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Is America really a Fair Broker?

23 Friday Sep 2011

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The Palestinian leadership of Mahmoud Abbas says that America’s opposition to her bid for nationhood has seriously diminished the superpower’s role as a fair broker in the region.

Watching President Obama at the UN Grand Assembly two days ago it was hard not to agree with this.

The American President said the Jewish people had suffered the duel fates of being expelled from their historic homeland some two thousand years ago, and the Holocaust.

Of course, the Palestinians had nothing to do with either.

Obama simply spelled out America’s position which was cemented after the six-day war when the tiny state of Israel became a Middle Eastern Superpower.

She had proved herself, and would from now onwards receive America’s full backing.

Abbas like the rest of us had probably fallen for that talk of change that was promised when Obama first came to power.

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‘Pakistani Terrorism in Afghanistan’

23 Friday Sep 2011

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Afghanistan, Distant Echoes, Nayab Chohan, NayabChohan, NayabChohanLIVE, Pakistan, Politics, Template News, Terrorism, USA, War on terror

Sadly mistaken?

A day after the assassination of Rabbani, America’s top soldier has accused the Pakistan secret service of formenting terrorism in Afghanistan.

Admiral Mike Mullen says he has creditable evidence for making his claim that his nation’s chief ally is exporting terror.

America’s problems in Afghanistan have nothing to do with the ISI.

Anymore than her current problems in Iraq have any thing to do with sectarianism.

They are suffering a crisis of confidence because they are seen in these lands as occupiers, not liberators.

If Pakistan is indeed using an arm in Afganistan, in the same way as Iran has been accused of backing Shia groups in side Iraq, then they are merely pursuing their nation’s own interests, in the same as America has been in this dubious war on terror.

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Beginning to resemble the fall of Saigon..

13 Tuesday Sep 2011

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Afghanistan, Saigon, Taliban, Vietnam

America and her allies are losing the war in Afghanistan.

In the latest incident, gunmen have targeted the US embassy as well as Isaf’s headquarters.

Other ‘spectaculars’ include the attack on a US base on September 11 which killed two civilians and injured 77 US soldiers.

The Taliban had marked another anniversary in equally deadly manner when it attacked the British Council on the day some eighty years or so back when Imperial Britian was evicted from Afghanistan.

And there was the downing of that helicopter -which turned to be carrying a number of the special forces responsible for the assassination of Osama Bin laden in Pakistan.

Each attack is met with a fresh line from the occupying powers.

This time, it is the ability of Afghan soldiers to maintain the peace after the departure of Isaf.

America and her allies are losing this war.

The sooner they realise this the better for everyone – including the Afghan civilians who have suffered the most from this decade-long war.

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Sabra and Shatila (the war crime no one saw)

06 Tuesday Sep 2011

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Ariel Sharon, Israel and the Palestinians, LEBANON, Palestine, Sabra and Shatila

ANALYSIS – A tenth anniversary is shortly about to be reached.

It was the day of those of unprecedented attacks on the United States of America by terrorists.

That year was of course 2001 and the date September eleventh.

Almost three thousand human beings perished as eighteen highly determined young men converted airliners into human bombs and shocked the world.

For many Muslims of course there is also another date, or more precisely dates, that shaped our awareness of the world.

The year was 1982, the dates September 16 to 18.

Over those three days some three thousand defenceless civilians were massacred by Christian Phalange militia in the refugee camps of Sabra and shatila in Southern Lebanon.

The people who were killed in the most appalling way were the Palestinians, who were meant to be protected by the Israeli army who had just invaded Lebanon to destroy the Palestinian Liberation Organisation.

The Israeli army simply floodlit the camps at night so their allies could have a clearer view, as they pursued their murderous path.

It is often said that the world changed after the events of 2001 – that is clearer the case.

Things changed after Sabra and Shatila, also.

For the Israeli army succeeded in destroying the PLO, however, in their place came first Hezbollah and then later Hamas, and just as importantly Muslims around the world began to look at the Palestinians as unquely theirs, something that was tapped into by Saddam Hussein and later by Osama bin Laden, the man blamed for launching those attacks on America on September 11, 2001.

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The New Libya?

02 Friday Sep 2011

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In with the new?ย 

Sirte will become the centre of resistance to the occupation of Libya, vowed Colonel Gaddafi in a audio broadcast yesterday. His tape was released on the same day as European leaders met in Paris to discuss the future of the country that he had ruled for so long.

Nothing that Colonel Gaddafi has done recently suggests that he will inspire an army of resistance fighters to foreign occupation. Perhaps, his first mistake was to give up his nuclear programme – a lesson that countries like Iran will not make.

Of course, when the Taliban were ousted, and Iraq crumbled after four weeks, most observers – not this one though! – were not expecting anything like what later transpired.

Whether Libya will become another Afghanistan or Iraq is not certain.

Perhaps, the first move would be for Gaddafi to go into retirement.

He could do this by avoiding making bold statements about Sitre – does he not remember what would happened to the Iraqi town of Falluja?

 

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