The Arab lunacy: Some outrageous reactions to terror in Mumbai Overview, Islam,Terrorism and Jihad, NewAgeIslam.com

Islam,Terrorism and Jihad

The Arab lunacy: Some outrageous reactions to terror in Mumbai

Overview

2. However, in commenting on the reasons for the terrorist attack, the Iranian and Syrian propaganda was quick to exploit the event to assail the United States, Israel and the Zionist movement, and to represent them as responsible for terrorism in India and the world in general:

i) Iranian president Ahmadinejad, in a vague statement hinting at the United States, said that “the ugly phenomenon of terrorism…has its roots in [an] international unfair order and …occupationist and disuniting policies” (ISNA News Agency, November 28). On November 29 the Iranian newspaper Al-Wifaq was much more explicit in its reaction. It criticized the Western media for describing the attackers as “Islamists.” It also said that Israel (“that hypocritical entity”) had sown terrorism in the Middle East and the entire world. It added that the attacks in India had a Zionist background with goals of interfering in regional matters, and fingerprints of American crimes could also be seen on the Indian sub-continent. According to the article, ten years ago the United States and the Zionists started spreading to the Indian arena to encourage a civil war within India and strife between India and its neighbours. Their intention was to impose their hegemony in the region. “Thus it is not enough to put an end to the military attack [in Mumbai], the true American string-pulling behind the terrorist [attack] must also be exposed…”

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Uncertain future as Pakistan goes broke, Islam and the West,

Islam and the West

Wounded Sovereignty: Uncertain future as Pakistan goes broke

Uncertain future as Pakistan goes broke

By G Parthasarathy

In these circumstances, the 'Friends of Pakistan' will use their economic leverage to see that Pakistan moves in the direction of ending support for terrorist groups and dealing with pro-Taliban groups operating across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. It is in this background that one has to assess the rather shady role being played by America's British allies, who are preaching virtual defeatism and surrender in Afghanistan through both their military commander and Ambassador. The British quite evidently have no stomach for further casualties. Over the past two years they have played a duplicitous role in establishing secret contacts with the Taliban behind the back of President Hamid Karzai, who has reacted with rage, expelling a British national who was involved in clandestinely transferring money to the Taliban and by pre-empting a British ploy to get Lord Paddy Ashdown, who had earned notoriety in Bosnia and is said to have had MI 6 links in his short career as a diplomat, as a UN High Representative to Afghanistan.

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