Russian Footprints. What does Moscow have to do with the recent war in Lebanon?
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posted by zaina19 on September, 2006 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/10/2006 11:37 PM September, 10, 2006 Russian Footprints. What does Moscow have to do with the recent war in Lebanon? By Ion Mihai Pacepa The Kremlin may be the main winner in the Lebanon war. Israel has been attacked with Soviet Kalashnikovs and Katyushas, Russian Fajr-1 and Fajr-3 rockets, Russian AT-5 Spandrel antitank missiles and Kornet antitank rockets. Russia’s outmoded weapons are now all the rage with terrorists everywhere in the world, and the bad guys know exactly where to get them. The weapons cases abandoned by Hezbollah were marked: “Customer: Ministry of Defense of Syria. Supplier: KBP, Tula, Russia.” Today’s international terrorism was conceived at the Lubyanka, the headquarters of the KGB, in the aftermath of the1967 Six-Day War in the Middle East. I witnessed its birth in my other life, as a Communist general. Israel humiliated Egypt and Syria, whose bellicose governments were being run by Soviet razvedka (Russian for “foreign intelligence”) advisers, whereupon the Kremlin decided to arm Israel’s enemy neighbors, ... >> full
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Five years after 9/11, how does the world see the U.S.?
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/11/2006 1:33 PM Five years after 9/11, how does the world see the U.S.? Publication time: Today at 23:15 Djokhar time "Five years have come and gone and we still stand together as one. We come back to this place to remember the heart-breaking anniversary an each person who died here, those known and unknown to us, whose absence is always with us" - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg siad. The U.S. President George W. Bush, who was accompanied by First lady Laura Bush, as they observed the silence outside a fire station in New York's Lower East Side, to honour the 343 firefighters who were killed. A ceremony held at the site of the World Trade Center was attended by numerous sad families clutching photos of their loved ones and reading the names of those who died. "We love and miss you so much" said one, "my love for you is eternal," added another, holding back tears. "To my fiancé, my love and my best ... >> full
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Said Minkailov: 'New order' crumbles away
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/11/2006 1:48 PM Said Minkailov: 'New order' crumbles away Publication time: 10 September 2006, 18:16 Kavkaz Center correspondent Vaha Hasanov recently got in touch by e-mail with Chechen political scientist Said Minkailov and asked him a few questions. V. H: World events are moving swiftly. There is a number of questions which I would like to discuss. Last Lebanon -Israeli conflict gave rise in western and prowestern mass media cascade of publications of the very different sense. It's seen that to the usual arrogance and lies of democratic aggression apologists have added pessimism and confusion. But there are attempts of the objective analysis. I'll cite one article: "War in Lebanon whatever ends demonstrates another peculiarity of political situation in Middle East: state crisis as institute which is able to ensure the stable development of the Muslim nations. Neither Talibs in Afghanistan, nor Saddam Husein in Iraq, neither Lebanon, nor Palestine politicians cannot resist outer threat, leaning on own state." It has almost common with said in "Mujahid's ... >> full
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The Western Dilemma in Chechnya
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/12/2006 10:45 PM The Western Dilemma in Chechnya Publication time: 12 September 2006, 13:54 For many years the European public has been accustomed to hear once in a while news about a conflict taking place at what they call the borders of "the civilized world". Sometimes reactions to the situation in that region break into the newspapers, but after a while silence falls again on this war. This is the Russin-Chechen war, in the Russian-occupied Northern Caucasus. The Russian-Chechen war has become critical as Russia took over the Presidency of the Council of Europe, "Europe's premier intergovernmental human rights organization", as Radio Free Europe calls it. The conflict itself goes back many centuries to the first attempts of the tsarist empire to find a way to the warm seas and the Ottoman Empire. Why the war began again after the collapse of the Soviet Union is something very easy to understand, as easy as the need of the Russian colonialists to keep this area ... >> full
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Pope’s Anti-Islamic Remarks
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/14/2006 2:27 PM Pope’s Anti-Islamic Remarks Last update: 14 September 2006, 18:48 Publication time: 14 September 2006, 15:48 In what some immediately saw as a serious diversion from the rapprochement approach of his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday, September 12, said the Islamic concepts of "Jihad" was unreasonable and against God's nature. Using the words, "Jihad" and "Holy War" in lecture at the University of Regensburg, the pontiff quoted criticism of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him) by a 14th Century Byzantine Christian emperor, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP). "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached," Benedict quoted Manuel II. Quoting the Byzantine Christian emperor, Benedict said spreading the faith through violence is unreasonable and that acting without reason was against God's nature. "Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul," added the pontiff ... >> full
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