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At least 101 killed, hundreds injured in a series of synchronised attacks in Mumbai around midnight on Wednesday. Three top Mumbai Police officials also killed in encounter.
The reactions and the main points of the Terror attack are the following:
01. Mumbai attacks: 6 foreigners among 125 dead
02. Coast Guard finds suspected terror ship M V Alpha by which terrorists arrived
03. Top Mumbai City Police Officials killed in action. Army, Navy & SPG Commandos called in
04. At Oberoi Trident, five blasts in 15 minutes
05. India-England ODIs postponed, Test Series will continue
06. Fresh blasts at Taj Hotel, hostages rescued
07. Cricket Australia suspends India travel of various Australian Cricket teams
08. Indian markets shut; attack raises risk premium
09. Twenty20 Champions League postponed
10. Markets to take time bouncing back from attacks
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Date Line June 5, 2007
How scary is this? The courts have made the point that "unlawful" combatants differ from those protected by international law; the latter being "lawful combatants."
The Bush administration has made it a point to declare their "war" legal; because Osama Bin Laden declared war on this nation.
Here comes the hard part: If the declaration of war is legal, and lawful, it follows that the soldiers are also lawful. Any soldier, any al-Qaeda terrorist, must be a lawful combatant and either tried in a military tribunal under international war crimes laws, or released.
If not released, they are to be treated as enemy combatants as covered by the Geneva Convention. Failure to do so makes
Bush, Chertoff and the rest of the administration torture advocates, war criminals.
Bush not only should be impeached, but he should be executed for war crimes. Personally, I love it, even if it is not going to happen.
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Date Line May 6, 2007
Sigh ...
There is too much happening. We have Clinton wanting to fund the troops and al-Qaeda playing to Bush stupidity and Right-wing American egos.
Al-Qaeda number two, Ayman al-Zawahri, came front and center, to comment on recently vetoed troop/withdrawal funding bill, saying: "This bill reflects American failure and frustration ... this bill will deprive us of the opportunity to destroy the American forces which we have caught in a historic trap."
OK, ego twist. Iraq id an "historic trap" which has caught everyone. Al-Qaeda is emasculated. Bin Laden has not appeared and might well be dead. Certainly Bin Laden has lost control of the situation.
Still the Bush marching orders have been issued, and we can expect he will, as he has dutifully done in the past, attempt to follow them. In this case, al-Zawahri has specified that we "only get out after losing 200,000 to 300,000 killed."
Ok, Bush will do all he can to achieve that goal for al-Qaeda; but we lost less than 60,000 in Vietnam, and after four years of this nonsense we are down less than 3,500. At this pace, we will need to remain in Iraq for another two hundred twenty-five years.
Yea, Bush has been building the permanent bases, but are we really going to play this game for as long as we have been a nation? Time for a bit of reality on the al-Qaeda side. They are incompetent.
It is self apparent that al-Qaeda lacks anything approaching the competence of the Vietnamese. These al-Qaeda guys have delusions of grandeur, they have been beaten on their own turf.
Al-Qaeda can not tell the difference between Moslems and Americans; they have killed six hundred thousand of their own.
They can not even take credit for the American wounded; we know those came about because Rummy did not have the brains necessary to provide proper armor. Rummy and Bush get the full credit for American dead.
Ayman al-Zawahri is a joke. All his a-Qaeda forces can do is kill unarmed civilian women and children doing their shopping. Even the famed 9/11 was a sneak attack on unarmed civilians; and they couldn’t carry that out without the loss of ALL their forces.
As a military force, al-Qaeda are little better than kindergarten girls playing with matches. Except that the children would probably have had the sense to leave the fire scene.
What is disgusting about this whole thing? Our incompetent president doe not have the brains to accept victory and allow the Islamic jerks to argue their sectarian war over whether there have been eleven or twelve prophesied leaders since Mohammad.
Any "decider" with a brain worthy of being educated at both Harvard and Yale would decide to get out of the way.
