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http://the-gathering-storm.blogspot.com/2007/04/storm-track-infiltration-wordpress.html[live links at link, also internet radio]Wednesday, April 25, 2007Storm Track Infiltration:WordPress Hosting Terror SitesAin’t free speech wonderful in time of war! Or is it sedition?The Jawa Report did a little digging and found out that terrorist & jihadist websites are hosted by San Francisco based Wordpress.comAlan note: The San Francisco area has long been a center for Afghan and Iranian Islamists/Jihadists. Partly because of the size of those "foreign" communities and the liberal government administrations there..Terrorists - websites of known terror organizations, terrorists, or those acting in their name.* Islamic Courts Union (al Qaeda linked former government of Somalia—aka, “African Taliban”)* Daniel al Jughaifi (personal website of indicted (Update: he plead guilty two days ago) American jihadi Daniel Joseph Maldonado)* Amreekan (literature by convicted terrorist Sheik Nasir bin Hamid al Fahd who famously issued a fatwa granting al Qaeda the right to use WMD against the U.S.)Terror supporters - Few terror supporters actually say, “We support terrorism” and these blogs are no exception. What they do is define terror in such a way as to exclude every organization listed by the U.S. State Department as specially designated terrorist enteties.Most of these blogs, though, openly support terror organizations such as al Qaeda in Iraq, the Islamic Courts Union of Somalia, or the Taliban.* Caravan of Martyrs (al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia support)* Ignored Puzzle (general Salafi-Sunni terror supporter)* Muslim in Kenya (supporter of al Qaeda backed Somalian ICU)* al Jihad (terrorist propaganda)* Truthline (general terror supporters)* Moderates Refuted (general terror supporters / followers of Omar Bakri Mohammed)* Naseeha (al Qaeda support)I wonder when this country and the free world will wake up to the fact that we are fighting a war. But for now, that’s asking a bit too much.Specially with the Democrat take over of Congress and Senate, creating a terror friendly environment which the Bush Administration can no longer easily handle.
posted by Alan Peters at
10:06 PM 150,000 WOMEN ARRESTED IN IRAN
HEY! NANCY PELOSI - WANT TO TALK TO THESE ISLAMIC THROW BACKS ON THE DARK AGES? FLY TO TEHRAN TO NEGOTIATE? REALLY? GET A BRAIN! GET A BACKBONE AND DEFEND WOMEN OR HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN YOU ARE ONE? OR AT LEAST WERE ONE.HEY! CONDI RICE - YOU ARE A WOMAN AS MUCH AS SECRETARY OF STATE! YOU PROPOSE TALKS WITH THESE ANIMALS? BELIEVE THEY WILL ABIDE BY ANY AGREEMENT YOU REACH WITH THEM? OR ARE YOU OPENING YOURSELF AND OUR COUNTRY TO BEING SAVAGELY "F****D", TOO?Not YOU nor anyone else can reason with predators like these Islamic Iranian scavenger predators with strong jaws you will allow to grow stronger and fiercer by accomodating them. Easier to reason with the Soviet Bear than with these Islamic Iranian HyenasHEY! WOMENS RIGHTS GROUPS. WHY THE DEAFENING SILENCE? NOT IN YOUR BACK YARD, SO OK?SCROLL DOWN FOR ONE PICTURE OF A WOMAN BEING ARRESTED. FOR LOOKING LOVELY?Tehran, 26 April (AKI) - Some 150,000 women have been detained in Iran for violating strict new Islamic dress code rules, the country's top police officer has announced. "During the first four days [since the code came into effect] we have picked up 150,000 women who were not properly veiled, but many of them were released after they signed an admission of guilt and a formal apology," General Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam told journalists.An unspecified number of the women taken into custody were also forced to undergo psychological counseling (through the standard multiple RAPES, BEATINGS AND ABUSE "therapy" to teach/terrify them how to behave in public. SHADES OF SOVIET GULAGS AND MENTAL INSTITUTIONS FOR DISSIDENTS!), Moghaddam said. “Only 13 of these women are still being held and they will have to stand trial," he explained.Excerpt - go to
http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/ for the rest of the article. (scroll down)
posted by Alan Peters at
10:58 AM Wednesday, April 25, 2007
LONE ARAB VOICE OF REASON - BILINGUAL video posted by Alan Peters at
6:54 PM AHMADI NUTJOB CANNOT DECIDE SO HE PERSECUTES WOMEN
STYLISHLY "ISLAMIC" WOMAN IN IRAN BEING ARRESTED BY THE MORALS POLICE FOR APPEARING IN THE STREETS LIKE THIS!
AND REFUSING TO GIVE HER PRESIDENT A KISS - LIKE THIS OTHER PERSON
NOW WHICH DRESS SHALL I WEAR FOR THE NEXT KISS?Tuesday, April 24, 2007
ISLAMIC PIG ALERT!
SANE National Security Alert:Beware of Pigs! This is no joke.Immediate Threat Alerts!By Dave Gaubatz, Director What is a “Pig” and when is it a threat to our security?Why is the Pig so important to the war on Islam and Jihad, and why was the Pig so important to U.S. Federal Agent (retired) Dave Gaubatz when he went into Iraq at the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom to locate WMD sites?What is a “Pig” and when is it a threat to our security?The Pig is a very simple device used by contractors to clean water, sewage, oil, and gas pipes. The Pig is launched from fire hydrants or by removing a section of the main pipe. The Pig has been used by plumbers, sewage and water pipe specialists for many years. The Pig can be used to clean a pipeline 50 feet long or several hundred miles in length (oil/water/sewage).Notwithstanding the Pig’s use in industry, as a tool of mass destruction and terror it was known to only a handful of U.S. Government personnel. More importantly, its significance was known to Saddam Hussein and Islamic terrorist organizations. Even Iraqi citizens were aware of the Pig system. Chemical, Biological, and/or Nuclear weapons can be stored in the Pig and moved remotely through the thousands of miles of sewage, oil, and water pipes throughout Iraq.There is a reason the water and sewage pipes (infrastructure) were bombed during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Many people have theorized this was done by the US to cause the Iraqi people to suffer and to push to oust Saddam. This is not true. The sewage and water lines were bombed to hopefully destroy WMD that was hidden inside the pipes. When several journalists at the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom questioned why the water and sewage lines were destroyed the U.S. military, the canned response was that it was not intentional and they had not meant to harm the Iraqi people by destroying the pipes.But, if truth be told, our military had the best of intentions when it sought to destroy the water and sewage systems (because we suspected WMD was located in the thousands of miles of pipes). The question I have had since then, especially as a Special Agent charged with investigating this possibility in Iraq, is why would no government official explain to the American people why it was done? The fact is that President Bush, his administration, and the military leadership failed to take into account that the WMD in Iraq was very mobile. It was mobile underground and it was mobile above ground, easily capable of being transported from Iraq to Iran, Syria, and even Saudi Arabia. By not being clear enough that we sought to destroy a dangerous regime with hostile intentions and capabilities, the American public quickly became disenchanted in a war, as Colonel T. Snodgrass has forcefully argued (here, here, here, here, here, and here), that has been fought not as a war but as an Urban Works project.We are publishing this report now at the SANE Works for US web journal because the Pig delivery system must be made known to local U.S. Law Enforcement officers, all U.S. Government personnel, and the American public.The terrorists throughout the world are very familiar with this simple method of delivering conventional and/or unconventional weapons anywhere and at anytime. The weapons can be placed into a Pig launching system from any section of a city and sent remotely to any location that has oil, water, gas, or sewage continuous pipelines. The weapons/explosives can then be detonated.Again, we are confronted with the question why the US government is not acting pro-actively to counter this threat? It is a fact that neither local state and city officials have been advised of this technology and its potential as a weapons delivery system nor has the public. The argument cannot be made that this would be disclosing secrets because the Jihadists already know of its potential.No, this is being kept from the American public not for national security reasons, but because those in charge in our government with prosecuting this war have determined that this should not really be a war. Thus, we are supposedly NOT at war with Islam, which is a noble and peaceful religion. We are at war instead with only a handful of radical Islamo-fascists, most of which are abroad.Moreover, the government “handlers” don’t want Americans to take a look at our domestic Muslim population and begin to ask serious questions. How many Islamic schools are teaching Shari’a – Islamic law? What does that Shari’a say about the existence of nations generally and America in particular? What about Jews and Christians? The answer to these questions would no doubt frighten the average American who has bought the government’s line that any discrimination against faithful Muslims in America would be “Islamophobia”.But I would argue as someone who has spent his professional life investigating terrorism and criminal acts against US interests that the American public needs to be aware of all possible terrorists attack systems because it is going to be the American public that will in the end be the eyes, ears, and mouths which guard the existing infrastructure and which demand the implementation of and improvements to the security systems not yet existing.Is a prevention available for a Pig delivered WMD? Yes, and it is not overly costly. Is such a system in place now to prevent this? To obtain the answer to this ask any plumber in any city.For my part, I have already briefed Congressman Curt Weldon and his Chief of Staff (Russ Caso) on this threat. Russ Caso said he had never heard of such a “thing”. If this is true that our Congressmen have not been briefed on some of the most basic attack methods of our enemies, how can we expect to win the “war on terrorism”? Until we confront the enemy, Muslims faithful to Shari’a and to the long-standing traditions of Islam, and until we confront the fact that our Muslim enemies are now living and working among us even while they are taking instruction from their leaders overseas and here in the Homeland, we will continue to be at risk for an atrocity that will make 9-11 a footnote in the description of this war.
SADDAM SECRETS - RESPONSE TO WHITEWASH
Saddam's secretsUploaded by
drzzMonday, April 23, 2007
TOP SYRIAN MILITARY BRASS IN IRAN
A large, high-ranking Syrian delegation of 40 generals on secret mission to Tehran Debka ^ 04/23/07Led by Maj. Gen. Yahya L. Solayman, War Planning chief at the Syrian armed forces General Staff, the delegation represents all branches of the Syrian armed forces. On their arrival on April 18, the Syrian officers went straight into conference with Iranian defense minister Brig. Gen. Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar, Revolutionary Commanders chief Maj. Gen. Yahya Rahim-Safavi and dep. chief of staff Maj. Gen. Hassani Sa’di, who is Iran’s chief of military war preparations. The Syrian visitors were taken around RG and armed forces training installations and given a display of the latest Iranian weapons systems, including stealth missiles, electronic warfare appliances and undersea missiles and torpedoes. They also visited the big Imam Ali training base in N. Tehran, where hundreds of Lebanese Hizballah and Palestinian Hamas and Jihad Islami terrorists are taking courses.In Washington and Jerusalem, there is little doubt that the two allies timed the Syrian delegation’s mission to Tehran as a rejoinder to US defense secretary Robert Gates’ Middle East tour last week.Israel sees four causes for concern:1. The unusually large size of the Syrian delegation and the presence of operations officers from the various army corps.2. The elevated positions of the Iranian officials hosting the Syrians: the top men with responsibility for preparing the RGs and armed forces for armed conflict.US and Israeli intelligence experts agreed in their talks during Gates’ two-day visit to Israel last week on the object of the Syrian mission: to tighten operational coordination at the highest level between the Syria military and Iran’s armed forces and Revolutionary Guards.3. The installations and weapons shown the Syrian officers. The intelligence estimate is that they saw the weapons systems soon to be consigned by Iran to the Syrian army and Hizballah, as well as the types of assistance pledged for Syria in the event of a military showdown with the United States or Israel. Syrian-Iranian consultations must also be presumed to have cleared the routes by which these weapons would reach Syria and Hizballah in a military contingency.During the 2006 Hizballah-Israel war, Iran ran an airlift to Damascus through Turkish airspace and over the Mediterranean.4. The unusual length of the visit. Monday, April 23 the Syrian officers were still busy in Tehran after six days and showed no sign of leaving.
NO PUNCHES PULLED (good repeat)
NO PUNCHES PULLED (Originally posted August 2006)A visitor to AntiMullah pulled up this article from the archives while being a welcome guest. Well worth reading it again.ALSO READ "
what-would-losing-fight-to-islam-mean.html " (click on blue link) after reading this.Insight of a Sergeant Major (The author, J.D. Pendry, is a retired Army Command Sergeant Major who writes for Random House.)NO PUNCHES PULLED HEREJimmy Carter, you're the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people hostage.You're the Runner-in-Chief, Bill Clinton, you played "ring around the Lewinsky" while the terrorists were at war with us. You got us into a fight with them in Somalia, and then you ran from it.Your weak-willed responses embolden the killers. Each time you failed to respond adequately they grew bolder, until 9/11.John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute.You lied about American Soldiers in Vietnam. Your military service, like your life, is more fiction than fact.You've accused our Soldiers of terrorizing women and in Iraq. You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time... the same words you used to describe Vietnam.You're a fake.You want to run from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did the Vietnamese. Iraq, like Vietnam is another war that you were for, before you were against it.John Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can't win militarily in Iraq. You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded murder without proof. And said we should redeploy to Okinawa.Okinawa, John? And the Democrats call you their military expert.Are you sure you didn't suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war hero resume? You're a sad, pitiable, corrupt and washed up politician. You're not a Marine sir. You wouldn't amount to a pimple on a real Marine's ass. You're a phony and a disgrace. Run away John.Dick Durbin, you accused our Soldiers at Guantanamo of being Nazis, tenders of Soviet style gulags and as bad as the regime of Pol Pot who murdered two million of his own people after your party abandoned South East Asia to the Communists.Now you want to abandon the Iraqis to the same fate.History was not a good teacher for you, was it? See Dick run.Ted Kennedy, for days on end you held poster sized pictures from Abu Ghraib in front of any available television camera. Al Jazeera quoted you saying that Iraqis torture chambers were open under new management.Did you see the news this week Teddy?The Islamic Nazis demonstrate real torture for you again.If you truly supported our troops, you'd show the world poster-sized pictures of that atrocity and demand the annihilation of it.Your legislation stripped support from the South Vietnamese which led to a communist victory there.You're a bloated fool bent on repeating the same historical blunder that turned freedom-seeking people over to homicidal, genocidal maniacs.To paraphrase John Murtha, all while sitting on you wide, gin-soaked rear-end in Washington.Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Carl Levine, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Pat Leahy, Chuck Schumer et al ad nauseam.Every time you stand in front of television cameras and broadcast to the Islamic Nazis that we went to war because our President lied. That the war is wrong and our Soldiers are torturers. That we should leave Iraq, you give the Islamic butchers - the same ones that tortured and mutilated American Soldiers - cause to think that we will run away again and all they have to do is hang on a little longer.American news media, the New York Times particularly. Each time you publish stories about national defense secrets and our intelligence gathering methods, you become one with the sub-human pieces of camel dung that torture and mutilate the bodies of American Soldiers.You can't strike up the courage to publish cartoons, but you can help Al Qaeda destroy my country. Actually, you are more dangerous to us than Al Qaeda is.Think about that each time you face Mecca to admire your Pulitzer.You are America's axis of idiots.Your collective stupidity will destroy us. Self-serving politics and terrorist abetting news scoops are more important to you than our national security or the lives of innocent civilians and Soldiers.It bothers you that defending ourselves gets in the way of your elitist sport of politics and your ignorant editorializing.There is as much blood on your hands as is on the hands of murdering terrorists. Don't ever doubt that.Your frolics will only serve to extend this war as they extended Vietnam. If you want our Soldiers home, as you claim, knock off the crap and try supporting your country ahead of supporting your silly political aims and aiding our enemies.Yes, I'm questioning your patriotism. Your loyalty ends with 'self'. I'm also questioning why you're stealing air that decent Americans could be breathing. You don't deserve the protection of our men and women in uniform.You need to run away from this war and this country. Leave the war to the people who have the will to see it through and the country to people who are willing to defend it.No Commander in Chief, you don't get off the hook either.Our country has two enemies. Those who want to destroy us from the outside and those who attempt it from within.Your Soldiers are dealing with the outside force. It's your obligation to support them by confronting the axis of idiots. America must hear it from you that these people are harming our country, abetting the enemy and endangering our safety. Well up a little anger please, and channel it toward the appropriate target.You must prosecute those who leak national security secrets to the media. You must prosecute those in the media who knowingly publish those secrets.Our Soldiers need you to confront the enemy that they cannot. They need you to do it now!
YOUR ADRENALINE RUSH
Too often we use the word "hero" for a dog or some relatively minor act by a child. This co-pilot is among the real heroes. Surmounting incredible challenges to achieve his reponsibiities. Having to save his own life did not hurt but he is a hero.
Sunday, April 22, 2007
LIFE IN IRAN - AWFUL ! - WORSE FOR WOMEN
YOU DON'T HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE SONG TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS SAYING. SOME VERY GRAPHIC SCENES WILL PULL AT YOUR HEART STRINGS IN SORROW FOR THOSE WHO SUFFER UNDER THE MULLAH YOKE.
RELIGIOUS WORKER VISA FRAUD
FINALLY SOMEONE IN AMERICA WOKE UP! BUT TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE. HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS - IF NOT THOUSANDS - OF "RELIGIOUS" INFILTRATORS ARE ALREADY HERE AND IN PLACE - WAITING FOR THE SIGNAL TO "GO!" - DISRUPTIVELY, DESTRUCTIVELY AND DESPICABLY.Homeland Security Department officials have discovered widespread fraud in a religious worker visa program that allows thousands of foreigners a year to enter the U.S. and remain here.Last year, the officials found that 33 percent of the visas that investigators examined were granted based on fraudulent information, USA Today reports.“We found that the program had been compromised and the fraud rate was excessively high,” Emilio Gonzalez, head of Citizen and Immigration Services at Homeland Security, told USA Today.The visa program was established in 1990 to allow churches, synagogues and mosques to hire qualified foreigners to fill open jobs. Applicants for a religious visa must have a sponsor in the U.S.Now Homeland Security plans to implement new regulations in an effort to prevent radical groups from using the visa program to get terrorists into the U.S.The regulations will allow inspectors and Customs officials to investigate religious organizations sponsoring applicants to assure that they are legitimate.They will also demand more proof from applicants that they are qualified for the job they’re seeking, and require proof of employment after one year on the job before extending a visa.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
PELOSI SCREWING OUR MILITARY, OUR WOMEN, OUR SAFETY, OUR COUNTRY
Friday, April 20, 2007
OPEN LETTER TO NANCY PELOSI FROM A WOMAN INSIDE IRAN
BILINGUAL LETTER RECEIVED -
FARSI VERSION click here (all in one long text - paragraphs by AntiMullah)Dear Mr. Allain Peter,I heard that Mrs. Nancy Pelosi is coming to Iran. Of course we Iranian know why. Please help us to reach Americans and give our message to whoever listens to us.Mrs. Nancy Pelosi wants to come to Iran, Who doesn’t know why?Who doesn’t know it is a long time that the road to white house is passing through Ayatollah’s door step. Thanks to some stupid American diplomats. Who doesn’t know, that time and again, these stupid politicians, act fast to implore and kiss the Mullah’s ass.An example is Mrs. Albright’s stupid Apology that cost her to be scorned by the Mullah’s. These politicians made it clear to the Mullah’s that we are not in power any more, and you are in control. You are the real supper power and we are a puppet in your finger’s tip. Please have mercy and send us to white house.She is coming to accept the Mullah’s request of years, the same request that some honorable politician did not accepted. She is coming to do a despicable acceptance in hurry to sell every right Iranian people as a human have especially Iranian women, for Mullah’s help on sending them to white house . Shame on her.Nancy Pelosi forgot that right after 9/11 these same honorable people under such a savage regime came out to the street with candles to send their condolences to American people and this regime tortured them for it. Now Nancy Pelosi is coming to auction all the human rights these innocent people may have.Who doesn’t know what the Mullah’s asked during these years? They send their meassages with every linkage to U.S and now she is going to use it for reaching to the white house.The Mullah’s sent a clear massage1- Support our terrorist, tyranny, inhumane regime. It means do not let any sound of opposition in your soil. Nobody should tell anything against whatever we do in Iran.2- Do not talk about human rights in Iran. If we stoned Iranian women, we don’t want to here your voice, if we executed our children in streets corner, keep quiet and ask your united nation to shut up too.If we rape the women in our prisons and hit them to dead like Zahra Kazemmi, you don’t let any picture in your TVs, if we ordered one savage Pasdar rape a little girl in prison before we execute her and the next morning we ask the price of bullets that we killed her with, from her parents, you continue the silence that you have now.If you see the pictures of our torture and street corner execution that makes the Nazi’s look good turn your head, if we make the Hezbollah’s army in another country to fight with countries like Israel, it is not your business don’t put your nose there. If we swoop up the Iranian wealth and let them live under the poverty line, of course all super power love it, so keep the silence and don’t let any body put our picture on any magazine’s cover so we are not force to assassinate them, like Rafsanjani did.This is the road to white house and we have the key to it.This is why Mrs. Nancy Pelosi wants to cover herself with Islamic dress and come to Iran to kiss the Mullah’s ass and open the way to white house for Democrats. She is the passenger of the inhumane and indecency and shamelessness road.If thou feel not for others’ pain,Thou shall not deserve to be humane.I heard that Ayatollahs didn’t give her a visa, if it could be true for the first time I could clap for them although it sure will be with the order of some other countries like China and Russia. But just to slap on Nancy Pelosi’s face I could respect them. She has such a childish excitement from her foolish thought that she wouldn’t leave any respect for America. Parisa
------------------------------------------------------ALAN COMMENT:
Terrorist Al-Qaeda claim they won the recent elections for the Democrats, similarly to the Soviets trying but failing to get Jimmy Carter re-elected.
