Quikly sister go to the doctor before the condition becomes irreversible

Quikly sister go to the doctor before the condition becomes irreversible

I would just liek to state from teh outset that i dont agree obviously with some of what Amiri sas in this poem, but it its wotthwhile reading nomads Somebody Blew Up America They say its some terrorist, some barbaric A Rab, in Afghanistan It wasn't our American terrorists It wasn't the Klan or the Skin heads Or the them that blows up nigger Churches, or reincarnates us on Death Row It wasn't Trent Lott Or David Duke or Giuliani Or Schundler, Helms retiring It wasn't The gonorrhea in costume The white sheet diseases That have murdered black people Terrorized reason and sanity Most of humanity, as they pleases They say (who say?) Who do the saying Who is them paying Who tell the lies Who in disguise Who had the slaves Who got the bux out the Bucks Who got fat from plantations Who genocided Indians Tried to waste the Black nation Who live on Wall Street The first plantation Who cut your nuts off Who rape your ma Who lynched your pa Who got the tar, who got the feathers Who had the match, who set the fires Who killed and hired Who say they God & still be the Devil Who the biggest only Who the most goodest Who do Jesus resemble Who created everything Who the smartest Who the greatest Who the richest Who say you ugly and they the goodlookingest Who define art Who define science Who made the bombs Who made the guns Who bought the slaves, who sold them Who called you them names Who say Dahmer wasn't insane Who? Who? Who? Who stole Puerto Rico Who stole the Indies, the Philipines, Manhattan Australia & The Hebrides Who forced opium on the Chinese Who own them buildings Who got the money Who think you funny Who locked you up Who own the papers Who owned the slave ship Who run the army Who the fake president Who the ruler Who the banker Who? Who? Who? Who own the mine Who twist your mind Who got bread Who need peace Who you think need war Who own the oil Who do no toil Who own the soil Who is not a nigger Who is so great ain't nobody bigger Who own this city Who own the air Who own the water Who own your crib Who rob and steal and cheat and murder and make lies the truth Who call you uncouth Who live in the biggest house Who do the biggest crime Who go on vacation anytime Who killed the most niggers Who killed the most Jews Who killed the most Italians Who killed the most Irish Who killed the most Africans Who killed the most Japanese Who killed the most Latinos Who? Who? Who? Who own the ocean Who own the airplanes Who own the malls Who own television Who own radio Who own what ain't even known to be owned Who own the owners that ain't the real owners Who own the suburbs Who suck the cities Who make the laws Who made Bush president Who believe the confederate flag need to be flying Who talk about democracy and be lying Who the Beast in Revelations Who 666 Who know who decide Jesus get crucified Who the Devil on the real side Who got rich from Armenian genocide Who the biggest terrorist Who change the bible Who killed the most people Who do the most evil Who don't worry about survival Who have the colonies Who stole the most land Who rule the world Who say they good but only do evil Who the biggest executioner Who? Who? Who? Who own the oil Who want more oil Who told you what you think that later you find out a lie Who? Who? Who? Who found Bin Laden, maybe they Satan Who pay the CIA, Who knew the bomb was gonna blow Who know why the terrorists Learned to fly in Florida, San Diego Who know why Five Israelis was filming the explosion And cracking they sides at the notion Who need fossil fuel when the sun ain't goin' nowhere Who make the credit cards Who get the biggest tax cut Who walked out of the Conference Against Racism Who killed Malcolm, Kennedy & his Brother Who killed Dr King, Who would want such a thing? Are they linked to the murder of Lincoln? Who invaded Grenada Who made money from apartheid Who keep the Irish a colony Who overthrow Chile and Nicaragua later Who killed David Sibeko, Chris Hani, the same ones who killed Biko, Cabral, Neruda, Allende, Che Guevara, Sandino, Who killed Kabila, the ones who wasted Lumumba, Mondlane, Betty Shabazz, Die, Princess Di, Ralph Featherstone, Little Bobby Who locked up Mandela, Dhoruba, Geronimo, Assata, Mumia, Garvey, Dashiell Hammett, Alphaeus Hutton Who killed Huey Newton, Fred Hampton, Medgar Evers, Mikey Smith, Walter Rodney, Was it the ones who tried to poison Fidel Who tried to keep the Vietnamese Oppressed Who put a price on Lenin's head Who put the Jews in ovens, and who helped them do it Who said "America First" and ok'd the yellow stars Who killed Rosa Luxembourg, Liebneckt Who murdered the Rosenbergs And all the good people iced, tortured, assassinated, vanished Who got rich from Algeria, Libya, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Saudi, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Who cut off peoples hands in the Congo Who invented Aids Who put the germs In the Indians' blankets Who thought up "The Trail of Tears" Who blew up the Maine & started the Spanish American War Who got Sharon back in Power Who backed Batista, Hitler, Bilbo, Chiang kai Chek Who decided Affirmative Action had to go Reconstruction, The New Deal, The New Frontier, The Great Society, Who do Tom *** Clarence Work for Who doo doo come out the Colon's mouth Who know what kind of Skeeza is a Condoleeza Who pay Connelly to be a wooden negro Who give Genius Awards to Homo Locus Subsidere Who overthrew Nkrumah, Bishop, Who poison Robeson, who try to put DuBois in Jail Who frame Rap Jamil al Amin, Who frame the Rosenbergs, Garvey, The Scottsboro Boys, The Hollywood Ten Who set the Reichstag Fire Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed Who told 4000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers To stay home that day Why did Sharon stay away? Who? Who? Who? Explosion of Owl the newspaper say The devil face cd be seen Who make money from war Who make dough from fear and lies Who want the world like it is Who want the world to be ruled by imperialism and national oppression and terror violence, and hunger and poverty. Who is the ruler of Hell? Who is the most powerful Who you know ever Seen God? But everybody seen The Devil Like an Owl exploding In your life in your brain in your self Like an Owl who know the devil All night, all day if you listen, Like an Owl Exploding in fire. We hear the questions rise In terrible flame like the whistle of a crazy dog Like the acid vomit of the fire of Hell Who and Who and WHO who who Whoooo and Whooooooooooooooooooooo! Copyright © 2001 Amiri Baraka. All Rights Reserved.

