Al Qaeda hit but no leads on Osama: Musharraf
(IANS) The arrest of a key Al Qaeda operative in Pakistan has "broken the back" of the terrorist outfit but has not led to leads on the 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, President Pervez Musharraf says. US President George W. Bush had hailed al Libbi's capture as "a critical victory in the war on terror". The US said al Libbi was a chief planner for Al Qaeda and a top general of bin Laden.

Comment: Then why not to handover the operative(s) to US. They have their own ways to interrogate the operatives. Pakistan may get a concession, of not sending operatives to Gauntanamo Bay, since they are the allies.

Musharraf told the Financial Times newspaper that the arrest of Abu Faraj al Libbi, described by US officials as the third in the Al Qaeda hierarchy, had shattered the group's command structure.

Comment: Al-Qaida is not dependent on one operative or terrorist. This network is a loose network, but tightly bound by the inspiration drawn from Kuran, and that is to carry out Jiahd against the non-Muslims.

Osama to prove his presence soon: Pakistani journalist
(IANS) International terrorist Osama bin Laden and his Taliban associate Mullah Omar are alive, and a new cassette from the Al Qaeda leader is expected soon to prove his presence, according to a distinguished Pakistani journalist.

"Both Osama and Mullah Omar are alive. There is no evidence to suggest that Osama bin Laden is dead, and there is no doubt about the presence of Mullah Omar as he regularly sends audio cassettes and letters," journalist Rahimullah Yuzufsai was quoted as saying Monday.

Comment : Authentic news man. This journalist has earlier met Osama. CIA should now hunt this journalist down like Al-Yemnei, before he goes underground. Because even if Pakistan Government arrests him, they will not handover him to US, like in case of A.Q.Khan and Al-Libbi.

Yuzufsai said, "Mullah Omar is living in his country, within his own tribe and my knowledge is he does not have a major problem. There are active Taliban elements that would defend him at any cost. It is easy for him to be in the mountainous terrain of Afghanistan, and I think he does not have a problem in crossing over to Pakistan also."

"It would not have been possible for Osama to remain elusive for such a long period without solid support, as Americans dug out (Iraqi dictator) Saddam Hussain in eight months." ...

Comment: ... and the support from whom.. of course, the Tribals on the Afghan-Pakistan border. Most of the Islamic terrorists are getting killed in that region.

Pakistani religious alliance plans anti-US protest.
(IANS) Pakistan's Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) has planned a worldwide protest on May 27 against the US for what it termed as "pursuing anti-Islam policies". Qazi Hussain Ahmad and Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the central leadership of the six-party religious alliance, made the announcement here while addressing the Deeni Madaris (madrassa) convention, reports Online news agency.

Comment: Remains to be seen whether it turns out to be as violent as Uzbekistan, which is still burning.

Hussain Ahmad said they have informed the Islamic movements throughout the world in this regard. He said the US was "out to curb the freedom of madrassas (Islamic religious schools) and this would not be allowed to succeed at any cost". "The MMA is playing its role for the protection of Islamic ideology," he said.

The convention, which was held under Wafaq ul Madaris, announced a joint declaration which said that deeni madrassas would continue to work towards enforcement of the Islamic order. It stated that it would allow no interference in the curriculum of the madrassas

Comment: So the Madrassas want to continue preaching Kuran and produce more and more Jiahdis, to attack and kill the Kafirs (infidels).

One resolution demanded that all official and private functions be started with the recitation of the verses of the Holy Quran. It also called for stern action against the NGOs engaged in what it called "propagating Hindu culture".

Comment: That is a news !!!! Any guess who these NGOs are who are "propagating Hindu culture".

How long will it take for the Palestinians to do a Reality Check?
Today May 15, is observed by the Palestinians as Nakba (Calamity/Catastrophe) Day. Their Calamity/Catastrophe was the founding of a homeland for the Jews in 1948 on the land from where the forefathers of the Jews had been forcibly deported two thousand years ago after the destruction by the Romans, of the Second Temple (on the ruins of which today stands the Dome of the Rock).

