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Bush’s tour to the region totally failed to separate Iran from the regional states.

In case of US invasion the US forces will be targeted by Iran’s long-range missiles, Iran’s Major General Jaffrey said:

IRNA. Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Major General Mohammad-Ali Jaffrey said on Sunday that the objective of US President George Bush’s tour to the region was to separate Iran from the regional states.

In an interview with Al-Jazeera Television, he said, “In case of US invasion of Iran, the US forces will be targeted by Iran’s long-range missiles. “After the US authorities found out that their attempt to separate Iran from its neighboring countries, particularly the Muslim Arab states, were in vain, and following President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s successful visit to the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, the US president decided to come to the region to lobby for his own policy,” the commander added. The main objectives of Bush’s trip to the region were support for materialization of their objectives in the occupied Palestine, backing the Zionist regime and help salvage their plans in the Middle East which were on the verge of failure, he said.

Major General Jaffrey reiterated that invasion of the Gaza Strip was the main outcome of President George Bush’s visit to the region. “Islamic vigilance and solidarity is the greatest power of Iran,” he said adding that formation of a spiritual power and influence of Islam following the victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution are developing throughout the World of Islam. The westerners, particularly the US see their powers in weapons and materialistic features, while the power of the Iranian nation has emanated from the help of the Almighty God, the IRGC commander said adding, the Muslims have restored their real identity.

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The Zionist crimes in the Gaza Strip.

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Another challenge for sleeping Arab States.

IRNA. Hundreds of students members of Basij (volunteer forces) gathered at Palestine square, Tehran, on Monday to protest against the Zionist crimes in the Gaza Strip. The students carried placards condemning the Israeli brutality in the Gaza Strip and urged international bodies to prevent the Zionists from committing more crimes. The protesters also carried pictures of savage killings of the Palestinian youth, children and women displaying violation of human rights.

They called for the world nations to force Israel to stop massacre of the innocent children in the occupied lands. By chanting slogans such as “Death to the US” and “Death to Israel”, the demonstrators voiced their anger over the Zionists’ savage attacks on the occupied territories. At the end of their gathering, the Basijis signed a scroll expressing disgust at genocide of the defenseless Palestinian people by the apartheid regime.

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Wolrd should know the dangerous plan of New American Century.

Why Bush & Blair proved the war Criminals?

Time’s March 31 road to war story and other disclosed evidences of New American Century with 40 open lies of Bush Blair and their top administration.

Washington Web: Throughout the years leading up to war, the White House publicly maintained that the U.S. took weapons inspections seriously, they lied again and again that diplomacy would get its chance, that Saddam had the opportunity to prevent a U.S invasion. It has been noted that how the Bush Administration has followed the road map of the idea of Rumsfeld’s deputy Paul Wolfowitz, in relation to New American Century and a draft document known as Defense Planning Guidance. The most pungent and concise evidence to the contrary comes from the president’s own mouth.

According to Time’s March 31 road to war story, Bush popped in on national security adviser Condi Rice one day in March 2002, interrupting a meeting on UN sanctions against Iraq. Getting a whiff of the subject matter, Paul Wolfowitz, peremptorily waved his hand and told her, “Fuck Saddam. We’re taking him out.” Clare Short, Tony Blair’s former secretary for international development, recently lent further credence to the anecdote. She told the London Guardian that Bush and Blair made a secret pact a few months afterward, in the summer of 2002, to invade Iraq in either February or March of this year. Last fall CBS News obtained meeting notes:

“Taken by a Rumsfeld aide at 2:40 on the afternoon of September 11, 2001. The notes indicate that Rumsfeld wanted the “best info fast. Judge whether good enough hit S.H. [Saddam Hussein] at same time. Not only UBL [Usama bin Laden]…. Go massive. Sweep it all up.”

Rumsfeld’s deputy Paul Wolfowitz, the Bushmen’s leading intellectual light, has long been rabid on the subject of Iraq. He reportedly told Vanity Fair writer Sam Tanenhaus off the record that he believes Saddam was connected not only to bin Laden and 9/11, but the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The Bush administration’s foreign policy plan was not based on September 11, or terrorism; those events only brought to the forefront a radical plan for U.S. control of the post-Cold War world that had been taking shape since the closing days of the first Bush presidency.

