[Bangla Daily Star] A top Rajshahi University Shibir leader, accused of murdering Chhatra League leader Faruk Hossain, linked key central leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami and Shibir with the killing upon his arrest and interrogation by Rab.
Arrested Ekram Hossain, president of Amir Ali Hall unit of Islami Chhatra Shibir and a masters' student of Islamic studies department at RU, told a press briefing yesterday that prior to the attack on February 9, RU Shibir unit president Shamsul Alam Golap was in constant contact with the key Jamaat leaders and Shibir central president Rezaul Karim.
The key Jamaat leaders involved include Jamaat Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid and Maulana Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, he claimed.
Jamaat refuted his claim.
Mojahid said what Ekram said in Rab custody cannot be credible and it is 100 percent untrue. "We'd never think of doing such activities," he said, adding that such propaganda by Rab will tarnish the force's image.
A team of Rapid Action Battalion intelligence wing arrested Ekram at Kalampur in Dhamrai upazila Sunday raiding the home of a colleague of his elder brother.
Ekram claimed that SM Hall Shibir unit former president Anis' blow with an iron rod killed Faruk.
Ekram said he did not know what Golap and the Jamaat leaders talked about. He claimed that in the wee hours of February 9, Golap ordered the all-out attack on different dormitories of the university following directives of Rezaul Karim.
In the two cases, one for murder and the other under the Explosives Substances Act, filed in connection with the violence, Ekram is accused number-2 and -5.
He said Shibir men that night launched the attack in five groups. He along with Golap led a group of 30 to 35 and assaulted Chhatra League activists in three dormitories.
He said after the attack they brought out a procession on campus and around 3:00am took shelter at the home of local Jamaat leader and RU staff Hamim.
"There I came to know from Shihab, debate secretary of RU Shibir unit, that Chhatra League worker Faruk died after Shibir leader Anis hit him with an iron rod," Ekram said.
He claimed SM Hall Shibir unit former presidents Anis and Faruk, and incumbent Shibir president of the dormitory Ahad, secretary general Bappi, RU Shibir unit debate secretary Shihab, and leaders Sumon Gazi and Raju dumped Faruk Hossain's body in a manhole.
However, Ekram also said around noon of February 8, at least 100 Shibir leaders and activists including Golap and Shibir RU secretary Mobarak held a meeting and decided to attack.
So far Rab and police have arrested 29 Shibir leaders and workers.
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North Korea has launched a massive campaign to persuade people into farming to make up for a shortage, giving them ideological indoctrination and offering large benefits, sources say. Come for the fresh air, the invigorating labor, and the opportunity to give away at gunpoint everything you grow ...
Civic group North Korea Intellectuals Solidarity said the party held seminars at party chapters on Feb. 23 promising W10,000 in cash and 120 kg of food for households if they voluntarily move to farms.
The Workers' Party recently distributed copies of a training manual for senior officials on fortifying rural bases. "To increase grain production the most important thing is to make up for a shortage in the rural workforce. This is why blue-collar workers and office workers in urban areas, senior officials in particular, should lead the vanguard in the campaign." The regime is urging the wives of senior officials in the party and security agencies to set an example for others.
The regime is afraid of the possibility of mounting public discontent if it forces people to relocate at a time when they are seething in the wake of a disastrous currency reform. The regime is giving indoctrination classes to senior officials to move to rural areas and urging them to set an example, news media speculated.
But the group said such efforts would not be effective in persuading ordinary North Koreans to move to rural areas because living conditions there are very bad. "It's very likely that the regime will end up forcibly relocating them," it added.
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I suppose they have to do something. The military traditionally does much of the planting and harvesting and with the army on "full alert", who is going to prepare the fields for planting?
Recent lifting of all restrictions on farmers markets might help keep kids on the farm if they can make some money but there have been reports of some destroyed stores of grain when prices were fiddled with by the government. If storage space must be rented and the return from the product can not meet the rent, it pays to get rid of the product and shed the rent payment.
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like hunger isn't enough of a reason too farm, but I guess when you're starving it's hard too work a farm
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Even when the French ran Haiti as close to a slave labor death camp, they knew that they had to feed their slaves *something*, even if it was just a minimum of rice and some locally caught dried fish. Still, when the slaves revolted, it was not a polite affair.
