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BANGLADESH:
Booklet (31 pages) SHORT REPLY TO ALLAMA IQBAL's SHIKWA: A Manifesto to Uplift the Weak by Advocate Ahmed Ali Sheikh. Published in both Bangla and English (separate booklets).
Very illuminating (in spite of errors of English). The "philosophy" of this publication, noted on the back cover, is a quote from Nigerian Islamist Usman Dan Fodio: "A nation can endure unbelief but not injustice."
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AN ASTONISHING STATEMENT FROM FBI DIRECTOR:

Speaking to an ACLU gathering FBI Director Mueller interjected this statement in the middle of his speech: "Every FBI agent makes a visit to the Holocaust Museum to see what happens when law enforcement goes wrong."
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ISLAMIC LEADERS ARE THE TARGET: KILL THEM AND THEN YOU CAN HAVE "PEACE."

No less a person than Colin Powell expressed his hatred of the Islamic movement today. Mr. Powell claimed that "Terror" as epitomized in the Islamic movement called Hamas is the central problem in Palestine. "It's important to get the terror down" Mr. Powell emphasized. If there were no "terror", Israel would not have to strike back. [CNN June 13]
It's as simple as that! "Dismantle" the Islamic movement and you can have a "Palestinian state."

Mr. Powell conveniently forgot that the Zionists are in OCCUPATION of Palestine. Occupied people have the right to hit back at the occupiers in every way possible, under international and Islamic law. Every attack by the occupiers only compounds their original crime of occupation.
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WAR NEWS:

IRAQ: MUSLIM BLOOD FLOWS AGAIN [June 13]

Al-Haditha: The U.S. has slaughtered nearly one hundred Muslim opponents. Of these 70, according to U.S. sources, were killed when the air force dropped 20 two thousand pound bombs on a camp where Islamists were suspected of undergoing training. The U.S. believes that at least 36 of the dead are volunteers from Arab countries.

Balad: Iraqis attacked a U.S. tank column. Four of the 27 attackers were killed in return fire. The remaining 23 were pursued by U.S. Apache helicopters and killed.
[Comment: Serious Iraqi error. Good guerrilla fighters do not frontally attack forces which possess 1000 times more firepower. They wait till the occupiers get out of their tanks and sit down for a drink.]

U.S. losses were not revealed but on June 12 the U.S. admitted that a HELICOPTER had been shot down [with an RPG, which is quite a feat]. An F-16 also went down. It was providing close ground support and thus was apparently shot down. [The U.S. claims it had "mechanical" failure.]

A U.S. soldier has been found dead in Falluja. Another U.S. soldier was killed and 8 injured when their armored vehicle "rolled over." [Accident?]
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PALESTINE: 7th Israeli rocket attack. SHARON SAYS ALL ISLAMIC LEADERS, INCLUDING QUADRIPALEGIC SHAIKH YASIN, SPIRITUAL LEADER OF HAMAS, WILL BE KILLED.

Israel has assassinated another Islamic leader, a student leader heading Islamic university students. HIS WIFE AND BABY WERE ALSO KILLED in the pinpointed rocket attack.

SEVEN CHILDREN were hit in another Israeli missile attack.

[By way of propaganda, Muslims should learn some tactics from the Jews. After the murder of the leader's wife and child, Israel issued a statement that 'we did not know his family was with him.' This is the kind of statement Hamas should issue after carrying out martyrdom operations (and it would be correct) that Israeli soldiers were hiding among civilians. The soldiers should separate themselves from the civilians so that they can be clearer targets. This is the kind of statement which was also issued by the U.S. during the bombing of Iraq]
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HEAVY FIGHTING IS RAGING in CHECHNYA. The mujahideen are holding the Russian army at bay. There are clashes almost every day.
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KASHMIR: JUNE 11. There were new clashes between the mujahideen and Indian army units, with 10 Kashmiris and 7 Indians killed. On June 12, Indian forces arrested a non-Mujahid political Kashmiri leader. Kashmiris carried out a protest demonstration but were teargassed and dispersed by police.
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2003-06-14 Sat 08:19ct