Back then a small claque of planners, led by Wolfowitz, generated a draft document known as Defense Planning Guidance, which envisioned a U.S. that took advantage of its lone superpower status to consolidate American control of the world both militarily and economically, to the point where no other nation could ever reasonably hope to challenge the U.S. Toward that end it envisioned what we now call “preemptive” wars waged to reset the geopolitical table. After a copy of DPG (Defense Planning Guidance) as, was leaked to the New York Times, subsequent drafts were rendered a little less frank, but the basic idea never changed. In 1997 Wolfowitz and his true believers–Richard Perle, William Kristol, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld–formed an organization called Project for the New American Century to carry their cause forward. And though they all flocked around the Bush administration from the start, Wolfowitz never really embraced their plan until the events of September 11 left him casting around for a foreign policy plan.

The 40 open lies disclosed here:

1) The administration was not bent on war with Iraq from 9/11 onward.

2) The invasion of Iraq was based on a reasonable belief that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction that posed a threat to the U.S.

3) a belief supported by available intelligence evidence.

4) Saddam tried to buy uranium in Niger.

5) The aluminum tubes were proof of a nuclear program.

6) The CIA was primarily responsible for any prewar intelligence errors or distortions regarding Iraq.

7) An International Atomic Energy Agency report indicated that Iraq could be as little as six months from making nuclear weapons.

8) Saddam was involved with bin Laden and al Qaeda in the plotting of 9/11.

9) The U.S. wants democracy in Iraq and the Middle East.

10) Ahmed Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress are a homegrown Iraqi political force, not a U.S.-sponsored front.

11) The United States is waging a war on terror.

12) The U.S. has made progress against world terrorist elements, in particular by crippling al Qaeda.

13) The Bush administration has made Americans safer from terror on U.S. soil.

14) The Bush administration has nothing to hide concerning the events of September 11, 2001, or the intelligence evidence collected prior to that day.

15) U.S. air defenses functioned according to protocols on September 11, 2001.

16) The Bush administration had a plan for restoring essential services and rebuilding Iraq’s infrastructure after the shooting war ended.

17) The U.S. has made a good-faith effort at peacekeeping in Iraq during the postwar period.

18) Despite vocal international opposition, the U.S. was backed by most of the world, as evidenced by the 40-plus-member Coalition of the Willing.19) This war was notable for its protection of civilians.

20) The looting of archaeological and historic sites in Baghdad was unanticipated.

21) Saddam was planning to provide WMD (weapons of Mass destruction) to terrorist groups.

22) Saddam was capable of launching a chemical or biological attack in 45 minutes.

23) The Bush administration is seeking to create a viable Palestinian state.

24) People detained by the U.S. after 9/11 were legitimate terror suspects.

25) The U.S. is obeying the Geneva conventions in its treatment of terror-related suspects, prisoners, and detainees.

26) Shots rang out from the Palestine hotel, directed at U.S. soldiers, just before a U.S. tank fired on the hotel, killing two journalists.

27) U.S. troops “rescued” Private Jessica Lynch from an Iraqi hospital.

28) The populace of Baghdad and of Iraq generally turned out en masse to greet U.S. troops as liberators.

29) A spontaneous crowd of cheering Iraqis showed up in a Baghdad square to celebrate the toppling of Saddam’s statue.

30) No major figure in the Bush administration said that the Iraqi populace would turn out en masse to welcome the U.S. military as liberators.

31) The U.S. achieved its stated objectives in Afghanistan, and vanquished the Taliban.

32) Careful science demonstrates that depleted uranium is no big risk to the population.

33) The looting of Iraqi nuclear facilities presented no big risk to the population.

34) U.S. troops were under attack when they fired upon a crowd of civilian protesters in Mosul.

35) U.S. troops were under attack when they fired upon two separate crowds of civilian protesters in Fallujah.

36) The Iraqis fighting occupation forces consist almost entirely of “Saddam supporters” or “Ba’ath remnants.”

37) The bidding process for Iraq rebuilding contracts displayed no favoritism toward Bush and Cheney’s oil/gas cronies.

38) “We found the (weapons of Mass destruction) WMDs !”