One can hope that if the Nork people revolt, they will be equally harsh on their masters.
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Unlike the Khmer Rouge, the North Koreans are in it for the long haul, Frank. Besides, they've got their multigeneration concentration camps should they need additional labour battalions.
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gorb, the Ukrainians were the first to discover that being a peasant is no defense against starvation in a Communist state. Totalitarian regimes are really, really good at confiscating foodstocks, hidden or otherwise.
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My history professor spent about 2 years in a reeducation camp in Hungary in the 1940s.
He told us about the tiny garden plots the Soviets allowed farmers for their own families. These plots provided 95% of the vegetables consumed in the country. The collective farms, of course, failed; why work hard for something you won't be able to profit from?
I suspect that Kim et al haven't even permitted a postage stamp sized veggie garden for anybody.
China has gained the use of a pier at North Korea's Rajin Port for 10 years to help development of the bordering region and establish a logistics network there.
Lee Yong-hee, the governor of the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in China's Jilin province, made the announcement to reporters after the opening of the People's Congress at the Great Hall of People in Beijing on Sunday. He was quoted by the semi-official China News on Monday as saying, "In order for Jilin Province to gain access to the East Sea, a private company in China in 2008 obtained the right to use Pier No. 1 at Rajin Port for 10 years. Infrastructure renovation is currently underway there." It also provides access to the East Sea for Chinese naval units that otherwise have to go around Korea. Not sure how much that helps the Chinese, though it's convenient to the Russian/NK border and Vladivostok.
In an interview with Yonhap News on Monday, Lee said, "We're considering extending the contract by another 10 years afterward."
Jilin abuts the mouth of the Duman (Tumen) River in the southeast but its access to the East Sea is blocked by Russia and North Korea. "We hope that an international route to the East Sea will be opened via Rajin Port," he added.
Lee did not specify which Chinese company obtained the right and which North Korean agency awarded the concession. The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Feb. 25 said business investment in the North Korea-China border area is a normal business deal and does not therefore run counter to UN sanctions against the North.
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See also TOPIX > SOUTH KOREA: NORTH KOREA OPENS PORT TO CHINA, RUSSIA; + NORTH KOREA GIVES CHINA DIRECT TOEHOLD IN SEA OF JAPAN [ first time after 100 years].
* SAME > PENTAGON HACKED BY FAKE EMAILS CLAIMING NORTH KOREAN NUKE ATTACK AGZ JAPAN, + PENTAGON WILL NEED A STEALTHY NEW AIRLIFTER BY END OF THE DECADE [2010-2020].
Terrorism and the Middle East are continuing to roil the Republican Senate contest after a letter written by former congressman Tom Campbell emerged that appeared to contradict statements Campbell and his aides had made about his dealings with a radical Muslim professor.
The professor, Sami Al-Arian, contributed to Campbell's unsuccessful campaign in 2000 for the U.S. Senate. On Sept. 26, 2001, when he was teaching at the University of South Florida, Al-Arian gave an interview to Fox TV host Bill O'Reilly in which he conceded that he had said, "Jihad is our path. Victory to Islam. Death to Israel. Revolution. Revolution until victory. Rolling to Jerusalem."
Those statements quickly generated a furor and the university moved to discipline Al-Arian. Campbell, by then a law professor at Stanford University, wrote a letter to Judy Genshaft, the president of the University of South Florida, protesting any punishment.
Campbell had previously conceded that he wrote a letter on Al-Arian's behalf, but had said during a candidates' debate Friday that he did so before Al-Arian's interview with O'Reilly. His campaign's website also said the letter was written before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
The text of the letter showed otherwise. Dated Jan. 21, 2002, it said, " . . . I respectfully wish to convey my sincere alarm that Professor Al-Arian may be treated harshly because of the substance of his views."
Campbell went on to write that "I have formed this fear because of the paucity of evidence supporting the purported reasons for this discipline against him. I read a transcript of the 'O'Reilly Factor' interview last autumn, and I did not see anything whereby Professor Al-Arian attempted to claim he was representing the views of the University of South Florida."
