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Afghanistan
Talibs, al-Qaeda regrouping?
Christian Science Monitor often has some good reporting on terror networks from Afghanistan, though the sky is usually falling.
[Afghan] intelligence sources say that just over the border in Pakistan, most of the top Taliban and Al Qaeda leadership, including Osama bin Laden himself, have been seen moving into northern Pakistan from the tribal belt south of the Afghan town of Tora Bora. Bin Laden was last seen three weeks ago in the Pakistani tribal city of Dir, about 45 miles east-northeast of Asadabad.
If a true report, then he's not dead. Question is, how likely is it that it's true?
Osama's top lieutenant, Ayman Zawahiri, is now thought to be directing operations from Al Qaeda's newly built base in the village of Shah Salim, about 30 miles west of the Pakistani city of Chitral, near the border of Afghanistan's Kunar Province. The other base is in the Pakistani village of Murkushi on the Chinese border, about 90 miles north of the Pakistani city of Gilgit.
That gives us a couple targets...
To fight a new war against American forces, Al Qaeda is reportedly broadening its base of support to include new like-minded members, including the Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and his Pashtun-dominated radical Islamist Hizb-I-Islami party.
That was what we thought was happening last time we heard of Hekmatyar, which was a while ago. Hekmatyar has much in common with al-Qaeda and the Taliban: intolerance, xenophobia, a wide cruel streak, and a preference for non-linear thinking. They're a natural fit...
Hekmatyar's party still enjoys support in Kunar and other Pashtun-dominated provinces and is also the closest in ideological terms to the Taliban. From exile in Iran last fall, Hekmatyar called on all Muslims to fight alongside the Taliban against any invasion of American forces.
Yeah. Yeah. We know he's one of the worst Bad Guys going, and his head will look pretty neat hanging on the wall next to Binny's and Omar's...
With its renewed mission, Al Qaeda has taken on a new name, Fateh Islam, or Islamic Victory.
They change names every three weeks or so to keep the Feds out of their bank accounts...
Their battle plan, Afghan intelligence sources say, is to launch a massive attack on eastern Afghanistan, by crossing along the poorly defended mountainous border of Kunar Province, where opium and timber smugglers take their products out of Afghanistan either undetected or with the compliance of corrupt Afghan border officials.
Ummm... That's not a very detailed plan... What're they going to do when they get there?
On the streets of Asadabad itself, it's clear that Al Qaeda already has established a network of informers and preachers. In mosques and religious schools, Al Qaeda members have begun whipping up local anger against the US presence in Afghanistan, and the house-to-house searches in Kunar. One Arab man, dressed in Afghan salwar kameez, but wearing the traditional white headdress of a Saudi preacher, was seen this week standing in the center of the main square of Asadabad, before being led away by two young religious students toward a local mosque.
What was he doing? Preaching? Was he on dope? Drunk and disorderly?
Another man, who teaches primary school in Asadabad, told the Monitor there are plenty of Al Qaeda supporters in Kunar. "I'm proud to be Al Qaeda," says Abdur Rahim, a soft-voiced man who studied Islam for 16 years at a hard-line Islamic seminary in Peshawar, Pakistan. "I'm 100 percent sure they will come back here. It will be very soon, and the Taliban were 100 times better than these warlords who rob us on the streets. The jihad is compulsory against the kaffirs [unbelievers], but we cannot fight against their planes."
Keep in mind that this guy teaches primary school. What's going into the kiddies' little heads? I suspect it ain't Big Bird. Those planes do represent a problem, don't they? And the bad part is, when you finally get around to shooting one down, a much bigger one is going to come and cave your little corner of the world in on you and your family and your dog, whether you're at a wedding or not...
Speaking of American special forces based in Asadabad, he says, "These are infidels and they have destroyed our religion. Jews and Christians, all of them, we want Muslim forces, we don't want infidels." As a crowd gathers, cautioning the Al Qaeda member to be quiet, Rahim becomes even more outspoken. "Everyone here feels like me, but some people have big hearts and others have little faith. These people are quiet because they have little faith."
Or maybe they're not as xenophobic. Or maybe their wrapping are tighter...