IRAQI STATE OF ISLAM - JIHAD SHADOW CABINET
“The ISI – the Iraqi State of Islam and of the jihad fighters – hereby announces to the nation the appointment of its ministers, after Allah has enabled your brothers, the jihad fighters, who took the Oath of the Scented, to declare this state, and to appoint Sheikh Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi asCommander [of the Believers].“The following is the current composition of the government:1. Sheikh Abu Abd Al-Rahman Al-Falahi – Deputy Commander of the Believers;2. Sheikh Abu Hamza Al-Muhajir – Minister of War;3. Sheikh Abu Othman Al-Tamimi – Minister of Justice;4. Abu Bakr Al-Jubouri – Minister of Public Relations;5. Abu Abd Al-Jabar Al-Janabi – Minister of General Security;6. Sheikh Abu Muhammad Al-Mashhadani – Minister of Information;7. Abu Abd Al-Qader Al-’Isawi – Minister for Shahids and Prisoners;8. Engineer Abu Ahmad Al-Janabi – Minister of Oil;9. Mustafa Al-A’raji – Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries;10. Dr. Abu Abdallah Al-Zaydi – Minister of Health.“May Allah protect them all, and help them carry out their duties...”The video can be viewed at:
http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ClipMediaID=780943&ak=nullTo view images from the video visit:
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=iwmp&ID=SP155407Wednesday, April 18, 2007
ISLAMIC IRAN'S LOBBY IN THE USA
OUR DESIGNATED INTEL AND ANTI-TERROR AUTHORITIES AND OUR MASS MEDIA seem to have a penchant for taking the enemy into our bosom and then promoting their activities.READ ABOUT TRITA PARSI who is constantly invited to expound on the Islamic Regime in Iran by American and European TV and Radio stations that seem to be oblivious to his being a clear pro-Mullah apologist (at best) and "formal" lobbyist (in discernable reality). Unless you follow the Clinton "depends on what is, is" approach and try to pars his activities (pun intended).Robert William (Bob) Ney is a current federal prisoner and a former Ohio Congressman from 1995 until November 3, 2006. On October 13, 2006 Ney pled guilty to charges of conspiracy and making false statements in relation to the Jack Abramoff lobbying and bribery scandal. Ney reportedly received bribes from Abramoff, other lobbyists, and two foreign businessmen - a felon and an arms dealer - in exchange for using his position to advance their interests.Conspicuously missing from this dossier of disservice to the country was Ney’s assistance in the creation of a Washington-based lobbying enterprise for the Iranian theocratic regime, The National Iranian-American Council (NIAC). NIAC is part of an extensive US lobbying web that objectively furthers the interests of the Islamic Republic of Iran. This article will address the creation of NIAC, Tehran’s role, NIAC’s connection to Iran’s oil mafia, and NIAC attempts to penetrate US political system. Creation of NIACThe National Iranian-American Council (NIAC) was founded thanks to the efforts of four non Iranian-Americans: Roy Coffee, Dave DiStefano, Rep. Bob Ney, and Trita Parsi. Coffee and DiStefano, both Washington lobbyists, were investigated by the Justice Department for arranging a trip to London for Bob Ney, where he met a Syrian arms dealer and convicted felon involved in a conspiracy to circumvent sanctions to sell US-made aircraft parts to Tehran.Roy Coffee sent a letter to the Dallas Morning News in February 2006 to justify his relationship with the two London-based felons. Part of the letter discussed the founding of NIAC:“Back in the spring or summer of 2002, a good friend of mine from law school, Darius Baghai, had just returned from visiting relatives in Iran for the first time since his family left before the revolution.He spoke with me about how the economy of Iran was humming …….From this, I took Darius in to visit with Mr. Ney. What was to be a 15 minute meeting became a 1 1/2 hour meeting as they spoke passionately about their hopes for the Iranian people.They also spoke in Farsi a great deal - I’m sure talking smack about me.From that meeting, Darius, Dave and I began to work with Trita Parsi, another Iranian-American to try to form a political action committee of Iranian-Americans to pursue a strategy of normalization of relations between the two countries….The 4 of us worked very hard for about 9 months to form this committee.”At the time, Trita Parsi was a Swedish-Iranian graduate student in his early twenties, best known for ties to Iran’s ambassador in Sweden. A successful self-promoter, he soon attached himself as a part-time aide to Congressman Ney before he was appointed president of NIAC.The New LobbyNIAC’s predecessor, the American-Iranian Council (AIC), was established in the 1990s with backing from multinational oil companies. For many years, it spear-headed pro-Tehran lobbying effort in the US.AIC president Houshang Amirahmadi had been an active pro-Tehran player since early 1980s.While residing in US, he was also a presidential candidate in Iran’s elections, and officially collaborated with different Iranian institutions and notably the foreign ministry. In 1999 and 2000 Trita Parsi was helping Amirahmadi to organize lobbying events in Washington.In 2001, the pro-Iran lobby in the United States became intensely active to prevent the renewal of the Iran Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA), and to lift U.S. sanctions on Iran. Despite extraordinary pressure from the lobby, ILSA passed overwhelmingly.Prior to his imprisonment in March 2007, Bob Ney led Congressional efforts to defeat ILSA and initiate Tehran-friendly policies in concert with AIC.Disappointed and angered by the ILSA vote, Ney began to plan for the next battle of the war.“The ILSA vote doesn’t look very promising, but that doesn’t mean the struggle should stop on this entire issue. It is a matter of education and re-education and people getting together and forming a citizen’s lobby to make sure that members of Congress and their offices are educated on this issue,” Ney told AIC in a June 2001 speech.While Ney was hard at work “forming a citizen’s lobby,” Trita Parsi claimed that the majority of lawmakers voted against their true wills. In a tone apologetic to Tehran, he expressed his hope that the Iranian regime understood that he and his colleagues had worked hard to prevent this result:“Hopefully, Tehran will recognize that an honest attempt was made to defeat or at least weaken the sanctions. The call for a review and Speaker Hastert’s pledge to insist on Congressional action based on the review must also be interpreted by Tehran as a step in the right direction” (Iran Analysis July 2001 Peyvand Iran News)This failure to block the renewal of ILSA in 2001 marked the start of a new era for the pro-Iran lobby in the United States. The lobbyists recognized that they must broadly reach out to Iranian-Americans.NIAC was created to put those plans in motion.Trita Parsi was the regime’s trusted man within the new network.Tehran’s faith in Parsi was so profound that in 2003 when Iran decided to send a highly secret proposal for negotiations to the White House, Parsi was called on to arrange the delivery of the message through Bob Ney to Karl Rove.Parsi, moreover, was among the few chosen men (along with Mahallati, Iran’s former ambassador to UN) to present the results of a shady Tehran-friendly poll of the Iranian population which indicated the popularity of Iran’s nuclear program.Trita Parsi and the Regime’s Inner CircleDuring the eight years of Rafsanjani’s presidency, which ended in 1997, the Iranian regime had attempted without success to attract the Iranian Diaspora to its cause. Khatami’s presidency recharged Tehran’s efforts.With the Supreme Leader’s direct involvement, the High Council for Iranian Compatriots Overseas was created in 2000. The President heads the Council, and the Foreign Minister serves as its deputy director. The Ministry of Intelligence and the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance collaborate to implement the decisions of the council.The objective was to create a network of organizations to infiltrate and seemingly represent the Iranian community abroad, and promote policies favorable to the Iranian government. Tehran anticipated that this strategy would neutralize opposition activities abroad and legitimize the new lobby.State-sanctioned Iranian newspapers started a campaign to promote Trita Parsi and NIAC. Pro-government publications outside Iran followed suit.The former head of the Iran interest in Washington, Ambassador Faramarze Fathnejad, was thrilled with the efforts of Trita Parsi and NIAC, and underlined “the importance of relation with Iranian organizations in the U.S. and specially pointed to NIAC and his young leader who is a consultant to CNN and has been very successful in his efforts.” The Iran Ambassador even claimed 20,000 strong membership for NIAC (while only 150 is claimed by NIAC itself)!But token rhetorical support would not alone turn an inexperienced graduate student and a corrupt Washington politician into a lobbying enterprise. Entities with ample financial resources and direct access to Iran’s top leaders had to enter the scene. This is where Siamak Namazi, an important figures of this new lobbying enterprise and a prominent member of the Iranian oil Mafia, enters the scene.Trita Parsi and Namazi worked closely on developing the details of a grand plan to create an Iranian-American “Citizen’s Lobby.”They traveled to Iran together They organized joint conferences and meetings. In 1999, they co-authored a seminal paper, that provided the roadmap for the organization that later became NIAC. Namazi, along with his sister Pari and brother Babak, control the Atieh enterprise in Iran and its three sister companies Atieh Roshan, Atieh Bahar and Atieh Associates, as well as numerous other direct and indirect partnerships, including Azar Energy, Menas companies in England, Atieh Dadeh Pardaz, FTZ Corporate services and MES Middle East Strategies.. Particularly noteworthy is the fact that Baquer Namazi (their father) is the Chairman of Hamyaran, identified by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars as a “resource center” in Tehran for Iranian non-governmental organizations (NGOs).Atieh claims to be a “fully private strategic consulting firm that assists companies better understand the Iranian market, develop business and stay ahead of [the] competition.” People familiar with the oil industry in Iran understand the coded language, After all, rulers in every country in the Middle East use outside consultants to negotiate the discrete terms of lucrative oil contracts.Atieh’s customers include the foreign corporations who wish to do business in Iran. One Atieh Bahar customer, Norway’s Statoil, has been publicly identified as a participant in a scheme to bribe Iranian government officials by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice.A number of high officials in the company were fired and the company had to pay tens of millions of dollars in penalties to the US and Norwegian governments for “payments to an Iranian official in 2002 and 2003 in order to induce him to use his influence to obtain the award to Statoil of a contract to develop phases 6, 7 and 8 of the Iranian South Pars gas field.”The most recent debacle of Atieh enterprise was in March 2007 when the CEO of the French oil company Total SA was charged with having bribed senior Iranian officials to secure contracts. Total is a major customer of the Namazi’s Atieh enterprise.Tehran’s trust in Namazi is further evidenced by the fact that his company provides the network and computer services for almost all Iranian banks, the Majles (parliament), and other important institutions.Namazi’s groups monitor nearly all Iranian economic or political activities and have access to the country’s most sensitive data. This is a clear indication of his prominent place inside the inner circle of power in Tehran.While representing Tehran, Namazi, disguised as a scholar travels to the US to seemingly pursue academic activities . He succeeded so well that the Congressionally-funded National Endowment for Democracy awarded him a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship in 2005.This link between the Iranian oil Mafia and “scholarly” pursuits in the US is hardly isolated. Three former Iranian deputy foreign ministers currently live in Boston posing as “scholars”:Mohammad Mahallati who was also the Iranian ambassador to the UN in the late 1980s, Farhad Atai and, Abbas Maleki. In addition to his diplomatic past, Maleki has been one of the most important figures within the Iranian oil Mafia.The RoadmapIn 1999, Parsi and Namazi presented a joint paper titled “Iranian-Americans:The bridge between two nations” at a conference organized by the Iranian government in Cypress. This report contains the manifesto and the roadmap for the new Iranian lobby in the US.The authors argue that “an Iranian-American lobby is needed in order to create a balance between the competing Middle Eastern lobbies. Without it, Iran-bashing may become popular in Congress again.”The “competing lobby” was AIPAC (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee). The pillars of the road map were:· To have the appearance of a citizen’s lobby· To mimic the Jewish lobby in the US· To impede Iranian opposition activities· To infiltrate the US political system· To break the taboo of working with the Iran’s cleric rulers for the Iranian Diaspora· To improve the image of the Iran’s government abroad.In their report, Namazi and Parsi acknowledged that problems of organizing a pro-regime lobby within the Iranian-American community:“This group’s role has not been utilized any where close to its potential, however, for several reasons: A good portion of them were against the IRI [Islamic Republic of Iran], therefore would not do anything to help.”“The point is, [Iranian Americans] were not about to form a lobby group that would benefit the establishment in Tehran, or benefit the Iranian-Americans themselves as a community, nor was it for the most part interested in forming a pressure group against the Islamic Republic.”This was also underlined by Roy Coffee, one of the NIAC’s founders:“We [NIAC’s founders] found that most Iranians do not want to get involved in politics because of their experiences in Iran during and after the revolution. They have come to this country to make a better life for themselves and their children and don’t want to get involved.”The lack of participation by the Iranian American community in this lobby has been overcome with a sophisticated machine of professional lobbyists and “friendly” circles who favor a rapprochement with the Iranian regime.Tehran’s Advice: Mimic Jewish Lobby in WashingtonOne of the hallmarks of the new lobby was its desire to rival the “Israeli Lobby” in the United States. This aspiration led to the creation of the Iranian American Political Action Committee (IAPAC), loosely modeled after similar organizations created by AIPAC (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee).Three of IAPAC’s board members came from the AIC’s leadership.In their 1999 paper, Parsi and Namazi analyzed at length the techniques used by AIPAC, and suggested that the same approach should be taken to create an Iranian lobby in Washington:“Creating similar types of seminars and intern opportunities to Iranian-American youth may not improve Iran-US relations in the short run, but it will help integrate the Iranian-American community into the political life of America.In the long run, a strong and active Iranian- American lobby, partly established through these seminars and by the participants of these programs, may serve to ensure that the US and Iran never find themselves in violent opposition to each other again.”Trita Parsi has been reciting this comparison to the Israeli lobby since the late 1990’s, about the time that the High Council was formed in Tehran.At the beginning his tone was more contentious and resembled the mullah’s usual rhetoric, but more recently he has toned down his anti-Israeli remarks, at least in English.The government-owned newspaper Aftab published an interview with Trita Parsi on December 28, 2006 that underscores Parsi’s efforts on behalf of the Iranian regime.Translation: “The conflict between Iran and the West on Iran’s nuclear file has entered a critical state. The government must now utilize all the possible resources to defend the national interest. In this, we have not paid enough attention to the potentially significant influence of the Iranian American society in moderating the extremist policies of the White House.In comparison of this untouched potential to the influence of the Jewish lobby in directing the policies of Washington in supporting Israel, we see the difference between what is and what could be.”Siamak Namazi began sounding similar theme:“I propose that we should start showing up to the leadership training seminars and other events organized by the American-Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC) for their youth. Not only will this create an opportunity to learn the fine skills of community organization and grassroots lobbying, but it also takes away from AIPAC’s ability to spread misinformation about Iran through a deliberate campaign to further its own political agenda.”Not Lobbyists?As Ney’s criminal bribery and lobbying fiasco became more public, NIAC’s president Trita Parsi began to downplay NIAC’s lobbying activities. (NIAC is registered as a 501 c3, to which certain legal restrictions apply.)Furthermore, being lobbied by a former aid would have added to Ney’s already complicated situation. Asked in 2005 whether his group lobbied the US Congress, Trita Parsi told an interviewer:“Our group does not do any lobbying at all. We do not contact the Congressmen to support or oppose a bill.”Since its creation, however, NIAC has strived to penetrate the US political system in accordance with the roadmap Namazi and Parsi established in 1999. As the Washington Post reported on June 25, 2006:“The NIAC helped persuade a dozen conservative House members to sign a letter to President Bush earlier this month calling for unconditional negotiations with Iran’s regime.”The external communications of Parsi and other NIAC leaders shed further light on NIAC’s lobbying activities.“The NIAC members have educational and experimental knowledge on the lobbying process and politics in America.”“.. we must establish connections on Capitol Hill to establish early-warning systems about proposed votes or bills that may oppose the best interests of Iranian-Americans.”Bob Ney, Roy Coffee, and Dave DiStefano arranged numerous workshops, training classes, seminars and speeches in which they themselves and others with experience prepared members and affiliates of NIAC to lobby and influence Congress.Parsi, Namazi and Ney organized public gatherings and discrete and exclusive $1,000 per plate fundraiser events. They even developed a training manual for lobbyists, a copy of which was sent to this writer by a former NIAC member.NIAC itself admits that “In 2002, Congressman Ney benefited from letters sent by Iranian-Americans through NIAC’s Legislative Action Center in support of his resolution on US-Iran relations.”Infiltrating CongressTrita Parsi, Namazi and their backers fully intended to infiltrate the US Congress. One of the methods they boast of involves recruiting young Iranian Americans to serve as Congressional interns or pages by offering room, board and financial incentives.NIAC’s website brags of success stories in this venture.NIAC claims to have drafted the young Iranian American Press Secretary for Rep. Marcy Kaptur to help in improving the lobbying skills of NIAC members and affiliates. Similarly, an Iranian American student in the University of Minnesota received a financial scholarship in his senior year and becomes an intern in Senator Norm Coleman’s (R-MN) Washington office.Another intern, a graduate of University of South Florida, was placed in Congressman Jim Davis’ (D-FL) Washington, D.C. office.Expanding the operation to penetrate the US political system, NIAC has now formally implemented a paid trainee program and is actively in search for unwary Iranian American youth.ConclusionSince the early 1990’s, Tehran has embarked on developing a sophisticated lobbying enterprise in the United States. Iran’s government has devoted significant manpower and financial resources to this cause.This lobbying enterprise consists of a complex, intermingled web of entities and organizations with significant overlap of leadership, and heavy involvement of the notoriously mafia-like inner circles of the Iranian regime.Disguised as scholars, many of the former Iranian government officials reside in the US and constitute an important piece of the lobby machine. NIAC and its major figures, such as Bob Ney and Trita Parsi are effective nodes of Tehran’s efforts to manipulate US policy toward self-serving ends.Article writer, Hassan Daioleslam is an independent researcher and writer who has worked closely with two experienced investigative reporters inside Iran to explore and expose Iran lobbying enterprise in the United States.Alan note: a document has surfaced recently apparently an order from Iran's Supreme Ruler Ali Khamenei to pay the operator of a Persian language TV in the USA the sum of US $2,500,000 as a bonus for the station's activities during the previous year.In another effort to discredit an anti-mullah satellite TV station that had built up a viewership of about 4.5 million around the USA, Europe and was transmitting into Iran, about $4 million was poured into mullah-friendly media in the USA and Europe. All in the space of a few months around the time of Ahmadi-Nejad's election/appointment.That TV station was promoting Iranians to come into the streets during the elections - while foreign press was abundant - to protest the Mullah regime.The PR campaign was so effective that even anti-Islamic regime of Iran organizations were taken in and ostracized the operator of that loyal, anti-mullah TV station and spoke against him.The opportunity passed after Ahmadi-Nejad's ruthless administration replaced the old guard, comparatively less intense one and would deal with any such demonstration with as much bloodshed as it took. Just the way he arrested 1,000 peaceful teachers to quell their demand for fair pay. Not anti-regime reasons.In addition to Trita Parsi, reports from within Iran appear to indicate that Abbas Fakhravar and Akbar Ganji were provided with bullet-proof as possible cover and background stories to infiltrate the USA for the Mullahs.We in the USA do not have the intelligence assets or capabilty to check out the carefully and patiently crafted cover being provided, nor do our Western minds accept that the "alleged" physical pressure on either of these two would be done to add credence to the cover stories. Or could be staged.Bullet proof for outsiders but more easily pierced when abstracts of their MOIS files fall into non-sympathetic hands through Iranian sources. Who can access the truth and pierce the veil of the cover stories.Some of which is almost public knowledge anyway.WAKE UP AMERICA!
