Take note that, there are a million of these sites. I have no idea of the legitimacy of this one or any of them. Neither does anyone else. The intelligence networks of the USA follows this mess to try to discern some information regarding movements and attempts at attacks against the USA and it's interests abroad. This is simply an example of the kind of violence Islamic militants are capable of breeding indiscriminantly throughout the world. How is it the people of the USA don't 'buy into' this mess while so many others globally do? Why are foreign nationals within the USA swayed to believe they can succeed in attacks? Where in American culture have Americans witnessed the 'ideal of violence?' Oklahoma City? Why? What was the gripe?
In my opinion. When it comes to Musharraf's ability to stop terrorist networks within Pakistan, it has to be accompanied by a resolution to the conflict in Kashmir. Anywhere in Islam when unrest is brewed by conflict it serves to keep governments in upheaval. A quality of life cannot ensue so long as violence is the cornerstone to culture. That is true of Islam in it's entirety, not just where the USA is involved. The key to 'stability' in the Middle East is the presence of governments that proliferate the religion of Allah and Mohammad while stopping the 'self persecution' of impoverished individuals willing to proclaim themselves martyrs to a cause. Jihadists.
The Middle East is in chronic upheaval and has been for centuries. When The West became involved because of it's need for cheap oil and fast cars the culture of violence was translated into attacks against The West right along with the Middle East exports.
In order for The West to continue it's 'oil based economy' it had/has to find common ground with the Middle East. How long has it been now? How many decades? Have we seen movement into that 'concept' of Peace among nations?
I haven't. I don't believe I ever will.
Kashmir in a death trap of landmines (click here)
New Delhi/Srinagar, June 25 (IANS) A huge population in the frontier villages of Jammu and Kashmir continues to be caught in a death trap of landmines since 2002, bearing the brunt of a war that was never fought.
A major troops build-up by India and Pakistan in early 2002, after the December 2001 attack on the Indian parliament, led to one of the biggest mine-laying operations in the world in recent years. Around 200,000 landmines are believed to have been planted in the Jammu region along the international border and the Line of Control (LoC) - the de facto boundary dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
But defence spokesman Lt. Col. V.K. Mathur was reluctant to share the "classified" information related to the exact area covered with mines.
"That is not for public consumption. It's a defence secret and strategically not to be disclosed," Mathur told IANS.
However, according to unofficial estimates, around 16,000 acres of land in Jammu region and 173,000 acres in Kashmir are covered by these remnants of a battle that never was. About 150,000 families had to be displaced from their villages in Jammu before India and Pakistan committed to peace in 2004.
Three years since the two countries agreed to a ceasefire, the burden of their hostile past continues to haunt the villagers living close to the LoC even though the army claims to have de-mined 80 percent of the area near the international border.
The villagers continue to live away from their homes and if they dare to visit their fields, they face the wrath of explosives.
Last week more than 200 landmines exploded along the LoC in Poonch district of the Jammu division, burning stray cattle and causing havoc in the area.
Kashmir leader attacked (click here)
Policemen carry the Chairman of Jammu Kashmir Salvation Movement Zaffar Iqbal after Shiv Sena activists did not allow him to conduct a press conference in Jammu on Sunday.
Jammu: Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Salvation Movement (JKSM) Zaffar Iqbal, which is affiliated to the All Party Hurriyat Conference, was on Sunday injured after he was allegedly attacked by Shiv Sena activists. The movement is affliated to the All Party Hurriyat Conference.
Around 30 Sena activists stormed into a press conference organised by Mr. Iqbal in the Jammu Press Club at around 2 p.m. police said. The activists disrupted the event and physically manhandled the JKSM chief, who later fell unconscious. They however refrained from attacking Mr. Iqbal’s associates Tahir Parvez Bhat and Javed Ahmed Wani, who were accompanying him.
Mr. Iqbal’s two personal security officers did not intervene to save him when he was being manhandled, police said. The Sena activists also damaged microphone and furniture of the hall. Mr. Iqbal was later taken to the Jammu Medical College Hospital, they added. — PTI
Where there is opportunity for violence in Islam there are terrorists ready to carry out atrocities with all the funding they need from sympathizers and drug networks. The West has to stop diluting itself over the 'welcomeness' of democracy versus service to Allah. Peace in the Middle East, and I don't care if one looks to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Algiers, Iran or India, means a commitment of assets to the exclusive task of war. Israel knows that and is chronically under attack by militants that find their purpose in life in serving Allah in violence.
No end of violence till solution of Kashmir issue: Hizbul (click here)
Posted June 25th, 2007 by Indian-Muslim
Indian Muslim
SRINAGAR, June 24 (NNN-PTI) -- Declaring that it will not shun violence and enter into dialogue process, pro-Pakistan Hizbul Mujahideen has said that the gun will "hang on the shoulders" of its cadres till resolution of the Kashmir issue.
"Gun alone can lead to resolution of Kashmir issue and it cannot be given up without any solution," Hizbul's operational commander Ghazi Misbaudin told a local news agency.
To the offers of talks given by the Centre and Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, provided they shun violence, Misbaudin said "we will never accept the condition to shun the gun and then join the dialogue process".
Azad had ruled out talks with militants wielding guns. He said on several occasions ever since he took charge of chief ministership that militants should lay down arms first and join the dialogue process.
Kindly take note of this:
11 SOG Personnel injured in IHK Blast (click here)
Monday June 25, 2007 (1021 PST)
SRINAGAR: In occupied Kashmir, at least eleven personnel of Special Operations Group (SOG) were injured in an improvised explosive device blast on Srinagar-Bandipora highway on Sunday, reports Kashmir Media Service.
The incident took place when a bulletproof vehicle carrying SOG personnel ran over the explosive device at Maloora on the outskirts of Srinagar. The vehicle was completely damaged.
Unidentified gunmen barged into the house of a 22-year-old civilian Abdul Hamid and shot him dead at Kuddhar in Doda.
In Kangan, the Indian Central Reserve Police Force personnel during military operations barged into the house of one Abdul Gani Butt at Cheerwan and attempted to molest his deaf and dumb daughter Mubeena Akhtar. The girl resisted and managed to attract the attention of the villagers. The villagers rushed to the spot and raised hue and cry.
A large number of villagers came out of their homes and from nearby fields as the news spread like wild fire across the locality and raised pro-liberation and anti-India slogans. The protestors blocked the area road and demanded immediate shifting of military camp from the area.
In another incident of violence, Indian army agents in civvies barged into a house of an Advocate Raja Anees Ali at Kathidarwaza in Srinagar and beat up the advocate and his family members.
What makes anyone believe the experiences of members of Islam is any different in impoverished areas anywhere? In circumstances like this whereby there is no clear right or wrong, where is all this going? 'I hit you. You hit me.' No matter the authority involved there is always some kind of violence against that entity and there ain't a darn thing anyone is going to do about it.
Kashmir is a 'threat' to the USA and it's interests in that it causes Pakistan to continue to harbor and propagate terrorists. Yet, no one in DC gives a hoot or holler about assisting the 'allies' to defeat of the terrorists there because both Pakistan and India are considered allies and each blame each other for the violence.
Hello?
Is Kashmir any different than the conflict in Iraq? I don't think so. There is mass anarchy resulting in propagation of terrorists resulting in indiscriminant violence. What are Americans afraid of? Being attacked again. To that end, the Republican Spin machine has propagated a monster out of Islam.
