CINA

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Hamas' armed wing vowed on last Friday(6.9) to renew attacks against Israel.. 

"The Israeli massacres represent a direct opening battle and that means the earthquake in the Zionist cities will resume and the herds of occupiers have no choice but to prepare the coffins or the departing luggage," a Hamas official said. "Soon Sderot will be a ghost town", he added.

 

The last developments reported today by Ynet/Yedioth Ahronoth:

 

Qassam barrage hits Sderot

 

Once again, town residents wake up to sound of Red Dawn alert system as four rockets land in open areas, following six rockets launched overnight; no injuries reported. Hospital officials: Man critically injured by Qassam on Sunday out of danger

 

Palestinians continue to bombard Sderot: Two Qassam rockets were launched at the southern town Monday morning at around 7 a.m., landing in open areas. Half an hour later, Sderot's Red Dawn alert system was activated once again after two additional rockets were fired at the town...

 

Read the full article here:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3261677,00.html

 

Peretz to IDF: Prepare to attack Qassam sources

 

Defense minister meets with IDF top brass for emergency security consultation on incessant Qassam attacks, turns down proposal to intensify action against Hamas, instead Peretz orders army to make all necessary preparations to hit ‘all elements involved in Qassam fire.’ IDF: Suicide bombings in Israel possible..

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3261590,00.html 

 

Sderot declares hunger strike

 

Residents of Qassam-battered town gather opposite home of Defense Minister Amir Peretz to demand security; since Sunday morning 26 rockets hit Sderot area, one of which critically wounded elderly man. Peretz's wife to protesters: I understand your frustration; I too am a victim of this reality..

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3261523,00.html

The so-called 'left liberal' Israeli daily Haaretz wrote today morning following:

'Haniyeh may be targeted if Hamas resumes terror'

Senior Kadima lawmaker Tzachi Hanegbi, declaring Monday that "confrontation between Israel and Hamas is inevitable," warned that if the ruling Palestinian party returns to terrorism, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and other Hamas leaders may be targeted for assassination... http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/725849.html

 

 

IHT/AP(6.11):

Israeli attack follows Hamas rocket firings

 

 

Al Jazeera reported yesterday:

Israeli air strike kills two Hamas men 

 

 

 

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First impressions.. about this f.. ugly event

 

Now since three days the streets of Germany are full with SCHWARZ-ROT-GOLD, black, red, gold - the "national" colors of Germany. Especially the mainstream press such as BILD, DIE WELT, BZ... are complete happy about the new "patriotic movement" in Germany.

 

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You should imagine that in West Germany and especially in West Berlin until the "unification" of Germany in 1990 to carry around or even to show the German flag was just a "previleg" for the nationalist, right wing, fascist scene. Except in front of some public official buildings(by the govt, etc..) nowhere you were able to see this shit.

 

[In East Germany, the former German Democratic(^^) Republic, it was different: especially on official public, nationally holidays, such as Mayday or the Republic's birthday(Oct. 7) it was a kind of duty for everyone to hang the national flag - the same color(black, red, gold) like today, just added in the middle with hammer, circle and ears of grain - in front of the window. At least until I was living there(1984). (Ha, once - I think it was in 1983 - we created our own flag, just red with golden hammer an sickle in the middle and we were putting it on our balcony.. and just few hours later the cops were coming and arrested us...). So to show the national flag in the east was not uncommon..]

 

But nowadays.. everywhere you are forced to see this shit: one care - two flags, two windows - four flags...

 

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In about two hours local time(CET) the team of Mexico will meet the team of Iran in Nuernberg.

Right now, since 3 p.m. in the same city a demonstration is taking place to protest the presence of the Iranian Vice President Mohammed Aliabadi, who wants to support the Iranian team. The organizers and supporters of the demonstration are people from the (extreme) right - such as the Interior Minister of Bavaria Beckstein, who would like to deport nearly all "foreigners", especially asylum seekers - to the chief of the party Die Gruenen(the greens) C. Roth and so-called "anti-german communists"(who are strongly supporting the state of Israel)...

 

Well, here you can read their call and list of supporters for the demo:

 

No hospitality for agitators and warmongers!
Solidarity with Israel – against Ahmadinejad and his German neo-Nazi friends

Despite international protests the Iranian football team was permitted to participate in the World Cup 2006, because the international football association FIFA supposedly wished to keep out politics. At the latest, by the time it was announced that the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmud Ahmadinedjad, might come to Germany to watch the matches of his team, the statements of the FIFA became empty phrases.

Sport was never free of politics. World championships and Olympic Games always served also as a political stage, not least in 1936 in Nazi-Germany. However, instead of showing Ahmadinedjad the red card, German Minister of Interior, Wolfgang Schäuble, announced: “We should be good hosts”. Contrary to this announcement, the signatories of this appeal demand a clear sending-off:

· No hospitality and no entrance ticket for an agitator, who has repeatedly denied the Holocaust, wants to wipe Israel from the map, calls for the extermination of Jews, finances terror, works on building up nuclear threat und threatens and mocks the whole civilized Western world.

