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NEW YORK WILL LOSE $25 BILLION
(from our rep. in NYC, Sis. Aisha}
New York La Guardia airport evacuation was
originally seen on the
CNN
web
site but was quickly pulled from it. Sis.
Tabassum informed me that the
Jewish
lobbyists were behind that. While the Jews
may call in complaints to
TV and radio stations what they also do is
contact and bombard that
particular program's advertisers.
The ant-war movement is
America
is huge and the
numbers do not appear to be
dwindling. I suggest that those of us who are
disgusted with the O'Reilly
Factor and other racist, anti-Muslim reporting
not only contact these shows
producers but, the advertisers! We should follow
up with a boycott of these
advertisers should they ignore our complaints.
Below are government links to our house of
representatives, the senate, and
the white house. We should let our
"representatives" know that they are
misrepresenting us. Yesterday, I heard on NY1
cable news network that
although the democrats do not support
Bush's
approach to Iraq that they will
agree to give him $70 billion for the war effort!
Speaking of money lost, it was also reported by
the same cable station that
New York City will lose $25 billion dollars this
year. At first, the report
said that the anti-war protests were to blame
but, later reports stated that
it was the war on the Iraqi people itself. Being
a New Yorker myself, I
believe that it is a culmination of things. I
work in the Wall Street area
and ever since the war began, I see national
guardsmen and police officers
with the military rifles standing in front of
these financial office
buildings. In some blocks each delivery truck is
stopped and searched by
bomb sniffing dogs. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is
spending $5 million a week
for this security! He had the audacity to say
that New Yorkers should go
about their daily lives with business as usual.
Well, anything to protect
the citizens of New York's money!
Salaam,
Sis. 'Aisha
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Day 14: Iraqi Forces Hold all Major Towns: U.S.
launches Big New Offensive,
10 miles in 13 Hours. Tigris Crossed?
8000 Bombs dropped so Far: Steep Rise in Civilian
Casualties
On April 2, two weeks after the U.S.
invasion began, Iraqi forces
were holding back the invaders all along the
front in the south and the
center of the country. However, on April 1, at 8
PM (EST), the U.S. launched
a major offensive against Al-Kut and Kerbala.
Thirteen hours later, the U.S.
claimed that it had broken through at Kerbala and
had crossed the Tigris at
Al-Kut. [Iraq is denying the Tigris crossing.]
The U.S. offensive came after
three days of non-stop bombing of Iraqi
Republican guard positions which the
U.S. claims reduced the Iraqi forces by 40%.
If the U.S. reports are correct, the battle
for Baghdad may begin soon.
If the offensive stalls (13 hours is a long time
for a 10 mile advance), the
U.S. could face a much longer war than it had
anticipated.
ANALYSIS: Both U.S. and other non-Iraqi
reporters are amazed at the
ability of the poorly armed Iraqi forces to hold
out for two weeks against a
superpower. There is no comparison between the
firepower available to the two
sides. The Iraqis are fighting without air cover
which makes their situation
highly vulnerable.
Observers say that the infusion of Islamic
motivation has made a big
difference in the Iraqi resistance. During the
SIX DAYS WAR, the Israelis
defeated three secular Arab regimes. In 1991, the
Iraqis were surrendering in
droves. Today, with "Allahu Akbar" on the Iraqi
banner, the Iraqis are
resisting against overwhelming odds. Very few
have surrendered in spite of
the massive U.S. bombing. Those held by the U.S.
are reported to have been
captured after their ammunition ran out.
President Saddam Hussain shows no signs
of wavering and in fact has
just issued a statement urging the people to
carry out
Jihad
against the
invaders.
Observers say that in the final analysis,
President Hussain is banking
on the support of the Muslim world. Tremendous
outpouring of support for him
from the masses of Islam is quite clear. More
than 6000 Islamic volunteers
have reportedly arrived in Iraq to join the
fight. However, all the men
ruling the Muslim world are quietly supporting
the U.S. Iran is smugly
waiting for Saddam to collapse to cash in on the
Muslim resentment against
the U.S.