39) “The Iraqi people are now free.”

40) God told Bush to invade Iraq.

The global war on terror is about confronting terrorist groups and the nations that harbor them. The United States does not make deals with terrorists or nations where they find safe lodging. Leave aside the blind eye that the U.S. has always cast toward Israel’s actions in the territories. How are the Bush men doing elsewhere vis-à-vis their announced principles? We can start with their fabrications and manipulations of Iraqi (weapons of Mass destruction) WMD evidence which, in the eyes of weapons inspectors, the UN Security Council, American intelligence analysts, and the world at large, did not pose any imminent threat.

The events of recent months have underscored a couple more gaping violations of W’s cardinal anti terror rules. Pentagon made a cooperation pact with the Mujahideen -e- Khalq (MEK), an anti-Iranian terrorist group based in Iraq. Prior to the 1979 Iranian revolution, American intelligence blamed it for the death of several U.S. nationals in Iran. Most glaring of all is the Bush administration’s remarkable treatment of Saudi Arabia. Consider: Eleven of the nineteen September 11 hijackers were Saudis. The ruling House of Saud has longstanding and well-known ties to al Qaeda and other terrorist outfits, which it funds (read protection money) to keep them from making mischief at home. The May issue of Atlantic Monthly had a nice piece on the House of Saud that recounts these connections.

Yet the Bush government has never said boo regarding the Saudis and international terrorism. In fact, when terror bombers struck Riyadh in May, hitting compounds that housed American workers as well, Colin Powell went out of his way to avoid tarring the House of Saud: “Terrorism strikes everywhere and everyone. It is a threat to the civilized world. We will commit ourselves again to redouble our efforts to work closely with our Saudi friends and friends all around the world to go after al Qaeda.” Later it was alleged that the Riyadh bombers purchased some of their ordnance from the Saudi National Guard, but neither Powell nor anyone else saw fit to revise their statements about “our Saudi friends.”

Why do the Bush men give a pass to the Saudi terror hotbed? Because the House of Saud controls a lot of oil, and they are still (however tenuously) on our side. And that, not terrorism, is what matters most in Bush’s foreign policy calculus. While the bomb craters in Riyadh were still smoking, Bush held a meeting with Philippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Speaking publicly afterward, he outlined a deal for U.S. military aid to the Philippines in exchange for greater “cooperation” in getting American hands round the throats of Filipino terrorists. He mentioned in particular the U.S.’s longtime nemesis Abu Sayyaf–and he also singled out the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a small faction based on Mindanao, the southernmost big island in the Philippine chain. Of course it’s by purest coincidence that Mindanao is the location of Asia’s richest oil reserves. Not long after the September 11 attacks, one conservative high priest Norman Podhoretz wrote: “One hears that Bush, who entered the White House without a clear sense of what he wanted to do there, now feels there was a purpose behind his election all along; as a born-again Christian, it is said, he believes he was chosen by God to eradicate the evil of terrorism from the world.”

The Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, told the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz that Bush made the following pronouncement during a recent meeting between the two saying:

“God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East.”

There is no doubt left behind that Bush Administration has followed the most dangerous ways to get hold of advantage of its lone superpower status to consolidate American control of the world both militarily and economically, to the point where no other nation could ever reasonably hope to challenge the U.S. Tony Blair has foolishly supported in these criminal activities equally. Even on the cost of millions and millions deaths and casualties of the human beings and the terrible consequences of the war on this globe. The Criminals Blair and Bush with their top administration should now be arrested immediately on the charges of War Crimes / Genocide. Which are evidently proved in their own country disclosures. Their trial must be taken under the terrorism act and the International Anti Terrorist Speedy Courts should start on priority as soon as possible. This will be the only way to stop terrorism around the Globe.

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The wicked acts of Israel are growing faster and faster under the shelter of Bush administration.

Where is Bush the so called peacemaker? Why the Arab States have no voice against the blasphemers of Islam or on the issue of Gaza Strip?