Allahu Akbar

your wlcmed CM it best we become aware of what is happening all around the world to Muslims and take notice

------------------------------ Western vice - August 13, 2003 ---------------------- Sex in the city ... a boy, 12, among men watching hard-core porn at Majid Al Sa'adi's tea house. Iraq's brutal dictatorship has been replaced by a crime wave. Now sex and drugs are freely available on the street, writes Paul McGeough in Baghdad. It is 10am and the crowd is pouring into the seedy Al Najah cinema on Baghdad's Al Rasheed Street. They come, at 70 cents a ticket, for sex on a loop - fleshy scenes from a dozen B-grade movies spliced into a single program, for which there is standing room only. In Sadoun Street the midday temperature is 50 degrees and the prostitutes tout for business from the shade of a beach umbrella. Further along, in Fidros Square - where US troops stage-managed the demolition of a statue of Saddam Hussein on April 9 - as many as 30 teenagers are sniffing glue and paint thinner. Drug dealers in the treacherous Bab al Sharqi markets, just off central Tahrir Square, are doing a brisk trade in looted prescription drugs. The biggest demand is for mind-altering, and addictive, medications. Each trader has a special, half-hidden box for what he calls feel good capsules and tablets - the Herald came away with a multi-coloured cocktail of 200 pills for less than $10. At the other end of the day hundreds of street drinkers converge on the banks of the Tigris River, openly selling and drinking gin, arak and beer in a raucous celebration of the ending of Saddam's rigid control of vice. Under Saddam, alcohol, drugs, pornography and prostitution were state-controlled for the pleasure of a few. But in the post-war vacuum vice has exploded and the likes of Majid Al Sa'adi's tea house, just back from the bustle of Sadoun Street, has become a one-stop shop. The TV on which patrons were obliged to watch endless speeches by Saddam and oily reports of his daily activities is now home to hardcore German pornography. Among the 25 adults sitting in the shop glued to the screen is a 12-year-old boy. Al Sa'adi's jeans pocket is stuffed with tablets. He sells between 60 and 80 a day for 80 cents each to customers who, he says, take them with their tea. This morning he shows all the woozy signs of having consumed his own product. But he has another line of business - offering the services of two black-shrouded prostitutes who sit on the pavement across the way. They, too, have obviously been drinking or taking drugs. Al Sa'adi dealt drugs, albeit secretly, when Saddam was in power - for which he spent two years in jail. But he says, all the while playing with a long-bladed Japanese knife: "Business is much, much easier now that Saddam is gone. Now, there are no police. "The prostitutes used to operate from hairdressing salons, but now they have come onto the streets and nobody stops them. Those girls," - and he pauses to wave the knife at the two sitting on the pavement - "would not have sat there when Saddam was in power. Even without the paint thinners they'd have been arrested. And I couldn't have carried even a single tablet in my pocket. It would have been too dangerous." There are no sensible crime statistics in the new Iraq. What is clear is that crime has risen in a way that has left much of the population more fearful of the present than of the past. Thousands suffered appall-ingly under Saddam, but the vast majority knew the rigid rules imposed by the regime and, by the perverse double standards of the Iraqi dictatorship, they were able to live a deprived but peaceable enough existence. Suddenly, starting with the looting when Baghdad fell, they have been burdened with the excesses of a whole new criminal class. Add to that the prewar release of thousands of criminals by Saddam from his jails and it is easy to understand the fear in the streets. Many Iraqis go to sleep listening to gunfire. Gangs trade shots in the streets in broad daylight and rampant car-hijacking frequently ends in death. There is a spate of kidnappings - most of which are followed by ransom demands as much as $60,000, with some of the victims undergoing torture as well. Businesses are robbed so frequently they close at 2pm and most homes at night are bolted and shuttered against thieves. There are frequent revenge killings of those accused of helping the old regime - like Dr Mohammed Alrawi, who had treated Saddam and was gunned down in his Baghdad consulting rooms last week But there is a further complication. In the past the worst crimes were carried out in the name of the state and executed by the police, which commanded none of the community's respect or confidence. Now non-state crime is taking hold, and because Iraqis lived for decades in fear of the police, they believe there is no point in reporting crime and so remain at the mercy of the gangs. The US Administration in Iraq has been so slow in dealing with security issues that mosque communities, particularly those of the majority Shiites, have set up their own vigilante squads and Islamic courts, which hand out instant decisions on criminal and civil matters. There has even been a retreat to tribal justice in some parts of the country. Last week the Herald reported that a father had been ordered to kill his son or have his family executed after the