Red Mosque, Taleban Have Their Martyrs – Now What

Musharraf boost
Why the president has finally moved against radical mosque.

Pakistani soldiers storm mosque Troops in Pakistan’s city of Islamabad have stormed the Red Mosque, after talks with radicals broke down. The army said 40 militants were killed in the operation, as loud explosions and gunfire were heard. Three soldiers were killed and 15 injured, the army said.

Pakistanis storm mosque; 43 dead   China Daily, China -
ISLAMABAD – Pakistani forces stormed a mosque compound in the capital on Tuesday, killing at least 40 militants who were believed to be holed up with …

And counting

Troops storm Pakistan mosque compound after talks fail Jerusalem Post, Israel -
By AP Troops stormed Islamabad’s Red Mosque compound Tuesday, prompting a fierce firefight with militants accused of holding about 150 hostages inside, …

40 militants killed in Lal Masjid attack Times of India, India -
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani troops stormed the Lal Masjid complex in the capital early Tuesday morning after talks with radicals to end the week-long standoff …

Pakistan faces the Taleban’s tentacles BBC News, By Barbara Plett , Bannu, northern Pakistan
Armed Pakistani tribesmen had been imposing their own hardline version of Islam in the lawless border region near Afghanistan. But their influence is spreading, and the state seems powerless to stop it.

The members of this radical religious movement are Pakistani, but they’re inspired by the Afghan Taleban. They support its leader Mullah Omar, rather than Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf.   … the Taleban have a duty to enforce Islamic law wherever they can because the government has failed to do so. He supports those who’ve tried to assassinate the president in the past – they were “doing the right thing”, he says.

“We don’t have the power or capacity to remove this government. We cannot bring down the Musharraf regime, so we don’t intend to do that. What we are trying to do is that in our area, if we see something un-Islamic happening, we try to stop it, because we are responsible for our own area.”

The members of this radical religious movement are Pakistani, but they’re inspired by the Afghan Taleban. They support its leader Mullah Omar, rather than Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf.

Abdul Rashid Ghazi -    is a radical Pakistani cleric, son of Maulana Muhammad Abdullah and younger brother of Abdul Aaziz Ghazi.

This is another spark igniting a Middle East wildfire.

Don’t forget, there are Nukes at the other end of this story…

Darfur Refugees – Where Will They Go Now

Border anarchy Jerusalem Post, Israel -
Among the more disconcerting anomalies in the judgmental pronouncements by purported human-rights advocates is their scathing criticism of Israel in recent …

‘Israel creating unnecessary drama’ Ynetnews, Israel -
Sudanese minister promises his country ‘will find the way to deal with refugees’. Israel to continue aiding those fleeing Darfur until international …

Wolfson doctors volunteer to treat refugees Jerusalem Post, Israel -
By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH A large number of physicians from Wolfson Medical Center in Holon volunteered this week to treat refugees from Darfur and Sudan who …

Government to set up tent city for Darfur refugees Ynetnews, Israel -
The government will set up a tent city in the Negev to house dozens of Sudanese refugees who infiltrate Israel from Egypt almost daily, Internal Security …

Israel Grappling With Influx of Sudanese Refugees CNSNews.com, VA -
By Julie Stahl Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) – The word has spread among Sudanese and other African refugees and job seekers that Israel — the only democracy in …

Egyptian Police Cracks Down on Illegal African FOX News -
EL-ARISH, Egypt — Some 37 Africans, mostly refugees from Darfur, were arrested Friday in the Sinai Peninsula by Egyptian authorities who said they were …

 

Unwanted in Israel Al Jazerra: By Sherine Tadros at the Egyptian-Israeli border

More than five hundred Sudanese refugees have fled to Israel in the last two months to escape genocide in Darfur. Now Israel is threatening to deport them.

No refugee status

Sigal Rosen, from the hotline for migrant workers in Tel Aviv, said: “The government started arresting the Sudanese under the infiltration law – a law made in emergency times; a law under which there was no possibility to release them for a very long period of detention.

To Israel, Sudan is an ‘enemy state’, and the Sudanese, ‘enemy nationals’.

“They aren’t getting refugee status and there are deportation orders hanging over the heads of all of them.

Identity crisis

Eytan Schwartz, spokesperson for the Committee for Advancement of Refugees of Darfur (Card), said that Israel has a moral obligation to take the Sudanese in.

“We are a country founded by refugees, we are a people who were persecuted for thousands of years. We of all people should know what it’s like to be people of a nation that nobody wants to take in.

“That’s why we have a moral, historical obligation to take them in, even if they’re from an enemy country.”

But the Israeli government has said the situation is now at a crisis point and closing the border or deporting them back to Egypt may be the only solution.

But the Israeli government has said the situation is now at a crisis point and closing the border or deporting them back to Egypt may be the only solution.

Avishai Braverman, a Knesset member, said: “People heard that Israel may be a haven … [But] we are such a small country, we cannot do that. We have our own problems with our own immigrants.

