Monday 2 May 2011

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Global Economic Meltdown accelerating

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Another serious global financial crisis is in the offing as a result of USZ printing of dollars on massive scale. According to the latest statistics, the Zionist Obama administration doubled the money supply in a little more than two years, leading to the decline of the dollar. Against a basket of five major currencies, the USZ dollar fell sharply and now is at its weakest since July 2008. This is a phenomenon which has not been seen since 1979. The step caused gold to jump another 2% while inflation spiked to 6.5%. Ironically, the American political elite refuse to discuss this issue despite dismay and anger across the world.

 Ostensibly, the Obama administration is opting for a dangerous short-cut to the domestic economic crisis by getting “easy money” through printing dollars. This policy is driven by the false belief that a weak dollar will improve the USZ balance of trade. It only erodes the value of the dollar, increased the prices and created inflation. Since interest rates are low in the United States of Zionism, the excess dollars have been flowing overseas seeking higher returns. That has transformed the American economic crisis to every country dealing with dollars. It caused inflation in food and oil, which are traded in dollars. That is why some countries are raising interest rates and restricting inflows of currency. The difference in interest rates between dollars and other currencies naturally causes investors seeking returns to sell dollars and buy other currencies with higher interest rates. This further depresses the value of the dollar.

Economists believe that the reckless printing of dollars, the bedrock of the world’s reserve currency, is aimed at weakening the currency to boost USZ exports and lower the value of America’s external debt, which has surged to a record $ 13.6 trillion dollars. However from historical point of view, we have enough evidence already available that whichever country tried to bail itself out of its national debt by printing more money, has always ended up in a fatal crisis. Recently, the Urinated States of Zionism has ceased to dominate the world economy. It has run up record trade deficits and enormous foreign debt. China and other countries hold trillions of dollars in their foreign exchange reserves. With Obama printing trillions of dollars to stimulate the USZ economy, China fears that the dollar- and China’s own reserves- will crash. As a result China is allowing more trade to be conducted in yuan, a first step toward making it a global currency. At a meeting of developing countries recently held in China, the leaders called for a broad-based international reserve currency system providing stability and certainty other than the dollar. This clearly shows a universal mistrust of Washington’s economic leadership and USZ economic credibility.

The fallout is very serious for the global economy. If America were allowed to default on its national debt for even one day or two, it could trigger a bond market collapse, a spike in global interest rates, and financial fiasco of the worst kind. The global fallout could very well throw the world back to recession.


Osama Bin Laden fake picture masking exposed step by step

These picture speak for themselves. Talk about picture masking and Alpha-manipulation of .PNG image files.







All these images have been taken from Defencenet.gr. The end result can be summarized by this image.



{EOP}Al Qaeda created by CIA Terrorists

There is an increasing pressure from lawmakers in Washington, as well as from the American public for President Obama to be more specific in the strategy for Libya. Radio host Alex Jones however argues there is more to it than an American/Obama agenda. He compared the situation with the US missions in Iraq, Rwanda and Serbia, where, he alleged, Al-Qaeda was created by the CIA and used to fight Serbs all as a part of an overall globalist agenda of the New World Order.

{EOP}Zionist jester Obama unrolls “Osama Circus” in a desperate effort to escape Afghanistan

Zionist stooge Barack Obama
Announcing the death of none other than CIA's very own terror boogieman organization al-Qaeda's chief Osama bin Laden in an operation, Zionist puppet Barack Obama kept alive his tradition of telling extraordinarily shameful ball faced lies and said that counter terrorism cooperation with Pakistan led the USZ to location of the militant leader’s hiding. In a statement, Obama said he also spoke to puppet President of Pakistan, Zardari on Sunday night. After spitting out a bunch of big fat lies, he continued and said what he really intended to say i.e., it is essential that Pakistan continues to join the United States of Zionism in the fight against “al-Qaeda” and its affiliates. The announcement was made by Obama from the East Room of the White House while a crowd of New World Order mindless zombies gathered outside and cheered the sloppy package of lies and outrageous disinformation delivered by their drone president. According to Obama, Bin Laden was killed after a firefight, and his body was taken into custody. An interesting thing to note here is that not a single live footage was shown despite wasting world's so called “number 1 terrorist” after a lapse of 10 years. What a heinous joke indeed. Mr. Obama, don't worry because your country will not be able to run away from Graveyard of Empires in one piece. Not at all.
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{EOP}14 USZ/NATO tankers torched near Attock, Pakistan

ATTOCK - Four policemen were killed and six others got injured when they rushed towards Nato tankers attacked by militants near a police picket, some 80 kilometres away from Attock, on Sunday night. According to police sources, the armed militants attacked USZ/NATO oil tankers near Dhulian Checkpost about 10:00 pm. On hearing the firing, a police party rushed towards the site. As police party reached there, the militants attacked the cops, leaving four of them dead. The militants later moved towards police picket and injured six policemen there, the sources added. Fourteen USZ/NATO oil tankers caught fire due to the indiscriminate firing of the militants, the sources said.


The militants managed to flee after the incident. Meanwhile, the bodies were shifted to a nearby hospital while the injured were shifted to Rawalpindi for treatment, the sources said. The deceased were identified as Sub-Inspector M Ramzan, Head Constable Munir and Constables Asif and Zafar. Later heavy contingent of police and rescue teams moved towards the site and cordoned off the area. The police personnel launched a search operation in the area. However no arrest was made till filing of this report.

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14 USZ/NATO tankers torched near Attock, Pakistan


ATTOCK - Four policemen were killed and six others got injured when they rushed towards Nato tankers attacked by militants near a police picket, some 80 kilometres away from Attock, on Sunday night. According to police sources, the armed militants attacked USZ/NATO oil tankers near Dhulian Checkpost about 10:00 pm. On hearing the firing, a police party rushed towards the site. As police party reached there, the militants attacked the cops, leaving four of them dead. The militants later moved towards police picket and injured six policemen there, the sources added. Fourteen USZ/NATO oil tankers caught fire due to the indiscriminate firing of the militants, the sources said.