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
IRAN'S WOMEN DESCEND INTO INCREASING ABUSE
The mullahs' rule came down on women's rights, liberties, culture, family and private lives like a huge avalanche.
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- Executing thousands of female opponents, which is unprecedented anywhere in the world. In a recent demonstration by teachers asking for better and equal pay, some 10,000 demonstrators, mostly women, showed up.Some 1,000 women teachers were arrested in one fell swoop by the Suppression forces and transferred to various prisons.The head of Islamic Iran's National Prisons Organization recently admitted there were over 100 "independent" prisons around the country, each run for their own use by various so-called security or intelligence organizations.Most are only quasi-official and some definitely "illegal" if such a word can be applied to the Islamic administration of Ahmadi-Nejad in particular and the Mullahs in general, where their very presence has illegal roots and foundation.Add to these the latest Bassiji or Suppression forces prisons.The Mobile ones built on 40 ton container trucks that can be brought close to anti-government protests and people shoveled into them by the dozen. Then driven anywhere where the human contents can disappear into mass graves. After suffering the worst possible tortures but where their screams in the wilderness cannot be heard by anyone.Anyone have a doubt that among the thousand women teachers arrested any but the oldest or ugliest escaped rape? Or other forms of sexual abuse? If so, dream on. Or better still get a grip on Mullah reality.
NOTE: One way of dealing with these mobile prisons is to puncture their tires when they arrive on scene and before they can drive off with their victims.
The late Shah's SAVAK (transformed into today's mullah version called SAVAMA by the clerics) was a pussycat compared to current variations operating under VEVAK (translating the Farsi acronym VEVAK to the English one of MOIS - Ministry of Information & Security);- Torturing tens of thousands of women political prisoners. The huge number of women among the political prisoners is staggering and unprecedented - other than when slavery was an integral part of society.
And when the Mullahs decide they are afraid of a group or groups - like the MEK for instance - and slaughter some 30,000 of them in their prisons in the 1980s, many of them women, it is a short step to also deal with "innocent" protestors in the same way.
Like the teachers, or workers who have not been paid for months and know the money is no longer there to pay them. Or their factories and ability to earn a living being put out of business and closed down by the unbridled import of cheap, very lowest quality Chinese goods flooding the market.
- Executing pregnant women, the torture of mothers in front of their children and raping women in front of their menfolk.
Many wondered what caused former President Khatami to buckle and stop promoting "reform" during his second term and become nothing more than a tool to fool the West that the Mullahs had an "elected" - thus democratic - form of government.
Reports from Iran say he was summoned to Supreme Ruler Ali Khamenei's office, where, to his astonishment, he found all the women of his immediate family already gathered. On his way inside, he had been surprised to find some forty or fifty extra bodyguards outside the office.
Once inside, he was given an offer he could not refuse.
Either stop your reformist nonsense or sit and watch repeated gang rape of your women by the dozens of guards waiting outside.
Would you rather live with those shameful scenes for the rest of your life or co-operate with us and do what we tell you?
(There were rumors that Janet Reno was also reined in during her second term as Attorney General by the Clinton administration in a similar fashion when she was allegedly presented with a video of her sexually engaged with two female prostitutes, apparently hired to put her into this compromising position).
"Reforms" - which were a watered down version of the Mullah tyranny anyway, came to a screeching halt and activist students, hopeful followers and others who had put their lives on the line for Khatami, all found themselves betrayed and abandoned.
Pregnant women being executed goes back to the early days of the revolution when women prisoners were used as free prostitutes for the prison guards and the clerics in charge.
And for the 2,000 or so Palestinians Yasser Arafat had brought with him or imported later, who manned the firing squads Khomeini used to slaughter so many true Iranians. So unlike his own foreign national origins.
Teen and pre-teen girls (virgins must not be executed under Islamic law) who died during their brutal sexual abuse, were thrown on the piles of bodies of those already executed in the morning and received a couple of bullets in their long dead bodies to hide the barbarous agony to which they had been subjected.
Adding insult to injury their parents had to pay for those bullets, as did all families for each bullet used by the firing squads.
Female prisoners were allowed to live for as long as they did not get pregnant and died if they did - to hide their abuse and impregnation - inside a prison where no other men could, nor should, have touched them.
Traumatized children, if their sanity prevailed, who watched their mothers being abused sexually, tortured and screaming in pain would likely grow up fearful of the regime and not confront it in the future.
And bear witness to husbands, brothers, fathers and other men who might otherwise oppose the Mullahs if not available to view the proceedings themselves.- Degrading women's social and economic standing to second class citizens.
Unlike at the time of the late-Shah, women have - except for the token instances to the contrary - lost their freedoms and rights.
Husbands can divorce wives at will, throw them or even recalcitrant daughters out of the house into the streets, refuse to take care of their basic needs beyond minimal food, sometimes not even doing that.
Women have nowhere to complain nor a judicial system which will protect them. Men dominate and their word is worth more than that of a woman.
In one notorious case in which the Western world became involved, a woman defending herself and her daughter against rape by a local official ended up stabbing him and was condemned to death for murder.
Nothing she said was given credence and self-defense was no defense. Only international intervention spared her from hanging.
In other instances, women who have been raped have either been hanged for adultery or stoned for it. Male influence plays a large role in these executions.
Do Iranian women still think life was worse under the late-Shah, as differentiated from simply a monarchy in general?
They still inherit a lesser share than men but with a new twist, if from a non-Moslem family, married to a Moslem, they additionally have even that reduced further under Islamic Iran's often vague and fluctuating legal decisions.
In brief, there is little or nothing in a woman's life in Islamic Iran which measures up to a man's. She does not even have the right to her own children to whom she gave birth. They belong to the father.
These headings illustrate some of the differences:
- Imposing gender apartheid
Women are banned from "male "events, such as sports games like soccer, where they are not permitted to enter a stadium where matches occur.
They are often banned from the very mosques that regulate their lives and insist on their following sharia law. Some Imams simply refuse to grant them entry.
- Controlling women's presence in the streets
Unless willing to risk encounters with morals police or accusations of immorality by men in general and clerics in particular, who are happy to label her a whore at the slightest excuse, a woman has to watch her behavior.
Arguably the same applies in Western countries but nowhere near the intensity found in Moslem Iran or other Islamic regimes.
- Imposing compulsory veiling, controlling the color and forms of women's attire
After toying with the idea for quite some time, Iran appears to have finally decided to design a national costume for men and women to differentiate themselves from other Moslems and create a national identity.
Somewhat along the Communist Chinese mentality of uniform clothing to have everyone dress in only one way and remove all forms of individuality.
The "chador" literally meaning "tent" which Iranian Islam imposes on women, who feel obliged to use it to cover whatever they wear beneath it, presently acts as the Chinese type "equalizer". Usually black, they serve as a loose 'burkha" found in Afghanistan and some African Moslem countries.
Once again, Islamic Iran has injected a twist. Memories of Hitler and Nazis who are clearly heroes to Islam, and the Jewish yellow star they imposed, the color and type of your clothing will indicate your religion! To allow Moslems to avoid contact with infidels, who could pollute them!
In pre-Pahlavi monarchies and early in the reign of Reza Shah Pahlavi himself, by religious tenet, non-Moslems were not allowed to leave their homes when it rained as the rain might flow from their clothes onto the pavement where a Moslem would pass or splash onto Moslems and - either way - pollute them!
- Lacerating and splashing acid on women's faces because of their clothing and make up
For a long time, morals police would punish a woman whose hair protruded from under the front of her head scarf in public by stapling the scarf to her forehead. Using several staples to ram home their insistence of decent Islamic appearance.
Suppression or Bassiji forces would use the excuse of illegal gathering or use of make-up or improper clothing to punish women by splashing them, in the face and upper body with concentrated acid.
The permanent, ugly disfigurement branded the woman as a "whore" and punished her to where a man would no longer want her - with or without make-up.
Acid is used generally by the Suppression forces on both men and women.
When the MOIS wanted to arrest Ayatollah Boroujerdi and ended up in a stand off, his followers captured several of the Bassijis and found them all carrying glass bottles filled with concentrated acid to use on his supporters.
While it used to be a vital part of Iranian culture, before Khomeini took over, to guard and protect women, specially those of your family - and still is in ordinary households - this aspect has begun to disappear other than in the form of fanatical repression of women.
Now, women have become not only fair game but preferred targets for the Suppression forces, who take sadistic pleasure in wielding tire irons, full force, at women.
Ruthless deterrent aimed at physically and psychologically keeping everyone off the streets and toeing the regime line obediently.
However, Iranian women have a strong independent streak in their weave and waft. Not naturally drawn to religion or to the clerics themselves, better educated women show their resentment by wearing bright colors and stylish versions of "acceptable" clothing.
With pressure through imposition of fanatical Islamic mores and tenets reaching unsupportable levels for many women, there was a video of a "correctly" dressed young Iranian woman in trousers and long jackets and head scarf, turning on a black chador clad morals policewoman and kicking the blazes out of her before leaving and escaping.
Because women have culturally been a "protected" class - though dependent on men - till recently they have been braver in protesting against the Mullahs, not fully realizing their "immunity" no longer holds true.
- Promoting polygamy and temporary marriage, justified by the mullahs' disgraceful ShariaThe Prophet Mohammad originally instituted polygamy - four official wives and as many concubines as you could afford, to compensate for the explosion of girls and women in his Arab tribal populations and society when he banned infanticide of newborn girls.
India still has occurrences of female infanticide in provincial or poorer parts of society , where a wet cloth is placed over the mouth and nose of a female infant, who chokes and dies. Arabs simply dug a hole in the sand and buried the newborns alive.
An unforeseen consequence of his banning the killing of virgin girls - by which he achieved his intended edict - was the incredible suffering of the very young girls imprisoned and condemned to die by the Khomeini regime and in the decades of Mullah rule after that.
Because of limitations on earning a living, marriage becomes the only haven for a woman - as it used to be in Western countries as late as the early 1900s. The difference here is a capable woman does not have the same opportunities to earn and live her own life without a man.
Polygamy helps some women but for others, as they grow older or less patient with the husband's male dominance, they find themselves "divorced" with no legal formality and on the wrong side of the front door with only an option of finding a generous relative or living as a street person.
There are tens of thousands of abandoned wives and daughters living as homeless street people in the capital city of Tehran alone.
Add to this heart wrenching situation nearly half a million abandoned children of both sexes. The women and children have nowhere to turn and must earn a living selling themselves, running drugs or living hand to mouth, any way they can, to survive.
Clearly selling their bodies is an immediate result but not for the older women who find themselves thrown literally into the street with no income and no government charity or social safety net to look after them.
Adding another reason why an estimated 30% of Islamic Iranians are heavy illegal drug users. Also remember that about 65% of the population is under the age of 30-years or thereabouts.
-Applying medieval and painful punishments such as stoning, whose victims are primarily womenJustice in Islamic Iran vacillates among the different courts and their clerical judges, with religious law judges able to impose their will according to very subjective views of Islamic law. Similar to the Inquisition of times long gone by.
While the Supreme Court has to approve all hangings or executions, here again they decide by whim rather than by tangible law.
A mentally retarded, underage (14-years old) girl was condemned to death and hanged in a North Iran town for annoying the cleric who was her judge.
He went out of his way to carry her file to Tehran and get the approval of the Supreme Court.
Her original sin was to have a lover. The cleric quickly left the area and her family has no way to level charges at him for executing an underage victim. Forbidden officially by Iran's laws but as events repeatedly show, easily circumvented by a cleric acting as a religious judge.
On the other side of the Supreme court coin, some Revolutionary Guard members conducted gruesome killings of some 18 people in a one year period.
The court found the vigilantes were not guilty because their victims were allegedly involved in "un-Islamic" activities. The killers said they believed Islam let them spill the blood of anyone engaged in illicit activities if they issued two warnings to the victims.
According to their confessions, the killers put some of their victims in pits and stoned them to death. Others were suffocated. One man was even buried alive while others had their bodies dumped in the desert to be eaten by wild animals.
The accused, who were all members of an Islamic paramilitary force, told the court their understanding of the teachings of one Islamic cleric allowed them to kill immoral people if they had ignored two warnings to stop their bad behavior.
But there was no judicial process to determine the guilt of the victims in these cases. Pure vigilante justice.
Lower courts have condemned these men to death five times but the Supreme court has also repeatedly overruled the verdicts. One of the condemned must have a powerful person looking out for them.
Women never get a break. Their word or testimony is only worth HALF that of a man. Need I say more?
As a reflection, in the days of the late Shah, the shoe was pretty much on the other foot and men had to be very careful not to be accused by a woman. Or expect long and protracted problems in the courts, which gave the women an edge if any doubt existed.
- Injustice and discrimination in economic participation, employment and education.
Sexist discrimination which would create outcry to the heavens in the USA or even Europe, is a part of everyday life in Islamic Iran, where women are second class citizens as a matter of course, deprived of the right they used to have, to pursue any career or business they chose to have. The Mullahs have restricted women into a limited category of professions and careers.
Again, women may often only do something with the approval and permission of the senior male member of the family. They cannot leave the country without the permission of their husband or if unmarried from the senior male member of the family. Often an uncle.- Selling innocent girls' body parts due to impoverishment, hunger and many other calamities
A trade in kidneys and transplant body parts is rampant and there are agencies whose whole existence is the laboratory testing of candidates for sale of transplant material. They buy and sell body parts as others might buy and sell rice or cookies.
This trade has been captured on tape and posted on the Internet and if memory serves also on the AntiMullah site, too.
But the most prevalent "body" trade is the human sex trade both inside the country and to the Gulf States.
With so many desperate abandoned women and children available the "religious" Islamic clerics have personally set up brothels using orphans who come hoping to be "cared for" by them. Or sent to them by parents, hearing by word of mouth (recruitment) the clerics may care for their daughters when they can no longer afford to feed them.
Sex slavery out of Islamic Iran predominates in the region and with the Mullah regime investing in huge, modern hotels in Dubai they hold auctions of Persian girls and boys every evening in the basement.
Since Islam allows "temporary" marriages of as little as a few minutes, the girls are "married off" for an hour, a night or for the right price - forever - as sex slaves to Arabs who want to use them and/or to sell them off.
Democratic Speaker of Congress NANCY PELOSI's eagerness to forget she is a woman and to feel sympathy for the plight of womanhood in Islamic Iran and visit and negotiate with the Mullahs comes as a distinct shock. And a betrayal of what she claims to stand for.
The photo may seem funny. For Iran's women, life increasingly invites miserable death. With death often a welcome relief from prolonged suffering. Ahmadi-Nejad wants all women to feel like this female looks. And control Iranian men via their women folk.
Sunday, April 15, 2007
MALAYSIAN ISLAM DRAGGING US BACK INTO THE DARK AGES - Ghosts are banned
CHECK TODAY'S ANTI-TERROR NEWS FOR A SIMILAR FANATICAL ATTITUDE BUT WITH GREATER VIOLENCE PARALYZING PAKISTAN. Scroll down to Pakistan links.
If today’s Middle East Times is any indication, it must be fatwa season in Malaysia:
-First, a museum exhibit on ghosts and the supernatural was canceled after a fatwa was issued against it:
The National Fatwa Council Thursday reportedly ruled that exhibitions on ghosts, ghouls, and supernatural beings were forbidden, as they could undermine the faith of Muslims.
“Supernatural beings are beyond the comprehension of the human mind. We don’t want to expose Muslims to supernatural and superstitious beliefs,” council chair Abdul Shukor Husin was quoted as saying in the Malay-language daily Berita Harian Friday.
Abdul Shukor said that the council’s decision would be presented to all of Malaysia’s state governments for gazetting as religious law.
“Only state governments have the power to take action, especially concerning the ghostly exhibitions,” he said.
So, if I read this correctly, the National Fatwa Council (NFC) wants Malaysia’s state governments to ban any future exhibits on the supernatural.
If they succeed, I wonder what other types of exhibits would fail to pass muster as well.
But that’s only half the fatwa fun, for the NFC also found time to decry Internet trading:
National Fatwa Council chairman Abdul Shukor Husin said that non-Muslim investment schemes accessed through the Internet pay interest and guarantee a steady profit, which is banned under Islamic or Sharia law.
“We advise those making investments via the Internet to stop immediately,” Abdul Shukor was quoted as saying in Malay-language daily Berita Harian.
“There are many alternative investment schemes based on Islamic principles initiated by the government which Muslims can participate in,” he said.
Islamic funds ban the earning of interest and cannot invest in companies associated with tobacco, alcohol, or gambling, which are considered taboo by Muslims.
Yes, these are relatively minor and even silly instances of Islamist censorship and intolerance. What makes them important is that they are symptoms of a broader culture war within most Islamic societies.
For the last several decades, Islamist extremism exported from the Middle East has encroached on traditionally tolerant customs and practices throughout the Muslim world.
The rise of jihadist terror organizations such as Al Qaeda is merely a reflection of this process.
If radical Islamists succeed in remaking the Muslim world in their image, the consequences for intellectual freedom worldwide would be disastrous.
