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To: Skywatcher who wrote (47103)	10/19/2004 12:58:10 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Very sad.. Islam has become a hostage to insane lunatics, out for revenge on their losing battles through the blood of innocent people. In the name of "Allah" all kinds of inhuman atrocities are being carried out. How come "Muslim blood" is being targeted, becoming collateral damage in the jihad against infidels? The present set of attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan are aimed at maiming terrorists own ideological next of kin; Muslims, killed by their own Muslim brothers in name of Jihad! What kind of Jihad is this? The moderate Islamists lament with pain, " Et Tu Allah?." Defeatism has become prevalent in the Islamic World and self-inflicted pain has become pleasure. Forbearance, fortitude, patience - key qualities to make any nation great, has been sacrificed on the altar of hostility towards the US. The famous Khomeinite slogan of "murg bey Amerika" has become the clarion call of the extremist Shiites and OBL faction of the extremist Wahabbis alike. The commonality of purpose to establish a medieval order and arrest the progress of mankind has taken precedence over traditional sectarian disputes of the centuries. With the threat of looming free elections in Afghanistan and Iraq, the ideological gurus within Qom and Alqaeda headquarters of Global Jihad Inc. see their first and foremost enemy as the forces which are helping free elections in countries where there were no elections or electoral history. Elected governments in Afghanistan and Iraq, emerging from the ashes of war and destruction, will offer a new form of moral governance parallel to controlled "mullah-infested" kangaroo democracy of Iran, where those able to contest have to have a certification from an Allah-guided clerical institution. The hurdles to keep opponents out using the name of Allah have turned elections into a farce. The nightmarish scenario of outing sham democracies, as freedom is unchained, has sent tremors down the spines of leaders who have ruled masses without consent. It is in this backdrop where the world sees ideological foes, Sadr and Zarqawi, Omar and Hikmatyar, using the same manuals, so as to turn Iraq and Afghanistan into a total lawless zone. They anticipate the "waft of freedom" as a poison chalice and a death warrant for terror infested tyrannies; to extinguish this waft of freedom, every possible act of terror would be unleashed. The threat of possibility of "pluralistic governance" in the regions that are at the heart of the Islamic world has changed the course of politics in the remnants of the house of Khomeini and extreme Wahabbis. The extreme Shiite and Wahabbi elements have graduated from a collision course to cohabitation and cooperation. Wahabbis, who financially bankrolled the internecine Iraqi war in the 80's on Iran through their proxies, have now in the face of this "waft of freedom" donned new colors. Instead of deciding on the puritanical nature of revolution of Khomeini and Wahabb that was at the root of the Iraqi imposed war, they have now decided to mutually cooperate with the "ex-ideological devil" to defeat the common enemy of the "waft of freedom" raising its ugly head in the heart of the Islamic world. themedialine.org iranian.ws

To: Skywatcher who wrote (47103)	10/20/2004 3:48:50 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

Just to refresh your thoughts, this was how the 'media' was predicting that war will be fought around BAGHDAD? Now any piece of news that helps clean the egg on their face it is always a delight, although loss of human life in the tussle is not the real issue, it is about how correct ' we were.' The Pentagon plan for Baghdad is to encircle the huge, sprawling city of 6 million and then calibrate a series of urban attacks. But Baghdad is not Ramallah on the West Bank. The Jordanian intelligence source swears the still non-decapitated regime can survive a siege for months. Saddam - a huge admirer of Josef Stalin - is placing all his bets on the Stalingrad scenario. Of the six Republican Guard divisions, three of them, armored and with around 12,000 soldiers each, are firmly entrenched in Baghdad's inner defensive ring. The key elite Medina division is in the south of the city - ready to face the Americans and already under B52 bombing. Behind the Republican Guards there are still four brigades of the Special Republican Guards, with at least 10,000 and as many as 25,000 soldiers either placed inside Baghdad or back in Tikrit, Saddam's birthplace 160 kilometers to the north. They are disposed in four motorized infantry brigades and are very well trained in urban guerrilla. This is of course Saddam's Praetorian guard, coming overwhelmingly from the Albu Nasr tribe in Tikrit, from Baiji and from villages near Baghdad and west of Mosul. Asia Times Online has already reported how Saddam can count on the support of a complex network of tribes, clans and sub-clans in the Sunni center of Iraq (What is the US really up against?, February 21) Saddam is rallying his troops non-stop: "Inflict damage on them, and although it may not be big, you'll see how they will flee because they are away from home and because they are aggressors." He has made another jihad call on TV to the tribal and clan chiefs, encouraging them on the guerrilla war path: "Fight them in pockets, and when their columns move, hit their front and rear. Those of you who have been reluctant to fight and are waiting for the order, consider this to be the command of faith and jihad and fight them." Much of the resistance encountered by the Americans and the British in the Shi'ite south was by tribesmen and clansmen, some equipped with very sophisticated weapons. A mix of Republican and Special Republican Guards, civilian and military security, secret police and civilian militias will offer fierce resistance to the Americans. A well as Saddam, the 8,000 men of the Mudiriyah al-Am al-Amma (the secret police) all come from Tikrit: this is largely an extended family affair. Civilian militias - composed of five competing security forces - will be decisive in urban guerrilla warfare. These forces include the 5,000 men of the al-Amn al-Khas (the Special Forces) and the 4,000 men of the al-Mukhabasad al-Amma (intelligence services), which are spread out all over the country. There are also the 6,000 men from the al-Idakhard al Askkariyya (military intelligence) and the 5,000 men of Amm al-Askariyya (military security) - a secret police that answers directly to the Ministry of Defense and controls the key central district of Baghdad (their headquarters has already been bombed). There are still the 8,000 men of the Mudiriyah al-Am al-Amma, the secret police which directly depends on the Ministry of the Interior (all of these men also come from Tikrit). What is more surprising in this conflict is the fundamental shift in the political analyses and punditry churned out by the news organisations concerning the "difficulties of laying a successful siege to Baghdad". What has happened to the intellectual integrity of our media analysts when very few now actually discuss their flawed "opinions" of the course of the war. Zachary Latif 23:16