young man was accused of collaborating with the US military. The coalition is busy setting up a new police force, but hard-line Islamic clerics, and the movements that support them, are already running their own clampdown on vice - liquor merchants, cinema and tea house operators and video shops have been warned they will be bombed out of business if they do not stop selling alcohol or put an end to even the mildest pornography. Scores of liquor shops have been torched in the country's south, and in Basra three Christian liquor sellers have been murdered. Basra used to have almost 150 liquor outlets - now all are said to have closed down. Several of Baghdad's distilleries and breweries have been torched or bombed and many of the capital's liquor shops have been gutted by fire or sprayed with gunfire. One in Baghdad was attacked with a rocket-propelled grenade. Baghdad's cinemas have also been warned - from the pulpit and in flyers and graffiti. Some have taken to blacking out the offending body parts in promotional posters, others have hired armed guards and a few have simply closed down. Senior Islamic clerics have condemned the campaign of direct action - but at the same time they speak well of its impact, claiming that all vice offends the deeply held principles of Islam. There were some limitations in Saddam's Iraq - alcohol could only be sold warm and by Christians, and be drunk at home; cinemas could not show pornography. But for all that it remained a broadly secular society. Now the clerics are endorsing the setting up of mosque committees, the brief of which appears to have been directly lifted from Saudi Arabia's and the Taliban's ministries for the promotion of virtue and the prevention of vice. Women have also been told to return to wearing the traditional hejab head dress. The Pentagon has given the bullet-headed, blunt-talking former police commissioner of New York Bernie Kerik the task of reconstructing Iraq's police force. Mr Kerik claims that busier streets and markets are a sign of Iraqis' growing confidence. He told said he had sacked about two-thirds of Saddam's police and that all existing and newly recruited officers would be put through a training course in the most basic concepts of community policing. Acknowledging that state-sanctioned crime represented about 80 per cent of all crime under Saddam, he said: "We have to build the people's confidence . . . and the police have to understand why they are not liked. They have to shift from being a force to being a service. "We have to teach them the principles of policing in a free and democratic society. Teach them how to patrol - this is a concept they don't know. "We actually have to get them to understand that torture, abuse and killing are not a part of investigation; and that they have to treat women who come in with complaints with dignity and not as criminals. "It's very basic stuff. But to them it's something they have never heard before." The immunity from prosecution the police enjoyed under Saddam would end. Mr Kerik said he was ready to deal with vice when it became a problem, and he suspected that, as in Bosnia and Kosovo, many of those who turned to it would be former security forces now looking for easy money. But for now he is not sure it is a problem. "I have heard that we are making some arrests in prostitution and pornography, but these are not violent crimes, and there is evidence that it was happening before the war." And he is across the clerics' drive to impose Islamic discipline. He said several clerics had volunteered dozens of men for the police force, but he directed them to the police recruiting office to apply for jobs and to submit themselves to the new vetting process. But at the Sunni Al Khudriri mosque, on the north side of central Baghdad, Sheik Thalib Ahmed was a measure of the challenge facing Mr Kerik and his new force. Outlining in great detail how vice offended Islam, Sheik Ahmed declared that its explosion in Iraq was a Jewish plot. "After the fall of Baghdad the people who use these services found a gate to get into this dirty war and there was no one to watch or punish them. "What was the name of the philosopher who asked how many crimes would be committed in the name of liberty and freedom? This is one of those crimes. "Saddam held a stick over the people. For a time he executed prostitutes and their male pimps. But now nobody threatens or punishes the people who are into vice. There is no authority." Asked if he supported the threats against alcohol dealers and cinema operators, he hedged his bets: "Sometimes this good medicine must be administered without offending our Islamic principles. "At first we order the people to abstain from these bad things, but if they do not follow the wisdom we offer, then we have to use our hand against them." For now, Majid Al Sa'adi is unmoved. The tea house proprietor said: "The people from the mosque are chasing me. A few days ago they dropped a grenade in the Sinbad Cinema, around the corner. And they came here and warned me that they will do the same if we keep operating like this. For now, we're still in business." And, it seems, so too are the bad habits of Saddam's police. In the last week more than a dozen motorists have complained about being pulled over by members of the new force on a trumped up charge, only to be let go after paying a bribe.

