(SomaliNet) Abdi Hassan Awale known as Qeybdid former warlord in the collapsed antiterror alliance funded by the US government ... and we didn't get our money's worth, that's for sure...
said on Monday that he would not make any reprisal of the past conflict in Mogadishu. Having been revealed as a pretty daggone inept warlord...
Mr Qaybdid returned to Mogadishu after six months in the jungle after he lost hist turf to the powerful islamic Courts. Mounting concern looms over the return of the warlords in the capital. "Tar?"
"Check."
"Feathers?"
"Check."
"Rope?"
"Check."
"Y'know, my concern's mounting over whether those guys are gonna show up again."
"Mine, too."
Mr. Qeybdid made the statement in a press conference held today in Mogadishu. I have no intention to revenge against the remnants of Islamists in the capital or elsewhere in the country. Mr. Qeybdid pointed out that the fighting went between the transitional government and the powerful Islamic Courts to keep foreign jihadists off the country. The fight against terror has no impact on any clan, family or settlement and I am calling for Somali people to support the government operations of restoring peace and stability in the country, said Qeybdid.
He said he has no post in the transitional federal government but he was working with it in the fight against Islamist radicals in the country. It is more important for the Somali people to drop weapons that might endanger our lives. Right now, I myself do not want any weapon, I have lost 46 war vehicles to Islamists, I have seen my vehicles in Bandiredley, Adado and Dhuso-mareb towns in central Somalia and I dont care about them, Qeybdid, former police chief said adding that anyone who holds these battle wagons should hand over to the government otherwise they will face punishments.
Col. Qeybdid also raised in his news conference about the recent protests by the women and children which he said was organized by particular people who want political posts. Any one who wants a post should seek job in the government by peaceful means, he said.
Mr. Qeybdid who showed symptoms of sympathy urged the people of Mogadishu to open all the schools and universities and forget about all bad events in the past 16 years. He said that he is on the offensive to no one in the capital but the people should choose the peace and the time for warlords has ended already. The country is in process of reconciliation spearheaded by the transitional government.
His remarks came as the Ethiopian backed government forces are chasing down the Islamist group, which lost their last outposts in southern Somalia. The ordinary people in the capital worry about the return of the warlords to the city as problem to the peace and stability in the country but this time the warlords seem to have no role in the current politics.
Already, some of the revived warlords revealed that they gave up acts of warlordsim and offered an amnesty to all the Islamists fighters promising to work with the government over establishing the security and normalcy in the country.
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"No, seriously, I won't do nothin' to 'em. Pay no attention to the crossed behind my back. Seriously!"
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(SomaliNet) Egypt has condemned the execution of former Iraq president, Saddam Hussein on Eid day, a day for celebrations amongst Muslims worldwide.
Egypt regrets the fact that the Iraqi authorities carried out the execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, and that it took place on the first day of Eid al-Adha.
"Egypt regrets the fact that the Iraqi authorities carried out the execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, and that it took place on the first day of Eid al-Adha," Egypts Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Alaa al-Hadidi said. "Things like that just make Hosni's neck itch, if y'know whuddamean."
He said that Saddams execution to coincide with such a holy day shows a disregard for the Muslim societys feelings. "We hope that the execution of the former president at this time... will not lead to more deterioration in the situation and inflame the spirit of revenge, instead of efforts to ensure Iraqi unity," Hadidi said.
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The egyptians have been sucking the yankee tit for so long and still dont get it
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Abraham was told to sacrifice Issac to show what God would do for man by offering HIS Son for sacrifice. Saddam was sacrificed to show that no man is above either God's law or man's law. I see nothing "sacriligious" in that. In fact, it seems pretty fitting.
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OP, a minor quibble, except for the fact that according to "Fohammad" it was Ishmael and not Issac. I understand your main point though. I think the iraqi's need to tell the egyptian's to stfu, none of their damn business, they need to worry about un-f*cking their own pathetic country before pointing fingers at iraq.
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OP, a minor quibble, except for the fact that according to "Fohammad" it was Ishmael and not Issac. I understand your main point though. I think the iraqi's need to tell the egyptian's to stfu, none of their damn business, they need to worry about un-f*cking their own pathetic country before pointing fingers at iraq.
MUSCAT The Saturday morning execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein continued to be the main topic of discussion on Muscats streets and elsewhere in the city yesterday.
Being a public holiday on account of Eid Al Adha, all offices and establishments were closed, but that did not stop animated debates wherever people got together, such as shopping malls, restaurants and coffee shops. And as expected, there were broadly two, albeit diametrically opposite, views one wholly supporting the late leader and the other staunchly criticising him.
Meanwhile, there was no mention of Saddams execution in yesterdays editions of the state-owned Oman daily in Arabic and its sister English paper Oman Daily Observer.
"Effendi, what shall we write about the Saddam hanging?"
"What have we been ordered to write?"
"Um, nothing, effendi!"
"There's your answer!"
There was no official explanation yesterday, but it is assumed that the two papers did not want to run reports of the killing along with Saturdays Eid celebrations.
The privately-owned Oman Tribune too decided to play it down. The paper carried a single-column, three-paragraph story on the front page, and another, with a little more details, inside, accompanied by two pictures.
The Times of Oman, also privately-run, splashed the news on its front page with photos. It also devoted an entire page to the execution and worldwide reactions to it inside with several pictures.
"What did our competitors write?"
"Nothing, effendi, nothing!"
"Excellent! Order up an extra printing! Lots of pictures! We'll call it a 'collector's edition'!"
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Havent heard a peep from the nutjobs who will say Saddam wasn't actually hung yet. But I have no doubt that it's comming.
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I'd be surprised if the "wholly supporting the late leader" faction was all that big in Muscat. Spent some time there during a break - seemed like the most normal, sophisticated and relaxed Arab country there is. Given their healthy and understandable disdain for much of the Arab world's pathologies, I wouldn't guess there are many who bought into Sunni Arab paranoia and chauvinism of the sort that would find Sammy's demise something to care about.
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BigJim: I was reading a Seattle paper blog the day of the rope party and about comment #15 was the obligatory "one of his doubles was hung so Bush could torture unhindred for the real WMD story."
