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To: arun gera who wrote (42636)	5/21/2002 3:58:56 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

I just came from my club, we were old buddies Kishore Gandhi, A. V. Patel, Ketan Sharma and Ifthikhar Ali, and your dear 'Ike' to top it of, we all agreed war is not an answer, we toasted to peace and lets party we get it.. lets move on we are all one..

To: arun gera who wrote (42636)	5/21/2002 5:22:29 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

On a lighter note Arun, atleast for change Pakistan is not on the list..ggg should I laugh or cry I don't even know that.. The State Department branded Iran and six other countries as promoters of terror on Tuesday in a report shadowed by "the horrific events of Sept. 11." While Iran intensified its support last year for Palestinian militants attacking Israel, Sudan and Libya took some steps "to get out of the terrorism business" and North Korea (news - web sites) and Syria made limited moves to cooperate in the international campaign against terror, the department said in its annual report to Congress. Also cited were Cuba and Iraq, the latter concentrating its terror on opponents of President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) but also providing bases for anti-Israel terror groups, the report said. Lebanon, which was not listed, nonetheless was accused of refusing to hand over three Hezbollah operatives who are on the FBI (news - web sites)'s list of most wanted terrorists for their role in the hijacking of a TWA airliner in 1985. "The terrorist threat is global in scope, many-faceted and determined," Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) said. "The campaign against terrorism must be equally comprehensive." Releasing the 22nd annual report, Powell said, "Terrorists are trying every way they can to get their hands on weapons of mass destruction, whether radiological, chemical, biological or nuclear." Francis X. Taylor, coordinator of the department's office to counter terrorism, summarized the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States and said, "Additional terrorist attacks are very, very likely." The al-Qaida terror network is trying to regroup and "we are very much concerned," he said, despite 1,600 arrests around the world and the uprooting of the group in Afghanistan (news - web sites). Taylor said the State Department had no reason to question the validity of documents provided by Israel that seek to link Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) and other senior Palestinian officials to the financing of terror attacks on Israel. "We have not been able to make a final judgment who and how far up in the Palestinian Authority (news - web sites)" may have been involved, Taylor said. But he said of Arafat, "We believe he can do much more to control those activities." At the same time, Taylor said Jewish extremists accused in the report of attacking Palestinian civilians were as much terrorists as Palestinian suicide bombers. The report, without elaboration, accuses Israel of destroying the Palestinian Authority's security apparatus, an allegation Israel disputes. Iran is described as the most active sponsor of terrorism. Iranian President Mohammad Khatami (news - web sites) condemned the Sept. 11 attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, but supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei continued to refer to Israel as a "cancerous tumor" that must be removed. The State Department said there was no evidence that Iran sponsored or knew in advance of the Sept. 11 attacks, a point U.S. law enforcement officials have made privately. But Iran continued to supply Lebanese Hezbollah and Palestinian groups with funds, shelter, training and weapons. Hard-liners who hold the reins of power in Iran thwarted efforts to end the country's support, the report said. Rep. Brad Sherman (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., is drafting legislation to cut off future payments by the United States to the World Bank (news - web sites) should the bank approve any new loans to Iran. "By borrowing from the World Bank to meet its domestic needs Iran can use its other revenues for terrorism and nuclear weapons," he said in an interview. In certain areas, including Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, state sponsors remained a driving force behind terrorism, the report said. Iran, Iraq and Syria were all cited for backing terror groups.

To: arun gera who wrote (42636)	5/21/2002 5:26:23 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Daily times condemning the extremists and mullahs today in Lahore.. this is against excesses of Islamic law and extremists who are after a writer like me however a far bigger one.... Long live Ardeshir Cowasjee We take pride in the fact that there has been no communal backlash in our country following the anti-Muslim pogrom in Gujarat recently. But that is not to say that bigots and extremists have been banished from our shores following General Pervez Musharraf's passionate speech last January. Indeed, fellow journalist Ardeshir Cowasjee has complained of receiving dire threats from exactly such forces in the recent past for writing against the excesses of so-called Islamic laws left over on the statute books from the worst days of General Zia ul Haq and Nawaz Sharif. This is nothing new for Mr Cowasjee. He is a courageous man who stands for justice. But it is a matter of concern that he should be subjected to such treatment by certain elements in full view of General Pervez Musharraf without any action being taken against them by the General's government. These threats should not be taken as idle. We are dealing here with elements whose whole philosophy of life is based on the suppression of truth by means of violence, destruction and arson. Therefore the authorities must make absolutely sure that no harm comes to Mr Cowasjee. At any rate, the state should not tolerate any individual or group that resorts to vigilante action or instigates others to it.