Wasnt this the most obvious of out comes :rolleyes: , somehow i feel that even the current gruellia warfare was anticipated and factored into there invasion plans after all these people are more than willing to let afew soldiers diew for the great Strategic interest of oil and Geo-politcal power well anway read on nomads ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Published on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 by the Baltimore Sun Terror's Gains Editorial REALITY HAS FINALLY caught up with rhetoric. Last winter the Bush administration wasted no opportunity to declare that Iraq posed a clear and present danger to America in part because it was in league with terrorists -- maybe even including al-Qaida. There wasn't much evidence for it then, but it made a handy hook to hang a war on. There's more evidence now. Both Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez and civilian boss L. Paul Bremer III have said that some measure of the continuing trouble in Iraq is caused by foreign terrorists who appear to have al-Qaida behind them. Organizations linked to al-Qaida have been moving men into Iraq and stepping up activity there, they say. Let's put it another way: Since the war, Iraq has started to look like a fertile ground for terrorists. The American invasion made this possible. The United States has created what it went to war to prevent. Now Iraq really is a threat to Americans, starting with the 150,000 troops who are stationed there. A U.S. soldier was killed in an explosion outside Baghdad yesterday, the 57th to be killed since May 1. If this was a case of taking the fight to the enemy, it might be understandable, but it looks more and more as though the United States has inadvertently chosen to present the enemy with an opportunity. At one time al-Qaida was on the run -- Vice President Dick Cheney said so himself -- but the chance to crush the group that carried out the Sept. 11 attacks was squandered in the mountains of Afghanistan, and now the American invasion of Iraq has opened up new possibilities. There was, to be sure, an allied militant group called Ansar al-Islam in the mountains of northeastern Iraq while Saddam Hussein was in power, but they were hemmed in by hostile Kurds and had no ties to the regime in Baghdad. Now they appear to be settling in, in the capital itself. Is this any way to combat terrorism? The Jordanian embassy in Baghdad is demolished in an explosion and sacked by a mob. Iraqis who were glad to see the American troops arrive now heartily wish they would go. The city of Basra simmers just below a boil in 120-degree heat, with fitful supplies of water and electricity. American administrators seal themselves off in presidential palaces and wonder why Iraqis don't love them, while American soldiers go out on raids every day. American tactics have so far produced unfortunate results: a major spike in Middle East instability and far more hostility toward the United States in the Muslim world than existed two years ago. It's time for a reality check; the invasion of Iraq may have gotten rid of an odious regime, but it was a setback, not a victory, in the war on terror. Copyright © 2003, The Baltimore Sun ------------------------------------------------------------------