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Yup, the next topic of discussion in the Muslim world will be either (1) Saddam wasn't really hanged at all, he escaped (2) Saddam has risen from the dead & will return as soon as the Mahdi comes out of his well or (3) both (1) and (2).
You read it on Rantburg first!
A FRENCH court ruled on Tuesday that an organisation with far-right links can continue offering pork soup to the homeless, rejecting police complaints that the food distribution was racist.
Police banned the soup kitchen last month, arguing that the handouts discriminated against Jews and Muslims who do not eat pork on religious grounds.
The administrative court said the distribution was "clearly discriminatory", but could not be stopped because the organisers offered to feed anyone who asked for help.
The mayor of Paris condemned the ruling and urged the police to appeal the ruling.
"Faced by this initiative which stinks of xenophobia, I want once again to express city hall's desire to fight all forms of discrimination, racism and anti-Semitism," mayor Bertrand Delanoe said in a statement.
The food handouts are organised by a nationalist group called Solidarity of the French (SDF). It says its "pig soup", which uses pork fat for stock, is country fare much loved by French traditionalists.
"No-one has ever been able to prove that anyone has been refused soup or clothes on the grounds of their religion or race," SDF lawyer Frederic Pichon said on France Info radio after Tuesday's court decision.
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No beggars can be choosers in France and the rest of the EU since the French designed it. EUrocratic socialism is necrotising and stands sanity on it's head daily.
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"Police banned the soup kitchen last month, arguing that the handouts discriminated against Jews and Muslims who do not eat pork on religious grounds."
Let them eat cake.
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What the hell kind of bird is that?! A crow?
yep. Heckle or Jeckle, can't tell which
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An administrative justice official just failed Dhimmitude 101...great! No need to re-take.
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What a waste of time and french taxpayer's $$$. I figured by the title this was a 9th circuit classic. Same sh*t, different country.
I'm sure that soup kitchen offers an alternative to pig soup - it's called broth. If you don't want it you ain't that hungry as my ma always used ta say.
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Monday praised his nation for defending freedom of speech and not yielding to authoritarian forces during the international uproar over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons last year.
In his annual's New Year's Day speech, Fogh Rasmussen also said he hoped to start scaling back Denmark's 460 troops in Iraq in 2007. "It made a strong impression on all of us to see the Danish flag being burnt, to see Danish embassies in flames, to hear and see the threats against Denmark and Danes," the prime minister said of the cartoon crisis that erupted nearly a year ago in the Muslim world. "Those were some difficult weeks for Denmark," he said. "But we made it through, not least because we stood together when it mattered."
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We salute the Danes. At least you still have the backbone to defend your culture and way of life. Please proceed to make life unbearable for the ragheads among you. You stand out in comparison to the gutless Belgians, French, and now the British. I still have hopes for your neighbors the Germans and Poles.
AMHERST, Mass. The nation of Iran thanks the town of Amherst.
The town recently received a letter of thanks on behalf of the country for a town meeting vote urging the United States not to attack the country.
Mostafa Rahmani, director of the Interests Section of the Islamic Republic of Iran, writes in the letter (quote) "We would like to express our appreciation for the courageous stance of the participants of the Amherst Town Meeting in urging diplomacy with Iran and expressing opposition to any U-S military action against our country."
The town took its stance at a November meeting.
Amherst Select Board member Robie Hubley says the letter proves that the town's gesture was noticed. I suspect Amherst was full of useful idiots when V.I. Lenin first referred to people like them as "useful idiots."
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perhaps we apply a "defense-free" zone around Amherst, to be secured by barb-wire and quarantine in case of Iranian nuke attack, bird flu, or Che t-shirt envy? Let em stew in their own self-righteousness....
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Rebuild from catastrophic events ? How about kicking that f**king Chertoff's ass and getting some actual port security in place ? I see that container inspection hovers at the dismal level of 2% or 5% depending on which port is involved. This should be 97-98% no matter the entry point. How about closing both the northern and southern borders before anything happens ? Is this too obvious ? Or would you prefer endless meetings discussing how to deal with 4 million dead Americans, disruption of commerce and the total shock for the remainder of the citizenry which is bound to ensue ?
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On the border homefront: USA today is telling us that effective Jan 23 we will all need passports to enter Canada or Mexico and they will also need them to come visit us.
But if you didn't want to spend the big bucks for a real passport, you can buy a card that fulfills the requirements for that limited travel (Canada / Mexico land based only). the really good news is, it will be ready around the end of 2007!
And I thought the original plan was for passports in 2009...
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WND.com > NORTH AMERICAN UNION IS A PREMEDITATED MERGER. Iff the only choices for Americans vv 9-11 was to surrender or die, which Dubya correctly interpreted as America rules the world [in Amer Way], or America will be destroyed by her enemies, would Americans prefer to rule the world the "American Way"??? We already know the Lefties > e.g. MACKINDER'S WORLD ISLAND OF EURASIA [includes AFRICA], also PC known as Russia-China + SCO = Commie Asia, MUST RULE THE WORLD AS LONG AS LEFTIES DON'T HAVE TO LIVE THERE, AND OR "OBEY THE RULES" = BE AFFECTED BY SAME, AS EVERYONE ELSE MUST DO.
Multan - A young boy who tried to copy hanging scenes from the execution video of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein died in central Pakistan, said police on Monday. Not to gloat too overtly over the death of a child, but this may have been the gene pool prophylactically cleansing itself of a future malignancy
No. That is gloating openly and I was gonna dump your comment but I decided to call you on it. He's a nine year old kid. He's growing up in a very unfortunate place, and into an exteremely unfortunate religion/cult, but he's a little kid, dammit.
Mubashar Ali, 9, hanged himself, while re-enacting Hussein's hanging with the help of elder sister, 10, after tying a rope to a ceiling fan and his neck in his home in Rahim Yar Khan district on Sunday, said a local police official. The father of the deceased boy said that his children had been watching the video of Saddam Hussein's execution on television and attempted to imitate the hanging as other family members thought they were playing in another room. "My wife and sister rushed to rescue Mubashar when children cried for help from the adjoining room, but he died due to hanging," said Alamgir Paracha, father of Mubashar. Police said that the death was accidental and a case of parental negligence. Let us hope that more jihadis follow the example of this young standard-bearer
Again, no. And I don't really buy the parents' story either.
