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5/15 Prison abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan is part of a Pentagon operation
(Copper Green) authorized by Rumsfeld. An article by Seymour M. Hersh.
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040524fa_fact
\_ Thank God someone is taking terrorism seriously and understands you
can't treat these psychotics with mittens and expect to get
anything from them. A society unwilling to defend itself doesn't
deserve to survive and history has shown it won't. I suppose OP
thinks if we just change our foreign policy to whatever the Islamic
fascists want then they'd just leave us alone. Let's start with
the forced conversion of all Westerners to Islam. They've done it
before and are still living in the past. OBL's "speeches" still
whine about Muslim losses from 700 years ago. Go look up the term
"wakf". I know you wont so I'll explain: "Wakf" is the very alive
Islamic concept that any land *ever* held by Islam is always
Islamic no matter what has happened since. They publicly state
they intend to retake all "wakf" land (which includes most of
Spain, btw, think about that in relation to recent events there) and
\_ the Spain bombings were because of Spain's occupation
of a tiny sliver of Morocco, I don't know why this
doesn't get reported more. I don't think it was really
about Iraq at all.
beyond. They don't make any secret of their plans to keep fighting
and killing Westerners until there aren't any. They've been
fighting this war for hundreds of years and aren't going to stop
because you knuckled under or bribed them.
\_ too bad the folks at http://dictionary.com don't share your deep
understanding of the Arabic language and Islamic law:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=wakf
\_ 1) stop cutting and pasting the same dumbass patronizing post.
2) go look up the word "wakf" yourself; you have no idea what
you're talking about.
\_ http://www.helplinelaw.com/docs/trust/23.php
\_ Dictionaries are nice, but sometimes they're lacking context.
Quoting an Al Jazeerah opinion piece (csua.org/u/7by),
"They [hard core Hamas] consider it a foreign implantation
in Palestine, which in Islamic doctrine is a Muslim 'wakf'."
So it is in fact possible to place an entire "nation" under
the wakf designation. Is Spain considered a wakf? There
are some wacky people out there, so who knows.
\_ This sounds suspiciously like La Raza talking about Alta
California.
\_ Like I said, there are wacky people out there. Just
because the concept is silly doesn't mean there aren't
people who will kill for it.
\_ Not Spain, but bin Laden is against the independence of
East Timor, on the grounds that it would mean the loss of
Muslim land. (csua.org/u/7bz) Is there a bin Laden
doctrine that says once Muslim, always Muslim? The man
hasn't chosen to enlighten us yet. Do you think he'll
stop with Palestine and East Timor?
\_ So has Deerborn, MI become "Muslim land" yet?
\_ Is there anyone still out there who doesn't think
Al Qaeda and UBL are utterly evil and need to be
exterminated?
\_ I don't support capiral punishment, so I can't
advocate their execution. That's the same type of
thinking they have about us. Nevertheless, I
wouldn't list a finger to save their lives.
\_"Sy Hersh is the closest thing American journalism has to a
terrorist." -Richard Perle
\_ "He has weapons of mass destruction. The lesser risk is in
pre-emption. We've got to stop wishing away the problem."
-Richard Perle
\_ Interrogate the terrosists with cushy pillows, tea
and crumpets. That will work.
\_ Nooo not the comfy chair! -John
\_ it's pretty far-fetched to call most of the stuff going on
"interrogation techniques."
\_ That's the thing, I don't really mind if they tortue
terrorist to get info. What bugs me about this case is
there was no purpose. It was just brutality for
brutality's sake.
\_ How do you know?
\_ He doesn't. He says what he's told to feel. The rest
of the claim is these guys were being shown photos of
themselves in humiliating sexual situations so they'd
break from the threat of having those photos shown to
their family and friends. I trust the CIA to know how
to interrogate someone more than I trust some random
fuck motd idiot to know anything about it.