U.S. Soldiers Discover Islam In Iraq U.S. soldiers’ heavy-handed policy with Iraqis fanned anti-U.S. sentiments By Aws Al-Sharqy, IOL Correspondent BAGHDAD, August 13 (IslamOnline.net) – Discovering an Islam that is totally different from the one smeared in their media, a number of American servicemen and women were said to have embraced Islam and married Iraqis. "After daily interactions with Iraqi citizens and a first-hand experience in dealing with Muslims in the war-ravaged country, many U.S. soldiers willingly accepted Islam, " Sheikh Mahmoud el-Samydaei, member of Iraq’s Muslim Scholars Society, told IslamONline.net Wednesday, August 13. "The soldiers came to realize that the teachings of Islam are absolutely different from fabricated information propagated by the western media," he added. The Iraqi scholar recalled crying Christian-turned-Muslim American army officer who lamented that his folks died without knowing anything about Islam. Not First A U.S. officer visited the Civil Affairs Court in the Baghdad district of el-Karkh earlier this week to declare: "I bear witness that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is His messenger." The man later married Iraqi doctor Samar Ahmed whom we met while standing guard in Medicine City Hospital. The American officer confirmed that he embraced Islam out of absolute conviction and not just to marry the Iraqi woman he fell in love with. According to Islamic teachings, a none-Muslim man is not allowed to marry a Muslim woman. Judge Abd el-Azeim Mohammad Gawad el-Rasafi blessed the marriage, asserting it was the "first time an Iraqi girl would marry an American soldier who accepted Islam." He told IOL he found no religious ground to obstruct the marriage, which was opposed by several Iraqi citizens. "The assertion of the American soldier that he embraced Islam of his free will and not just to marry the Iraqi doctor convinced us to approve the marriage," said Judge el-Rasafi. Convinced Although Samar declined to be interviewed, her colleague Doctor Bayda’a Mohammad Ahmed told IOL she had hard times with Iraqis who knew about the proposed marriage. They accused her of marrying the American officer just to have a chance of going to the U.S. with him, said Bayda’a. Defending her friend Samar, Bayda’a asserted she was the one who introduced him to Islam and encourage him to accept it. She found he was a good husband and did not have in min traveling to the States, said the fellow doctor. No Fayez Qadouri, one of several opponents, said the opposition had nothing to do with the fact that the officer was American but rather because he was "an occupier of our land." "He should renounce his country’s occupation of Iraq and either leave the country to desert the army for us to approve the marriage," he said. There are some 145,000 U.S. and 11,000 British soldiers deployed across Iraq. source: Islamonline.com

^^^ I hope so bro indeed lets pray for the arrival of that day.

What do u guys think is the rationale for the actions of President of the TNG?? And is he right to think that he can still retain power after the end of the period of the TNG?? The impression i get after following the developments of the conference and many different articles is that although he raised some fair complaints and arguments, sadly though his decision to leave the conference whilst his priminster and other collegues from the TNG remained seems to be motivated by a desire prolong his position as President of a 1/5 of Mogadisho :rolleyes: , which is disheartning to see.

Thx very much for the reminder Muraad. Indeed Death is something that we should all try to rember on a day to day basis because some day we too will have to taste death and its better we be prepared for it. It is a sad story and unfortunately too many people are dealying practising and implementing islam fully in ther lives.