A LOOK AT ISLAMIC HATRED IN CANADA (Video)
Muslims Charged With Firebombing Montreal Jewish CenterHere’s a surprise about the recent firebombing attack in Montreal: apparently it was Muslims who did it:Two Montreal men have been accused of a raft of attacks against the city’s Jewish community, including the firebombing of a Snowdon community centre that police are treating as a hate-related crime.Omar Bulphred, 21, and Azim Ibragimov, 23, appeared briefly in Quebec Court on Friday to be arraigned on charges stemming from incidents that began last fall. Both were denied bail.Because of references to "radical Islam," the powers-that-be at YouTube partially deleted parts 1 and 5 of "Confrontation at Concordia". Joe Malchow has uploaded all five parts of the documentary at Power Line Video. Below is part 1; see parts 2-5 there.
Saturday, April 14, 2007
HERE ALREADY & COMING SOON
After my two hour interview with a TV program, which also included an exhortation to Iranian women, specially inside Iran, to rally and form neighborhood watch type groups - for FUTURE purposes - an analysis on the state of women under Mullah rule and some actions for them to take, will be here tomorrow.Already "here" are some articles on NEWS VIEWS - one about China testing the "food weapon" against the USA along the lines of "black tar heroin" they flooded into the USA to destroy our youth a couple of decades ago.Always check NEWS VIEWS - link in left hand column and read the large number of headings to world events under "Anti-Terror News" also with a link in the left hand column.
FERTILE GROUND FOR ISLAMIST RECRUITERS
BEIRUT - The Palestine Liberation Organisation has adopted measures to “isolate” Fatah Al Islam, an Islamist grouping blamed for deadly bombings in Lebanon, the PLO representative in Beirut said.“We are attempting to isolate Fatah Al Islam because we do not want the Palestinians to be perceived as an element of instability in Lebanon,” Abbas Ziki told AFP in an interview on Friday.Last month, Lebanese Interior Minister Hassan Sabeh said detained members of Fatah Al Islam had admitted carrying out bus bombings in a mountain village on February 13 that killed three people.But Fatah Al Islam, a small grouping which first came to be known last November and which is based in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr Al Bared in northern Lebanon, has denied any involvement in the attacks, Ziki said.Lebanese authorities were holding 15 members of the Islamist grouping over the bus attacks.Outlining the steps being taken, Ziki said the PLO military and political factions were determined to contain Fatah Al Islam, although without resorting to violence.“We have named a new military command, created a joint intervention force and released funds,” said Ziki.He said the measures involve close PLO cooperation with the Lebanese armed forces which do not have access to the camps that are controlled by Palestinian armed factions.Ziki said the funds are “a financial assistance for the people of Nahr Al Bared and the reactivation of medical and social services” in a bid to counter the growing Islamist wave in the camp.“They (Islamists) are attracting young people by using enormous financial means, they are teaching them how to handle arms at a time when the Palestinian Authority is facing a financial blockade,” he said.“We want to cut the grass under the feet of the Islamists,” he said.“Poverty has spread in the camps... and the refugees are deprived of their most elementary civic and human rights,” said Ziki.Lebanon has been shaken by a spate of political violence over the past three years, notably a series of assassinations targeting figures opposed to the country’s once-dominant neighbour Syria.Lebanese authorities say Fatah Al Islam is manipulated by Syrian intelligence services.The Islamist grouping denies links with the Al Qaeda international terror network, although its leaders have said that the two groups “follow the same (religious) line and methodology.”The bus bombings “have stirred bad memories and we have all understood that Fatah Al Islam wants to harm civil peace in Lebanon and disturb the new-found harmony between the Palestinians and the Lebanese,” Ziki said.Ziki reopened the PLO office in Beirut in 2006 after it had been closed since the 1982 Israeli invasion.The PLO had established a “state within a state” in Lebanon from 1969 until the Israeli invasion of the country in 1982, at the height of the Lebanese civil war.
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5:01 PM Thursday, April 12, 2007
ISLAMIC CHARITIES or DECEPTIONS CLICK ON TITLE/HEADING TO GO TO INTERESTING INFORMATION
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9:17 PM iSLAMic TERROR IN OHIO -Breaking News
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A federal grand jury indicted a U.S. citizen on charges of joining al- Qaida and conspiring to bomb European tourist resorts and U.S. government facilities and
military bases overseas, officials said Thursday.
The investigation of Christopher Paul, 43, spanned four years, three continents and at least eight countries, FBI agent Tim Murphy said shortly before the Columbus man appeared before a federal judge.
Paul had trained with al-Qaida in the early 1990s and told al-Qaida members in
Pakistan and Afghanistan that he was dedicated to committing violent jihad, according to the indictment issued Wednesday.
"The indictment of Christopher Paul paints a disturbing picture of an American who traveled overseas to train as a violet jihadist, joined the ranks of al-Qaida and provided military instruction and support to radial cohorts both here and abroad," Assistant U.S. Attorney General Kenneth Wainstein said in a statement.
Paul, who was arrested Wednesday outside his apartment, is charged with providing material
support to terrorists, conspiracy to provide support to terrorists and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction.
In court Thursday, Magistrate Judge Terence Kemp asked Paul if he understood the charges. "Yes, sir," Paul replied.
Prosecutors asked that he be held without bond, and Kemp set another hearing Friday on the issue. Paul's lawyer, Don Wolery, did not return a message seeking comment before the hearing.
The indictment says Paul traveled to Germany about April 1999 to train co-conspirators to use explosives to attack European and U.S. targets, including
government buildings and vacation spots frequented by American tourists.
It does not name specific resorts or buildings that might have been targeted, but gives U.S. embassies, military bases and consular premises in Europe as examples.
Paul later sent a wire transfer of $1,760 from a financial institution in the U.S. to an alleged co-conspirator in Germany, prosecutors allege.
A fax machine in him home contained names, phone numbers and contact information for key al-Qaida leadership and associates, according to the indictment.
Paul also is accused of storing material at his father's house in Columbus, including a book on improvised land mines, money from countries in the
Middle East and a letter to his parents explaining that he would be "on the front lines," according to the indictment.
His sister, Sandra Laws, answered the door at the home and said she and her father live there. She said the family will be speaking to Paul's attorney later Thursday and declined further comment.
No charges are expected against family members, authorities said.Paul was born Paul Kenyatta Laws. He legally changed his name to Abdulmalek Kenyatta in 1989, then to Christopher Paul in 1994, according to the indictment.
After finishing his al-Qaida training in the early 1990s, he returned to Columbus to teach martial arts at a mosque, the indictment said.
Two other Columbus men have been charged in federal investigators' terrorism investigation.
L
yman Faris was sentenced in 2003 to 20 years in prison for a plot to topple the Brooklyn Bridge.
Nuradin Abdi, accused of plotting to blow up a Columbus-area shopping mall, is awaiting trial on charges including conspiring to aid terrorists.
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10:45 AM ALLAH - THE ORIGINS CHECK OUT THIS ERUDITE HISTORICAL ANALYSIS ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF "ALLAH"
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1:02 AM Tuesday, April 10, 2007
A LOOK AT CLINTON'S OPINION OF THE CIA - (check links at the end of the article)
In my opinion the Clinton Administration turned the CIA from an excellent operational and intelligence agency into a corporate bunch of careerist bureaucrats worrying about the legal aspects of doing their job instead of actively defending America!Am I wrong that he generally refused to meet with the Director of the Agency officially? Maybe only once or twice a year? Or was it only once or twice during his 8-year Presidency? Am I wrong that Clinton issued orders that the CIA was not permitted to obtain information or run agents together with anyone who did not have a "clean" record? Infiltration for black ops or carrying them out had to be achieved through pristine clean channels and people?Somewhat like infiltrating one of our gangs in the USA but not being allowed to use or turn any gang member, who had ever been arrested, to achieve this.Think of it as similar to forbidding New York police (for example) to carry guns in doing their duty to protect city residents! Almost all the force would resign (as did so many agents) or soon be dead. In this environment, CIA analysts took over from those with operational backgrounds.Makes me angry to acquire the opinion that our best people were emasculated to suit a Clinton philosophical abberation.Even angrier perhaps that some of what could perhaps be described as the "residual silt" of these "career bureaucrats" still at their jobs, now apparently leak semi-classified information to sabotage the Bush administration's efforts to keep us safe.Instead of helping make it so, apparently using leaks to the New York Times and other eager Mass Media with what I believe invalid accusations of the outing of a non-clandestine CIA operative. Despite efforts to claim the contrary by her - without any tangible proof of her still being in a covert operation position or carrying out covert duties.Other than simly being a CIA emloyee, who more than five years earlier did some covert work.We have real Islamic enemies. We need a few less internal ones like these whose real duty is to protect the nation not enforce their political viewpoints.
CIA EMASCULATED BY CLINTONEMASCULATION part 2SABRE RATTLING OR THE REAL THING?
April 9, 2007, 6:09 PM (GMT+02:00)Marines training on USS Baatan amphibious assault shipNo attempt was made to conceal the visit a cluster of top US brass paid April 4 to American marine units aboard the multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Baatan (LHD 5) and other vessels of the strike group deployed inthe Persian Gulf.In fact they were happy to answer questions about policies equipment and future plans. The group visiting the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) aboard the Baatan was led by Gen. James Conway. With him were Lt. Gen. Keith Stadler,Commanding General of II Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF), Marine Corps Sgt.Maj. John Estrada and Rear Adm. Richard Jeffries, medical officer of the Marine Corps.The group earlier climbed aboard the USS Oak Hill and USS Shreveport, whichare part of the Bataan Strike Group.Tehran took this public flurry of activity as another sign of an impending US assault. Its response came four days later.On April 8, the foreign ministry spokesman in Tehran Mohammad Ali Hossein said the Iranian army hadcompleted all its preparations for defending the homeland and Iran was prepared to repel a military offensive. The tenor of the language emitting from Iran is one of defiance across the board.The foreign ministry in Tehran announced Monday, April 9: “Talks with the US are not on Iran’s agenda,” in reference to planned meetings on the sidelines of the second Iraq security conference taking place in Cairo next month. This was the final death blow to the US-Saudi initiative to engage Iran, which was fathered earlier this year by the Bush administration and Saudi King Abdullah.Washington had pinned high hopes on the follow-up Cairomeeting providing the forum for direct talks between US and Iranian foreignministers. Since Tehran has knocked this prospect on the head, not much is expected tocome out of the Cairo gathering of UN Security Council and G-8 members aswell as Iraq’s neighbors – even if it takes place.This too is in question,given the menacing tone of Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki. OnMonday, he warned that relations with Iraq could deteriorate if the fiveIranians detained in Iraq by US troops last February are not freed.Tehranis investigating their fate, he said, and urged Iraq to do the same.Radical president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s proclamation of National NuclearEnergy Day celebrations to mark the first anniversary of Iran’s initialbreakthrough on uranium enrichment is taken as a red flag to the West.Notwithstanding persistent speculation, the Iranian leader refrained from announcing the installation of 3,000 centrifuges, which would have marked animportant stride in large-scale uranium enrichment. He only announced“industrial scale” production of enriched uranium." Intelligencesources disclose that Iran has not managed to install more than 1,000 centrifuges, and possibly less, for lack of progress in overcoming technical hitches.The other 2,000 are either still being run in or inoperative.Last week, ABC News revealed that in the last three months, Iran has more than tripled its ability to produce enriched uranium, adding some 1,000 centrifuges which are used to separate radioactive particles from the raw material.The addition of 1,000 new centrifuges, which are not yet operational, means Iran is expanding its enrichment program at a pace much faster than U.S.Intelligence experts had predicted.The Islamic Republic may indeed have abomb by 2009. This is six years earlier than the previous US intelligence time frame of 2015 and closer to Israeli intelligence assessments.And this week, Aviation Week & Space Technology brought out some new data relevant to Iran’s missile program about the expansion of Chinese missile strength US monitoring operations. The weekly reports that US Air Force Defense Support Program monitors have noted that both the Chinese and the Iranians “have very vigorous test programs.The number of ballistic missile launch events we are seeing with DSP is increasing.”USAF Lt. Col, Joe Coniligio is quoted as saying: “…with major new Chinese and Iranian flight test activity to monitor, the DSP program has major initiatives underway to extract more intelligence out of the infrared datastream from each of the satellites.”Also Monday, Iranian state TV announced Revolutionary Guard Gen. Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr had demonstrated the “ineffectiveness” of UN sanctions by spending six days in Moscow in defiance of the international ban on his travel. The Russians confirmed this. The general is listed with 15 individuals, whose visits all governments are required to ban.Sources note additional factors contributing to heightenedtensions in the region, chiefly the high death toll the US and British military are sustaining in Iraq from high-powered Iranian roadside bombs, 10 Americans and 6 Britons killed over the Easter weekend alone.Quantities of lethal weapons continued to flow across the border to the anti-US Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr’s Mehdi Army militia. US and Iraqi forces have been battling these militia units for almost a week in the town of Diwaniya southof Baghdad. The Shiites are armed to the teeth with smuggled Iranian arms,including anti-tank and anti-air missiles.Sadr brought out to the streets of Najef and Kufa on Monday, April, 9, the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, tens of thousands of anti-American demonstrators who burned US flags and demanded the end of “American occupation.” Sadr in person is a constant thorn in America’s side from a safe distance in Tehran.
Monday, April 09, 2007
DELUSIONS (Bilingual Farsi)
Delusions of (Western) Policy Makers
Speech by His Highness Prince Reza Pahlavi
April 03, 2007
Regime Change or Behavior Change: A false choice.Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests good afternoon.Allow me to express my gratitude for the invitation to be with you today. To many of you whom I know personally, I extend my admiration and respect for the great work you have done over the years. To those I meet for the first time, thank you for letting me have the privilege of getting to know you. The Hudson Institute’s proud tradition of service to world peace includes the great work of those, like Herman Kahn, who dared to “think the unthinkable.” You can imagine the depth of my sorrow that today, the “unthinkable” concerns my homeland. The latest Presidential National Security Directive names the Islamic Republic of Iran as the greatest threat to international peace, security and stability. That is principally because permitting the foremost state-sponsor of terrorism to acquire nuclear weapons is unthinkable. What has changed from Herman Kahn’s era is that mutual assured destruction (MAD) worked against a rival that defined its interests in this material world. Messrs. Khamenei, Ahmadinejad and many of their cohorts do not. How can assured destruction deter those who glorify self-destruction and call it martyrdom? Just as suicide bombing has changed domestic security policies, dealing with the nuclearization of this new kind of “other-worldly” state requires a different approach in international relations. Far from acting to avoid assured destruction, they invite it with tireless exaltation of martyrdom! Which brings us to the question, what could be done? The current debate on Iran seems to have reduced the question to a choice between regime change and behavior change. That is a false choice. It is also a formulation preferred by those who do not mind loading the dice in favor of longer life for Iran’s clerical regime. This is because short memories equate regime change with the use of force in Iraq. The unique mistakes in Iraq, however, should not sully regime change, which wasn’t such a bad phrase during the Cold War era, just two decades ago: President Reagan knew that he would not get behavior change from the Soviet regime unless he seemed serious about changing it. The actual change was a happy byproduct, which spelled the end of the Marxist mystique. East-European youth backpacked their way to the West to tell fellow students about the wide chasm between the deceptive promise of Marxism and its wretched reality. Long lines to take Marxist courses disappeared in Universities, from Buenos Aires to Paris. Similarly, I am convinced once the people bring down the clerical regime, with Iranian journalists, intellectuals and students free to travel, they will have the same shattering impact on the appeal of Islamist theocracy throughout the Moslem world. Ah, but Russia was more modern than the Middle East, riper for democracy – some say. They are perhaps unaware that Iran had a democratic “Constitutional Revolution,” fully 100 years ago, when Russia was still Czarist. They would be much surprised to learn that, in 1914, the Times of London wrote that British Parliamentarians would be well served to emulate democratic practices from their counterparts, in Iran’s Majless (parliament)! They know even less about the differences between Iran, which was never colonized, and Iraq, whose constituent parts were governed separately under Ottoman rule, which decapitated its independent political institutions and postponed our Iraqi brethren’s opportunity to develop a sense of nationhood. Still, it was easier to talk favorably about regime change in 2004 or 2005, when Iraqis were celebrating free elections and the Cedar Revolution was gaining steam in