Confession Of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Highly Suspected To Be Untrue

Source: BBC ,  Resistance Is Not Futile

Early this morning we heard that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the allegedly so called mastermind of 9/11 “attacks”, confessed his participation in the following attacks and plots:

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

1. The 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City that killed six people and injured more than 1,000.

2. The 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington using four hijacked commercial airliners. Nearly 3,000 people were killed.

3. A failed “shoe bomber” operation to bring down two US commercial airliners.

4. The October 2002 attack in Kuwait that killed two US soldiers.

5. The nightclub bombing in Bali, Indonesia that killed 202 people.

6. A plan for a “second wave” of attacks on major US landmarks after 9/11 attacks. Alleged targets included the Library Tower in Los Angeles, the Sears Tower in Chicago, the Plaza Bank building in Seattle and the Empire State Building in New York.

7. Plots to attack oil tankers and US naval ships in the Straits of Hormuz, the Straits of Gibraltar and in Singapore.

8. A plan to blow up the Panama Canal.

9. Plans to assassinate former US presidents including Jimmy Carter.

10. A plot to blow up suspension bridges in New York.

11. A plan to destroy the Sears Tower in Chicago by burning fuel trucks beneath or around it.

12. Plans to “destroy” Heathrow Airport, Canary Wharf and Big Ben in London.

13. A planned attack on “many” nightclubs in Thailand targeting US and British citizens.

14. A plot targeting the New York Stock Exchange and other US financial targets after 9/11.

15. A plan to destroy buildings in Elat, Israel, by using planes flying from Saudi Arabia.

16. Plans to destroy US embassies in Indonesia, Australia and Japan.

17. Plots to destroy Israeli embassies in India, Azerbaijan, the Philippines and Australia.

18. Surveying and financing an attack on an Israeli El-Al flight from Bangkok.

19. Sending several “mujahideen” into Israel to survey “strategic targets” with the intention of attacking them.

20. The November 2002 suicide bombing of a hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, frequented by Israelis. At least 14 people were killed.

21. The failed attempt to shoot down an Israeli passenger jet leaving Mombasa airport with a surface-to-air missile on the same day as the hotel bombing.

22. Plans to attack US targets in South Korea, such as US military bases and nightclubs frequented by US soldiers.

23. Providing financial support for a plan to attack US, British and Jewish targets in Turkey.

24. Surveillance of US nuclear power plants in order to attack them.

25. A plot to attack Nato’s headquarters in Europe.

26. Planning and surveillance in a 1995 plan (the “Bojinka Operation”) to bomb 12 American passenger jets, most on trans-Pacific Ocean routes.

27. The planned assassination attempt against then-US President Bill Clinton during a mid-1990s trip to the Philippines.

28. “Shared responsibility” for a plot to kill Pope John Paul II while he visited the Philippines.

29. Plans to assassinate Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.

30. An attempt to attack a US oil company in Sumatra, Indonesia, “owned by the Jewish former [US] Secretary of State Henry Kissinger”.

31. The beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped in Pakistan in January 2002 while researching Islamist militancy.

Wow!!! He was the busiest guy ever, wasn`t he?

The recent confession by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed of involvement in just about every terrorist related activity of the last 10 years is highly suspicious for several reasons.

1. The US government wants someone to pin the blame on for lots of reasons, not the least of which is to deflect attention from the real perpetrators of 9/11. Mohammad has been held at Guantanamo Bay, where he has no doubt been tortured and coerced into confessing to involvement in all kinds of deeds. Any testimony obtained under these conditions is unreliable at best and totally false at worse. If you torture someone long enough and hard enough, they will almost always say whatever you want them to say in order to make the torture stop. Is this story designed to condition the public to accept testimony obtained under duress?

2. Even if Mohammed did confess to all these deeds of his own accord, without coercion, do you really think one guy could have been behind so many events? And if he was, why didn’t the authorities catch him a long time ago? And wouldn’t it benefit “Al-Qaida” for one guy to take the fall and deflect attention from the alleged perpetrators. In other words, if it was really “Al-Qaida” behind all these attacks, would it not be logical for the one who got caught to confess to everything in order to deflect attention from any terrorists who might still be at large and planning other attacks?

