Don’t have time to talk about anything. Will be posting soon about the lame mullahs and their sighting of the moon in Pakistan when there is MINUS 100 chance of sighting the moon… *sigh* and some of the people just blindly follow them!

Father questions Madonna adoption

I wonder why she…

Israel admits phosphorus bombing

So what? It’s always allowed for Israel & the US and its allies to do any thing they can in WAR. Who questions them? Even if some do, it has no effect…Why? I am sure you already know the answer.

Iran warns of revenge over Israel

Seriously, they should just start an attack on Israel or close their mouths for good.

Pakistan and India in spying row

So they got another reason and started the bashing each other thing again. Indian Police blames it all on ISI and Pakistan, the Mumbai blasts this year I mean. Then just yesterday, an Indian Official told a news agency that India does not have proof of ISI/Pakistan’s involvement in the blasts!!! & the same day… You see this SPYING thing coming up. Get done with it both of you!

Kashmir protest over youth death

Oh well…No comments! Incidents like these have been happening since years. Only now it is, getting International coverage.

Read a very interesting article on Hizbollah’s Website! If this is even slightly true, tells you what can an Army with EEMAAN and Hi-Tech do!

Beirut - Hizbullah`s ability to repel the “Israeli” Army during the recent conflict was largely due to its use of intelligence techniques (believed to be) gleaned from allies Iran and Syria that allowed it to monitor encoded “Israeli” communications relating to battlefield actions, according to “Israeli” officials, whose claims have been independently corroborated by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

“`Israeli` EW [electronic warfare] systems were unable to jam the systems at the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, they proved unable to jam Hizbullah`s command and control links from Lebanon to Iranian facilities in Syria, they blocked the Barak ship anti-missile systems, and they hacked into “Israeli” operations communications in the field,” Richard Sale, the longtime intelligence editor for United Press International, who was alerted to this intelligence failure by current and former CIA officials, told Asia Times Online.

The ability to hack into “Israel’s” military communications gave Hizbullah a decisive battlefield advantage, aside from allowing it to dominate the media war by repeatedly intercepting reports of the casualties it had inflicted and announcing them through its television station, Al-Manar. Al-Manar`s general director, Abdallah Kassir, would not comment on the information-gathering methods that had allowed it to preempt “Israel’s” casualty announcements, but he admitted he was in constant contact with Hizbullah`s military wing.

When “Israeli” troops invaded southern Lebanon, they found themselves bogged down in stronger-than-expected Hizbullah resistance. The story of the handful of Hizbullah militants who single-handedly defended the border village of Aita Shaab has already become legend. Ultimately, “Israel” decided that the only way to neutralise them was to carpet-bomb the village, reducing it to rubble in the process.

Part of the reason for Hizbullah`s decisive battlefield performance was that it was gleaning valuable information by monitoring telephone conversations in Hebrew between “Israeli” reservists and their families on their personal mobile phones.

“If an enemy sets up a small group of EW people familiar with the terrain and reasonably aware of the current tactical situation, a stream of in-the-clear calls could have been a gold mine of information mentioned inadvertently,” said Sale, quoting a CIA official.

A London Sunday Times article titled “Humbling of the super-troops shatters `Israeli` army morale” reported the story last week. It stated that Hizbullah was “able to crack the codes and follow the fast-changing frequencies of `Israeli` radio communications, intercepting reports of the casualties they had inflicted again and again”.

The development marks a potential turning point in the region`s strategic balance. Hizbullah`s ability to repel “Israel’s” elite troops marked the first time that an Arab force had frustrated a concerted invasion scenario by “Israel”. This has led to a concerted rethink on the part of the “Israeli” leadership, in which it is being assisted by American experts, according to “Israeli” intelligence website DEBKAfile.

It adds that the American experts are particularly focused on how (so-called) Iranian EW installed in Lebanese army coastal radar stations blocked the Barak anti-missile missiles aboard “Israeli” warships, allowing Hizbullah to hit at least one “Israeli” corvette, the Hanith.