ISIJ News. The peaceful nations of the world are watching the drama of Bush supporting the wicked and terrorist acts of Israel from long long time. In the same way all the western based International Human Rights Organizations are found in double standard in relation to Palestine’s humanitarian issues. The wicked acts of Israel are growing faster and faster under the shelter of Bush administration. Whereas, most of the Arabic States are also found welcoming to the enemies of peace and playing in the hands of wicked ones foolishly. Only Iran is fighting again and again against the such wicked thoughts and focusing to develop the real peace in the world.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hussein on Monday criticized the international organizations for keeping silent on the crimes being perpetrated by Israel against the defenseless Palestinians living in Gaza Strip. He said that the international institutions are expected to safeguard the international law and values as well as human rights. Hussein said that human rights organizations usually focus on minor issues about human rights, but, they overlook the current humanitarian crisis in Gaza Strip. “Currently, residential areas in Gaza have come under Israeli indiscriminate bombardments and scores of Palestinian youth, children and women have been killed in Israeli invasion of Gaza since last week (January 16).

It is outcome of the US-sponsored peace talks in Annapolis, Maryland, and the unconditional support for the occupation regime of Israel,” Hussein said. He condemned blasphemous statement of Austrian Freedom Party leader against Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) and cautioned the political parties against desecrating the Islamic sanctities. Hussein said that Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer, President Heinz Fischer and Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik and Christian leaders have also condemned the blasphemy. He said that measures should be adopted by the governments of the European countries to take legal action against those involved in blasphemy against Islam.

Asked about an article published in The New York Times about setting up a committee by Iran and the United States on military cooperation between the two countries, he said that the article has been written by an American journalist and he was not a US official. “Iran and the US do not have diplomatic relations to set up such a committee. The two states should honor the international conventions about movement of naval forces in the international waters and there is no need for establishment of such a committee,” Hussein added. Responding to a question about the emergency meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference to study the plight of Palestinians living in Gaza Strip, he said that Iran expects such a meeting to be held immediately.

On statement of a Dutch member of parliament saying that he produced a video clip against Islam, he said that the Iranian ambassador to the Netherlands has held meeting with the Dutch officials and learned that the Dutch officials have made objection to screening of the clip. “Iran sought legal provisions to take legal action against producer of the video clip if (was) screened in that country,” Hussein said.

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H.E. Sayyed Nasrallah: Honored to Be Enemies of Bush.

Bush is called Great Sheytan.

Source: Al-Manar TV, 14 -1- 2008 Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said that it was an honor for Hizbullah to be considered by US President George W Bush as enemy. Sayyed Nasrallah was speaking during the 5th evening of Ashoura commemoration. “I won’t hide it. I felt honored when Bush spoke about Hizbullah and resistance movements because when the Pharaoh and the Great Satan accuse us and consider us enemies .…… it is an honor for us,” his eminence said. His comments followed remarks critical of Iran and Hizbullah made by Bush during his visit to the United Arab Emirates.

Bush said from Abu Dhabi that “Iran is today the world’s leading state sponsor of terror. It undermines Lebanese hopes for peace by arming and aiding the terrorist group Hizbullah.” The Hizbullah Chief said that since Bush could not say anything about Iran’s nuclear program, the U.S. president accused Tehran of supporting “terrorism” in Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan. “Wherever there is resistance, Iran is accused of supporting resistance movements, and these movements, in Bush’s point of view are terrorists,” Sayyed Nasrallah said.

He accused Bush of supporting “the nation of terrorism, killing and wars,” a reference to “Israel”. “When a country like Iran or Syria support resistance movements that are defending their children, women, land, homes and holy places against the strongest country in the region, then this is a terrorist state that supports terrorism,” he said. “Who is trying to stand in the way of forming a national unity government in Lebanon? Is it Iran, Syria or Bush and his tools in Lebanon? I need to fair to some people in the loyalty bloc. I know that some of them, if they were left alone in peace by the US and other foreign powers, they would agree to form a national unity government because they have interests in putting an end to the deadlock. However, the United States is preventing this from happening because Washington considers the formation of a national unity government or holding early elections a blow to the US project, tutelage and interference in the political decision making in Lebanon,” Sayyed Nasrallah added.

His eminence also said that being a tool in the hands of this “Satan” and this project was humiliating. “When Bush visited occupied Palestine he dispatched a representative to meet with the families of the captured “Israeli” soldiers in Palestine and Lebanon. He was only interested in those three soldiers. However those who have families, wives and children…those more than 11 thousand Arab prisoners in “Israeli” jails who are held under harsh circumstances…they are of no value to Bush,” Sayyed Nasrallah said.