The only thing that matters is that the world is silent, and this silence kills innocent people. 8/9/2003 - Social Political - By: Kristina Sarkisyan The Chechen Times* - The current Chechen crisis began either in 1991, when the Chechens declared their independence from Russia, or in 1994, when Russian President Boris Yeltsin decided to put the separatists down. The roots of the conflict are very deep. In the nineteenth century, Chechen opposition to Russian imperial expansion led to a series of wars and uprisings, which were brutally suppressed; where an estimated 1,500,000 Chechens lived in Chechnya at the start of the nineteenth century, the 1926 Soviet census listed just 400,000. This sequence of revolt and repression continued into the "second" Russian empire, the Soviet Union. During the civil war that followed the Revolution, the Chechens fought against "white" forces. The Bolsheviks initially promised the Chechens self-government according to Islamic law, and promoted Chechen culture and the development of the nation. However, the bureaucratic and totalitarian character of the Soviet state was at odds with Chechen values and traditions, and uprisings continued during the Soviet period. Under Stalin in 1944, Chechens were deported to Central Asian concentration camps, and Chechnya ceased to exist as an entity within the Soviet Union. Up to a quarter died during the "resettlement", or were murdered. Under Khruschev, Chechnya was reconstituted as an "autonomous republic" or "independence within dependence" within the Russian Federation, and surviving deportees returned. For the Chechens, the deportation represents not only an episode of great suffering, but also a humiliation - a trauma which has made it impossible for Chechens to live within Russia as a national minority. As the Soviet Union broke up in 1991, Chechnya declared independence from the Russian Federation. However, unlike the Union republics such as Georgia and Moldova, Chechnya's status as an autonomous republic within Russia placed it in a different position under international law. The Union republics, whatever their position in practice, were legally considered to be sovereign states within the Soviet Union. Chechnya, by contrast, did not have sovereign status, and its declaration of independence has not been recognized internationally. This has meant that Union republics that never attempted secession, such as Belarus, were in effect forced into independence, while a region like Chechnya, the Russian and then Soviet and now again Russian state had striven and are striving to wipe out, was compelled to remain within a political framework that it rejected. Post-Soviet Russia is the third incarnation of Russian statehood with which the Chechens have had to deal. The experience had turned out to be no batter than the previous two. In fact, it was much worse because neither in the 19th nor in the 20th centuries Chechnya was leveled to the ground, nor entire population were killed and tortured in such scale. While the Western world celebrated Christmas in 1994, Russian forces used heavy artillery, massed rocket batteries, and carpet-bombing to grind Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, and any Chechen village that resisted. During this war, the Russians have killed at least 100,000 Chechens, mainly civilians. Human rights groups continuously accused the Russians of widespread torture, mass executions, reprisals, and collective punishment in Chechnya. Following his victory in elections in 1996, Yeltsin decided to end the war in Chechnya. Under the Khasavyurt agreements, Russian troops withdrew from Chechnya. But the issue of Chechnya's status was deferred. After three years of relative calm, the second phase in the Chechen conflict began in late 1999, and it is linked with the emergence of Yeltsin's successor, Vladimir Putin, who became acting president when Yeltsin stepped down in December. Following the incursions by Chechen fighters into the neighboring republic of Dagestan, and a series of bomb blasts in Moscow and other Russian cities which left 300 dead, and which have never been fully explained, Russian troops re-entered Chechnya in September 1999 under the well constructed slogan "anti-terrorists operation". These blasts in Russia, which the Russian government blamed on Chechens, still remain an "unsolved mystery". However, there is evidence that at least in one Russian city, Ryazan, where a blast was prevented on September 23, FSB agents participated. The two wars have devastated Chechnya. The capital, Grozny, is as ruined as Stalingrad after the great battles of the Second World War. No one knows exactly how many people live in Chechnya now, but it is clear that the majority of the pre-conflict population is now refugees in Russia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Ingushetia - a Russian republic with no attempt of secession. It is also clear that the Russian government commits the crime of genocide in Chechnya. The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines genocide as killing, injuring, or use of force with the intention to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group. The world can no longer pretend that Russia doesn't intend to destroy in whole or in part the Chechen nation. Hundreds of thousands are dead (more than 100,000 since 1999, and more than 250,000 since 1994), more than half of the nation is displaced, nothing has been rebuilt in Chechnya, the war is at a stalemate, but Russia continues to fight its "dirty war" against the Chechen civilians with no desire to even discuss a political solution or improve civilian conditions. But the saddest thing is that the world turns its eyes away from the worst crime of our time - the genocide in Chechnya. The Chechens' sense of injustice lies, not only in their treatment at the hands of successive Russian regimes, but also in the attitude of the outside world to the extremely bloody and amoral conflict. In Kosovo, Serb suppression of Kosovar Albanian separatism, which was much less cruel than Russian suppression of Chechen opposition, prompted a full-scale military response and significant Western action. Even though no one has been prepared to grant Kosovo legal independence or condone its integration into Albania, Kosovo is de facto independent from Belgrade, and under NATO protection. Macedonian Albanians have also achieved the most that they could in a unified Macedonian state. By contrast, pressure on Russia from the world community during the Chechen conflict has always been and is exceptionally weak. Why is the international attitude to the Chechen conflict so strikingly different from the attitude to the Kosovan war? First, the Kosovan conflict is in Europe, and directly affects the major European powers. The Chechen conflict, on the other hand, is taking place in the world's backyard; refugees from Chechnya are not heading so much for Germany, but Georgia and Ingushetia. Second, Russia is still a nuclear power, and remains a large and powerful nation despite the changes that have taken place since the Soviet Union's collapse. To offend it by, for instance, raising the issue of human rights abuse against Chechens by Russian forces would be dangerous. And third, Russia has successfully presented the conflict not as a political contest for power or intentional destruction of the Chechen nation, but as a fight against Islam and the forces of "global terrorism". Russia's position has become virtually unchallengeable in the wake of September 11 attacks, and Moscow's support for the US-led war on terrorism. However, the picture is more complex. At the start, Chechens were just separatists, now they are "terrorists" and "bandits". But in reality, Chechens are nothing more than freedom fighters - people who fight for the independence of their homeland and who want to live in peace and justice. Chechens are the people who have suffered and are suffering a lot in the hands of Russian "democratic" government. Everything else is just an ugly myth constructed by the Russians to denounce and exterminated all Chechens. Another myth is that the Russian system of government is democracy. Democracy isn't about humiliating, degrading, discriminating against, and killing innocent people. Democracy is about equality and respect for each other. But it doesn't really matter why the world stays indifferent to the Chechen tragedy. The only thing that matters is that the world is silent, and this silence kills innocent people. Chechens "living" in almost destroyed Chechnya are undergoing severe genocide. Their beautiful culture is being uprooted, and their wonderful hearts are being filled with unimaginable pain and horror. Their screams are not heard and their tears are not seen. So can silence kill? Yes, it can! The world's silence, in this case, is the worst murderer imagined. Russia commits the most horrible crimes in Chechnya, and the rest of the world is silent. Thus, I urge the whole world not to turn its back on Chechnya, not to turn its eyes away from the tragedy of the Chechen people. The world must hear their screams and see their tears. It must imagine the pain that all Chechens are forced to bear. Everyone must understand that Chechens are our fellow human beings who are being severely exterminated by the Russian bloody state forces, and who need our urgent help. Only in that case we will be able to say that all of us have contributed to the world civilization and to the prosperity of our humanity! Source: http://www.chechnya.nl