Other Afghans seem more pragmatic. Mohammad Malang, a timber merchant in Asadabad's massive lumber market, says hundreds of Arabs came through Kunar late last year, after the bombing campaign began on the mountain hideout of Tora Bora, south of Jalalabad. Now, when he carries wood to the border of Pakistan on his logging truck, he sees plenty of Al Qaeda fighters coming and going through the Afghan checkposts. "The Americans pay us money and we give them Al Qaeda," he says with a smile. "The Al Qaeda give us money and we give them shelter. Nowadays we are not giving them shelter because of the US troops here, but up there on the border, they are there right now up in the forests. They come and go and nobody stops them."
That's because there aren't large groupings of them. It's best to kill them in batches. With the fine, helpful attitude of the locals, it won't be very important to us if a few of them arrive in Paradise at the same time as a large number of Arabs...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/09/2002 12:46 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Jalalabad explosion kills 26...
An explosion in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad killed at least 26 people and injured up to 80 yesterday. The blast at a construction camp set several buildings on fire and damaged more than 50 homes, some as far as 500 yards away. It also disrupted the city's electricity network and the power supply for a nearby dam. "The latest [toll] we have is said to be 26 dead and 80 wounded," a Defence Ministry spokesman said. At least 25 of the wounded had severe injuries and many were not expected to survive.
Even if it's an industrial accident, the Bad Guys will be claiming it with that many dead...
Hazrat Ali, the regional military commander, said the blast appeared to have been caused by a car bomb. But Dr Mohammed Assef Qazi Zada, the deputy governor of Nangarhar province, said the more likely explanation was that it had been caused by industrial explosives. Three employees of the Afghan Construction and Logistics Unit, which ran the site where the blast happened, were arrested and questioned. Officials refused to say whether the three were being treated as Taliban or al-Qa'ida members or sympathisers.
I'm hoping it's an industrial accident. OSHA doesn't work in Afghanistan and there are enough boomers running around...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/09/2002 06:28 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Local officials are claiming there were prior indicators of a bombing in the area. When they said "near a dam" I was concerned it was the 11.5MW Breshna-Kot Dam which supplies power for Kabul and which was often targeted during the last 20 years, sometimes by saboteurs and sometimes just the local hill gunnies exacting a little Danegelt. It turns out instead it's near the Darunta complex, one of the more notable al Qaeda training camps. Now, the company "ACLU" seems legit, once set up by USAID, but who knows these days.
Posted by: Dan Hartung || 08/09/2002 20:39 Comments || Top||

#2  we agree that the international community must stand strong, by one another, in order to defeat teh international enemy: terror
Posted by: Anonymous || 02/15/2004 15:18 Comments || Top||


Axis of Evil
Talabani sitting on the fence...
One of the essential, or at least desirable, players in any U.S. action against Iraq shows signs of being bought...
The leader of one of the two Kurdish factions controlling northern Iraq said on Wednesday he would not offer blind support for U.S. military action to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. "As to the attack of the United States, we are not yet assured what will be the purpose of this attack," Jalal Talabani, leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), told reporters after meeting Turkish officials in Ankara.
Talabani visited Soddy Arabia just about a month ago. Wonder what they offered him?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/09/2002 08:22 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Haider is the Interior Minister of Pakistan, its close but no cigar.
Posted by: Anonymous || 08/09/2002 15:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Like Taliban, it's probably some variation on the Arabic for "religious student". The a/i thing is because Arabic only has three vowel sounds.

Haider is even funnier, because Joerg Haider is the name of the Austrian that the EU thought was a neo-Fascist. He's still active in Parliament, too.
Posted by: Dan Hartung || 08/09/2002 21:03 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Four killed in latest church attack...
Crazed killers in Pakland continue their introspective struggle for personal perfection against unarmed people who've never done them any harm...
At least four people were killed and 23 wounded in a grenade attack on a missionary hospital outside the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, on Friday, the second incident against Christians in less than a week. A hospital official told IRIN by telephone from the historic town of Taxila, 25 km northwest of the capital, that one nurse, two nurse assistants and one of the alleged attackers were killed in the attack. "At 7:45 a.m. people were coming out of the church when two hand grenades were thrown at them," Joseph Lal, administrator of the Taxila Eye Hospital, said. "It killed three people and wounded 23, six of them seriously," he added.