The militants managed to flee after the incident. Meanwhile, the bodies were shifted to a nearby hospital while the injured were shifted to Rawalpindi for treatment, the sources said. The deceased were identified as Sub-Inspector M Ramzan, Head Constable Munir and Constables Asif and Zafar. Later heavy contingent of police and rescue teams moved towards the site and cordoned off the area. The police personnel launched a search operation in the area. However no arrest was made till filing of this report.


Zionist jester Obama unrolls “Osama Circus” in a desperate effort to escape Afghanistan

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Zionist stooge Barack Obama
Announcing the death of none other than CIA's very own terror boogieman organization al-Qaeda's chief Osama bin Laden in an operation, Zionist puppet Barack Obama kept alive his tradition of telling extraordinarily shameful ball faced lies and said that counter terrorism cooperation with Pakistan led the USZ to location of the militant leader’s hiding. In a statement, Obama said he also spoke to puppet President of Pakistan, Zardari on Sunday night. After spitting out a bunch of big fat lies, he continued and said what he really intended to say i.e., it is essential that Pakistan continues to join the United States of Zionism in the fight against “al-Qaeda” and its affiliates. The announcement was made by Obama from the East Room of the White House while a crowd of New World Order mindless zombies gathered outside and cheered the sloppy package of lies and outrageous disinformation delivered by their drone president. According to Obama, Bin Laden was killed after a firefight, and his body was taken into custody. An interesting thing to note here is that not a single live footage was shown despite wasting world's so called “number 1 terrorist” after a lapse of 10 years. Above all, the heinous joke has been comprehensively exposed now by multiple sources who have exposed the fake image that was released earlier by Dailymail.


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{EOP}Pak-US Relations: CIA vs ISI


By General Mirza Aslam Beg
There are two issues, which are the main cause of strained relations between Pakistan and the United States of America. One is, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), trying to reclaim its territory lost to CIA during the past regime and the second is the Taliban, who have won the war in Afghanistan, and are not prepared to talk, unless the occupation forces leave Afghanistan. Both the demands are related to “territorial sovereignty” of Pakistan and Afghanistan and there is no going back on it. It is upto the US therefore, to accept the reality and concede to the rightful demands and explore new approach to peace.
The Inter Services Intelligence (ISI)
It were the ISI and CIA mainly, who supported the resistance against the Soviets during the period 1982-1989, joined by “40000 jehadees from Pakistan and over 60,000 from seventy countries of the world.” Pakistan Army had no involvement, except General Ziaul Haq and a few of his close aids. The Pakhtuns living on both sides of the Durand Line, provided the hard-core base for the resistance against the Soviet occupation forces, who ultimately accepted defeat, in good grace and asked for a ‘safe-exit’, which was granted by the Afghan Mujahideen, and the Soviet troops exited unscathed.
The CIA which had worked hand-in-glove with the ISI, were awed by ISI’s professional prowess, in defeating the Soviets – a super-power. The Americans therefore decided to demonise the Mujahideen and pressurized Pakistan to “clip the ISI wings”. Pakistan government accepted the demand. The serving DGISI, Lt Gen Hamid Gul was replaced by Lt Gen Kallu, a retired officer and the purging of ISI started as early as 1989. The officers and the operatives having any kind of contact with the Afghan Mujahideen, were removed, so much so, that in 1994, when Taliban emerged, the ISI had no role in Afghanistan. In fact, by 2001, when Pakistan joined USA in their war on Afghanistan, ISI’s role was reversed, as the enemy of Taliban.
In 2003, on the issue of involvement of Pakistani tribals in Afghanistan, Musharraf agreed to pull-out ISI from the border areas and allowed the CIA and the Marines to monitor the entire border belt from Swat to Balochistan. This was the time, when RAW had already established its spy network inside Afghanistan, and joined hands with the CIA, infesting Pakistan’s entire border region with their ‘agents and support groups’ and by 2005, succeeded in turning the war on Pakistan. (See my article Global Conspiracies Against Pakistan, The Nation 14-8-2007). Since then Pakistan is fighting its own tribals (TPP) and terrorism, perpetrated by the enemy agents and provocateurs.
With the change of government in 2008, the ISI realized the threat to national security and gradually started reclaiming the lost territory. With the arrest of Raymond Davis, the Indo-US conspiracy was exploded and Pakistan demanded that all US spies and agents working in the border region and other areas of Pakistan must disengage and leave. Thus ISI now has extended its network in the border region, re-claiming the territory lost since 2004. And in so doing, they may have come into contract with the Haqqani Group, operating close to the Pakistani borders. And there is no going back on it. This development hurts USA badly as they need a safe exit from Afghanistan. Targeting ISI and calling it a terrorist organization, is counter productive and demonstrates American frustration at the changed situation, which they have failed to understand.
The Taliban
The Americans have tried several options to negotiate peace in Afghanistan on their terms – “A non-Talibanized peaceful Afghanistan.” Pakistan too has endorsed the idea. Both are on the wrong track, because in this brutal contest, the Talibans have won and have the right, to lay down the terms for peace and not the American and the allies who have lost the war. In fact the Americans have to demonstrate ‘diplomatic wisdom’ to accept defeat, as the Soviets did in 1989 and asked for the ‘safe exit’. In 1989 Pakistan helped the Soviets to withdraw, because Mujahideen were friendly, but now Pakistan has no such leverage over the Taliban. And the dilemma!
The Taliban of today are very different from the Mujahideen of 1989 – their elders. The hard-core of Taliban consists of the die-hard, 20-30 years old Afghans, who have grown under the shadows of war. They are hardened fighters, with life time experience of war. They are brutal and ruthless. They are guided by one single idea, that is, “to defeat the enemy and liberate the country.” That is the single purpose, which is a matter of life and death for them. As early as 2002, they defined it in these words:  “We have resolved to fight the occupation forces till they are routed. When we gain freedom, we would take decisions under a free environment. It is unthinkable for the Afghan nation to follow the American plans, as it was not in harmony with their national ethos and traditions. We will carry the war to its logical end, and Insha Allah we will triumph over the enemy and win our freedom”. Word by word, they have done, exactly what they claimed.
Mullah Umar and the senior Taliban leadership do have a soft corner for Pakistan and USA, for helping the Afghans to defeat the Soviets, but the “hard-core Taliban” consider USA and their allies, including Turkey as their enemy. They consider the Pakistan Army and the ISI as their enemy, because they joined America’s war on Afghanistan. Even Mullah Umar, who has full control over the movement, cannot take decisions against the wishes of the ‘hard-core Taliban’. Therefore, for the Americans, their allies and the Pakistanis, the only course open is to negotiate with the Taliban, who are “prepared to engage with the Northern Alliance to work-out a new constitution for the future government in Afghanistan.” Any other course to be adopted would lead to greater chaos.
As for the Taliban, they are at peace with themselves. They have fought and sacrificed for over thirty years and will continue to fight, because their faith and commitment to the cause, provides them the abiding strength and resilience to face the mightiest of the mighty. They already have won the contest and will wait for the time they will be asked to define the peace parameters. There is a rethink in Pakistan also to establish friendly relations with the Afghans – our neighbours. The ISI is in the process of re-claiming the lost territories. The Pakistan Army is in a different frame of mind, as it punished the NATO and Afghan Army, recently, for violating our territory opposite Parachinar, killing five NATO troops and several others. This change in mood and temper therefore, must be correctly understood, to explore new possibilities, in order to establish a meaningful relationship with Pakistan.
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{EOP}ISI in The Eye of The Storm, But Why?


