the atomic bombs ended the war is no
longer tenable" (pp. 299-300).
Why the Soviet declaration of war, and not the atomic bombs, was the critical
event leading to surrender will be discussed shortly. But it is worth noting
at the outset that Hasegawa's chronology and his interpretation of the U.S.
government's diplomacy toward Japan in July and August of 1945 leads to some
very disturbing conclusions.
The first conclusion largely supports the so-called "revisionist"
interpretation of why the atomic bombs were used. Where the "traditional"
interpretation argues that the bombs were used to end the war before an
invasion of the Japanese home islands was necessary, and that there were no
realistic alternatives to using nuclear weapons, the "revisionist"
interpretation argues that there were additional factors or motives within
U.S. policy making circles that were pressing for their use. According to the
"revisionist" argument, Truman and his advisers did not consider
alternatives to the bombs because, in addition to ending the war against Japan,
they wanted to demonstrate the power of the bomb– and thus the greatly
increased military power of the United States – to the Soviet Union. In
using atomic bombs against Japan, therefore, the United States not only ended
the war and opened the "Nuclear Age," but it also opened the era of
"atomic diplomacy" and
gave a powerful boost to the emerging Cold War.
Secondly, Hasegawa makes a strong case that Truman was so determined to use
the atomic bomb on Japan that that he rejected alternatives that might end
the war before the bomb was available. In addition to the factor of
"atomic diplomacy" noted above, Truman also wanted to revenge Pearl
Harbor and the special savagery with which the Pacific war was fought. Any
possible modification of the demand that Japan surrender
"unconditionally, " therefore, was rejected not only for objections
to any particular modification – for example, that the safety of Emperor
Hirohito be guaranteed – but because there was the danger that Japan might
accept such terms and the opportunity to use the atomic bomb on Japanese
cities would be lost.
As Hasegawa notes, the responsibility of Japanese leaders, including the
Emperor, for the tragedy of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was very
large. Their continuation of the war after the loss of Okinawa was totally
irresponsible and demonstrates how little the well being of their countrymen
counted against the mystifications of preserving the Emperor system and the
virtues of military glory. But the declaration by the Japanese government on
August 10th that the United States was guilty of a "crime against
humanity" is surely accurate, and judgment should be rendered, at least
in our understanding of the tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan
The use of the atomic bombs in the context of the US-Soviet rivalry at the
end of the Pacific war has been explored by many historians. At the Yalta
conference in February 1945, the Soviet Union reaffirmed its earlier pledges
to enter the Pacific war three months after the end of the war in Europe. At
the Potsdam conference in July 1945, Stalin told Truman and Churchill that
the Soviet Union would declare war on Japan shortly after August 15th.
Once information about the power of the atomic bomb test in New Mexico
reached Truman in Potsdam on July 21st, observers reported that Truman
appeared very energized and became more aggressive toward the Soviets in
negotiating the many outstanding issues on the table regarding especially the
postwar settlements in Europe and Asia.
In addition to Truman's "atomic diplomacy," the atomic bomb
appeared to offer the Americans a way to end the Pacific war before the
Soviets could enter it. Truman immediately authorized the use of two atomic
bombs against a short list of Japanese cities that included Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. The bombs were to be used as soon as possible; the understanding
was that this would be on August 3rd or as soon as weather conditions over
Japan permitted. Truman hoped, and expected, that the bombs would force Japan
to surrender before the Soviets could enter the war.
For their part, the Soviet Union planned to declare war according to the
timetable noted above in part to secure the territorial concessions that it
had been promised by Roosevelt and Churchill at the Yalta conference in
February. This was mostly territory seized from Russia by Japan at the
conclusion of the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5. As the relations between the
United States and the Soviet Union deteriorated after the death of Roosevelt
in April, the Soviets saw their entry into the Pacific war as increasingly
urgent, no longer trusting the United States to fulfill its earlier pledges.
Stalin also expected to be included in the postwar settlement and
administration of Japan, along the lines of the four-power occupation of
Germany that accompanied the end of the war in Germany.
Throughout the war in Europe, the Soviet Union had a Neutrality Treaty with
Japan, though they had given the Japanese notice in April 1945 that it would
be terminated in 1946. As Japan's military prospects collapsed in 1945,
keeping the Soviets out of the Pacific war became the main focus of Japanese
diplomacy. In addition to not wanting the power of the Soviet military
brought to bear against the Japanese forces in Manchuria and Korea, the
Japanese Foreign Office somewhat ludicrously hoped that the Soviets would
agree to broker or mediate a peace treaty with the United States and Britain
that would be less severe than "unconditional surrender." Because
it had broken the Japanese diplomatic code, the "Magic intercepts,"
the United States was aware of these diplomatic moves; and Japan's offers
were also communicated to the Allies by the Soviets.
But the importance of this diplomacy to the Japanese "peace party"
has not been thoroughly explored until now. Realistically or not, the
Japanese leaders maintained the hope that the Soviets would save them right
up to the declaration of war by the Soviets on August 8th. It was only at
that point that they realized that all was lost. Similarly, the Japanese
military's unrealistic belief that it could achieve consolation and glory by
one final battle against the invaders of the home islands could not stand up
to the prospect of a Soviet invasion of Manchuria and the northernmost home
island of Hokkaido. And finally, the great fear shared by all the Japanese
leaders that domestic unrest would overthrow their leadership from within was
amplified by the prospect of communist armies on their soil.
By contrast, records of the Japanese government deliberations show that the
military leaders appeared unfazed by the bombing of Hiroshima, and the
bombing of Nagasaki was barely mentioned in the cabinet discussions of that
day. Indeed, regarding the bombing of Hiroshima, Hasegawa observes that,
"If anything, the atomic bomb on Hiroshima further contributed to their
desperate effort to terminate the war through Moscow's mediation" (p.
186).
The Potsdam Proclamation and the Japanese Surrender
According to Hasegawa, the United States constructed its end-game diplomacy
with Japan not to seek its surrender, but to justify using the atomic bomb.
This was the import of the Potsdam Proclamation and the US insistence on
retaining the stance of "unconditional surrender."
The allied conference at Potsdam began on July 7th and ended on August 2nd.
Both the United States and the Soviets brought to the conference the draft of
a proclamation calling on Japan to surrender. Both of them contained the
demand for unconditional surrender. The American draft promised that if Japan
did not surrender, it would be met with "prompt and utter destruction.
" This was the only "reference" to the atomic bomb in the
proclamation, though it obviously could not be understood by the Japanese to
refer to such weapons.
The original plans for a joint proclamation demanding Japan's surrender
envisioned that it would be issued at the time of the Soviet declaration of
war on Japan. Once the news from New Mexico had been received that the atomic
bomb test was successful, and the United States could attempt to end the war
by using the atomic bomb before the Soviets could declare war on Japan, it
became vital that the Soviets be excluded from being a signatory to the
proclamation. The British and Americans accomplished this essentially by
lying to the Soviets, hoping in this way to exclude the Soviets from the
postwar settlement if the war ended quickly. Ironically, by excluding
Stalin's signature from the proclamation, the Japanese were misled to believe
that there was a division between Stalin and Truman and Churchill. This
encouraged them to continue their diplomatic strategy with the Soviets for a
mediated settlement, and lessened the pressure within Japan's leadership
circles to consider the proclamation as the basis of surrender negotiations.
But the most important point about the Potsdam proclamation, according to
Hasegawa, was that it was drafted with the intention of being rejected, and
thus justifying using the atomic bombs. Referring to James Byrnes, Truman's
Secretary of State, Hasegawa summarizes his stance at Potsdam thusly:
In Byrnes's mind the atomic bomb ... would force Japan to surrender and
forestall Soviet entry into the war. The atomic bomb had to be used. In order
to drop the bomb, the United States had to issue the ultimatum to Japan,
warning that the rejection of the terms specified in the proclamation would
result in â€ËÅ"prompt and utter destruction. ' And this proclamation had to
be rejected by the Japanese in order to justify the use of the atomic bomb.
The best way to accomplish all this was to insist upon unconditional
surrender... . Byrnes knew even before the Japanese responded to the Potsdam
Proclamation that the document was the prelude to the bomb. (158)
The proclamation was "issued" by broadcasting it over the radio.
When the Japanese government did not directly respond to the proclamation –
intensifying its diplomacy with the Soviets, as noted above – the Japanese
press stated that the government had chosen to "ignore" the proclamation.
On the basis of such press reports, Truman maintained then and to his dying
day that the Japanese had rejected the allies' ultimatum. As one conservative
US diplomat put it, "There seemed to be an eagerness for grasping at any
excuse for dropping the bomb" (170).
Conclusion
Though Truman maintained that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were military targets,
the bombs killed 110,000 civilians and 20,000 military personnel instantly.
Tens of thousands more died later from radiation sickness. Many historians
reasonably argue that the fire-bombing of Tokyo, Dresden, and other cities
had so eroded the protections that the laws of war were supposed to extend to
noncombatants that the atomic bombings were simply more of the same. Others
note that the loss of so many lives in a single instant, and the lingering
deaths suffered by so many thousands who fell victim to radiation poisoning,
marked the atomic bomb as a qualitatively new kind of weapon of mass
destruction. In either case, the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
opened an age of terror that is still with us. But it can no longer be
maintained that the bombs helped to end World War II and in saving many lives
by shortening the war were therefore justified.
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12. (A Must Read) Parental Alienation Syndrome Much Common Abuse of Non
Posted by: "Imran Majeed" imran.majeed@yahoo.com imran.majeed
Date: Thu May 21, 2009 11:36 am ((PDT))
Another eye opening case in this age of modernism, civil rights, justice, freedom and fundamental, basic and natural rights...seems like these are mere words in situations like these even in so called most civilized and developed countries what to speak of lesser countries....see this case summed up in following excerpts:
Family courts are not supposed to reward abusive parents, and punish
parents who play by the rules. They are not supposed to allow an abusive
parent to nullify the responsible parent's role in a child's life. But
that is exactly what an Ontario court has done in a case of parental
alienation. It has, in effect, disposed of the child's father, perhaps
permanently.
If those
accusations were true, asked Mr. Justice Leonard Ricchetti, why then did
she agree, in a formal, court- approved settlement, to allow him any
access to their daughter? And why, he asked, make that settlement if she
never intended to comply with its terms? (She was found in contempt of
court for taking her child to Saudi Arabia.)
Children are entitled to have as much contact as possible with both
their parents. But that principle of law was knocked easily aside by an
abusive parent. (Denying a child contact with another parent is deemed
abuse in Ontario child-protection law.) Is it more important for a girl
to have "a seven-bedroom home with two nannies" or a father, even if he
is a hospital chaplain of limited means? One wonders whether a court, if
the situation were reversed, would dispose so readily of a responsible
mother of limited means.
Mr. Justice Ricchetti expressed frustration
that Tasnim Elwan beat the system by flagrantly violating court
orders, spiriting Ihsan out of the country, and taking every measure
possible to keep them apart.
Mr. Al-Taher is blameless, Judge Ricchetti
said. Nonetheless, he said Ihsan has been so thoroughly alienated
that granting her father any form of access would be harmful to her.
"I cannot state strongly enough
the court's condemnation of the mother's lack of
consideration for Ihsan's interest that she have a
relationship with her biological father, and the actions
she has taken towards the father," Judge Ricchetti said.
In his ruling, Judge Ricchetti branded
Ihsan's mother, Tasnim Elwan, a mischief-maker, a liar and a
manipulator who has systemically thumbed her nose at the court and
at common decency.
He said Ms. Elwan falsely
accused Mr. Al-Taher of being a Jew-hating member of
Hamas who trained in al-Qaeda terrorist camps and who is
mentally ill.
"It is difficult to conceive of
a more vicious attack on an individual on every basis
conceivable," Judge Ricchetti said.
Mr. Al-Taher and Ms. Elwan were
married in 1998 and separated on Feb. 14, 2005. They
reached a settlement granting Ms. Elwan custody of Ihsan
and permission to move to Vancouver. In return, she was
to provide Mr. Al-Taher generous access, particularly
during vacation periods.
Upon arriving in Vancouver, Ms.
Elwan cut off all communication with Mr. Al-Taher and
then surreptitiously moved to Saudi Arabia, where she
married a wealthy man and immersed Ihsan in local
culture.
Prof. Bala said the case also
shows that it is urgent for the justice system to
respond rapidly when an alienation case surfaces.
"With hindsight we can see that
once the mother was able to move with the child and
effectively prevent her from seeing her father and him
from seeking legal redress, she was able to change her
child's perception of reality and destroy the child's
relationship with her father," he said.
Prof. Bala said rigorous therapy is
sometimes necessary to break a parent's hold over a child.
"There are programs in the
United States - such as that of Dr. Richard Warshak -
that have had some success in restoring a child's
relationship with even a severely alienated parent," he
said. "But this would require giving the father custody
and suspending contact with the mother. This was not an
option in this case due to expense and the father's
limited means."
"The Mother clearly has done everything she
can against the Father to prevent the relationship between the
Father and Ihsan, without regard to the fact it would be in the best
interests of Ihsan to have a relationship with her biological
father."
Cheers! Â Imran Islamabad-44000
Pakistan
(Which World? First? Second or third?)
Planet Earth, Solar System, Universe!
--- On Wed, 5/20/09, Grant Wilson <yahoogroups@canadiancrc.com> wrote:
From: Grant Wilson <yahoogroups@canadiancrc.com>
Subject: [Men's Issues Online] PAS - Globe and Mail Editorial condeming judge's decision on PAS case
To: "Men's Issues Online" <MensIssuesOnline@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 9:54 PM
Success, in contempt PAS
Globe Editorial
The Globe and Mail ( Canada's largest national daily newspaper ), 20 May 2009
Family courts are not supposed to reward abusive parents, and punish
parents who play by the rules. They are not supposed to allow an abusive
parent to nullify the responsible parent's role in a child's life. But
that is exactly what an Ontario court has done in a case of parental
alienation. It has, in effect, disposed of the child's father, perhaps
permanently.
http://www.canadian crc.com/Newspape r_Articles/ Globe_and_ Mail_Success- in_contempt_ Parental_ Alienation_ Tasnim_Elwan_ 20MAY09.aspx
Also see the case at:
JUSTICE / 'IT IS DIFFICULT TO CONCEIVE OF A MORE VICIOUS ATTACK'
Blameless father a victim in brainwashing case
Judge lets mother move child away, but condemns her tactics in denying father access
The Globe and mail, by KIRK MAKIN, JUSTICE REPORTER, May 19, 2009
The family law system has failed Ayman Al-Taher, leaving him just one sustaining force as he battles for his severely alienated daughter: his faith.
A Muslim chaplain at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, Mr. Al-Taher's last hope of seeing his 10-year-old child Ihsan slipped away last week, after Ontario Superior Court Judge Leonard Ricchetti permitted her mother to move their daughter to Saudi Arabia.
Mr. Justice Ricchetti expressed frustration that Tasnim Elwan beat the system by flagrantly violating court orders, spiriting Ihsan out of the country, and taking every measure possible to keep them apart.
http://www.canadian crc.com/Newspape r_Articles/ Globe_and_ Mail_Blameless_ father_a_ victim_in_ brainwashing_ case_Parental_ Alienation_ 19MAY09.aspx
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13. IS THE GOVT OF PAKISTAN BLIND ?
Posted by: "barkat rizvi" barkatr@yahoo.com barkatr
Date: Thu May 21, 2009 11:36 am ((PDT))
Kurram agency has been blocked from the rest of Pakistan by the Taliban for more than 16months.
Kurram medicine shortage kills 43 children in 3 weeks
LAHORE: Two children died in Upper Kurram Agency because of shortage of medicines on Wednesday, increasing the number of such deaths to 43 in three weeks, a private TV channel reported.