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No peace concession Hammas warned.

Hamas warns Abbas no peace concessions.

GAZA CITY (IS IJ). Thousands of Hamas loyalists protested outside Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Gaza City home, warning that violence would erupt if he makes concessions to Israel in a U.S sponsored peace conference. The protest by about thousnads followers of the group of Hamas. The rally was Fatah’s greatest show of strength since Hamas wrested control of the Gaza Strip. As the leader of the West Bank after he kicked Hamas out of the government and installed his own, Abbas has attended many meeting with Israel in last few month.

Hamas is not invited. In Friday’s demonstration, the Hamas backers chanted slogans demanding Abbas not give in on the major issues in the conflict. Khalil-al-Haya, a Hamas leader, warned of violence if Palestinian rights over the Al Aqsa mosque in east Beit-ul-Moqaddas are denied. Bloodshed will also result if Israel does not open Gaza’s crossings with the outside world, he said. Israel closed the passages after Hamas’ takeover of Gaza. “”We warn the whole region … against harming Al Aqsa, meddling with our basic rights, or tightening the siege”” on Gaza, al-Haya told the crowd. “”We warn of a huge explosion, in which Palestinians will blow up in all places … No seas or barbed wire will prevent that.”” Al-Haya’s remarks appeared to be a veiled threat of a possible return to attacks.

Israeli security has predicted that Hamas could try to violently derail the peace conference if it appears progress is being made toward resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, said the rally was a message to the Annapolis conference. Hamas’ rivalry with Abbas’ Fatah movement and control of the Gaza Strip undermine Abbas’ ability to negotiate a peace deal on behalf of all Palestinians, and preside over a future state. Abbas has little influence in Gaza. Hamas has tried to cement its grip on the territory since the rally, rounding up more than 400 Fatah activists and announcing media restrictions and plans to limit public gatherings.

On Friday, Hamas said it had released dozens of the Fatah detainees but was continuing to hold and interrogate an unspecified number who were “”directly involved”” in the disturbances. Fatah says 450 people were arrested in all. New-York based Human Rights Watch called on Hamas in a statement Friday to investigate its security forces’ “excessive and indiscriminate force against pro-Fatah demonstrators.” Hamas had said Thursday that it established a commission to look into the violence. Human Rights Watch said the body must be “truly independent” and lead to the prosecution of anyone who broke the law.

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Syed Hassan Nasrullah hero of the Muslim World.

Shia Muslims mourn for Imam Hossein (JJ) around the world.

Pakistan ISIJ News. Shia Muslims mourn for Imam Hossein (JJ), the third Imam of Prophet Muhammad’s (SAWW) infallible household, all around the world on the day of Ashoura, the tenth day of Moharram, the first month of the Lunar calendar. On such a day in the year 61 of Lunar calendar, Imam Hussein (JJ) and 72 of his family members and friends fought against the army of Yazid bin Moaviya and were all martyred and their women and children were taken captives.

This day is a symbol of fight against cruelty and injustice by all means and devoting one’s life to lofty human values. Shia Muslims call Imam Hussein (JJ) as ‘Lord of the Martyrs’ and remember him in the days of Moharram in special ceremonies. According to INUJ reporters, this year too, Shiite (Shia) Muslims from Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul, Tokyo, Amman, Ashkhabad, Algiers, Rome, Vienna, Athens, Paris, New Delhi, Moscow, London, Manchester, Dubai, Riyadh and different cities in Germany, Poland, Belgium, Denmark and the Netherlands as well as many other cities commemorated Imam Hussein’s (JJ) uprising against injustice.

Syed Hassan Nasrullah in Lebanon also appeared in a huge procession of the Shiite believers and he also lashed out on the evil forces like Israel and America. He claimed that he is still holding the heads and the bones of the bodies of the soldiers which the forces of Israel left behind. It may be noted that Jews around the world will not forget the defeat they have got first time in their history during the war between Israel vs. Lebanon’s holy warriors of Hizb-Ullah. Eeven the Israelites were having the forces beyond numbers in front of few holy fighters of the Hizbullah under the command of Syed Hassan Nasrullah the holy warrior and the hero of the Muslim world and the believers.