Arabs still want to destroy Israel....and if possible also the USA, UK, Russia, China, India and the rest of the non-Muslim world. Can we allow them to start with destroying Israel?

Why can't the Palestinians realize that the Jews deserve a homeland for themselves? The answer is because the Palestinians as all other Muslims want the whole world for themselves, where there is no space for non-Muslims ( Dar-ul-harb), and where there are no non-Muslims (Dar-ul-Islam).

It is high time the Palestinians and all other Muslims are brought to their senses. But this is possible only if the rest of us give them a rude shock by speaking to them in the language of blood of death which is the only one they understand. The point is when shall we realize this? Will we wait till we are woken up from our slumber after Osama and his savages subject us to a first bio-terror attack? This going to happen in the next few years as the War on terror progresses. Unless we defang the nuclear weapons seeking Iranian Mullahs fast enough, and bump off Osama and his desperadoes as Israeli did with the Hamas Chief last year. If we dither, the Islamofascist Moonbats will give us a hard time and another bloody nose many times more devastating than 9/11.

This is no Beltway Buzz, but hard reality which comes through periodically in the chatter we monitor. We need to wake up from our slumber now.

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Hizb ut-Tahrir wants to create a Worldwide Islamic state.
The Uzbek leader President Islam Karimov has blamed Islamic extremists for the revolt and said his troops were forced to shoot demonstrators on Friday as they tried to break through police lines. Witnesses counted more than 200 dead.

Soldiers loyal to Karimov fired on thousands of demonstrators Friday to put down an uprising that began when armed men freed 2,000 inmates from prison, including suspects on trial for alleged Islamic extremism.

Uzbekistan hosts a U.S. air base in the Karshi-Khanabad region, 90 miles from the Afghan border, to support military operations in that country following the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States. The number of troops there has reached several thousand at times.

Karimov said Saturday that authorities tried to negotiate a peaceful way out but would not yield to the protesters' demand for freedom for all their followers across the Valley. He termed that demand excessive. "To accept their terms would mean that we are setting a precedent that no other country in the world would accept," Karimov told a news conference in the capital, Tasha-Khand (Tashkent).

The focus of the jailbreak was 23 men charged with membership in a group allied with the outlawed radical Islamic party Hizb-ut-Tahrir, which seeks to create a worldwide Islamic state and has been forced underground throughout most of Central Asia and Russia.

The men are alleged members of Akramia — a group named for their founder, Akram Yuldashev, an Islamic dissident sentenced in 1999 to 17 years in prison for allegedly urging the overthrow of Karimov.

Karimov called the Akramia group a "faction of Hizb ut-Tahrir" that includes known members of the group banned across Central Asia and Russia, and he noted that their goal was to establish an Islamic caliphate.

Predator plane kills senior al Qaida terrorist in Pakistan
A senior al Qaida operative was killed by a missile fired from an unmanned CIA Predator aircraft on the Pakistani side of the Afghan border earlier this week, ABC News reported.

Haitham al-Yemeni, a native of Yemen known for his bomb-making skills, had been tracked in the hope that he would help lead the United States to al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, intelligence officials were quoted as saying.

With the capture in Pakistan earlier this month of Abu Faraj al-Libbi, thought to be al Qaida's number three man, officials feared that al-Yemeni would go into hiding, and so decided to take action, ABC said on Friday.

The CIA refused to confirm or deny the report, ABC said. The CIA has the authority to fire against senior al Qaida figures anywhere in the world, though it is unclear whether the Pakistanis approved of the action in advance, ABC said.

Comments: Al-Libbi was arrested in Pakistan. Al-Yemeni was killed in Pakistan. Bin-laden is hiding in Pakistan... And what more evidence needs to be given to the world to prove the fact that Pakistan is one of the topmost Haven for Islamic Terrorists.