Lebanon. That is when Tehran’s theocrats and Syria’s Assad sensed the danger and set out to kill the hope for democracy in the region. They exploited religious and ethnic divisions to create a quagmire as a no-trespass sign to the rest of the world: Shelve any plans for democracy in the region, from the subcontinent to the Mediterranean, and from the Caspian to the Persian Gulf – read the sign. The Baker-Hamilton Report is a tacit acceptance of that no-trespass sign. Unfortunately, the report does not indicate how one can reach an agreement with the Islamic Republic, whose primary purpose is to humiliate the US in the theater of the Moslem world. There is method to their madness: The theocracy’s anachronistic life is mortgaged on proving to regional governments, and non-governmental forces, that those who oppose America will defeat those who cooperate with her. The State Department’s policy on Iran relies on diplomatic isolation and economic pressure. It is more hard-nosed than Baker-Hamilton, but it still suffers from the flaws of "realpolitik" when facing an irrational actor. Isolation? What isolation, demands President Ahmadinejad! The day he was squaring off against President Bush at the UN General Assembly, last fall, 118 out of the 192 nations present, more than 60%, were with him. He had just come from Cuba, where he had secured the support of the non-aligned movement. He had been received like a rock star by radical students in Indonesia, applauded by Castro in Cuba, and bear-hugged by Chavez in Venezuela. Those in Foggy Bottom who think they can make Ahmadinejad feel isolated simply cannot see the world through his eyes.Even if he felt isolated, it is doubtful he would change his behavior. Even the threat of force is not enough to sway someone whose deepest beliefs welcome Armageddon – to expedite the return of the twelfth Imam, his messiah! As for economic pressures, recent history should have convinced us that they are not enough to change the behavior of a regime that does not care about the welfare of its people. In more than two years of negotiations, Iran’s major European trade partners, Germany, France and Britain played with numerous combinations of economic threats and incentives, before they threw in the towel. The International Atomic Energy Agency reported Iran to the UN Security Council shortly thereafter. Backed by the Russians and the Chinese, last June the US joined the Europeans to offer a very generous incentive package, should the regime suspend enrichment of uranium. Two deadlines came and passed, with the Islamic Republic dancing around the proposal, but not addressing its substance. Just as Presidents Bush, Putin and Chirac, Prime Minister Blair, and Chancellor Merkel were about to discuss what to do, Hizbullah crossed the Israeli border and took two hostages.Thus, the war precipitated by the Islamic Republic’s client washed discussions of pressuring Iran off the agenda at the St. Petersburg G8 Summit, late July of last year. It should not come as a surprise any longer that, three more deadlines and three UN Security Council resolutions later, we are back at the same old dance; except it has become more deadly, considering the regime’s plan for three thousand centrifuges and new restrictions placed on international inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities; begging the question:To what level could unilateral US sanctions be expanded to, or what other UN sanctions could be acceptable to Russia and China? In short, US foreign policy and international pressure are reaching their limit, while the government whose head denies the Holocaust and wants an entire nation wiped off the map, is inching ever closer to the bomb! Having removed the Taliban and Saddam - two walls of Iran’s containment - having approached the limits of diplomatic and economic pressures, many discussions of US options now teeter between war and surrender. Surrender, by the way, has a fascinating new name: Engage and Deter! We engaged China to get out of Vietnam, why can’t we do the same with Iran to exit Iraq? That was the question put to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by a Council of Foreign Relations fellow, who seemed to put some Senators in deep thought. We deterred the Soviet Union, why can’t we deter Iran, is more music to the ears of the Islamic Republic, playing in Washington these days. Perhaps, it is the current mood of desperation on Iraq, but few policymakers seem to peel these thin disguises of surrender and see through the false parallels and specious arguments: A cursory review of history will demonstrate that Henry Kissinger’s deal with China was possible because the latter saw the Soviets as the principal threat to her security. He knew how real that threat was when Leonid Brezhnev asked President Nixon to give him a free hand with China and stay out of a potential Sino-Soviet nuclear conflict. There is today, no such parallel with the Islamic Republic, which does not see a third party as the principal threat, let alone seeing the US as a possible savior! In this new disguise for surrender, mention of deterrence is even less valid, but requires more insight to expose. During the cold war, nuclear deterrence gave the West an advantage: the Warsaw Pact’s conventional forces were quantitatively superior and nuclear arms acted as an equalizer in the European theater. In the Persian Gulf today, it is the US that has overwhelming conventional superiority. Should the Islamic Republic get the bomb, it will equalize that superiority and deter a high-intensity conventional attack. The nuclear shield will, thus, open the hands of the Islamic Republic to expand low intensity violence -- a.k.a. terrorism -- in furtherance of its constitutional mission of exporting Islamic Revolution. Hamas, Hizbullah, the Mahdi Army, the Badr Brigade and the like will then look ten feet taller than their intimidated moderate rivals. As one witness after another comforts Congressional leaders that the Islamic Republic can be deterred, I do not hear the riposte that even their best scenario means unshackling terrorism, let alone their worst! Nor does the administration seem to be able to lead Congress away from such harmful and deceptive advice, because it is ill-equipped to deal with unconventional states. Washington’s foreign policy is shaped by the State Department that understands diplomacy and the Defense Department that understands war. Both institutions are legacies of the state-centric view of the world which was consistent with the reality of international politics right after World War II – but not today, not after the Cold War. The Departments of State and Defense were not structured to help “velvet” revolutions, which have been the most significant patterns of positive change in the world since the Cold War.The problem is that the US does not have a third foreign policy department; one that understands, and can deal, with the peoples of the transitional world, not just their failed states. Is it all lost then? Are we back to war or surrender? Far from it! We haven’t focused on the greatest ally of the Free World in the Moslem World: the people of Iran. Three Iranian social groups, the women, youth and ethnic groups, as well as four professional and working groups, educators, lawyers, journalists and industrial labor, have been at the forefront of protests against and defiance of the Islamic Republic. Two of the top three Iranian cities, Tabriz and Mashhad, as well as other major cities, such as Sanandaj, have been out of government control, for days at a time. The principal reason why the vast majority of Iranians who want to reclaim peace and prosperity have not succeeded against the Islamic Republic is because they are prevented from communicating – with each other, and with the free world. Inside Iran, the government controls mass media with an iron fist. Even “Bloggers” with a limited audience are arrested, let alone published journalists – and there are more of them in jail than anywhere in the world. A must have for Iran’s pro-democracy movement is media that can connect Iranian activists inside Iran with each other. As I have mentioned before, there are a thousand circles of protest in Iran, but no nationwide medium to connect them.Since the government will not tolerate such a medium inside Iran, it has to be done from outside. As some of you may know, there are a few under-funded amateur-video type satellite television stations, beaming into Iran from the West. But they cannot even afford decent old movies, let alone produce meaningful programming. Then there is the Voice of America Radio and Television, and a forthcoming TV channel by the BBC. Although much improved, their governmental mission statements and cautious bureaucracies have not, and are not likely to, make a serious impact in Iran. What is needed is engaging programming that builds audience share by truly reflecting the needs, grievances and resistance of Iranian women, youth, ethnic groups and the professional groups. Given needed resources, modern technology makes it quite possible to have two-way communication between the politically active audience inside Iran and a medium outside which can connect them to each other. That is what it takes to mobilize the Iranian people – without whom, we are back to war or surrender. I never miss a chance to reject military action against my homeland. I am against war. I hope you are too, and I can not believe that you would be for surrender.Thus, we are left with regime change vs. behavior change. And as indicated earlier, that is a false choice. So what is the right choice? Like most totalitarian leaders, Iran’s Supreme Islamist leader wakes up every morning wondering if the morale and ideological glue of his security forces will hold. To strengthen their spine, he feels he has to take tough, uncompromising stands against his ideological adversaries – liberal democracies in general, and the United States and Israel in particular. The reckless self-righteousness of his “other-worldly” ideology will continue this course, until a final collision. This behavior will not change unless he wakes up one morning with an even greater fear: seeing the Iranian people joining hands and rising up against his theocratic tyranny. Unlike forgetful analysts in the West, he knows the Iranian people have changed their regimes many times before, when they had far less reasons to do so. He watches carefully for the signs of history repeating itself. Once he sees those signs, and only then, will he change his behavior. That is why idealism and realism, behavior change and regime change do not require different policies but the same: empowering the Iranian people. This is my political mission in life. I ask for your support, and thank you sincerely for sharing some of your valuable time with me.سوم آوریل ۲۰۰۷نیویورک، موسسه تحقیقاتی هادسنتغییر رژیم یا تغییر رفتار رژیم: گزینشی بی تفاوترضا پهلویخانمها و آقایان، میهمانان عالیقدر عصر شما بخیر.اجازه میخواهم که قدردانی خود را نسبت به دعوتی که از من شده است ابراز کنم.تلاش های بسیاری از شما، که من شخصا میشناسم ، برای ساختن دنیائی بهتر ، برای من بسیار قابل تحسین است. از کسانی که امروز برای اولین بار آشنا میشویم، بسیار سپاسگزارم که فرصتی پیش آمده تا با هم آشنا شویم.موسسه هادسن خدمات بزرگی به پیشرفت صلح در جهان کرده است. از جمله خدمات عظیم هرمان کان، که شهامت آنرا داشت که به مسائلی بیاندیشد که غیر قابل تصور بودند. متاسفانه آنچه غیرقابل تصوراست، امروز دارد در میهن من شکل میگیرد و من از این بابت بسیار غمگینم.آخرین رهنمون امنیت ملی که از سوی رئیس جمهوری آمریکا صادر شده است، جمهوری اسلامی را بزرگترین خطر برای صلح بین المللی، امنیت و ثبات نامیده است. این بیشتر از آن رو است که دستیابی به سلاح های اتمی برای رژیمی که سرآمد تروریسم بین المللی است غیر قابل تصور است. آنچه که از دوران هرمان کان دگرگون شده اینست که تئوری " انهدام قطعی و متقابل" تنها در مقابل هماوردی کاربرد داشت که برای سود مردمش دراین جهان مادی احساس مسئولیت میکرد. آقایان خامنه ای ، احمدی نژاد وهمفکرانشان این چنین نمی اندیشند.چگونه میتوان انتظار داشت که انهدام قطعی و متقابل عامل بازدارنده کسانی شود که مرگ و نابودی خود را با شکوه جلوه داده و آنرا شهادت می نامند. همانگونه که حملات انتحاری سیاست های امنیتی ملی را دگرگون کرده اند، رویاروئی با اتمی شدن نظام های آنجهانی نیز رویکردی متفاوت از روابط متعارف بین المللی می طلبد. نه تنها آنان هیچ تلاشی برای رفع خطر انهدام قطعی نخواهند کرد، بلکه با شور و شعف از شهادت استقبال خواهند کرد. و این ما را به پرسش اصلی میرساند: چه باید کرد؟چنین به نظر می رسد که بحث های کنونی در باره ایران این پرسش را به گزینشی میان تغییر رژیم یا تغییر رفتار رژیم فرو کاسته اند. اما در عمل تفاوتی بین این دو گزینه نیست، اینگونه مطرح کردن پرسش بسود آنان است که بطولانی ترکردن عمر رژیم جمهوری اسلامی علاقمند هستند، زیرا امروزه خاطره های کوتاه عبارت تغییر رژیم را با حملۀ نظامی به عراق مترادف کرده است. اشتباه منحصر بفردی که در عراق رخ داد نباید مایۀ مخدوش شدن عبارت تغییررژیم شود، عبارتی که تنها دو دهۀ پیش چندان نامتناسب به نظر نمیرسید.پرزیدنت ریگان به درستی در یافته بود که اتحاد جماهیر شوروی هیچ تغییری در رفتار خود ایجاد نمیکند مگر اینکه خود وی در سیاست تغییر آن رژیم جدی بنظربرسد. تغییرات واقعی متعاقب سیاست های وی، نتیجۀ فرخنده ای داشت که به پایان جاذبۀ کاذب مارکسیزم انجامید. جوانان اروپای شرقی، کوله پشتی به پشت، به طرف غرب سرازیر شدند تا به دانشجویان هم سن و سال خود از شکاف ژرف بین وعده های تهی مارکسیستی و واقعیات فلاکت بار آن بگویند. صف طولانی دانشجویان از بوئنوس آیرس تا پاریس، برای ثبت نام در کلاس های مارکسیستی به ناگهان ناپدید شد. من ایمان دارم که پس از سرنگونی رژیم اسلامی توسط مردم ایران، روزنامه نگاران، دانشجویان و روشنفکران ایرانی نیز با آزادی در جهان اسلامی سفر کرده و به همان شیوه فرق بین وعده های کاذب حکومت دین سالار را با واقعیت نکبت بار آن برملا خواهند کرد.شاید بعضی چنین تصور کنند که روسیه بیشتر از ایران برای گذار به دموکراسی آمادگی داشت. باید به آنان خاطر نشان کرد که بیش از صد سال پیش انقلاب دموکراتیک مشروطه در ایران به وقوع پیوست – و این در زمانی بود که روسیه هنوز تحت دیکتاتوری تزاری بود. تعجب آنان بیشتر خواهد شد اگر بدانند که در سال ۱۹۱۴، روزنامۀ تایمز لندن نوشت که نمایندگان مجلس انگلستان باید درس دموکراسی را از همتایان ایرانی خود بیاموزند. آگاهی آنان از تفاوتهای بین ایران و عراق حتی کمتر است. ایران هرگز مستعمره نبوده است اما بخشهای مختلف عراق در زمان عثمانی جداگانه اداره میشدند واین نهاد های مستقل سیاسی دیرین این بخش ها را از میان برد. امپراطوری عثمانی دست یافتن برادران عراقی ما به یک هویت مشترک ملی را بعقب انداخت.با وجود این، در سالهای ۲۰۰۴ یا ۲۰۰۵ که مردم عراق انتخابات آزاد را جشن گرفتند و انقلاب سرو در لبنان پای میگرفت سخن گفتن از تغییر رژیم مقبول تربود. در همین زمان، دین سالاران ایران و سران سوریه متوجۀ خطر قریب الوقوع شده و تصمیم گرفتند تا امید دموکراسی را در منطقه از بین ببرند. آنان با سوء استفاده از اختلافات مذهبی و قومی، باتلاقی در عراق ایجاد کردند که به مثابه نشان «ورود ممنوع» از هر گونه تحول در منطقه جلوگیری کند. این نشان «ورود ممنوع» اخطاری بود به غرب که برنامۀ پیشرفت دموکراسی در منطقه ، از شبه قارۀ هند تا دریای مدیترانه، و از دریای مازندران تا خلیج فارس را فراموش کنید! گزارش بیکر- هامیلتون قبول ضمنی پیام این نشان «ورود ممنوع» است. متاسفانه این گزارش توضیح نمیدهد که چگونه میتوان با جمهوری اسلامی، که بقایش نیازمند خوار کردن هرچه بیشتر آمریکا درجهان اسلامی است، به توافق رسید. زندگی ضد تاریخ این رژیم در گروی آن است که به دولتهای منطقه، و حتی به سازمانهای غیر دولتی، ثابت کند که آنان که با آمریکا مقابله و ستیز میکنند بر آنان که با آمریکا همکاری میکنند چیره خواهند شد.سیاست های وزارت خارجه آمریکا بر انزوای سیاسی رژیم اسلامی و ایجاد فشارهای اقتصادی بنا گرفته است. البته این روش، سرسخت تر از رویکرد بیکر- هامیلتون است اما بازکافی نیست. انزوا؟ آقای احمدی نژاد می پرسد، کدام انزوا؟روزی که او در مجمع عمومی سازمان ملل با پرزیدنت بوش تسویه حساب میکرد، ۱۱۸ کشور از ۱۹۲ کشور عضو ( بیش از۶۰ در صد ) به موضع او تمایل داشتند! او به تازگی از سفر کوبا بازگشته بود که درآن پشتیبانی جنبش غیر متعهد را جلب کرده بود. استقبالی که دانشجویان رادیکال اندونزی از او کرده بودند برازندۀ ستاره های راک اند رول بود. وی مورد تشویق کاسترو قرار گرفته و چاوز وی را به سختی در آغوش کشیده بود.آنانی که در وزارت خارجه آمریکا در تصور انزوای احمدی نژاد هستند دنیا را از دیدگاه او نمی بینند. حتی اگر او احساس انزوا کند، هرگز این احساس به تغییر رفتار او نخواهد انجامید. حتی تهدید نظامی هم برای کسی که یک فاجعه را بعنوان پیش درآمد بازگشت امام زمان می طلبد، کارگر نخواهد بود.در مورد فشار های اقتصادی : تاریخ معاصر باید به ما آموخته باشد که فشار های اقتصادی بر نظام هائی که به رفاه و آسایش مردم خود اهمییت نمی نهند ، موثر نیست. بیش از دو سال طول کشید تا دولتهای اروپائی هرگونه فشار و امتیاز اقتصادی را امتحان کنند تا متوجه شوند که چنین سیاستهائی در قبال جمهوری اسلامی بی اثر است. بلافاصله پس از آن، سازمان بین المللی انرژی اتمی تخلفات ایران را به شورای امنیت سازمان ملل متحد گزارش کرد. در ماه جون سال گذشته، با پشتیبانی چین و روسیه، آمریکا به کشور های اروپائی ملحق شد تا امتیاز های اقتصادی بسیاری را به ایران پیشنهاد کنند، به شرط این که جمهوری اسلامی دست از غنی سازی اورانیوم بر دارد. دو ضرب الاجل، یکی پس از دیگری گذشتند ولی رژیم اسلامی به بازیهای خود ادامه داد و پاسخ روشنی به پیشنهاد ها نداد. زمانی که پرزیدنت ها بوش، پوتین ، شیراک و نخست وزیر بلر و صدر اعظم مرکل در حال تصمیم گیری بودند حزب الله از مرز اسرائیل عبور کرد و سربازان اسرائیلی را به گروگان گرفت. جنگی که توسط عوامل رژیم اسلامی شروع شد، موضوع گفتگوهای کنفرانس ج- ۸ در اواخر جولای سال گذشته را از اعمال فشار بر رژیم اسلامی منحرف کرد.نباید مایۀ تعجب شود که سه قطعنامه شورای امنیت و سه ضرب الاجل دیگر نیز گذشته است ولی در مذاکرات هیچ پیشرفتی حاصل نشده است. با این تفاوت که اکنون با اعلام برنامه های گسترده ترتغلیظ اورانیوم از سوی رژیم و محدودتر کردن بازدید کارگزاران بین المللی از تاسیسات ایران، بازی مرگبار تر شده است.لازم است به این پرسش بپردازیم: که تحریم های اقتصادی یکجانبه از سوی آمریکا تا چه حد می توانند گسترش یابد ؟ یا، کدام تحریم های دیگر از سوی سازمان ملل متحد می تواند مورد قبول روسیه و چین قرار بگیرد؟ به بیان دیگر، درحالی که سیاست خارجی آمریکا و فشار های بین المللی به حداکثرممکن خود نزدیک میشوند، دولتی که رئیس آن منکر هولوکاست است ومیگوید که اسرائیل باید از نقشه جهان پاک شود ، هر لحظه به بمب اتم نزدیکتر میشود.از یک سو برداشته شدن دو عامل بازدارندۀ جمهوری اسلامی، طالبان و صدام، و از سوی دیگر به انتها رسیدن راه حل های دیپلماتیک و فشار های اقتصادی ، برای بسیاری چنین مینماید که امروز گزینه های آمریکا در قبال جمهوری اسلامی به جنگ یا تسلیم محدود شده است. تسلیم، این روزها نام و تعبیر تازه ای پیدا کرده: «به سوی خود کشیدن و بازداشتن».اگر قادر بودیم که چین را به سوی خود جلب کنیم تا از ویتنام خارج شویم چرا نمی توانیم جمهوری اسلامی را همراه کنیم تا بتوانیم از عراق خارج شویم؟ این پرسشی بود که توسط یکی از اعضای شورای روابط خارجی در سنای آمریکا مطرح شد و برخی از سناتور ها را به تفکر عمیقی فرو برد. اگر قادر به بازداشتن اتحاد شوروی شدیم، چرا نتوانیم یک جمهوری اسلامی اتمی را درآینده بازداریم؟ این نیز برای سران جمهوری اسلامی آهنگی بسیار خوش نوا است که این روزها در واشنگتن نواخته میشود. شاید اینها همه ناشی از روحیه یاس و نومیدی از شرایط عراق باشد. اما تعداد سیاستگذارانی که بحث تسلیم و خطرات ناشی از آن را عمیقا درک کنند و درگیر بحث های موازی و انحرافی نشوند انگشت شمار است.کوتاه نگاهی به تاریخ معاصر کافی است تا درک کنیم که توافق های هنری کیسینجر با چین و همکاری های متعاقب آمریکا و چین بر این اصل استوار بود که چین از اتحاد شوروی احساس خطر جدی میکرد. کیسینجر آگاهی کامل داشت و میدانست که چنین خطری بسیار جدی است ، بخصوص وقتی که لئونید برژنف از نیکسون خواست که در صورت وقوع جنگ اتمی بین چین و شوروی ، آمریکا بی طرف باقی بماند. چنین شرایطی اکنون وجود ندارند. جمهوری اسلامی از جانب دولت سومی احساس خطر نمیکند چه رسد به اینکه به آمریکا به عنوان ناجی خود نگاه کند.در چنین تحریفی از واژۀ تسلیم، بحث « بازداشتن» درمورد جمهوری اسلامی از بار منطقی کمتری بهره مند است ولی نیاز به توضیح بیشتری دارد. در زمان جنگ سرد، سیاست بازداری موجب امتیازی برای غرب بود. نیروهای غیراتمی پیمان ورشو از کمیت بیشتری برخوردار بودند که بازدارندگی دو جانبۀ اتمی آنرا خنثی میکرد، اما در خلیج فارس، این نیروهای غیراتمی آمریکاست که از برتری قابل توجهی برخوردار است. اگر جمهوری اسلامی به بمب اتمی دست یابد، آن برتری را خنثی کرده و تحت سپراتمی دستش برای اعمال خشونت های با شدت پائین (بخوانید تروریسم) باز خواهد شد، آنگاه جمهوری اسلامی میتواند با عملیات چریکی مستقیم و غیرمستقیم (توسط حماس، حزب الله، ارتش مهدی، بدر و امثالهم) به مسئولیتی که تحت قانون اساسی اش دارد برای صدورانقلاب اسلامی بپردازد.