Carly Fiorina, one of Campbell's opponents in the primary race, called on him to release the letter last week. The text of the letter was first disclosed by the website of the Investigative Project on Terrorism. Campbell's aides, who had said the candidate no longer had a copy of the original letter, then posted a link to it on the campaign website.
On Monday, Campbell said in an interview that despite the language of his letter, he had never read the full transcript of the O'Reilly interview, specifically the "Death to Israel" language. If he had seen it, he said, he never would have written the letter.
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Nothing like being on the wrong side of things. Burnt toast!
Al-Arian was sentenced to 57 months in prison, given credit for time served, and ordered deported following his prison term. He was to serve the balance of 19 months. In March 2008, the United States Department of Justice subpoenaed Al-Arian to testify before a grand jury. He refused to testify, and prosecutors charged him with criminal contempt in June 2008. On September 2, 2008, Al-Arian was released from detention on bond. He remains under house arrest, as he awaits a trial on contempt charges
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Yeah, I don't have a vote in it, being happy up here in Pennsyltucky, but from this vantage DeVore looks like the only respectable option. Campbell has some bizarre skeletons in his closet, and Fiorina left a trail of wreckage behind her in private life and seems to be a two-faced clown in political life.
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". But I just can't vote for Carly. I can't. Sorry."
So you will vote for DeVore and get Boxer re-elected? That makes a lot of sense ... for a Democrat!
So are you saying that Boxer is better than Carly?
Because that is actually what you are saying. You can't vote for Carly which means you will in effect be voting for Boxer.
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This is why Caliphornia is in the shape it is and why it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better. DeVore is clearly the guy you want and just as clearly doesn't have a chance. So you've got Carly, Professor Tom or Babs. Helluva choice. The only real difference is who they vote for for Senate Majority leader.
And it's not like it's a lot better elsewhere. Spector is leading Toomey in PA right now. And I'll really rile things up by saying that Bambi will easily be a two termer if health care is defeated. So things aren't really going to change until the war starts and looks to be as lost as in January 1942.
Confused about the recent slew of arrests and/or deaths of al-Qaeda and Taliban commanders in Afghanistan and Pakistan? Here's a roundup of who, what, where, and when.
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Pakistani security agents denied on Monday that an American al Qaeda spokesman wanted in the United States for treason had been arrested, saying there had been confusion over the identity of a detained suspect.
Some Pakistani officials had said on Sunday that Adam Gadahn, a California-born convert to Islam with a $1 million US bounty on his head, had been arrested on the outskirts of the city of Karachi.
But a senior government official and two security agents said on Monday the suspected al Qaeda operative picked up in Karachi was not Gadahn.
"Our initial impression was that the guy was Adam Gadahn but that information now looks incorrect," said one security official, who declined to be identified.
The arrested man was believed to be an American who goes by the alias Abu Yahya, the officials said. Gadahn is known to have used a similar alias.
"Probably the name and his origin caused the confusion," the first official said.
He declined to speculate about the identity of the arrested man except to say he was apparently an American al Qaeda operative.
"We don't know yet how big a catch he is," he said.
While ruling out another big offensive soon, Pakistan has arrested several senior members of the Afghan Taliban in recent weeks, including a top military commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.
But Islamabad has only officially confirmed Baradar's arrest.
Gadahn has been involved with al Qaeda's as-Sahab media wing and has appeared in al Qaeda videos wearing robes and a turban and warning the United States that it would face attacks if it did not heed al Qaeda demands.
On Sunday, a video was released on Islamist websites in which Gadahn called for Muslims in the United States to launch attacks to undermine the economy, according to a website that monitors al Qaeda announcements.
The FBI has been seeking to question Gadahn since May 2004, and the U.S. government has offered up to $1 million in reward money for information leading to his arrest.
The 2006 treason charge against him carries a maximum punishment of death.
Separately, a senior Pakistani Taliban commander linked with al Qaeda who the government said last week may have been killed in a Pakistani air raid telephoned a Reuters reporter to say he was alive.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday senior Pakistani Taliban commander Faqir Mohammad may have been among 16 insurgents killed when helicopter gunships attacked a militant hideout in the Mohmand region on Friday.