I could leave with the below sceniro. Roma Certainly need new money and we havent got a Roman Abrohamvich ------------------------------------------------------------------- Davids holding out for Roma move? Tuesday 12 August, 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Juve’s new President has told Edgar Davids he is free to leave, but the player is resisting Premiership offers to aim for Roma. The Dutchman has refused to extend his contract in the hope he can leave on a free next summer, but new President Franzo Grande Stevens has made the situation clear. “Davids is a great player,” said the chief, “and I’d prefer it if he agreed a new deal and ended his career with us." "But if he wants to leave then he can. Stephan Appiah is a more than adequate replacement.” The Turin side was hoping to cash in on the former Ajax hero with an £8m offer from Chelsea, but Davids always refused overseas options. It is now reported the reason behind this attitude is a basic agreement to join Roma on a free transfer next summer. Davids almost joined the Giallorossi last season, but the negotiations failed when President Franco Sensi refused to meet the £10m price-tag. Coach Fabio Capello and captain Francesco Totti have both publicly named the Juve man as their main target to reinforce the squad. With the risk of losing any cash from his departure in 12 months’ time, Juventus may well bow down and accept a greatly reduced bid from their bitter Serie A rivals. This would then allow Roma to release Brazilian midfielder Emerson to Chelsea or Barcelona, also bringing in fresh funds for a new striker. Meanwhile, Juventus chief Grande Stevens, who took over following the untimely death of President Vittorio Chiusano this month, also looked to the future. “Our dream buy is Dejan Stankovic,” he revealed. “The Lazio midfielder is a magnificent

Salam Calayakum saxiib Thx very much for posting this very informative article i hope that most of us who particpate in the poltics section read this as it will provide the backdrop needed for more intelligible debates. Indeed Nationalism is one of the many things that has lead to the current Calamites that have Fallen on The muslims Ummar world wide. I recal a fellow student who was leading the Qutbar @ Jummac in my uni staiting that Prophet Muhamad (PBUH) said of practise of Nationalism amongts muslims i.e. the distingushing and discriminating on the bases of " Am a an Arab your an Arican", "Am a Pakistani ru a Bangladeshi" and so forth is akin to One Cutting off his fathers Penis and stick it in his mouth, so clearly somethign worthwhile avoiding.