It takes a peculiar kind of heroism to attack people walking out of a church...
According to another hospital official there were three attackers. One stayed behind at the entrance and two went in to throw the grenades. Early reports indicate that one of the attackers was killed but there was no immediate comment from the authorities of how he died.
Presumably the security guards got him. Or, being a product of the jihadi training courses, one threw a grenade and killed his accomplice along with a few others...
"After the diplomats, obviously the missionaries are a target now," a senior government official told IRIN in the capital Islamabad. "The diplomats have been provided good security but missionaries do not have as much security so they can be easy targets."
"Jihad" means holy war — the same thing Crusade means. Seems like there's a new Jihad starting every month. When was the last Crusade?
The eye hospital, established in 1929, has long been serving people from all over Pakistan and was popular for the free treatment it provided to the poor. The chapel, inside the hospital in front of a sprawling lawn, was set up in 1950s. "This is simply evil. The hospital has done so much good work for Muslims and everyone," an Islamabad resident told IRIN upon hearing the news.
Muslims have no need to feel gratitude...
Shahbaz Bhatti, chairman of All Pakistan Minority Alliance and a leading Christian rights activists, told IRIN from the hospital that everyone was "saddened and angry" at the site. "These incidents are a reaction of pro-Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces against the Christian community," Bhatti said. "And this will continue because the government has failed to provide security as we had repeatedly asked them to do."
The solution, of course, is to pull all Christian organizations and any Christians who want to go, out of Pakland and leave it to the xenophonic intolerance of its Muslim inhabitants. Then, in a year or two, we can be treated to pathetic film footage of these goobers walking around with the eyeballs falling out of their heads because they ran the eye doctors out of their country. Maybe we can have Eye Summits, the way the Africans have Food Summits...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/09/2002 08:23 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Paks still trying to define terrorism so it doesn't include them...
This appears in the papers the same day as the news of the latest church attack — against unarmed civilians who're running an eye hospital. The only way to define terrorism so that it doesn't include the Kashmir Killer Korps and the Paleostinians is to define it out of existence...
Pakistan has declared the ongoing struggle in Indian held Kashmir and Palestine against foreign occupation cannot be dubbed as terrorism and reiterated before the United Nations General Assembly that the country remains committed to success of the international war against terrorism. Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Munir Akram, addressing a special session of the General Assembly on the situation in the Middle East, said Pakistan is sincerely committed to the success of the international war against terrorism. He, however, differentiated the struggle for rights and terrorism, saying struggles for rights have nothing to do with terrorism.
"Y'see, as long as you're struggling for rights, you can blow up women, children, puppies, kittens, baby ducks, even yourself, and it's not terrorism, no matter how many people you kill. And you get to define the rights. Anything else — not letting God-fearing, pious Muslims have their way, f'instance — now that's terrorism."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/09/2002 11:44 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Maulana Abdul Aziz Nuristani kidnapped
He is? Why, that's terrible! (Who the hell is he?)
A group of Panjpiri commandos kidnapped prominent mujahideen commander Maulana Abdul Aziz Nuristani when he was traveling in remote tribal area.
Tusk-tusk. A simple holy man, traveling with his armed escort. Turns out he's head of an NGO called Jannatul Madaris wal Masajid that hands out money donated by a Saudi "philanthropist" named Suleman Aal-Rajhi..
Maulana Nuristani, a leader of Jamiat Ahle-Hadith was abducted by armed members of Panjpiri group, a Jamiat spokesman said on Thursday. Maulana Abdul Aziz Nuristani was kidnapped on late Wednesday along with another religious leader and his bodyguard as they travelled through a remote tribal area about 100 kilometres west of Peshawar, the spokesman said.
The panjpiri are an alternative (wahhabi) school to the Deobandi. Can't understand why they'd be inclined to kidnap a wahhabi agent cleric. Is he a heretic, over some point of doctrine too teeny-tiny to be discerned with the naked eye? Or are they just a bunch of bandits who want to pick up a few bucks and happen to go to that mosque?