According to the channel, children suffering from stomach-related diseases have been admitted to the Agency Headquarters Hospital in Parachinar and other hospitals. According to medics, there is a severe shortage of life-saving drugs and other essential medicines in the agency as the Thal-Parachinar road has been close for four months. Residents have to travel to Afghanistan to reach Peshawar for medical treatment. daily times monitor
SAROSH
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14. Re: [pakibaba] Secret Of Israel Success...
Posted by: "Imran Majeed" imran.majeed@yahoo.com imran.majeed
Date: Thu May 21, 2009 11:37 am ((PDT))
dear paki baba owner and moderator....first i wish to show my utter disappointment at not getting what one's expects from a purported group likew this!!! then i am further amazed at your this blatant intellectual misaapropriation for not including my these comments with this earlier posting of mine these are my comments on this posted article which was sure motivated by certain intents and purposes:
"see this..another propagandist view....twisting of historical facts and
attributing anything to past events and personalities whatever suits
for the occasion....
Cheers! Â Imran Islamabad-44000
Pakistan"
so in all fairness and ethics plz circulate this clarification for the common good.....
Cheers! Â Imran Islamabad-44000
Pakistan
(Which World? First? Second or third?)
Planet Earth, Solar System, Universe!
--- On Fri, 5/15/09, Imran Majeed <imran.majeed@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Imran Majeed <imran.majeed@yahoo.com>
Subject: [pakibaba] Secret Of Israel Success...
To:
Date: Friday, May 15, 2009, 4:21 AM
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15. Weekly Worker #770 (May 21) available online now
Posted by: "Steve Cooke" smcooke@gmail.com comradecooke
Date: Thu May 21, 2009 11:37 am ((PDT))
Weekly Worker 770 – Thursday May 21 2009
The latest edition of the Weekly Worker is now available on the CPGB
website at www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/770
In this week's issue:
LETTERS
National socialist; Not us; Green hope; Flip-flop; Training; Prole
goal; Money rules; Workers v BNP; Apology
DEFENDING TYRANTS PAST AND PRESENT
Darya Homan slates Povey's Shah Abbas encomium
OVER A PINT IN THE PUB
Peter Manson spoke to Dave Nellist of the Socialist Party in England
and Wales, who heads the No2EU West Midlands list in the EU elections
HOPEFUL OF BEING ELECTED
Ex-Labour leftwinger Dave Hill tops the No2EU list in the South East.
He also spoke to Peter Manson
FOR RECALLABLE MPS ON A WORKER'S WAGE
James Turley brings down some false hares raised during the crisis
over MPs' scams
REPUBLIC VERSUS BNP
Dave Craig calls for a republican convention of the left
LEADER REMAINS SUPREME
The farce called Iran's presidential election will be contested by
four serious contenders, writes Yassamine Mather
REPUBLICAN DEMOCRACY, VOTING TACTICS, AND COMMUNIST STRATEGY
Jack Conrad explains the approach of the CPGB's PCC
LEFT SLIDES IN INDIAN ELECTIONS
'Official communist' gambit fails, writes Jim Moody
A PDF version of the paper can be downloaded at
www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/770/ww770.pdf
The CPGB's weekly podcast is also available at http://cpgb.podbean.com/
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16. PRABHAKARAN DEATH Claimed, Long Live Tamil Ealam! India ACTION Plan
Posted by: "palashc biswas" palashcbiswas@yahoo.co.uk palashcbiswas
Date: Thu May 21, 2009 11:37 am ((PDT))
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2009 Lok Sabha election: Final tally
The EC has announced results for all the 543 elected seats of the Lok Sabha, giving the United Progressive Alliance 262 seats.
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Sri Lanka crisis deepens as Red Cross suspends aid! The blocking of access to the battle zone has raised fears for the fate of those civilians too sick or injured to flee the area by foot. Those who escaped had to wade through a mine-strewn lagoon, journeying several days to reach camps that are struggling to cope.The United Nations on Wednesday accused the Sri Lankan authorities of blocking access to civilians trapped in the former war zone or who have fled to camps for displaced people.
India to receive first Phalcon AWACS on May 24.
India Incs has issued guidelines for the Government of India led by Washington slave Dr Manmohan Singh to be sworn in for back to back Second Tenure! Congress leader Manmohan Singh will Friday be sworn in as prime minister of India for the second consecutive term after President Pratibha Patil invited him to head the government and asked him to advise her on the council of ministers.Â
SOME OF the commercial euphoria that has greeted the UPA victory is based on the sense of relief the country feels at finally having a stable, Communist-less government in place. But some of it also stems from the perception that this is going to be a reform-friendly government.
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What a difference an electoral defeat can make. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is being targeted â€" this time, not by secular and civil society activists, but by senior leaders of his own party.
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After shedding some of the baggage of demanding allies, a resurgent Congress is getting ready to give a new veneer to governance by splitting ministries which had been clubbed in 2004 to keep its partners in good humour.
Maoist Government led by PRACHANDA has been dislodged in Nepal with resurgence of Manusmriti Hegemony there.
United States of America tears apart the landscape as well as human scape in Pakistan.
AFPAK US Policy is the Key stone of south Asian politics and economy!
Desi Illuminati led by Zionist Hindutva, Civil society, Intelligentsia, Media and Bureaucrats Manipulated Caste Hindu Vote bank Mobilisation to Ensure Land slide mandate so that Economic Reforms may continue. PSUs are on SALE OFF! Hundred day ACTION Plan for Mass Destruction is already initiated even before shaping of the New government. Policy making and Governance is decided by Professional Business Management with THREE HUNDRED and Plus Millionaire MPS` strength!
The Projected face of the so called THIRD FRONT is now the face of UPA Subordination. Also subordinated have been DEVEGAUDA, CB Naidu, Sharad Yadav, Lalu and Paswan, Nitish and Patnaik as well as Jailalita and Mulayam Singh Yadav.
PARTIES CUTTING across the political spectrum are flocking to the Congress in the hope of stitching up alliances â€" from the Samajwadi Party to the Nagaland People’s Front. JD(S) chief H.D. Deve Gowda spoke to Manmohan Singh, while his son H.D. Kumaraswamy met Sonia Gandhi, ostensibly to keep communal forces at bay.
Since CPIM General Secretary Prakash Karat has DECOUPLED the party with the national ruling Manusmriti Hegemony for the First Time after 1969, the LEFT is alone. But we may not EXPECT the Marxists to lead RESISTANCE whatsoever the Bengali as well Malyali Brahmin comrades are more interested to SAVE the RED Bastions in Bengal and Kerala and have finished Trade Union, Student and peasant movements in this part of the world.
Provided the Marxists lift themselves over Power Sharing and regional interests , even in a such situation, I am afraid our Comrades would not be able to mobilise the JUNK Party Organisation disabling the Regimented anti People Gestapo habitual in Ethnic cleansing and genocide culture!
Worse, our comrades now have CEASED to believe in Ideology and tagged the party with Capitalist Global Post Modern Zionist Corporate Order!
Manmohan Singh was today appointed Prime Minister for a second consecutive term, for which he will be sworn-in on May 22, after the UPA coalition staked its claim to form the government with the backing of 322 MPs. Apparently in view of the comfortable numbers the coalition has in the 543-member Lok Sabha, the President has not asked the Prime Minister to prove his strength in the House.Â
“I have pleasure to appoint you the Prime Minister and request you to advise me on the names of the others to be appointed to the council of ministers. “I propose to administer the oath of office and secrecy to you on Friday, 22nd May 2009 at the Rashtrapati Bhawan at a mutually convenient time,� President Pratibha Patil said in her letter handed over to Singh when he called on her along with UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
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Reading out the President’s letter, Singh said “you will come to know in due course of time� when asked whether MPs outside the pre-poll allies would included in the new ministry.
Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is dead, the Sri Lankan government said Monday, ending the rebel chief’s nearly three-decade mission to establish an independent state for minority Tamils.Sri Lanka’s trade deficit for the first quarter of 2009 narrowed 54 percent as imports fell faster than exports, while its March-end foreign exchange reserves were sufficient only to finance 5 weeks of imports, the central bank said on Monday. The trade deficit in the first quarter narrowed to $644.6 million from $1.4 billion a year earlier.
Sri Lanka’s share market jumped over 100 points or 5 percent on Monday, after the president this weekend said the nation had won its 25-year war with the Tamil Tiger separatists, stockbrokers said. “The market is up more than 100 points and the trades are very rapid after the war victory sentiment,� said Hussain Ghani, associate director at Asia Securities.
There are nearly 2 million Sri Lankan Tamils living outside Sri Lanka. They have for years supported the Tamil political struggle. Even today pro LTTE websites are being run from outside Sri Lanka with images of Prabhakaran’s dead body being flashed across the media.
he International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been forced to suspend the distribution of emergency supplies to as many as 300,000 people displaced by the Sri Lankan Army’s victory over the Tamil Tigers after the Government blocked access to aid camps.
Fears have been growing over the welfare of those forced to flee the conflict zone â€" many of whom are sick or suffering from battlefield injuries â€" after tight restrictions were placed on the UN and other agencies trying to administer aid.
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Urgently needed supplies of food and clothing had been suspended after access to the camps was restricted by the Government, an ICRC spokesperson told The Times this morning.
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The ICRC had been the only neutral aid organisation allowed inside the conflict zone. It had between 20 and 25 staff on the ground in the northeastern region where the Tigers made their last stand over the weekend but has not heard from them since last week.
Further public offerings in companies with significant government holdings including Hindustan Copper, NMDC, Neyvelli Lignite, Power Finance Corporation, Indian Oil Corporation and others where government holding is above 85% is another option that government is expected to look into. Most of these stocks have rallied between 15% and 20% on Monday.
The AWACS will provide India means to track incoming missiles and look deep into the neighbouring countries under all weather conditions.On the other hand, The return to power of the Congress-led government in India will boost the bilateral “strategic partnership� between New Delhi and Moscow, a top Russian expert on India said on saturday.
Playing by the book, India has notified its decision to initiate investigations on the need to impose special import duties on hot-rolled steel, certain automobile parts, acrylic fibre and coated paper.The clear mandate handed to the Congress is good for business, good for trade and good for India, say business leaders involved in promoting business and trade ties between India and Britain.The multilateral trade talks at the World Trade Organisation is likely to gather steam after September 2009 when the new US government is expected to complete its internal review of the pact.
Meanwhile,China has lost its position as the world’s lowest-cost components manufacturer to India and Mexico, a study indicated on Wednesday, in a blow for the Asian giant as it fights the financial crisis.
Crude oil futures climbed 1.05 per cent in early trade on the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) on Wednesday as traders and speculators
indulged in creating fresh positions on expectations of a pick-up in demand amid a firming global trend.
At 1145 hrs on the MCX, crude oil for the most-active August-month contract rose 1.05 per cent to Rs 2,990 per barrel, with a trading volume of six lots. The oil for delivery in June gained 0.59 per cent to Rs 2,901 per barrel, with a trading volume of 3,819 lots.
Traders attributed the rise in crude oil on fresh buying by traders and speculators on expectations of a pick-up in demand amid a firming global trend.
Meanwhile, crude oil for July delivery rose 50 cents to USD 60.60 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Raising funds from the bourses may soon become a simpler, shorter process, as the market regulator plans an overhaul of existing norms,taking them closer to standard global practices.
According to an official close to the development, the Securities & Exchange Board of India (Sebi) will rework the norms for instruments such as qualified institutional placements (QIPs), initial public offers (IPOs) and rights issues to enable companies to raise capital quickly, mitigating the risks arising out of sudden changes in market sentiment.
The proposals were discussed at a meeting of the Primary Market Advisory Committee on Monday, he said.
On the anvil is also a new entity called the anchor investor, who will get 25% of the shares out of the 60% reserved for institutional investors in a public offer.
This investor can be defined as “a strategic investor with a longer-term view compared to others�. This will help the company raise a lumpsum amount at one go, but there will be no special pricing for the anchor shares.
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It is the only Positive sign I detect, is the RESURGENCE of Girl power, the Women EMPOWERED who have been deprived of every Human right in manusmriti rule and the Half of the Humanity on thsi part of the globe, the ARYAVARTA had been branded as Shudra. Dr BR Ambedkar did draft the HINDU CODE Bill to LIBERATE The so called SHUDRAS , the Fair SEX! But Nehru was quite reluctant to pass the Bill in the parliament. However, the Law was ENACTED and we see the EMERGENCE of the Girl Power.
What the Women may dare to do, I have witnessed in Karnataka where the ladies run the Dalit panchayats and implemented Land reforms without any Ideology or party. They manage VILLAGE affairs with EFFICIENCY. They ABOLISHED the Practice of Untouchability whereever they work. The liberated the Bonded labour.
We witnessed WOMAN power in Nandigram, Singur,Lalgarh, Kalingnagar and Gorkhaland Insurrections. Personally I have been witnessing the achievement of Woman Power in Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Chhattishgarh and all over the Himalayan region including Entire North east.
I saw an ad in a Bengali daily publicising a JATRA, Folk Drama: AAJKER BOUMA ATOM BOMA! Means the Moderntimes Daughters in Law are ATOM BOMBS. Absolutely CORRECT.
The marxists do realise very well waht the VIRGIN ATOM BOMB Ms Mamata Bannerjee has done assisted by Mahashweta Debi, Shaoli Mitra, Anuradha Talwar,Medha patkar, Aparna Sen, KAKOLI Ghosh Dastidar,Rtna Nag,Sonali Guha, Shatabdi Roy and so on!
Let the WOMEN take the lead. Since the AXE Effected Male is vying for Luxuries and virtual reality!
Girls outshone boys in the Class X and Class XII examinations conducted by the Council for Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) this year. While 1,08,217 students, including 60,812 boys and 47,405 girls, had appeared in Class X (ICSE), about 52,552 students, including 29,207 boys and 23,345 girls, had written the Class XII (ISC) exam, conducted in March this year.Â
The results announced by CISCE showed that 98.05 per cent students got through the ICSE while 97.08 per cent students could pass the ISC. But girls have done better than boys. Their pass percentage is 98.14 in ICSE (Class-X) against 96.90 per cent pass rate of boys, Gerry Arathoon, Additional Secretary of CISCE said.
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Similarly in ISC (Class-XII), the pass rate of girls is 98.18 per cent against 96.21 per cent by boys, he said. The highest aggregate mark is 99 per cent (English + best four subjects) at the ICSE Examination achieved by a boy.
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While 1701 candidates, including 905 girls and 796 boys, have been awarded grade 1 in each of the seven subjects. The highest aggregate mark is 99.25 per cent (English + best three subjects) at the ISC Examination attained by a boy.
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As many as 65 candidates, including 43 girls, have passed with grade 1 in each of the seven subjects.Â
 Mamata yet to take decision on joining UPA cabinet
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Kolkata, May 20 (PTI) Upbeat over her party’s good showing in the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today said she wants to devote more time to the state assembly elections even as she is yet to take a decision on her joining the UPA cabinet. “I cannot cast aside the people of West Bengal, specially when atrocities are going on after the Lok Sabha elections here.
My party will be there (in the government). If I can find time to devote to the state, then I can take a decision about myself,� she told reporters here.
Mamata wanted the assembly elections due in West Bengal in 2011 to be preponed. “The sooner the Left Front goes, the better it will be for West Bengal.
Nothing is moving in the state. Everything is at a standstill,� the Trinamool chief said.
“I want the new UPA government to complete its full five-year term and take care of agriculture, industry, people’s security and create employment opportunities,� she said. PTI.