“Assuming that these capabilities came from Syria and Iran, most probably by way of Russia and China, one would have to believe that both the US and “Israel” have learned from the experience, and that leaning process will be applied in future conflicts,” said Robert Freedman, Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone professor of political science at the Baltimore Hebrew University.

The Debka article also claims that Hizbullah secretary General Hassan Nasrallah was hosted throughout the war in an underground war-room beneath the Iranian Embassy in Beirut.(!?) Iranian involvement was suspected throughout the conflict, and a captured Hizbullah guerrilla confessed on “Israeli” television to have visited Iran for training. The most able and committed Hizbullah guerrillas usually visit Iran for religious indoctrination and training in the firing of non-Katyusha rocketry.

“It [the technological breakthrough] may mean that the US and `Israel` no longer have the ability to operate at lower levels of violence on a supreme basis,” said a Middle East analyst. “The playing field is more leveled. This may mean more diplomacy or it may mean more, and more concentrated, violence.”

Iran and Syria advanced their SIGINT (SIGnals INTelligence - intelligence-gathering by interception of signals) cooperation last November, as part of a joint strategic defense cooperation accord aimed at consolidating the strategic aspect of their long-term alliance. Aside from being an invaluable help to Hizbullah, the ability to read “Israeli” and US codes could aid Iran in monitoring US movements in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“It goes to the heart of one of the factors … routinely regarded as one of the clear advantages for all First World versus Third World nations or forces - electronic warfare and secure communications,” said Gary Sick, who was national security adviser under US president Jimmy Carter. “We are supposed to be able to read and interfere with their communications, not vice versa. A lot of calculations are based on that premise.”

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SOURCE Check it out. Mr. Pope seems like a PIG. Muwahahaha. What? I am expressing my right for “FREEDOM OF SPEECH” ;-).

A statement from the Vatican has failed to quell criticism of Pope Benedict XVI from Muslim leaders, after he made a speech about the concept of holy war.

Speaking in Germany, the Pope quoted a 14th Century Christian emperor who said Muhammad had brought the world only “evil and inhuman” things.

The head of the Muslim Brotherhood said the Pope’s remarks “aroused the anger of the whole Islamic world”.

The Vatican said the Pope had not intended to offend Muslims.

“It is clear that the Holy Father’s intention is to cultivate a position of respect and dialogue towards other religions and cultures, and that clearly includes Islam,” said chief Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi in a statement.

But in spite of the statement, the pontiff returned to Rome to face a barrage of criticism from the Muslim world over the remarks, reports the BBC’s David Willey in Rome.

Violence and faith

In his speech at Regensburg University, the German-born Pope explored the historical and philosophical differences between Islam and Christianity, and the relationship between violence and faith.

Stressing that they were not his own words, he quoted Emperor Manual II Paleologos of the Byzantine Empire, the Orthodox Christian empire which had its capital in what is now the Turkish city of Istanbul.

The emperor’s words were, he said: “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 said “I quote” twice to stress the words were not his and added that violence was “incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul”.

‘Angry and hurt’

The Pope’s “hostile” remarks drew a demand for an apology from a top religious official in Turkey - where he is due in November on his first papal visit to a Muslim country.

Ali Bardakoglu recalled atrocities committed by Roman Catholic Crusaders against Orthodox Christians and Jews, as well as Muslims, in the Middle Ages.

In Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood head Mohammed Mahdi Akef said the Pope’s words “do not express correct understanding of Islam and are merely wrong and distorted beliefs being repeated in the West”.

In a statement, he was “astonished that such remarks come from someone who sits on top of the Catholic church which has its influence on the public opinion in the West”.

Sheikh Youssef al-Qardawi, a prominent Muslim cleric in Qatar, rejected the Pope’s comments, in remarks reported by Reuters.

“Muslims have the right to be angry and hurt by these comments from the highest cleric in Christianity,” Mr Qardawi reportedly said.

“We ask the Pope to apologise to the Muslim nation for insulting its religion, its Prophet and its beliefs.”

The 57-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference also said it regretted the Pope’s remarks, and news agencies reported a furious reaction on Islamic websites.