"Maulana Abdul Aziz Nuristani and his two companions were kidnapped by an armed group of the Panjpiri faction at Ali Khel Khadezai, near Terrah," said the Jamiat Ahl-Hadith's Maqsood Ahmed Salfi. Officials in the region said they had given an ultimatum to the kidnappers to release the hostages in the next 24 hours.
Or what? They gonna turn into pillars of salt?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/09/2002 11:12 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Hizb ut-Tahrir workers sentenced three years
Hizb ut Tehrir is yet another of the hydra offshoots of the wahhabi sect, something of a wahhabi Muslim Brotherhood...
Antiterrorism Court No. 1 sentenced two members of Hizb ut-Tahrir, Umayr Maqsood and Khurram Ahmed, who were charged under treason laws for distributing pamphlet against the military dictatorship in the country, for three years rigorous imprisonment. Umayr recently completed his Masters in Telecommunications, and Khurram graduated in Commerce, were arrested for treason while distributing leaflets earlier in January this year. The pamphlets criticized the pro-American policy of military ruler General Pervez Musharraf over Kashmir and Afghanistan. “Today in Pakistan peaceful citizens have become hostage in their own homeland and the one who criticizes the reckless rulers is charged for ‘terrorism and treason’, says a news release issued by the Hizb-ut-Tahrir condemning the abuse of treason laws by the military junta to persecute its political opponents.
Somehow this was published in the Balochistan Post and the paper hasn't been shut down. Perhas there was some other little factor involved?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/09/2002 11:54 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Al-Mohammadi Party launched in Quetta
Starting another religious party in Quetta is like carrying coal to Newcastle, but...
Waja Abdul Salam Baloch established Tuesday a new politico-religious party by the name of "Al Muhammadi." He announced this while addressing a press conference in Quetta Tuesday. He said the new party's headquarters would be set up in Quetta and it sub-branches would be opened all over the world. The party manifesto would consist on believe in God, the Holy Prophet, security, peace and mutual co-existence. He further said his party would work for enforcement of Islamic laws in the world and would prove it to the world community that Islam believed in peace and co-existence and opposed terrorism.
And if we don't believe in them, too, they'll kill us all...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/09/2002 11:58 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


International
Pentagon briefing shakes Saudi rulers
Sometimes there's more than two sides to a story. This is from the Balochistan Post...
With one purposely leaked story suggesting Saudi Arabia as an “enemy of USA”, the House of Saud is kneeling down begging that they were and are “loyal and trusted” allies of United States and that some of their opponents wants to create a wedge between the Saudi Arabia and the United States.
Oooh. I like that idea — the Soddies kneeling down, begging, attesting their loyalty and trustworthiness — Damn! I used "Soddies" and "trustworthy" in the same sentence and my lips fell off...
The government which is responsible to lead the Muslims in their war against the new Crusade against Muslims was so upset that its embassy in Washington released a written statement of the Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal highlighting the alliance of the House of Saud with Americans during the last sixty years.
So despite their protestations and grovelling, the Islamists have been seeing them all along as leading "the Muslims in their war against the new Crusade." I wonder where they mighta picked up that idea? Seems to me, they're trying to have it both ways — the Vanguard of the Prophet on the one hand, Shoeshine Boys to the Merkins on the other... Y'know, according to the Taliban, you should have a brick wall pushed over on you for bisexual activity.
It is believed that the briefing was leaked to the Press purposely to extend a threat to Saudi royal family that they face US aggression if they did not support US attack on Iraq.
Actually, leaking briefings with subject matter like this is what bureaucrats do instead of peeing on someone's leg. It amounts to the same thing.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/09/2002 12:07 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Middle East
Syria will not give up an inch of its territories
Syria's foreign minister gives vent to whatever's bubbling around in his head...
Syria's deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Farouk al-Shara, on Thursday met with participants at the second camp for "Arab parties youths," al-Aqsa Intifada course, which is held at the higher Institute for political sciences in Damascus. Al-Shara talked about "Syria's unwavering and principled stand in supporting the Palestinian resistance and the Palestinian uprising until liberation, ending the Israeli occupation and founding the independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as a capital.."