در حالیکه متخصصان امور خاورمیانه، یکی پس از دیگری، به سران کنگره آمریکا تسلی می دهند که جمهوری اسلامی قابل بازدارندگی است، من نشنیده ام که کسی گوشزد کند که حتی در بهترین حالت، نتیجه چنین سیاست هائی رها کردن عوامل تروریسم از قید و بند است ، چه برسد به بدترین حالت! به نظر نمیرسد که متصدیان قوۀ مجریه نیز قادر بوده اند تا رهبران کنگره را از چنین نظرات گمراه کننده بر حذر دارند. شاید به این دلیل که آمادگی پرداختن به مسائلی که توسط دولتهای غیر متعارف پدید می آیند را ندارند. سیاستگذاری خارجی آمریکا بدست وزارت خارجه است که دیپلماسی را خوب می شناسد و وزارت دفاع که جنگ را. هر دو نهاد بازمانده عصری هستند که سیاست بین المللی را در سیاست بین دول خلاصه میکرد، که این با واقعیت های جهان پس از جنگ جهانی دوم مطابقت داشت – ولی نه با دنیای امروز، نه دنیای پس از جنگ سرد.ساخت و ترکیب وزارتخانه های دفاع و خارجه ، آمادگی لازم برای پشتیبانی از انقلابهای مخملی را ندارد، انقلابهائی که موفق ترین نوع تحول مثبت و دموکراتیک در جهان پس از اواخرجنگ سرد بوده اند. مشکل اینجاست که آمریکا اداره سومی برای تدوین سیاست خارجی ندارد، اداره ای که درک عمیقی از شرایط مردم در کشور های در حال گذار به دموکراسی و تعامل با آنانرا داشته باشد، نه فقط توان تعامل و یا رویارویی با دولت های آنها که در بسیاری از موارد فقط با سرکوبی و تهدید صلح میتوانند به حیات خود ادامه دهند.آیا هیچ امیدی نیست؟ آیا باید به همان راه حل یا جنگ یا تسلیم برگردیم؟ ابدا.هنوز توجه کافی به بزرگترین متحد جهان غرب در دنیای اسلام معطوف نشده است: مردم ایران. سه گروه اجتماعی ایرانی یعنی زنان، جوانان و اقوام و چهار گروه حرفه ای متشکل ازفرهنگیان، وکلای دادگستری، روزنامه نگاران و کارگران صنعتی در خط اول اعتراض بر علیه جمهوری اسلامی بوده اند. شهرهای مهم ایران، مانند، تبریز و مشهد و سنندج روز ها از کنترل رژیم خارج بوده اند. دلیل اصلی اینکه هنوزمردم ایران برجمهوری اسلامی پیروز نشده اند، این است که توانائی ارتباط با یکدیگر و با جهان خارج را ندارند.در درون ایران، کنترل کامل وسائل ارتباط جمعی در دست دولت است. حتی وبلاگ نویس های ایرانی که دامنه مخاطبینشان بسیار محدود است ، در معرض تهدید دائم و دستگیری قرار دارند چه رسد به روزنامه نگاران. تعداد روزنامه نگاران در بند ایرانی از هر کشور دیگر در خاورمیانه بیشتر است. مهمترین ابزاری که مبارزین آزادیخواه ایرانی به آن نیاز دارند وسایل ارتباط جمعی است که آنها ها را با هم مرتبط کند. در ایران هزاران حلقۀ مبارزه و اعتراض وجود دارد که ازوسایل ارتباطی که آنان را بهم وصل کند برخوردارنیستند. از آنجا که حکومت اسلامی به چنین وسیله ارتباط جمعی درداخل کشور اجازه فعالیت نخواهد داد، الزاما باید با بهره گیری ازتکنولوژی مدرن آن حلقه های اعتراض را از خارج ازکشور بهم وصل کرد.همانگونه که برخی از شما آگاهید، چندین وسیله ارتباط ویدیوئی آماتور با بودجه های بسیار ناچیز در غرب وجود دارد که به سوی ایران برنامه پخش میکنند. اما آنها حتی بودجه کافی برای پخش فیلم های قدیمی را هم ندارند چه رسد به اینکه برنامه های موثر تولید کنند.برنامه های رادیو تلویزیونی صدای آمریکا و برنامه تلویزیونی بی بی سی نیز، که قرار است بزودی برقرار شود، بسیار بهبود پیدا کرده است اما ماموریت دولتی و بوروکراسی محتاط آنها مانع تاثیر جدی بر روند تحولات ایران میباشد.آنچه که به آن نیاز است برنامه های قابل توجه و جذابی است که با گزارشهای دقیق از نیاز ها، نارضایتی ها و مبارزات زنان ، جوانان، اقوام ایرانی و گروه های حرفه ای، توجه مردم را به خود جلب کند. تکنولوژی مدرن ارتباط دو طرفه میان مبارزان سیاسی را بسیار آسان تر کرده است. این همان چیزی است که بسیج عمومی مردم ایران را ممکن خواهد کرد. مردمی که بدون حضور آنان در صحنه، راهی بجز جنگ یا تسلیم ممکن نیست.من از هر فرصتی استفاده میکنم تا اقدام نظامی بر علیه کشورم را رد کنم. من علیه جنگ و خونریزی هستم. امیدوارم که شما نیز مانند من فکر کنید. همچنین نمیتوانم تصور کنم که شما با تسلیم هم موافق باشید. پس گزینه هایی بجز تغییر رژیم یا تغییر رفتار باقی نمی ماند ولی همانطور که قبلا به آن اشاره کردم این گزینشی بدون تفاوت بدین معنا که در عمل راه رسیدن به هر دو یکی است: فعال شدن مردم ایران درمقابل جمهوری اسلامی.همانند سایر رهبران توتالیتر، رهبرجمهوری اسلامی نیز، هر بامداد نگران روحیه و انسجام ایدئولوژیک نیروهای سرکوب خود است که مبادا از هم گسیخته شوند. برای حفظ این روحیه، وی ناچار است مواضع قاطع در قبال رقبای ایدئولوژیکی خود بگیرد. یعنی دموکراسی های لیبرال بطور کلی و آمریکا و اسرائیل بطور خاص.تفکر آنجهانی وعدم مسئولیت وی به این جهان باعث خواهد شد که تا تصادم نهایی، همچنان به رفتار کنونی خود ادامه دهد. رفتار وی تغییر نخواهد کرد مگر اینکه با وحشتی بزرگتر روبرو شود: روزی که مردم ایران دست در دست یکدیگر بر علیه استبداد حرکت کنند.برخلاف نظریه پردازان فراموشکار غربی، او به نیکی آگاه است که مردم ایران بار ها رژیم حکومتی خود را تغییر داده اند. حتی زمانی که دلایل بسیار کمتری برای آن داشتند. او به دقت نگران نشانه های تکرار تاریخ است. به محض اینکه این علائم را دید، رفتار خود را نیز تغییر خواهد داد.از همین روی، ایده آلیسم و واقع گرائی، تغییر رژیم یا تغییر رفتار ، به سیاست های مختلفی نمی انجامند، بلکه لازمۀ همۀ آنها یک سیاست است: پشتیبانی از، و نیرو مند تر کردن مردم ایران. این ماموریت زندگی من است. از شما میخواهم که من را در این امر یاری کنید، با تشکر از وقتی که با من گذراندید.*****
Sunday, April 08, 2007
SHARIA - COMING TO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD - UNLESS YOU WAKE UP!
Do not think this is happening so far away it is not going to worry you.a) You should remember the news videos of Black-suited African-Americans entering liquor stores in the USA and using clubs to smash the inventory of alcoholic drinks.b) There are thousands of madrasseh (religious schools) inside or attached to mosques throughout the USA. They can respond in a similar way to the Islamabad students at the drop of a hat and create a similar threat in our American neighborhoods.c) Moslems have started demanding the implementation of 'sharia' law for Moslems in Canada. Justice being meted out by their Imams, not the Canadian courts.d) In Britain an Islamic Society has demanded that 'sharia' law and Moslem customs be followed in ALL of Britain's schools. For example, forbidding swimming, gymnastics, singing, western clothes and even complaining about Christian teaching.So read the following with keen insight and a valid, real feeling of danger to YOU and yours.Islamic gangs roam streets of capital city (Islamabad) to enforce their law with threats.Shiraz Ahmed was tending his music store in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, when a group of 15 bearded young men walked in bearing bamboo poles and a chilling message.Politely but firmly, they instructed him to take down the colourful array of Bollywood and bhangra dance tunes on display and to restrict his business to Islamic music.“They told me I had to change my business,” said Mr Ahmed, 25, whose family has run the store for 15 years. “I am so confused. I don’t know what to do.”Until last week he might not have worried about these men from Islamabad’s Lal Masjid (Red Mosque). After all, his shop is legal and within walking distance of Pervez Musharraf’s presidential palace.But this was just one of several signs in the past ten days that a creeping campaign to “Talebanise” Pakistan has spread from tribal areas on the Afghan border right to the heart of the capital. And to judge from the Government’s response, even here it is reluctant to confront the radical clerics who openly preach jihad (holy war) and defy the writ of the state.Last week hundreds of women students from the Jamia Hafsa seminary,which is attached to the Lal Masjid, raided a nearby house that they said was a brothel. Wearing black burqas and wielding bamboo poles, they dragged the alleged madam, identified only as Aunty Shamim, to the seminary along with her daughter, daughter-in-law and granddaughter.When police arrested two women teachers from the seminary, its students responded by abducting two policemen along with their vehicles. A tense stand-off only ended when Aunty Shamim was released with her relatives after reading a signed confession in public.Pakistani police have promised to arrest Abdul Rashid Ghazi, the seminary’s vice-principal, and to prevent more vigilante raids.Maulana AbdulAziz, the seminary’s principal, has refused to give up Mr Ghazi, who is his brother, and has vowed to cleanse Islamabad of brothels, liquor stores and other “unIslamic” activity.He also gave the Government until today to introduce Sharia (Islamic law) across Pakistan. Otherwise, he said, his students would do it themselves, starting with the surrounding G-6 neighbourhood in central Islamabad.“It’s like if you have garbage outside your house and the city authorities fail to clear it - you have to do it yourself,” he said. “We’re urging the whole country to rise up and make the country clean and pure.”Radical clerics have made similar calls in vain in the past but never before have they been backed up by vigilante raids in the capital. The seminary’s students have also been seen carrying Kalashnikovs and other weapons around their compound.Mr Aziz denied having violent intentions but said his 10,000 men and women students, most from tribal areas near the Afghan border, were ready to die for their cause.“If the police and Army come here we will sacrifice our bodies and will not allow anyone to be arrested,” he said.He admitted openly that some of his students may have joined theTaleban in Pakistan or Afghanistan because he taught jihadi principles. He admitted, too, that his students had been to the local market, where Mr Ahmed’s shop is, to tell video and music stores not to sell “unIslamic” products.They have also been seen at traffic lights around the capital telling womento stop driving cars and asking people playing “unIslamic” music to turn it off.Analysts say the Government is capable of arresting Mr Ghazi and even closing the mosque. Because it is a state religious institution the Government still pays its utility bills. It was also built illegally on government land.General Musharraf has, however, shied away repeatedly from confronting the Lal Masjid’s clerics - even when they openly called for his assassination. In July 2005 his security forces tried to raid the mosque after suicide bombings in London that month but were beaten back by women students.His Government announced plans to demolish the mosque in January but backeddown when its students occupied Islamabad’s only children’s library in protest. They have been there ever since.Analysts say President Musharraf is worried about losing the support of Islamist parties in the presidential and parliamentary elections over the next year. He is already in the midst of a showdown with the country’s lawyers after suspending Pakistan’s independent-minded Chief Justice.Some critics also accuse him of tolerating the Lal Masjid and other madrassas to justify continued military rule. Analysts say, however,that his tactics are playing into the hands of the mullahs, allowing them to act with increasing audacity and impunity.“They know Musharraf needs them now more than ever,” said Samina Ahmed,South Asia project director for the International Crisis Group. “What other constituency does he have?”Creeping influence- Leaflets distributed to barbers in the North of Pakistan last month said that growing a beard was an Islamic practice. Barbers no longer offer to shave patrons- Militants destroyed CDs of Urdu, English and Indian films at a video shop in Bannu, northern Pakistan, in February- Zil-e-Huma, a woman Punjabi minister, was killed in February by a vigilante because “she was leading an unIslamic life and spreading an evil influence over other women”- A report by International Crisis Group this month said that madrassas were breeding religious militants- In Tank, in the North West Frontier Province, the Taleban were discovered recruiting students at a boy’s school. The school head confronted them and was kidnapped the next day
A LOOK AT AIR OPERATIONS
US, British Aircraft Carry Out Ops Over Iraq And AfghanistanSat, Apr ‘07Flares Released From B-1Bs Quell Small Arms FireUS Central Command Air Forces officials released the following airpower summary for recent operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.In Afghanistan April 5, an Air Force B-1B Lancer provided two shows of force, releasing multiple flares, for coalition ground forces receiving small-arms fire near Oruzgan. A on-scene joint terminal attack controller reported that the insurgents, firing from a compound, ceased fire after the shows of force.Near Sangin, an Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle dropped a guided bomb unit-38 on a building where insurgents had retreated after firing rocket-propelled grenades and small arms at coalition forces. A JTAC confirmed the building was destroyed.US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets dropped GBU-12s on an insurgent compound near Sangin. A JTAC confirmed the desired target was hit.In total, 45 close-air-support missions were flown in support of International Security Assistance Force and Afghan troops, reconstruction activities and route patrols.Seven Air Force and Navy intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft flew missions in support of operations in Afghanistan. Navy fighter aircraft performed in non-traditional ISR roles with their electro-optical and infrared sensors.In Iraq, F-16 Fighting Falcons provided overwatch for a downed helicopter near Mahmudiyah. The pilots looked for insurgents gathering in the area. The pilots also provided reconnaissance over a nearby petroleum center and a suspected mortar position.Other F-16s were called to provide overwatch for a US Army Blackhawk helicopter that was downed by enemy fire south of Baghdad. The pilots also searched for insurgents who attacked coalition forces at the crash site. The pilots were also instructed to search for a vehicle that stopped and reportedly set an object in the road.Near Baghdad, Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt IIs provided a show of force and released multiple flares for coalition forces receiving small-arms fire. A JTAC reported the show of force produced good effects.Air Force A-10s conducted reconnaissance for suspicious activity and IED placers at multiple locations and routes near Baghdad.Near Bayji, F-16s conducted overwatch of a coalition convoy and searched multiple routes for insurgents placing improvised explosive devices.Other F-16s watched over coalition forces placing barriers near Baghdad. The pilots also supported nearby coalition forces salvaging a vehicle that struck an IED.Near Najaf, F-16s provided overwatch for a coalition convoy.Air Force A-10 pilots witnessed a firefight break out near Mahmudiyah. The pilots were unsure who was firing and reported the location to a JTAC. The JTAC requested a show of force to show insurgents that there was air support in the area. The JTAC reported the show of force was successful.Navy F/A-18s conducted reconnaissance for coalition forces searching a village near Hawija. The pilots reported the coordinates of an individual running to the village and suspicious activity associated with a vehicle in the open.Royal Air Force GR-4 Tornados provided reconnaissance for suspected enemy mortar positions near Mahmudiyah. The pilots reported vehicles loading and unloading objects nearby.In total, coalition aircraft flew 62 close-air-support missions for Operation Iraqi Freedom. These missions provided support to coalition troops, infrastructure protection, reconstruction activities and operations to deter and disrupt terrorist activities.Additionally, 17 Air Force, Navy and RAF ISR aircraft flew missions in support of operations in Iraq. US Navy fighter aircraft performed in non-traditional ISR roles with electro-optical and infrared sensors.Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft and C-17 Globemaster IIIs provided intra-theater heavy airlift support, helping to sustain operations throughout Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa. Approximately 155 airlift sorties were flown; nearly 590 tons of cargo were delivered, and more than 3,800 passengers were transported. This included about 27,600 pounds of troop re-supply air-dropped in Afghanistan.Coalition C-130 crews from Australia and Japan flew in support of OIF or OEF.On April 3, Air Force, RAF and French tankers flew 41 sorties and off-loaded more than 2.8 million pounds of fuel.
EXPLOSIVE DAY?
Read article on Pakistan's April 10th at the link below. Will this repeat itself there or in Iran or in Afghanistan? What's cooking Doc? Something is, I can smell it.
Another Explosive April 10th?BTW also bookmark NEWS VIEWS. Some interesting items coming soon.
FREE TRAINING FOR JIHADISTS & SPIES?
Dramatic Rise in Number of Arab Volunteers for National Service Data published Thursday by a national service placement organization indicates a dramatic rise in the number of Israeli Arabs who volunteer for national service.According to the data, the number of volunteers in the first months of 2007 exceeded by far the total numberof volunteers in 2006.Shlomit, the non-profit organization that arranges placements for secular national service volunteers, registered 213 young Arab volunteers between December and March, compared with 130 volunteers who began theirnational service last year.This is the first year that men - both Jewish and Arab- can officially volunteer for national service. Priorto 2007, men were only able to volunteer through atrial program for male volunteers.Remember, the complete stories and much more can befound by visiting the IRIS blog at:
http://www.iris.org.il/blog.htmlSINISTER TRANSNISTRIA
CBNNews.com It’s an all-too-familiar scene — Islamic insurgents attacking U.S. troops near Baghdad. But where are these radicals getting their support to take on the American military machine?While much of the world blames Iran and Syria, evidence points to help coming from thousands of miles away.Ariel Cohen of the Heritage Foundation said, “Of course, we see a large number of small weapons turning up in Iraq in the hands of Hezbollah, and in other places in the Middle East - and, of course, we recognize that the source of many of these weapons, unfortunately, are the countries of the former Soviet Union.”One source is a pro-Russian regime in an area called Transnistria.It is a province of Moldova, a U.S. ally. But Transnistria declared itself a separate republic, and Moldova authorities exercise no control over this lawless region.“The regime is illegal — so, of course, to survive, they should maintain a shadow economy and shadow trade operations,” said Moldovan parliament spokesman Oleg Serebreneau.Part of the shadow trade is a continued stream of weapons that have fueled a worldwide Islamic insurgency.Serebreneau said, “We have another kind of terrorism, which is connected to the so-called Russian Mafia. The Russian Mafia is practically the former KGB.”Many former KGB operatives have become involved in organized crime. They live on money laundering, sex slavery, and arms trafficking.“In Soviet times,” Cohen said, “the Soviet KGB had connections with all kind of terror groups in the Middle East and these connections remain in place till this day.”Many of the trafficked arms are finding their way to Iraq and Islamic trouble spots via Transnistria.“Big stocks of arms, all the armament from the former German democratic republic and Czechoslovakia and the Soviet armament is located there,” Serebreneau said, “at a big depot in the north part of Transnistria.”CBN News got a look at a factory where weapons are being manufactured. International monitors have been denied access to the plant.Amnesty International reported that 200,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles were delivered to Iraqi insurgents last year on planes like this one.Cohen said, “There is a connection, but it is up to the intelligence community to track down specifically what kind of connections the Russian special services may have.”The weapons travel two main routes to the Middle East:By boat, they go through ports in the Ukraine, then to Syria and Iraq. By land, they eventually enter Turkey, where they cross the borders into Iraq or Syria.The U.S. is putting pressure on Iraq’s neighbors — mainly Syria, Turkey and Saudi Arabia — to stop the flow of weapons.Despite that effort, observers say that Russian support of the Transnistria regime is only helping to facilitate the arms trafficking.They say that more pressure from Russian President Vladimir Putin and the European Union could bring an end to the trafficking of arms to the Islamic insurgents — not just to benefit American troops, but to stop the bloodshed in the streets of Baghdad and build a better future for all Iraqis.