· No hospitality for a man who – together with the regime of mullahs – is responsible for human rights violations, violence, oppression, and for the poverty of the population in Iran.

· We express our solidarity with Iranians, who suffer because of the regime or who have had to escape into exile.

· We demand a refusal of entry for Ahmadinedjad and criminal proceedings against him because of incitement of the people and denial of National Socialist crimes.

· We demand that solidarity rallies planned by neo-Nazis for Ahmadinedjad and his regime, will be stopped.

Germany should support the democratic opposition in Iran and in other countries of the Middle East and should work towards a change in these countries. Germany should be less concerned about being a good host for somebody who openly calls for the murder of Jews. Instead Germany should take care that Ahmadinedjad will not get a platform here, but will be sanctioned internationally and will get to know his limitations.

Already at the beginning of this year, these points were demanded by the late president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Paul Spiegel, of blessed memory, when he called for demonstrations against the anti-Israeli incitement campaign of the Iranian president. We want to follow this call under the motto “NIE WIEDER! NEVER AGAIN!” We want to set a clear example and we want to show on a huge scale that this preacher of hate is not only not welcome, but that he and his accomplices must be stopped.

There will be protests against the Iranian regime on June, 11^th at 3 p.m. at the Jacobsplatz (downtown) in Nuremberg..

This call for protest is supported, among others, by the following individuals and organizations:
Prof. Dr. h.c. Arno Lustiger, Ralph Giordano, Dr. Michel Friedman, Dr. Wahied Wahdat-Hagh (Iran-Experte - MEMRI), Efraim Zuroff (Simon Wiesenthal Center, Jerusalem), Henryk M. Broder, Prof. Dr. Micha Brumlik, Cem Özdemir (MdEP), Dr. Hans-Peter Raddatz (Orientalist), RA Albert Meyer, Nasrin Amirsedghi (Publizistin), Bärbel Bohley (Malerin u. Bürgerrechtlerin), Prof. Dr. Michael Wolffsohn, Dr. Daniel Pipes (Middle East Forum), Lutz Sikorski (Fraktionsvorsitzender der Grünen, Frankfurt), Jutta Ebeling (Stadträtin, Frankfurt), Pfn. Annemarie Werner (Vaterunserkirche), Tobias Jaecker (Journalist), Dr. Gudrun Eussner (Journalistin), Morten Friese (Journalist), Seyran Ates (Rechtsanwältin), Hannes Stein (Journalist), Dr. Matthias Küntzel (Publizist), Stadtrat Lothar Klein (ehem. MdEP, Vorsitzender Sächsische Israelfreunde e. V.), Frankfurter Arbeitsgemeinschaft der DIG, Harald Eckert (Israel Heute - Christen an der Seite Israels e.V.), Dr. Jürgen Bühler (International Christian Embassy Jerusalem), Anetta Kahane (Amadeu Antonio Stiftung), Ghodsi Hejazi, Klaus Faber (Staatssekretär a.D., RA,), Dr. Ruth Contreras (Scholars for Peace in the Middle East), Sacha Stawski, Daniel Hofmann, Gitta Mohrdieck - Honestly Concerned e. V., Rene Pollak - Vors. Zionistische Organisation Frankfurt, Martin Borowsky (Synodaler der Kirchenprovinz Sachsen, Vorsitzender DIG, AG Erfurt), Johannes Barth (Vorsitzender DIG Arbeitsgemeinschaft Rhein-Neckar), Prof. Dr. Andrei S. Markovits (University of Michigan), Dr. Hermann Kuhn (Vorsitzender Deutsch-Israelische Gesellschaft AG Bremen), Katharina Seewald (DGB Regionsvorsitzende Kassel), Dr. Klaus Thörner (Publizist), Prof. Dr. Heinz Gess (Fachhochschule Bielefeld), Jörg Fischer (Journalist u. Autor), Nea Weißberg-Bob (Autorin, Verlegerin), Chana Steinwurz (Standpunkte-Pädagogin), Dr. Martin Kloke (Politikwissenschaftler), Wolfgang M. Nossen (Jüdische Landesgemeinde, Erfurt), Thomas v. der Osten-Sacken (Wadi e. V.), Alternatives Jugendzentrum e. V. (Dessau), Jörg Rensmann (Redaktion typoskript), Steffen Andersch (Projekt gegenPart, Netzwerkstelle gegen Rechtsextremismus, Fremdenfeindlichkeit und Antisemitismus, Dessau), Bernd Fechler (Jugendbegegnungsstätte Anne Frank), Margitta Neuwald-Golling (VP European Council of WIZO Federations), Iva Svarcová (Filmregisseurin u. Produzentin), Ruth Sophia Nitz-Berthold (Rechtsanwältin), Jüdische Gemeinde Hamburg, Gesellschaft für christlich-jüdische Zusammenarbeit e.V. (Essen), ILI - I Like Israel e.V., Israelitische Kultusgemeinde München u. Oberbayern, IKG Nürnberg, B’nai B’rith München, DIG München, AmEchad n.r.V., Jüdischer Turn- u. Sportverein Makkabi, Zionistische Organisation in Deutschland (Z.O.D.), Frankfurt Loge B’nai B’rith, Wizo Deutschland e. V., Evangelische Marienschwestenschaft, Israelfreunde Hannover, Jüdischer Jugend- u. Studentenverband Hessen, Förderverein Ehemalige Synagoge in Hemsbach e.V., Freundeskreis Weinheim - Ramat Gan e. V., haGalil e. V., Prozionistische Linke Frankfurt, Redaktion Bahamas, Keren Hayesod Deutschland Vereinigte Israel Aktion e. V., DIG Aachen e. V., German Media Watch, Adass Israel Nürnberg, DIG AG Franken, Bündnis gegen Antisemitismus Leipzig, and approx. 4.000 other Jewish and non-Jewish organizations and petition-signatories (which can be viewed at http://www.honestly-concerned.org ).