The country’s premier spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, is again in the eye of the storm. The timing is significant. The US-led Nato troops are preparing to begin a pullout from Afghanistan after fighting an ‘unwinnable’ war for close to about 10 years. Their stated objective — “to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al Qaeda” — remains elusive. Growing violence shows security is as fluid as ever. Their surrogate Hamid Karzai’s government is nothing but a pressure bandage, which is stemming the bleeding, but not healing the wound. Unnecessary to say what will happen, if the pressure is released.
Understandably, the United States cannot and will not concede defeat. But to save its superpower ego, it needs a scapegoat. The best option it finds is the ISI. That its top intelligence agency, CIA, had worked with to train, arm and fund the ‘mujahideen’ (who later morphed into the Taliban) to fight the ‘jihad’ against the ‘godless’ Soviets in the 1980s.
On and off, US officials have been pointing fingers at the ISI. But the recent bluntness of Admiral Mike Mullen, the US chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff, set the alarm bells ringing in Rawalpindi and Islamabad. He accused the ISI of maintaining a ‘longstanding relationship’ with the network of former Afghan warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani and his sons, which, the US believes, is fuelling the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. And secret-busting website WikiLeaks made a shocking revelation: The US military had classified the ISI as a terrorist-support entity in 2007. These are very serious allegations and ominous too, especially at a time when diplomatic relations between the two countries are at their lowest ebb. But more alarming is the rampant ‘hate-Pakistan’ trend among the Afghans, particularly the ‘westernised’ non-Pakhtun, who are feeding on western media’s unscrupulous, twisted reporting. The Afghans are being made to believe that Pakistan’s military and the ISI are responsible for all their troubles. And they, in turn, are disseminating this propaganda on social networking websites, such as Facebook and Twitter.
The US is blaming the ISI for instability in Afghanistan, however, indirectly though. But what about the CIA, which did responsible for all the dirty tricks during the Cold War to reconfigure the global political chessboard to America’s choosing? It toppled democracies, installed dictators and overthrew them when they became ‘rebellious’, in Latin and Central Americas, in the Middle East, in Asia, in Africa and even in Europe. Justification: Protection of US interests. The CIA didn’t spare even its own people. Operations like Mockingbird, MK-ULTRA and Chaos are examples of how the CIA manipulated the local news media, used Americans for deadly mind- control experiments and spied on its own people to muzzle criticism of unpopular American wars.
It’s clear now: Pakistan’s and America’s interests are not akin in a post-war Afghanistan. The US, wary of a ‘radical Islamist’ Pakistan, wants a greater role for India, which “shares the West’s respect for human rights and secularism”. This is notwithstanding Pakistan’s legitimate concerns about arch-rival India’s growing influence in its backyard. A stable and friendly government in Afghanistan is what Islamabad wants, which is vital not only for its desire for strategic depth in the region, but also for ensuring that the ‘Pakhtunistan genie’ remains in the bottle. Obviously, Pakistan had not fought America’s ‘proxy war’ in Afghanistan in the 1980s, nor is it fighting the US-led war against terrorism only to see another hostile neighbour on its western border.
This change in the US policy shouldn’t come as a surprise. History is replete with examples where the US turned against its allies when its policy boomeranged. It did this to Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, to the Shah of Iran, and to General Noriega of Panama. It is high time Pakistan shunned docility, reset its priorities, reviewed its cooperation in the ‘war on terror’ and crossed red lines for the US administration, because Pakistan and its interests are paramount.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 1st, 2011.

{EOP}Mass Graves in Kashmir, A Gift of Indian Democracy


By Dr. Angana Chatterji
Dirt, rubble, thick grass, hillside and flatland, crowded with graves. Signifiers of military and paramilitary terror, masked from the world. Constructed by institutions of state to conceal massacre. Placed next to homes, fields, schools, an army practice range. Unknown, unmarked. Over 940 graves in a segment of Baramulla district alone. Some containing more than one cadaver. Dug by locals, coerced by the police, on village land. Bodies dragged through the night, some tortured, burnt, desecrated. Circulating mythology claims these graves uniformly house ‘foreign militants’. Exhumation and identification have not occurred in most cases. When undertaken, in sizable instances, records prove the dead to be local people, ordinary citizens, killed in fake encounters. In instances where bodies have been identified as local, non-militant and militant, it demystifies state rhetoric that rumours these persons to be ‘foreign militants’, propagating misrepresentation that the demand for self-determination is prevailingly external. Mourned, cared for, by locals, as ‘farz’/duty, as part of an obligation, stated repeatedly, to ‘azadi’. ‘Azadi’/freedom to determine self and future.