"I'm fine. It's just propaganda," said the man on the telephone who identified himself as Mohammad. The reporter has spoken to Mohammad before and said he recognised his voice.
"I was in Bajaur, not Mohmand that day. None of our commanders were killed in the attack. We lost some fighters and women," the man purporting to be Mohammad said, referring to another region on the Afghan border.
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NEWS KERALA > AL QAEDA FANATIC [A. Gadahn] OFFERS "GOLDEN OOPORTUNITY" TO LAUNCH TERROR ATTACKS ON US, UK [ + also Israel = "ENEMIES OF ISLAM"].
* DAILY TIMES.PK > [Gates]CIA CHIEF: AL QAEDA CHANGING ITS TACTICS.
* WORLD NEWS > CAPTURED AL QAEDA AMERICAN SPOKEMAN ["Gadahn"]ONCE THREATENED TO ATTACK AUSTRALIA [Post-MADRID, LONDON 2005 Tape].
SAME > [Gates - see above]CIA: INDIA, BRAZIL FACE THREAT FROM AL QAEDA [ + TALIBAN]. Emerging threats.
D *** NGED 1960's = 1980's MTV, OWG PAULA ABDUL + HER "TRIPS TO BRAZIL"! First she's wiping out her Daddy's Banana trees, next is BRASILIA + RIO!
[Iran Press TV Latest] Iran's Foreign Ministry on Monday congratulated the Iraqi nation for the high turnout in the parliamentary vote on Sunday, despite threats and "enemy plots."
In a statement, the ministry said the Iraqi people proved that the will of a nation determines its fate.
Iraq's electoral body announced Monday afternoon that 62.4 percent of the eligible 20 million voters had cast their ballot in the elections amid rains of mortar and rocket attacks.
At least 38 people were killed and 110 others were wounded in and around Baghdad on the elections day.
Iran's Foreign Ministry praised the high turnout as an act of great courage that could help improve democracy in Iraq, branding the elections as a turning point in the fight against occupation and dictatorship.
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[Ma'an] The Palestinian Detainees Center on Monday called on human rights organizations to intervene for the release of a Palestinian prisoner suffering from cancer.
The center said Kayed Hassan Hiron, from Nablus, was detained on 1 January 2003 and was sentenced to nine years. The Israeli Prison Service in Meggido prison transfered Hiron to Soroko Hospital, where his cancer diagnosis was confirmed and described as serious.
Hiron's family were allowed to visit him in prison, where they told the center they noticed a deterioration in his health and said he required special treatment, which would only be made available to him upon his release.
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We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.
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I would think he is probably getting better treatment in a Israeli prison hospital than he can get in a palestinian hospital
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The Lockerbee bomber, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, was released from a Scottish prison based on his terminal prostate cancer. Last I heard he had showed remarkable improvement after release.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Former commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has highlighted the importance of advanced technology for confronting "soft war."
Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, the Leader's senior military advisor, said that in his opinion the western culture has waged a new war against Iran.
His comments come as Tehran plans to hold a national conference on "soft warfare" later this year.
"We can block the enemy's cultural onslaught by using our own culture. Our enemies have realized that our culture and the Islamic Revolution is ever-expanding, therefore, they have launched an all out cultural war against us" Rahim Safavi said.
He pointed out that the number of Iran's 24-hour satellite television networks should increase to counter the enemy's "soft warfare."
"IRGC can expand the Islamic revolution's culture both inside and outside the country. We can export the Islamic Revolution's culture," Rahim Safavi concluded.
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OTOH TOPIX/PAKISTAN DEFENCE FORUM > IRAN SHUTS DOWN ANOTHER 17 NEWSPAPERS; + NORTH KOREAN ARMY [special section] TIGHTENS CONTROLS OVER [SoKor]POWS, ABDUCTEES, + CELL PHONE OWNERS.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Iran's gas exports will show a 35-percent rise in the current Iranian calendar year (ending March 20) compared with last year, says a senior energy official.
This is while the country's gas imports will show a decrease of 25 percent compared with the previous year, Iran's deputy energy minister said, IRNA reported.
Javad Oji, who is also the managing director of the National Iranian Gas Company, pointed out that although Iran sits on the world's second-largest natural gas reserves after Russia, the sanctions imposed by UN and the US on Tehran over its peaceful nuclear program have slowed its development as a major exporter.