Manmohan Singh’s second term: 100-day reforms blueprint ready
20 May 2009, 0710 hrs IST, ET Bureau
Key government departments have drawn up a slew of proposals to populate an ambitious reform agenda for the first 100 days of Manmohan Singh’s second term, as the re-elected UPA coalition talks up expectations and sets itself up to be judged early into its new stint in power.
While Prime Minister Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi hold parleys with senior party leaders and alliance partners to put the new Cabinet in place, top bureaucrats in crucial economic ministries have been readying a 100-day policy timetable, aimed at giving growth a leg-up. By Tuesday evening, the specific plans of each of the ministries had reached the desk of cabinet secretary KM Chandrashekar at Raisina Hill.
“The prime minister will take up the comprehensive programme put together by the cabinet secretary as early as Wednesday,� a top bureaucrat in a key economic ministry said.
After an unexpectedly strong showing by the Congress-led UPA coalition, which is just 11 seats short of majority in Parliament, the prime minister appears keen to make up for lost time. He had already prepared the broad contours of an economic revival plan to be taken up within days after the new government assumed office, a senior Congress leader said. Even as the election campaign was in full swing, a confident Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi had started work on an economic revival package, the Congress leader said.
A panel of experts from various sectors had been informally constituted and asked to be ready with an action plan for the first 100 days of the new government.
“The 100-day programme is expected to be taken up by the new Cabinet in its first meeting,� commerce secretary GK Pillai, a favourite to become the Cabinet secretary when the incumbent retires in June, told ET.
Led by the Cabinet secretary, the key officials working closely on the plan include finance secretary Ashok Chawla, commerce secretary Pillai and agriculture secretary T Nandakumar.
While the Congress manifesto has provided the main blueprint for the 100-day agenda, the unfinished reform programmes of various ministries too find a place.
While recommendations to revive growth and ease the credit squeeze are likely to find a place in the plan, tax proposals are expected to be taken up as budget recommendations, a bureaucrat who has been involved in devising it said.
“The Congress manifesto has called for increased oil and gas production and we are working towards meeting these objectives by getting new projects on stream shortly,� petroleum secretary RS Pandey said.
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Mayur Shetty has writen in Economic Times:
he financial services sector, the worst-hit by the downturn, has high expectations from the new government. The United Progressive Alliance’s (UPA) near-decisive mandate has improved the prospects of reform. The market remembers it was the government’s disinvestment in Maruti that sparked off one of the longest bull runs in Indian capital market’s history . In some public sector units (PSUs), particularly banks, disinvestment has improved efficiency and profits. This time around, it’s widely perceived that the government will spur foreign fund inflows by increasing the foreign direct investment (FDI) limit in insurance to 49% from 26% and also sell shares in PSUs. Public sector savings have turned negative in recent months.
But beyond these big-bang measures, there is a string of policy proposals that has been hanging fire for a long time. Moving ahead with these proposals will clear the roadblocks in the financial sector and keep the growth engine chugging . We are listing out some of them:
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Foreigners have been able to spot value better than Indians, at least as far as the stock market goes. FIIs have put in close to Rs 20,000 crore into Indian stock markets in the last 43 days since the bull rally began.
Gold exchange traded funds (ETFs), the best performing asset category in the last one year that gave stellar returns riding on the back of zooming gold prices, have hit a rough patch.
A clear majority of the Congress-led UPA government has improved the sentiment of the investor community. This is the first time since 1996 that the country has a stable government and ruling party doesn’t have to depend much on the alliance. This new unexpected scenario has created a bullish sentiment in the market.
Consultancy firm IIFL in a report said that investors would expect faster pace of market-friendly reforms. It said the focus will be on new reforms initiatives, along with pursuing existing ones taking up pending bills like insurance bill to increase the foreign holding to 49% and pension fund bill to set up Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority.
IDFC India Research said that the government has been quite vocal about taking steps to arrest the slowdown and has also indicated to go for additional expenditure if needed. It is expected that the government will go full throttle on implementation of its stimulus packages as it enjoys a free hand in the new Lok Sabha and can go ahead with its expenditure plans.
Because of the stimulus packages, the fiscal deficit is likely to widen further. This will increase government’s borrowings and put pressure on availability of resources to the private sector. Besides, this will also push the interest rates upwards, which could prove counter-productive in the revival of the economy.
However, as the Left parties will not be a part of new government, disinvestment programme can be carried forward. IDFC report said that the new government should go ahead with disinvestments in PSUS to raise funds and fill the fiscal gap created by its populist policies.
Ahead of their departure for Colombo, national security adviser M K Narayanan and foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon on Wednesday met
Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi and discussed with him issues that will come up during talks with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The two met Karunanidhi at Tamil Nadu house after which Narayanan said he came to seek his advice on issues.
“I will be leaving for Sri Lanka today and I will be holding talks there,� Narayanan told reporters after the meeting.
The two envoys are expected to take up issues like devolution of powers to Tamils in the island and their immediate rehabilitation in view of their sufferings undergone during the current war.
To a question on Prabhakaran’s fate, the NSA said “as per our information Prabhakaran is no more�.
On Tuesday, Karunanidhi had refused to believe that the LTTE supremo was dead.
“The news is not yet confirmed. I have nothing to say now on this issue,� Karunanidhi had said.
Two former top aides of Velupillai Prabhakaran flew into Sri Lanka’s northern war zone and “positively identified� the body of the slain
LTTE supremo, who led a ruthless struggle for a separate homeland for Tamils.
Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan alias Karuna, who was the Eastern commander of the LTTE before he fell out with Prabhakaran in 2004, and Daya Master, who surrendered to the army recently, were taken by the government to Puthumatalan to identify the bullet-ridden body of Prabhakaran.
“The body is of Prabhakaran’s… there is no doubt about this… Though I am bit saddened that he is no more but the fact is he never listened to anyone. He always believed that violence is the only solution,� Karuna, who is now a federal minister, said.
“It is the same..there is no change in his body. He met with this fate for his own deeds,� he said.
Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa has finally crushed the Tamil Tigers, with the reported death yesterday of Tiger chief Velupillai Prabhakaran and the collapse of his combat forces. “We have liberated the whole country from terrorism,� army chief Lt.-Gen. Sarath Fonseka told the nation, touching off wild celebrations in Colombo, the capital and marking an end to one of Asia’s longest civil wars. But while Sri Lanka’s government may have prevailed in a brutal conflict that took some 75,000 lives, it is far from winning the peace. Bitter grievances fuelled the 26-year insurgency to carve out an independent state of Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka’s Tamil-dominated northern and eastern regions. Otherwise the Tigers would never have been able to seize control of much of Sri Lanka before this defeat, running a mini state with its own army, courts and taxes, or raise $300 million a year abroad for their cause. The war may be over, but the underlying
conflict festers. Now, Tamil bitterness has been compounded by the deaths of perhaps 8,000 Tamil civilians during the Tigers’ suicidal last stand, and fears in the Canadian Tamil diaspora and elsewhere for the welfare of 265,000 displaced Tamils who languish behind barbed wire in wretched refugee camps. These are stark truths Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government should raise with the Rajapaksa government. He has some leverage, given that Canada declared the Tigers to be terrorists for their history of political assassination and suicide bombings.
Reviled by human rights groups and Tamil sympathisers throughout the world as a hawkish leader who pursued a military solution to Sri Lanka’s
ethnic conflict with no concern for civilian safety, president Mahinda Rajapaksa is basking in the adulation of his people for succeeding in his determination to wipe out ‘terrorism’ from his country.
Meanwhile,The crucial UPA meet to decide Cabinet berths concluded at 10 Janpath, the residence of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, a while ago.
All the key pre-poll partners of the Congress attended the meeting.
The European Union on Monday (18 May) called for an independent inquiry into alleged human rights violations resulting from the conflict in Sri Lanka and demanded those responsible be held to account. However, at the same as issuing strong language condemning attacks on civilians, certain EU member states continue to arm the Sri Lankan authorities in breach of the EU’s code of conduct on arms exports, according to the latest data from European governments. “The EU is appalled by the loss of innocent civilian lives as a result of the conflict and by the high numbers of casualties, including children, following recent intense fighting in northern Sri Lanka,� said European foreign ministers in a statement following a meeting in Brussels on Monday (18 May). “The EU calls for the alleged violations of these laws to be investigated through an independent inquiry,� the statement continued. “Those accountable must be brought to justice.� A number
of EU member states â€" including Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the UK, France, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Poland â€" have however continuined to arm the Sri Lankan government since the election of hardline president Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2005.
he World Food Programme (WFP) is boosting food stocks and preparing nutritionally rich food for women and children in order to meet the needs of people who have been displaced in the final days of Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war. WFP is already feeding 250,000 people in temporary transit camps in the northern areas affected by recent fighting, but the number of displaced persons is expected to rise to more than 280,000 in coming days. Over the last few months, more than 265,000 people have been displaced by battling between Sri Lankan government forces and the Tamil Tiger rebel movement. These include about 80,000 who fled the conflict zone over the weekend as the civil war came to an end. The majority of displaced persons have already passed through the government screening point at Omanthai, a town in the northern Vavuniya district. They are now in more than 40 temporary transit centres or welfare villages, primarily in Vavuniya. The displaced persons
are currently completely dependent upon humanitarian assistance to meet their basic needs.
Sri Lankan military killed thousands of Tamil civilians over the past few months (not to mention the years before) using the full might of its fire power by way of artillery and air strikes. It has, with intent, starved its own people by refusing to send food and medicine in sufficient quantities and in adequate frequencies. Crucially, this genocide by the Sri Lankan state has been enabled by the international community, including Britain. What is deeply disappointing is the fact that powerful liberal states which have long espoused human rights, the Geneva conventions and, most recently, the responsibility to protect, have all allowed thousands of innocent lives to be lost unnecessarily and with full knowledge. The slaughter went on every day, with many women and children being killed not just by the shelling but due to starvation and lack of medical care. Yet the international response, especially those of the UN and western liberal states, has been
pathetic. Mere statements after statements were released by heads of states like Gordon Brown and Barack Obama and institutions such as the UN, EU and various non-governmental organisations such as Amnesty, HRW and Crisis Group. No one showed real leadership in stopping this genocide which took place in broad daylight. Even now thousands of displaced young Tamils are being abducted and disappeared, the wounded and injured are not given medical care and families are separated and abused in overcrowded barbed-wire-fenced camps. Thousands are still lining up at check points which have no independent observers present. International media has no way of reporting without government interference.
Birds have now stopped singing in a land called Vanni. Sun, moon and the stars in the sky have hidden their faces. Angel of death flew over the skies of Vanni and took the lives of more than twenty five thousand innocent Tamil men, women and children in a single day. Thousands of wounded are still crying out for help. They are bleeding to death on the streets. They have touched neither water nor food for days. Nobody has come to rescue them. Those who fight for the rights of the animals and those who preach about Buddha and Mahatma have no compassion for the dying Tamils. Chinese weapons, Indian intelligence, Sinhala Armed personals and racist Sri Lankan leaders came together to perform one of the most cruel war that has cost the lives of many thousands innocents. While thousands of innocent children and women are facing painful and slow death, Sinhala Buddhist extremists are celebrating victory with flags and fire crackers in the south of the country.
National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee, DMK chief M Karunanidhi, NCP president Sharad Pawar and leader Praful Patel were present, along with senior Congress leaders, including Pranab Mukherjee, P Chidambaram and A K Antony besides Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
While the LTTE may not be yet in a position to visualise a ‘post-Prabhakaran’ aspect to its struggle, remarks by its international affairs head
Selvarasa Pathmanathan suggest that for the first time in the last 22 years, it has accepted a role for other Tamil forces in finding a solution.
Having claimed that it is the “sole representative� of the Tamils in Sri Lanka since 1986, the LTTE appears to have climbed down from its inflexible stand that it is the only authentic force that the state as well as the international community should deal with.
The LTTE had achieved this ‘status’ primarily by decimating rival militant groups and key Tamil politicians, some of whom had participated in joint talks organised by India in 1986 in Thimpu for finding a negotiated settlement.
“We fully appreciate the role every Tamil person and Tamil political party has to play, both in the island of Sri Lanka and abroad, to ensure that the welfare and future of Tamils living in the island is foremost. We are willing to work with all parties to achieve this, including the Tamil parties functioning in India as well. We need to put the welfare of the Tamil people first,� Pathmanathan said in an interview to Tamilnet.com.
With the top leadership wiped out in the last few days, Pathmanathan, identified by Sri Lanka’s defence ministry as the same man wanted by Interpol in the name of ‘Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP’, the LTTE’s chief arms procurer for more than two decades, has emerged as the face of the rebel group to the international community.
Pathmanathan was formally named head of its international affairs division a few months ago.
Sonia Gandhi was re-elected UPA chairperson during the meeting. Her name was proposed by Karunanidhi and seconded by Mamata, the Trinamool Congress informed mediapersons.
All eyes are now on the likely candidates who would head some of the most important ministries in the next Congress-led UPA government. The Ministry of Human Resource Development, headed by controversial Congress leader Arjun Singh could throw up a surprise. According to sources, a serious contender for the ministry is Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi. Kapil Sibal’s name is also doing the rounds, according to TV channel
Congress sources mention May 22 as a probable date for swearing-in of the new government. The previous day, May 21, being the death anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi, the party leadership is keen to delay the launch of the new government by a day.
While numbers are no longer a big hurdle for the Congress-led alliance and the process appears to be a formality, working out the terms of power-sharing may create complications. Congress leadership got a reminder on Tuesday when the DMK leadership came up with big `wish list’ for portfolios.
There is also the fear that the muscle-flexing may encourage similar demands from Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee. The Congress had initially estimated that the maverick partner may not insist on big portfolios because she would not like her colleagues to grow in stature. They are not so sure any more. The fear is that the arm twisting may incite the Trinamool leader to up her ante as she would not like to be seen as playing in a league below that of the DMK.
Congress may have a task on its hand if the Sharad Pawar demands that the representation of his contingent from the NCP should not be scaled down to be brought in line with the new numbers. Besides expectations of a suitable portfolio for Pawar, Congress will also have to manage demands for his associates like Praful Patel. Times Now.
Three doctors who told the BBC of various attacks carried out by the Sri Lankan government over the last few months have gone missing, according to Amnesty International. Amnesty International fears that they may be held in reprisal for providing information about civilians in the conflict zone between government forces and the Tamil Tigers, and is now deeply concerned over their safety. The three â€" Dr T Sathiyamoorthy, Dr T Varatharajah and Dr V Shanmugarajah â€" gave eyewitness reports from hospitals and makeshift medical centres. Their reports detailed the suffering of ordinary civilians, many of whom died from war-related injuries. They also highlighted the continuous shelling of areas with large concentrations of non-combatants. The three were last seen on Friday 15 May in a holding area at Omanthai checking point. They had been working for the government in the conflict zone in north-eastern Sri Lanka, treating the sick and wounded until they
travelled out of the ‘No Fire Zone’ with approximately 5,000 other civilians. Amnesty understands that Dr Shanmugarajah and Dr Sathiyamoorthy, the regional director of health services in Kilinochchi, may be currently held at the Terrorist Investigation Division in the capital Colombo.
Monday early hours around 3:00 a.m. Vanni local time, the LTTE Political Chief B. Nadesan and LTTE Peace Secretariat Director S. Puleedevan telephoned their contacts in Europe and informed them to tell the ICRC Head Office that only around 1,000 wounded cadres, civil officials of the LTTE and civilians remained in the so-called safety zone and there was no firing from the LTTE side. They urged the ICRC to evacuate the wounded. A few hours later, Colombo’s Defence Ministry website claimed finding the dead bodies of Mr. Nadesan, Mr. Puleedevan, Mr. Ilango (Tamileelam Police Chief), and LTTE Leader V. Pirapaharan’s son Mr. Charles Antony. The LTTE is yet to confirm, but initial reports indicate a determined massacre by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA).