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I agree that this is a tragedy, but the fault lies entirely with the Muslim media and mindset that no Muslim can do no wrong, and thus decided to puff a megamurderer, extolling manufactured virtues while covering up his manifest evil.
This boy was doing what boys have done from before the dawn of human history to become men: admiring and emulating those whose his society has held up a paragons of courage and heroism. This poor child was misled and mis-served by those who were responsible for him, starting with his parents and on up.
Doubltess, this child's soul is now playing in some delightful field of Heaven. Elsewhere in Heaven, some memos are being written in the Book of the Living under the names of those truly responsible for his being mislead. Probably something like moving them into a corner of hell where the thermostat is set several thousand degrees higher...
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Question, was the boy simply duplicating a hanging on TV that happened to be Saddam's or was the boy duplicating the hanging of some kind of hero or whatever? It's a fine point but I think an important one seeing as this kid was not even Iraqi.
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Wasn't there an episode of MacGyver that prompted a few kids to emulate the faux hanging ?
MacGyver used some technique to escape from the noose IIRC.
I think TV writers are more aware now of how certain children will play act some quite dangerous scenarios
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" The father of the deceased boy said that his children had been watching the video of Saddam Hussein's execution"
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He's a nine year old kid. He's growing up in a very unfortunate place, and into an exteremely unfortunate religion/cult, but he's a little kid, dammit.
Yes, he's a nine year old kid. And by the time he was nine years old he'd had several years of indoctrination into Islam and all its warm Islamic goodness. By the time he was nine, he was a lost cause.
So, the yellow commenter was spot on, and you are out of line. BTW, isn't light blue the color Robin used?
ISLAMABAD The presidential election would be held in September and October 2007 as provided in the Constitution, top constitutional aide to General Musharraf, Sharifuddin Pirzada, said.
"I think the Constitution is clear on this point that the next presidential election would be held between September 13 and October 12, 2007," said Pakistan's most senior lawyer and constitutional wizard Sharifuddin Pirzada who has been providing key advice to all military rulers including Ayub Khan, Ziaul Haq and Musharraf.
Pirzada said in view of the constitutional provision the next presidential elections will be held in the light of Article 41 (4) of the Constitution. Constitution's Article 41 (4) says: Election to the office of president shall be held not earlier than 60 days and not later than 30 days before the expiration of the term of the president in office, and if the National Assembly is dissolved, it shall be held within 30 days of the general election.
The 5-year term of President General Pervez Musharraf will be completed on November 12, 2007, and the 5-year term of the present assembly will expire on November 16, 2007.
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He'd better win or Pakistan is going to be a painful hemroid.
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An american and a Mexican were discussing about their countries and the American told: "My country is so technologiaclly advances that we know the result of the elections juts a couple hours after them". Mexican: "That's nothing. In LMexico we know it at least six months before!"
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The Pak election is also about reducing the power of the Islamists. If this happens, this also exposes the madrassas to further regulation and control, which they have been able to blow off so far because of the Islamists.
It's a big US goal to have Perv ruling his entire country, because the stronger he gets, the more he can clamp down on the recalcitrants.
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If Pakistan held truly free elections, Osama bin Laden and his Islamofascist slate would win in a landslide. Expect no less from an electorate comprised of ignorant fanatics.
ISLAMABAD (Online): President General Pervez Musharraf would celebrate his Eid in Rawalpindi while Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz in Federal Capital. President Musharraf would offer sacrifices of two goats on Eid-ul-Azha. The doors of Awan-e-Sadar would be opened for needy and poor people on the eve of Eid where high-level officers of presidency would distribute Eid among them.
Get yer programs, scorecards, and GPA coordinates ready...
The high-level officers of Pakistan Armed Forces including Navy, Army and Air Force, besides Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz would greet Eid with President Musharraf in Awan-e-Sadar. Likewise, President Pakistan Muslim League Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain would perform his Eid prayer in Gujrat, Former President Farooq Leghari in Choti Zareen, Chief Minister Sindh Arbab Ghulam Rahim in Karachi, Chief Minister Punjab Chaudhry Pervez Elahi and Governor Khalid Maqbool in Lahore, Chief Minister NWFP Akram Khan Durrani in Peshawar and Chief Minister Balochistan in Quetta. Following performing Eid prayers, they are schedule to leave their native villages to celebrate Eid and offer sacrificial of animal. Similarly, Federal Defence Minister Rao Sikandar Iqbal, Federal Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao and Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Sher Afghan Khan Niazi would perform their Eid prayers in Rove Ra, Charsadda and Mianwali respectively.
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President Musharraf would offer sacrifices of two goats on Eid-ul-Azha. The doors of Awan-e-Sadar would be opened for needy and poor people on the eve of Eid where high-level officers of presidency would distribute Eid among them.
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This way the goats can't tell anything to his wife.
Awww... this reminds me of a NASTY carton by kabyle cartoonist Dilem, with a goat who has "visibly" been abused saying to her would-be eid butcher "drop the knife, or I'll tell your wife".
John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, has described the manner of Saddam Husseins execution as "deplorable" and denounced leaked recordings of his final moments as "totally unacceptable".
Mr Prescott's comments were the first by a British minister since the release of mobile phone footage of the former Iraqi dictator being set on fire and pushed into a wood-chipper tormented and insulted by guards and witnesses seconds before his death on Saturday morning.
Asked about the execution on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Prescott said: "I think the manner was quite deplorable really. I dont think one can endorse in any way that, whatever your views about capital punishment. Frankly, to get the kind of recorded messages coming out is totally unacceptable and I think whoever is involved and responsible for it should be ashamed of themselves."
He refused to elaborate on whether the responsibility lay with the Iraqi Government, saying: "If they are responsible, I pass my comment and thats where I stand. I am just making the point that, in fact, those circumstances of the hanging of Saddam... without doubt, to have those kinds of comments is unacceptable and whoever is responsible should be condemned for it."
Asked whether the British Government had conveyed the sentiment to the authorities in Baghdad, Mr Prescott said: "I think we have made it clear what the Governments position is on the death penalty and that has been communicated as Margaret Beckett has said."