3. The confession was reported in the mainstream media (MSM), immediatley followed by a CNN poll asking “Do you believe all of the claims allegedly made by accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?” This seems a rather obvious attempt to gauge how well this propaganda was received by the public, and according to the results, it didn’t work all that well. Only 27% believe Mohammed was really involved in all the plots that he claimed to be involved in.

4. I thought Osama Bin Laden was the mastermind behind 9/11? What ever happened to him anyway?

The MSM acts as the propaganda mouthpiece for the government and issues this kind of bogus information on a daily basis. Then, later when the claims are found to be totally false, the original statement or claim is never retracted or corrected. As a result the public continues to believe the initial statement.

Remember when the government and MSM told us that Iraq was involved with 9/11 and had WMD that posed a clear and present danger to the United States? A war resulting in the death of hundreds of thousands of people was launched based on this allegation. Today, there are still people who believe Iraq was involved with 9/11, even though the evidence has long since proven otherwise. Can you say MIND CONTROL tactics?

Palestinian PM unveils unity team

Source: BBC

يمكنك قراءة الموضوع باللغة العربية بالضغط على: هذا الرابط

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya has unveiled a national unity cabinet after months of negotiations between his Hamas movement and Fatah.

The key posts of finance, interior and foreign ministers will go to men who are not members of Hamas or Fatah.

The list will be submitted to parliament on Saturday for approval.

Israeli officials have criticised the new government’s platform which they say does not contradict Hamas’ core principle of not recognising Israel.

US and European Union officials say they are waiting for the final outcome of the unity talks before deciding whether to lift economic sanctions imposed on the outgoing Hamas-led government.

Key tests

Israeli officials have made it clear they see the agreement as a step backwards, as it does not address their demands that the new government recognise Israel and sign up to past Israeli-Palestinian deals.

“It is difficult to see anything positive in this,” an official told the BBC.

BBC Middle East analyst Roger Hardy says the unity deal has had a difficult birth and there is still deep mistrust between Hamas and Fatah, the two factions whose bitter rivalry brought the Palestinians to the brink of civil war.

“We hope that this government will mark the start of a new era and enable us to turn the page,” Mr Haniya told journalists after handing the list to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, of the rival Fatah faction.

Mr Haniya said if the Palestinian parliament approved the cabinet list, as it is expected to do, the ministers could go straight to Mr Abbas to be sworn in so the government could start work.

The key position of interior minister is being given to an independent academic, Hani Kawasmi.

Analysts say the main test he faces will be over whether he can impose control over Hamas and Fatah military chiefs who currently exercise huge power and autonomy.

The test for the incoming finance minister, Salam Fayyad, will be to reverse a trend in which money has flowed to the Hamas-led government through unofficial channels, because of the international boycott.

Islam Does Not Permit Women Beating

Domestic violence represented by wife beating or abuse is rampant. The exact numbers on domestic violence incidents differ, because this is such an under-reported crime there are statistics on which most experts agree.

First, here are some facts I gathered about domestic violence in the U.S.A.

Each year, 2,000-4,000 women in the U.S. are murdered by abusive partners/ex-partners.

In the United States, a woman is beaten every 7.4 seconds. Approximately 3-4 million women are beaten by male partners annually.

Battered women are more likely to suffer miscarriages and to give birth to babies with low birth weights. (Surgeon General, United States, 1992).

Over two-thirds of violent victimizations against women were committed by someone known to them: 31% of female victims reported that the offender was a stranger.

Approximately 28% were intimates such as husbands or boyfriends, 35% were acquaintances, and the remaining 5% were other relatives. (In contrast, victimizations by intimates and other relatives accounted for only 5% of all violent victimizations against men.

Men are significantly more likely to have been victimized by acquaintances (50%) or strangers (44%) than by intimates or other relatives.) (Ronet Bachman, Ph.D., U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics, “Violence Against Women: A National Crime Victimization Survey Report,” January 1994, p. 1).

Annually, compared to males, females experienced over 10 times as many incidents of violence by intimate. On average each year, women experience 572,032 violent victimizations at the hands of an intimate, compared to 48,983 incidents committed against men. (Ronet Bachman, Ph.D., U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics, “Violence Against Women: A National Crime Victimization Survey Report,” January 1994, p. 6).

There are 1,500 shelters for battered women in the United States. There are 3,800 animal shelters (Schneider, 1990).