On 18 and 20 June, the International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-administered Kashmir (‘Tribunal’, convened in April 2008, www.kashmirprocess.org) visited Baramulla and Kupwara district to conduct ongoing fact-finding and verification related to mass graves at the behest of local communities. The team comprised of Tribunal Conveners Advocate Parvez Imroz and myself, a staff member, and camera crew.
On 18 June, we visited Raja Mohalla in Uri, Baramulla district, 110 kilometres from Srinagar, where 22 graves were constructed between 1996-1997. Then to Quazipora, where 13 bodies were stated as buried in seven graves in 1991. Then we travelled to Chehal, Bimyar village, Uri, holding 235 graves. We re-met Atta Mohammad, gravedigger and caretaker at Chehal, who testified that these bodies, brought by the police, primarily after dark, were buried between 2002-2006. Atta Mohammad said that the bodies appear in his nightmares, each in graphic, gruesome detail. Terrorised by the task forced upon him, his nights are bereft of sleep. Then we travelled to Mir Mohalla, Kichama, Sheeri, to the main graveyard with 105 graves, stated to hold about 225-250 bodies, buried between 1994-2003, and a smaller graveyard, with nine graves, adjacent to a sign proclaiming it a ‘Model Village’.
On 20 June, we visited the northern district of Kupwara. On the way we witnessed army convoys, including one of 21+ vehicles. Created in 1979 through the forking of Baramulla district, approximately 5,000 feet above sea level, Kupwara borders the Line-of-Control to the north and west. Between Shamsbari and Pirpanchal mountain ranges, it is one of the most heavily militarised zones, about 95 kilometres from Srinagar. Kupwara houses six army camps, as military and paramilitary forces occupy significant land. Seven interrogation centres have been operational with police stations functioning as additional interrogation cells. In Handwara town, a watchtower surveils and regulates movement.
In Kupwara, we visited Trehgam village, holding 85-100 graves, 24 of which are identified, and spoke with community members. Trehgam was home to Maqbool Bhat (b. 1938), founding figure of the Jammu Kashmir National Liberation Front. Acknowledged as Shaheed-e-Kashmir, Bhat is labelled a ‘terrorist’ by certain segments of India. He sought to unite the territories of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir into a secular, sovereign, democratic state. Bhat was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of India and hanged in Tihar jail in New Delhi on 11 February 1984. Maqbool Bhat’s nephew, Parvaiz Ahmad Bhat, reminded us that Habibullah Bhat, Bhat’s brother, was the first case of enforced disappearance before 1989.
After Trehgam, we reached Regipora around 3 pm and stopped for lunch. There, two persons introduced themselves as Special Branch Kashmir (SBK) and Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) personnel, and questioned the Tribunal staff member about our visit. After responding, we proceeded to the ‘martyrs’ graveyard’ holding 258 graves, constructed in 1995. This burial ground is meticulously ordered, each grave numbered. The body of a 20-25 year old youth was buried in the first week of June, reportedly killed in an encounter in Bamhama village.
We stopped at a roadside tea stall to speak with local people about the graves. Four intelligence personnel questioned us, asking we disclose information about those we had visited. Soon, four additional SBK and CIK personnel joined the questioning. Other intelligence personnel made phone calls. By then, about 12 intelligence personnel gathered. Following further questioning we proceeded toward Srinagar. A car followed at a distance.
We detoured to Sadipora, Kandi, where locals stated that around 20 bodies were buried. The graveyard, overrun with wild flowers, is part of a larger ground used during festivals, including Id. Two of four bodies, killed in a fake encounter on 29 April 2007, were exhumed, identified as locals, contrary to police records stating them to be ‘Pakistani terrorists’. Saidipora holds Riyaz Ahmad Bhat’s grave, killed in the encounter, age 19. Police records, per the First Information Report, declared him a ‘Pakistani terrorist’. Riyaz Bhat was identified by Javeed Ahmed, his brother, as a resident of Kalashpora, Srinagar, based on police photographs from the time of death. Ahmed travelled with the Tribunal to take us to his brother’s grave. On his knees Javeed attempted to clear the thick brush. Later, in Srinagar, he testified that Bhat had never been involved in militancy. Javeed spoke of grieving, of imprisonment and beatings at the police station. He asked how he could have saved his brother from death.
After Sadiapora, we were stopped at Shangargund, Sopore, at about 6.40 pm, by three persons in civilian clothing. They forcibly boarded the car. We were ordered to the Sopore Police Station. There we were asked to detail our identity, employment, the purpose of the visit, and to hand over tapes which, the police alleged, contained ‘dangerous’ and ‘objectionable’ material. We stated that the Tribunal, a public process, was undertaking its work peaceably, lawfully, with informed consent, and that we had not visited restricted areas. We stated that the police had no lawful reason to seize the tapes. We were detained for 16 minutes.
After several calls to senior police persons, we were released. A red Indica car followed us to Sangrama. At Srinagar, Intelligence personnel were stationed at my hotel. On 21 June, I was followed from the hotel to the Tribunal’s office in Lal Chowk, where about 8 personnel were stationed the entire day questioning anyone who entered or left the office.
My mother, residing in Calcutta, received a query regarding my whereabouts from the District Magistrate’s Office. I was followed to the Srinagar airport on 22 June, and questioned, asked if I possessed dual citizenship. I do not. I am a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the United States. On 24 June, I arrived in Bhubaneswar to submit a statement to the Commission of Inquiry on the Kandhamal violence against Christians in 2007 in Orissa. There too, Central Intelligence officials persistently inquired after me. In April, after announcing the Tribunal, I was stopped and harassed at Immigration while leaving India for the United States, and again on my re-entry in June.
The targeting of the Tribunal has not abated since the Amarnath issue erupted around 23 June. The volatile proposal to transfer 800 kanals of land to the Shrine Board, revoked on 01 July, was supported by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party and Hindu militant Shiv Sena. Despite the Sena’s recent call to Hindus to form suicide squads, it faces no sanctions from the state. Kashmiris of diverse ethnicities and religions dissented the Amarnath land transfer. Community leaders in Kashmir explained that their stance against the proposal is not in dissent to Hindu pilgrims, but a repressive state. During the Amarnath land transfer protests, civil disobedience paralleled that of 1989, amid severe repression. On 30 June, in curfew-like conditions, we met with two families in Srinagar who narrated that the police had shot dead their sons. At one place, in the old city, while the men took the body for burial late at night, the police returned and destroyed property and molested women.