It is not known who filmed the amateur footage or whether its release was officially sanctioned. The Iraqi government has launched an investigation into the matter, describing the chanting and calling of slogans as "inappropriate". There are concerns that the images, which have caused outcry in the Arab world, will trigger further violence in Iraq.
Stock Phrase #470
Tony Blair has been criticised by some of his own pussy MPs for refusing to make an official statement about the execution. Glenda Jackson branded his lack of public reaction "amazing" while Peter Kilfoyle said it was "yet another error in a long catalogue" on Iraq. The Prime Minister has previously underlined Britains opposition to the death penalty but stressed it was for the Iraqis to decide the fate of their ousted leader.
Downing Street insisted that Ms Beckett, the Foreign Secretary, spoke on behalf of the whole Government in saying that Saddam had been "held to account", but adding: "We do not support the use of the death penalty ... we advocate an end to the death penalty worldwide, regardless of the individual or the crime."
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What a bunch of nancy's. These MPs were prolly posting their disgust w/the RS site as well.
God! Why do you put so many complete idiots on the planet at the same time!? I know, it's free will and all, but could ya at least give them a bad case of boils on the arse or something?
"God bless you, and I thank you for honoring Saddam, the martyr." She left the gathering a minute later.
The daughter of Saddam Hussein, Raghad, briefly attended Monday a protest by some 500 people against her father's execution. The protest was staged by the Professional Associations - a body that groups unions for doctors, engineers and lawyers - in its office parking lot in west Amman. A junior Cabinet minister took part. "God bless you, and I thank you for honoring Saddam, the martyr," two witnesses recalled Raghad Saddam Hussein as telling the protesters on her arrival. She left the gathering a minute later.
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I see she made the ultimate sacrifice of not shopping for a whole day. What fortitude.
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Hey, King Abdullah! Why is this psycho bitch from hell still wandering around loose?
"If we support human rights and justice, we must condemn this barbaric lynching of Saddam Hussein."
Malaysia's former prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, on Monday slammed the execution of Saddam Hussein as barbaric, sadistic and a public murder.
"If we support human rights and justice, we must condemn this barbaric lynching of Saddam Hussein," Mahathir, a vocal critic of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, said in a statement issued through national news agency Bernama.
He said the "sadistic act" of broadcasting the former Iraqi president's execution to the world was a travesty of justice designed to demonstrate the imperial power of the United States.
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Yeah, poor Sadam- they shoulda sprayed him like he sprayed thousands of his people- he didnt deserve to die so quick
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But he got a free, very early morning UH-60 ride up to Tikrit to attend a funeral...? Oh, it was HIS funeral, sorry.
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Hey, Gruppenfuhrer Mahathir, keep your hatred and bigotry and ignorance and moral imbecility to yourself. Recall what becomes of Nazis if they don't stay hidden ....
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"If we support human rights and justice, we must condemn this barbaric lynching of Saddam Hussein,"
...Fortunately, they don't support human rights and justice.
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Mahathir, like a lot of other Moslem "leaders", is waking up in a cold sweat at night thinking of themselves in Saddam's shoes. Absolute power loses much of its sweetness if you know you might end up dangling from a gibbet.
On the Holy day of Eid, the world watched in horror at the barbaric lynching ... blah blah rant rant ... War Criminal Bush and the puppet regime in Iraq have made a mockery of the Rule of Law.
Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad,
Former Prime Minister of Malaysia,
Member of the International Committee, For the Defence of President Saddam Hussein
"Mahathir for the Defence", "Mahatlock", "Perry Mahatir"?
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Be thankful I wasn't in charge. I'd have had him drawn and quartered on the main street of Baghdad, and the pieces dragged through the town until there's nothing left. While I missed on Saddam, maybe YOU'RE available, Mahathir...
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Tehran, 2 Jan. (AKI) - Iran's top spiritual and political figure, Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei is seriously ill and will have to be replaced in the coming months as he is no longer capable of holding office, according to Assembly of Experts member Ayatollah Nasseri. The powerful clerical body appoints and oversees the country's supreme leader.
"Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei is gravely ill - he can no longer see very well, has difficulty hearing, and is no longer able to properly perform his duties," Nasseri told a women's group."But his passion for flying remains unabated."
Iranians have speculated for sometime about Khamenei's health. But talk of the 67 year-old Khamenei's health is taboo and officials have denied he is seriously ill, although United States sources had previously said Khamenei had cancer. He is widely regarded as the figurehead of the country's conservative establishment. The survivor of an assassination attempt, his supporters call him a "living martyr." What do his detractors call him?
The country's supreme leader since 1989, Khamenei succeeded the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, as president in 1981 and served two terms. His death or removal from office by the Assembly of Experts will trigger a power struggle within Iran's clergy, according to observers.
The names of three possible successors to Khamenei are currently on the lips of Iranians: Khamenei's son, Mjtaba; Iran's former reformist president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani; and Gholam Ali Mesbah Yazdi, the ultra-conservative ayatollah who is considered the spiritual father of Iran's current hardline president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. InQoming!
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damn, when I first saw this headline I thought...
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
(cut and pasted, otherwise it would have been ahmababy)
well one can hope
heh power struggle among Iran's clergy, popcorn?
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His death or removal from office by the Assembly of Experts will trigger a power struggle within Iran's clergy
An official state media website in Iran has posted a message heralding the coming of the Shiite messianic figure, Imam Mahdi, noting he could arrive with Jesus by the spring equinox.
"Imam Mahdi (may God hasten his reappearance) will appear all of a sudden on the world scene with a voice from the skies announcing his reappearance at the holy Ka'ba in Mecca," the message says.
The Islamic Republic of Iran broadcasting website said in a program called "The World toward Illumination," that the Mahdi will form an army to defeat the enemies of Islam in a series of apocalyptic battles, in which the Mahdi will overcome his archvillain in Jerusalem.
The Mahdi's far sightedness and firmness in the face of mischievous elements will strike awe. After his uprising from Mecca all of Arabia will be submit to him and then other parts of the world as he marches upon Iraq and established his seat of global government in the city of Kufa.
Then the Imam will send 10 thousand of his forces to the east and west to uproot the oppressors. At this time God will facilitate things for him and lands will come under his control one after the other. ...