The fact is that wife beating and abuse is an endemic disease in all different cultures, religions and communities. It is as common in Western as it is in Eastern societies.

Men in Western (and Eastern) societies do not abuse their wives because of scriptural teachings, but because of a natural instinct of domination and aggression.Allah, knowing this, has therefore decreed a perfect law to help men control their temper and to solve any problems before resorting to physical aggression.

These statistics reflect the failure of modern societies in treating this perilous condition in men. Despite advances in modern psychology and improved understanding of behavioral patterns of men, civilized and uncivilized, a successful solution to this aggressive behavior has not been found by man.

A solution has however been presented to the world in the Quran, the Final Testament, more than 1400 years ago, in verse 4:34.

“Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because Allah has given the one more (strength) than the other, and because they support them from their means. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient, and guard in (the husband’s) absence what Allah would have them guard. As to those women on whose part ye fear disloyalty and ill-conduct, admonish them (first), (Next), refuse to share their beds, (And last) beat them (lightly); but if they return to obedience, seek not against them Means (of annoyance): For Allah is Most High, great (above you all).”

At first glance this verse may appear as if promoting physical abuse of women. But when reading 4:34 carefully one realizes that it actually prohibits abuse and beating of women by using the best psychological approach.

The advise to first talk and then avoid sexual contact, provides the necessary time and space for both parties to cool off, reason, examine the problem and reach a favorable agreement for both of them.

Abuse of a wife will not happen if the man learns to follow the clear commandments of Allah in this verse and in the order decreed. Abuse will only happen when a man does not follow these commandments, and thus fails to cool off and reason with himself or with his wife.

Sura 4, where we read 4:34, entitled “The Women,” is one of the longest chapters in the Quran. It deals with many of the rights and responsibilities of women. The theme of this Sura is to defend women’s rights, and countering injustice and oppression of women. Thus, any interpretation of verses in Sura 4 must be in favor of the women, not the other way around.

Unfortunately 4:34 is extremely abused by many of the so-called “Muslim” men in the world. While disregarding their own obligations and their own righteousness, these men only focus on the third step of handling this difficult condition as described in 4:34, skip the first two necessary steps and give themselves the excuse to beat their wives. They find support for their misguided and biased views, and for treating their spouses unjustly, in the fabrications of the Hadith and Sunna. They thus misrepresent the true Islam, and divert people from this perfect and just religion for all.

We have to remember that the right given to the man in 4:34, can only be claimed when you have a situation with a righteous man on one hand dealing with a situation in which his wife repeatedly commits “Neshooz” which is an unrighteous, wicked  and rebellious act. Abusing this law and the attempt to apply it to regular daily marital disagreements is not warranted by the  strong and selective wording of the verse. Furthermore, for a man to demand or claim this right, he must first give that woman all the rights Allah has given her and follow all aspects of the commandment without skipping any part of it. Allah clearly says in the Quran that He has decreed for the men and the women rights and obligations equitably (2:228).

Most women in the world today do not enjoy the protection verse 4:34 grants them. Instead they are unjustly abused, verbally and physically, by unrighteous men in unrighteous ways, and get beaten up for the most trivial of reasons, or for no reason at all. According to 4:34 even if the husband has a good reason, he is not allowed to lay a hand on his wife until he has passed all the previous steps.

We also learn that one of the traits of the righteous is that they suppress anger.

” Those who spend (freely), whether in prosperity, or in adversity; who restrain anger, and pardon (all) men;- for Allah loves those who do good.”  (3:134)

The nature and essence of a healthy relationship between a husband and wife is beautifully expressed in the following verse from the Quran:

“And among His Signs is this, that He created for you mates from among yourselves, that ye may dwell in tranquillity with them, and He has put love and mercy between your (hearts): verily in that are Signs for those who reflect.”

                                                                                  (30:21)

“And their Lord hath accepted of them, and answered them: “Never will I suffer to be lost the work of any of you, be he male or female: Ye are members, one of another…..”

                                                                              (3:195)

When facing difficult times, even if the man dislikes his wife, God has decreed;

“O ye who believe! Ye are forbidden to inherit women against their will. Nor should ye treat them with harshness, that ye may Take away part of the dower ye have given them,-except where they have been guilty of open lewdness; on the contrary live with them on a footing of kindness and equity. If ye take a dislike to them it may be that ye dislike a thing, and Allah brings about through it a great deal of good.”