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Ashura of Imam Hussain (JJ) in Karbala Iraq.

Number of “Wahabies mischief makers” have been arrested.

KERBALA, Iraq (INUJ) – Iraqi forces imposed tight security on the city of Karbala as 2.5 million pilgrims marked the climax of a major Shi’ite rite on Saturday, even a day after gunmen attacked worshippers and police in other southern cities. Police said sporadic fighting between security forces and gunmen from a Wahabies cult called the “Soldiers of Heaven” had broken out again in the cities of Basra and Nassiriya on Saturday. There was no information on casualties. Nearly 70 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in gun battles on Friday after gunmen from the cult launched nearly simultaneous attacks in the two cities. In Karbala, pilgrims thronged streets and narrow alleyways for the end of the 10-day Ashura ritual, in which Shiites mourn the slaying over 14 centuries ago of the Prophet Mohammad’s (SAWW) grandson Imam Hussein (JJ) near the holy city. Among the pilgrims were there was hundreds of men wearing white robes, who marched through the streets striking their heads with swords to show their grief at the martyrdom of their holy Imam Hussein ( JJ).

Blood flowed down their robes. Others beat their chests to the sound of religious chants. Medics carrying first aid kits walked through the crowd, ready to staunch head wounds. Imam Hussein’s death in 680 CE, entrenched the schism between Shiite peaceful believers and Yazid & Moavih’s followers, the extremists and so called Muslims of the time. The split still sharply divides Iraq, with tens of thousands killed in sectarian fighting since the U.S-led invasion in 2003. Although violence has dropped in recent months. Officials said 25,000 Iraqi police and soldiers were deployed across Karbala, 110 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad.

The security situation in Karbala is under control,” Karbala police chief Brigadier General Raad Shaker told Reuters. Iraqi helicopters circled over Karbala while pilgrims were frisked up to 10 times before they could reach the focus of the ceremonies, The holy Imam Hussein (JJ) and Hz: Abbas’s shrines in the heart of its Old City. Crowds, including black-clad mourners flagellating themselves, jammed into a courtyard that links the two mosques. I am very happy to see these security measures, but I am afraid something may happen at any moment,” said Jaber Yusif, 43, who said he had traveled from the nearby city of Hilla. In the northern city of Kirkuk, a bomb killed two Shiite pilgrims heading to a mosque for Ashura, police said. The governor of Karbala province said more than 2.5 million people were in the city for Karbala, one of the holiest event in the Shiite Muslim religious calendar.

A statement from the prime minister’s office said a number of “Wahabies mischief makers” had been detained after they attacked Ashura processions in Basra and tried to seize a municipal building. Security officials said. Police had thwarted similar attacks in Hilla on Friday by detaining 26 “Terrorists of Wahabies. The “Soldiers of Heaven” cult was once led by a man who claimed to be the Imam Mahdi’s (JJ), force in the name of an Islamic messiah like figure. A man who said he was from the movement told Reuters in Basra their fighters had decided to attack security forces on Friday because of persecution he said the cult had suffered from these Wahabi terrorists in Iraq.

Ashura has been a target in the past from Wahabi al Qaeda militants who view Shiites, a majority in Iraq but a minority in the Muslim world, as heretics. The ritual was severely curtailed under Saddam Hussein a Wahabi Arab. Shiites have dominated politics in Iraq since his ouster. Wahabies are backed from Saudi Arabia and they are spreading the terrorism around the world. They are the worst enemies of Muhammed (SAWW) and his holy clan, following Yazid & Muawiah’s footprints those were the responsible of Karbala’s war 14 centuries ago and were recorded as mischief makers / wicked ones in the Islamic History as well as in the world history records.

Press Release provided by the INUJ.

Karbala and Holy Lord of the Martyres.

Imam Husayn [JJ] was slain at this sacred spot.

The historian Ibn Kuluwayh mentioned that those who buried Imam Husayn [JJ], made a special and rigid construction with signs above the grave. Higher and bigger constructions above the grave started during the ruling of Al-Saffah, but Harun al-Rashid later on, put heavy restrictions to prevent people from visiting the grave. At the time of Al-Mamun, construction around the grave resumed until the year 236 AH when Al – Mutawakkil ordered the destruction and digging of the grave, and then filling the pit with water. His son, who succeeded him, allowed people to visit the grave site, and since then building the precinct to the grave increased and developed step by step.