The UN has spoken of a “bloodbath�. Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general, was “appalled� at the killing of hundreds of trapped civilians and called for an immediate halt to the Sri Lankan army’s indiscriminate shelling of the tiny coastal strip, the last hold-out on the island of the rebel Tamil Tigers. But the shelling goes on. A mortar bomb struck the only functioning medical facility in the war zone, killing 49 patients and bystanders and wounding more than 50 others. The figure cannot be verified, as army refuses to allow in any doctors, emergency workers or outsiders. But what is hideously clear is that huge numbers of people have been killed and that at least 50,000 are still trapped in appalling conditions as the bombs continue to explode among them. This carnage must stop. Already more than 6,500 civilians have been killed and 14,000 injured in the first four months of the year. Thousands of those who have managed to escape were on the
brink of starvation when they arrived at the camps set up by the Sri Lankan government outside the combat zones.
Big selloff draw for PSUs
19 May 2009, 0243 hrs IST, Anto Antony, ET Bureau
NEW DELHI: With the Left parties out of the government and the Congress manifesto favouring divestment, share prices of several state-owned
companies jumped sharplyâ€"up to 20% in many cases.
Key Congress leadersâ€"P Chidambaram and Kamal Nathâ€"on Monday only gave credence to the market expectations by reiterating UPA’s disinvestment plans.
The Congress party had in its election manifesto said that if re-elected, disinvestment will be pursued though privatisation will not be followed.
“The Indian National Congress rejects the policy of blind privatisation followed by the BJP-led NDA government, but believes that the Indian people have every right to own part of the shares of public sector companies while the government retains majority shareholding,� the Congress manifesto said.
Former commerce minister Kamal Nath told ET : “Disinvestment of government equity while maintaining management control will only improve the efficiency of some of these public sector undertakings.�
Independent economists pointed out that this step by congress led government is well-timed. “We believe that the government will need to augment its financial resources through disinvestment of stake in government companies…although we do not expect aggressive privatisation in the form of transfer of management to private sector, the new government is likely to initiate more divestments,� said Chetan Ahya, Managing Director, Research at Morgan Stanley.
Over the last five years, the UPA government’s effort at augmenting resources through disinvestment has been poor due to the opposition from the Left parties which were a part of ruling coalition for a period of four-and-a-half years of the five-year regime.
By the time the Left Front withdrew support, the markets had tanked and companies which received regulatory approvals to tap the market developed cold feet on account of low investor appetite.
The major initial public offerings which are expected shortly includes NHPC, Oil India, Rail India Technical and Economic Services (RITES), Cochin Ship Yard, Telecommunications Consultants India, Manganese Ore India (MOIL), Rashtriya Ispat Nigam (RINL) and Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN). Some of these companies, including NHPC, Oil India and RITES which has all necessary approvals in place, can soon get listed.
With markets improving in the last few months, department of disinvestment has written to administrative ministries of different public sector enterprises which have received all regulatory approvals that they should try top get listed before the approvals lapse.
“If these approvals go lapse it will put the listing of these companies at least six month behind the schedule,� said Rahul Khullar, secretary, department of disinvestment.
With market situation and investor appetite increasing companies with approvals are dusting off their listing plans.
“Things look good as far as stability of the government and its policies are concerned. The market has also reacted positively to the developments but the movements would have to be carefully watched before a firm date for IPO is finalised,� said an NHPC official.
Further public offerings in companies with significant government holdings including Hindustan Copper, NMDC, Neyvelli Lignite, Power Finance Corporation, Indian Oil Corporation and others where government holding is above 85% is another option that government is expected to look into. Most of these stocks have rallied between 15% and 20% on Monday.
http://economictimes. indiatimes.com/articleshow/ 4549499.cms
3G, spectrum auctions top list
20 May 2009, 0328 hrs IST, Joji Thomas Philip, ET Bureau
India’s telecom sector is the fastest growing in the world. To sustain the momentum, the sector needs major policy changes. Telecom secretary
Siddharth Behura
Siddharth Behura
Siddharth Behura, in an interview with ET, said he is confident that the new regime will look into that immediately. Excerpts:
What are the two key issues that the telecom ministry hopes to achieve?
Our first priority is to go ahead with the much delayed auctions for both third generation (3G) and WiMAX spectrum. Right now, I cannot predict if the entire process will be completed within 100 days. But if the government were to decide so, then we will ensure that the auctions are done.
The second is to have a new spectrum policy. We hope to finish the consultation process within the next three months. We are studying the spectrum panel report. It has far-reaching consequences as it proposes major reforms.
What about the listing of BSNL which was put off by the earlier regime?
We will see whether to revive the proposal within the first 100 days. In case we decide to do so, the process will take over a year.
Are there any other policy issues to be addressed immediately?
Yes, there are two important issues that are likely to be announced within the first three months. The first concerns the guidelines for Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) to launch operations in India. We have studied the TRAI report and the policy should be announced soon.
http://economictimes. indiatimes.com/News/Economy/ Policy/3G-spectrum-auctions- top-list/articleshow/4553840. cms
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Three days after the Congress returned to power on its developmental and pro-poor agenda, one of its ministers in Delhi says he has no idea how to disburse Rs 300 crore collected for the poorest workers, constructing new infrastructure in India’s capital. The Rs 300 crore â€" enough to provide scholarships to put 25 lakh children through school, or provide insurance coverage to three crore workers, or build 30,000 low-cost houses â€" is lying unused in a fund meant for Delhi’s about 8 lakh construction workers.
By law, the funds are to be monitored and spent by a special board, headed by Delhi’s Labour Minister Mangat Ram Singhal. “Just because money is there, it cannot be thrown at people,� Singhal told HT. He had no idea what the board he heads should do, while his office would not respond to an HT questionnaire submitted five days ago.
The Rs 300 crore has been collected as a tax fixed at 1 per cent of a building or infrastructure project’s cost, and it reflects Delhi’s flurry of construction flurry ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth Games. The funds have doubled since 2007.
The tax has been collected after the Building and Other Construction Worker’s Act was passed in 1996. It was to improve working conditions and provide workers, mostly landless rural migrants, a broad social-security net, from health insurance to pensions.
That can happen only if the government gets to work, getting the money to workers. The body Singhal heads is meant to meet at least once in two months.
Seven years since it was constituted in September 2006, it has met nine times; never since July 2008. It has no staff.
Contrast this with the work done by Madhya Pradesh (MP). Delhi’s MP counterpart has registered 10 lakh construction workers, including migrants from as far as Andhra Pradesh.
MP has spent nearly Rs 50 crore on 10 welfare schemes that include medical and accident assistance, school and higher education scholarships, and maternity benefits. There is a dedicated staff and website that details how the fund operates.
“The minister and chairman, Suresh Sharma, takes a close interest in the law’s daily operation, and that has made the critical difference,� Basudev Sarkar, secretary of the MP Construction Workers’ Board, told HT over telephone from Bhopal. In Delhi, 18,000 workers have registered but get few benefits, though Rs 240 is deducted from their earnings that average Rs 3,000 to Rs 4,000 a month.
For example, since the law began, the board has settled just one insurance claim, for Rs 15,000, and given a scholarship of Rs 100 to 50 school students. Things haven’t changed despite criticism from the Supreme Court in 2008.
“What is the purpose of such acts?� asked a bench headed by Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan in response to a public-interest litigation seeking implementation of the construction workers’ act. “Does the government want to have beautiful laws but never want to implement them?� The failure of the “beautiful law� is evident a few kilometers from the frantic construction activity for the 2010 Games at east Delhi’s Akshardham site, at the JJ (jhuggi jhopdi) camp, a slum where construction workers from east Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh live.
“This year’s schoolbooks alone cost me Rs 1,302,� said Khargi. Thakurdas (34) has borrowed Rs 70,000 from moneylenders to fund three operations for his son Chandrashekhar this year, after he was run over by a speeding vehicle.
“I have registered under the act a year ago,� he said. “But there is no aid available to us.
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* Hottest female CEOIndia Today â€" 04:49 PMWhoever thought boardrooms were boring hasn’t seen Playboy’s latest list of 10 hottest female CEOs across the US.
* Bank of America prices 1.25 bln sharesReuters â€" 12:28 PMBank of America Corp raised $13.47 billion through a share sale, marking a major step toward meeting the U.S. government’s requirements for capital-raising following the recent “stress testingâ€� of the bank.
* Beauty business helps puts pretty face on recessionReuters â€" 11:48 AMAs the economy gets ugly, droves of out-of-work Australians, male and female, are finding a career in beauty really pays.
* Lupin gets US nod for levofloxacin tabletsReuters â€" 10:13 AMThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Lupin Ltd’s anti-bacterial levofloxacin tablets in multiple strengths, according to the regulator’s website.
* Green ‘gold rush’ seen in new U.S. auto standardsReuters â€" 08:40 AMThe tough U.S. fuel economy standards announced by President Barack Obama on Tuesday represents a bonanza for companies that supply hybrid technology and other gas-conserving components needed to meet the new benchmarks.
India
* Apollo Tyres completes acquisition of Dutch firm Vredestein Banden BVReuters â€" 05:53 PMVredestein Banden has an estimated annual revenues of 300 mn which will make Apollo a $ 1.47 bn company.
* Mahanagar Telephone Nigam workers call off strikeIANS â€" 05:52 PMNew Delhi, May 20 (IANS) Some 8,000 employees of the state-run Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL), which runs telecom and Internet services in the country’s two main metros, called off their agitation Wednesday after the management agreed to review their demands including wage hikes.
* GE signs deal with L&T for nuclear plantsHT â€" 05:40 PMAdvanced reactors and nuclear services provider GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) said on Tuesday the company will help in developing nuclear plants in India in collaboration with engineering and construction company Larsen & Toubro.
* Affordable homes signal revival for big buildersHT â€" 05:40 PMAfter suffering a severe slump for almost six months, leading real estate firms are showing strong signs of revival on the back of affordably priced middle-income homes and flexible payment terms that are fuelling demand.
* Punj bagsRs 264-cr Sikkim airport dealHT â€" 05:40 PMDelhi based infrastructure major Punj Llyod has won a Rs 264-crore contract to build Sikkim’s first airport in Pakyong district. The project is likely to be completed in the next 30 months and the group will construct both the airside, including the runway and terminal building, as well as the city side of the airport.
International
* Air France-KLM and Delta form transatlantic joint ventureIANS â€" 05:44 PMParis, May 20 (DPA) Europe’s largest airline, Air France-KLM, and US carrier Delta Airlines have agreed to a joint venture involving transatlantic flights, the French-Dutch airline announced Wednesday in Paris.
* China’s foreign financial assets rise to $2.92 trillionIANS â€" 05:34 PMBeijing, May 20 (Xinhua) China’s foreign financial assets increased by 23 percent from a year earlier to $2.92 trillion by the end of last year, officials said Wednesday.
* Japanese economy sees record 15.2 percent contractionIANS â€" 02:58 PMTokyo, May 20 (DPA) The Japanese economy shrank in the January-March quarter at an annualised rate of 15.2 percent, the sharpest annualised drop ever recorded in the world’s second-largest economy, the government said Wednesday.
* H-1B visa scheme for next fiscal still has 20,000 slots openPTI â€" 02:23 PMLalit K Jha Washington, May 20 (PTI) Owing to sluggish US economy, the H-1B visa programme, once the most sought after among Indian professionals, still has nearly 20,000 slots vacant, seven
* Dhaka hopes to have headquarter of sub-regional blocIANS â€" 11:24 AMDhaka, May 20 (IANS) Bangladesh hopes to house the permanent secretariat of the sub-regional bloc, Bimstec, which was formed for rapid economic development and to accelerate social progress, officials have said.
Personal-Finance
* Sensex tumbles 260 points but lesser scrips excelIANS â€" 05:10 PMMumbai, May 20 (IANS) While benchmark indices at the equities markets slipped into the red at the closing bell Wednesday with a key index falling 241 points below its last close, mid- and small-sized firms outperformed blue-chip companies.
* Sensex down 260 points, lesser scrips excelIANS â€" 03:45 PMMumbai, May 20 (IANS) While benchmark indices at the equities markets slipped into the red at end of trading Wednesday with a key index falling 260 points below its last close, mid- and small-sized firms outperformed blue-chip companies.
* Sensex ends above Monday’s closeIANS â€" Tue, May 19Mumbai, May 19 (IANS) Indian equities markets consolidated their position Tuesday, with a key index shutting shop 17 points above its last closing figure after wildly fluctuating between the red and green terrains.
* Markets on a see-saw, Sensex up over 318 pointsIANS â€" Tue, May 19Mumbai, May 19 (IANS) It was a see-saw trading session till noon Tuesday at the Indian equities markets, with a key index pulling back into the green after slipping more than 373 points in the morning.
* Markets nose dive on openingIANS â€" Tue, May 19Mumbai, May 19 (IANS) The frenzied rise of the Indian equities markets seemed to have come to an end abruptly minutes after Tuesday’s opening bell as a key index plummeted 289 points after opening 475 points higher.
Markets
* Government has support of 322 MPs: PMReuters â€" 05:36 PMIndia’s Congress party-led coalition has the support of 322 lawmakers, Prime Minister-elect Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday, giving it a clear majority in a new government.
* Sensex snaps three-day winning streak, sheds 240 pointsPTI â€" 05:31 PMMumbai, May 20 (PTI) ICICI Bank and DLF led the fall at the Bombay Stock Exchange today as the 30-share Sensex was down 241 points, snapping a three-day winning streak, even as second-line stocks
* Mutual funds cut Tata Motors holding in April â€" dataReuters â€" 05:12 PMMutual funds took advantage of a 34 percent rise in the shares of Tata Motors in April to cut their holdings by 40 percent in the vehicle maker, which is facing pressing funding requirements and slowing sales.
* Sensex reverses gear, falls 241 pointsPTI â€" 05:00 PMMumbai, May 20 (PTI) Snapping a three-day rally, the Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex today tumbled by over 241 points as bull operators booked profits following the 20 per cent surge since
* ANALYSIS â€" Geithner works to fill out Treasury teamReuters â€" 04:58 PMTreasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is surrounding himself with former aides to President Bill Clinton as he attempts to rebound from a rocky start even as top-tier vacancies have slowed decision-making.
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Fighting for pride or Eelam?
Times of India - ‎17 hours ago‎
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Sri Lankan issue fails to make an impact on TN poll results
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No global appetite for Eelam state, says Norwegian broker
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Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
The official emblem of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
Dates of operationMay 5, 1976 â€" May 18, 2009
LeaderVelupillai Prabhakaran
MotivesThe creation of a separate Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka
Active region(s) Sri Lanka
IdeologyTamil nationalism
Major actionsNumerous suicide bombings, Rajiv Gandhi assassination, crimes against life and health, attacks against civilians, use of child soldiers, acts of ethnic cleansing
Notable attacksCentral Bank bombing, Palliyagodella massacre, Dehiwala train bombing and others.
StatusProscribed as a terrorist organization by 32 countries.[1]
Means of revenueDonations from expatriot tamils
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil: தமிழீழ விடà¯�தலைபà¯� பà¯�லிகளà¯�, ISO 15919: tamiḻ iiḻa viá¹utalaip pulikaḷ; commonly known as the LTTE or the Tamil Tigers) is a militant organization based in northern Sri Lanka. Founded in May 1976, it has actively waged a violent secessionist campaign that seeks to create an independent Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka.[2] This campaign had evolved into the Sri Lankan Civil War, one of the longest running armed conflicts in Asia, until the LTTE was militarily defeated by the Sri Lanka Army under the government of Mahinda Rajapakse in May 2009.[3][4] Since its inception, and until his death, the LTTE was headed by its founder, Velupillai Prabhakaran. The Tamil Tigers are currently proscribed as a terrorist organization by 32 countries (see list of countries).
