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Maybe we should explain to the Clerics that they would be doing all of
us a favor by concentrating their efforts on the FEDERAL government as they
are abusing us too, we are the innocents and they won't listen to us either.
Madd Maxx-
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From: cyn day [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 1:29 AM
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Subject: [Lis-LEAF] Clerics call for Jihad against US - How
comforting....
THANK YOU BushII Regime for NOTHING.
damn them, damn them
for this curse they've brought upon us. >:(
~~cyn
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http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=82016
Clerics call for 'jihad' against U.S.
Karachi | From Mujahid Ali | 25/03/2003
Pakistan's 14 leading Islamic clerics yesterday urged a "jihad," or
holy war, against the United States following its invasion of Iraq and
said that there was no need for a fresh Islamic edict to wage a fight
against Americans and their allies.
"A war between America and Muslims has been declared several years
ago," the clerics said in a joint statement.
"The war has intensified after President Bush declaration of a
'crusade' in the wake of September 11 events," they said.
The clerics included the most prominent pro-Afghan Taliban cleric
Maulana Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai. Also on the list of prominent clerics
were Dr. Abdul Razzaq Sikander who heads the Islamic seminary of Binori
Town one of the biggest and most influential religious schools not
just in the port city of Karachi, but in the country.
All the clerics belong to the hardline Deobandi school of thought. They
run one of the biggest chain of Islamic schools in the country and many
of the Taliban leaders were their students.
They are ideological gurus of the two factions of the Jamiat
Ulema-e-Islam, the two key component parties of the Muttahida
Majlis-e-Amal which dominates the North West Frontier Province and
Balochistan province which border Afghanistan.
Key militant groups including the outlawed Harkat-ul Mujahedeen, the
Jaish-e-Mohammed and Sipah Sahaba Pakistan consider Shamzai, who is
believed to have ties with Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and
Osama bin Laden, their spiritual leader.
The clerics said jihad had become mandatory on more than 1.2 billion
Muslims. "They have to participate in the jihad according to their
capacity. This has become mandatory against America, its allies and the
Muslim rulers" who are siding with Washington, they said in a
statement.
"Those who keep a soft corner for America compared to Saddam Hussein,
or think that it is not a war of Islam, they are wrong," they said. The
United States has used "Saddam as an excuse to attack Iraq."
"The real objective of the attack is to bring the Middle East under its
hegemony and protect Israel," they said. "Muslims will never accept
this. Temporary defeat will not discourage or dishearten them. Jihad
against America has started which will continue until Islam's victory."
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Madd Maxx found and added this:
washingtonpost.com
Bush Pledges U.S. Will Fight as Long as Needed
By Dana Milbank
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 28, 2003; Page A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A39803-2003Mar27?language=printer
President Bush vowed yesterday to fight in Iraq for months if necessary, as
he and top aides warned of growing dangers to U.S. troops beginning to
encircle Baghdad and Saddam Hussein's most loyal soldiers.
Speaking to reporters at Camp David with British Prime Minister Tony Blair,
Bush said the two countries would fight "however long it takes" to win.
Asked if that could mean months, Bush thumped his lectern and said: "It
isn't a matter of timetable, it's a matter of victory. And the Iraqi people
have got to know that, see."
The two leaders, whose militaries have provided almost all of the force
seeking to oust the Iraqi president, said their war plans are on course
despite reports of stronger-than-expected resistance. Those war plans call
for another 120,000 U.S. Army troops to flow into Iraq over the next two to
three months, more than doubling the forces on the ground in the country. It
appears increasingly likely the troops, originally intended to be a
stabilizing force, will be needed for combat.
Bush and Blair sought to draw world attention to the Iraqi military's
brutality in contrast to the "professionalism" of American and British
forces. The two offered condolences to each other over the their war dead --
which now number at least 50, with much larger numbers missing or wounded --
and expressed revulsion at Iraq's filming of dead and captured allied
troops.
The two men confronted challenges of both war and diplomacy in their
meetings at the presidential retreat. They found themselves in ongoing
diplomatic rows yesterday, as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations
stormed out of a Security Council meeting during a tirade by the Iraqi
representative, and French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said that
instead of the "quick, technological war" some expected, "they are
discovering a war that is among the most horrible, like those of the 20th
century."
The two allies put off the contentious issue of the exact role the United
Nations would have in a postwar Iraq. At a time when his administration is
under criticism for delays in humanitarian relief to Iraq, Bush turned the
criticism against the U.N. Security Council. He said the "oil for food"
program should not be "politicized" -- a barb an aide said was aimed at
France, Russia and China, which have resisted a move by the Security Council
to restart the program, fearing it would lend legitimacy to the war.
On Capitol Hill, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld warned that "it could
take some time" to subdue Iraqi resistance once U.S. troops enter Baghdad.