He said "principled" and his lips didn't fall off...
Al-Shara indicated the importance of revitalizing inter-Arab solidarity and strengthening steadfastness and not violating Arab rights.
Anybody else's rights, no problem, but watch out for those Arabs...
He stressed that Syria will not give up an inch of the Arab lands and will stand as always beside the Palestinian people regardless to sacrifices.
Cheese. Sorry we asked... Oh. We didn't.
Al-Shara reviewed latest Arab and international political developments especially the international changes took place after the events of September 11, the American conception of terrorism and using this concept in the interests of the "Zionist hegemony in the world and perpetuating the Israeli occupation in the Middle East." Al-Shara also criticized the one - pole policy pursued by the US and its flagrant support to Israel in its continued aggression against the unarmed Palestinian people and against the besieged Iraqi people." He said that the US provides Israel with all sorts of advanced weapons while prohibiting the Palestinians and the Arabs from getting simplest self defense means.
The "unarmed Paleostinian people" are the ones who're blowing up!
He underlined the importance of the role played by youths in building the bright future of the Arab nation to "restoring back the usurped honor and rights."
In English, "usurped" means unjustly taken away. In Arabic it apparently translates to "pissed away."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/09/2002 08:22 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Hezbollah insults U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, Ivory Coast official...
Because women don't count for much in Islamic societies, I guess the Manly Men who lead the Armed Struggle® never learned good manners at their mothers' knees. They consider boorishness to be an heroic quality...
US Ambassador Vincent Battle expressed satisfaction with Lebanon’s efforts to round up militant Islamic fugitives in Sidon’s Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp Thursday, a day after the envoy’s first official visit to the southern city for a public function prompted a walkout by the head of Hizbullah’s parliamentary bloc. On the eve of Battle’s meeting with Lahoud, the ambassador paid a surprise appearance at the Sidon Rest House for a reception to mark the Ivory Coast’s National Independence Day.
That's one of those standard, warm milk receptions that diplomats have to attend. The event was a few kilometers from the Ain el-Hilweh camp...
When Battle arrived for the event Wednesday evening, Nabatieh MP Mohammed Raad, who leads Hizbullah’s Loyalty to the Resistance bloc, left the gathering without even greeting its host, Honorary Consul Mustafa Khalifeh. Khalifeh greeted Battle upon his arrival at the function that attracted a number of high-ranking Lebanese political and military officials and Ivory Coast nationals. But as the two entered the rest house together, Raad withdrew and was heard saying: “The devils have arrived and we should leave.” He did not greet Khalifeh, nor bid him farewell.
We can safely add arrogance, stupidity, and intransigience to the "root causes of terrorism."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/09/2002 08:48 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Yehiyeh to meet with Tenet
Probably nothing will come of these unending rounds of yap-yap, since the crazed killer set doesn't listen to a word the negotiator set says...
The Palestinian delegation to Washington has decided to extend its visit to allow for a meeting between CIA Director George Tenet and Palestinian Authority Interior Minister Abdel Razek Yehiyeh. On Friday, the Palestinians were due to see William Burns, the assistant secretary of state for the Near East, and Fred Schieck, the deputy director of the U.S. Agency for International Development. According to Israeli reports, a CIA team that visited the region secretly has formulated a detailed plan for security reforms in the Palestinian Authority. The team spent several weeks in the PA and Israel, meeting with top security officials on the Palestinian side, and apparently with Israeli officials as well, Haaretz reported in its headline on Friday. They did not meet with PA Chairman Yasser Arafat, as per the U.S. administration's instructions to circumvent him.
"Yasser Who?"... Every once in awhile, one of the negotiator set changes hats and becomes a member of the crazed killer set and ceases listening to himself. It's all very confusing, but it's become tedious rather than frightening.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/09/2002 09:50 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Saeb: It's either Yasser or... uh... chaos...
Palestinian leaders used their first high-level talks with Washington since President Bush demanded the replacement of Yassir Arafat to give a warning that his departure would heighten turmoil in the Middle East. Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, said that it was unacceptable for Mr Bush to make such demands. “We all know that the alternative to Arafat is chaos,” he said.