On 30 June, at about 10:10 pm, Parvez Imroz and his family were attacked at home by state forces, who fired three shots and hurled a grenade while exiting when family and community interrupted their attempts. Neighbours reported seeing one large armoured vehicle and two Gypsy cars, and men in CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) and SOG (Special Operations Group) uniforms. This murder attempt is an escalation in the forms of state-led intimidation and targeting aimed at Advocate Imroz. It is an attempt to make the Tribunal vulnerable and instil fear in us in an attempt to stop this process.
On 01 July, we met at Khurram Parvez’s home before addressing a press conference. Outside, jeeps with plainclothes men continued their observation, accompanied by a jeep with armed men in uniform.
Later, Advocate Imroz, Khurram Parvez, Advocate Mihir Desai, and I went to the police station to lodge a First Information Report. We were not permitted to do so. For security reasons, Parvez Imroz is not staying at home. Khurram Parvez remains under surveillance.
I must allow for distance before revisiting the graves. On 04 July, sitting on a plane at Delhi International Airport, waiting to take-off, I received a phone call on my India mobile, caller ‘Unknown’: “Madam,we know you’re leaving. Think wisely before coming back”.
Orders to unnerve the leadership of the International Tribunal by the Government of India’s intelligence and security administration appear to be generated at the highest levels. The general policy of surveillance should not be used as a pretext to create obstacles for our work. As India argues for a seat on the United Nations Security Council, the Government of India, as ‘Frontline Defenders’ stated in their recent alert supporting the Tribunal, must adhere to its own repeated commitment to peace in Kashmir and international conventions and laws. It must uphold democratic governance and safeguard human rights.
Advocate Imroz, Khurram Parvez, other members of the Tribunal team, have long experienced injustices for their extraordinary work as human rights defenders. A lauded human rights lawyer, Parvez Imroz has survived two, now three, assassination attempts, the first from militants. Since 2005, his passport has been denied. Khurram Parvez lost his leg in a landmine incident. Gautam Navlakha and Zahir-ud-Din have been intimidated and threatened, as has Mihir Desai, in their larger work. It is noteworthy that the Government of India is adding intimidation to the death and rape threats delivered me by Hindu extremists for human rights work.
The work of the Tribunal is an act of conscience and accountability, fraught with the charge of complex and violent histories. Its mandate, in documenting Kashmir’s present, is to chronicle the fabric of militarisation, status of human rights, and legal, political, militaristic ‘states of exception’. The Tribunal’s work will continue through the coming months. We have received extensive solidarity from civil society; victims/survivors, at street corners, from villagers, ordinary citizens, those committed to justice. Each life in Kashmir has a story to tell. The subjugation of civil society has produced magnificent ethical resistance. The state cannot combat every individual.
Nearly two decades of genocidal violence record 70,000+ dead, 8,000+ disappeared, 60,000+ tortured, 50,000+ orphaned,incalculable sexualised and gendered violence, a very high rate of people with suicidal behaviours; hundreds of thousands displaced; violations of promises, laws, conventions, agreements, treaties; mass graves; mile upon mile of barbed wire; fear, suppression of varied demands for participation to determine Kashmir’s future, spirals of violence, protracted silence. Last year, Kashmir’s only hospital with services for mental health received 68,000 patients. Profound social, economic, and psychological consequences,and an intense isolation have impacted private, public, and everyday life. It has generated brutal resistance on the part of groups that have engaged in violent militancy. Repressions of struggles for self-determination and internationalpolicies/politics have yielded severe consequences, creating a juncture at which the failure of governance intersects with a culture of grief.
Torture survivors, non-militants and former militants, that I met with testified to the sadism of the forces. Reportedly, a man, hung upside down, had petrol injected through his anus. Water-boarding,mutilation, rape of women, children, and men, starvation, psychological torture.
Brutalised, ‘healed’, to be brutalised again. An eagle tattoo on the arm of a man was reportedly identified by an army officer as a symbol of Pakistan-held Azad Kashmir, even as the man clarified the tattoo was from his childhood. The skin containing it was burned. The officer, the man stated, said: “When you look at this, think of azadi”. A mother, reportedly asked to watch her daughter’s rape by army personnel, pleaded for her release. They refused. She pleaded that she could not watch, asking to be sent out of the room or be killed. We were told that the soldier pointed a gun to her forehead, stating he would grant her wish, and shot her before they proceeded to rape the daughter. We also spoke with persons violated by militants. One man stated that people’s experiences with the reprehensible atrocities of militancy do not imply the abdication of their desire for self-determination. This, he stated, is a mistake the state makes, conflating militancy with the intent for self-determination.
He clarified that neither is self-determination an indication of allegiance to Pakistan, largely to the contrary.
The continuing and daunting presence of military and paramilitary forces, increased and sophisticated surveillance, merges with pervasive and immense suffering and anger of people in villages, towns, and cities across Kashmir. Parallel to the presence of 500,000 troops and commitment to nuclearisation, official figures state that there are about 450 militants in Kashmir and that demilitarisation is underway. In March 2007, three government committees on demilitarisation resolved that the ‘low intensity war continues’, placing in limbo troop reduction and the repealment of draconian laws — the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958, imposed in Jammu and Kashmir in December 1990, and the Disturbed Areas Act, 1976, enacted in 1992. Local realities reflect that these laws and the military seek to control the general population with impunity.
Kashmir is increasingly defined as a ‘post-conflict’ zone. ‘Post-conflict’ is not the propagation of tourism toward an overt display of nationalism. Post-conflict is a space in which to heal, reflect, and enable civil society participation in determining peace and justice. The graves speak to those that listen. Those haunted by history are called to remember.
About Writer
(Dr Angana Chatterji is associate professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the California Institute of Integral Studies and co-convener of the International People’s Tribunal in Kashmir. A shorter version of the article appeared in Tehelka magazine’s recent issue).
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{EOP}Jalal-ud-din Haqqani: USZ will die sooner than Soviet Union in Afghanistan