The Tamil Tigers claimed to be fighting to protect the country’s Tamil minority from discrimination at the hands of the successive Sinhalese majority governments that have ruled the country since independence.[5] They have extensive support amongst the Tamil diaspora and Tamils in Tamil Nadu, India.[6][7]
The Tigers, who during the height of their power possessed a well-developed militia cadre, are notorious for having committed atrocities against civilians, including abductions and targeted attacks,[8] for carrying out various high profile attacks, including the assassinations of several high-ranking Sri Lankan and Indian politicians like Rajiv Gandhi, and for recruiting child soldiers. The LTTE invented the suicide belt and pioneered the use of suicide bombing as a tactic.[9][10] They also pioneered the use of women in suicide attacks,[11] and have also used aircraft in some attacks.[12]
Over the course of the conflict, the Tamil Tigers frequently exchanged control of territory in north-east Sri Lanka with the Sri Lankan military, engaging in fierce confrontations in the process. They were also involved in peace talks to end the conflict four times, each time unsuccessfully, and at the start of the last round of peace talks in 2002, they had a large area under their control. However, after the breakdown of the peace process in 2006, the Sri Lankan military launched a major offensive against the Tamil Tigers, bringing a vast area under their control and limiting the Tigers to a 1.5Â km2 area in the Mullaithivu District.[13][14] This area had previously been designated as a civilian safety zone in which fighters were not supposed to be.[15]
As a result of this offensive, the Sri Lankan government defeated the LTTE militarily.[16][17] Amid growing calls for the LTTE to surrender,[18][19] President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared military victory over the Tigers on May 16, 2009 after 26 years of conflict[20][21][22] and the rebel leader Prabhakaran was reported to have been killed by Government forces.[23] The LTTE finally admitted defeat on May 17, 2009, with the rebels’ chief of international relations, Selvarasa Pathmanathan, stating on the website that “This battle has reached its bitter end … We have decided to silence our guns. Our only regrets are for the lives lost and that we could not hold out for longer�.[24][25]
Contents
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* 1 History
* 1.1 Founding
* 1.2 Rise to power
* 1.3 IPKF period
* 1.4 After IPKF
* 1.5 2001 ceasefire
* 1.6 Dissension
* 1.7 Military Defeat
* 2 Organisation and activities
* 2.1 Structure
* 2.2 Military
* 2.3 Sea Tigers
* 2.4 Air Tigers
* 2.5 Administrative
* 2.6 Humanitarian assistance
* 2.7 Political
* 2.8 Religion
* 2.9 Women in LTTE
* 2.10 List of commanders
* 2.11 Other formations
* 3 Links to other designated terrorist organizations
* 3.1 LTTE tactics in other terrorist organizations
* 4 Assassinations
* 5 Human rights violations
* 5.1 Attacks on civilians
* 5.2 Child soldiers
* 5.3 Suicide bombings
* 5.4 Ethnic cleansing
* 5.4.1 Anti-Muslim campaigns of 1990
* 6 Proscription as a terrorist group
* 7 Criminal activities
* 7.1 Sea piracy
* 7.2 Arms smuggling
* 8 See also
* 9 References
* 10 Further reading
* 11 External links
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History
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Founding
See also: Sri Lankan civil war
See also: Origins of the Sri Lankan civil war
The LTTE was founded on May 5, 1976 by Velupillai Prabhakaran, as a successor to the Tamil New Tigers, a militant group most notable for the assassination of the Mayor of Jaffna, Alfred Duraiyappah in 1975[citation needed]. The LTTE attracted many supporters among disenchanted Tamil youth. They carried out low-key attacks against various government targets, including policemen and local politicians[citation needed]. .
The LTTE carried out their first major attack on July 23, 1983 when they ambushed a Sri Lanka Army troop transport outside Jaffna. 13 Sri Lankan soldiers were killed in the attack, leading the Black July riots against the Tamil community of Sri Lanka. The subsequent anger amongst the Tamil community resulted in numerous Tamil youths joining Tamil militant groups to fight the Sri Lankan government, in what is considered start of the insurgency in Sri Lanka[citation needed]. .
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Rise to power
Initially, LTTE operated in cooperation with other Tamil militant groups which shared their objectives, and in April 1984, the LTTE formally joined a common militant front, the Eelam National Liberation Front (ENLF), a union between LTTE, the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO), the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS), the People’s Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) and the Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF).[26]
TELO usually held the Indian view of problems and pushed for India’s view during peace talks with Sri Lanka and other groups. LTTE denounced the TELO view and claimed that India was only acting on its own interest. As a result in 1986, the LTTE broke from the ENLF. Soon fighting broke out between the TELO and the LTTE and clashes occurred over the next few months.[27][28] As a result almost the entire TELO leadership and many of the TELO militants were killed by the LTTE.[29][30][31] The LTTE attacked training camps of the EPRLF a few months later, forcing it to withdraw entirely from the Jaffna peninsula.[26][29]
The LTTE then demanded that all remaining Tamil insurgents join the LTTE. Notices were issued to that effect in Jaffna and in Madras, India where the Tamil groups were headquartered. With the major groups including the TELO and EPRLF eliminated, the remaining Tamil insurgent groups, numbering around 20, were then absorbed into the LTTE, making Jaffna an LTTE-dominated city.[29]
LTTE’s practice such as wearing a cyanide vial for consumption if captured appealed to the Tamil people as dedication and sacrifice. Another practice that increased support by Tamil people was LTTE’s practice of taking an oath of loyalty which stated LTTE’s goal of establishing a state for the Sri Lankan Tamils.[27][32]
In 1987, LTTE established the Black Tigers, a unit of LTTE responsible for conducting suicide attacks against political, economic and military targets,[33] and launched its first suicide attack against a Sri Lanka Army camp, killing 40 soldiers.
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IPKF period
Main article: Indian Peace Keeping Force
In 1987, faced with growing anger among its own Tamils, and a flood of refugees,[26] India intervened directly in the conflict for the first time by initially airdropping food parcels into Jaffna. After subsequent negotiations, India and Sri Lanka entered into the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord. Though the conflict was between the Tamil and Sinahlese people, India and Sri Lanka signed the peace accord instead of India influencing both parties to sign a peace accord among themselves. The peace accord assigned a certain degree of regional autonomy in the Tamil areas with Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) controlling the regional council and called for the Tamil militant groups to lay down their arms. India was to send a peacekeeping force, named the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF), part of the Indian Army, to Sri Lanka to enforce the disarmament and to watch over the regional council.[34][35]
Although the accord was signed between the governments of Sri Lanka and India, and the Tamil militant groups did not have a role in the agreement,[27] most Tamil militant groups accepted it.[36] But the LTTE rejected the accord because they opposed the candidate, who belonged to the EPRLF, for chief administrative officer of the merged Northern and Eastern provinces.[35] Instead, the LTTE named three other candidates for the position, which India rejected.[36] The LTTE subsequently refused to hand over their weapons to the IPKF.[27]
Thus LTTE found itself engaged in military conflict with the Indian Army, and launched its first attack on an Indian army rations truck on October 8, killing five Indian para-commandos who were on board by strapping burning tires around their necks.[37] The government of India decided that the IPKF should disarm the LTTE by force,[37] and the Indian Army launched number of assaults on the LTTE, including a month-long campaign dubbed Operation Pawan to win control of the Jaffna peninsula from the LTTE. The ruthlessness of this campaign, and the Indian army’s subsequent anti-LTTE operations made it extremely unpopular among many Tamils in Sri Lanka.[38][39]
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After IPKF
The Indian intervention was also unpopular among the Sinhalese majority, and the IPKF became bogged down in the fighting with the Tamil Tigers for over 2 years, experiencing heavy losses. The last members of the IPKF, which was estimated to have had a strength of well over 50,000 at its peak, left the country in 1990 upon request of the Sri Lankan government. A shaky peace initially held between the government and the LTTE, and peace talks progressed towards providing devolution for Tamils in the north and east of the country.[citation needed]
Fighting continued throughout the 1990s, and was marked by two key assassinations carried out by the LTTE, that of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, and Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa in 1993, using suicide bombers in both occasions. The fighting briefly halted in 1994 following the election of Chandrika Kumaratunga as President of Sri Lanka and the onset of peace talks, but fighting resumed after LTTE sunk two Sri Lanka Navy boats in April 1995.[40] In a series of military operations that followed, the Sri Lanka Army re-captured the Jaffna peninsula, the heartland of Tamils in Sri Lanka.[41] Further offensives followed over the next three years, and the military captured vast areas in the north of the country from the LTTE, including area in the Vanni region, the town of Kilinochchi and many smaller towns. However, from 1998 onward the LTTE hit back, regaining control of these areas. This culminated in the capture of the
strategically important Elephant Pass base complex, located at the entrance of the Jaffna Peninsula, in April 2000, after prolonged fighting against the Sri Lanka Army.[42]
Mahattaya, a one-time deputy leader of LTTE, was accused of treason by the LTTE and killed in 1994.[43] He is said to have collaborated with the Indian Research and Analysis Wing to remove Prabhakaran from the LTTE leadership.[44]
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2001 ceasefire
An LTTE bicycle infantry platoon north of Killinochchi in 2004
In 2001, the LTTE dropped its demand for a separate state. Instead, it stated that a form of regional autonomy would meet its demands.[45] Following the landslide election defeat of Kumaratunga and the coming to power of Ranil Wickramasinghe in December 2001, the LTTE declared a unilateral ceasefire.[46] The Sri Lankan Government agreed to the ceasefire. In March 2002, both sides signed an official Ceasefire Agreement (CFA). As part of the agreement, Norway and the other Nordic countries agreed to jointly monitor the ceasefire through the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission.[47]
Six rounds of peace talks between the Government of Sri Lanka and LTTE were held, but they were temporarily suspended after the LTTE pulled out of the talks in 2003 claiming “certain critical issues relating to the ongoing peace process�.[48][49]
In 2003, the LTTE proposed an Interim Self Governing Authority (ISGA). This move was welcomed by the international community, but rejected by the Sri Lankan President.[50]
In December 2005, the LTTE boycotted the 2005 presidential election. While LTTE claimed that the people under its control were free to vote, it is alleged that they used threats to prevent the population from voting. The United States condemned this act.[51][52]
The new government of Sri Lanka came into power in 2006 and demanded to abrogate the ceasefire agreement, staying that the only possible solution to the ethnic conflict was military solution, and that the only way to achieve this is by eliminating the Liberation Tigers of Tamila.[53] Further peace talks were scheduled in Oslo, Norway, on June 8 and 9, 2006, but canceled when the LTTE refused to meet directly with the government delegation, stating its fighters were not being allowed safe passage to travel to the talks. Norwegian mediator Erik Solheim told journalists that the LTTE should take direct responsibility for the collapse of the talks.[54]
Rifts grew between the government and LTTE, and resulted in a number of ceasefire agreement violations by both sides during 2006. Suicide attacks,[55] military skirmishes and air raids took place during the latter part of 2006.[56][57] Military confrontation continued into 2007 and 2008. On January 2008, the government officially pulled out of the Cease Fire Agreement.[58]
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Dissension
See also: Colonel Karuna
In the biggest show of dissent from within the organization, a senior LTTE commander named Colonel Karuna (nom de guerre of Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan) broke away from the LTTE in March 2004 and formed the TamilEela Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal amid allegations that the northern commanders were overlooking the needs of the eastern Tamils. The LTTE leadership accused him of mishandling of funds and questioned him about his recent personal behavior. He tried to take control of the eastern province from the LTTE, which caused clashes between the LTTE and TEMVP. The LTTE has suggested that TEMVP was backed by the government,[59] and the Nordic SLMM monitors have corroborated this.[60]
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Military Defeat
Main article: 2008â€"2009 SLA Northern offensive
On January 2, 2009, the President of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, announced that the Sri Lankan troops had captured Kilinochchi, the city which the LTTE had used for over a decade as its de facto administrative capital.[61][62][63] It was stated that the loss of Killinochchi had caused a substantial dent in the LTTE’s image.[62] It was also stated that after the fall of Kilinochchi the LTTE was likely to collapse soon under unbearable military pressure on multiple fronts.[64] As of January 8, 2009, the LTTE was abandoning its positions on the Jaffna peninsula to make a last stand in the jungles of Mullaitivu, their last main base.[65] The entire Jaffna peninsula was captured by the Sri Lanka Army by January 14.[66] On January 25, 2009 SLA troops “completely captured� Mullaitivu town, the last major LTTE stronghold.[67] As a result of the offensive, there is increasing belief that the final military defeat of the LTTE is near, although the LTTE may
launch an underground guerrilla campaign if it is defeated as a conventional force.[16][17]
Top LTTE leader Cheliyan, the second-in-command of the Sea Tigers, was killed in Kariyamullivaikkal on May 8, 2009 dealing another blow to the organization.[68] The Sri Lanka Government accused the LTTE of causing a human disaster by trapping civilians in the shrinking area under their control.[69] With LTTE on brink of defeat the fate of the leader of LTTE Velupillai Prabhakaran remained uncertain.[70] On May 12, 2009 BBC reported that LTTE was now clinging on to only about 840 acres of land near town of Mullaitivu which is roughly the same area as Central Park of New York.[71]
U.N secretary General Ban Ki Moon appealed on LTTE that children should not be held hostage , recruited as child soldiers or put in harms way.[72] Claude Heller of United Nations Security Council said ‘We demand that the LTTE immediately lay down arms, renounce terrorism, allow a UN-assisted evacuation of the remaining civilians in the conflict area, and join the political process.’ The council president, speaking on behalf of the 15 members, also said they ’strongly condemned the LTTE, a terrorist organisation, for the use of civilians as human shields and for not allowing them to leave the area’.[73] On May 13, 2009 the UN security council condemned the rebel LTTE again and denounced its use of civilians as human shields and urged them to acknowledge the legitimate right of the government of Sri Lanka to combat terrorism by laying down their arms and allowing the tens of thousands of civilians to leave the conflict zone.[74] On May 14, 2009 The
United Nations acting representative for Sri Lanka, Amin Awad, said that 6,000 civilians had fled or were trying to flee, but that LTTE was firing on them to prevent them from escaping.[75]
President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared military victory over the tigers on May 16, 2009 after 26 years of conflict.[76] On the same day for the first time in their long struggle against the Sri Lankan government, the rebels were offering to lay down their weapons in return for a guarantee of safety.[77] Sri Lanka’s disaster relief and human-rights minister Mahinda Samarasinghe stated ‘The military phase is over. The LTTE has been militarily defeated. Now the biggest hostage rescue operation in the world has come to a conclusion, The figure I have here is since 20th of April, 179,000 hostages have been rescued.’[78]
On May 17, 2009, rebel official Selvarasa Pathmanathan conceded defeat saying in an email statement “This battle has reached its bitter end�. Several rebel fighters committed suicide when they became surrounded.[79] On May 18 it was confirmed that the rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran had been killed along with several other high ranking Tamil officials. State run television interrupted its regular programing and a government information department sent a text message to cell phones across the county with the news. Mass celebrations erupted across Sri Lanka to the announcement as the death of Prabhakaran is key to preventing a new guerrilla offensive. From government reports it seems Prabhakaran was riding in an armor-plated van with several top deputies and rebel fighters headed directly towards the advancing Sri Lankan forces. After a two-hour firefight the van was hit by a rocket killing most if not all of the occupants and ending the battle.