Operation Matador is in full swing
U.S. forces have encircled Euphrates River village, Obeidi. Residents have fled indoors as American helicopters hovered overhead, pressing forward with a major offensive near the Syrian border. Terrorists also staged a series of attacks elsewhere in Iraq, killing at least nine people.

But the sad news is that four more US Marines were killed Wednesday, taking the total number of American troops killed during the weeklong campaign to nine. Marine commanders estimate more than 100 terrorists and foreign fighters have been killed during the Operation Matador.

The push around Obeidi came a day after Marine warplanes launched air strikes against a suspected terrorist safe house in nearby Karabilah. Secondary explosions indicated the presence of weapons and munitions in the building, the military said.

At least 1,620 U.S. military members have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Afghan president urges U.S. action over Koran
Showing his true ( green ) colours, Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged the United States on Saturday to prosecute and punish anyone found guilt of desecrating the Koran as anti-U.S. protests flared for a fifth day.

Sixteen Afghans have been killed and more than 100 hurt since Wednesday in the worst anti-U.S. protests across Afghanistan since U.S. forces invaded in 2001 to oust the Taliban for harbouring Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network.

Newsweek magazine said in its May 9 edition investigators probing abuses at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay found that interrogators "had placed Korans on toilets, and in at least one case flushed a holy book down the toilet".

Comment : Koran is source of inspiration for Muslims, to carry out Jihad against Kafirs (Infidels) So the interrogators might have thought that flushing the unholy book down the drain will stop Jihad. But it should be known to them, that there are so many copies of Koran in the World and so many Jihadis to carry out attacks against all non-muslims.

EU warns Iran of being referred to UN Security Council
"Britain, France and Germany are seeking to hold ministerial talks with Iran to prevent the country from restarting its uranium conversion programme. The offer of a ministerial level meeting within the next two weeks was reportedly made in an EU letter warning Iran that if it proceeded with its threat to resume its fuel cycle program they will support the US in seeking UN Security Council action," IRNA reported today.

"We are waiting to hear but we will be happy to talk with Iran to work our way through this," a Foreign Office spokesman in London told IRNA.

In an interview with BBC Radio Four's News At One programme, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said that: US cooperation had also been secured "for lifting embargoes and sanctions for example on things like material related to air transport safety and plenty of other things." "We don't want this situation, it's the last thing we want," Straw said with regard to Iran's threat, IRNA reported.

"We want these negotiations to produce a satisfactory conclusion where Iran as its right under the Non Proliferation Treaty is able to run its nuclear energy power programme but is not able to produce material which, given its previous record of non disclosure, has raised very strong suspicions that it could be used for a nuclear weapons," he said.

IRNA reported: Straw admitted that in relation to US claims that Iran was intent on developing nuclear weapons "there is no conclusive evidence that that is what they're up to." On Thursday, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Hans Blix warned that he was "not sure much will be gained from taking to the Security Council, except more escalation and getting into more dangerous situation."

Iran had repeatedly stressed its right to enrich Uranium for peaceful(?) purposes and that if the issue ever reaches the UN Security Council, then Iran was able to tuff the situation out if forced to.

Anti-American Protests Spread in Afghanistan; 8 Killed
Mood:  on fire
(AP News)
KABUL, Afghanistan - Security forces opened fire and protesters stoned government and relief agency buildings as clashes in four Afghan cities left at least eight people dead Friday amid growing anti-American sentiment over the alleged desecration of Islam's holy book at Guantanamo Bay.

It was the the biggest outpouring of anti-American sentiment since the fall of the Taliban in 2001 — a deepening worry for the government of U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai.

A call for mass street protests from a coalition of hard-line religious parties in Pakistan fell flat, but firebrand Muslim clerics lashed out at the United States.

"By insulting the Quran, they have challenged our belief. We are hurt ... If we don't rise against Americans, if we don't give them a strong message today, they will do it again," cleric Hafiz Hussain Ahmad told worshippers at a mosque in the Pakistani capital.