Rumsfeld, emphatically dismissing any possibility of a cease-fire, said "the
campaign could well grow more dangerous in the coming days and weeks as the
forces close in on Baghdad" and the area of Hussein's hometown of Tikrit. As
the U.S. troops closing in on the Iraqi capital suffer from stretched supply
lines, Rumsfeld said 1,500 to 2,500 fresh troops a day are flowing into
Iraq. There are more than 250,000 U.S. troops in the region, 100,000 of
which are in Iraq.
Rumsfeld was testifying for the six-month, $75 billion war spending request
Bush has made. Lawmakers appear ready to provide those funds, but they are
pressing for more spending on domestic anti-terrorism measures and more
control over how the administration spends the military funds it seeks. The
House did provide the administration two symbolic boosts in its war effort,
approving resolutions demanding Iraq treat prisoners of war humanely and
calling for a national day of prayer and fasting in support of the troops.
When they first met at Camp David in the beginning of the Bush presidency,
Bush, wearing a bomber jacket, and Blair, in a sweater, bantered playfully
about using the same toothpaste. Yesterday, the two leaders were somber and
emotional, in business attire and with a formal, flag-bedecked backdrop
dressing up the helicopter hangar used for the appearance.
Bush, asserting that "the grip of terror around the throats of the Iraqi
people is being loosened," continued to promise ultimate victory while
warning of difficulties ahead. "We're now engaging the dictator's most
hardened and most desperate units," he said. "The campaign ahead will demand
further courage and require further sacrifice. Yet we know the outcome: Iraq
will be disarmed; the Iraqi regime will be ended; and the long-suffering
Iraqi people will be free."
As recently as Monday night, a senior Bush aide briefing reporters on
condition of anonymity observed that "the secretary of defense has right
along said that he thought that fighting was likely to last weeks, not
months." But another top aide, in a similar briefing at the White House
yesterday, said "nobody had ever put a timeline on this conflict . . .
weeks, not months means that there will be a liberation of Iraq when the
time -- as the president said today -- when it is over it will be over."
In emotional terms, Bush and Blair spoke of Iraqi war crimes. "Day by day,
we have seen the reality of Saddam's regime -- his thugs prepared to kill
their own people; the parading of prisoners of war; and now, the release of
those pictures of executed British soldiers," Blair said. "If anyone needed
any further evidence of the depravity of Saddam's regime, this atrocity
provides it." The Iraqi information minister denied the charge.
The president answered that with a graphic image, delivered in a low
monotone. "We had reports the other day of a dissident who had his tongue
cut out and was tied to the stake in the town square, and he bled to death.
That's how Saddam Hussein retains power. His sons are brutal, brutal people.
They're barbaric in nature."
Bush suggested that Iraqi war crimes are responsible for prolonging the war.
"I'm not surprised to know that regular army forces are trying to desert,
but get blown away by fellow Iraqi citizens," he said.
There were marked differences in the two allies' answers when asked about
the United Nations and international support for the war. Asked about
international objections, Blair replied "there's no point in hiding it,
there's been a division," and he argued that many agree and others
understandably "hesitate before committing to conflict and to war."
Bush, by contrast, argued that "a huge coalition" supports the war. "As a
matter of fact, the coalition that we've assembled today is larger than one
assembled in 1991 in terms of the number of nations participating. . . .
Ally after ally after ally has stood with us and continues to stand with
us."
There are about 50 countries in what Bush calls the "coalition of the
willing." But other than the United States and Britain, only two others have
contributed combat troops and those account for less than one percent of the
total force. A half-dozen other countries have given noncombat support. In
the 1991 Gulf War, 34 countries provided troops, aircraft, ships or medics.
Also, allies paid for all but $9 billion of the $80 billion cost of the 1991
war, and no other country has agreed yet to help pay for the current
conflict.
Blair made his quick trip across the ocean in hopes of discussing the role
of the United Nations in post-Hussein Iraq and the need to restart the
Middle East peace process. But the two quickly moved past those issues in
their remarks and dealt instead with the more pressing military matters.
Bush said the two remain "strongly committed to implementing that road map"
to Middle East peace and will produce it "soon." Blair said the two will
seek new Security Council resolutions "to affirm Iraq's territorial
integrity, to ensure rapid delivery of humanitarian relief, and endorse an
appropriate post-conflict administration for Iraq."
Both men emphasized more immediate concerns. "Our primary focus now is, and
must be, the military victory, which we will prosecute with the utmost
vigor," Blair said. He argued that "in just under a week, there is a massive
amount that has already been achieved."
Bush was somewhat less effusive about the progress, and an aide described
the leaders as "comfortable with the progress." The official spoke of a
"sense of déjà vu," recalling early concerns that the war against the
Taliban was not making progress. "We just have to keep reminding ourselves,
all of us, that this is a very short period of time in a very large country
that the objectives are being achieved at a steady pace."
Staff writer Bradley Graham contributed to this report.
(c) 2003 The Washington Post Company
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