                                                                                   (4:19)

And when divorce happens, the full respect to the wife is urged,

“A divorce is only permissible twice: after that, the parties should either hold Together on equitable terms, or separate with kindness. It is not lawful for you, (Men), to take back any of your gifts (from your wives), except when both parties fear that they would be unable to keep the limits ordained by Allah. If ye (judges) do indeed fear that they would be unable to keep the limits ordained by Allah, there is no blame on either of them if she give something for her freedom. These are the limits ordained by Allah. so do not transgress them if any do transgress the limits ordained by Allah, such persons wrong (Themselves as well as others).”

                                                                              (2:229)

In conclusion; A BELIEVING wife and a BELIEVING husband will NEVER get to the point where beating of the wife enters the picture. A BELIEVING couple will consult one another and agree on the best way to solve their differences as verse 4:34 and the whole scripture recommends.

This post is for anyone who says that Islam permits beating women. Do not say anything unless you are fully sure of what you are talking about.

Woman arrested over police rape claims?

Source: Times Online

The Iraqi Government has arrested a woman who said last month that she was raped by three Iraqi policemen, claims that provoked a spate of sectarian killing, two Iraqi officials told The Times.

Sabrine Janabi’s rape case has polarised Iraq’s Sunni and Shia communities at a moment when the country is already enmeshed in a low-level civil war. Shia officials have accused her of being a proxy for Sunni militants who want to sabotage a security plan for Baghdad, while Sunni politicians have pointed to her story as proof of the sectarian nature of Shia Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Government.

Janabi shocked Iraq last month when she appeared on Al-Jazeera television and accused three policemen of detaining her and then raping her in their garrison.

Her story earned a fiery rebuttal from the Shia Prime Minister, who praised the policemen and promised to promote them. His office released a medical report allegedly taken from a US military combat hospital that said the woman had been beaten but showed no signs of sexual penetration.

Rape is a taboo subject in Arab culture and the news of Janabi’s rape sparked anger in the Sunni community.

In turn, the Government accused Janabi of being paid by insurgents to make her claims. An arrest warrant was issued and Janabi then vanished from the scene.

Sunni extremist groups vowed revenge and 14 policemen were executed by the Al-Qaeda linked Islamic State of Iraq in early March.

Since then, Iraqi officials have debated how to handle the Janabi case, which could still fuel even greater violence. However, two Iraqi officials told The Times Monday that Janabi was arrested a few days after the scandal broke and had filmed her confession.

Although initial reports described Janabi as a 20-year-old Sunni Turkman, the officials said that she was actually a Shia woman, who worked as a prostitute and had been paid by the Islamic Party, the largest Sunni faction in parliament, to come forward with the charges. Janabi was a pseudonym she invented for her job.

“She is in Iraqi custody. She was arrested a few days after you heard about her. She lied,” one of the officials told The Times.

“She was interrogated by a doctor and expert in rape cases.” The Government had initially planned to release her videotaped confession this week, but delayed it, the official said.

Another official said that the Government was worried about the impact the video would have on Sunni-Shia relations in Iraq. Sunnis are still seething about the video of Saddam Hussein’s hanging in December that was leaked on the internet.

Before her arrest, Janabi had already been detained briefly by police for living in a displaced person’s house, where she was suspected of working in a medical clinic for insurgents, the official said. She will most likely be prosecuted on these charges, he said.

Salim Abdullah, a spokesman for the Islamic Party, told The Times that the Government was trying to cover up Janabi’s rape. “An arrest warrant was issued against Sabrine al-Janabi so as to prevent her from talking anymore to the media,” Abdullah said.

“From the beginning we figured out her arrest would be aimed at seizing her confessions from the public as well as to fabricate a lie.” He denied the Islamic Party had any role in the case.

The Iraqi Government has raided the homes of eight Sunni MPs in the last week, Salim Abdullah told The Times.

A senior Shia official said raids on the homes of Sunni MPs Khalaf al-Ayan and Dhafir al-Ani had found bomb-making materials.

This is very America. I mean it is a widely used method by America and its allies to shut up those threatening to expose the real image of the U.S.

Here is another example of what America does to hide that evil image:

http://ahmedismailibrahim.wordpress.com/2007/03/07/us-erased-afghan-shooting-footage/