Troops removed and have identified the bodies of Prabhakaran as well as Colonel Soosai (head of the Sea Tigers), and Pottu Amman (the intelligence commander). [80]
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Organisation and activities
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Structure
The LTTE is organized into three main divisions: a military wing, a political wing and a fund raising wing. A central governing body oversees all of the divisions, which was headed by the LTTE leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran until his death in May 2009.
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Military
Tamil Tigers in a truck in Killinochchi in April 2004
In the LTTE, recruits are instructed to be prepared to die for the cause, and are issued with a cyanide capsule to be swallowed in the case of capture.[81] The LTTE also has a special squad of suicide bombers, called the Black Tigers, which it deploys for critical missions.[82]
The military wing includes the following specific subdivisions, which are directly controlled and directed by the central governing body:
* Sea Tigers â€" an amphibious warfare unit focusing on utilization of naval firepower and logistics, mainly consisting of lightweight boats.[83]
* Air Tigers â€" an airborne group, consisting of several lightweight aircraft. It is known to be the world’s first air force controlled by an organization proscribed as terrorists.[84]
* Black Tigers â€" a suicide commando unit.
* An intelligence wing.
* A political wing.
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Sea Tigers
Main article: Sea Tigers
Colonel Soosai of the Sea Tigers
The Sea Tigers is the naval force of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and is lead by Colonel Soosai.[85] It is believed to have about 2,000 personnel and has become a potent threat to the Sri Lankan Navy at Sea.[86] According to a 2006 publication of the Woodrow Wilson School of Politics and International Studies, the Sea Tigers has destroyed 35%-50% of the Sri Lankan Navy’s coastal craft.[87][88]
Following its northern offensive, the Sri Lankan military reported that it captured Sea Tiger main base in Mullaitivu and several boat yards. In early February 2009, the military reported once again that it captured the last major Sea Tiger base, killing three senior commanders in the process[89] and thus limiting Sea Tiger operations. Several days later it was claimed that Sea Tigers leader Soosai and several top aids were killed in a Sri Lanka Air Force raid on a command center.[90]
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Air Tigers
Main article: Air Tigers
The Air Tigers is the air force of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The Air Tigers is believed to operate five light aircraft. The organization was revealed in 2007 when it conducted its first air raid on the Sri Lankan Air Force base. Since then, it has conducted another four air raids. With the Air Tigers, LTTE became the first non-state organization to establish an air force. Although the Sri Lankan Army captured Killinochi on January 2, 2009, it was not able to locate the LTTE aircraft.[91] Later, two LTTE aircraft were shot down in Colombo during a Kamikaze attack on the Sri Lanka Air Force headquarters and the Sri Lanka Air Force base hangars in Katunayake[92].
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Administrative
Tamil Eelam territorial claim (green) and approximate de facto territory controlled at the time of the launching of the 2008â€"2009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive (yellow).[93][94] During the final army offensive, however, all of this area was recaptured by Sri Lankan forces.
Percentage of Sri Lankan Tamils per district based on the census from 2001 or 1981 (cursive), the last census year in Tamil regions.
Although the LTTE was formed as a military group, it later transformed into a de facto government. The LTTE controled sections in the north of the island, especially the regions lying around the cities of Killinochchi and Mulathivu.
The LTTE implemented a judicial system that consisted of courts to adjudicate in criminal and civil matters. The Tamil Eelam judicial system consisted of district courts, high courts, a supreme court and a court of appeal. The district courts handled civil and criminal cases. The two high courts handled criminal cases such as rape, murder, treason and arson. The supreme court had jurisdiction over the whole of Tamil Eelam. The courts were said to be effective,[95] and people who had a choice went to the Tamil Eelam courts rather than the Sri Lankan courts.[95] LTTE also released law books that were updated.[50][95][96][97]
LTTE also established a police force. The Tamil Eelam police was the other key factor in maintaining law and order. The police was formed in 1991 and, prior to the 2009 offensive, had its headquarters at Killinochi.[50] Police stations were established in all areas controlled by the LTTE. The LTTE claimed that its police force was the reason for the low crime rate, but critics of the LTTE claim that the police force was an integrated arm of the LTTE armed force and that the crime rate is low as a result of LTTE authoritarian rules. However, everyone agrees the police force and the judicial system was the reason for high degree of rule of law in the areas controlled by the LTTE.[95]
Another state function of the LTTE administration was social welfare. This humanitarian assistant arm was funded by tax collection internally.[95][96][97] LTTE also established an education and health sector that offered services to the people under their control.[50] It also created a human rights organization, called Northeast Secretariat on Human Rights, that functioned to advocate the rights of Tamils. Though not recognized by international government, it acted as a human rights commission. The commission communicated with the LTTE regarding complaints of child recruiting which resulted in the release of the recruit.[95] The Planning and Development Secretariat (PDS) was established in 2004 which acted as a needs assessment body responsible for studying the needs for people and formulating a plan for effective action in areas that needed humanitarian assistance. There were also many civil servants who worked in the LTTE-controlled areas who were
directed by the LTTE but paid by the Sri Lankan government.[95][98][99][100] A customs service was operated at the “border� by the Tamil Tigers.[97][101]
In addition to the civil administration, LTTE also ran its own radio and television stations. These entities were named the Voice of Tigers and National Tamil Eelam Television respectively. Both the radio and television channel were aired from the areas under LTTE control.[96]
LTTE also ran a bank named the Bank of Tamileelam which used the Sri Lankan rupee as its currency but offered higher interest rates than any bank on the island.[102][103]
Following the Sri Lankan Army’s capture of the claimed LTTE administrative capital Kilinochchi[104] on 2 January 2009, the LTTE’s administration system has been dismantled.[105]
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Humanitarian assistance
After the Asian Tsunami in 2004, the Tigers set up a special task force called the “tsunami task force� for humanitarian assistance to the people affected by the tsunami. The Planning and Development Secretariat (PDS) was responsible for needs assessments for various humanitarian organization to maximize effectiveness of resettlement reconstruction and rehabilitation. After the tsunami, the PDS was responsible of coordinating and directing the NGOs involved in tsunami relief work.[95] Furthermore, according to Tsunami Evaluation Coalition the key NGOs that responded also claimed that the LTTE forces provided extremely efficient and focused leadership and support to the relief effort in the areas controlled by the Tigers.[106]
During the second round of negotiation between Tigers and the Government of Sri Lanka, an agreement was reached for a joint Post-Tsunami Operational Management Structure (P-TOMS). This mechanism would allow the government and LTTE to share funds for tsunami relief. However, this agreement was bitterly opposed by hardliners in the government and some moderates. As a result, the P-TOMS was challenged in the Sri Lankan supreme court. The court put the P-TOMS on hold.[95][106]
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Political
The 2002 Cease Fire Agreement made the LTTE shift its struggle for self-determination from militant to more political means. The LTTE’s own political wing was the result of this. This political wing also played a critical role in regard to both the peace process and local state building. However, LTTE’s political wing did not participate in Sri Lankan parliamentary elections. The LTTE instead openly supported the Tamil National Alliance, which won overwhelmingly in 22 out of 25 electorates in the North-east and won over 90% of votes in the electoral district of Jaffna.[50][95][107]
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Religion
Most Tamil Sri-Lankans are Orthodox Hindu by faith. In contrast, most of the ethnic Sinhalese are Buddhist by faith.
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Women in LTTE
Sothiya Regiment of the LTTE â€" Female soldiers
In 1984, LTTE created an all-female unit called the Freedom Birds (Suthanthirap Paravaikal). This unit was the first group of women to be given military training in India. The LTTE advocates equality for women from both male oppression and social oppression.[108][109] This support for equality attracted many women into the LTTE ranks. As a result LTTE became the first Tamil militant group to employ women as soldiers in the battlefield.[citation needed] Tamil women believe that their participation in the armed struggle will bring them advantage in a future peaceful society and allow them to take part in “liberating� their society. The proportion of female combatants was small until June 1990, but increased rapidly afterward.[109] Freedom Birds’ first operation was in October 1987 and the first woman combatant to die was 2nd Lt. Maalathi,[109][108] on October 10, 1987, in an encounter with the IPKF at Kopai on the Jaffna peninsula. An estimated 4000
women cadres have been killed since then, including over 100 in ‘Black Tiger’ suicide squads.[108] Apart from military roles, the female soldiers have also produced numerous publications and many of them are described as rich in culture and writing.[109][110][111]
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List of commanders
Current and former senior LTTE commanders are listed below. Some of the names are aliases that don’t reflect the person’s religious background.
Shanmugalingam Sivashankar Thillaiyampalam Sivanesan Balasegaram Kandiah
Vaithilingam Sornalingam S. P. Thamilselvan Sathasivam Krishnakumar
Thileepan Ramalingam Paramadeva Colonel Jeyam[112]
Colonel Theepan[113] Colonel Ramesh[114] Kandiah Ulaganathan[115]
Colonel Bhanu[116] Colonel Sornam[117] Colonel Vithusha[118]
Colonel Thurka[119] Shanmuganathan Ravishankar[120] Captain Miller[121]
Maria Vasanthi Michael[122] Marcelin Fuselus[123] Sathasivam Selvanayakam
Charles Lucas Anthony Captain Pandithar Yogaratnam Kugan
Lt. Colonel Ratha Lt. Colonel Santhosham Lt. Colonel Pulendran
Ambalavanar Neminathan Colonel Pathuman Manickapodi Maheswaran
Lt. Colonel Kumarappa Lt. Maalathi Lt Colonel Appaiah
Lt. Colonel Akbar Thambirasa Kuhasanthan Gangai Amaran (LTTE)
Major Mano Balasingham Nadesan Irasaiah Ilanthirayan
V.Balakumaran (LTTE) Cheliyan Colonel Karuna
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Other formations
Charles Anthony Brigade Jeyanthan Brigade Sothiya Regiment
Maalathi Regiment Kuti Sri Mortar Unit Victor Anti Tank and Armoured Unit
Imran Pandiyan Unit LTTE Anti-Aircraft Unit Kittu Artillery Unit
Ponnamman Mining Unit Ratha Regiment Â
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Links to other designated terrorist organizations
As early as the mid-1970s, LTTE rebels were widely known to have trained members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Southern Lebanon, where concepts of suicide bombings, taxation, and war memorials were imparted to PFLP fighters.[124] After the 1990 assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, Indian government officials claimed to have discovered a covert link between the PLO and the LTTE: the PLO had plead for Mr. Gandhi to accept a proposal from the LTTE. This advice raised eyebrows at the time, but was largely ignored until his assassination shortly thereafter.[124]
As late as 1998, the Tigers clearly stated:
… the LTTE has resolved to work in solidarity with the world national liberation movements, socialist states, and international working class parties. We uphold an anti-imperialist policy and therefore we pledge our militant solidarity against western imperialism, neo-colonialists, Zionism, racism and other forces of reaction.[124]
The Westminster Journal further states:
Intelligence agencies are well aware that the LTTE was involved in the 1990s in training the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) both of which are closely linked to al-Qaeda. In 1995 and 1998, an LTTE combat tactician and an LTTE explosives expert accompanying groups of al-Qaeda Arabs was recorded training members of MILF. In 1999, an LTTE combat tactician accompanying a group of al-Qaeda Arabs was recorded training members of the ASG. At the apparent behest of al-Qaeda, the LTTE is recorded training members of Al Ummah (An Islamic terrorist group formed in India in 1992, believed to be responsible for bombings in southern India in 1998) in Tamil Nadu, India.[124]
The Times of India, in a 2001 article, highlights an alleged nexus between al-Qaeda and the LTTE, and claims that “[al-Qaeda links with the LTTE] are the first instance of an Islamist group collaborating with an essentially secular outfit�.[125] Additionally, the US-based research organisation “Maritime Intelligence Group� said the Indonesian group Jemaah Islamiya, which has known links to al-Qaeda, had been trained in sea-borne guerrilla tactics by LTTE Sea Tiger veterans.[124]
“Norwegians Against Terrorism�, a one-man band led by convicted murderer Falk Rune Rovik,[126][127] further described how the Tamil community in Norway, at the behest of the LTTE, sold fake and stolen Norwegian passports to al-Qaeda members.[124] The LTTE itself acquired a fake passport for Ramzi Yousef, convicted mastermind of the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center in New York.[124]
A Council on Foreign Affairs article by Preeti Bhattacharji stated, “the secular nationalist LTTE currently has no operational connection with al-Qaeda, its radical Islamist affiliates, or other terrorist groups,�[128] but “In its early days, experts say the LTTE did train with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The group may still interact with other terrorist organizations through illegal arms markets in Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia.�[129]
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LTTE tactics in other terrorist organizations
Some of LTTE’s attacks in Sri Lanka have similarities to attacks by, other proscribed groups. Some examples are:
* The similarities between previous LTTE attacks against Sri Lanka Navy ships and the al-Qaeda attack on the USS Cole which killed 17 US Navy sailors.[130] The incident has raised suspicions of connections between the two groups. The “Maritime Intelligence Group� based in Washington DC claims to have unearthed substantial evidence that the LTTE trained Indonesian Islamists in the technique of maritime suicide bombings. The group, linked to al-Qaeda, is believed to have then passed the technique it learned from the LTTE to al-Qaeda itself.[124]
* The website “South Asian Terrorism Portal� claimed that the LTTE provided forged passports to Ramzi Yousef, who was one of the planners of the first attack against the World Trade Center in New York in 1993.[131] The allegation has been backed by the Westminster Journal as well.[124]
* The website “South Asian Terrorism Portal� also states that there are increasing intelligence reports that the LTTE was smuggling arms to various terrorist organizations, including Islamic groups in Pakistan and their counterparts in the Philippines,[131] using their covert smuggling networks. The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies found that LTTE was building commercial links with al-Qaeda and other militants in Afghanistan, and that several cadres were spotted in Afghan militant camps.[124][132][133]
* Falk Rovik, a convicted murderer,[127] accused the LTTE of stealing Norwegian passports and selling them to al-Qaeda in Algeria to earn money to buy weapons. He further alleged that funds from Government of Norway had been inadvertently diverted to the LTTE.[134][135]
* India’s National Security Adviser, M K Narayanan, alleges that LTTE raises money by smuggling narcotics. A recent arrest of LTTE operatives in Colombia corroborates this claim.[124]
* According to an “anti-LTTE� website, Glen Jenvey, a former employee of the government of Sri Lanka and a specialist on international terrorism, claimed that al-Qaeda has copied most of its terror tactics from the LTTE[136] He highlighted the LTTE as the mastermind that sets the pattern for organizations like al-Qaeda to pursue. The Maritime Intelligence Group in Washington DC even states that al-Qaeda learned the tactic through LTTE contacts teaching Indonesians the methods.
* According to Asian Tribune, attacks on civilians in buses and trains in Sri Lanka were copied in the attack on public civilian transport during July 2005 bombings in London.[136]
* The LTTE’s ethnic cleansing campaigns against Muslims in northern Sri Lanka from 1985-1992 provided the inspiration for, and model by which, Kashmiri separatists would evict Hindus from Kashmir in late 1989-1990.[124]
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Assassinations
Main article: List of assassinations of the Sri Lankan Civil War
The LTTE has been condemned by various groups for assassination of political and military opponents. The victims include Tamil moderates who coordinated with Sri Lanka Government, Tamil paramilitary groups assisting Sril lankan Army. The assassination of Ranasinghe Premadasa, who was the head of Sri Lanka, is attributed to LTTE.
