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To: goldworldnet who wrote (692799)	7/19/2005 5:22:24 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Yep... me too. (And, I doubt the 'Chechens' ever had access to unreported Russian nukes. Now, Pakistan would be a much more likely supplier, IMO... they have already been caught proliferating.)

To: goldworldnet who wrote (692799)	7/20/2005 7:44:34 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Afghanistan's Karzai says some madrasas preach hate Wed Jul 20, 1:00 AM ET news.yahoo.com Afghan President Hamid Karzai says some madrasas, or Islamic religious schools, were training camps for "merchants of death" and had to be closed down immediately. He also told the BBC in an interview broadcast on Wednesday that the al Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden was created to counter the former Soviet Union and received widespread support until it began to target the West. "There are places which are using the name of of madrasa and Islam for training terror, perpetrators of killing, training merchants of death," Karzai said. "Those places are not madrasas, they are actually training camps for terrorism. They have to be closed down and dealt with very strictly by all of us, wherever they are." Karzai is currently on a visit to Britain. On Tuesday, he and British Prime Minister Tony Blair called for the closure of madrasas which breed militants. Nearly two weeks after bombings in London which killed 56 people, the spotlight has focused on madrasas, particularly some in Pakistan, which borders Afghanistan. Three of the four London bombers were young British Muslims of Pakistani descent, and officials say all of them entered Pakistan through the southern city of Karachi last year. Pakistani intelligence officials say one of the bombers spent two months in Afghanistan last year and four months in neighboring Pakistan at an Islamic school of the type the leaders condemned. Karzai refused to say where the suspect madrasas were located, but added: "We have to close training camps wherever they are. "We don't have to go into intellectual arguments about them. The matter is very clear, they are terrorists. They are killing women and children everywhere, they are killing them in Afghanistan, they are killing them in London, they have killed them in Saudi Arabia." Karzai took over as president after a U.S.-led coalition invaded Afghanistan and overthrew the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban regime in 2001 for refusing to hand over bin Laden, who was blamed for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. Karzai said bin Laden's al Qaeda network was created to oppose the 1979-89 Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, and should have been dealt with earlier. "It was supported by everybody and as long as it was killing Afghans, innocent, poor Muslims, nobody cared," he said. "It began to be called terrorism when they reached the West. I am glad the world has woken up." Copyright © 2005 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. Copyright © 2005 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.

To: goldworldnet who wrote (692799)	7/20/2005 7:48:46 AM
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Women Protest Drift to Religious Rule in Draft Iraqi Constitution: Iraqi Constitution Draft Includes Curbs to Women's Rights By EDWARD WONG Published: July 20, 2005 nytimes.com "BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 19 - A working draft of Iraq's new constitution would cede a strong role to Islamic law and could sharply curb women's rights, particularly in personal matters like divorce and family inheritance." "...The draft of a chapter of the new constitution obtained by The New York Times on Tuesday guarantees equal rights for women as long as those rights do not "violate Shariah," or Koranic law." "... Under that measure, Shiite women in Iraq, no matter what their age, generally could not marry without their families' permission. Under some interpretations of Shariah, men could attain a divorce simply by stating their intention three times in their wives' presence. Article 14 would replace a body of Iraqi law that has for decades been considered one of the most progressive in the Middle East in protecting the rights of women, giving them the freedom to choose a husband and requiring divorce cases to be decided by a judge. If adopted, the shift away from the more secular and egalitarian provisions of the interim constitution would be a major victory for Shiite clerics and religious politicians, who chafed at the Americans' insistence that Islam be designated in the interim constitution as just "a source" of legislation. Several writers of the new constitution say they intend, at the very least, to designate Islam as "a main source" of legislation...."