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Politics : Attack Iraq? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (8055)	9/9/2003 7:33:36 AM
From: lorne	Respond to of 8683

chinu. You said....." No WMD. No Mullah Omar. No Osama. No Saddam. No link between Saddam and Osama. NO JOBS. Repeat NO JOBS. You got it. No Bush in 2004 "..... And if a report should come out before election that indeed WMD have been found in Iraq. You think this may help Bush's popularity? And if the US should manage to waste bin loden and sadam...think this may help Bush's popularity...Politicians like to keep a bit of ammo handy. :o)

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (8055)	9/9/2003 6:47:46 PM
From: Ruffian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8683

you must not be Chinese, a little patience GB will be ok..

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (8055)	9/10/2003 8:21:28 AM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8683

Militant sentenced to death for of Bali bombings Associated Press canada.com Wednesday, September 10, 2003 BALI, Indonesia (AP-CP) -- An Islamic militant was sentenced Wednesday to be executed by firing squad after judges found him guilty of being the "intellectual mastermind'' behind last year's deadly nightclub bombings on Bali island. "Imam Samudra has been clearly proven to have planned a terrorist act, and we hand down the sentence of death,'' Judge Wayan Sugawa said. Samudra shouted "God is Great'' after the verdict was read, while several people in courtroom cheered. Samudra pumped his fist into the air as he was led out by police. "Go to hell, you infidels,'' he yelled in English. Earlier, Judge Ifa Sudewi said that "the defendant (played) a dominant role in the Bali bomb blasts and ... is the intellectual mastermind behind the Bali bomb explosions.'' Samudra, 33, an Afghan-trained fighter has said he wants to die as a martyr. But during the trial he denied the charges that he had commanded the group of militants who carried out the Oct. 12 attack that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists including two Canadians. It was the deadliest attack since those on Sept. 11, 2001, in the United States. Prosecutors said Samudra selected the recruits and helped fund the attacks. His goal, they said, was to avenge the treatment of Muslims at the hands of the United States and Israel. Almost half of the victims of the twin blasts were Australian tourists, while seven were from the United States. Samudra's lawyers immediately said they would appeal the sentence, claiming that he did not deserve to be put to death. Death sentences in Indonesia are rare, but are allowed under a new anti-terror law adopted in the wake of the Bali attack. They are carried out by a firing squad of 15 paramilitary policemen. Samudra is the second of 30 suspects arrested after the Bali attacks to be sentenced to death. Last month, his coconspirator Amrozi bin Nurhasyim also received the death sentence. The Bali attack is blamed on the Al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah network said to operate throughout Southeast Asia. The network's commander, Riduan Isamuddin Hambali, was captured last month in Thailand and handed over to U.S. custody. Jemaah Islamiyah is also accused of directing last month's car bombing of a luxury U.S.-owned hotel in Jakarta that killed 12 people. Several suspects have been arrested in connection with the blast, but none have been formally charged. A court in Jakarta last week sentenced Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir -- who western governments say is one of the group's founders and its spiritual leader -- to four years imprisonment for sedition, but acquitted him of heading Jemaah Islamiyah. © Copyright 2003 Associated Press

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (8055)	9/10/2003 8:22:23 AM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8683

Samudra pumped his fist into the air as he was led out by police. "Go to hell, you infidels,'' he yelled in English There will be no tolerance for the koranic cult in my life nor the life of my children...EVER!

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (8055)	9/12/2003 10:30:49 AM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8683

Clerics denounce calls to liberalize Saudi women Associated Press Riyadh — Prominent Saudi clerics and academics warned Wednesday against calls for equality and increased rights for women, saying such efforts aim to make Muslim women more like "infidel" Western types. Efforts to give women greater rights are part of an anti-Islamic campaign spearheaded by the United States, said 130 Saudi sheiks and academics in a statement obtained by The Associated Press Wednesday. Women in Saudi Arabia are segregated in public places, they cannot drive cars, and they must be covered from head to toe in public in this strict conservative society. Islamic laws protect women and their rights, the statement said. It said efforts to change such traditions are "a vicious campaign from (the Muslim community's) enemy, led by the American government, to divert it from its faith." U.S. criticism of Saudi Arabia's lack of democracy and support for militant Islam in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States have forced the government to open up somewhat. Newspaper and magazine articles and television programs began to discuss reform, and even host women, something that used to be taboo here. The statement said equality between men and women is not possible under Islam. "Any calls for absolute equality is an illegal and illogical call," the statement said. It said allowing women to drive, a repeated request in the kingdom, would lead to "many evils." The religious establishment is one of the most powerful voices in conservative Saudi Arabia, which ascribes to a puritan form of Islam known as Wahhabism. theglobeandmail.com