\_ woah! let me get this straight. you believe that
in spite of the fact that the cia, your bush
administration(i can only assume you're a republican)
the army and the soldiers involved have all said that
the humiliation was just rogue soldiers being
perverse assholes that you believe that they
are all lying and that the CIA in their infinite
wisdom *ordered* this stuff to happen? and you
fucks say it's *liberals* who have too much
blind faith in government! incredible.
\_ could you help me out with my talking points here?
I'm a bit confused. Are these incidents just
soldiers having a bit of fun, like fraternity
hazing, and the top brass had no knowledge of what
was going on, or are they sophisticated
interrogation techniques ordered by the CIA?
I missed my bulletin from Rush this morning. -tom
\_ The Israelis, who are experts at this sort of thing,
say that sexual torture does not work
http://csua.org/u/7bx
\_ Stupid American move. Long term interrogation works well for
extracting good infomation from good sources. By choosing wisely,
you get plausible denyability (people disappear every day...) and
keep the moral high ground. You try to mass produce this type of
interrogation on large groups you get huge noise to signal, lose the
denyability factor, and your formerly secret policy (torture IS
swell) get publicized. This topic used to be the grist of free lefty
alternative weeklies. Not anymore. Hey where did my high horse go?
\_ I think it went looking for your soapbox and your sense of moral
outrage, but hey, good points all around. If you're going to
eschew morality and ethics, _at least_ be smart about it. Is
that too much to ask? |
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| www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040524fa_fact home THE GRAY ZONE by SEYMOUR M HERSH How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib. Issue of 2004-05-24 Posted 2004-05-15 The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to expand a highly secret operation, which had been focussed on the hunt for Al Qaeda, to the interrogation of prisoners in Iraq. Rumsfeld's decision embittered the American intelligence community, damaged the effectiveness of lite combat units, and hurt America's prospects in the war on terror. According to interviews with several past and present American intelligence officials, the Pentagon's operation, known inside the intelligence community by several code words, including Copper Green, encouraged physical coercion and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners in an effort to generate more intelligence about the growing insurgency in Iraq. A senior CIA official, in confirming the details of this account last week, said that the operation stemmed from Rumsfeld's long-standing desire to wrest control of America's clandestine and paramilitary operations from the CIA Rumsfeld, during appearances last week before Congress to testify about Abu Ghraib, was precluded by law from explicitly mentioning highly secret matters in an unclassified session. But he conveyed the message that he was telling the public all that he knew about the story. He said, "Any suggestion that there is not a full, deep awareness of what has happened, and the damage it has done, I think, would be a misunderstanding." The senior CIA official, asked about Rumsfeld's testimony and that of Stephen Cambone, his Under-Secretary for Intelligence, said, "Some people think you can bullshit anyone." The Abu Ghraib story began, in a sense, just weeks after the September 11, 2001, attacks, with the American bombing of Afghanistan. Almost from the start, the Administration's search for Al Qaeda members in the war zone, and its worldwide search for terrorists, came up against major command-and-control problems. For example, combat forces that had Al Qaeda targets in sight had to obtain legal clearance before firing on them. On October 7th, the night the bombing began, an unmanned Predator aircraft tracked an automobile convoy that, American intelligence believed, contained Mullah Muhammad Omar, the Taliban leader. A lawyer on duty at the United States Central Command headquarters, in Tampa, Florida, refused to authorize a strike. By the time an attack was approved, the target was out of reach. Rumsfeld was apoplectic over what he saw as a self-defeating hesitation to attack that was due to political correctness. One officer described him to me that fall as "kicking a lot of glass and breaking doors." In November, the Washington Post reported that, as many as ten times since early October, Air Force pilots believed they'd had senior Al Qaeda and Taliban members in their sights but had been unable to act in time because of legalistic hurdles. There were similar problems throughout the world, as American Special Forces units seeking to move quickly against suspected terrorist cells were compelled to get prior approval from local American ambassadors and brief their superiors in the