"Gas import and export volumes have decreased by 25 percent and increased by 35 percent respectively in the current year compared to last year," he added.
Oji pointed out that Iran's gas producing capacity in the current Iranian year was 630 million cubic meters per day.
Iran is currently an exporter of gas to Turkey and Armenia.
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PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > EAST ASIA TO LEADE GLOBAL ECONOMY IN TEN YEARS HENCE [2020-Beyond] TEN ASEAN NATIONS + economies of KORYE [Korea(s)], CATHAY [China], + YAMATO/NIPPON [Japan] to exceed that of 16-NATION EU + USA???
The new International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general, Yukiya Amano, is stealing the spotlight with his dangerous approach to Iran.
The veteran diplomat, who took control of the UN nuclear agency after the 12-year reign of Egypt's Mohamed ElBaradei, inherited one of the most chaotic eras in the agency's history -- including the weak global security system meant to reduce nuclear weapons around the globe, while those non-members conducting nuclear programs -- such as Israel whose nuclear arsenal of 200 to 300 warheads precedes the regime's reputation and its belligerent actions in the volatile Middle East -- continue to refuse to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
The IAEA was founded 52 years ago for two primary objectives: to provide a sound basis for the global development of civilian nuclear programs and to prevent the development and spread of nuclear weapons.
The agency, which consists of some 2,200 professional staff members from more than 90 nations, has dispatched teams of inspectors around the globe to monitor and find government that are breaking their commitments to the NPT.
Upon taking the reins at the IAEA in December, Mr. Amano, who comes from the only nation struck with nuclear arms, befittingly pledged to fight the proliferation of nuclear weapons and to promote and regulate the civilian nuclear industry.
Mr. Amano, however, spared no time to divert the agency's full attention toward Iran and the long lasting dispute over its nuclear energy program, which the world powers allege is a cover for developing and spreading atomic bombs.
His first report on Iran, released on February 18, claimed that the UN agency had "concerns about the possible existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed activities" that could enable the Iranian military to develop a working nuclear bomb.
The agency, Mr. Amano said, will now seek to discuss with Iran projects "involving high precision detonators fired simultaneously; studies on the initiation of high explosives and missile re-entry body engineering; a project for the conversion of UO2 to UF4, known as 'the green salt project'; and various procurement related activities."
Iran, however, says it is not willing to discuss the alleged activities unless it is provided with the original documents that have allowed the agency to link the country's conventional military projects with its civilian nuclear program.
It also reserves the right not to share the information demanded by the IAEA, arguing that any country is entitled to keep its military secrets.
Nonetheless, Mr. Amano, who enjoys the full support of the United States and its allies, ignored the history of the nuclear dispute. And he even went on to contradict an American intelligence estimate in 2007 that claimed Iran had not conducted weapons-related activities beyond 2003.
"Addressing these issues is important for clarifying the agency's concerns about these activities and those described above, which seem to have continued beyond 2004," he said in the report.
In 2003, Iran announced its voluntarily suspension of uranium enrichment, which it is entitled to under the NPT, and reprocessing activities. The next year, the Iranian Parliament, Majlis, extended the confidence building measure while UN inspections at Iran's nuclear installations forced the then IAEA director general, Mr. ElBaradei, to declare in November 2003 that there was "no evidence" Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons.
His assurance was ignored by the powers, who responded to Iran's decision to sign the Additional Protocol by the imposition of United Nations Security Council sanctions resolutions.
The accusations continued under Mr. ElBaradei, while the IAEA continued to verify the non-diversion of Iran's civilian program.
Mr. Amano, meanwhile, stepped into the spotlight by claiming that the "alleged studies" -- branded by the ElBaradei administration -- were "factual."
The unusual tone prompted Iran to accuse the Japanese diplomat of bowing to the White House pressure his predecessor had managed to fight for years.
Iran's foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, said on February 22 that judging on the report, Mr. Amano -- who worked as director general for the disarmament, nonproliferation and science department at the Japanese Foreign Ministry -- has proven to be an amateur in the new position and must receive on the job training, according to the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA).