Friday, April 06, 2007
"MORE" - TERROR NEWS April 6th "MORE" TERROR NEWS IS BEING FREQUENTLY ADDED AS AN UPDATE TO THE DAILY TERROR NEWS POSTS.
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WHY NOT BOOKMARK IT IN YOUR FAVORITES?In this instance, it includes a Declaration from Libya designating North Africa a Shia region and followers of Fatima.VISIT THE TERROR NEWS PAGE FREQUENTLY AND BROWSE THE TITLES AND SELECTIVELY CHOOSE WHICH STORIES TO READ.
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SOME SPY MEMORIES & DAILY CHANGING HISTORY SITE
Some HISTORICAL spy "Memories"Hollow Silver dollar for secret messages:
https://www.cia.gov/cia/information/artifacts/dollar.htmMatchbox camera, used in WW2:
https://www.cia.gov/cia/information/artifacts/matchbox.htmMore history:
https://www.cia.gov/cia/information/artifacts/index.htm1953 Iran coup:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB28/index.htmlIndex of more historical reports:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/index.htmlInteresting HISTORICAL site, different each day:Today: Japanese evacuation 1942:
http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/Leon Trotsky and American admirers. Mexico, 1940
http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/index.html?dod-date=405Three Mile Island Accident:
http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/index.html?dod-date=404The first ride of the Pony Express began on April 3, 1860. The service would end in October 1861, with the advent of the transcontinental telegraph. And more photos of the American West...
http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/index.html?dod-date=403BOMBS, SCARES AND MORE
Catchbag story variety for browsing
ALSO CHECK OUT DAILY TERROR NEWS
on "Anti-Terror News" link below
http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/National:[San Francisco Chronicle] CALIFORNIA - Bomb found underneath Santa Cruz police car “unidentified officer found the explosive device about 8 a.m. underneath the black-and-white Santa Cruz patrol car parked in the officer’s driveway”
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/31/BAGTTOVK1I25.DTL[AP] OKLAHOMA - FBI Offers Reward In Bomb Scare“FBI on Friday offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person who placed an explosive device outside a Jewish temple last week in Muskogee”
http://www.kotv.com/news/topstory/?id=123922[News-Gazette] ILLINOIS - Russians arrested at Tilton DMV“the incident remains under investigation by the secretary of state police and the FBI”
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2007/03/30/russians_arrested_at_tilton_dmv[City news] CANADA - OPP investigate man portraying himself as police officer [At several hospitals]“He’s been to seven ERs within 24 hours and the real cops have no idea what his motive may be or where he got his hands on what looks to be a real uniform”
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_9298.aspxSee also
http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20070330/fake_officer_070330/20070330?hub=TorontoHomehttp://www.680news.com/news/local/article.jsp?content=20070330_171048_5068[Ynet] IRAN - IDF intelligence: Iran, Hizbullah preparing for possible US strike “Head of military intelligence says Iran, Syria and Hizbullah preparing for possible confrontation with US this summer”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3383787,00.html[UPI] USA - Military intelligence pulled from NCTC ops center“Three representatives of the Defense Intelligence Agency were withdrawn from the operations center last November”
http://www.upi.com/inc/view.php?StoryID=20070329-060337-4271r[AJC] GEORGIA - Suspicious chemicals found in Cobb
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/copbriefs/entries/2007.04.01.149227.html[Evening Sun] PENNSYLVANIA - Pipe bomb found at area reservoir
http://www.eveningsun.com/localnews/ci_5575844[Grand Rapids Press] MICHIGAN - Fire station evacuated after bomb scare
http://www.mlive.com/newslogs/grpress/index.ssf?/mtlogs/mlive_grandrapids/archives/2007_04.html#246856[KVUE] TEXAS - Suspicious letter found at Austin IRS building“after several IRS employees began experiencing respiratory problems after opening an envelope”
http://www.kvue.com/news/local/stories/040207kvueIRSbuilding-cb.25b4a5f2.html[St. Louis Post Dispatch] MISSOURI - Pipe bomb disarmed in Franklin County [Under bridge]“Authorities in Franklin County today disarmed a pipe bomb found under a bridge on Highway O in Catawissa”
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/laworder/story/6CE7E7D4D6FFA4A8862572B1006D1788?OpenDocument[Fayetteville Observer] NORTH CAROLINA - Report of suspicious man leads to store evacuation “someone reported seeing a man run away from a van parked outside the store”“caller said the man who ran from the van appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent”
http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=258835[AP] VIRGINIA - Students complain of irritant, hospitalized as precaution “Some folks experienced some type of signs or symptoms associated with a possible irritant in the air”
http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va-brf—sickstudents0403apr03,0,4315309.story?coll=dp-headlines-virginia[KOB TV] NEW MEXICO - Emergency preparedness trailer stolen in Albuquerque“The trailer contained training materials, including decontamination showers, personal protective equipment, training mannequins and a secure box of quarter-sized samples of plutonium, cesium and strontium”
http://www.kobtv.com/index.cfm?viewer=storyviewer&id=31440&cat=NMTOPSTORIES[Michelle Malkin] USA - Whitewashing Jihad In The Schools
http://www.vdare.com/malkin/070403_jihad.htm[CBC News ] CANADA - Crude bomb targets Montreal Jewish community centre“Montreal police are investigating a small bomb that exploded in front of the Ben Weider Jewish Community Centre on Tuesday night”
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2007/04/04/qc-benweider20070404.html[WGAL] PENNSYLVANIA - School Evacuated; 21 People Hospitalized [Cause unknown]“Officials said 21 people were hospitalized as a precaution. Of those, 19 were students. Those affected were treated for minor throat irritation, hyperventilating and anxiety”
http://www.wgal.com/news/11520194/detail.html[WBZ] MASS - 2 Boys Hurt Making Bomb From YouTube Video
http://wbztv.com/local/local_story_094105254.html[Reuters] VENEZUELA - British, German embassies evacuated in Venezuela“The British and German embassies in Venezuela were evacuated Monday from the building housing them both in Caracas after a bomb threat to the British embassy”
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnN02432957.html[Daily Star] BANGLADESH - Countrywide security alert“Security measures were stepped up and members of the law enforcement agencies have been asked to remain alert on suspicion of reprisal attacks from militant outfits”“An official of Parbatipur Railway Junction said law enforcers have been frisking passengers and checking their luggage at the station as well as in the carriages to pre-empt any subversive acts”
http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/03/31/d7033101085.htm[Kashmir Observer] INDIA - Grenade Attack on PDP Workers in Kishtwar“At least four persons, including two police personnel, were injured when suspected militants lobbed a hand grenade near Police Station Kishtwar”
http://www.kashmirobserver.com/index.php?id=2163[Los Angeles Times] IRAQ - Car bomb in Iraq kills five hospital visitors“As people flocked Saturday to a hospital in a Shiite Muslim district of the capital to visit loved ones injured in recent attacks, a car bomb tore through the crowd of well-wishers, killing five people and wounding two dozen others”
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/4678362.html[Reuters ] IRAQ - Tal Afar bomb killed 152, deadliest of war
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=141232&version=1&template_id=42&parent_id=18[Reuters] IRAN - Explosives rock British Embassy in Tehran“Iranian protestors shout “Death to Britain”, hurl stones and home-made explosive devices at embassy; no one hurt “
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3383823,00.html[Zee News] PAKISTAN - Militants pound Pak security forces with rockets“Earlier on Wednesday, the police recovered a rocket after an intelligence tip-off that was set to be fired at the Turbat Airport in the province”“The rocket was about to fire at the runway of the airport,” police said, adding that experts of the bomb disposal squad defused the rocket.”
http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=363339&archisec=SAS&archisubsec=[Sri Lanka Army] SRI LANKA - LTTE Suspect With Micro Pistol, Hand Grenade & Cyanide Arrested
http://www.army.lk/morenews.php?id=4891[AP] AFGHANISTAN - Suicide car bomb kills 5 civilians in eastern Afghanistan“A suicide car bomber blew himself up Sunday near an Afghan army convoy in eastern Afghanistan, killing five civilians and wounding six people, including five soldiers”
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/01/asia/AS-GEN-Afghan-Suicide-Blast.php[RIA Novosti] RUSSIA - Two persons injured in roadside bomb explosion in North Caucasus“Two persons have been injured after a self-made roadside bomb went off in Ingushetia in Russia’s troubled North Caucasus region”
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070401/62906816.html[The Peninsula] PAKISTAN / UZBEKISTAN - Pak tribesmen battle Uzbek Qaeda fighters“Al Qaeda-linked militants and Pakistani tribesmen fired rockets, mortar shells and automatic weapons yesterday in a region where officials say up to 177 people have been killed since last week”“Two children were killed overnight when a mortar bomb hit their home in Ghawakhawa, a village a few kilometres (miles) west of Wana, the main town in South Waziristan”
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World%5FNews&subsection=Pakistan+%26+Sub%2DContinent&month=April2007&file=World_News20070401114156.xml[Cyprus Mail] CYPRUS - Explosives find“A 45-Year-Old from Syria was arrested yesterday after he was found in possession of a bag full of explosives”“The explosives, described by police as “powerful enough to blow up a whole block”, were found well hidden in the house of the 45-year old’s wife. Half the explosive material found was TNT. A number of fire crackers and other illegal material were found”
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=31631&cat_id=1[Reuters] SOMALIA - Mogadishu under barrage of attacks“Mortar bombs crashed into central Mogadishu yesterday and Uganda said it had lost its first peacekeeper there as battles pitting Ethiopian and Somali troops against Islamist insurgents raged for a fourth day”
http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Somalia/10115327.html[Xinhua] SPAIN - Spain police arrest two more Basque militants
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-04/02/content_5922769.htm[Rediff] INDIA - Militants kill Congress leader“Late on Saturday night, militants shot and killed a senior ruling Congress party leader in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district”
http://ia.rediff.com/news/2007/apr/01jk.htm[AFP] THAILAND - Four Buddhists shot dead in southern Thailand“Suspected Islamic rebels shot dead four Buddhists while three others were injured in separate attacks in Thailand’s Muslim-majority south”
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/267688/1/.html[AFP] AMSTERDAM - Explosion vor Gerichtsgebäude in Amsterdam kurz vor Prozessbeginn [Several explosions near Amsterdam courts]
http://de.news.yahoo.com/02042007/286/kurzberichte-explosion-gerichtsgeb-ude-amsterdam-kurz-prozessbeginn.html[Asiantribune.com] FRANCE - LTTE establishments in Paris raided: 17 LTTE members including Parithy - Head of LTTE in France, arrested
http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/5176[Focus] SOMALIA - Car Bomb explodes in front of hotel in Mogadishu“There are casualties, but their exact number was not announced. Official government representatives were accommodated in the hotel”
http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n109245[Washington Post] IRAN - Former FBI Agent on Private Business in Iran Missing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/02/AR2007040200653.html?nav=rss_world[Reuters] IRAQ - Truck bomb in Iraq’s Kirkuk kills 12“A suicide truck bomb killed 12 people and wounded around 150 others in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Monday in the latest attack by insurgents using explosives-laden trucks”
http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-04-02T152548Z_01_PAR340730_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-IRAQ-COL.XML&archived=False[Daily Star] BANGLADESH - 9 more JMB militants held
http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/04/03/d70403013120.htm[Xinhua] THAILAND - Bomb attack maims policewoman in Thai South“A timing bomb planted under a policewoman’s car by Thai southern insurgents exploded before a police school in Thai southern province of Yala on Tuesday morning”
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-04/03/content_5929088.htm[AP] SERBIA - Trouble brewing as radicals rise up in Serbia’s Muslim-populated south“The discovery of a mountain cave packed with plastic explosives, masks and machine guns – and the recent arrests of men devoted to radical Islam – have fueled fears that extremists are trying to carve out a stronghold in this remote corner of Europe”
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070403-1020-serbia-riseoftheradicals.html[Dawn] PAKISTAN - Another music shop blown up in Kohat
http://www.dawn.com/2007/04/03/nat22.htm[AP] AFGHANISTAN - 13 Taliban militants, 1 police killed in violence in southern Afghanistan“and U.S.-led coalition forces killed at least 10 militants and captured two others during a search Tuesday of a suspected Taliban compound in volatile southern Afghanistan”
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/03/asia/AS-GEN-Afghan-Violence.php[AP] THAILAND - 5 killed by suspected Muslim militants in southern Thailand“Three policemen died in a gunbattle with suspected Muslim militants in southern Thailand on Tuesday “
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/03/asia/AS-GEN-Thailand-Southern-Violence.php[Radio Australia] INDONESIA - Suspected JI militants arrested in Indonesia“A group of suspected Muslim militants linked to Jemaah Islamiah have been arrested in a joint operation between Australian and Indonesian Police.One of the eight suspects arrested is believed to have been involved with the bombing of the Australian Embassy.The Australian Federal Police say the group had access to improvised bombs, explosives and high-powered weapons”
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/s1888998.htm[KUNA] PAKISTAN - Pakistani tribesmen kill six foreign militants near Afghan border
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1721301&Language=en[AP] PHILIPPINES - Rebels Attack Philippine Mining Company“In an early morning raid on Filminera Resources Corp. in Masbate province’s Aroroy town, 220 miles southeast of Manila, about 60 New People’s Army rebels disarmed guards and razed five buildings and heavy equipment. They left improvised land mines and grenades as they retreated”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17931449/for/cnbc/[Channel4.com] UNITED KINGDOM / IRAN - Blair: next 48 hours ‘critical’“Tony Blair says the next 48 hours are fairly critical as the Foreign Secretary warns there wouldn’t be a swift resolution to securing the release of 15 British sailors seized by Iran”
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/international_politics/blair+next+48+hours+critical/390247[AP] INDIA - Suspected rebels explode grenade in India’s remote northeast, wounding 12“A suspected rebel exploded a grenade in a crowded market in India’s troubled northeast on Tuesday, wounding 12 people
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/03/asia/AS-GEN-India-Rebel-Bombing.php[KUNA] IRAQ - Iraqi civilian, policeman killed, Qaeda leaders captured“At least one Iraqi policeman and a civilian were killed in two separate incidents in Kirkuk, northern Iraq, whereas police arrested two Qaeda leaders in Tal Afar western Al-Mosul and arrested four others”
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1721219&Language=en[Vcrisis.com] VENEZUELA - 31 US citizens arrested in Venezuela‘31 American citizens are kept incommunicado awaiting presidential orders, reported the source. It is believed that charges of spying or to be part of the CIA will be levied against them”
http://vcrisis.com/index.php?content=letters/200704031210[Xinhua] COLOMBIA - Two police officers killed in Colombia bomb attack
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-04/04/content_5931971.htm[New York Times] ISRAEL - Israel Kills Palestinian Who Was Planting a Bomb“Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man today who was attempting to plant explosives in the northern Gaza Strip”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/world/middleeast/04cnd-gaza.html?_r=1&oref=slogin[Kyodo News] THAILAND - Bomb attack on mosque in Thailand injures 14“At least 14 people were injured after unidentified assailants threw a small bomb into a mosque in Thailand’s southern province of Yala on Thursday morning”
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/402915SHOW TRIALS & CONVICTIONS GATHERING MOMENTUM
Is the crisis provoked by the capture of the British hostages part of a smokescreen for a crackdown on dissidents in Iran? The question is posed in Tehran as the establishment debates the future course of the regime's foreign and domestic policies. The crackdown is beginning to gather pace.Several publications critical of aspects of government policy have been closed down, and numerous officials regarded as "not revolutionary enough" elbowed out, especially in the provinces.And now the regime seems to be setting the stage for show-trials that recall the worst days of Stalinism in the Soviet Union.Last month a member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis), the regime's ersatz parliament, was sent to prison for six years on trumped up charges. The real guilt of Salaheddin Ala'i, however, was that he had criticized the brutal repression of dissidents in Iran's Kurdistan province. Next week, it would be the turn of Mostafa Tajzadeh, a former Deputy Interior Minister to stand trial on charges of undermining the security of the Khomeinist state. Tajzadeh is one of the most interesting figures of the establishment. A man with impeccable revolutionary credentials he has always insisted that the regime cannot ensure its future by silencing or murdering critics. Tajzadeh is expected to be followed by Muhammad-Reza Khatami, a brother of former President Muhammad Khatami. The younger Khatami also has an impressive revolutionary CV.In 1979, he was one of the two dozen or so "students" who raided the United States' Embassy in Tehran and seized its diplomats hostage. Later, he built a career with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and solidified his revolutionary credentials by marrying a granddaughter of Ruhallah Khomeini, the ayatollah who created the Islamic Republic. During his brother's presidency, Muhammad Reza acted as Deputy Speaker of the Majlis. And, yet, he too, is targeted by the new radical administration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and charged with "activities that undermine the Islamic system." Ahmadinejad believes that people like Ala'i, Tajzadeh and Muhammad-Reza Khatami represent clear dangers for the regime if only because they insist that the authorities should obey the laws set by the regime itself. In Ahmadinejad's worldview, however, a revolutionary regime cannot be bound by any law simply because it stands outside the normal framework of history. According to dissent sources in Tehran, the regime's security apparatus is preparing show trials for scores of others. The principal targets of the looming purge are the many thousands of educated middle class elements who joined the Khomeinist revolution because of a misunderstanding. Ahmadinejad calls them "the half-pregnant ones", people who pretend to be revolutionaries but crave for a comfortable, Western-style bourgeois life. Ahmadinejad's supporters speak of a "third revolution" which, in practice, would amount to a purge of dissidents within the establishment. Many actual or would-be dissidents have already left Iran for what they hope would be temporary exile in Europe or the United States. They include a dozen former ministers and hundreds of lesser functionaries and apologists. If the looming crackdown gathers pace, they may be joined by thousands more. To prepare the ground for his "third revolution", Ahmadinejad has worked on three schemes. First, he has radicalized the political discourse. Under his two predecessors, Hashemi Rafsanjani and Muhammad Khatami, the regime had gradually changed its vocabulary by abandoning the revolutionary terminology and borrowing terms of ordinary politics. The two mullah-presidents often spoke of economic development, the rule of law, civil society, and a dialogue of civilizations. Worse still, they allowed some space for non-revolutionary, not to say overtly counter-revolutionary, expression in such fields as art, cinema and literature. Both mullahs did close hundreds of newspapers and magazines and did imprisoned scores of critics. They also presided over the murder of numerous real or imagined opponents. What they never did, however, was to target the regime's own children. They divided Iranians into two categories: "khodi" (our own) and "biganeh" (outsider). The "khodi" were allowed great latitude to criticize the regime. Rafsanjani and Khatami also used some" khodi" critics as safety valves to reduce tension in society. The "biganeh", however, were allowed no space for expression. Their writings were black listed by the Ministry of Islamic Guidance and Culture, and their names banned from the media or used only in vilification campaigns. When they were perceived as too much of a threat, they "biganeh" be murdered, their corpses thrown in the streets, as was the case under President Khatami. The radicalization of discourse under Ahmadinejad makes it hard for the "half-pregnant" to speak with a forked tongue. They are no longer able to pretend that one could have a revolution without oppressing opponents or becoming involved in a confrontation with non-revolutionary, not to say counter-revolutionary powers. Khatami was able to tour the world, speaking of a dialogue of civilizations while allowing no dialogue inside Iran. Ahmadinejad recognizes the fact that a revolution is, primarily, a monologue, not to say a soliloquy addressed to itself. Ahmadinejad's second scheme is aimed at linking criticism of the system with foreign powers. In the decisions to close newspapers or put "khodi" figures on trial, the authorities drop hints about illicit relations with "foreign enemies of Islam." This amounts to a return to classical revolutionary lore in which no one can be an honest critic of a revolutionary regime. Anyone who criticizes a revolutionary regime must be a lackey or agent of a foreign enemy. Perhaps the most important scheme of Ahmadinejad is to revive the regime's pretension of sacredness. He has restored the concept of the "Hidden Imam" to its central position within the Khomeinist doctrine. The concept was pure fiction from the start, and virtually all leaders of the Islamic Republic quickly realized that retaining it posed insurmountable theo-political problems. This is why the "Hidden Imam" was given a back seat under Rafsanjani and Khatami, despite the fact that both are Shi'ite clerics.By restoring the "Hidden Imam", Ahmadinejad makes it impossible for anyone to claim that Shi'ism, let alone Islam as a whole, admits of a wide range of interpretations. In this version of the Khomeinist doctrine, Islam is equated with Shi'ism, Shi'ism with the "Hidden Imam", and the "Hidden Imam" with the Khomeinist regime.The "half pregnant" had hoped that the "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenehi might, at some point, step in to restrain Ahmadinejad and allow some of the " khodi" to play dissident for the benefit of the regime. Earlier this month, however, Khamenehi, in his Iranian New Year message, paid glowing tribute to Ahmadinejad, and endorsed his strategy. The " half-pregnant" are forced to choose between becoming full-blown revolutionaries and joining the counter-revolution.