chain of command. Rumsfeld reacted in his usual direct fashion: he authorized the establishment of a highly secret program that was given blanket advance approval to kill or capture and, if possible, interrogate "high value" targets in the Bush Administration's war on terror. A special-access program, or sap--subject to the Defense Department's most stringent level of security--was set up, with an office in a secure area of the Pentagon. The program would recruit operatives and acquire the necessary equipment, including aircraft, and would keep its activities under wraps. America's most successful intelligence operations during the Cold War had been saps, including the Navy's submarine penetration of underwater cables used by the Soviet high command and construction of the Air Force's stealth bomber. All the so-called "black" programs had one element in common: the Secretary of Defense, or his deputy, had to conclude that the normal military classification restraints did not provide enough security. "Rumsfeld's goal was to get a capability in place to take on a high-value target--a standup group to hit quickly," a former high-level intelligence official told me. The operation had across-the-board approval from Rumsfeld and from Condoleezza Rice, the national-security adviser. President Bush was informed of the existence of the program, the former intelligence official said. The people assigned to the program worked by the book, the former intelligence official told me. They also asked some basic questions: "Do the people working the problem have to use aliases? And some special-access programs are never fully briefed to Congress." In theory, the operation enabled the Bush Administration to respond immediately to time-sensitive intelligence: commandos crossed borders without visas and could interrogate terrorism suspects deemed too important for transfer to the military's facilities at Guantnamo, Cuba. They carried out instant interrogations--using force if necessary--at secret CIA detention centers scattered around the world. The intelligence would be relayed to the sap command center in the Pentagon in real time, and sifted for those pieces of information critical to the "white," or overt, world. Fewer than two hundred operatives and officials, including Rumsfeld and General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were "completely read into the program," the former intelligence official said. "We're not going to read more people than necessary into our heart of darkness," he said. it was created as part of Rumsfeld's reorganization of the Pentagon. Cambone was unpopular among military and civilian intelligence bureaucrats in the Pentagon, essentially because he had little experience in running intelligence programs, though in 1998 he had served as staff director for a committee, headed by Rumsfeld, that warned of an emerging ballistic-missile threat to the United States. "Whatever Rumsfeld whimsically says, Cambone will do ten times that much." Cambone's military assistant, Army Lieutenant General William G (Jerry) Boykin, was also controversial. Last fall, he generated unwanted headlines after it was reported that, in a speech at an Oregon church, he equated the Muslim world with Satan. Early in his tenure, Cambone provoked a bureaucratic battle within the Pentagon by insisting that he be given control of all special-access programs that were relevant to the war on terror. Those programs, which had been viewed by many in the Pentagon as sacrosanct, were monitored by Kenneth deGraffenreid, who had experience in counter-intelligence programs. Cambone got control, and deGraffenreid subsequently left the Pentagon. Asked for comment on this story, a Pentagon spokesman said, "I will not discuss any covert programs; Cambone did not assume his position as the Under-Secretary of Defense for Intelligence until March 7, 2003, and had no involvement in the decision-making process regarding interrogation procedures in Iraq or anywhere else." In mid-2003, the special-access program was regarded in the Pentagon as one of the success stories of the war on terror. "It was an active program," the former intelligence official told me. "It's been the most important capability we have for dealing with an imminent threat. If we discover where Osama bin Laden is, we can get him. And we can remove an existing threat with a real capability to hit the United States--and do so without visibility." Some of its methods were troubling and could not bear close scrutiny, however. The sap was involved in some assignments in Iraq, the former official said. CIA and other American Special Forces operatives secretly teamed up to hunt for Saddam Hussein and--without success--for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. In the first months after the fall of Baghdad, Rumsfeld and his aides still had a limited view of the insurgen... |