LTTE sympathizers justify some of the assassinations by arguing that the people attacked were combatants or persons closely associated with Sri Lankan military intelligence. Specifically in relation to the TELO, the LTTE has said that it had to perform preemptive self-defence because the TELO was in effect functioning as a proxy for India.[137]
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Human rights violations
The United States Department of State states that its reason for banning LTTE as a proscribed terrorist group is based on allegations that LTTE does not respect human rights and that it does not adhere to the standards of conduct expected of a resistance movement or what might be called “freedom fighters“.[138][139][140][141] The FBI has described the LTTE as “amongst the most dangerous and deadly extremist outfit in the world�.[142] Other countries have also proscribed LTTE under the same rationale. Numerous countries and international organizations have accused the LTTE of attacking civilians and recruits children.[143]
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Attacks on civilians
Main article: List of attacks attributed to the LTTE
The LTTE has launched attacks on civilian targets several times. Notable attacks include the Aranthalawa Massacre,[144] Anuradhapura massacre,[145] Kattankudy mosque massacre,[146] the Kebithigollewa massacre[147] and the Dehiwala train bombing.[148] Civilians have also been killed in attacks on economic targets, such as the Central Bank bombing.[148][149]
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Child soldiers
Main article: Military use of children in Sri Lanka
The LTTE has been accused of recruiting and using child soldiers to fight against Sri Lankan government forces.[150][151][152] The LTTE was accused of having up to 5,794 child soldiers in its ranks since 2001.[153][154]
Amid international pressure, the LTTE announced in July 2003 that it would stop conscripting child soldiers, but both UNICEF[155][156] and Human Rights Watch[157] have accused it of reneging on its promises, and of conscripting Tamil children orphaned by the tsunami.[158] However, since 2007, the LTTE has claimed that it will release all of the recruits under the age of 18 before the end of the year. On 18 June 2007, the LTTE released 135 children under 18. UNICEF, along with the United States, states that there has been a significant drop in LTTE recruitment of children, but claims that 506 child recruits remain under the LTTE.[159] A report released by the LTTE’s Child Protection Authority (CPA) in 2008 reported that less than 40 soldiers under age 18 remained in its forces.[160] However in 2009 a Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations said the Tamil Tigers “continue to recruit children to fight on the frontlines�,
and “use force to keep many civilians, including children, in harms way�.[161]
The LTTE argues that instances of child recruitment occurred mostly in the east, under the purview of former LTTE regional commander Colonel Karuna. After leaving the LTTE and forming the TMVP, it is alleged that Karuna continued to forcibly kidnap and induct child soldiers.[162][163] Its official position is that earlier, some of its cadres erroneously recruited volunteers in their late teens.[citation needed] It says that its official policy is now that it will not accept child soldiers. It also says that some underage youths lie about their age and are therefore allowed to join, but are sent back home to their parents as soon as they are discovered to be underage.[citation needed]
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Suicide bombings
Main article: Black Tigers
The LTTE pioneered the use of concealed suicide bomb vests.[164] According to Jane’s Information Group, between 1980 and 2000, the LTTE carried out 168 suicide attacks causing heavy damage on economic and military targets.[143]
Many of these attacks have involved military objectives in the north and east of the country, although civilians have been targeted on numerous occasions, including during a high profile attack on Colombo’s International Airport in 2001 that caused damage to several commercial airliners and military jets, and killed 16 people.[165] The LTTE was also responsible for a 1998 attack on the Buddhist shrine, and UNESCO world heritage site, Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy that killed 8 worshipers. The attack was symbolic in that the shrine, which houses a sacred tooth of the Buddha, is the holiest Buddhist shrine in Sri Lanka.[166] Other Buddhist shrines have been attacked, notably the Sambuddhaloka Temple in Colombo that killed 9 worshipers.[167]
Relatively speaking, there have been fewer operations in the south where most of the Sinhalese live, including the capital Colombo, although such attacks have often engaged high-profile targets and attracted much international publicity as a result.[168]
The LTTE’s Black Tigers has been attributed with the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, who was killed in 1991 using a prototype suicide vest, and Ranasinghe Premadasa, assassinated in 1993.[143]
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Ethnic cleansing
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Main article: Expulsion of Muslims from the Northern province by LTTE
The LTTE is responsible for forcibly removing, or “ethnically cleansing�,[169][170] Sinhalese and Muslim inhabitants from areas under its control, and using violence against those who refuse to leave. The evictions happened in the north in 1990, and the east in 1992. Tamil sources openly state:
Islam, however, is not being practiced presently [In Tamil Eelam], as the Muslims have been asked to leave the Tamil Eelam territory until the independence of Tamil Eelam. The Muslims supported the aggressive Sri Lankan Sinhala and Muslim Military against the freedom of Tamil Eelam.[171]
Ironically, however, Muslim and Tamil communities in the North of Sri Lanka had participated together in the early days of the Tamil movement, and Muslim ironmongers in Mannar fashioned weapons for the LTTE, and local Tamil leaders were disturbed at the LTTE’s call for the eviction of Muslims.[172] However, as Tamil intellectuals began viewing Muslims as outsiders, rather than a part of the Tamil nation as they had been referred to previously, the LTTE undertook its anti-Muslim campaigns.
In its 1976 Vaddukodai Resolution, LTTE condemns the Sri Lankan government for, as it claimed, “unleashing successive bouts of communal violence on both the Tamils and Muslims.�[173] In 2005, the “International Federation of Tamils� claimed that the Sri Lankan military purposefully stoked tensions between Tamils and Muslims, in an attempt to undermine Tamil security.[174] As Tamils turned to the LTTE for support, the Muslims were left with the Sri Lankan state as their sole defender, and so in the eyes of the LTTE, the Muslims had legitimized the role of the state, and were thus viewed as Sri Lankans.[174]
Beginning in 1985, the LTTE forcibly occupied 35,000 acres of Muslim-owned farmland in the north of Sri Lanka, before systematically evicting the Muslims from areas under LTTE control.[175]
Although anti-Muslim pogroms had occurred in the north and east of Sri Lanka since 1985, the LTTE embarked on a campaign to expel Muslims from the North in 1989. The first eviction notice was sent to the Muslims of Chavakacheri on October 15, 1989, after the LTTE entered the local mosque and threatened Muslims a few weeks earlier.[172] Afterward, the houses of evicted Muslims were ransacked and looted.[172] On October 28, 1989, the Muslims of Mannar, in the North of Sri Lanka, were told,
“All Muslims living in Mannar island should leave by 28 October. Before leaving, they must seek permission and clearance at the LTTE Office. The LTTE will decide their exit route.�[172]
The deadline was extended by four days after pleas from local Tamil Catholics, who were left to look after many Muslims’ property in anticipation of looting by the Sri Lankan army â€" although the Catholics themselves were later robbed by the LTTE of both their own, and the Muslims’ property.[172] On the 28th, while Muslims were preparing to leave, the LTTE barred Hindus from entering Muslim villages and dealing with them. The areas were reopened on the November 3, after Muslims had been packed onto the boats of Muslim fishermen and sent southwards along the coast.[172]
After a lull in ethnic cleansing, the LTTE on August 3, 1990, sealed off a Shiite mosque in Kattankady, the Meera Jumma and Husseinia, and opened fire through the mosque’s windows, leaving 147 Muslim worshipers dead, out of 300 gathered for Friday prayers.[176] Fifteen days later, LTTE gunmen shot dead between 122 and 173 Muslim civilians in the town of Eravur[176][177]
Ethnic cleansing culminated on October 30, 1990 when the LTTE forcibly expelled the entire Muslim population of Jaffna. LTTE commanders from the east announced at 7:30 A.M. that all Muslims in Jaffna were to report to Osmania stadium, where they were to be addressed by two LTTE leaders, Karikalana and Anjaneyar.[172] After listening to the leaders denigrate Muslims for allegedly attacking Tamils in the east, the leaders explained to the community that they had two hours to evacuate the city.[178] The community was released from the stadium at 10 A.M., and by noon, and were only allowed to carry 500 rupees, while the rest of their possessions were seized by the LTTE after they were forced to report to LTTE checkpoints upon exiting Jaffna.[172]
In total, over 12,700 Muslim families, roughly 75,000 people, were forcibly evicted from LTTE-controlled areas on the Northern Province.[179]
In 1992, the LTTE embarked on a campaign to create a contiguous Tamil-Hindu homeland that stretched from the North of Sri Lanka, and downwards along the Eastern Coast. A large Tamil-speaking Muslim population inhabited a narrow strip of land between the two entities, and so a pattern of “ethnic cleansing� emerged in Eastern Sri Lanka, as was already done in the North. “The LTTE unleashed violence against the Muslims of Alinchipothanai and killed 69 Muslim villagers. This led to a retaliatory violence against the Tamils in Muthugala, where 49 Tamils were killed allegedly by the Muslim Home guards.�[180] Later in the year, the LTTE attacked four Muslim villages (Palliyagodalla, Akbarpuram, Ahmedpuram and Pangurana) and killed 187 Muslims.[180] The Australian Muslim Times later commented on 30 October 1992: “The massacres, eviction and the atrocities by the Tamil Tigers are carried out in order to derive the Muslim Community from their traditional
land in the Eastern province as they have done it in the northern province and then set up a separate state only for Tamils�.[180]
In 2002, the LTTE leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran had formally apologized for the expulsion of Muslims from the north and asked the Muslims to return. Some families have returned and re-opened the Osmaniya College and two mosques are functioning now.[citation needed] Since the apology, TamilNet, which is widely seen as an LTTE mouthpiece, has featured numerous stories of Muslim civilians coming under attack from Sinhalese forces. However, the stories may simply reflect crime, and not the ethnic hatred that TamilNet suggest.[181]
The LTTE is also accused of organizing massacres of Sinhala villagers who settled in the Northeast under the dry lands policy.[182][183][184]
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Anti-Muslim campaigns of 1990
During the summer of 1990, the LTTE killed over 370 Muslims in the North and East of Sri Lanka in 11 mass killings[180] Numerous mosques were attacked, and dozens of pilgrims from the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia were killed. The number of Muslims killed in individual attacks, rather than massacres and high-profile murders, remains unknown.
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Proscription as a terrorist group
32 countries have listed the LTTE as a terrorist organization.[185][186] As of January 2009, these include:
* India (since 1992)[187]
* United States (designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations by the Department of State since October 8, 1997. Named as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) since November 2, 2001)[188][189]
* United Kingdom (designated as Proscribed Terrorist Group under the Terrorism Act 2000 by the Home Secretary since 2000)[190]
* European Union (since 2006; 27 countries)[191]
* Canada (since 2006)[192] Canada does not grant residency to LTTE members on the grounds that they have participated in crimes against humanity.[193]
* Sri Lanka (from January 1998 to September 4, 2002,[194] and again from January 7, 2009)[195]
* Australia (since 2001)[196] and other countries have listed the LTTE as a terrorist group in accordance with Resolution 1373.
The first country to ban the LTTE was its early ally, India. The Indian change of policy came gradually, starting with the IPKF-LTTE conflict, and culminating with the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. India opposes the new state Tamil Eelam that LTTE wants to establish, saying that it would lead to Tamil Nadu’s separation from India though the leaders of Tamil Nadu are opposing it. Sri Lanka itself lifted the ban on the LTTE before signing the ceasefire agreement in 2002. This was a prerequisite set by the LTTE for the signing of the agreement.[197][198]
According to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, “LTTE has perfected the use of suicide bombers, invented the suicide belt, pioneered the use of women in suicide attacks, murdered some 4,000 people in the past two years alone, and assassinated two world leadersâ€"the only terrorist organization to do so.[199]“
The European Union banned LTTE as a terrorist organization on May 17, 2006. In a statement, the European Parliament said that the LTTE did not represent all the Tamils and called on it to “allow for political pluralism and alternate democratic voices in the northern and eastern parts of Sri Lanka�.[200]
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Criminal activities
One factor that has greatly benefited the LTTE has been its sophisticated international support network. While some of the funding obtained by the LTTE is from legitimate fund raising and extortion among Tamil diaspora,[201][202] a significant portion is obtained through criminal activities, involving sea piracy, human smuggling, drug trafficking and gunrunning.[203][204][205][206]
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Sea piracy
The LTTE has been accused of hijacking several vessels in waters outside Sri Lanka, including the Irish Mona (in August 1995), Princess Wave (in August 1996), Athena (in May 1997), Misen (in July 1997), Morong Bong (in July 1997), MV Cordiality (in September 1997), Princess Kash (in August 1998) and MV Farah III (December 2006). The MV Sik Yang, a 2,818-ton Malaysian-flag cargo ship which sailed from Tuticorin, India on May 25, 1999 was reported missing in waters near Sri Lanka. The ship with a cargo of bagged salt was due at the Malaysian port of Malacca on May 31. The fate of the ship’s crew of 15 is unknown. It is suspected that the vessel was hijacked by the LTTE and is now being used as a phantom vessel. Likewise the crew of a Jordanian ship, MV Farah III, that ran aground near LTTE-controlled territory off the island’s coast, accused the Tamil Tigers of risking their lives and forcing them to abandon the vessel which was carrying 14,000 tonnes
of Indian rice.[207]
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Arms smuggling
The anti-rebel Mackenzie Institute claimed that one of LTTE’s secretive international operations is the smuggling of weapons, explosives, and “dual use� technologies. The part of the LTTE responsible for these activities is nicknamed “KP Branch�, taking the initials of its high level operative, Kumaran Padmanathan. The workers for the KP Branch are from outside the fighting wing of the LTTE, since the identities of those fighters are recorded and available to law enforcement and counter-intelligence agencies by India’s Research and Analysis Wing, who had helped train many Tiger cadres in the early 1980s. The KP Branch operates secretively by having the minimum connection possible with the LTTE’s other sections for further security. It hands over the arms shipments to a team of Sea Tigers to deliver them to the LTTE-dominated areas.[208]
The Mackenzie Institute further claimed that in order to carry out the activities of international arms trafficking, the LTTE operates its own fleet of ocean-going vessels. These vessels only operate a certain period of time for the LTTE and in the remaining time they transport legitimate goods and raise hard cash for the purchase of weapons. The LTTE initially operated a shipping base in Myanmar, but was forced to leave due to diplomatic pressure. To overcome this loss, a new base has been set up on Phuket Island, in Thailand.[208]
Furthermore, The Mackenzie Institute claimed that the most expertly executed operation of the KP Branch was the theft of 32,400 rounds of 81 mm mortar ammunition purchased from Tanzania destined for the Sri Lanka Army. Being aware of the purchase of 35,000 mortar bombs, the LTTE made a bid to the manufacturer through a numbered company and arranged a vessel of their own to pick up the load. Once the bombs were loaded into the ship, the LTTE changed the name and registration of their ship. The vessel was taken to Tiger-held territory in Sri Lanka’s north instead of transporting it to its intended destination.[208]
Western countries are the main territory for fund raising activities of the LTTE. The money raised from donations and enterprises are transferred into bank accounts of the Tigers and from there to the accounts of a weapons broker, or the money is taken by KP operatives themselves. LTTE’s need for resources is mostly fulfilled by the Tamils who reside outside Sri Lanka. In 1995, when the LTTE lost Jaffna, its international operatives were ordered to increase, by 50%, the amount raised from Tamils outside the island.[208]
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See also
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* Notable assassinations of the Sri Lankan Civil War
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* Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups
* Military use of children in Sri Lanka
* List of attacks attributed to the LTTE
* 2009 World Tamil protests
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Further reading
* Balasingham, Adele. (2003). The Will to Freedom â€" An Inside View of Tamil Resistance. Fairmax Publishing Ltd. 2nd ed. ISBN 1-903679-03-6.
* Balasingham, Anton. (2004). War and Peace â€" Armed Struggle and Peace Efforts of Liberation Tigers. Fairmax Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-903679-05-2.
* de Votta, Neil. (2004) Blowback: Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-4924-8.
* Gamage, Siri and I.B. Watson (Editors). (1999). Conflict and Community in Contemporary Sri Lanka â€" ‘Pearl of the East’ or ‘Island of Tears’?. Sage Publications Ltd. ISBN 0-7619-9393-2.