Do you now have idea what I am talking about? Seriously, they should name Amnesty International to something like Amnesia International. Came across a report by them today, it states, “Under fire: Hizbullah’s attacks on northern Israel”. Just go and read it. I hate it the most when such Organizations, calling themselves as working for HUMANITY issues such reports. A few points in this report:

According to the Israeli authorities, 3,970 rockets fired by Hizbullah landed in Israel between 12 July and 14 August, 901 of them in urban areas.(4) More than 1,000 landed in the Kiryat Shmona area, 808 in or near Nahariya, 471 in or near Safed, 176 in or near Carmiel, 106 in or near Acre, 93 in or near Haifa, and 81 in or near Tiberias. Almost a third of Israel’s population – more than 2 million people – were within range of the rockets launched from south Lebanon.

“We do everything in fear. We eat in fear, we sit in fear. We shower in fear. We sleep in fear.”
An occupant of a shelter in Nahariya, northern Israel, 6 August 2006

Use common sense. Israel had full Lebanon under their eyes. They could bomb any any where in Lebanon. On the other hand, Hezbullah did not have any such advance war machines. Just go to this report, makes you feel Israelis are coming directly from heaven whereas all others are born out of hell. I hate this kind of attitude. If you are talking about “HUMANS” then please don’t make any sort of exceptions. Amnesia International have also report about Israel violating International laws and everything BUT the tone of that report is not as this one. It should have also said, “Under fire: Israel’s attacks on Lebanon” but no.

According to the report HERE…

According to the UN Mine Action Coordination Center, more than 400 areas targeted in Israeli attacks are now contaminated with as many as 100,000 unexploded bomblets. Israeli forces carried out 90 per cent of their cluster bombs strikes In the last 72 hours of the 34-day conflict - when a ceasefire was in sight – according to a senior UN official.

100,000 “unexploded” bomblets! 90 per cent of their cluster bombs strikes in the last 72 hours of the 34 day conflict? When a ceasefire was in sight? Is this less than Hezbullah’s reasons to be UNDER FIRE. Is it not a proof of Israel behaving bad in this war? and anyways. Israel was the one who started it. You don’t make it under fire but you do that for Hezbullah.

The Israeli Air Force launched more than 7,000 air attacks on about 7,000 targets in Lebanon between 12 July and 14 August, while the Navy conducted an additional 2,500 bombardments.(1) The attacks, though widespread, particularly concentrated on certain areas. In addition to the human toll – an estimated 1,183 fatalities, about one third of whom have been children(2), 4,054 people injured and 970,000Lebanese people displaced(3) – the civilian infrastructure was severely damaged. The Lebanese government estimates that 31 “vital points” (such as airports, ports, water and sewage treatment plants, electrical facilities) have been completely or partially destroyed, as have around 80 bridges and 94 roads.(4) More than 25 fuel stations(5) and around 900 commercial enterprises were hit. The number of residential properties, offices and shops completely destroyed exceeds 30,000.(6) Two government hospitals – in Bint Jbeil and in Meis al-Jebel – were completely destroyed in Israeli attacks and three others were seriously damaged.(7)

Which side lost the most in regards to “Humans” and “Civilans”? Lebanon…then why don’t you first pressurize Israel and talk later about Hezbullah. The reports also were sort of saying Israelis were in bomb shelters for a month and bla bla bla. They were atleast in “bomb shelters”! Where were the Lebanese hiding? Israelis I am sure, their military services or civil services were there during all this time because Hezbullah did not have the upper hand in “FIGHTER PLANES”. So Israelis were being provided food etc. properly by their Government. It was not Hezbullah issuing statements like, “Any vehicle on the move will be targetted”. It was Israel which said that. So it was not anywhere near possible for the Lebanese Government to assist their civilians during the conflict & inspite of all this, Hezbullah is blamed the most and Israeli civilians are said to be effected the most.

Even the guys in the UN have the same problem. You had to ask Israel to stop their attacks, not Hezbullah. Hezbullah was not the one who advanced into Israeli territory, it was Israel which advanced into Lebanon. Any country have a little shame will resist such a thing.