Ummm... Howcome we have Yasser and chaos? Where's the difference?
Mr Erekat led a three-man delegation into talks in the White House with Condoleezza Rice, Mr Bush’s National Security Adviser, before meeting Colin Powell, the Secretary of State, at the State Department.
Bet that was an interesting conversation...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/09/2002 05:09 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Given that choice, let's go with Chaos.
Posted by: BarCodeKing || 08/10/2002 0:19 Comments || Top||

#2  That's the choice they made. They already did.
Posted by: Fred || 08/10/2002 14:35 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
Jund ul Islam was behind attack on Salih...
A Taliban-ish sect of crazed killers that seems to have support from both Iran and the Iraqi regime continues operating against the Kurds...
In June, officials say, Jund-ul-Islam narrowly missed assassinating the leader of the Kurdish regional government based in Sulaimaniya. Five guards were killed in the attempt on the leader, Barham Salih, who was preparing for a meeting with a senior State Department official, Ryan Crocker, at the time.
That's who I thought it'd be...
Jund-ul-Islam has built a fortified network of villages and outposts deep in the valleys running eastward from Halabja toward Iran. The villages cover only a small area, perhaps as little as 260 square kilometers (100 square miles), but Kurdish officials believe access to the border could explain the recent growth of the group. They contend that as many as 120 Arabs and other non-Kurdish militants have arrived from Afghanistan to reinforce the 400 to 500 Kurds who are said to form the group's core.
They couldn't do that if the ayatollahs weren't letting it happen...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/09/2002 08:22 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Work accident kills two in Yemen...
An explosion ripped through a residential building in the capital San'a Friday, killing two bombmakers, police said. The Ministry of Interior said in a statement the homemade bomb went off prematurely, killing one person instantly and seriously wounding another, who later died on the way to a hospital.
Al three pieces of him were dead...
One of the victims was identified by police as Mohammed Abdel Khaleq al-Boreihi. The identity of the other and the motive for the bombing were not immediately clear. Police said three people, including one who shared the rented apartment with the victims, were arrested and were being interrogated. A search of the blown-up apartment revealed explosive materials and weapons, including rocket-propelled grenades, police said.
Yeah, but we're talking about Yemen. Everybody has those...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/09/2002 06:36 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


The Alliance
Jordan summons Qatar's ambassador over criticism in a TV program
The latest tempest in the Arab teapot. Is this designed to introduce a wedge between an American ally (Qatar) and another American ally (Jordan)? Naturally, the word "ally" is used in its loosest possible meaning...
Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Marwan Muasher on Thursday summoned Qatar's ambassador in Amman to inform him of the anger and regret of the Jordanian government after the Qatari al-Jazeera satellite TV station broadcast a program in which there was criticism of Jordanian officials. Muasher stressed to the Qatari ambassador that the TV program was an insult to every Jordanian, regardless to his political beliefs. He indicated that was stated on the "al-Itijah al-Mu'akis" (opposite direction) program does not fall in the context of the liberty of expression, rather in "the unprecedented and unjustified defaming and doubting of Jordan's militant history."
Jordan is fired up over an al-Jazeera program that criticized Jordan's conduct with regard to the Paleostinians — too supportive of Israel, y'know — and the Iraqis. They've banned al-Jazeera and pulled its license in Jordan. That freedom of the press stuff really gets under some people's skin, doesn't it?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/09/2002 08:22 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just what did al-Jazeera say?
Posted by: Tresho || 08/09/2002 16:06 Comments || Top||


Yemen to set up anti-terror group...
Talk about a thankless task... Little babies are born with moustaches and shootin' arns in Yemen...
Yemen is establishing a National Security Agency to combat terrorism and liaise more closely with foreign intelligence bodies.
Gosh, and it hasn't even been a year yet...
This follows joint efforts with the United States to try to strengthen security in Yemen. A decree by President Ali Abdullah Saleh did not say when the new agency would begin working or how it would be formed.
But they'll get around to it...
According to one report, the agency — working alongside the intelligence services — would be directly responsible to the president.
Of course, in Yemen almost everything reports directly to the president...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/09/2002 11:45 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:



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