* Hansard Australia. (2006). Commonwealth of Australia Parliamentary Debates. Senate Transcript for 16 June 2006.
* Hellmann-Rajanayagam, D. (1994). The Groups and the rise of Militant Secessions, in Manogaram, C. and Pfaffenberger, B. (editors). The Sri Lankan Tamils. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-8133-8845-7.
* “Child Soldier Use 2003: A Briefing for the 4th UN Security Council Open Debate on Children and Armed Conflictâ€�. Human Rights Watch. January 2003. Archived from the original on 2007-05-16. http://web.archive.org/web/ 20070516141422/http://www.hrw. org/reports/2004/ childsoldiers0104/16.htm. Retrieved on 2009-02-13.Â
* La, J. 2004. Forced remittances in Canada’s Tamil enclaves, Peace Review 16:3. September 2004. pp. 379â€"385.
* Narayan Swamy, M. R. (2002). Tigers of Lanka: from Boys to Guerrillas. Konark Publishers; 3rd ed. ISBN 81-220-0631-0.
* Pratap, Anita. (2001). Island of Blood: Frontline Reports From Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Other South Asian Flashpoints. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-302906-9.
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External links
* Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
* LIBERATION TIGERS OF TAMIL EELAM’S (LTTE) INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AND OPERATIONS â€" A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS
* Council on Foreign Relations background information on the Tigers
* International Crisis Group, an advocacy group, has information on the conflict.
* Tamil Tigers U-Boat force
* Sri Lanka Ministry of Defence Map showing extent of area controlled
* Tamilnet
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* Mexico Refuses to give Legitimacy to the LTTE by Dushy Ranetunge, Asia News Network, April 19 2009
* Sri Lankan Civilians Trapped by Tamil Tigers ‘Last Stand’ By Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, May 3, 2009
* Guerrilla Tactics â€" How the Tamil Tigers Were Beaten in an ‘Unwinnable’ War by Jeremy Page, The Times, May 19 2009
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AHMEDABAD: Before the elections were declared, it was believed that Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi had set his sights on the next Lok Sabha polls in 2014.
Modi pushed away voters, feels BJP Times of India
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UN demands access to civilians in Sri Lanka
Reuters India - ‎1 hour ago‎
By Jonathan Lynn GENEVA (Reuters) â€" The United Nations on Wednesday accused the Sri Lankan authorities of blocking access to civilians trapped in the former war zone or who have fled to camps for displaced people.
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Gov’t: 250000 Pakistani refugees expected in camp
The Associated Press - ‎20 minutes ago‎
WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Up to a quarter-million Pakistani civilians are expected to remain in refugee camps through the end of the year as a result of fighting between Pakistani forces and insurgents that has forced them from their homes, …
Struggle to aid displaced in Pakistan AFP
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Speaker’s exit fails to quell British reform calls
Reuters - ‎1 hour ago‎
By Adrian Croft and Frank Prenesti LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) â€" Reformists called for a fundamental shakeup of Britain’s political system on Wednesday, saying the first ousting of a parliamentary speaker in 300 years was not enough to still public anger …
Future of many Labour MPs in doubt, says Brown Telegraph.co.uk
Archbishop attacks ‘unruly’ MPs BBC News
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Straits Times
Suu Kyi allowed to talk to diplomats
Times Online - ‎1 hour ago‎
Aung San Suu Kyi was allowed to speak to foreign ambassadors at her trial today as Burma’s military government made a rare concession to international pressure and allowed journalists and diplomats in.
EU May Push China to Press Myanmar to Free Suu Kyi Bloomberg
Suu Kyi show trial ’scripted sham’ The Press Association
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CTV.ca
Ahmadinejad: Iran Tests Missile that Could Reach Israel, Europe
Voice of America - ‎59 minutes ago‎
By VOA News Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says his country has test-fired a new advanced missile that reportedly can reach Israel, southeastern Europe and US bases in the Middle East.
Video:Â Iran test-fires advanced two-stage missile RT
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Times Online
Indonesian military plane crashes killing at least 98
Telegraph.co.uk - ‎3 hours ago‎
A military aircraft carrying soldiers and their families has crashed in Indonesia killing at least 98 people in the latest of a long series air disasters in the country.
Video:Â Plane Crash in Indonesia Kills Dozens The Associated Press
Indonesian Military Plane Crash Kills At Least 98 Voice of America
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BBC News
House set to pass credit bill after Senate OK
The Associated Press - ‎2 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON (AP) â€" The credit card companies seem to have few friends on Capitol Hill these days, with even the most business-minded lawmakers siding with consumers in speaking out against steep rate hikes and fees.
Why Credit Card Companies Are So Mean Atlantic Online
Congress and Credit Cards Mean the Death of Privacy TIME
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Straits Times
Abuse ‘endemic’ at institutions
BBC News - ‎1 hour ago‎
An inquiry into child abuse at Catholic institutions in Ireland has found that sexual abuse was “endemic� in boys’ institutions.
Thousands beaten, raped in Irish reform schools The Associated Press
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The Early Word: Setup to Detention Matters
New York Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
By Kate Phillips AND Janie Lorber With President Obama set to offer a major national security address on Thursday dealing with the issues of suspected terrorists, interrogations and detainees, the actions of worried Democrats and Republican critics …
Video:Â Senate Rejects Gitmo Funds RT
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California voters soundly reject budget measures
Reuters - ‎1 hour ago‎
NEW YORK (Reuters) â€" California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and lawmakers are facing the arduous task of closing a state budget gap of more than $21 billion after ballot measures aimed at bolstering the state’s finances were soundly defeated by voters.
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US seeks Afghan executive post: Karzai spokesman
Reuters - ‎1 hour ago‎
By Sayed Salahuddin KABUL (Reuters) â€" US authorities have urged President Hamid Karzai to create a new executive post to help improve day-to-day governance in Afghanistan, Karzai’s chief spokesman said Wednesday.
Some US arms may end up in Taliban hands: report Xinhua
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Obama unveils ‘historic’ car efficiency standards
AFP - ‎8 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON (AFP) â€" President Barack Obama has unveiled “historicâ€� efficiency and greenhouse gas standards for US cars, forging a rare moment of unity between auto firms and environmentalists on climate change.
Obama unveils ‘green car’ rules Aljazeera.net
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Police make arrests in Tori Stafford case
CTV.ca - ‎3 hours ago‎
Two people have been arrested in connection with the case of missing 8-year-old Victoria “Tori� Stafford, according to Ontario Provincial Police.
Two arrested in disappearance of Ont. girl: reports. Canada.com
Stress tells on parents of missing girl Ottawa Citizen
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Nepal Maoists move to oust President
Times of India - ‎2 hours ago‎
KATHMANDU: Failing to fire the chief of the army, Nepal’s Maoist party Wednesday trained their guns on the man who had come to the aid of the beleaguered general, now seeking to oust the nation’s first President, Dr Ram Baran Yadav.
State of ferment The Hindu
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US Israel forming high-level working group on Iran: report
Xinhua - ‎18 minutes ago‎
WASHINGTON, May 20 (Xinhua) â€" The United States and Israel are quietly forming a high-level working group to exchange studies over the issues of Iran, including intelligence about the country’s nuclear program and progress of outreach to the country, …
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UN Gaza inquiry ‘to proceed despite Israel’
BBC News - ‎4 hours ago‎
A UN inquiry into possible war crimes in Gaza will go ahead even if Israel does not co-operate, says Richard Goldstone, who leads the inquiry team.
Fayyad walking on thorny political road Xinhua
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Japan economy shrinks at record 15.2 percent pace
The Associated Press - ‎1 hour ago‎
TOKYO (AP) â€" Japan’s economy shrank at a record 15.2 percent annual pace in the first quarter, dragged down by plunging exports, thinner factory output and wary shoppers.
Video:Â Japan GDP in worst postwar shape France 24
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Britain to present new rules for Gurkhas
Reuters India - ‎28 minutes ago‎
LONDON (Reuters) â€" Britain will on Thursday outline new rules likely to allow more Nepalese former Gurkha soldiers to settle in Britain.
Joanna Lumley poised for victory as Gurkhas win right to settle in UK Daily Mail
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Russia links nuclear talks to US anti-missile plan
Reuters - ‎2 hours ago‎
By Amie Ferris-Rotman MOSCOW (Reuters) â€" The United States must allay Russian concerns over its planned anti-missile system in Europe if the two sides are to achieve a breakthrough on cutting nuclear weapons, Russia’s foreign minister said on Wednesday …
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Air France-KLM to cut 3000 jobs
BBC News - ‎4 hours ago‎
Air France-KLM is expecting to shed 3000 jobs in its current financial year, in a bid to further cut costs. The cuts come in addition to 2700 posts eliminated in the fiscal year to 31 March 2009, as the airline industry suffers a fall in demand.
* Air France-KLM shares up after narrower than expected loss Reuters
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Manmohan hits home stretch, to take oath as PM on Friday
Hindustan Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
Amid jockeying for ministerial positions from partners of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), the decks were on Wednesday cleared for Manmohan Singh’s second consecutive term as prime minister with President Pratibha Patil formally inviting him to …
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YSR takes oath as Andhra Pradesh chief minister
Economic Times - ‎9 minutes ago‎
HYDERABAD: YS Rajasekhara Reddy of the Congress on Wednesday evening took oath as the Andhra Pradesh chief minister for the second consecutive term.
YSR sworn-in as Andhra CM, emerges as a mass leader Indian Express
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BJP admits it lost middle class, Sikh voters in Delhi
Business Standard - ‎4 hours ago‎
PTI / New Delhi May 20, 2009, 15:49 IST As it begins introspection into the worst electoral debacle in Delhi since 1984, BJP has admitted that it had lost influence in its stronghold of urban, middle and upper class voters along with Sikhs, …
BJP votes dip too Times of India
Time for BJP to look within Express Buzz
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India gives Pak more evidence on 26/11
Hindustan Times - ‎2 hours ago‎
India on Wednesday handed over to Pakistan a new dossier of evidence on the Mumbai terrorist attack, an official statement said. “MEA (Ministry of External Affairs) have today handed over to the Pakistani High Commission additional information and …
India hands over more Mumbai attack evidence to Pak Press Trust of India
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I never asked Amar to support nuke deal: Somnath
Indian Express - ‎31 minutes ago‎
Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee expressed surprise at the statement of Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh that he had requested him to support the Indo-US nuclear deal, saying it was “without any basis or foundation�.
Time to introspect: Somnath Times of India
Marginally less? Marxist math on vote share masks deep rot Calcutta Telegraph
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Goa students top in CBSE XII exam
Sify - ‎2 hours ago‎
Chennai: Goa topped the list of ten states and union territories in the CBSE Class XII results, which were announced today, registering a pass percentage of 98.37, as girls continued to outshine boys.
CBSE declares class XII results for 3 regions Press Trust of India
ICSE results are out today Times of India
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Shiv Sena will win back trust of Mumbaikars: Uddhav
Indian Express - ‎2 hours ago‎
Exuding confidence that the Marathi voters who favoured Congress-NCP combine in Mumbai during Lok Sabha polls would support Shiv Sena-BJP alliance during the assembly elections, Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray said on Wednesday that his party …
MNS used Sena’s formula to scuttle its prospects Hindu
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Patnaik to take oath as Orissa chief minister on Thursday
Hindu - ‎5 hours ago‎
Bhubaneswar (IANS): Biju Janata Dal (BJD) chief Naveen Patnaik is set to take oath on Thursday as Orissa chief minister for the third term in a row.
Naveen to take oath on Thrusday, gives final shape to his new Cabinet odishatoday.com
BJD government to take charge tomorrow in Orissa Times of India
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Indian Express
TDP holds meeting to assess poll debacle
Business Standard - ‎3 hours ago‎
PTI / Hyderabad May 20, 2009, 16:35 IST TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu today held a meeting at the party headquarters to assess the party’s debacle in Lok Sabha polls.
Time for rethink on Telengana issue: TDP Indian Express
TRS to take grand decision soon Express Buzz
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Lalu says won’t feel bad if denied Cabinet berth
Times of India - ‎4 hours ago‎
20 May 2009, 1613 hrs IST, PTI NEW DELHI: With Congress reluctant to accommodate him in the new government, RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Wednesday appeared resigned to his fate, saying he would not feel bad if he doesn’t get a cabinet berth.
RJD, LJP kept out of UPA’s first meeting Press Trust of India
Nitish Kumar: a vote for development Hindu
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Fresh News
CPM feels left out post Trinamool win in Bengal
IBNLive.com - ‎3 hours ago‎
RED FLAGS ON THEIR WAY OUT? Trinamool has sent shock waves amongst the red brigade in Bengal. ibnlive.com is on mobile now. Read news, watch videos be a Citizen Journalist.
CPM man killed in post-poll clash in Bengal Indian Express
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Telegraph.co.uk
India’s Congress Pledges to Add Power Capacity, Boost Nuclear
Bloomberg - ‎May 19, 2009‎
By Abhay Singh and Gaurav Singh May 19 (Bloomberg) â€" India’s ruling coalition, which returned to power last week with an increased majority in parliament, is likely to push for new generation capacity for the world’s second-fastest growing major …
Finest Opportunity MorungExpress
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Cong raises comfort level of NCP, reaffirms it is UPA partner
Press Trust of India - ‎19 minutes ago‎
New Delhi, May 20 (PTI) Congress high command today sought to raise the comfort level of NCP amid demands from party leaders in Maharashtra that it should dump Sharad Pawar’s party and go it alone in the coming Assembly polls in Maharashtra.
Rane against Cong going alone in Assembly polls Zee News
Cong may divorce Pawar after going single in UP IBNLive.com
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Rediff
Godhra riots: Ex-Gujarat minister gets bail
Rediff - ‎1 hour ago‎
After remaining in jail for eight weeks, former Gujarat minister Maya Kodnani was on Tuesday granted bail by a local court in two post-Godhra 2002 riot cases where she also faced murder charges, with the judge saying her alleged involvement was shown …
Maya, Jaideep get bail Times of India
Conditional bail for Kodnani Hindu
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BSF to get Rs 360 crore for raising 29 new battalions
Hindu - ‎5 hours ago‎
New Delhi (PTI): The Centre has approved a Rs 360 crore plan for Border Security Force to raise 29 new battalions within the next five years.
BSF gets Rs 360 crore for raising 29 new battalions Press Trust of India
Govt okays pension for all in paramilitary forces Economic Times
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Fresh News
New Sikkim government sworn in
Times of India - ‎6 hours ago‎
GANGTOK: The new Sikkim government of chief minister Pawan Chamling’s Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) was sworn in by Governor BP Singh on Wednesday.
Pawan Kumar Chamling sworn-in as the Chief Minister of Sikkim BreakingNewsOnline.
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Calcutta Telegraph
Ex-DG of ordnance factory arrested on graft charges
Times of India - ‎17 hours ago‎
NEW DELHI: A former Director General of Ordnance Factories, Kolkata, who also served as the chairman of the Ordnance Factory Board, has been arrested by the CBI for accepting “illegal gratification� from contractors who had won supply orders from …
Former Ordnance Factory official held Hindu
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B’lore varsity’s unfair lady
Daily News & Analysis - ‎7 hours ago‎
Bangalore: State Lokayukta sleuths, on Monday, caught a Bangalore University syndicate member red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs2 lakh from a private college.
BU syndicate member snared Times of India
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Indian Express
Agni-II fired, jury still out on test’s success
Times of India - ‎17 hours ago‎
NEW DELHI: In a step towards making the 2000-km-plus Agni-II fully operational, the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) conducted a “training test-firing� of the nuclear-capable missile on Tuesday.
Agni-II test-fired Hindu
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