 

A report about the rally you can read here(Ynet/Yedioth Ahronoth):

 

World Cup: Jews demonstrate against Iran regime

 

Some 1500 Jews, supporters demonstrate in Nuremberg against Iranian regime ahead of country’s World Cup soccer match against Mexico. Bavarian Internal Minister: ‘Ahmadinejad a criminal’..

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3261579,00.html

 

 

 

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Last but not least it was reported since today morning that for example Berlin-Friedrichshain, usually a city district, where more people are hanging around who are against fascism and rarcism, is more and more "visited" by aggressive acting people, who are possibly very close the the extreme right wing(fascist/racist) scene.

 

On 6.10 the magazine Der Spiegel published following experience by a German football fan who was later attacked by east germans(racists, fascists or what ever..). The text is just in German. If I will have some time.. I'll try to make a summary about it.

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,420657,00.html

 

 

 

 

All together: it's just f.. GERMAN INSANITY!!

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Yesterday eKantipur wrote following:

 

Maoists will be included in govt soon: Ministers

The second round of peace talks between the government and the Maoist rebels will take up major political agendas including the formation of an interim government containing the Maoists, two senior ministers said Saturday.

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Perhaps - if there will be one or two more "mistakes", so-called "incidents", such as Qassam, or more worse Katyusha attacks leading to the killing of Israeli citizens, or the next suicide attack inside Isreal with many victims - everything will be over...

 

...but the Palestinian "resistance" is already preparing this case..

 

Hamas calls off truce with Israel (Ynet/Reuters, 6.9)

 

Group's military wing declares cancellation of 16-month-old ceasefire with Israel

After a ceasefire that lasted 16 months, Hamas's armed wing vowed on Friday to renew attacks against Israel hours after IDF artillery shells killed seven civilians.

 

"The Israeli massacres represent a direct opening battle and that means the earthquake in the Zionist cities will resume and the herds of occupiers have no choice but to prepare the coffins or the departing luggage," the group said in a statement.

 

For the first time since the August withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, the IDF targeted a Hamas cell involved in firing Qassam rockets into Israel on Friday afternoon.

 

Mohammad Abu Sahila, a Hamas military commander, and his assistant, Ahmad Siam, were injured when a missile fired by an Israeli helicopter hit their car in Gaza's Jabaliya refugee camp.

 

Hamas' political leadership has not immediately comment on the statement.

 

'No Jews will be left in Palestine'

 

Earlier Friday, a spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees vowed on Friday to avenge the killing of the group's leader, killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza on Thursday and promised "there will be no Jews left in Palestine."

 

"The Palestinian resistance will plant death everywhere the Jews go. We will bring death to the streets of Tel Aviv and all the cities of the Zionist enemy until Islam prevails," Mohammad Abu Al, nicknamed Abu Abir, told Ynet.

 

The spokesman admitted the assassination dealt a blow to the group as Samhadana masterminded most attacks carried out over the last decade.

 

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3260914,00.html

 

 

Hamas: We fired Qassams toward Israel

 

At least 16 Qassams fired early Saturday toward Sderot, other western Negev areas; member of Hamas' armed wing says, ‘next time rockets will be longer in range; they will hit places deeper inside Zionist entity’

 

“Next time, the rockets will be longer in range and they will hit places deeper inside the Zionist entity"...

 

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3260964,00.html

 

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The latest escalation of the "conflict" between the Israeli side and the "resistance" fighters in Gaza, which is under full control of the PA and the new(Hamas) govt., started with the IAF attack  against a training center where Jamal Abu Samhadana, the general inspector of the Palestinian Interior and National Security Ministry, was killed last week.

Samhadana's aim was clear: 'Jews our only enemy', he told the Sunday Times(GB). In my opinion he was just a f.. reactionary.. [in German I would say 'Faschistenschwein'.. (mi-anh hae-yo..)].