Any "commander" worthy of the rank would know to leave the petty bickering to those jerks; a "commander" would simply lock them in to fight it out.
What is the worst that could happen? Al-Qaeda takes control of Iraq? How would they govern? What would they govern?
All they know how to do is kill unarmed women and children. One would think the husbands and fathers would get really pissed and wipe out al-Qaeda.
Where is the reality check? We have some petty thugs, without a homeland, being treated as if they are a valid nation with the right to declare war on United Nations member states.
This Homeland Security clown, Michael Chertoff, has granted them nation status. Get that, a clerk has granted the al-Qaeda mafia nation status. Since when does any government grant criminals, who are little more than mass murderers, statehood status?
OK. We are talking Bush Administration and Right-wing thinking; so what else could we expect? Certainly not intelligence.
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While most of the world is focused on Iraq, many have forgotten about an ongoing battle in Afghanistan involving a few thousand Canadian troops and other allies. Canadians grieve the loss of at least 3-4 soldiers a month, though very little is said about it anywhere, other than the Canadian news channels.
The reason I mention it is because a number of men from Nova Scotia have been killed in these battles. They heroically have been battling the Taliban and searching for Bin Laden for over 2 years now. Most of the world doesn't know they are even there because of the focus on the larger and more political war, at least that is my guess.
In February 2 people very dear to me head into the fight in Afghaistan. Until now most of the war has seemed fairly distant to me, but last month I lost a cousin, and now I send off his replacements with people even closer to me. The fight has moved into my own back yard, so to speak.
I often have wondered about the saying I hear about fighting a war abroad so it won't be fought "on our soil". It seems to me, and perhaps I am wrong, but to anyone with a loved one in such a dire place, the war is right here before us. It's in every thought, prayer, news story, newspaper, fear, and dream. Just because the milage is far away, does not make the fighting any farther away than one's heart.
I will pray for my loved ones and hope I see them again, safe and sound, and without the long term agony that war costs to physical and mental health.
Mostly I pray for peace, and for every parent or relative that bares the weight of fear while their dear one is away.
Namast'
We are in a religious war and most of us don't know it.
It was 1987!
At a lecture the other day they were playing an old news video of Lt.Col. Oliver North testifying at the Iran-Contra hearings during the Reagan Administration. There was Ollie in front of God and country getting the third degree, but what he said was stunning!
He was being drilled by a senator; "Did you not recently spend close to $60,000 for a home security system?"
Ollie replied, "Yes, I did, Sir."
The senator continued, trying to get a laugh out of the audience, "Isn't that just a little excessive?" "No, sir," continued Ollie.
"No? And why not?" the senator asked.
"Because the lives of my family and I were threatened, sir."
"Threatened? By whom?" the senator questioned.
"By a terrorist, sir" Ollie answered.
"Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?"
"His name is Osama bin Laden, sir" Ollie replied.
At this point the senator tried to repeat the name, but couldn't pronounce it, which most people back then probably couldn't. A couple of people laughed at the attempt. Then the senator continued. Why are you so afraid of this man?" the senator asked.
"Because, sir, he is the most evil person alive that I know of", Ollie answered.
"And what do you recommend we do about him?" asked the senator.
"Well, sir, if it was up to me, I would recommend that an assassin team be formed to eliminate him and his men from the face of the earth."
The senator disagreed with this approach, and that was all that was shown of the clip.
By the way, that senator was Al Gore!
Also:
Terrorist pilot Mohammad Atta blew up a bus in Israel in 1986. The Israelis captured, tried and imprisoned him. As part of the Oslo agreement with the Palestinians in 1993, Israel had to agree to release so-called "political prisoners."
However, the Israelis would not release any with blood on their hands. The American President at the time, Bill Clinton, and his Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, "insisted" that all prisoners be released.
Thus Mohammad Atta was freed and eventually thanked the US by flying an airplane into Tower One of the World Trade Center. This was reported by many of the American TV networks at the time that the terrorists were first identified.
It was censored in the US from all later reports.
If you agree that the American public should be made aware of this fact, pass this on.
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