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Politics : The Truth About Islam -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (2863)	11/10/2006 9:32:56 AM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20106

Perhaps the most obvious explanation for the Bush administration's appeasement of Islam will be found in Robert Baer's book, Sleeping With The Devil. A few passages tell the story. Allow me to quote and paraphrase. With the Carlyle Group in mind, Baer points out that "There's hardly a living former assistant secretary of state for the Near East, CIA director, White House staffer, or member of Congress who hasn't ended up on the Saudi payroll in one way of another. At the corporate level, almost every Washington figure worth mentioning has served on the board of at least one company that did a deal with Saudi Arabia." "Every Washington think tank, from the supposedly nonpartisan Middle East Institute to the Meridian International Center, has taken Saudi money. Washington's boiler room—the lobbyists, PR firms, and lawyers—live off the stuff. So have charities, like the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Children's National Medical Center, and every presidential library of the last thirty years." One may put it this way: On the one hand, the U.S. buys Saudi oil and provides protection and security for the Saudi kingdom; on the other hand, the Saudis buy U.S. weapons, construction services, communications systems, and drilling rigs. Collectively, two-way trade between Saudi Arabia and the United States was $19.3 billion in 2000. "As the world's largest consumer of U.S.-made armaments, Saudi Arabia virtually makes the secondary market for American fighter planes, missiles, tanks, armored vehicles, and other weaponry and supporting services." Meanwhile, the Bush administration ignores the following facts: (1) 15 of the 19 hijackers that destroyed the World Trade Center and struck the Pentagon on September 11 were Saudis. (2) Since that fateful day not a single indictment or even a useful lead has come out of Saudi Arabia. So thorough has been the blackout that the FBI has not been allowed to interview suspects, including the families of the Saudi hijackers. (3) The Saudis have financed thousands of mosques, many in the United States, which preach a hatred of the West and of America that is "as vitriolic as anything heard in Iran at the height of the ayatollahs." Saudi mosque schools and universities have become hothouses of militant Islam, the breeding grounds of Sunni global terrorism. (Here one should not ignore the Shiite terrorism emanating from Iran. A nuclear Iran would constitute not only an existential threat to Israel but also to the United States. With nuclear weapons, Iran could blackmail Saudi Arabia as well as Europe, on which the American economy depends.) Is it any wonder that the American people are confused about the "war on terrorism" and the continued presence of American soldiers in Iraq? Democrats are repeating the tragic error that led to World War II. Yesterday it was appeasement of the Nazis. Today it is appeasement of their successors, in Riyadh as well as in Tehran.

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (2863)	11/10/2006 10:16:59 AM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck	Respond to of 20106

Post 7/11, Unani docs under watch Pradeep Thakur & Vishwa Mohan [ 9 Nov, 2006 0103hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ] RSS Feeds\| SMS NEWS to 8888 for latest updates NEW DELHI: Their profession calls for a healing touch. But they trade in terror, passing off as respectable members of their neighbourhoods while plotting violence. Recent arrests have linked Unani doctors to terror strikes, as far apart as Ayodhya and Mumbai, putting them firmly under the scanner of security agencies. The arrests of two Unani doctors for their involvement in the Malegaon explosions of September 8, 2006, is not the first time that this medical stream has come under cloud for links with a jehadi agenda. Medical practitioners and lawyers have always been on the security radar as the professions provide a perfect cover for meeting a wide range of people for "valid" reasons. According to an intelligence official, for a militant outfit, a lawyer, a doctor or even a local journalist is a good recruit as they have a wide social network and they can meet and identify persons with a radical bent of mind. Such young and vulnerable minds are considered best material for espousing the jehadi cause, sources said. Investigations in the recent blast cases have clearly spelt out a pattern involving Unani doctors. Police found that these doctors were not only allegedly involved in providing shelter to terrorists but also acted as conduits for money transfers. Such a trend was noticed in all major terror incidents including 7/11 in Mumbai, Varanasi blasts, Ayodhya attack and Shramjeevi Express explosion. While two Unani doctors — Salman Farsi and Farooq Iqbal — were arrested for their roles in Malegaon blasts on Tuesday, one Tanvir Ahmed Ansari from their fraternity was held by Mumbai Police for his complicity in 7/11. During investigations, it was found that all three had close links with the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). Ansari had allegedly even undergone bomb making training in Pakistan in 2004. Similar links were also traced by the UP police while probing the Varanasi blasts. A cleric working out of a Phulpur mosque in UP, Walliullah, claimed to be an expert in Unani medicines, had masterminded the attack at Sankat Mochan temple at the behest of Bangladeshi outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI). timesofindia.indiatimes.com It was found that the same cleric gave shelter to those who planted a bomb in Shramjeevi Express near Jaunpur in UP in July last year. Intelligence officials explained that terrorist outfits would not only try to tap professionals having wide social network within their own community but also try to work the other way round by training recruits as Unani doctors, lawyers or journalists before sending them on a mission. The three major blasts exposed other meticulously followed patterns. Sources said Malegaon terror attacks pointed a needle of suspicion at the involvement of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the terrorist organisation responsible for earlier strikes in Mumbai (7/11), Varanasi (3/7) and Delhi (10/29).