More you can read here:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3260716,00.html

 

 

More about the latest developments there you can read here:

 

Hamas fires rockets at Israel   (IHT/NYT)

 

Hamas ends truce, fires rockets   (Al Jazeera)

 

 

Abbas blasts 'Gaza massacre' (Ynet/Yedioth Ahronoth)      

 

Palestinian president condemns Israel for killing of seven Ralia family members in Beit Lahiya Saturday; sets July 26 as date for referendum in PA; Hamas rejects vote. Meanwhile, thousands attend funerals in Gaza. Masses call for revenge, Jihad against Israel..

 

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3261058,00.html

 

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Finally this is a very sad development... and only the "ordinary" people, especially in the Palestinian territories(mainly in Gaza), who are not directly involved, will suffer more and more... and nobody cares about them..

 

 

 

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While the "entire world" is watching/following the 2006 World Cup, the "conflict" between Palestine and Israel is inreasing - perhaps without no(really) intl attention..

 

THE ESCALATION OF THE CONFLICT IS INCREASING SINCE THE LAST TWO DAYS.. (Well, why not calling this f.. shit, as what it is - or at least will be soon??!! WAR)

 

After the I"D"F( http://www1.idf.il/DOVER/site/homepage.asp?clr=1&sl=EN&id=-8888 ) was attacking before yesterday a training camp in Gaza, where several Palestinian militants were killed, the situation in the region is getting.. Yo, what you think???

 

OK, here a kind of chronology:

 

The Guardian(GB) wrote yesterday morning:

 

Hamas official killed in Israeli air strike

 

 

 

More about the issue you can read here:

 

IHT/NYT:

 

Hamas official killed by Israeli airstrike

 

Al Jazeera:

 

Israeli artillery kills Palestinians

 

 

BBC:

 

Palestinians killed on Gaza beach

 

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Yesterday the new Nepalese Prime Minister Koirala returned home completing his four-day India visit. And following, according to eKantipur, some of the results of his negotiations with the Indian govt.:

 

India to release Nepalese Maoists, supports UN involvement in arms monitoring

Now it's official. India will soon release Nepalese Maoists jailed in India, and it will support the United Nations role in the monitoring of arms during the Constituent Assembly elections.

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Yesterday I wrote: "After the 'termination'... it seems that everyone is quite happy". Actually - of course - it is not the real truth. Because there are also many people, who are very concerned about what will come as next..

 

About one person who have big problems with the killing of Zarqawi you can read here, published yesterday in the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth(based on AFP news):

 

 

Father of al-Zarqawi victim: More violence coming

 

Father of Jewish American businessman Nick Berg, allegedly beheaded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, says he regrets death of his son's murderer, warns of upsurge in Iraq violence 

 
The father of Nick Berg, a US businessman allegedly beheaded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi , said Thursday he regretted the death of his son's murderer and warned of an upsurge in violence in Iraq.

 

"The death of every human being is a tragedy," Michael Berg said in a statement.

 

"The death of Mr. Zarqawi means a continuation of the violence and revenge that took the life of my son," he said. "This will mean an increase in violence and resistance to the occupation of Iraq by the US military."

 
 
The headless body of Nick Berg, 26, who had gone to Iraq to look into business opportunities in the communications industry, was found in May 2004, and the video of his beheading appeared on an Al-Qaeda linked website a few days later.

 

'I don't believe in revenge'

 

Michael Berg, a long time anti-war activist and a particularly vocal critic of the US-led invasion of Iraq, is currently standing as a Green Party candidate for the November elections to the US Congress.

 

"Revenge is something that I do not follow, I do (not) ask for, I do not wish for against anybody," said Berg who, in an interview with CNN, repeatedly refused to voice any pleasure in Zarqawi's death.

 

"How could a human being be glad that another human being is dead?" he said.

 

"He (Zarqawi) has a family who reacts just as my family reacted when Nick was killed, and I feel badly for that," Berg said. "I feel doubly badly because Zarqawi was a political figure, and his death will re-ignite another wave of revenge."

 

Berg's arrest

 

Nick Berg first went to Iraq in December, 2003 and stayed for more than one month.

 

He went back in March the following year, keeping in touch with his family by phone or e-mail every day, ahead of his planned return home at the end of the month.

 

Instead, for a reason still not fully explained, Berg was arrested by Iraqi police and jailed.

 

The FBI also became involved in his case and he was eventually released on April 6 after his desperate parents filed suit in federal court in Philadelphia, contending that he was being illegally held by the US military.

 
 

Berg immediately contacted his parents, but after a final phone call on April 9, communication ended completely and they never heard from him again.

 

Berg was Jewish, although the matter of his religion was never mentioned in the video statement read by his masked captors prior to his execution.

 

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3260655,00.html

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..supplement:

 

Just yesterday I found following article by Voice of People(민중의 소리) about the police and military aggression against the village of Daechuri in the beginning of last month.

