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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Will Iraq disintegrate under sectarian, ethnic divides?, Islam and the West, NewAgeIslam.com

Islam and the West
Will Iraq disintegrate under sectarian, ethnic divides?
Security, Reconciliation in Iraq Are Irreconcilable
By Nicola Nasser
Oct 16, 2009

Insecurity in Iraq is in – built in the U.S. – conceived sectarian and "federal" constitution drafted after the U.S. – led invasion in 2003, in the political process engineered by the U.S. occupying power on sectarian and federal "constitutional" basis to create a secure pro – U.S. post–Saddam regime as well as in the sectarian polity born there from -- or more to the point brought in by the invading army -- and is still, seven years on, struggling to survive a possible U.S. military disengagement, and in a self–defeating contradictory and security oriented U.S. blueprints for Iraqi reconciliation as a prerequisite for securing the country at least as an ally of the United States, if not as a puppet regime.

"Six and a half years from the moment when American troops captured Baghdad on April 9, 2003, nothing is settled." "Without reconciliation, all the gains ... will be at grave risk of foundering when American troops are no longer around.” That´s the "warning" message that U.S. President Barak Obama, the present and immediate past U.S. ambassadors, Christopher R. Hill and Ryan C. Crocker, and the present and former American military commanders, Gen. Ray Odierno and Gen. David H. Petraeus have been repeatedly whistle-blowing. "What Mr. Obama would do if chaos set in as the American troop withdrawal gathers momentum next spring and summer could be one of the most testing moments in his presidency, all the more so for the evident fact that most Americans and most American legislators .. seem to have decided that America has already borne the burdens of Iraq for too long and needs to shift its priorities to Afghanistan," according to John F. Burns, The New York Times´ chief foreign correspondent, on the ground in Baghdad before, during and after the U.S. – led invasion.

http://newageislam.com/will-iraq-disintegrate-under-sectarian,-ethnic-divides?/islam-and-the-west/d/2357


Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Suicide Attack Kills 40 in India's Afghanistan Embassy, War on Terror, NewAgeIslam.com

War on Terror
Suicide Attack Kills 40 in India's Afghanistan Embassy
By: Sardar Ahmad, Agence France-Presse

The Indian foreign ministry in New Delhi said meanwhile that two Indian paramilitary troopers guarding the embassy were killed in what the Afghan interior ministry said was a suicide car bombing.

"We are walking on rubble," a senior embassy official told AFP soon after the blast. "The embassy has been blown up badly, the outer structures," he said on condition of anonymity.

Reporters were held back from the scene but an AFP correspondent saw a mound of rubble at the gate of the facility, which is close to the interior ministry.

The powerful morning rush-hour blast sent a plume of brown smoke into the air and could be heard across the city centre. It shattered the windows of shops several hundred metres (yards) away, the correspondent said.

"Initial reports indicate that about 40 people, mostly civilians who had come here for visas, have been killed," interior ministry spokesman Najib Nikzad told reporters near the scene.

"More than 40 people, mostly civilians, have been killed," he reiterated to an AFP reporter separately. About 10 Afghan police officers in charge of embassy security were among the dead and wounded, he said.

Health ministry spokesman Abdullah Fahim said earlier hospitals had reported they had 28 bodies and had treated 141 wounded.

http://newageislam.com/suicide-attack-kills-40-in-india-s-afghanistan-embassy/war-on-terror/d/178


Monday, May 28, 2012

Waziristan, a Taliban mini state: NYT, Radical Islamism and Jihad, NewAgeIslam.com

Radical Islamism and Jihad
Waziristan, a Taliban mini state: NYT
Our correspondent

The newspaper quoted a recently arrested suicide bomber in Afghanistan as saying that the former head of Pakistani intelligence, Gen Hamid Gul, “was financing and supporting the project (of producing suicide bombers)”. Though, it said, the claim is impossible to verify. Pakistan intelligence agencies have long nurtured militants in the tribal areas to pressure the rival government in Afghanistan, though the government claims to have ceased its support.

Islamic militants are using a recent peace deal with the government to consolidate their hold in northern Pakistan, vastly expanding their training of suicide bombers and other recruits and fortifying alliances with al-Qaeda and foreign fighters, the newspaper said, quoting diplomats and intelligence officials from several nations. The result, they say, is virtually a Taliban mini-state.

The militants, the officials say, are openly flouting the terms of the September accord in North Waziristan, under which they agreed to end cross-border help for the Taliban insurgency that revived in Afghanistan with new force this year.

http://newageislam.com/waziristan,-a-taliban-mini-state--nyt/radical-islamism-and-jihad/d/281