Published on Monday, August 11, 2003 by In These Times When soldiers Dissent by Salim Muwakkil Soldiers of the first U.S. invasion force to enter Iraq have expressed widespread resentment for Bush administration officials. “ If Donald Rumsfeld was here, I’d ask him for his resignation,” Spec. Clinton Dietz of the 3rd Infantry’s 2nd Brigade told ABC News in a July 15 report. Another sergeant said, “I’ve got my own ‘Most Wanted List,’ [and] the aces in my deck are Paul Bremer, Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush, and Paul Wolfowitz.” Those are the four men running U.S. policy in Iraq. This is pretty serious stuff. GIs might gripe among themselves in the barracks, or the mess hall, but rarely are those complaints publicly expressed. Even in the aftermath of the Nuremberg trials, the universal soldier’s credo is: Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do or die. The abrupt cancellation of homecoming plans probably pushed the men of the 2nd Brigade over the line. After all, they have been in the region since last September, when they were deployed to Kuwait. They were among the first troops in Baghdad during the invasion and have been in the region longer than other troops. But the soldiers also knew that making disparaging comments about civilian leadership of the military could bring a serious reprimand or even court martial. Some apparently were willing to take that risk. Their courage, or recklessness, brings back memories of the Vietnam era and the soldiers who became involved in the struggle against that war. Members of the U.S. armed forces were some of the earliest soldiers in the antiwar movement; groups of veterans and active duty members were prominent in many antiwar protests. In Vietnam, increasing numbers of fragging incidents (attacks on superior officers) and mutinies revealed the troops’ growing disenchantment with official policy. The general public didn’t turn solidly against the war until late in the game, and then only grudgingly. Even after the 1971 revelations in the infamous Pentagon Papers, most Americans supported the anti-Communist crusade in Southeast Asia. Our current situation is a bit different. Many Americans joined in global concert with millions of others to protest the prospect of this war. Much ado now is being made about the 16-word “mistake” (or lie) Bush uttered during his State of the Union address, but most global observers knew it was a dubious claim when he made it. There was already considerable information available in the global media that had cast doubt on the Niger uranium story. Those who crafted Bush’s speech, and probably the president himself, knew the information was deceptive. But so what? They had been planning an invasion of Iraq at least since 2001 and had gone way too far to quit now. In fact, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, one of the major architects of the Iraq invasion, had been planning to invade the country since at least 1992, when he drafted a policy paper for Dick Cheney, then the defense secretary in the first Bush administration. That report, excerpts of which were published in the March 8, 1992 edition of the New York Times, urged the United States to protect and exploit its unique superpower status, making pre-emptive strikes and taking unilateral action whenever necessary to ensure our pre-eminence. The draft proposal declared, “Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere.” The report called for military intervention in Iraq to assure “access to vital raw material, primarily Persian Gulf oil” and to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and threats from terrorism. At the time, Wolfowitz’s prescriptions were considered too bellicose. The first Bush administration drastically revised and softened the document. Wolfowitz bided his time and retreated to the woodshed with his neoconservative cohorts, where they honed their arguments and sharpened their strategy. He is part of a group of ideologues that has been busy formulating policy prescriptions since 1976, under the auspices of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). Founded by neoconservatives concerned about Israel’s security, JINSA has attracted a select roster of board members including, at one time or another, Vice President Dick Cheney, former CIA Director James Woolsey, the infamous Richard “Prince of Darkness” Perle, Undersecretary of State for Arms Control John Bolton, Pentagon official Douglas Feith, and Michael Ledeen, the itinerate and influential “terrorist consultant.” Many of these same individuals also are deeply involved with the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), created in 1997 and headed by William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard. In 1998, PNAC wrote a public letter to President Bill Clinton urging he attack Iraq. Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz were among the signatories. The selection of Bush II in 2000 gave the neocons their second shot. Wolfowitz came back to Rumsfeld’s Pentagon, this time as a deputy secretary. Several other PNAC members are sprinkled in high places, and it’s clear their ideas are driving Bush’s international policies. Any serious observer of these developments can see that Americans have been conned, or perhaps neo-conned, into invading Iraq. And in any war, the most serious observers are the soldiers. Salim Muwakkil is a senior editor of In These Times, where he has worked since 1983, and a weekly op-ed columnist for the Chicago Tribune. He is currently a Crime and Communities Media Fellow of the Open Society Institute, examining the impact of ex-inmates and gang leaders in leadership positions in the black community. In These Times ©2003

True....but thats not always the case.

lol Bachelor now that is interesting. Am sure i would be able to use some of the above infomation .

Rudy thats a pretty strong condemnation on a very superfical piont. Where it might be true that in western studies such mental abnormalaties have been unearthed, i would simple draw your attention to the fact that most somalis marry from within there same family and in quite a lot of cases there cousins. I havent heard of any of these medical problems occuring within the somali population.

Since Chelsea have updated there squad once more lol, i thought i would change my line up abit ------------------------------1.Cudicini--------------------------- --------5.Mellchiot----- 2.Terry3------.Gallas4------.Bridge------------ ---------------6.Geremi---------------11.Petit----------------------- -- 8.Gronkjiar-----------------------------------------------7.Duff-- -----------------------------10.Veron------------------------------ ----------------------9.Mutu----------------------------------

Hey i can understand what ur saying sis but dont give up on us yet. Trust me i use to think the same way, and to a certain extent my views remain unchanged regarding some certain aspect of our behaviour that is born out of the way we are fragmented by our culture.

Wa Calayakum Salam saxiib hope your already enjoyin the various character's the site has to offer

lol i see u employed the same tactics moi H_S

Thatsa good line up Winger, by the way how did u manage to uplaod that image :confused: am not quite as Com Literate as i thought.

well i scored a reasonble 35/100 but what does that mean??

I know of sum in westlondon and Northlondon but not personally. I'll give u any info i find out