 

 

Police and troops ravaged the land of peace

Government broked away conversation, and removed the Daechu elementary school by force

 

In contraposition to each other between Government and the residents around U.S. base extention in Pyeongtaek, a huge amount of policemen and troops Thursday forced the people and activists off the land.

A massive force including 13,000 riot police, 3,000 soldiers broke into the Daechu elementary school which is protected by only 700 residents and activists, and conducted suppression operations, almost a massacre.

The Ministry of national defense promised to solve the problem by conversation at first, but they suddenly broked away the talk one-sidedly on Wednesday and declared the forcible expropriation.

They are severely criticized by deciding to put the troops in.

△13,000 riot police broke into the Daechu elementary school. ⓒKim Chul-Soo, the Voice of People

△Soldiers suppress the people by force. ⓒJung Taek-Yong, the Voice of People

The 'operation' started just at the same time with the sunrise in the early morning while the soldiers set barbed-wire fence in the field of the U.S. military base to be.

The riot police held the elementary school completly as of 10 a.m. and assaulted the people and activists at random. Terrible bloodshedding could be seen everywhere. Around 120 severely wounded people went to hospital, more than 500 were arrested.

Daechu elementary school is the headquqrters of resistance and the symbol of peace for the residents of Daechuri village. The people desperately resisted and cried heart-breakingly, but the police finally seized the two story building around at six in the evening.

△Terrible bloodshedding could be seen everywhere. ⓒKim Chul-Soo, the Voice of People

△11 Catholic Priests including Father Moon Jung-Hyun were fighting on the roof of the school. ⓒKim Chul-Soo, the Voice of People

11 Catholic Priests including Father Moon Jung-Hyun were fighting on the roof of the school until then. After all of them came down on condition that all the arrested people are released, the police thoroughly demolished the school building immediately.

The expansion of Camp Humphreys is part of an agreement that was struck between Seoul and Washington in 2004. The camp is to accommodate both the command headquarters in Yongsan, Seoul, and infantry units stationed north of Kyongki Province.

Repositioning U.S. bases south of the Han River is significant for the two allies. Washington has been seeking to give its forces greater ``strategic flexibility'' under its global troop realignment scheme, while Seoul wants to take over more frontline security missions against North Korea from the U.S. military.

The base expansion work is scheduled to begin in October after a master plan for the construction of the consolidated U.S. base is drawn up in September.

△Daechu elementary school, the dream of the residents was thoroughly demolished. ⓒ the Voice of People

2006-05-04 ⓒThe Voiceofpeople

http://www.vop.co.kr/english/news_view_eng.html?serial=42589

 

 

 

Current developments in the same case: Hunger strike in the near of Cheongwadae("Blue House", the S.K. presidential residence). But the text you can only read in Korean..

 

문정현 신부 청와대 앞 단식 "올 데 까지 왔다"

구속자 석방, 미군기지이전 재협상 촉구     Here you can read about some of the latest developments in English: http://www.antigizi.or.kr/zboard/zboard.php?id=english_news http://saveptfarmers.org/blog/ http://www.saveptfarmers.org/

 

Just our future??

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THE "BUTCHER OF BAGHDAD" HAS BEEN KILLED

BY THE BUTCHERS OF WASHINGTON

 

After the "termination" of Zarqawi it seems that everyone is quite happy - of course the USA and its allies all over the so-called "free" world. But also Al Qaeda, while confirming his death, wrote that this is a "happy message" because Zarqawi died as a "martyr" and so he is now in the paradise(^^).

 

But believe it or not, no problems - only yesterday, short after Z's "termination", at least 40 mainly civilians were killed by attacks in Iraq - will be solved with the killing of Zarqawi...

 

 

Asia Times(HK) published today following articles:

 

Death of Zarqawi: George gets his dragon

 

The killing of the world's No 1 terrorist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, 40, in Iraq on Wednesday, as announced by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, will undoubtedly and dramatically change the political landscape in the war-torn country.

Al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq was killed in a US air strike on an isolated safe house north of Baghdad at 6:15pm local time on Wednesday, Maliki said.

The man who was portrayed as having been everywhere yet nowhere, and who has been blamed for every evil in Iraq since the US invasion in 2003, is finally dead. It is America's single most important achievement since the arrest of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in December 2003. Undoubtedly, for now, it will overshadow all the bad publicity the

 

Americans have been getting for the Haditha massacre of last November, where 24 Iraqi civilians were killed by US marines, or the Ishaqi massacre, where another 11 were killed by US troops in March.

As the world stands back to digest the killing of Zarqawi, who had a US$25 million reward for his head, Iraqis hold their breath, wondering whether his demise will actually make their lives any better. Or will his killing inflame the insurgency and produce many more Zarqawis?

Zarqawi's death marks a momentous two days for Maliki. On Thursday, Jawad al-Bulani, a Shi'ite and a former army colonel under Saddam, was chosen to lead the Interior Ministry. General Abd al-Qadir Jasim, a Sunni, was approved in parliament as defense minister. Jasim was until now commander of Iraq's ground forces.