I used to be a big fan of Iran. Loved the Government and Supreme Council or whatever it is. But I am finding it hard to do that now. I took it as a country, which is being overlooked by someone who is supposed to have alot of knowledge and is NAEB-E-IMAM MEHDI (AS). I used to take everything I would watch on TV about Iranian Government’s restrictions on press and all that as propaganda. It was upto some extent but not fully. I used to believe because of someone so high watching over a country, the Government too would be acting good and they won’t even dare doing any unjustice with the people of Iran but looks like I was wrong. I really was wrong. No matter how high anyone is, they are just usual human beings who can commit mistakes, who can be as mean as any one else. They are not MAASOOMEEN after all. If something wrong is happening out there in Iran, why is the person up above so high not talking about it? Why is he not asking the Government to stop such a thing from happening? WHY? If that person is not doing it then something is wrong, seriously wrong.

Let me tell everyone that I am not the kind who disses Ayatollahs for their fatwas like Non-Syed Man can marry Syed woman. I am someone who believes in Ijtihad. I do not find my self able enough to find the Islamic rulings on my own and so I follow them accordingly. I am just a fallible human being my self. Perhaps I am labelled as “GONE ASTRAY” from the path for what I think about all this. Perhaps I am said to have been impressed by the Western Propaganda. I believe I will be, I will be asked by some to shut up and not talk about matters like these. I will be asked by some perhaps to stop spreading the “FITNA”. But why not? Truth should never remain hidden. I cannot live with something like this in my brain, I feel suffocated if I do. I will talk perhaps in detail about all this later. I was here to tell about someone…

Zahra Kazemi

Zahra “Ziba” Kazemi-Ahmadabadi was an Iranian freelance photographer, residing in Montreal (Canada), who died in the custody of Iranian officials following her arrest.

Although Iran’s regime insists that her death was accidental, Shahram Azam, a former military staff physician who left Iran and sought asylum in Canada in 2004, has stated that he examined Kazemi’s body and observed evidence of rape and torture, including a skull fracture, broken nose, crushed toe, broken fingers, and severe abdominal bruising. The Canadian government, as well as Kazemi’s supporters, consider her death to be a murder.

Freelance photographer, died in the custody of Iranian officials following her arrest? WTH! & Shahram Azam, former military staff physician saying he observed evidence of rape and torture, skull fracture, broken nose, crushed toe, broken fingers and abdominal bruising. Don’t you think that is too much for a “WOMAN”. Let’s say there was no rape. There is still enough torture left there! Happening in I R A N ??? I thought they hang in public such people who do this.

Travelling back to her birth country using her Iranian passport, Kazemi was allowed into Iran to take photographs of the possible demonstrations that were expected to take place in Tehran in July, 2003. However, on June 23, 2003, she was arrested in front of the Evin prison where photography is prohibited. The Evin prison staff, who the Kazemi family’s lawyers consider a party in the beatings that led to Kazemi’s death, say that she had been in a sensitive area, photographing parts of the prison, even though she insisted that she had not photographed any part of the prison, but only the street and the demonstrators, who were family members of activist students jailed in the prison.

It’s funny when I hear in today’s world that taking photographs of a place are forbidden. Funny because there are many more ways to SPY a place if someone wants to. You cannot hide from a Satellite at all, then what is the point of placing such prohibition? Ok. May be it does matter but why not just take the camera and take the role then have a fair trial against the person who take such photographs or just take the role and damage it? But no… She appears like a SPY? What was so special in that prison? Even if she was a SPY, they should have made her appear in court don’t you think? Or may be incharge of the said prison was a lonely guy? May be his wife was not around for quite sometime? So he decides to have fun? Or may be something else?

Nineteen days later, she died in Iranian custody in Baghiyyatollah al-Azam Military Hospital. It is widely believed she was beaten to death; after initial denials, Iranian government sources (including Mohammad Ali Abtahi, the Vice President of Legal Affairs and Masoud Pezeshkian, the Minister of Health and Medical Education) later admitted that she had died of a fractured skull as a result of being hit in the head. Abtahi claims that he was under a lot of pressure to take back the acknowlegement, but he resisted it.