| dictionary.reference.com/search?q=wakf Get the Top 10 Most Popular Sites for "wakf" 1 entry found for wakf. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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| csua.org/u/7bx -> news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040517/wl_nm/iraq_torture_israel_dc_1 Slideshow: Mideast Conflict Israel, perhaps unique in having public debate and legal guidelines on the use of physical coercion against suspects, does not use Abu Ghraib-type methods despite its close ties with the United States on security matters, they said. "Under questioning, a terrorist should be made to yield. Sexual abuse goes too far by breaking him, so it's not an option," Ami Ayalon, former chief of Israel's Shin Bet domestic security service, told Reuters. The United States is reeling from revelations that low-level personnel at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad piled naked Iraqi detainees on top of one another and photographed them simulating sex acts. New Yorker magazine said the abuses were ordered by US military intelligence as part of the effort to gather information on Iraqi insurgents through interrogation. web sites) denied this, calling the scandal an isolated incident. For many in Israel, the case recalled charges by a Lebanese guerrilla leader, Mustafa Dirani, that he was sodomized by an Israeli interrogator while in captivity in the mid-1990s. Ayalon said the Dirani case was exceptional as he had been held by Israeli military intelligence, whose top-secret foreign missions secure it virtual freedom from judicial scrutiny, while the Shin Bet works in Israel and the Palestinian territories under strict Supreme Court guidelines. "MODERATE PHYSICAL PRESSURE" Under court restrictions, the Shin Bet can use "moderate physical pressure," including sensory deprivation and shaking short of causing permanent damage, on so-called "ticking bombs" -- suspects it believes know about imminent attacks. "The Shin Bet has professionalism and oversight, so everyone keeps to these methods. They are effective enough," Ayalon said, adding that interrogators undergo almost three years of Arabic and psychology training before confronting their first suspect. According to New Yorker correspondent Seymour Hersh, some of Abu Ghraib's abused inmates may have been photographed in the hope they could later be blackmailed into becoming US informants. web sites) to help its hunt for Palestinian militants waging a 3 1/2-year-old revolt with suicide bombings. Palestinian advocates say collaborators are recruited on the offer of pay or after Israeli authorities withhold favors such as travel permits, an account confirmed by Shin Bet sources. "An informant risks being caught and killed by his countrymen, so he will only be effective if he works of his own free will, feeling it is worth his while," said Menachem Landau, a retired Shin Bet supervisor of Palestinian collaborators. "Someone acting out of fear will be unreliable and could even end up attacking his handler to clear his name." Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. |
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| csua.org/u/7by -> www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2004%20opinions/March/29o/Three%20Generals%20and%20One%20Hamas%20Martyr,%20Uri%20Avnery.htm Cities, localities, and tourist attractions Aljazeerah Info Center needs your support Readers are the only source of support for Al-Jazeerah Send donations by Paypal or by check to: Al-Jazeerah Info Center, PO Box 724, Dalton, GA 30722-0724, USA. Three Generals and One Hamas Martyr Uri Avnery Arab News TEL AVIV, 29 March 2004 -- Five hundred black-and white-bearded Hamas members were sitting opposite me. I was standing on the stage, talking in Hebrew, with the crossed flags of Israel and Palestine on my lapel. As I have recounted already several times, it happened like this: At the end of 1992, the new Prime Minister Yitzhaq Rabin expelled 415 Islamic activists -mostly Hamas members -- to the Lebanese border area. In protest, we put up tents opposite the prime minister's office in Jerusalem. There we spent 45 days and nights -- Israeli peace activists (who were later to found Gush Shalom) and Arab citizens of Israel, mostly members of the Islamic movement. Most of the time it was very cold, and some days our tents were covered with snow. There was a lot of debate in the tents, the Jews learning something about Islam and the Muslims something about Judaism. The expelled resistance fighters themselves vegetated for a year in the hilly landscape, between the Israeli and Lebanese armies. After a year they were allowed back, and the Hamas leaders in Gaza organized a homecoming reception for them in the biggest hall in town. They invited those Israelis who had protested against the expulsion. I spoke about peace, and in the intermission we were invited to have lunch with the hosts. I was impressed by the friendly attitude of the hundreds of people who were