Field Commander Jalaluddin Haqqani, one of the most prominent Jihadist personalities and the military official for the provinces of Khost and Paktia, about the latest political and military developments on the Afghan front. The Sheikh has privileged al-Somood magazine with this interview. We thank him, and regard this interview as a realistic assessment of the accomplishments of the Mujahideen by one who lives physically and mentally at the heart of the conflict and who sees with his Jihadist perspective what political analysts do not see from the outside. His interview is given below (unedited version):

Question: Would you please give us information about your health situation?
Answer: In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful, Who granted victory to His servants and glory to His soldiers, Who fulfilled His covenant, and defeated the factions alone. Praise be to Allah Who blessed us with the Religion of Islam, the greatest of religions. Prayers and peace upon the noblest of His creation, Muhammad, and upon his household and his companions and all who are guided by him! Thereafter…Praise be to Allah Almighty, I am in complete health and vigor. By complete health, I mean that, despite my great age, and despite the unstable security conditions I have been experiencing, I have not faced any health problems hindering me from conducting my Jihadist activities.

Question: Local and global media recently reported news of the seriousness of your health situation. Indeed, there have been spread news of your death or your martyrdom in a barbarous bombing attack. What is the truth of these rumors?
Answer: I say that the fact you are interviewing me and that I am alive amongst you is sufficient to falsify these rumors. If we compared my health situation to those rumors, we would reach the conclusion that I am in full health and not suffering from any illnesses. There is no truth behind the spread of those rumors and lying reports and these are deceptive claims of the enemy. A second thing is that health, sickness, death and martyrdom are divine destinies. We believe in Allah-ordained fate and destiny. These destinies are ordained for every person and none can escape them. Every human being must taste death, and everything destined for him will occur at its appointed time.
The Sublime and Exalted says: “Nor can a soul die except by Allah’s leave, the term being fixed as by writing” (Al-i-Imran 154).
And the Almighty says “every soul shall have a taste of death in the end to Us shall ye be brought back”. (Al-Ankabut 57).

I mention to you that although I have faced many bitter days and have spent most of my days in Jihad and battling the enemy; have endured serious crises and have been wounded many times in battles that erupted between us and our enemies among the kuffar and munafiqeen – despite all that, I am in perfect health. I also state that martyrdom and death fi sabeel Allah are among the dearest wishes of my life. All my life I have wished to be killed and to sacrifice myself and my soul fi sabeel Allah and to support his Deen with which he has blessed us and to deliver his servants from the oppression of the oppressors and the deceits of the infidels. But I have not been to achieve my dearest wishes yet.

Question: More than 9 years have passed since the Crusader occupation of Afghanistan. Their forces stationed in Afghanistan number more than 70,000 persons armed to the teeth with the most modern types of military equipment. On the other hand, the Mujahideen confront them with scarce resources and paltry equipment. Based on your Jihadist and military experience, and in view of the imbalance in numbers and equipment between the two sides, what are your expectations of the defeat of the Crusaders in the face of the Mujahideen resistance, from your perspective?
Answer: If we looked at the ongoing battle between truth and falsehood in Afghanistan, we would understand from a historical standpoint it is considered a unique battle and asymmetrical encounter between Islam and infidelity. There is only one precedent in the history of Islam of such an intense battle and that is the Ghazwat al-Ahzab. There the Mujahideen achieved a great victory in the end. Here, also the Mujahideen will achieve victory by the will and permission of Allah. The assistance of Allah Almighty for the Mujahideen and the support of the people by their side, as well as recent military and political events are among the evidence and indications that prove our claims and back up our words.

I add to that, all the reasons and factors that led to the fall of the Russian Empire at the hands of the Afghan Mujahideen are today facing the American Empire. The huge monetary sums America is spending on the occupation of Afghanistan and the deaths of dozens of their forces every day at the hands of the Mujahideen are among the circumstances that indicate the victory of the Mujahideen and the defeat of all aggressor Crusader forces before them.

Question: There are enormous differences between the Russian occupation and the American occupation of Muslim Afghanistan, from the perspective of time, circumstances and resources. Meaning, at that time there was an ongoing Cold War between the forces of East and West. Additionally, the peoples of the world were angered by the arrogance of Communist actions and its use of arbitrary methods. For this reason, the Afghan Jihad received material and moral assistance from the world. The Mujahideen were permitted the latitude to carry out Jihadist activities and received resources and aid from outside the country. But the situation today is the opposite. The world’s affairs are directed by a unipolar power with no competitor to balance its power. The entire world stands against the Jihad and the Mujahideen in the name of the War on Terror – as they call it – and the Mujahideen enjoy no financial or military support and no external political backing from even one country across the globe. So how can the Mujahideen resist this great force and triumph against them with empty hands?
Answer: Divine fate and victories often cause supernatural events that can not be (grasped) by the human mind. This is not something new today rather they are constants that have been determined since the beginning of the outbreak of the battle between truth and falsehood across the pages of history. If we look at history, we would find that divine criteria are based on this premise. The Sublime and Exalted says, “How oft, by Allah’s will, hath a small force vanquished a big one? Allah is with those who steadfastly persevere.” (Al-Baqara 249). The Almighty also says, “O ye who believe! If ye will aid (the cause of) Allah, He will aid you, and plant your feet firmly..” (Al-Muhammad 7).

It is true that this world is (controlled) by reasons; we must therefore look for means and motivations. We see in the present circumstances that the Islamic Jihad against the occupiers provides a strong impetus to the collapse of the American occupation and its agents. It provides an impetus whose positive effect is acknowledged by America and its Crusader alliance. Additionally, Afghanistan’s geographic situation, the strong hatred around the world towards Americans and huge costs of the war are factors that play a tangible role in the failure of those predatory forces. Indeed, I believe that America’s current policy and its violation of all international agreements are considered as a threat to the entire world. It is not far-fetched that the world will one day act against it and adopt a unified policy towards (America’s) failed policy.

It is worth mentioning that during the time of the Russian occupation of Afghanistan, it was called the Russian Empire, it was alleged that the cause behind the victories of the Mujahideen against the Russian forces were Western aid and American Stinger missiles. The victory of the Mujahideen was therefore attributed to American aid and equipment. The victories against the American crusaders and their allies in our present time, however, are the result of nothing but the heavenly sacrifices of the Mujahideen. It is impossible to attribute it to any other agency or ascribe it to baseless causes.

Question: More than seven years have passed since the Crusader attack on Afghanistan and America and its allies have used all of their military and political resources to subdue the Afghan people. The result of these practices and attempts has been failure, defeat and collapse. Moreover, all Western military commanders and political analysts, among others, have given the opinion that this war will not be able to achieve any victory. Despite that, America insists of sending more military reinforcements to Afghanistan. What is your assessment of these contradictory actions?
Answer: I have said before and I say again that America’s involvement in the Afghanistan issue is just like someone who is losing at gambling. He keeps playing hoping to win but, in the end, rather than achieving anything he loses everything he owns.

