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DAY EIGHT OF THE INVASION OF IRAQ: NAJAF BATTLE +
Bombing
1. As the war went into its second week,
the
U.S.
parachuted troops
into a northern Kurdish area. [See our report
below on the Kurdish card in
the U.S. arsenal.]
2. The bombing of Baghdad continued.
MSNBC
reported that a B2 bomber
was used to drop an 4300 pound bunker buster bomb
on Baghdad today. There was
a huge atomic bomb like plume as the bomb
exploded. Iraq has now been struck
by 600 missiles and 4300 bombs.
3. The U.S. officially admitted [March 27]
that quick victory is not
possible in Iraq and the fighting might continue
into the near future.
4. On March 26, the
Al-Jazeerah
link to U.S.
audiences was disconnected
and that situation continued into March 27. Our
observer says that
Al-Jazeerah was coming up with photos of a whole
group of new U.S. casualties
in Iraq. Evidently the U.S. does not want
Americans to see what is happening
in Iraq.
5. One Arab report indicates that 40 more U.S.
troops have been killed in the
Najaf area in an attack by Iraqi
fidayeen
who rammed American tanks with
pickup vans and a civilian bus loaded with
explosives. U.S. sources have
claimed killing 150 Iraqi paramilitaries in this
battle.
6. U.S.
media
admitted on March 27 (10.30 PM
EST) that in addition to the
5 U.S. troops shown in captivity on Iraqi TV,
another 18 are "missing." The
U.S. has stopped giving specific information on
ongoing deaths in its troops.
7. British troops were disappointed to find
that Iraqi forces in Umm
Qasr are still holding out. Thus the U.S.-UK
after EIGHT days have not been
able to capture any town of any significance in Iraq.
8. Fighting is continuing in Nasiriyah.
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INTERESTING MSNBC NEWS REPORT:
On March 26, MSNBC produced a very rare report of
value: It showed IRAQIS in
AMMAN, JORDAN who are returning to Iraq to JOIN
THE FIGHT against the
U.S.-Brit invasion. It concluded with a report on
Iraqi immigrants in the
U.S. who are joining the U.S. forces to help
defeat their former homeland.
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Understanding the Kurdish problem: Dangerous
Connection with
Israel
The Kurds are divided into regions which
are pat of Iraq, Iran,
Turkey
and
Syria.
The Kurds in Iraq are divided as
follows:
1. Those who want to be part of Iraq and support
President Saddam Hussain.
2. Two secularist groups, the KDP and PUK which
support the U.S. and are
working with the U.S. in the ongoing war against
Iraq.
3. An Islamic group, Ansar al-Islam which is
independent with leanings
towards President Hussain. [Civilians connected
to this were slaughtered in a
U.S. missile attack as we reported earlier.]
4. Another Islamic group which is independent but
opposed to President
Hussain, also (mistakenly?) bombed by the U.S. a
few days back.
The secularist Kurdish groups have played
a major role in the
misfortunes of the Kurds. They are easily
exploited by outside forces and
lured with weapons and money to rise up against
Iraq. When the Iraqi
government forces counterattack, there are often
numerous deaths and
atrocities on both sides.
Following the Iran-Iraq war, the secularist
Kurds thought President
Hussain was going to lose and rose up in armed
rebellion. The Iraqis were in
no mood to accept such a stab in the back. In the
Iraqi counterattack, the
Kurds suffered heavy losses.
The same secularist leaders again rose up
in 1991 when they were
incited by the U.S. This was a serious
miscalculation and a devastating
counterattack destroyed the Kurdish secularists.
The U.S. then used its air
power to set up a puppet Kurdish administrative
area in the north where all
the "blessings" of liquor, night clubs and a
secular "free press" were made
available to a Kurdish "democracy in action."
Again in 2003, these "never learn"
secularist Kurds, flush with American
funds, are helping in the preparation of a
northern front to undermine Iraqi
defenses.
KURDISH DANGER TO ISLAMIC WORLD: CONNECTION WITH
ISRAEL.
by Buut Shikan (Idol Breaker)
Most people do not know that 100,000 Kurdish
Jews
linked to the
secularist Kurds in Iraq are living in Israel. Of
these 10,000 Kurdish Jews
are from the home town of the PUK secularist
Kurdish group leader.
The Israelis have been planning the destruction
of Muslim Iraq for decades
and this planned movement of Kurdish Jews to
Israel was part of this plan.
PUK leaders are in constant touch with the Jews
in Israel.
If the secularist Kurds succeed in
undermining Saddam Hussain, the
Americans will be able to start a new "Israel" in
the Muslim heartland. This
time it will be called "Kurdistan."
The situation would have been easy for the
U.S., but the influence of
Osama bin Laden has helped energize the Islamic
Kurds. Of these, the Ansar
al-Islam are staunchly opposed to the U.S.
invasion. As a result they are
enduring daily doses of bombing by the U.S. air
force.
The Kurds have suffered tremendously owing
to the greed and
gullibility of their secularist leaders. The
solution for the Kurds lies in
the acceptance of Islam and unity with Kurds
actively helping President
Hussain. The alternative is to become an American
enclave, an "Israel" kept
alive with American handouts.
Though President Saddam Hussain crushed
armed secularist Kurd
uprisings, he subsequent to 1991 tried steadily
to win over the Kurdish
people. He proclaimed a GENERAL AMNESTY under
which all Kurds who fought
against Iraq were forgiven. The Kurds are well
represented in the Iraqi
National Assembly.
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HADITH
IS FINAL INTERPRETATION OF THE
QUR'AN
'Qur'an Only" Idea Connected to Beating of Women
(From Br. Shoaib, England): You seem to be saying
that hadith can abrogate Quran.
On several occasions you have said that you don't
accept the traditional abrogation idea. Here you
seem
to swing right to the other extreme. All for the
sake
of a vocal minority of Ahl Quran people.
By the way you used to endorse the Quran
translation
by Ahmad Ali. I've not seen you do this for a
long
time. In this translation, he comes up with a
completely different translation of the hitting
verse
4-34.
Actually there are some bigger issues, involved
as
well, which lead to "unpalatable" interpretation.
These are for example,
1. Is Quran basically a law book, or is it a book
of
guidance?
2. Text is text. Interpretation is done by
humans.
Humans are not neutral. Their mindset does make
all
the difference. This is confirmed by the way we
happily dismiss people, who happen to be
politically
of a different persuasion
Answer by
K. Siddique:
I later found Ahmed Ali's translation to be weak
and forced.
Hadith does not abrogate the Qur'an. It teaches
us how to interpret the
Qur'an. Hadith teaches us that each verse of the
Qur'an is not to be taken as
absolute in itself. Qur'an was progressive: it
was revealed in stages. What
came later abrogated what came earlier.
"Abrogated" does not mean that previous verses
are to be deleted or
discarded. It simply means that as society moves
on from stage to stage, the
later revelations are to be applied and the
earlier ones ignored (to be
applied to new 'elementary' developments).
According to this, 4:34 is abrogated by sura Noor
where the husband cannot
take any action against the wife other than to
take an oath (which leads to
the end of the marriage).
The Hadith provides the context in which the
Qur'an was revealed. Without
context, understanding is not possible.
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