“You can do certain things, but it’s not in our capacity to solve the problem of all the Sudanese … to say that we can absorb hundreds of thousands when we cannot even take care of our own, that’s a nice world but its unrealistic and unfair.”

To many, those Sudanese seeking refuge in Israel are viewed as a threat to the Jewish identity.

“Israel has an identity challenge,” Schwartz said. “We are a Jewish democracy and this is an example, a perfect example, of the negotiation of these two identities.

“How can you be a democracy with human rights, with values of accepting people from all nations, but you still want to maintain your Jewish identity? … That means always maintaining a Jewish majority.”

With every new arrival, Israel’s dilemma deepens. At the same time, for the Sudanese who make the journey with so much hope, life in Israel now holds an uncertain future.

“To say that we can absorb hundreds of thousands when we cannot even take care of our own, that’s a nice world but its unrealistic and unfair” Avishai Braverman, Israeli Knesset member

Where will they go? Why can’t responsible countries make their home safe so they don’t have to go anywhere? Why is all this allowed to happen, Oil is not at stake? SHAME on the world!

 

Al-Qaeda: Sunni vs Shia Threatens Iran – Spreading Fires

Al-Qaeda threatens war against Iran

Al Jazeera: MONDAY, JULY 09, 2007 7:13 MECCA TIME, 4:13 GMT

The leader of an al-Qaeda umbrella group in Iraq, who was thought to have been killed by US forces, has threatened to wage war against Iran unless it stops supporting Shias in Iraq within two months. Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, head of the Islamic State in Iraq, said his Sunni fighters have been preparing to wage a battle against Shia-dominated Iran.

US forces had earlier claimed to have killed al-Baghdadi.

“We are giving the Persians, and especially the rulers of Iran, a two-month period to end all kinds of support for the Iraqi Shia government and to stop direct and indirect intervention … otherwise a severe war is waiting for you,” al-Baghdadi said in an audio tape released Sunday July 8.

Iraq’s Shia-led government is backed by the US but closely allied to Iran.

“We advise and warn every Sunni businessman inside Iran or in Arab countries especially in the Gulf not to take partnership with any Shia Iranian businessman, this is part of the two-month period,” he said.

Al-Baghdadi said his group was responsible for two suicide truck bomb attacks in May in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region. He said the attacks in Irbil and Makhmur showed the “Islamic jihad” was progressing in the Kurdish areas.

 

While America frets over media nonsense, the Middle East is devolving further into its own path of destruction that is spreading like a cancer.

Trapped between hating the West and hating each other, the Radical Mullahs are stirring a nest of hornets into a frenzy of destruction.

American politics has not shown any signs of addressing the fallout from our complicity of disruption. Bush & Company took advantage of an existing fragile emotional condition called 9/11 and associated it with the Islamic culture to expand its own corporate lust for oil resources. Pain is no object any more! As much as this country wants to leave the Middle East and lick its wounds, the mess we have created no longer allows us to do that.

Sadly, there is a bigger picture here that requires a lot of attention because there are vulnerable nuclear assets within reach of disenfranchised, passionate, highly motivated zealots.

Has Bush’s Armageddon envy finally succeeded?

Bush & Company is responsible but go free anyway … impeachment is a little anticlimactic at this point.

 

FIND ME A CANDIDATE!

 

 

Musharraf, Pakistan, Clerics – Who Will Win The Nukes?

Islamabad: clerics to negotiate mosque surrender   Xinhua, China -
BEIJING, July 9 (Xinhuanet) — Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf at a high-level meeting Monday decided to give clerics more time to persuade …

Cleric sees standoff as a trigger in Pakistan   Chicago Tribune, United States -
By Mubashir Zaidi and Laura King ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Fears deepened Sunday about the fate of hostages reportedly being held by Islamic militants in a …

Gunfire but no assault seen yet at Pakistan mosque   Canada.com, Canada -
Workers block a road with barbed wire near Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, during a curfew in Islamabad July 8, 2007. Islamist militants in a Pakistani mosque …

Musharraf Will Let Clerics Negotiate   Guardian Unlimited, UK -
From AP AP Photo XAN107, XAN102, XAN105, XDG101 By SADAQAT JAN AP Writer ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) – President Gen. Pervez Musharraf on Monday gave clerics …

Pakistan mosque siege in 7th day   Irish Times, Ireland -
Security forces fired tear gas and traded gunfire with Islamist militants in a Pakistani mosque compound today, but there was no sign of an imminent assault …

Pakistan calls mosque leaders terrorists   MLive.com, MI -
By SADAQAT JAN AP ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — President Gen. Pervez Musharraf convened a high-level meeting Monday on how to crack a nearly week-long …

With elections looming, Musharraf’s western alliances alert to the risks at stake, America’s candidates need to be addressing this, RIGHT NOW!  Pakistan’s nuclear assets and technology are on fragile footing.  The nuclear prize is dangling before all the players.  Taleban and radical Islamists see chaos as the tool to topple Musharraf if they cannot assassinate him.  The coming elections will be strained at best.  Our full attention should be on the outcome of Pakistan’s politics.  Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan “freedom fighters” will hold all the aces if they take Pakistan!