Undoubtedly, Western admission of losing the battle in Afghanistan is an established fact they have to face. Even if they don’t acknowledge it, the coffins and corpses of their slain soldiers acknowledge it. As for sending additional reinforcements without achieving victory, I believe that Allah has ordained the destruction of this unjust race at the hands of the oppressed Afghans. Two decades ago the arrogant Russian empire was stricken from the political map at the hands of this afflicted people. Likewise, in the previous century, this people were able to overturn the British Empire. Now, however, after the fall of the Russian Empire, there does not remain on this earth a power to compete with America, which in its turn has committed vicious crimes against humanity that have led it to the level of delusion that it speaks of determining the fate of the world. But, with the permission and help of Allah Almighty, it shall encounter the same fate as the previous Russian and English occupiers did.

Question: The Americans and their allies speak of changing their strategy in Afghanistan after the passage of more than seven years. Additionally, the global media has turned the eyes of the people to the rumor of negotiations being conducted between the Taliban Movement and the lackey Karazi government. What is your view of this issue?
Answer: Yes! After more than seven years, the Americans understand that their current strategy in Afghanistan is ineffective and must be changed. It appears that these changes include different aspects, which are:
  1. First: Increasing the number of American troops deployed in Afghanistan.
  2. Sowing ethnic disputes among the Afghan tribes and clans and pitting some against others, or establishing ethnic awakening (councils) among them.
  3. Conduct negotiations with the Mujahideen.
They have pursued these first two items for a long time but they have not yielded any positive results worth mentioning. Now they are trying to implement the third item, which is negotiate with the Mujahideen, in order to achieve the following goals:
  1. Create divisions and mistrust among the Mujahideen, by exaggerating the issue through the global media and international newspapers. They have spread the story of negotiations to the point where they have published the location of the negotiations, the stages of the negotiations, and the conditions of the two sides. It is natural that all this media exaggeration will lead to the creation of an atmosphere of mistrust and ill-feeling. It will cause annoyance and anxiety among everyone, but it couldn’t be farther from reality.
  2. Bestow legal legitimacy upon the lackey Karzai government by having it play the role of intermediary in negotiations.
  3. Accuse and characterize the Islamic Emirate as continuing and prolonging the war by insisting on a military rather than peaceful resolution and by not participating in negotiations. As for the position of the Islamic Emirate towards negotiations, it may be summarized as follows:
  • The position of the Islamic Emirate is the peaceful resolution of all issues of conflict through peaceful means. The Islamic Emirate has declared this for eight years and demanded of America and the United Nations the peaceful resolution of all issues through peaceful means. But the Americans were not ready to accept this proposal or consider this matter. They claimed that their material strength would enable them to achieve their goals. They looked on others with scorn and contempt.
  • Likewise, the Islamic Emirate tried to settle the crisis through the mediation of Islamic states at that time. But the despotic illusions of the Americans made them insist upon imposing their will on the Islamic Emirate and they were not prepared to accept any sane or sound suggestion. They began their barbarous attack on the Islamic Emirate which resulted in the killing of thousands of innocents, the destruction of entire villages and the infliction of more damage upon an already destroyed Afghanistan.
  • On the other hand, the resistance of the Mujahideen has resulted in the killing of thousands of Crusaders, and the expenditure of billions of dollars to conduct their criminal acts. After all that, their situation has reached the point that they have acknowledged that they will never win the war.

Question: Your statements here inform us that there is no benefit to conducting negotiations at this time. Is that not so?
Answer: No indeed! The matter is that there is no benefit to it because the Americans and their allies and the lackey government use the issue of negotiations as a means to implement their malicious military conspiracies and not to resolve or end the problem. I am quite certain that America and its allies are not sincere about conducting negotiations, because the basic condition for negotiations is accommodating the interests of both parties. So they propose negotiation but at the same time advance only the conditions of their side. This completely violates all national and international criteria.
The truth is that the position of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan towards negotiations is clear and unambiguous, predicated on respect and acceptance of the conditions of the Emirate that will make it possible to reach the desired results. Among their conditions is the unconditional withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan before anything else. If we look carefully at the issue of Afghanistan we see that the crux of the matter is the presence of foreign troops, which conduct recurring assaults and random bombing which have caused the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians and left in their wake mass massacres of human beings.

Additionally, this presence results in the deterioration of the security situation and the imposition of a corrupt and dissolute government. Everyone knows that high-ranking officials in the lackey government are involved in various crimes like drug-smuggling, taking bribes, embezzlement, and spreading indecency and vice, extortion and other despicable acts. Even the Americans themselves acknowledge and publicize these crimes.

Question: You have referred to the establishment by the Americans of ethnic militias similar to the Iraqi Awakening Councils. As a prominent Jihadist figure and distinguished tribal leader, what is your assessment of the success of this American tactic in Afghanistan?
Answer: The Americans are facing the defeat in our country not only of this tactic, but also of all the plans and tactics they have adopted in this field, because they do not know the nature of the Afghan people and because their plans and programs are insane and illogical. For example, the Afghan people are suffering from hunger, poverty and unemployment while (the Americans) are building recreation and entertainment facilities for men and women. They build parks while thousands of people suffer from hunger and poverty. They drone on about implementing democracy while the people are killed under their huge bombs and destructive shells.

On the other hand, anger and hatred have been kindled among the Afghan people towards the Americans, their allies and lackeys. Yes, in this current situation they ask for help and assistance from the people. Their lack of understanding of the Afghan environment is one of the reasons for the failure of all their programs. Even if they drew the conclusion that this plan was successful in Iraq and yielded positive fruits, we would say that the circumstances in Iraq differ from Afghanistan where there are huge differences among the different groups. Perhaps these differences provide the Americans with the ability to implement this plan to an extent but its application in Afghanistan is almost impossible.