It is noteworthy that the IAEA report was released amid an effortless US campaign to win international support for penalizing Iran for its program and delays surrounding a nuclear fuel swap deal, which, if the West had shown flexibility, could have been a door opener for the struggling Obama administration on Iran.
Whether Mr. Amano wrote the report to lend an apparent hand to the White House and indoctrinate an international consensus against Iran remains to be uncovered but the report's immediate impact was likely to accelerate the confrontation between Iran and the Western countries.
Now, thanks to Mr. Amano, the dispute with no practical resolve in sight will continue to plague the ties between Iran and the United States.
The White House, under Congressional, Israeli and neo-con pressure, is fiercely pursuing a failure on Iran: Sanctions in the hopes of a breakthrough -- not realizing, that even if China and Russia finally support such a measure, sanctions will not alter Iran's course of action.
The Japanese diplomat, meanwhile, needs to be briefed on the history of Iran and understand the beliefs and objectives of the Islamic Republic.
The IAEA chief needs to realize that when the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, issues a fatwa -- an Islamic declaration that all Muslims are obliged to comply with -- and forbids the building and spreading weapons of mass destruction, including atomic bombs, he means business.
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ION WND > {John Bolton] DIRE WARNING: ISRAEL MUST STRIKE IRAN NOW. Israel's military option agz Iran declines every day nothing occurs.
* CHINESE MIL FORUM > IN NEW "RED DAWN" MOVIE/REMAKE, PLA TARGETS DETROIT.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has charged that the United States and Britain are engaged in spreading terrorism in the region.
"The United States and Britain and their forces in Afghanistan and Pakistan are encouraging acts of terror in the region," Mottaki said in an address to a regional conference in Tehran.
"Foreign (military) bases in our region have not been set up for stability and security purposes and military cooperation but are aimed at interfering in internal affairs of regional countries," he added.
He warned regional countries to exercise vigilance making sure that "deals with foreign forces will not threaten regional security."
The Iranian minister urged US officials to define the meaning of terrorism, saying, "They should speak about their links with terrorists, violation of rights in the name of human rights and their reason for keeping silent about the killing of human beings."
Referring to the recent capture of the terrorist leader Abdolmalek Rigi by Iranian intelligence forces, Mottaki questioned reasons behind the presence of the terrorist leader in the US military base in Afghanistan.
On February 23, the leader of the Jundallah terrorist group was on a flight from the United Arab Emirates to Kyrgyzstan when he was tracked down by Iranian security forces.
Rigi and one of his deputies were captured after Iranian security forces forced their plane to land at an airport in the Persian Gulf city of Bandar Abbas.
Iranian security forces said he was at a US base in Afghanistan 24 hours before his capture.
In his confessions, Rigi revealed details about his ties with some intelligence agencies such as the CIA and said that he had closely cooperated with the security services of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Mottaki addressed arrogant powers, saying, "They are fomenting terrorism in the region while chanting anti-terrorism slogans. The Islamic Republic has long ago given warning against this danger."
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[Asharq al-Aswat] Baluchi Kamal Narui, spokesman for the armed Sunni Jundallah Organization, which opposes the current Iranian regime, told Asharq Al-Awsat that the organization -- which has been engaged in confrontations to restore the rights of the Sunnis and Baluchi minority for years now -- will soon publish confessions made by an Afghan agent who works for the Mossad who was involved in the arrest of Jundallah leader Abdolmalek Rigi.
Speaking to Asharq al-Awsat by phone, Narui stressed that Rigi was arrested at a friend's house in the Afghan City of Kandahar. He dismissed the Iranian version of events, which claims that Rigi was arrested after the plane on which he was traveling to Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan, to meet with American officials, was forced to land at the airport of Bandar-Abbas City.
The official spokesman for Jundallah recounted the details of Rigi's arrest. He said that the internal security investigations, which the organization has conducted, showed that Rigi was arrested by US forces. He referred to a clear role by Mossad in this case.
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My head hurts. How does he get from American custody to the hands of the Iranians? Why would Mossad be involved, let alone telling tales to a member of Jundallah? Why shouldn't we just dismiss this as another fantastically-decorated room somewhere deep inside the Dream Palaces?
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