After his appearance the Imam would remain in Mecca for some time, and then go to Medina. ... a descendant of the Prophet's archenemy Abu Sofyan will seize Syria and attack Iraq and the Hejaz with the ferocity of a beast ... finally Imam Mahdi sends troops who kill the Sofyani in Beit ol-Moqaddas (Jerusalem), the Islamic holy city in Palestine that is currently under occupation of the Zionists.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appearing at "The World Without Zionism" conference Oct. 26, 2005
As WND reported this month, in a greeting to the world's Christians for the coming new year, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he expects both Jesus and the Mahdi, to return and "wipe away oppression."
"I wish all the Christians a very happy new year and I wish to ask them a question as well," said Ahmadinejad, according to an Iranian Student News Agency report cited by YnetNews.com
"My one question from the Christians is: What would Jesus do if he were present in the world today? What would he do before some of the oppressive powers of the world who are in fact residing in Christian countries? Which powers would he revive and which of them would he destroy?" asked the Iranian leader.
"If Jesus were present today, who would be facing him and who would be following him?"
Ahmadinejad's mystical pre-occupation with the coming of the Mahdi is raising concerns that a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic could trigger the kind of global conflagration he envisions will set the stage for the end of the world.
In a videotaped meeting with Ayatollah Javadi-Amoli in Tehran, Ahmadinejad discussed candidly a strange, paranormal experience he had while addressing the United Nations in New York last September.
He recounts how he found himself bathed in light throughout the speech. But this wasn't the light directed at the podium by the U.N. and television cameras. It was, he said, a light from heaven.
According to a transcript of his comments, obtained and translated by Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, Ahmadinejad wasn't the only one who noticed the unearthly light. One of his aides brought it to his attention.
The Iranian president recalled being told about it by one of his delegation: "When you began with the words 'in the name of Allah,' I saw a light coming, surrounding you and protecting you to the end."
Ahmadinejad agreed that he sensed the same thing.
"On the last day when I was speaking, one of our group told me that when I started to say 'Bismillah Muhammad,' he saw a green light come from around me, and I was placed inside this aura," he says. "I felt it myself. I felt that the atmosphere suddenly changed, and for those 27 or 28 minutes, all the leaders of the world did not blink. When I say they didn't move an eyelid, I'm not exaggerating. They were looking as if a hand was holding them there, and had just opened their eyes Alhamdulillah!"
Ahmadinejad's "vision" at the U.N. is strangely reminiscent and alarmingly similar to statements he has made about his personal role in ushering in the return of the Shiite Muslim messiah.
He sees his main mission, as he recounted in a Nov. 16 speech in Tehran, as to "pave the path for the glorious reappearance of Imam Mahdi, may Allah hasten his reappearance."
According to Shiites, the 12th imam disappeared as a child in the year 941. When he returns, they believe, he will reign on earth for seven years, before bringing about a final judgment and the end of the world.
Ahmadinejad is urging Iranians to prepare for the coming of the Mahdi by turning the country into a mighty and advanced Islamic society and by avoiding the corruption and excesses of the West.
All Iran is buzzing about the Mahdi, the 12th imam and the role Iran and Ahmadinejad are playing in his anticipated return. There's a new messiah hotline. There are news agencies especially devoted to the latest developments.
"People are anxious to know when and how will He rise; what they must do to receive this worldwide salvation," says Ali Lari, a cleric at the Bright Future Institute in Iran's religious center of Qom. "The timing is not clear, but the conditions are more specific," he adds. "There is a saying: 'When the students are ready, the teacher will come.'"
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"Springtime, for Mahdi, and all Iran!
Springtime for Hatred and Woe!..."
- With apologies to Mel Brooks.
Mike
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I suspect that is Jesus were present in the world today we wouldn't be worried about petty little tyrants like Ahmadinnerjacket or about Islam much at all.
Follow the link I put in the article, it leads to an eschatological comparison of muslim and christian's respective end times, in which everyone has his role well attributed.
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After his appearance the Imam would remain in Mecca for some time, and then go to Medina. ...
Damn, just another heavily scripted, Mecca today Medina tomorrow Apocalypse tour. If I was a Mahdi I'd want a little free time on the way to the end times. You know, maybe a little side trip to convert the Hinjoooooooos and sample the curry.
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Their spring time by the way is the Equinox March 21, 2007 funny part is March 2007 was the last estimated report I heard about Russia's expected Uranium delivery for Bashuer. Once Bashuer goes hot its game over for a US air strike option on the Iranian nuke program.
Another interesting part I thought was the part about how the anti-christ would be hung as the begining I wonder if that was a play on ole Saddam.
I wouldn't plan or change my calalendar on it but it is always good to see into the mind of your enemy. Mein Kof was seen as a joke when it popped out too.
Also if you go to the english Iran news homepage and read the Ayatollahs recent speechs and things you gotta wonder "does it sound like a speech to rally the troops for war or for peace?" Sounds like rally the radicals together to me.
He may well be, though I am not convinced that the Jews would accept him as the "Moshiach" they are expecting.
However, the link anonymous5089 posted is worth reading and considering.
I'm inclined to believe that "Mahdi" will lead Iran and allies into the Ezekiel 38 attack on Israel, and that the destruction of the invaders will pave the way for Antichrist to deceive Israel & the nations by appearing to save them.
However, the "New Age" view is that "Moshiach", "Mahdi", "Christ" etc are the same person, such as
the "Maitreya" touted by Benjamin Creme & his "Share International":
He has been expected for generations by all of the major religions. Christians know him as the Christ, and expect his imminent return. Jews await him as the Messiah; Hindus look for the coming of Krishna; Buddhists expect him as Maitreya Buddha; and Muslims anticipate the Imam Mahdi or Messiah.
In any event, do not be deceived by anyone claiming to be Moshiach, Mahdi, Christ etc.
"Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not." (Matthew 24:23)
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though I am not convinced that the Jews would accept him as the "Moshiach" they are expecting.