there. Undoubtedly, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and the spokesman of the expellees, Dr. Abdelaziz Al-Rantissi (who became Sheikh Yassin's successor last week) would have been present, too, if they had not been kept in prison. I recount this experience in order to point out that the picture of Hamas as an inveterate enemy of all peace and compromise is not accurate. Of course, 10 years of bloodshed, suicide bombings and targeted assassinations have passed since then. But even now, the picture is much more complex than meets the eye. The ideological hard core does indeed refuse any peace or compromise with Israel. They consider it a foreign implantation in Palestine, which in Islamic doctrine is a Muslim "wakf" (religious grant). But many Hamas sympathizers do not treat the organization as an ideological center but rather as an instrument for fighting Israel in pursuit of realistic objectives. Sheikh Yassin himself announced some months ago in a German paper that the fight would be discontinued after the establishment of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders. The three generals who actually direct the affairs of Israel -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Minister of Defense Sha'ul Mofaz and Chief-of-Staff Mosh Ya'alon -- maintain that "in the short run" the assassination would indeed increase the attacks on Israeli citizens, but "in the long run" it would help to "rout terrorism". They are very careful not to spell out when the "short run" ends and the "long run" begins. I take the liberty to tell these three illustrious strategists: Nonsense in tomato juice! In the short run, this action endangers our personal security; in the long run it represents an even greater danger to our national security. In the short run, it has increased the motivation for Hamas to carry out deadly attacks. Every Israeli understands this and is taking extra precautions these days. In the hearts of hundreds of thousands of children in the Palestinian territories and the Arab countries, this murder has raised a storm of rage and thirst for revenge, together with feelings of frustration and humiliation in view of the impotence of the Arab world. This will produce not only thousands of new potential suicide bombers inside the country, but also tens of thousands of volunteers for the radical Islamic organizations throughout the Arab world. Suffice it to mention Avraham Stern, alias Ya'ir, who was killed by the British police in Tel-Aviv in 1942. His blood gave an impulse to the emergence of the Lehi underground (nicknamed "the Stern gang") which only four years later was playing a major role in the expulsion of the British from Palestine. But Ya'ir's standing was nothing compared to the standing of Sheikh Yassin. The man was practically born to fulfill the role of a sainted martyr -- a religious personality, a paraplegic in a wheelchair, broken in body but not in spirit, a militant who spent years in prison, a leader who continued his fight after miraculously surviving an earlier assassination attempt, a hero cowardly murdered from the air while leaving the mosque after prayer. Even a writer of genius could not have invented a figure more suited to the adoration of a billion Muslims, in this and coming generations. The murder of Yassin will encourage cooperation among the Palestinian fighting organizations. Here, too, a parallel with the Hebrew underground presents itself. In a certain phase of the fight against the British, there was much unrest among the members of the Hagana, the semiofficial underground army of the Zionist leadership (comparable to Fatah today). The Hagana (which included the elite Palmakh formation) was seen to be inactive, while the Irgun and Lehi appeared as heroes who carried out incredibly audacious actions. The ferment inside the Hagana caused the emergence of a group called "Fighting Nation" which advocated close cooperation between the various organizations. Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade members cooperate with Hamas and Jihad, contrary to the orders of their political leadership, saying that "since we are killed together, let us fight together". Hamas' popularity among the population is rising sky-high, together with its capability to carry out attacks. This does not mean that the Palestinian public accepts the aim of an Islamic state or that it has given up the idea of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. But the admiration of the masses for the attackers and their actions reflects the conviction that the Israelis understand only the language of force, and that experience proves that without extreme violence the Palestinians will not achieve anything at all. Unfortunately, there is no real evidence for the opposite. The truth is that the Palestinians have never achieved anything without resorting to violence. Therefore the petitions being signed these days by well-meaning Palestinian personalities, calling for an end to the armed