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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: redfish who wrote (9885)	9/5/2005 8:00:19 AM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

It has long been said, yielding often brings more aggression; my how bold they have become: Palestinian Jihad Islami follows Hamas in exposing its commander, goes one better and launches an FM radio station in Gaza September 4, 2005, 11:35 PM (GMT+02:00) A leaflet called Dawn of Victory named and ran photos of seven Hamas Ezz-e-din-al Qassam commanders, some masked. It was run off in half a million copies and distributed around the Gaza Strip over the weekend. Jihad Islami followed suit Sunday, Sept 4, by disclosing the identity of its military chief for the Gaza Strip and West Bank: Mohammed Sheikh Khalil, 33. (See photo) DEBKA file’s counter-terror sources report he is the cousin of the notorious Ezz e-din Sheikh Khalil, terrorist guru of Hamas bomb-makes and masterminds, whose assassination in Damascus Israel organized a year ago with a bomb trap in his car. The late Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin called him the “Snake’s Head” because he instructed Adnan al Hul and Muhammed Deif in the arts of terror. In the early years of the 2000 Palestinian uprising, Yasser Arafat would pin the blame for suicide bombings on Sheikh Khalil whom he said was organizing them from Jordan. His cousin has now surfaced as commander of the Palestinian extremist Jihad Islami, which is funded from Iran. His disciple, Muhammed Deif, is presented as the pinnacle of Hamas’ Ezz- e-din-al Qassam pyramid of command. In interviews to Dawn of Victory, the seven terror chiefs announce that when Israeli troops withdraw on Sept 15 they will be confronted with a fully-deployed new front line along Gaza’s borders of small, highly mobile assault squads. Their tasks: to join battle with the enemy (IDF), surveillance and intelligence gathering and preventing Israel troops from re-entering Gaza. Supreme commander Deif is reported by Dawn of Victory as stating that the arms smuggling tunnels from Sinai to the Gaza Strip will still be important even after the Israeli withdrawal and Egyptian border guards are posted along the Gaza-Egyptian border strip. Hamas, he said, will continue to activate them at full capacity. This statement is clearly at odds with the assurances given publicly by Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman last week; Hamas is clearly determined to go its own way in Gaza and northern Sinai, irrespective of the Egyptian policing mission and presence. Like Hamas, Jihad Islami, which launched its “Voice of Jerusalem” radio station Sunday, is emerging from the underground. They are racing each other for domination of the Gaza Strip as soon as Israeli soldiers are gone. Hamas which is sworn to destroy Israel never conceals its objectives. In the last ten days, its fire has been directed against Israeli towns, villages and kibbutzim around the rim of the Gaza Strip - Netiv Ha’Asara, Kibbutz Erez, Kibbutz Nahal Oz and the Karni border crossing. Hamas has resumed its Qassam missile strikes across the border into Israel and has planted 30-50-kilo bombs on Israeli roads frequented by military vehicles. Hamas terrorist activity has climbed almost back to its former level. Chief of staff Lt.-Gen Dan Halutz declared last week that Israel’s response to Palestinian attacks on its forces would be disproportionately greater (than the provocation), a warning he repeated Sunday, Sept. 9. Those words have not been translated into action. But already both Hamas and Jihad Islami are taunting Israel with threats to come after Israeli forces after they pull back. They say openly they will strike from the same Gaza Strip as soon as they receive the territory free and clear from the hands of Israel’s leaders Ariel Sharon, Shaul Mofaz and Dan Halutz.

To: redfish who wrote (9885)	9/5/2005 4:23:23 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 32591

redfish. You said...Interesting that both times Bush was elected President, national catastrophes soon followed."..... Ya right... Interesting that Bush was not even in sight and Hurricanes hit the USA for years...and how about all the typhoons that hit now and through out history on the Asian side of the world? Hey how about all those volcano's and the recent sunami...interesting. Bloggers hail ‘soldier sent by God’ Monday, September 05, 2005 timesofoman.com DUBAI — Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged the US Gulf coast this week, has incited a storm of enthusiasm among bloggers who claim the destruction was sent by God to torment the American empire. “Katrina, a soldier sent by God to fight on our side ... the soldier Katrina joins us to fight against America,” said one website. Another said: “Allahu Akbar (God is greatest). Soldiers of God, Hurricane Katrina demolishes America. Don’t think that God doesn’t care about the injustices of tyrants.” Internet sites published dozens of photos showing crumbled buildings, overturned cars, flooded streets, devastated oil refineries, residents wading through muck and water and US flags ripped to shreds by the hurricane that wreaked havoc in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The pictures should “serve as a lesson,” one blogger said. “In spite of being a superpower and of its technological development, America was unable to cope with the power of the Almighty,” the writer said. Another blogger, who decorated his site with photos of Al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Iraq’s most-wanted man Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, said: “America observes silence over its human losses.” The perspectives were not limited to the Internet. A Kuwaiti Arabic-language newspaper published similar comments by the director of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Endowment’s Research Centre, Mohammed Yussef Al Mlaifi. “When the satellite channels reported on the scope of the terrifying destruction in America (caused by) this wind, I was reminded of the words of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him): ‘The wind sends torment to one group of people, and sends mercy to others.’ “I do not think — and only Allah knows — that this wind, which completely wiped out American cities in these days, is a wind of mercy and blessing. It is almost certain that this is a wind of torment and evil that Allah has sent to this American empire,” he said in the daily Al Siyassa. “But how strange it is that after all the tremendous American achievements for the sake of humanity, these mighty winds come and evilly rip (America’s) cities to shreds? Have the storms joined the Al Qaeda organisation?” He also cited a passage he found in the Holy Quran: “The disaster will keep striking the unbelievers for what they have done, or it will strike areas close to their territory, until the promise of Allah comes to pass, for, verily, Allah will not fail in His promise.” Many bloggers drew parallels between the destruction caused by the storm and that brought by US military action in Afghanistan and Iraq, and blasted US President George W. Bush’s so-called “war on terror.” “America fights Islam in the name of the war against terrorism, kills innocents in Afghanistan and Iraq and supports the Zionist entity (Israel),” said one site, then listing two dozen curses against the United States. Amid all the criticism, at least one blogger spoke out in defence of the victims, saying he was “exasperated at the rejoicing over the misfortunes of Americans.” “Certainly, the leaders of the United States have oppressed many peoples, but the citizen ... is in no way guilty.” The websites had also cast blame on south Asian countries hit by last year’s tsunami that killed more than 125,000 people, saying “the hand of God” was involved. Back then, one scribe described the tsunami as “divine vengeance against Thailand, a country of debauchery.” Katrina is estimated to have killed thousands in the affected regions and caused widespread property damage. — AFP