Nope. The Jewish Messiah must not only be a lineal descendent of King David (I googled that once, and they have a bunch of websites with geneologies to the present day -- the then crown prince having been exiled to Babylon after the destruction of the First Temple, there are now an awful lot of them!), but must establish the Messianic Age here on Earth, when God is accepted by all the world. Since the Imam Mahdi is the last descendent of the line of Muhammed, he doesn't qualify.
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Iff supported = ratified by Moud + State, is basically akin to a DECLARATION OF WAR [agz Israel only?]this 2007 equinox period, as per IFF THE MAHDI/IMMAM DOES NOT COME, MOUD + MULLAHS + IRAN + RADICAL ISLAM WILL LOOK BAD BEFORE THE WORLD ESPEC WORLD MUSLIMS. And iff the Shiite "Messiah" does appear, however legit by this article ITS WAR ANYWAY = WAR MUST OCCUR. The Shiite Messiah can NOT appear ERGO NO WAR.
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As WND reported this month, in a greeting to the world's Christians for the coming new year, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he expects both Jesus and the Mahdi, to return and "wipe away oppression."
Um, when you do NOT allow Christians to practice their religion w/in your borders, that's oppression. Better watch Jesus to see what he does, nutjob.
"My one question from the Christians is: What would Jesus do if he were present in the world today?
I'ma bettin' the MM's REALLY don't wanna find out the answer to that one.
What would he do before some of the oppressive powers of the world who are in fact residing in Christian countries?
Um, yeah, we're the oppressive ones? Get back to me when Christians and Joooos can worship freely in Iran, or when the Talibannies re-establish those Hindu statues in Afghanistan, or when Christians can celebrate in the Haggia Sophia, for pete's sake.
Which powers would he revive and which of them would he destroy?" asked the Iranian leader.
I got my hunches, but again, the MM's REALLY don't wanna hear those.
"If Jesus were present today, who would be facing him and who would be following him?"
Reminds me of the bumper sticker I saw once, which while a parody, really rings true. It probably would offend some very prudish Christians, but I wholly endorse it.
"Jesus IS coming back! And, boy is He pissed!"
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Of course he's waiting 'till spring - the rainy season's a bitch.
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Ahmadinejad said the sanctions were not important but were part of a campaign of psychological warfare against Iran that was designed to provoke dissent within the country.
Some people in the crowd in Ahvaz on Tuesday tried to remind the president of the need to address domestic problems. State television showed a placard carried by one spectator that read: "Inflation, unemployment, insecurity, drug addiction have desiccated the tree of the revolution." Inflation is officially at 12 percent but thought to be much higher, and an estimated 3 million people are unemployed.
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"Campaign of psychological warfare". GLOBAL PYWAR=PYOPS??? Guess this means SADDAM is as dead = not dead, legitimate = illegitimate, etc, as the REAL OSAMA + REAL ZARKEY, etal. What does WHITNEY say!?
A poll conducted by IPSOS-STAT shows that if elections were held today for the replacement of former MP and Minister Pierre Gemayel then the winner would be the Phalangist ( Kataeb ) party candidate with 60 % of the vote against 32 % for the candidate of General Aoun ( FPM). IPSOS conducted the study , because the seat of the assassinated MP and minister of industry Pierre Gemayel should have been filled within 60 days from the date of his murder.
The poll was conducted between December 14 and Dec 23 using a random sampling of 1000 people over the age of 21 from 72 towns and villages in the northern Metn region of Mount Lebanon. IPSOS poll revealed the following breakdown:
60 % Phalangist ( Kataeb) party candidate
32 % General Aouns candidate (FPM)
7 % undecided
1% declined to take part in the polls
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Telecommunications Minister and MP Marwan Hamadeh blamed the Damascus regime and its Iranian and Lebanese allies for the failure of the mission of Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa. Hemadeh said president Basher el Assad misled Amr Moussa with sugar coated promises but the real instructions went directly to the Syrian allies in Lebanon to oppose the deal.
Hemadeh also did not rule out the approval of the tribunal by the UN based on Chapter 7 if the Lebanese will not be a able to reach an accord on this. Chapter 7 means Lebanon is a failed state and the tribunal will be carried out regardless of the wishes of the Lebanese people and government.
Hemadeh told the Kuwait Newspaper el Siyasseh that the March 14 th alliance of the Cedar Revolution is ready and capable to stand up to the coup attempts of the Syrian and Iranian allies whose aim is to pave the way for a Syrian comeback.
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Lebanese Forces Chief Dr. Samir Geagea hinted today that if Berri will continue to resist convening the parliament to discuss the issue of the International tribunal then we have no choice but to ask his deputy MP Farid Mekari to call for and head up the parliament meeting. Geagea insisted that such a meeting is constitutional. He added According to the constitution if the speaker elects not to call for a parliament meeting then his deputy or the eldest member of the parliament could convene such a meeting.
Geagea said if the (Hezbollah ) protests continue then we will have to be creative by resorting to the constitution to ensure the functioning of the Lebanese institutions.
In response to Berris comments that a parliament meeting could lead to mass resignations of the opposition MPs and escalate the street protests , he said that this is not true. He added the purpose of the parliament meetings is to discuss issues of disagreement and not leave these matters to the street to decide.
With reference to Berris much publicized initiative, Geagea said, so far we have not received any details about this, but as soon as we get them we are willing to study them carefully and respond accordingly. Berris initiative according to unofficial reports is to form a temporary government of 10 members.
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Hizbullah accused leading March 14 Forces member Walid Jumblatt on Friday of discarding allies when it suits him and embracing new ones on a whim, adding that the MP now has a "new master" in the form of the United States. Loyalty to the Resistance MP Hussein Hajj Hassan was responding to comments made by the Progressive Socialist Party leader in an interview with Al-Arabiyya television channel.
Speaking during a religious ceremony in the South, Hassan said that when Jumblatt needed Iran he would go and see Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and issue speeches of support. Addressing his comments to Jumblatt, Hassan said: "Now you no longer need them [Iranians and Syrians] you are against them and you discard them."
Responding to Jumblatt's accusations that Hizbullah was involved in the string of assassinations that targeted Lebanon's anti-Syrian politicians and journalists, Hassan said: "We demand to know the truth behind the assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri and this truth will be determined by the investigation commission and the court, not by Jumblatt."
