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Prayer of the day:
"O Allah! I seek refuge with You from
helplessness, laziness and
cowardice, and from such old age in which one
loses understanding, and from
stinginess; and I seek refuge with you from the
punishment of the grave and
the fears and misdirections of life and death."
[Prophet Muhammad, pbuh,
Hadith
in Sahih Muslim.]
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NEW TREND's STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLE:
New Trend is against ALL violence, be it directed
against human beings or
against animals or against the environment. We
want peace in the world but we
know that peace can only follow justice. We are
for the self-determination of
all nations. We believe that
Palestinians,
Kashmiris,
Chechens,
Afghans
and
Iraqis
have the right to liberate their countries
and to drive out the
occupiers. We consider it a form of hypocrisy if
wars launched by
governments are not condemned and the losses
inflicted by states are
sanitized as "collateral" damage. By contrast,
we hear the constant
condemnation of attacks by the weaker side as
"terrorism." ALL violence must
be condemned. Not even a cat should be killed or
left to starve.
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WHAT DO THE FOLLOWING HAVE IN COMMON OTHER THAN
THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE
CONDEMNED THE ATTACK in Riyadh?
1. President
Bush.
"These despicable acts were committed by killers
whose only faith is hate,
and the
United States
will find the killers, and
they will learn the meaning
of
American justice."
2. Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi
Arabia..
"They
(the terrorists) cannot shake
even a hair on our bodies. According to the
Qur'an,
they are going to the
hellfire."
3. Military Coup Leader Pervez Musharraf of
Pakistan. My heart bleeds on the
attack in Saudi Arabia {or some such words}.
4. Prime Minister of
India,
Atal Behari Vajpayee
condemned terrorism, tried
to connect to Kashmir.
5. President Putin of Russia. [He sees connection
between Riyadh and
Chechnya.]
And nearer home:
6. Nail al-Jubeir, Saudi Director of Information,
in USA. "It is an attack on
all of us." [He meant people in the Saudi and
U.S. power structure are one.
[CNN
May 13]
7. Stephen Schwartz, author of a propaganda book
called THE TWO FACES OF
ISLAM. The "Wahhabis" are responsible for the
attack, he said, and that
America should seize Saudi assets.
[MSNBC
TV, May
13]
8. Steven Emerson, notorious
Zionist
Jew,
agreed
with Schwartz that Saudi
assets should be seized. [Ibid.]
9. CAIR,
a Saudi-funded "advocacy" group which
uses the name of Islam,
strongly condemned the Riyadh attack.
10. Christopher Hitchens, an irresponsible
political commentator who strongly
supported the attack on Iraq as an act of
"liberation." [From his appearance
on TV, he seems to be high on something, very
well fed, and seems to have
just come from a brothel with love locks falling
on his forehead. He claims
Saddam killed about 400,000 to a million Kurds.
He likes to add or subtract
zeros from the figures he uses, quite
arbitrarily.]
11. Gary Bauer, a Zionist Christian evangelist.
He is TO THE RIGHT of SHARON
and rejects the American plan for "two states" in
Palestine. [MSNBC, Hardball]
All 11 of them condemned the attack in Riyadh
without any 'ifs' or 'buts.'
NOTE WHAT THEY HAVE IN COMMON:
1. None of them have condemned the U.S. bombing
of Afghanistan.
2. None of them have acknowledged that 60,000
civilians were killed in
Afghanistan. Or that of these, nearly 4,000
civilian Afghan deaths have been
documented by an American analyst.
3. They do not condemn the 100,000 Iraqis killed
in the First Gulf War by the
elder Bush. They never mention any statistics of
Muslim civilians killed.
4. They do not mention or condemn the million
plus civilian deaths caused in
Iraq by the U.S.-U.N.-Saudi embargo and
sanctions, many of them CHILDREN
UNDER FIVE.
5. They do not mention the numbers of Iraqis
killed in the current war of
aggression, let alone condemning the bombing in
any specific terms. [The only
exception could be CAIR which has expressed some
vague regrets.] [According
to Ramsey Clark, 5,000 Iraqi civilians and 25,000
troops were killed in three
weeks of bombing. None of the 30,000 knew what
hit them as the U.S. used the
most sophisticated murder machine the world has
ever known.]
6. General Musharref helped the U.S. attack on
defenseless Afghanistan.
During this war on Iraq, he did not MAKE THE
SLIGHTEST GESTURE OF OPPOSITION
to the aggression, although Pakistanis by the
millions were condemning the
war. Calling in the U.S. ambassador to show
slight displeasure was too much
for Musharraf.
7. The Saudi rulers too did not call in the
American ambassador to reprimand
him for the U.S. bombing of Iraq even when Bush
was using B-52s and B1s
WITHIN the city of Baghdad.
For all of them, the U.S. attacks on Afghanistan
and Iraq were not crimes,
but the
mujahideen
attack on Riyadh is a crime.
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ANALYSIS OF RIYADH ATTACK
by Buut Shikan (Idol Breaker)
It appears from U.S. reports that the
attackers shot their way into
the compound and then blew up a truck and several
cars packed with explosives
at three buildings in the compound.
Fifty Americans escaped injury because
they were out in the desert
with Saudi troops in a military exercise.
