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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (275)	11/15/2001 6:43:52 AM
From: Scoobah	Respond to of 32591

13:08 15/11/2001 Mullah Omar: we will destroy U.S. By News Agencies haaretzdaily.com In an interview with the BBC, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar vowed to destroy the U.S. and said that a plan is currently being implemented to achieve this goal. The interview was conducted via satellite telephone from Kandahar. Following are excerpts of the interview: BBC: What do you think of the current situation in Afghanistan? Omar: You (the BBC) and American puppet radios have created concern. But the current situation in Afghanistan is related to a bigger cause - that is the destruction of America... BBC: What do you mean by the destruction of America? Do you have a concrete plan to implement this? Omar: The plan is going ahead and, God willing, it is being implemented. But it is a huge task, which is beyond the will and comprehension of human beings. If God's help is with us, this will happen within a short period of time; keep in mind this prediction. BBC: Osama Bin Laden has reportedly threatened that he would use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against America. Is your threat related to his? Omar: This is not a matter of weapons. We are hopeful for God's help. The real matter is the extinction of America. And, God willing, it (America) will fall to the ground. BBC: During the past few days, you have lost control of several provinces. Are you hopeful to regain the lost territory? Omar: We are hopeful that you will see the same kind of change that you saw (losing and regaining territory). BBC: What was the reason for the fast retreat? Why have your troops fled the cities? Is it because you suffered heavily from the U.S. bombings or have your soldiers betrayed you? Omar: I told you that it is related to the larger task.... BBC: Can you tell us which provinces are under your control at the moment? Omar: We have four-five provinces. But it is not important how many provinces we have under our control. Once we did not have a single province, and then the time came when we had all the provinces, which we have lost in a week. So the numbers of the provinces are not important. BBC: As your participation in the future government has already been ruled out - if some of your forces decide to join the future government as representatives of the Taleban in general or to moderate Taleban, will you oppose it? Omar: There is no such thing in the Taleban. All Taleban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ("ifraat", or doing something to excess) and conservatism ("tafreet", or doing something insufficiently). So in that sense, we are all moderates - taking the middle path. The struggle for a broad-based government has been going on for the last 20 years, but nothing came of it. We will not accept a government of wrong-doers. We prefer death than to be a part of an evil government. I tell you, keep this in mind. This is my prediction. You believe it or not - it's up to you. But we will have to wait and see. The BBC said on its website www.bbc.co.uk that its Pashtu service had asked the questions through a Taliban intermediary. He passed them on to the Taliban leader through a hand-held radio and then attached the phone's receiver to the radio for Mullah Omar's answers.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (275)	11/15/2001 6:52:43 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Nadine, Jordan is a state that the Brit's cut out of the former state designated for a Jewish homeland by Balfour, when all modern ME states borders were defined from India to Marrocco after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Jordan is wath the Arabs want a so called Palestinian State. The name Jordan came from the previously Trans- Jordan - e.g. East of the river Jordan and this state was carved out of the Jewish homeland to compensate the Hashemite tribe from the Mecca and Medina region for their contribution to the Brit's in their war against the Ottoman Empire. Therefore there is clear fear in the Hashemite Kingdom from the local Arabs who call themselves Palestinians including terrorists like Arafat who came from Egypt. The truth is that there is no nation called Palestinians and it is an invention of the Arabs as Mr Farah writes Ever since I wrote a column last October called "Myths of the Middle East," readers from around the world have asked me what is meant by the term "Palestinian." The simple answer is that it means whatever Yasser Arafat wants it to mean. Arafat himself was born in Egypt. He later moved to Jerusalem. Indeed, most of the Arabs living within the borders of Israel today have come from some other Arab country at some time in their life. worldnetdaily.com Well, as an Arab-American journalist who has spent some time in the Middle East dodging more than my share of rocks and mortar shells, I've got to tell you that these are just phony excuses for the rioting, trouble-making and land-grabbing. ........................... The truth is that Palestine is no more real than Never-Never Land. The first time the name was used was in 70 A.D. when the Romans committed genocide against the Jews, smashed the Temple and declared the land of Israel would be no more. From then on, the Romans promised, it would be known as Palestine. The name was derived from the Philistines, a Goliathian people conquered by the Jews centuries earlier. It was a way for the Romans to add insult to injury. They also tried to change the name ofJerusalem to Aelia Capitolina, but that had even less staying power. ............................ There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc. Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of 1 percent of the landmass. worldnetdaily.com