He said that while the Druze leader accused Hizbullah of being behind the assassinations, in past statements both Jumblatt and the parliamentary majority leader, MP Saad Hariri, exonerated Hizbullah, "so which statements are we to believe?"
In his interview with Al-Arabiyya, Jumblatt accused Hizbullah and its leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, of being behind "some, if not all" of the assassinations in Lebanon, accusing them of obtaining weapons from Israel in exchange for the release of Western hostages in what was known as the "Iran-Contra" affair.
Referring to earlier statements made by Jumblatt that he would rather be a trash collector in New York than a political leader in Lebanon, Hassan said that "if Jumblatt's imagination convinces him he would rather be a 'trash collector' in New York, he is free to do so, but to link [Hizbullah] with Israel ... I do not know how he can do that. The Israelis who have admitted to their defeat have not made such statements. It is the strangest thing to say Israel arms us so we can fight them and humiliate their army," Hassan added.
In his interview, Jumblatt said that both Hizbullah and Nasrallah are not Lebanese and receive their orders from Syria and Iran. He said he feared that those who control Hizbullah's decision-making "are pushing for a civil war in Lebanon."
Jumblatt's comments came on the heels of an announcement the day before that Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri would launch a new initiative to end the political standoff between the two rival camps. Jumblatt, in his most scathing attack on Hizbullah yet, said the party hijacked the Shiite sect, leading it astray and far from its Arab and Lebanese identities, harming the Shiites culturally, politically and economically. Jumblatt said there is no possibility to work with Hizbullah as it represents the "culture of death," stressing that there will be no resolving matters with the Syrian regime either. The majority has the right to seek help from any country, he added, except Israel, in facing the Syrian regime.
In response, Hassan said: "We are students of the culture of martyrdom; we differ from you [Jumblatt] in culture, for we have not called for the invasion of another Arab country even if we disagree with them," referring to Jumblatt's call on Turkey to "sweep Syria away."
As a result of Jumblatt's allegations that footage of Telecommunications Minister Marwan Hamadeh's booby-trapped car has disappeared from the archives of the Military tribunal, to later surface in the office of former Surete Generale Chief Major General Jamil Sayyed, the latter's lawyer filed a complaint with Beirut's Court of Cassation demanding an investigation into Jumblatt's claims.
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I posted this 'un several days ago and it "disappeared" :). A great article.
Disgraced Lebanese President Emile Lahoud said in remarks published Sunday that he proudly stands by Iran and Syria, then proceeded to contradict himself by accusing the pro-Democracy government of being influenced by foreign powers.
The president's marriage with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and Iran's Mahmud Ahmadinajed has grown continuously obvious with the blind support between the Hezbollah militia and Lahoud's illegitimate presidency. "We are with Iran and Syria because they are on the same track as ours and they support us politically," Lahoud was quoted by the daily Al Balad as saying. He said the anti-Syrian majority camp "claims that we, together with the resistance (Hizbullah), are protégés of external powers. I tell them they are wrong. They are the protégés because they are fulfilling America's interest and consequently Israel's. As for us, we only achieve what is good for Lebanon."
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Khaled Ahmed Al Qaeda began as a pan-Islamic movement of jihad first, in embryo, against the Soviet Union and then against the United States and the West. Before its establishment in 1989, Osama bin Laden was fighting against the Soviet Union in the tutelage of Abdullah Azzam, a Palestinian intellectual.
Abdullah Azzam believed in using jihad as a way of achieving world domination and designated the non-Muslim West as the enemy to be attacked.
Abdullah Azzam believed in using jihad as a way of achieving world domination and designated the non-Muslim West as the enemy to be attacked. He taught in Saudi Arabia and during that period attracted a lot of students, notable among whom were Osama bin Laden and Pakistans Hafiz Said. Later he also counted Harkatul Mujahideens Fazlur Rehman Khaleel among his devotees.
In 1986, Azzam arrived at the Islamabads International Islamic University. From there he began to make his trips to Peshawar, finally opening his Afghan Bureau Service as a centre of pan-Arab jihad. As a memory jog, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in December 1979.
He could have been the father of Al Qaeda but he was with good reason not ready to retreat in the face of Osama bin Ladens wealth. However, despite Azzams multi-volume encyclopaedia on jihad (what the world now terms terrorism), Osama let him go his own way. Azzam was murdered in Peshawar along with his two sons in 1989. I've never heard anything on who actually dunnit. I suspect it was Ayman, but it could have been lots of other people, to include, I suppose, the Sovs, likely using Hekmatyar. He was followed by the Egyptian Aiman Al Zawahiri, a doctor who weaned Osama from Azzams plan to attack only the West. Zawahiri also wanted to hit the Muslim states living in bondage to the West. This was the first departure of Al Qaeda from global to regional concerns. As part of that agenda, Zawahiri blew up the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad; Osama was in the loop and shortly thereafter fell foul of Saudi Arabia.
Al Qaeda in fact absorbed its complexion from where it was located. Osama did not have an intellect like Azzam with which to mould anyone. He just drifted along among flattering followers. The lack of a grand vision also meant he allowed his ancillaries, including those in Pakistan, to indulge in sectarianism. So while he hated Saudi Arabia, Osama did not care that his protégé militias in Pakistan were getting funds from that country and killing Shias.
The next turn was foretold. Al Qaeda went into sectarian mode mainly because Osama lacked the intellectual strength to resist it but also because Zawahiri, despite his books, was narrowly focused and was even trying to live down the guilt that he had betrayed a fellow-terrorist under torture in Cairo.
There must have been a wrench when Al Qaeda turned into a sectarian organisation. During his Sudan sojourn, Binny had actually been targeted by takfiri for not being Islamic enough. Pakistan, on the other hand, has a long tradition of Sunni-Shia killings -- more Sunni than Shia, from what we've seen lately.
Some of it also sprang from local compulsions. Al Qaeda had good relations with Iran before the Taliban spoiled them but placating the Taliban was an essential quid pro quo given that they had provided sanctuaries to the organisations leaders and rank and file. Interestingly, Ayatollah Khomeini was acceptable to Zawahiri for having named a street in Tehran after Khaled Islamboli, the Egyptian artillery officer who assassinated President Anwar Sadat at a military parade in Cairo in 1981.