On the other hand, the historian Ibn Al-Asir, stated that in the year 371 AH, Aadod Al-Dawla Al-Boowayhi became the first to largely lay the foundations for large scale construction, and generously decorated the place. He also built houses and markets around the precinct, and surrounded Karbala with a high boundary wall turning it into a strong castle. In the year 407 AH, the precinct caught fire due to the dropping of two large candles on the wooden decorations, but Hasan ibn Fazl (the state minister) rebuilt the damaged sections.

History has recorded the names of several rulers who shared the honor of widening, decorating or keeping the precinct in good condition. Amongst them is Fateh Ali al-Qajari, who in 1250 AH ordered the construction of two domes. One over Imam Husayn’s [JJ] grave and the other over his brother Abu al – Fazl Abbas [as]. The first dome is 27 meters high and completely covered with gold. At the bottom, it is surrounded with 12 windows, each of which is about 1.25 m away from the other, from the inside, and 1.30 m from the outside.

The mausoleum has an area of 59 m / 75 m with ten gates, and about 65 rooms (I wans), well decorated from the inside and outside, used as classrooms for studying. As for the grave itself, in the middle of the precinct, it is called the “Rawza” or garden and it has several doors. The most famous one is called “Al-Qibla” or “Bab -al- zahab”. When it is entered, one can see the tomb of Habib ibn Mazahir al- Asavi (Reh), to the right hand side. Habib was a friend and companion of Imam Husayn [JJ] since their childhood. He was one of those who was honored with martyrdom at the Battle of Karbala. Chronology of Imam Husayn’s Shrine at Karbala.

AH

CE

Events

61

lst October, 680

Imam Husayn [a] was buried at this sacred spot.

65

18th August, 684

Mukhtar ibn Abu Obaidah Thaqafi built an enclosure around the grave, in the form of a mosque and erected a dome over the grave. There were two entrances to this building.

132

12th August, 749

A roof was built over a part of this mosque and two entrances were added during the reign of As – Saffah.

140

31st March, 763

The roof was demolished during the reign of al-Mansur.

158

11th November, 774

During the reign of Mahdi the roof was reconstructed.

171

22nd June, 787

During the reign of Al-Rashid the dome and the roof were demolished and the plum tree which stood near the grave was cut down.

193

25th October, 808

During the reign of Amin the building was reconstructed.

236

15th July, 850

Mutawakkil demolished the buildings and ordered that the land should be ploughed.

247

17th March, 861

Muntasir built a roof over the grave and set up an iron pillar near it, to serve as a landmark for the pilgrims.

273

8th June, 886

The roof was demolished again.

280

23rd March, 893

The Alid representative built a dome in the center, with two roofs, on either side and an enclosure with two entrances.

307

19th August, 977

Adad ibn Boweih rebuilt the dome, the surrounding galleries and constructed a screen of teak wood around the sepulcher. He also constructed houses all round the shrine and erected the boundary wall of the city. At the same time Imran ibn Shahin built a mosque adjacent to the tomb.

407

10th June, 1016

The buildings were damaged by fire and the Vizier, Al – Hasan ibn al Fazi rebuilt them.

620

4th February, 1223

Nasir ud din-Illah reconstructed the screens of the sepulcher.

757

18th Sept. 1365

Sultan Owais ibn Hasan Jalairi remodeled the dome and raised the walls of the enclosure.

780

24th Feb. 1384

Ahmad ibn Owais erected two minarets covered with gold and extended the courtyard.

920

26th Feb. 1514

When Shah Ismail Safawi visited the holy shrine he built a sarcophagus of the inlaid work over the grave.

1032

5th Nov. 1622

Shah Abbas Safavi constructed the screens (Zarih) of brass and bronze and decorated the dome with Kashi tiles.

1048

15th May 1638

Sultan Murad IV, when he visited the holy shrine, white washed the dome.

1155

8th March 1742

Nadir Shah visited the holy shrine and decorated the building and offered valuable presents to the treasury of the shrine.