struggle, will have no effect. They cannot point to any other method that will sound convincing to their public. And our government always, without exception, presents such moves as a sign of weakness. In the even longer run, the assassination of Yassin poses an existential danger. For five generations, the Israel-Palestinian conflict was essentially a national conflict -- a clash between two great national movements, each of which claimed the country for itself. A national conflict is basically rational, it can be solved by compromise. Our nightmare has always been that the national struggle would turn into a religious one. Since every religion claims to represent absolute truth, religious struggles do not allow for compromise. The martyrdom of Sheikh Yassin pushes even further away the chance of Israel ever attaining peace and tranquility, normal relations with its neighbors, with a flourishing economy. It increases the danger that future generations of Arabs and Muslims will view it as a foreign implantation, installed in this region by force, with every decent Muslim, from Morocco to Indonesia, duty-bound to strive for its uprooting. Such insights are far from the capability of our three generals to absorb. Sharon, Mofaz, Ya'alon and their ilk understand only brute force in the service of a narrow nationalism. Peace does not inspire them, for them compromise is a dirty word. It is quite clear that they will feel much more comfortable if the Palestinian people is led by fanatical religious fighters than by a man prepared to compromise like Yasser Arafat. |
| csua.org/u/7bz -> news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/monitoring/media_reports/1636782.stm Low Graphics Saturday, 3 November, 2001, 23:12 GMT Bin Laden rails against Crusaders and UN Pro-Bin Ladin protest in Jakarta Muslim youth rallying to Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden's latest challenge to the West and rallying cry to the Muslim world was broadcast on Al-Jazeera satellite television channel on Saturday 3 November. The following is the text as broadcast: We praise God, seek His help, and ask for His forgiveness. We seek refuge in God from the evils of our souls and our bad deeds. A person who is guided by God will never be misguided by anyone and a person who is misguided by God can never be guided by anyone. I bear witness that there is no God but Allah alone, Who has no partner. Attacks divide world Amid the huge developments and in the wake of the great strikes that hit the United States in its most important locations in New York and Washington, a huge media clamour has been raised. The first part supported these strikes against US tyranny, while the second denounced them. Afterward, when the United States launched the unjust campaign against the Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan, people also split into two parties. The first supported these campaigns, while the second denounced and rejected them. These tremendous incidents, which have split people into two parties, are of great interest to the Muslims, since many of the rulings pertain to them. The polls showed that the vast majority of the sons of the Islamic world were happy about these strikes. Bin Laden on 11 September attacks These rulings are closely related to Islam and the acts that corrupt a person's Islam. Therefore, the Muslims must understand the nature and truth of this conflict so that it will be easy for them to determine where they stand. While talking about the truth of the conflict, opinion polls in the world have shown that a little more than 80 per cent of Westerners, of Christians in the United States and elsewhere, have been saddened by the strikes that hit the United States. The polls showed that the vast majority of the sons of the Islamic world were happy about these strikes because they believe that the strikes were in reaction to the huge criminality practiced by Israel and the United States in Palestine and other Muslim countries. After the strikes on Afghanistan began, these groups changed positions. Those who were happy about striking the United States felt sad when Afghanistan was hit, and those who felt sad when the United States was hit were happy when Afghanistan was hit. "Barbaric" West The entire West, with the exception of a few countries, supports this unfair, barbaric campaign, although there is no evidence of the involvement of the people of Afghanistan in what happened in America. The people of Afghanistan had nothing to do with this matter. The campaign, however, continues to unjustly annihilate the villagers and civilians, children, women, and innocent people. The entire West, with the exception of a few countries, supports this unfair, barbaric campaign. Bin Laden on the West The positions of the two sides are very clear. Mass demonstrations have spread from the farthest point in the eastern part of the Islamic world to the farthest point in the western part of the Islamic