The two key security jobs were left temporarily vacant when Maliki's government of national unity took office on May 20 because his coalition partners were unable to agree on candidates, and has been a major political stumbling block. Agreement has also been reached for Shirwan al-Waili to become the new minister for national security.

Since Zarqawi appeared on the world stage in 2003, he has been a phenomenon that has overshadowed his boss, Osama bin Laden. Many in the Arab world doubted whether the Jordanian-born Zarqawi even existed. (Some reports indicate that Jordanian intelligence provided information on the location where he was killed.)

Living up to the Arab conviction in "conspiracy theories", many argued that Zarqawi was created by the Americans to justify their problems in Iraq. Whenever something went wrong, they would blame it on Zarqawi. Or, as Arab radicals would say, he was created by the Americans to pin their crimes on him. And even in the US, on April 10 the Washington Post said the US military had conducted major propaganda to exaggerate Zarqawi's role in Iraq.

So while Zarqawi may not have been created by the Americans, he certainly was magnified by them, and inflated to dramatic proportions to justify why Iraq was in such a mess.

While the US is basking in Zarqawi's death, as is the United Kingdom, it should not be forgotten that they were not the only ones after his blood.

Jordanian intelligence wanted him. So did Maliki, the Iraqi Kurds and the Mehdi Army of Muqtada al-Sadr, the rebel Shi'ite cleric. So did the Badr Brigade of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), a leading Shi'ite organization. So did Iran. So did Saudi Arabia. So did the average Iraqi citizen.

In a recent audio message, Zarqawi not only attacked the US and the Sh'ite-dominated government in Iraq, but also Iran. He had even claimed that the US, Iran and Shi'ites in general were collaborating to destroy Islam. He has also plainly called for continued attacks against Shi'ites and called Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani an "an atheist".

Zarqawi, after all, did not have the religious legitimacy to become the No 1 leader of political radical Islam. Nor did he have the family heritage, connections and money of bin Laden.

Nor did he have the education and record of someone like Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's deputy. Zarqawi was a terrorist who appeared out of seemingly nowhere, to inflict as much hardship and pain on the Iraqis and the Americans as he could.

The crucial question is just how much Zarqawi was responsible for holding his side of the insurgency together - that is, will the edifice fall away, or withstand the blow?

As the British Broadcasting Corp reported, "It is likely he [Zarqawi] has had a considerable impact in terms of leadership, tactics and inspiration. But he was not a one-man band."

Indeed, writes Syed Saleem Shahzad, Zarqawi's killing could be a blessing for the Iraqi resistance, in which his notoriously awkward personality was a problem: he resisted strict orders from the al-Qaeda leadership to reconcile differences between Sunnis and Shi'ites. In fact, he did his best to exacerbate sectarian strife.

And Zarqawi was even a major problem for the nationalist Iraqi resistance in the hands of Sunni tribes of the north. Many times, they clashed with Zarqawi over strategy.

The Iraqi tribes in Samarra and Mosul have ties with the southern tribes, which are Shi'ite. Many top Sunni tribal leaders have houses in the upscale neigborhoods of Basra in the south, and many top Shi'ite tribal elders have houses in Baghdad.

These tribal leaders were members of a chieftains' council during Saddam's time and they knew one another well. After the US occupation of Iraq, the Sunni-dominated Iraqi resistance tried to make a breakthrough with the southern Shi'ite tribes, but Zarqawi resisted this.

This bred resentment against Zarqawi and his followers in Samarra, the nucleus of the Iraqi resistance, even leading to the sides killing each other's members.

With Zarqawi's death, therefore, there is a strong chance of a major reconciliation between the Shi'ite groups and the Sunni-dominated Iraqi resistance: the main irritant in their relations is dead.

The rise and fall ...
Zarqawi (whose real name was Ahmad al-Khalayleh) was born into poverty in the small town of Zarka in Jordan (northeast of Amman) on October 20, 1966. His family lived near a cemetery and by the time he was 18, both his parents were dead.

He grew up playing soccer in the streets of Zarka, and dropped out of Prince Talal Primary School before obtaining his high-school diploma, pursuing from here on the life of a "street boy".

Zarqawi became a delinquent young man who drank heavily, decorated himself with tattoos, and was arrested briefly in the 1980s for sexual assault in Jordan. In jail he was influenced by Islam and, on his release, decided to travel to Afghanistan to help fight the Soviets.

It seemed the logical thing to do for an able young man who could not get a decent job because he had a criminal record, no education and no money. The warriors who went to Afghanistan were well fed and well paid by the resistance leader, Osama bin Laden.

But to Zarqawi's surprise, the Soviets left Afghanistan in February 1989, just as he arrived. He did not engage in combat, but rather, befriended bin Laden. At the time, bin Laden was an ally of the United States, fighting a common enemy, the Soviet Union.