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
TWO "GOOD READS" ARTICLES ON OTHER PAGES and Farsi Video
Article and "photo" of Michael Moore and his lies found out by film makers doing a documentary about him!
http://alanpetersgraphics.blogspot.com/2007/03/michael-moore-outed.htmlDEFENCE & FOREIGN Affairs April 03/07
http://alanpetersnewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2007/04/defense-foreign-affairs-analysis.htmlArrest of Iran national Team Footballer Mehrdad Minavand for being at a party.
http://farsiposts.blogspot.com/2007/04/arrest-of-iran-footballer-mehrdad.htmlMonday, April 02, 2007
WAKE UP AMERICA! STOP YOUR ISLAMIC ENEMY
Alan note: The Nancy Pelosis, the Reids, the Murthas, the Kerrys. the Kennedys, the idiots who prefer to attack Bush than the enemy, wake up!Most of those opposing the Iraq war were not alive or too young to remember World War II, so cannot learn a lesson from it other than intellectually as a historical event. Hitler and the Nazis are catchwords with little significance and fail to paint a picture of the determined extermination conducted by them. In those days the holocaust addressed mostly the Jews.And inexperienced emotions override what their brains do not even know and thus cannot insert into the equation. That the Islamic Jihadists have added all Christianity to those proscribed and meriting death.The Jews are still the key targets of Islamic hate but not far below are Christians - of whatever denomination or creed - so are you and I as people - of whatever belief - if it is not a blind devotion to Allah. As interpreted in multiple degrees of form and intensity by a flock of competing Imams, themselves divided by their differing application of core beliefs.The average Joe Sixpack American cannot shake the belief that if we treat the terrorists, in Iraq or Iran or anywhere else, as we would our own neighbors, they would respond to our kindness and let us leave Iraq - and then LEAVE US IN PEACE to lead our lives as we used to.This misplaced naivete fuels support for the liberal left wingers, who rely on this simplicity of their adherents and lack of interational grounding within the average American, to present their case as if we were dealing with others like themselves.The story below gets deemed an abberation, an exception - lambasted by Islamist propaganda that their religion is one of peace and we are maligning them by even bringing it to the attention of our people.Not so. Islam insists that all of us either become Moslems, follow the Koran's Sharia (religious) law or die at their hand. As apostates - for whom the Koran decrees death.Optionally we can sometimes continue to live at their mercy by paying continual (not a one time) extortion payment to them - or as the Koran terms it, a "head tax".Almost all of us are old enough, however, to remember the Khomeini Islamic revolution in Iran. Setting aside the apologetic and invalid blaming of America for restoring the throne to the Shah after Mossadegh, the Shah's Prime Minister, usurped power and tried to deliver Iran to the Soviets - something the West and specially America could not accept nor tolerate - any more than accept a nuclear Ahmadi-Nejad, the aftermath of the 1979 revolution, which threw the country to the Mullahs, can be used as a yard stick.Unless they have joined the loonies, no sane person can say the Iranian people are better off today - after nearly 30-years of Islamic rule, than they were under the very worst of conditions under the Shah or his much maligned "dictatorial" rule.Compared to the Mullahs' oppression, torture and trampling of all rights, not just human rights or women, his "dictatorship" was Mother Theresa.Like the Democrats and the Hollyweirdos are doing to America today, the Soviets and Jimmy Carter did to Iran what is now being done to America. They used the lack of educated knowledge or experience of the naive Iranian populace, their inability to compare their improved lifestyles - financially and politically - under the Shah, both to what they had had in the previous past and what Khomeini would bring.To gain support, Khomeini promised each family free water, electricity, phones, a free house, free color TV, a free locally made automobile and a share of the oil revenue to entice revolt against the Shah. Supporters (as do the Democrats today symbolically) showed the gullible people his face on the moon.Transparencies of his image, stuck onto cheap telescopes, were used to show Allah was in full support of this British-Indian national - with not a drop of Iranian blood in his veins.And a totally Sunni grounding from his fanatical "wahabbi" father as opposed to the Shia country he would snatch out of the mouth of the Soviet surrogates the Marxist-Islamist Mojaheddin and throw to the incompetent hands of the Ayatollahs.When not enough people came into the streets he had to revert to putting money into the half sandwiches he distributed as "lunch" for those who came to demonstrate for him. Numbers increased once this became known.We in America are facing a "khomeini" type disinformation campaign aimed at Bush by Democrats like Pelosi and Reid(as was Democrat Carter's against the Shah), pushed by left wingers and Communists who revel in the thought of the downfall of America, egged on by the new Communist regimes in Latin America, plus Islamic agents throughout the USA, Canada and Europe.Some half a million radical Islamists are reportedly spread around the world to create death, damage and destruction when called upon to do so.Like the Iranians, who believed the false promises of Khomeini, our general population WANTS to believe in Pelosi's promises that all will be well and peaceful if only we withdraw our troops from Iraq. And bloodthirsty Islamists will go about their business and no longer try to kill or harm us :infidels". After all they are very religious and their religion os one of peace. And we would not do such a thing, would we, so why believe they would?Believe that and I have a bridge to sell you.For God's sake people, wake up before it's too late. Or before, like the Islamic revolution in Iran, the harm done is irreversible and not only you but your children and grandchildren will rue the day you were not intelligent enough to see the truth of what is being said here.Or that the story below truly describes the general, merciless mindset of what you will face if you do not stop the Islamic cancerous "infection" of your and all Western life as we know it.It's not Bush you have to stop. He is trying to protect all of us - despite those of us who really have no notion of what we are doing to ourselves. Emotionally driven instead of knowledgable. Republicans, annoyed by various aspects of the Bush administration voted non-republican tickets or not at all. The worst of Bush was not as bad as what became the result. Certainly from a Republican point of view.Doing the same with the Islamic situation will make the worst of Bush appear to be heaven regardless of your political party. Democrats are seemingly so hate filled, their emotions prevent them from even considering the result of their actions. The unforeseen consequences, so far from anything they can visualize or imagine that it sounds like a hallucination.Ask about ninety percent (90%) of Iranians inside Iran today if what they and their parents inflicted on them is better than what they had before the revolution. You will get an unanimous "no!". Despite 60% of them not having been born during the time of the Shah. Their parents have described and bemoaned the negative changes under Mullah rule.The same answer applies and will apply to ALL OF US here if we do not stop our anti-Bush hissy-fit and get real and not listen to "Islam is a religion of peace" pipe dreams and "the terrorists will leave us alone if we leave their countries" and "it's all our fault anyway".The story of Islamic reaction to a Christian toddler is a window into what to expect. You have now been warned.What you bring on your own head is now your own fault.Not Bush's - nor anyone but YOU.Iraq: Jihadists behead, roast Christian toddlerBehold the real evil of the enemy.Savagery in the name of obedience to Allah.From “We must not let this ancient Church slide into oblivion,” by Ed West in the Catholic Herald (thanks to all who sent this in):“When they cook a dish in the Middle East, it is traditional to putthe meat on top of the rice when they serve it. They kidnapped a woman’s baby in Baghdad, a toddler, and because the mother was unable to pay the ransom, they returned her child – beheaded, roasted and served on a mound of rice.”The infant’s crime was to be an Assyrian, but this story, reported by the Barnabus Fund, went unnoticed in the West, like so many other horrific accounts of Christian persecution in Iraq. Since the invasion of Iraq, Muslim militants have bombed 28 churches and murdered hundreds of Christians.Last October, Islamists beheaded a priest in Mosul in revenge for the Pope’s remarks about Islam at Regensburg. But never let it be said that jihadis do not have a sense of ironic humour: that same month they crucified a 14-year-old Christian boy in Basra.www.jihadwatch.org
INTERESTING ISLAMIC "SPIN OFF" RIVALRY IN EUROPE
Police fired water cannons and skirmished with up to 250 youths after a Kurdish community centre in Brussels was set on fire, police said.Alan note: obviously Islam in not monolithic and rivalries, tensions and even hatred exist among the various sects, denominations and believers. The Kurdish v. Turkish incident may be a portent of clashes that will follow after Islam takes over Europe. Interesting, though many of us may not be around to observe it.The fire caused damage early on Sunday to the building in a district where there is tension between Kurdish and Turkish residents, a police spokesman said.Spokesman Johan Verleyen said a small group of Kurds gathered at the centre and were attacked by a group of youths.Police attempted to keep the two groups separated and were themselves attacked by the youths, who threw metal bars and bottles, Verleyen said. Seven were arrested.Verleyen did not identify the ethnicity of the youths but the Belgian news agency said they were Turkish."It is well known there is tension between the Turks and the Kurds, both of whom live in the area," Verleyen said.An estimated 12 to 15 million Kurds live in Turkey, mainly in the southeast of the country where Turkish security forces have been battling separatist rebels for more than two decades in a conflict that has claimed more than 30,000 lives.Turkey has eased some restrictions on the Kurdish language and culture as part of its efforts to join the European Union. But Brussels says Ankara needs to do more to boost freedom of expression.
Sunday, April 01, 2007
"MOB" Stones British Embassy in Tehran
Do you know why it's called April FOOL Day?
Just look at the Photo below
Also, the other "F" word sends you to Rehab
Though so applicable here!
About 200 "rent-a-crowd" government employees
showed up.
In another "spontaneous" anti-British demonstration
photos show about EIGHT people showed up!
Though they did carry placards! Wow!!
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Tomorrow is the Persian "Sizdeh Bedar" which basically means "ridding yourself of bad luck" (throwing out the unlucky 13).People go into the countryside on picnics and have customs like unmarried girls tying a knot in grass to ensure finding and keeping a husband. Also wheat grass grown by families over the New Year March 20/21) is thrown in to flowing water to carry away the previous year. Though originally it was placed in dry areas to entice rain.
By the way - For Persian Farsi speakers go to MY Video or MultiLingual PAGES (links in left column) to watch Ahmadi-Nejad have a chat with his wife!
Saturday, March 31, 2007
TERRORIST RETALIATION PLANS UNDER PREPARATION
Update on Muslims and our school busesMore information about Islamic Jihads plans on using our School Buses in terrorist activities in our country.Homeland Security: As Democrats hold more silly hearings to embarrassRepublicans, the FBI is warning local police to be alert for Muslimextremists hijacking school buses. Reality check, please.We wonder if any of the grandstanding politicians on Capitol Hill arethinking in terms of one of these nuts driving a fertilizer-filled yellow bus up to a government building — or, easier yet, a school.Of course not. They're too busy swooning over Valerie Plame to even notice we're still under threat from the Islamic terrorists they say we shouldn't be spying on.The FBI and Homeland Security Department last week sent out a bulletin to law enforcement across the country warning that Muslims with "ties to extremist groups" are signing up to be school bus drivers. They also noted "recent suspicious activity" by foreigners who drive schoolbuses or are licensed to drive them.Recent events come on top of several other school bus-related incidents involving Mideast men that raise suspicion of terror activity.They include last year's surprise boarding of a school bus in Florida by two Saudi men dressed in trench coats. Authorities suspect theywere making a dry run to see how easy it would be to hijack or blow upa school bus filled with American children.Previously, an Arab man from Detroit was caught trying to obtain a job as a school bus driver in New York using fake Social Security documents.Authorities fear the school massacre that took place in Beslan, Russia, in 2004 may be a dress rehearsal for what al-Qaida plans to do here. Chechen terrorists tied to al-Qaida seized a building in Beslanon the first day of school and slaughtered 338, including 172 kids.Three years later, schools and local police in this country are still unprepared to deal with such an assault. Most don't have response plans for handling a single active shooter, let alone a cell of trained terrorists.Yet terror cells secreted inside America may be planning to use buses as a Trojan horse to infiltrate school campuses and murder students and teachers. Floor plans for schools in Virginia, Texas and NewJersey have been recovered from terrorist hands in Iraq.Videotapes confiscated in Afghanistan show al-Qaida terrorists practicing the takeover of a school.Simultaneous attacks on schools in multiple states would follow Osama bin Laden's goal of crippling the U.S. economy. (And fit with Iran's retaliation plans should we attack them - as appears more and more likely).If multiple schoolswere hit, parents would drop out of the work force en masse to protect their children.A prolonged labor disruption would cost businesses billions of dollars in lost revenue.It's a grim picture. But don't think for a moment that al-Qaeda is above targeting school children. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said in his Gitmo confession that while he may not like killing kids, they're fair game in jihad.(Remember the hits on school children in Iraq and their slaughter, including stopping their buses and machine gunning occupants who were froma different sect than the gunment).He claims U.S. forces bombed and killed the children of bin Laden's top deputy, Ayman Zawahiri, and arrested and "abused" his own children.These people have nothing better to do than sit around and think of ways to kill us and our most precious resource, our children. They have many helpers placed inside U.S. cities who canvass targets and perform other logistics for such attacks. And these people will stop at nothing to pull them off. They're just waiting for the right time,when our guard is down.Are we witnessing Muslim men trying to obtain bus licenses what some alert (but ignored) agents witnessed before 9/11 when they noticed a number of Muslim men training to obtain pilot's licenses?Are schools and children the target of the next wave of terror attacks?Parents should be outraged that teh Democrats in Washington would continue to play politics with national security. Instead of using hearings to score partisan points, Congress would best serve constituents by using that power to investigate the terror threat to schools and how best to protect our children from attack. (And the rest of us).Don't Let The Memory Of The 9/11 "Pilot Students" Drift Away EXTREMISTS are Buying School Buses (and Ambulance type vehicles)An FBI bulletin stated. "Foreigners under recent investigation include "some with ties to extremist groups" who have been able to "purchase buses and acquire licenses." There is a very important fact that is not getting the attention it needs in the Extremists Driving School Buses in the USA story, the general impression all the news commentators have is that the 'extremists" are just getting school bus drivers licenses to work for a school, no they are buying the school buses for as little as $1,205.00, and they are saying they are for personal use!
This fact leads me back to the Muslims who are buying these used car/trucks. The dealers involved in buying such vehicles at the auto auctions around the USA, say you must have a vehicle dealer license to purchase such vehicles at auction and the auction is the main source for such sales.In the Tampa, Florida News it cited one such incident of a Muslim making such a purchse, it stated, "Upon running the used car dealer, Abdalla, for wants and drivers license information from Police Dept communications center, it was revealed that Abdalla Deiab was a know(n) affiliate of a terrorist organization and should be approached with caution." DUH!!Abdalla Deiab was buying used cars, vans, buses and ambulances at Auto Auctions all over the State of Florida, he used at least 4 Social Security Numbers with the last four numbers almost in sequence.* Lilly B* OfflineOh my God. I never even dreamed of such a thing. What a terrible thought. Our government needs to get it's priorities in order.
"DISGUSTING???" SURGE IN BILLIONAIRES DISGUSTING????Long article/rant by a clearly peeved Communist. Worth the read for some of the statistical information.
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Friday, March 30, 2007
GREAT READS
Direct Links to three longer but important articles posted to NEWS VIEWS to keep the Home Page somewhat less cluttered.CLICK ON EACH TO READ ARTICLES
Iran's Suicide BrigadesSecret Service ProblemsTerrorist InfiltratorsBLOOD SPURTS OUT OF SEWER ONTO WORKER CLICK ON TITLE TO GO TO STORY AND VIEW NEWS VIDEO
Thursday, March 29, 2007
China Controlling American Leftist Talking Points
MUST READ - MUST READ - MUST READAre the Liberal Democrats and wacko leftists simply following or being paid to enact Chinese policies? Do I sound nuts, too?Read the article:
http://alanpetersnewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2007/03/china-openly-claimed-credit-for-911.htmlposted on News Views about how two Chinese Colonels published a book with the description of the World Trade Center attack, using Ben Laden's name, THREE YEARS before the attack happened.Their assymetric anti-American tactics are now the talking points of the anti-Bush, anti-war crowd.Coincidence?
Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP)
Specially for Iran's buried sites.Specifications Weight, total 13,600 kg [30,000 lb]Weight, explosive 2,700 kg [6,000 lb]Length 6 m [20 feet]Diameter ??Control short-span wings and trellis-type tailPenetration60 meters [200 feet] through 5,000 psi reinforced concrete40 meters [125 feet] through moderately hard rock8 meters [25 feet] through 10,000 psi reinforced concretePlatforms B-52, B-2Guidance GPS aided INSSchedule2005 - Refine MOP concept and begin detailed weapon development and testing2005 - statically emplaced Proof-of Principle test of payload effectiveness2006 - static lethality demonstration against hard and deeply buried targets2006 - scaled penetration and lethality testing2007 - Conduct Massive Ordnance Penetrator Demonstration2007 - full-scale performance demonstration against realistic hard and deeply buried targets
IRAN??While complete physical destruction may be desired, for some hard and deeply buried targets this effect isn't practicable with current weapons and employment techniques. It may be possible, however, to deny or disrupt the mission or function of a facility. Functional defeat is facilitated through better data collection and intelligence preparation against the potential targets. The defeat process includes finding and identifying a facility, characterizing its function and physical layout, determining its vulnerabilities to available weapons, planning an attack, applying force, assessing damage, and, if necessary, suppressing reconstitution efforts and re-striking the facility. New more lethal defeat options for Hard and Deeply Buried Targets (HDBTs) like the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, that can overwhelm target characterization uncertainties, are being developed and demonstrated to provide a 10x increase in weapon lethality and improved penetration capability compared to inventory weapons.
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