Turkey
has not permitted the U.S. to
open a northern front (90%
Turks oppose the invasion) but has not helped
Iraq in any way.
Syria's
rhetoric is the strongest but even the night
goggles story was not correct.
European powers like France and Germany
would not let Bush and Blair
wear the fig leaf of UN approval but have not
brought any resolution to
oppose the invasion. Russia has been using the
situation to carry out a
macabre "referendum" in
Chechnia
aimed at
showing that the victims of
genocide actually support it.
IRAQ IS GOING IT ALONE.
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MUSHARREF PERMITS FBI TO INTERROGATE
PAKISTANI
WOMAN SCIENTIST
March 31 2003
ISLAMABAD: Authorities detained a female
scientist over the
weekend for suspected links with al-Qaeda's
chemical warfare
plans, a news report said today. Agents of the
United States'
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were
allowed to
interrogate Aafia Siddiqui who was shadowed after
she arrived in
Karachi on an internal flight, according to the
newspaper TheNews. Official
sources did not confirm the arrest. Aafia holds a
doctorate in neurological sciences from the
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and was living in Boston
with her
husband and three children, according to the
newspaper. She
allegedly provided logistical support to Adnan G.
El
Shukrijumah, who is wanted by the U.S. for posing
a possible
threat to its security, according to the FBI
website. The FBI
put Aafia's photograph on its website recently
with the
statement that "although the FBI has no
information indicating
this individual is connected to specific
terrorist activities,
the FBI would like to locate and question this
individual."
[Information from Sis. Hamdiyeh, South Carolina.]
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EGYPT's
MUBARAK
SHOWS HIS HAND
Egypt Expels Top Iraqi Diplomat
The Guardian
Wednesday April 2, 2003 12:40 AM
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Egypt has decided to expel a
senior Iraqi diplomat,
giving him a week to leave the country. An Arab
diplomat who monitors Iraqi
affairs in Cairo said the order was served
Tuesday morning.
The Iraqi Foreign Ministry in Baghdad called the
move against Iraqi consul
Riyad al-Ani "regrettable," Iraqi state
television reported Tuesday.
The Foreign Ministry spokesman also said al-Ani
had been approached by U.S
intelligence officers in Cairo in February who
tried to persuade him to
defect.
"Al-Ani responded to this futile attempt with
disdain, dealing the lowest
of blows to the U.S. spy," Iraqi TV quoted the
unidentified spokesman as
saying.
Egypt's Foreign Ministry declined to comment on
the expulsion, but Egyptian
sources and Arab diplomats said the ministry told
al-Ani he "cannot stay in
Egypt and has been ordered to leave in seven
days."
Beside his consular responsibilities, al-Ani is
believed to be working for
Iraqi intelligence, the sources and diplomats
said, speaking on condition of
anonymity.
Iraq's representative to the Arab League, Mohsen
Khalil, who also heads the
diplomatic mission to Egypt, did not answer calls
Tuesday night.
In an attempt to isolate Saddam Hussein's regime,
the United States asked
all countries with Iraqi embassies to expel their
diplomats.
Last month, Jordan became the first Arab country
to do so, ordering five
Iraqis to leave for actions "incompatible with
their diplomatic duty" -
the usual term for spying. Later, the government
said two of the diplomats
could stay, but they had already left.
Jordan stressed the expulsions were for security
reasons and not in response
to the U.S. request.
Egypt severed diplomatic ties with Baghdad
shortly after Iraqi troops
invaded Kuwait in August 1990; it then fought
Iraq as a member of the
U.S.-led coalition in the 1991 Gulf War.
Egypt and Iraq reopened their embassies in each
other capitals in 1998 but
did not restore full diplomatic ties. Still,
Egypt has been a major trade
partner with Iraq under the U.N. sponsored
oil-for-food program, and Egypt's
annual exports to Iraq are worth $2 billion,
officials say.
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