Instead of leading guerrilla attacks, Zarqawi became a newspaper reporter for an Islamic newsletter published in Afghanistan. Bin Laden tried to recruit him into al-Qaeda, but Zarqawi refused, claiming that his only enemies were the Jews in Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom in Jordan, whom he described as "perverters of Islam and a disgrace to the Prophet Mohammed".

Zarqawi eventually returned to Jordan with the one aim of toppling the Jordanian monarchy of King Hussein, a longtime ally of the West. He was arrested for his activities in 1992 and spent seven years in jail.

During this time, Hussein signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1993, adding to Zarqawi's wrath against the Hashemite family, accusing them of having abandoned the Arab cause. When he was released in 1999, he vowed to topple the monarchy (by now under the crown of current King Abdullah II) and replace it with an Islamic caliphate.

Contradicting stories emerged about his years in prison in Jordan. Some inmates described him as a strong leader who commanded respect and fear from fellow prisoners, while others remembered that he was a man with limited political abilities, completely incapable of leading a political or military movement.

Out of jail, Zarqawi tried to blow up the SS Radisson Hotel in Amman, to create havoc in the Hashemite kingdom and disturb the new reign of King Abdullah II. When he failed, he fled Jordan and went to Pakistan, residing near the border with Afghanistan, where he reportedly met bin Laden again.

He then moved to Afghanistan and set up a military training camp, with bin Laden's support, in Herat, specialized in creating poisons for warfare. According to Jordanian intelligence, he also formed a terrorist group called Jund al-Sham in 1999, with $200,000 from bin Laden.

It was founded by 150 jihadis whom he had recruited from bin Laden's al-Qaeda. Its primary purpose was to destroy Jordan, and create terror in neighboring countries once part of Bilad al-Sham (Greater Syria), including Syria and Palestine.

Apparently, he continued to travel to Jordan, under false passports, and was arrested again in 2001 but was soon released. Authorities did not know who he was. Soon afterward, he was sentenced to death in absentia for the attempted attack on the SS Radisson.

After the attacks of September 11, 2001, a joyful Zarqawi went back to Afghanistan to help bin Laden and Mullah Omar of the Taliban in their war against the Americans. He was allegedly wounded in a US attack and traveled to Iraq to have his leg treated in a hospital owned by the Iraqi president's son, Uday Hussein.

By 2002, Zarqawi had set up permanent base in northern Iraq where he joined the radical Ansar al-Islam to fight against Kurdish militias striving to maintain Kurdish autonomy in northern Iraq. Throughout this time, Zarqawi was a nobody in world politics, unknown outside of Jordan.

His name became famous when then-US secretary of state Colin Powell gave his famous speech at the United Nations on February 5, 2003 (six weeks before the war), accusing Saddam of having weapons of mass destruction and links to al-Qaeda.

Zarqawi's presence in Iraq was one of the reasons Powell cited proving that Saddam was linked to bin Laden. The speech, which became famed for its inaccuracy, referred to Zarqawi as Palestinian and not Jordanian. A Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) report in 2004, however, confirmed that there was no evidence proving that Saddam was informed of or involved in Zarqawi's treatment at an Iraqi hospital.

It said, "There is no conclusive evidence that the Saddam Hussein regime had harbored Zarqawi." Opponents of this claim say that it would have been impossible for Zarqawi to slip into Iraq, and be treated at a hospital run by Uday Hussein, without the knowledge and blessing of the Iraqi president. Naturally, this was challenged by King Abdullah of Jordan, who said that Jordan knew of his journey to Iraq and demanded that the Iraqi government extradite him, but Saddam refused.

According to MSNBC television, everybody knew that Zarqawi was in Iraq in 2002. The Pentagon had pushed to carry out an operation against him at least three times, but this had been vetoed by the National Security Council. The administration of President George W Bush was interested in building up allies for its upcoming war on Iraq and did not want a small invasion for the sake of a until-then petty official in al-Qaeda, to jeopardize the coalition Bush was working on creating.

Former CIA official Michael Scheuer later told reporters that Bush "had Mr Zarqawi in his sights for almost every day for a year before the invasion of Iraq and he didn't shoot!"

When the war began, Zarqawi found himself in the middle of a battle he had longed avoided. He knew that he could not fight the Americans and had wanted to concentrate his operations against Jordan. Prior to the war, he had carried out a high-profile terrorist attack in Amman, killing Laurence Foley, a senior US diplomat based in Jordan on October 28, 2002.

When interrogated by Jordanian authorities, the three suspects confessed that they had received money and arms to carry out their operation from Zarqawi. One of the leaders of the operation, it was revealed, had received $27,000 for planning the murder. Zarqawi was again brought to court in absentia for the killing of Foley and sentenced to death - for the second time in his life.

At 36 years old, Zarqawi was one of the world's youngest terrorists, with two death sentences hanging over his head. There was no turning back for his terrorist operations so he decided to work full time from within Iraq, leading the al-Qaeda branch against the US Army after the downfall of Saddam's regime in April 2003.