According to the U.S. ambassador in Saudi
Arabia (as we reported
earlier from CNN), the people living in the
compound come under three
categories:
1. Advisors to the Saudi National Guard [which at
an expense of $3
billion/year holds the country under the corrupt
rule of the Saudi family.]
2. Advisors to the Saudi army [which has never
fought in any Islamic cause,
and has strictly avoided conflict with
Israel
which abuts its northern
border.] This army is basically used as a dumping
ground for U.S. military
products at high prices.
3. Defense contractors. Second to oil, the sale
of military-related products
to Saudi Arabia enriches American
military-industrial complex and stabilizes
the Saudi monarchy, making it almost impossible
for the Saudi people to rise
up against the weaponry in the hands of Saudi
mercenaries.
Islamic assailants have introduced a new
kind of warfare which
nullifies the superiority of American firepower.
The Americans have no one to
shoot at and no country to destroy in revenge. If
the American military goes
on the rampage against its own puppet rulers, the
result will only be an open
conflict between Islam and America, which at this
time is more carefully
channeled through regimes such as the Saudi one,
which actually uses the name
of Islam while allying itself with those
supporting Israel and India.
In the current war on Iraq about 150
American troops were reported
killed. Most of them are from poor families,
Hispanic, Black and poor white
from small towns. These are cannon fodder.
America can afford to lose any
number of such troops.
By contrast, the Riyadh attack, even with
34 killed and 160 injured
(till last reports) of whom only 8 were
Americans, has shaken the
American-Saudi alliance. It has hit the
underpinning of the Saudi power
structure, the whole area of defense contracts,
National Guards, and military
connection with the U.S. military-industrial
complex.
The key to understanding the situation is as
follows: There is a war on
between Islam and the Zionist-U.S. power
structure. Nine mujahideen gave
their lives in the Riyadh attack. The Saudis say
that the charred bodies of
the nine have been found.
Let us hope and pray for peace. With TRUTH
and honesty in reporting,
reality may prevail, and the TRUTH SHALL SET YOU
FREE.
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King Abdullah of Jordan Gets $700 m Reward for
betrayal of Iraq in Current
U.S. attack
[With thanks to Sis. Hamdiyeh, South Carolina.]
[Wire report.]
Jordan discreetly helped to facilitate the US-led
campaign to overthrow
former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. King
Abdullah distanced himself
publicly from the war under strong domestic
pressure while allowing US
special forces crucial access to western Iraq
from Jordanian soil.
The $700 million tranche is part of a $1.1
billion aid package to the kingdom
that includes $400m in military aid. This is in
addition to $450m given
annually by Washington to Amman.
Jordan's deal is part of a $8bn supplemental aid
package to reward regional
allies including
Egypt,
Afghanistan, Israel and
Pakistan.
With US lobbying, Jordan has secured three months
of free oil from Saudi
Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE to make up for lost
Iraqi supplies.
Powell will also seal a long-delayed bilateral
investment treaty held up
since 1997 which officials and businessmen hope
will boost growing US direct
investment.
The treaty affords better protection to US firms
operating in Jordan and
encourages investment in industrial parks that
export duty free to the
lucrative US market.
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A First: British MP Pinpoints Jewish
Responsibility for U.S. and British
Foreign Policy
Rejects Charges of Anti-Semitism
Dalyell steps up attack on Levy
[Excerpted, with thanks to Br. Shoaib in London,
England.]
Michael White, political editor
Tuesday May 6, 2003
The Guardian
The Labour MP Tam Dalyell yesterday scornfully
brushed aside accusations of
anti-semitism but stood by the allegation that
has landed him in political
trouble, that "there is far too much Jewish
influence in the United States"
and one over-influential Jew in Tony Blair's
entourage.
Faced with threats to take "inflammatory remarks"
to the commission for
racial equality, the MP for Linlithgow raised the
stakes significantly by
criticising Lord Levy, the music mogul turned
Blair fundraiser and tennis
partner, whose in timate contacts across the
region have made him No 10's
envoy to the Middle East.
"I believe his influence has been very important
on the prime minister and
has led to what I see as this awful war and the
sack of Baghdad," said Mr
Dalyell .....
After Mr Dalyell was indirectly reported by
Vanity Fair magazine as
criticising "a cabal of Jewish advisers" driving
US-UK policy towards Iraq -
and now
Syria
- there were protests, and
Professor Eric Moonman, a Labour MP
20 years ago, started legal consultations over a
complaint to the CRE.
But Mr Dalyell may be the MP least likely to
buckle to pressure. Questioned
on Radio 4's World at One, he said: "The cabal I
referred to was American,"
and named seven hawkish advisers to President
George Bush - six of them
Jewish - as urging a strike against Syria.
"It's the Jewish Institute for National Security
Affairs combined with
neo-Christian fundamentalists. I think a lot of
it is Likudnik, Mr Sharon's
agenda, and when it comes to an attack on Syria
this is a very serious
matter."
Pressed further, the MP conceded he had "picked
out one person [in Britain]
about whom I am extremely concerned and I have to
be blunt about it. That is
Lord Levy, Mr Blair's official representative in
the Middle East. This has
two questions: first, should not this be done by
the Foreign Office; second,
are special representatives to be accountable or
not?"
Downing Street has often been forced to defend
Lord Levy, both over
aggressive fundraising and as an envoy - welcome
in Arab capitals, including
Damascus, as well as Tel Aviv - who cannot be
questioned by MPs.
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