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To: Skywatcher who wrote (45630)	3/3/2004 3:03:59 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 50167

Hi Chris, let’s keep a focus on facts and not create new myths in an effort to score political points. A reasonable reading of facts is most important if need to know the facts. Your concern ‘our fearful leader has taken down yet another government...that of Haiti.....’ Your concerns are absolutely baseless and devoid of basic precision. Any argument built on fiction will not stand the test of genuineness, misrepresentation of Aristide case is one such glaring example. I thought my expertise was limited to my sphere of knowledge influence that is the arc of crisis that I call Middle East but your post really encouraged to me show you the real facts in Haiti that is in your own hemisphere, what surprises me that why political extremists cannot see the true picture, why liberals are such opinionated fanatics, left in its extreme from Lenin, Stalin or Mao has made humanity suffer more than anyone else, although they claimed to support the down trodden, liberal left in capitalist society is equally intense in their view, if Governor Wallace supported one end of the extreme right today’s liberal left supporters are equally guilty of a similar agenda, in terms of hate extreme right and extreme liberal left have lot in common. Pope and the Mufti of University of Al-Azhar always find a common ground when it comes to human freedoms, both represent different parties of God but their extreme views make them great bed fellows. Here the rainbow coalition of Bush bashers’ includes equally great diverse characters, from Jackson to Ramsay Clark to Fisk, they all see things from one particular angle and that perspective helped Osama and Omar’s of the world to flourish. Honestly it was another bloodshed averted; Aristide was taken out by the rebels who never accepted results of flawed 2000 election. 'Truthout' is nothing but blind agenda to promote unabashed pacification and mislaid liberal leftist daft agenda around the globe. If rebels under ex-chief leading nearly 4000 members of police force of Haiti had entered the Presidential Palace and the capital Aristide throngs of supporters belonging to the privilege class would have suffered major casualties. That bloodshed has definitely been avoided, if saving lives and settling disputes in an orderly manner is a crime, this administration is definitely guilty of one, it is most shocking to see that facts are so incorrectly presented, even good deeds such as removal of a leader of country caught up in a civil war is politicised, even the great leader 'Chirac' told Bush that the smooth removal of Aristide form Haiti was good for the nation, and French for a change are on streets of Haiti helping Americans ands Haitians to restore order. According to Herald, Aristide ran a "failed government" that allowed armed gangs to roam Haiti and condoned corruption and drug trafficking. Government officials in Haiti and Washington told The Herald in early 2002 that Aristide was paying $6 million to $9 million a year for the 60 or so bodyguards, a considerable sum for the hemisphere's poorest nation. Aristide's decision to resign and leave Haiti actually troops Aristide's life - plus the lives of others - by ensuring a constitutional solution to three weeks of bloodshed. The Bush administration did block a last-minute attempt by Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to bolster his bodyguards -- mostly former U.S. Special Forces members -- fearing he wanted them to organize and lead a counterattack against the rebels who threatened his presidency, knowledgeable sources said Sunday. U.S. officials also forced a small group of extra bodyguards from the San Francisco-based Steele Foundation to delay their flight from the United States to Haiti from Sunday to today -- too late to help Aristide, said the sources, who are close to Aristide. Most of the Steele Foundation's contracts to protect foreign dignitaries -- it also provides security for Afghan President Hamid Karzai -- must be approved, officially or indirectly, by the U.S. government. Aristide's Steele guard rose from about 10 to about 60 in 2000 after an apparent coup attempt the previous December, according to Herald reports. Haiti's National Police -- a force of 6,000 that had shrunk to 4,000 -- virtually evaporated in the face of a rebel force estimated at a few hundred since the uprising against the president began Feb. 5. Aristide abolished the army in 1995.

To: Skywatcher who wrote (45630)	3/3/2004 7:15:48 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

There is no shortage of people in our part of the world who are ready to blame Us for all evils, the Americans on this pager are not alone to heap crimes of humanity on USA even the mourning Iraqi in the most convoluted form of logic as they buried their near and dear ones shouted out in Arabic: "God is Greatest! America is the enemy of God!" Although the fact was that this attack was a brazen act to start a war within Shiite and Sunni communities, the promulgation of the constitution has shocked many a nations in the region, if Iraq can be democratic free federation why not Hijaz and Nejd? A constitution that will guarantee a very free and federalised Iraq along with Islam being agreed by likes of Hakims and Sistani not at the centre of the constitution but constituting the spirit of constitution is a clear and present danger to the fiefdoms of the region. Any bloodshed in Iraq constitutes a perverted sense of victory amongst those who want to see Iraq bleed to death and anarchy. "This attack was carried out by terrorist Wahhabis who don't believe in God," said Salim Killabi, a mourner in his 30s, referring to the strict Sunni sect, which many Iraqi Shi'ites identify with al Qaeda. "Al Qaeda are cooperating with others to kill the Shi'ites." U.S. officials and Iraqi leaders named an al-Qaida-linked Jordanian militant, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, as a "prime suspect" for the attacks, saying he is seeking to spark a Sunni-Shiite civil war in Iraq to wreck U.S. plans to hand over power to the Iraqis on June 30. Whatever happens the victory will be for forces that will see a free and independent Iraq..