Question: Western news agencies report that your Jihadist movement is independent and outside the organization of the Islamic Emirate. What prompts these claims and what is the truth of them?
Answer: It is well-known that whenever the enemy is defeated on the battlefield, they intensify their activities in spreading baseless rumors and claims. This is typical of those plots of the defeated enemy and its aim is to create divisions and mistrust among the Mujahideen. He is not content with that but spreads many such allegations. Sometimes they spread rumors of the division of the Mujahideen among moderates and extremists, and other times they spread reports of negotiations with them to create divisions among them. All of these claims are baseless. Praise be to Allah, all the Mujahideen wage Jihad under the leadership of the Ameer ul-Momineen Mullah Mohamed Omar Mujahid against the American invaders and their lackeys. There is no crisis (of division) under the names moderate or extremist among the Mujahideen. They all fight under a unified leadership, according to the glorious aya: “Strong against the unbelievers (but) compassionate amongst each other”.

I myself am a member of the High Council of the Islamic Emirate. I also bear on my shoulders responsibility for Jihad in the provinces of Khost and Paktika. The biased claims of the international media agencies are unfounded in truth. Since we swore allegiance to Ameer ul-Momineen Mullah Mohamed Omar Mujahid, we have been to his day steadfast in that allegiance and we are true to (the Emirate’s) principles and decisions. There are no differences, divisions of discord among the Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate.

Additionally, we have a strong Jihadist experience that makes us acquainted with the schemes and conspiracies of the kuffar. All Muslims, and especially the Afghans, know well of these hostile schemes and plots and that the enemy’s cunning schemes are useless and doomed to fail. I believe that in the 14th century there is no leader like Mullah Mohamed Omar Mujahid in terms of bravery, dignity, zeal and action. This Ameer is a blessing of Allah Almighty upon us. All the Mujahideen understand the degree of this blessing and we pray to Allah Almighty not to take it away from the Muslims. We have tasted the bitter dregs of a multitude of ameers and great number of organizational disputes at the time of the resistance against the Russian army. The multitude of leaders squandered the fruits of our Jihad and because of this we lost all that we had gained through the victories and heroism of our sacred Jihad. We lost all the achievements we had realized. The Afghan Muslim people, therefore, will not permit a repeat of this bitter experience. We are united now and will not allow anyone to fracture or divide us.

Question: It is also well-known that south eastern corner of Afghanistan borders Pakistan. Often the Karzai administration drones on about Jihadist activities being planned in a neighboring country (i.e. Pakistan). Likewise, they claim that many of the Mujahideen of your front belong to other countries. What is the truth of these claims in your view?
Answer: It is well-known among all that the structure of the lackey government administration is composed of 37 aggressor Crusader states, yet they drone on a lot about baseless rumors. I am able to say to you: If operations conducted in the southeast corner are planned in a neighboring country, then where are the operations from the northern and central regions being planned?

Without a doubt, successful operations which result in the deaths of Crusader forces occur and are launched in the central provinces more than elsewhere, and these provinces do not share borders with neighboring countries. It is the same with northern provinces like Kanduz, Baghalan, Balkh, Badakhshan, Jowzjan and other provinces that are far away from the neighboring country in question (Pakistan). Where is the planning done for the operations carried out there? If the support of governments or states is the cause of victory and success, then this would have afforded the lackey Karzai government the opportunity to impose its control over the entire country and enable it to seize all its territory, because it has the military backing alone of 37 countries and politically it is backed by most of the countries of the world, including neighboring countries.

As for the presence of non-Afghan Mujahideen, we say of them: Some of the religious and zealous young men living in the border regions are eager for Jihad and sacrifice. This zeal is their inheritance from their fathers and grandfathers throughout history, who took part in the Afghan Jihad and stood by the side of their Afghan brothers against the British Empire and against the Russian invaders in 1980s. They have battled the occupiers and invaders who have overreached themselves and they plunged into battles against them. During the course of these battles not a few of the men from these regions have been martyred. The Jihadist zeal present among the residents of this region remains and they yearn for sacrifice for the sake of aiding the Mujahideen and elevating the word of Tawheed. We for our part support their participation in the Jihad and consider it as a religious duty to be performed.

Question: We have seen for some time a deterioration in the security situation in the border areas, and the martyrdom of hundreds of innocents and the destruction of their homes due to barbaric American bombing. What in your view is the primary factor in the deterioration of this situation?
Answer: We mentioned before how America threatens the security of the entire world. It attacked Afghanistan and set Iraq ablaze. Likewise, the Palestinian and Somali peoples and others suffer from its tyranny and injustice. Indeed, the peoples of the world often face dangers because of its tyrannical oppression. Even the American people themselves suffer from the failed plots of its leaders and face many threats when they travel abroad for commerce or tourism or to participate in international sporting events. They do not see security even inside Americas itself, and they have become confused and worried about this deteriorating security situation.

The primary cause of the current financial crisis in the world is American policy. Therefore, all who choose an American policy and walk behind America will share its fate. The fires set alight outside Afghanistan in which Muslims are being burned are the result of following and supporting the failed American policy. If such satanic plans and failed policies continue to be followed then it is expected that the fires of this tragedy will engulf the entire region. This is one of the gifts America gives to those regions where Muslims live.

Question: How do you analyze the victory of Democrats under the leadership of Obama in the American elections and the extent of its influence on the current Afghan situation?
Answer: As you well know, kufr is one creed and does not change its policy towards the Muslims with a change of personalities. We, therefore see that Obama’s policy towards Afghanistan is in reality a continuation of the Bush policy. As for what will happen in the future, we will see whether the Americans will learn from the experience of the failed Bush policies and what they can expect from those policies. Nonetheless, we say that the American people have put their faith in Obama and have chosen him as president of the country. He must rescue them from the predicament into which Bush led them.

Question: At one time, the Islamic Ummah led the world and was considered a super power. Today the Ummah is controlled, afflicted and oppressed. What must the Muslims do to regain their past glory and previous honor?
Answer: The primary factor in restoring honor and glory is Jihad fi sabeel Allah according to Divine guidance and laboring for it by a true and sincere path. The Muslims must also unify ranks and adhere firmly to the Quran and the Sunnah. If the Muslims wish to reclaim their lost glory and fundamental greatness, they must wage Jihad in the cause of Allah Almighty. Their honor, freedom and independence are linked to their Jihad. As for the triumph of Jihad, it is linked to the unification of ranks and complete avoidance of division and dispute.

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