world, and from Indonesia, Philippines, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan to the Arab world and Nigeria and Mauritania. War "fundamentally religious" This clearly indicates the nature of this war. They sympathized with Muslims against the people of the West, who are the crusaders. Those who try to cover this crystal clear fact, which the entire world has admitted, are deceiving the Islamic nation. They are trying to deflect the attention of the Islamic nation from the truth of this conflict. This fact is proven in the book of God Almighty and in the teachings of our messenger, may God's peace and blessings be upon him. Under no circumstances should we forget this enmity between us and the infidels. Muslims must stand together We must be loyal to the believers and those who believe that there is no God but Allah. God says: "Never will the Jews or the Christians be satisfied with thee unless thou follow their form of religion." It is a question of faith, not a war against terrorism, as Bush and Blair try to depict it. Many thieves belonging to this nation were captured in the past. It is a question of faith, not a war against terrorism, as Bush and Blair try to depict it. Bin Laden on the war The masses which moved in the East and West have not done so for the sake of Osama. This is because they know that they are right and that they resist the most ferocious, serious, and violent Crusade campaign against Islam ever since the message was revealed to Muhammad, may God's peace and blessings be upon. After this has become clear, the Muslim must know and learn where he is standing vis-a-vis this war. "Crusader war" After the US politicians spoke and after the US newspapers and television channels became full of clear crusading hatred in this campaign that aims at mobilizing the West against Islam and Muslims, Bush left no room for doubts or the opinions of journalists, but he openly and clearly said that this war is a crusader war. He said this before the whole world to emphasize this fact. Anyone who lines up behind Bush in this campaign has committed one of the 10 actions that sully one's Islam. Bin Laden names names What can those who allege that this is a war against terrorism say? What terrorism are they speaking about at a time when the Islamic nation has been slaughtered for tens of years without hearing their voices and without seeing any action by them? But when the victim starts to take revenge for those innocent children in Palestine, Iraq, southern Sudan, Somalia, Kashmir and the Philippines, the rulers' ulema (Islamic leaders) and the hypocrites come to defend the clear blasphemy. The common people have understood the issue, but there are those who continue to flatter those who colluded with the unbelievers to anesthetized the Islamic nation to prevent it from carrying out the duty of jihad so that the word of God will be above all words. The unequivocal truth is that Bush has carried the cross and raised its banner high and stood at the front of the queue. Anyone who lines up behind Bush in this campaign has committed one of the 10 actions that sully one's Islam. Muslim scholars are unanimous that allegiance to the infidels and support for them against the believers is one of the major acts that sully Islam. Let us investigate whether this war against Afghanistan that broke out a few days ago is a single and unique one or if it is a link to a long series of crusader wars against the Islamic world. Following World War I, which ended more than 83 years ago, the whole Islamic world fell under the crusader banner - under the British, French, and Italian governments. They divided the whole world, and Palestine was occupied by the British. Palestinians in Ramallah Palestinians in Ramallah Since then, and for more than 83 years, our brothers, sons, and sisters in Palestine have been badly tortured. Hundreds of thousands of them have been killed, and hundreds of thousands of them have been imprisoned or maimed. "Crusade" against Chechens Let us examine the recent developments. They are a Muslim people who have been attacked by the Russian bear which embraces the Christian Orthodox faith. Russians have annihilated the Chechen people in their entirety and forced them to flee to the mountains where they were assaulted by snow and poverty and diseases. "Crusade" against Bosnia This was followed by a war of genocide in Bosnia in sight and hearing of the entire world in the heart of Europe. For several years our brothers have been killed, our women have been raped, and our children have been massacred in the safe havens of the United Nations and with its knowledge and cooperation. Those who refer our tragedies today to the United Nations so that they can be resolved are hypocrites who deceive God, His Prophet and the believers. UN "collusion" Are not our tragedies but caused by the United Nations? Who issued the Partition Resolution on Palestine in 1947 and surrendered the ... |