On October 24, 2004, he officially announced that he was working with al-Qaeda, and on December 27, 2004, bin Laden delivered a speech that was broadcast on the Doha-based Al-Jazeera TV, calling Zarqawi "the prince of al-Qaeda in Iraq". He asked all jihadists "to listen to him and obey him in his good deeds".

A trail of terror
Among Zarqawi's "achievements" in Iraq are those listed below. They have either been attributed to Zarqawi, or proudly claimed by Zarqawi.

1. Bombing of the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad on August 7, 2003, killing 19 people.
2. Bombing the United Nations headquarters at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad on August 19, 2003, killing 22 people, including the UN envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello.
3. A car bomb in the holy Shi'ite city of Najaf on August 29, 2003, killing 85 people, including Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim, the leader of SCIRI.
4. Four car bombs at different police stations in Baghdad and the headquarters for the International Red Cross on October 27, 2003, killing 35 people and wounding 220.
5. A suicide bombing at the headquarters of Italy's police force in Iraq, killing more than 30 people on November 12, 2003.
6. An armed attack on the office of the governor of Karbala (another Shi'ite holy city) on December 27, 2003, killing 19 people.
7. A car bomb at the gates of the Green Zone on January 18, 2004, killing 31 people.
8. Two car bombs at police stations in Iraq on February 10-11, 2004, killing 100 people.
9. A truck bomb at a Polish base on February 18, 2004, killing 10 people.
10. A series of bombing on the holy Shi'ite day of Ashoura, carried out in Baghdad and Karbala on March 2, 2004, killing 181 people.
11. A car bomb at Baghdad's Mount Lebanon Hotel on March 17, 2004, killing seven people.
12. A bombing in Basra, killing 74 people on April 21, 2004.
13. An attack on US marines in Ramadi on May 2, 2004, killing six Americans.
14. The kidnapping then beheading of American businessman Nicolas Berg on May 11, 2004. He was shown live on videotape being beheaded by a masked man, believed to be Zarqawi himself. He claimed to be killing the American in retaliation to the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal.
15. A car bomb assassinating Izz al-Din Salem, the interim president of the Iraqi Governing Council, on May 18, 2004.
16. A failed assassination of Iraqi Deputy Interior Minister Abdul-Jabbar Yusuf on May 22, 2004.
17. A car-bomb attack on a convoy in Baghdad on June 14, 2004, killing 13 people, including three employees of General Electric.
18. The kidnapping and killing of Korean hostage Kim Sun-Il on June 22, 2004.
19. The kidnapping of two Americans (Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong) and a Briton (Kenneth Bigley) from their homes in Baghdad on September 16, 2004.
20. A car bomb in the Shi'ite town of Karbala, killing 60 people on December 19, 2004.
21. Zarqawi asked his followers to boycott the Iraqi parliamentary elections and unleash hell on those who participate, because by doing so, he claimed, they were legitimizing the US occupation of Iraq. No elections are free or real so long as the Americans are in Iraq, he added. On the day of the elections on January 30, 2005, more than 40 people were killed by Zarqawi's men.
22. A car bomb killed 125 people in Hillah on February 28, 2005.
23. A series of attacks in April-June 2005 after the formation of the Iraqi parliament led to the killing of an estimated 800 Iraqis.
24. A suicide bombing on July 16, 2005, killed 98 people in Mussayib.
25. A car bomb killed 112 people in Baghdad on September 14, 2005.
26. Car bombings at two hotels in Baghdad killed 17 Iraqis on October 24, 2005.
27. The deadly terrorist attacks at hotels in Amman on November 9, 2005, killing 60 people, including Palestinian officials and Syrian-born Hollywood director Mustapha al-Akkad, who had produced a film about tolerant Islam in Hollywood in the 1970s.
28. Another car bomb attack at the Hamra Hotel in Baghdad killed six on November 18, 2005. Bombers in two mosques killed 74 Iraqis.
29. About 180 Iraqis were killed in suicide attacks on January 4-5, 2006.

 

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HF09Ak03.html

 

Bin Laden's jihadi spring

 

 

The Guardian(GB) wrote this:

 

Iraq terrorist leader 'eliminated'

 

'A severe blow to al-Qaida'

 

IHT/NYT:

 

Bush sees 'severe blow' to Al Qaeda in Iraq raid

 

 

Al Jazeera:

 

Al-Zarqawi killed in air strike

•	Al-Zarqawi family reacts to the news
•	Obituary: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
	Oil down, dollar up as al-Zarqawi dies

The so-called "left-liberal" Israeli daily Haaretz(please check out also the talkbacks):

 

Al-Zarqawi killed in U.S. strike north of Baghdad

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaida's leader in Iraq who led a bloody campaign of suicide bombings and kidnappings, has been killed in an air raid north of Baghdad - a major victory in the U.S.-led war in Iraq and the broader war on terror...   Read the full article here: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=724649&contrassID=1&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=0   ...and so on, and so on.. Bla, bla, bla..

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