1211

7th July 1796

Shah Muhammad Qachar covered the dome of the shrine with gold.

1216

14th May, 1801

Wahhabis attacked Kerbala, spoiled the screens and portico and looted the shrine.

1232

21st Nov., 1817

Fateh Ali Shah Qachar repaired the screens and plated them with silver. He also plated the center of the main portico with gold and repaired the damage done by the Wahhabi robbers.

1283

16th May, 1866

Nasiruddin Shah Qachar extended the courtyard of the shrine.

1358

21st February, 1939

Dr. Syedna Tahir Saifud-din, 51st Dai-el-Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohra community offered a set of screens of solid silver which are fixed in the shrine.

1360

29th January, 1941

Dr. Syedna Tahir Saifud-din, 5lst Dai-el-Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohra community rebuilt the western minaret.

1367

20th Dec., 1948

Syed Abdul Rasul Khalsi, Administrator of Karbala acquired the houses in the neighborhood of the courtyard according to the price fixed by the government, to build a road around the holy Rowza and to extend the courtyard.

After 20th December, 1948 till now the said holy tomb of our holy Imam have been decorated day by day and despite of deadly opposition of Saddam of Iraq’s long time of dictatorship there was regular development all the time with the special funds provided by the Islamic Republic of Iran and the believers of the world. May Lord bless them all and there will be uncountable reward for them all in hereafter.

Dr ( Rev ) .Syed Akbar Abbas.

U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Torture Victims Still Being Terrorized.

TORONTO, Ontario (ISIJ)

A training manual for Canadian diplomats lists the United States as a country where prisoners risk torture and abuse, citing interrogation techniques such as stripping prisoners, blindfolding and sleep deprivation. The U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, gets singled out in a training manual for Canadian diplomats. The Foreign Affairs Department document, released Friday, singled out the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It also names Israel, Afghanistan, Egypt, India Saudi Arabia, Mexico and as places where inmates could face torture.

The issue has been raised just because a Canadian citizen is in custody at Guantanamo, The Amnesty International who are working on a lawsuit involving alleged abuse of Afghan detainees by local Afghan authorities after Canadian troops handed over the detainees. The Canada’s Foreign Affairs Department Neil Hrab said that the document in question is a training manual. It is not a policy document or any kind of a statement of policy. As such it does not convey the government’s views or positions,” said a spokesman for “The training manual purposely raised public issues to stimulate discussion and debate in the classroom.”

The listing drew a sharp response from the U.S., a key NATO ally and trading partner, which asked to removed from the manual. “We find it to be offensive for us to be on the same list. Quite frankly it’s absurd U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins to Canada said. “For us to be on a list like that is just ridiculous.” He said the U.S. does not authorize or condone torture. “We think it should be removed and we’ve made that request. We have voiced our opinion very forcefully.

But the truth is manifested in front of all the readers if remembered that the US’s Judiciary have already forwarded many times their instructions to stop these kinds of brutality in their torture camps. The said camps were also accepted by the UK’s members of the Parliament as well as the “Human rights groups” have long called on United States to stop these kinds of Torture cells.

Even former South African President Nelson Mandela has asked the United Nations to intervene on this issue of humanity where the “Human rights groups” have accused of committing . Any leader who cares about humanity would oppose torture and would be quick to stop sponsoring it. But the Bush administration is continuing to run torture centers in various other countries. Disclosed in a portion of an article appearing at One World US from US by Aaron Glantz itself stating that “The human rights group”, Amnesty International is appealing decisions by the United States government to withhold as secret information detailing the incarceration of so-called ghost detainees as part of the Bush administration’s self-styled “war on terror.” are, or have been held by, or with the involvement of the United States government, where there is no public record of the detentions.

Such individuals have also often been subjected to the practice commonly known as extraordinary rendition, which means they have been flown by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to a U.S.-allied nation where torture is legal and have been interrogated there. Hundreds, possibly thousands, of prisoners have been victims of torture in third countries. It’s difficult to ascertain the exact number because the files remain classified. The requests, which were submitted under the Freedom of Information Act with the help of the International Human Rights Clinic of New York University (NYU) School of Law.

Press Note from the website.