If you were thinking this was all propaganda and lies. You should change your mind now. You have Iranian Officials confirming her death was nothing natural. Abtahi claiming that he was under a lot of pressure to take back the acknowlegement? This case should have come in front of the Supreme Council filled with all supremes? THEN WHY DID THEY NOT DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT?

One of the two Iranian intelligence agents charged with her death was acquitted in September, 2003. The other agent, Mohammed Reza Aghdam-Ahmadi was charged with “semi-intentional murder” and his trial opened in Tehran in October, 2003. In the same month, the Iranian parliament condemned Saeed Mortazavi, a Tehran prosecutor, for announcing that Kazemi had died of a stroke. On July 25, 2004, Aghdam-Ahmadi was acquitted.

ACQUITTED? Why? Or am I not aware of a SPECIAL and TOP SECRET “fatwa” which perhaps states raping a woman, breaking her skull, her fingers, her nose, her toes, her ribs, tearing her apart is fully allowed if she photographs a prison? or a “sensitive” area?

Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian lawyer and former judge who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, was the main representative of Kazemi’s family at the trial, and has represented them at the second and third sessions of Aghdam-Ahmadi’s trial, which took place on July 17 and July 18, 2004. In the court, Kazemi’s mother mentioned that she wanted the real murderer to be prosecuted. She also mentioned that she saw Kazemi’s body before the burial, upon which there were signs of torture.

Hats down for the woman who has the courage to stand up against all this. Shirin Ebadi in her book mentioned a secret list, the list contained names of people, who were killed by the Iranian Intelligence. Why? They were causing “TROUBLE” for the current regime. She says next name on the list was hers. But she had already won the case in court about it, by which Iranian Government accepted existence of a SECRET LIST.

Ebadi and the other lawyers of the family insisted in the court that they know that Kazemi was not killed by Aghdam-Ahmadi, and they need witnesses to be brought to the court in order to find the real murderer, who they guessed may be Mohammad Bakhshi, a high officer of the Evin prison. The list of witnesses they requested included Saeed Mortazavi, the general prosecutor of Tehran Mohsen Armin, reformist member of the previous parliament Hossein Ansari-Rad, Jamileh Kadivar, and Mohsen Mirdamadi, Minister of Intelligence Ali Younesi, the Vice President of Legal Affairs Mohammad Ali Abtahi, Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ahmad Masjedjamei, the five judges who were present during Kazemi’s interrogation, a few employees of the Evin prison, the president of the Baghiyyatollah hospital, and all of the medical staff who had signed her file. Judge Farahani denied all of the requests. The lawyers also quoted the official report of death that various of parts of Kazemi’s body had been damaged and her clothes were torn and bloody, which proves that she had been tortured.

Judge Farahani denied all of the requests for the witnesses they wanted to come and testify in court? WHY? Why is the Supreme Council not taking notice of this? Or is it the Supreme Council asking FARAHANI to deny the requests? Mohammad Bakhshi, see… I told you. Someone’s wife was not around for a long time!!!

On July 24, Judge Farahani issued his judgement, clearing Aghdam-Ahmadi of the charges. He also mentioned that since the murderer has not been found, according to the Islamic sources the blood money should be paid by the government to the family. The lawyers of Kazemi’s family announced that they will definitely appeal the case, asking for a criminal court to be established to reconsider the whole case, or completing the numerous incompletenesses of the file. The end of July saw Iran’s judiciary adding “accidental fall” and “hunger strike” to the list of alleged causes for Kazemi’s death. They claimed that Kazemi had gone on a hunger strike voluntarily, developed low blood pressure that made her dizzy, fallen, and hit her head. Detractors point out that this story does not explain her broken bones, genital injuries or skin lacerations.

WOW! I did not know these guys can be bad scientists and Doctors. She hit her head and fractured her skull. Perhaps in the mean time she also squeezed her self somehow and broke her nose, toes, ribs, also made bruises on her body and also made on her self some “brutal” genital injuries.

Source of the quoted parts is Zahra Kazemi’s page on Wikipedia. I know I sound bitter up above, just something I could not help. Sorry! Think for your self and comment.