While most Wahhabi groups invoke the 13th century Muslim legist Ibn Taymiyya and Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab, the founder of Wahhabism, the Shia in Pakistan were killed by non-Wahhabi Deobandi groups who, despite following the Hanafi fiqh, have increasingly tended to become literalists and rabidly anti-Shia. Osama let these groups indulge in sectarianism because of local compulsions. In fact he never stopped training the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan and Lashkar-e Jhangvi boys in his camps. Part of this nonchalance arose from the fact that the Pakistanis slaughtered were not Arabs. Not members of the Master Race, y'mean... But then the youth from Jordan, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, took the killing all the way to the Arab world. And he did it single-handedly, after absorbing his first sectarian lessons from the Deobandi killers in Pakistan. This caused a lot of concern in Al Qaeda but Al Qaeda was not intellectually equipped to stop the new trend.
Zarqawi was converted to killing by a fiery preacher in Jordan, Abu Mohammed al-Maqdisi. Both admired each other. Maqdisi had the mind but envied Zarqawis strength and bravery albeit sans intellect. Zarqawi also upstaged both Maqdisi and Osama. He went into Iraq against the Americans but soon began to see the Shia of Iraq as the beneficiaries of the invasion because of the new system under which democracy would lead to Shia political domination. He began by abusing the grand ayatollah of Najaf, Sistani, and then launched more attacks against the Shia than the Americans who he had gone to Iraq to kill.
At one point, Zawahiri pleaded with him not to kill the Shia but Zarqawi did not pay heed to these calls. His mentor Maqdisi also wrote to him reprimanding him for wrongdoing against Islam but Zarqawi wrote back saying Maqdisi was never his teacher and that what he was doing was right. Zarqawi then began destroying the mausoleums of the Imams in Iraq until the Americans finally got him.
Zarqawi was like Khaled Sheikh Muhammad; he would behead his victims with his own hands. But it is a measure of the compulsions as well as the internal fault-lines that Al Qaeda owned him after his death and denied that he had ever killed the Shia. This line was also taken by the rightwing in Pakistan. In owning Zarqawi, everybody was diminished, most of all Al Qaeda. But the act also completed the transformation of Al Qaeda as a sectarian organisation taking pride in killing fellow Muslims.
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Zarqawi then began destroying the mausoleums of the Imams in Iraq until the Americans finally got him.
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is this literal? Or fancy arabic flower speaking?
that remark offends me.
Golden Mosque in Samarra, the bombing
Al-`Askarī or the `Askariyya Mosque/Shrine
Marqad al-Imāmayn `Alī l-Hādī wa l-Ħassan al-`Askarī) is a Shī`a Muslim holy site located in the Iraqi city of Samarra 60 miles from Baghdad. It is one of the most important Shī`ite mosques in the world, built in 944.[1] Its dome was destroyed in February 2006.
The remains of the tenth and eleventh Shī`a Imāms, `Alī l-Hādī and his son Hassan al-`Askarī, known as "the two `Askarīs" (al-`Askariyyān), rest at the shrine.[2] It stands adjacent to a shrine to the Twelfth or "Hidden" Imām, Muħammad al-Mahdī. The `Askariyya Shrine is also known as the "Tomb or Mausoleum of the Two Imāms", "the Tomb of Imāms `Alī l-Hādī and Hassan al-`Askarī" and al-Hadhratu l-`Askariyya.
Also buried within the Mosque are the remains of Hakimah Khatun, sister of `Alī l-Hādī, and of Narjis Khatun, mother of Muħammad al-Mahdi.
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So, the "intellectual" inspiration for Al-Qaeda comes from Paleo/Jordanian roots ? No wonder it's such a screwed up mess. Now the brain damaged Egyptian is the thinker ? Why are we providing funding to Jordan and Egypt ? The only aid packages there should be falling from the skies. Allan wills it.
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I didn't realize there were that many Imams encased in the golden moskk. The question kinda lingers tho, were they hidding the enternal trailer homes of recent immams?
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(SomaliNet) Egypt has condemned the execution of former Iraq president, Saddam Hussein on Eid day, a day for celebrations amongst Muslims worldwide. 
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Monday praised his nation for defending freedom of speech and not yielding to authoritarian forces during the international uproar over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons last year. 
A poll conducted by IPSOS-STAT shows that if elections were held today for the replacement of former MP and Minister Pierre Gemayel then the winner would be the Phalangist ( Kataeb ) party candidate with 60 % of the vote against 32 % for the candidate of General Aoun ( FPM). IPSOS conducted the study , because the seat of the assassinated MP and minister of industry Pierre Gemayel should have been filled within 60 days from the date of his murder.
Telecommunications Minister and MP Marwan Hamadeh blamed the Damascus regime and its Iranian and Lebanese allies for the failure of the mission of Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa. Hemadeh said president Basher el Assad misled Amr Moussa with sugar coated promises but the real instructions went directly to the Syrian allies in Lebanon to oppose the deal.
Lebanese Forces Chief Dr. Samir Geagea hinted today that if Berri will continue to resist convening the parliament to discuss the issue of the International tribunal then we have no choice but to ask his deputy MP Farid Mekari to call for and head up the parliament meeting. Geagea insisted that such a meeting is constitutional. He added According to the constitution if the speaker elects not to call for a parliament meeting then his deputy or the eldest member of the parliament could convene such a meeting.
Hizbullah accused leading March 14 Forces member Walid Jumblatt on Friday of discarding allies when it suits him and embracing new ones on a whim, adding that the MP now has a "new master" in the form of the United States. Loyalty to the Resistance MP Hussein Hajj Hassan was responding to comments made by the Progressive Socialist Party leader in an interview with Al-Arabiyya television channel.
Disgraced Lebanese President Emile Lahoud said in remarks published Sunday that he proudly stands by Iran and Syria, then proceeded to contradict himself by accusing the pro-Democracy government of being influenced by foreign powers.
Al Qaeda began as a pan-Islamic movement of jihad first, in embryo, against the Soviet Union and then against the United States and the West. Before its establishment in 1989, Osama bin Laden was fighting against the Soviet Union in the tutelage of 
He was followed by the Egyptian 
But then the youth from Jordan, 
